NSW BUDGET 2018/19 ANNOUNCEMENTS TO DATE:
HEALTH
* $2 billion over four years for mental health infrastructure including more mental health workers and services
* $1.1 billion in recurrent expenditure in 2018/19 for 950 nurses and midwives, 300 doctors and 120 allied health workers
* $157 million parents package for 100 more midwives, investment in treatments for children's diseases and a $150 hamper for newborns
* $60 million over four years for cardiovascular disease research
EDUCATION
* $15 billion in 2018/19 on school funding and to employ about 900 full-time science and maths teachers in public schools
* $6 billion over four years for 20 new and upgraded schools
* $500 million to air condition up to 1000 public schools in 2018/19
* $160 million in 2018/19 for school maintenance
* $32 million to Catholic and independent schools over four years to build more classrooms
TRANSPORT
* $880 million to improve technology on the Sydney Trains network and increase the number of trains which can run during peak times
* $15.6 million over the next 12 months for extra bus services in the northern beaches, Wentworth Point, Penrith, Blacktown and Lane Cove
* $133 million in 2018/19 to upgrade 11 train stations
ROADS
* More than $2.6 billion over four years for road projects across western and southwestern Sydney
* Up to $2.6 billion for the first section of the F6 extension which will connect the new M5 motorway at Arncliffe to Kogarah
* $600 million for road safety improvements and enhanced police enforcement over four years
* $173 million to improve safety and traffic flow on Heathcote Road
COST OF LIVING
* 40 per cent reduction in caravan and camper trailer registration
* $24 million to resource Service NSW centres to become "one-stop shops" for people to access more than 40 saver programs
* NSW government-issued parking fines will be reduced by 25 per cent
TAX
* Payroll tax cuts for businesses where the payroll tax threshold will be lifted from the current level of $750,000 to $1 million by 2021/22
JOBS
* $285 million skills and training package for 100,000 free apprenticeships over four years
AGRICULTURE AND DROUGHT
* $284 million to boost the government's drought relief package
* $50 million to bolster on-farm productivity and agriculture research
ENVIRONMENT
* $1.9 billion to improve environment and heritage including $630 million for trails in national parks, $100 million to protect communities and the environment from natural disasters and $100 million to improve waste management
* More than $23 million over the next two years to build a world-class regional water management and compliance regime
SERVICES
* $3.9 billion to boost the NSW Police Force in 2018/19 including $118.5 million to build six new police stations and $12 million for facial matching services
* More than $1 billion over four years to boost the number of paramedics and ambulance services
* $56.4 million over four years for the NSW SES fleet program which will buy almost 500 new vehicles, marine vessels and trailers
* More than $106 million of expense funding for ICAC over four years
TECHNOLOGY
* $10 million over four years to expand the government's trial of driverless vehicles
JUSTICE
* More than $12 million for community legal centres and more than $7 million for civil justice initiatives over the next four years
* $7 million over four years to help small businesses and individuals resolve disputes online
INDIGENOUS
* $33.1 million over four years for a new Aboriginal social housing strategy
* $10 million over four years for Aboriginal economic development opportunities
Data: NSW Government
