our priorities for nsw election 2027
Economic transformation and jobs
- Increase the NSW Future Jobs Investment Fund to $150m per year
- Investment of $54.45m in projects that will catalyse economic diversification:
- Update & timeline on implementation of NSW Parliament’s Inquiry into Beneficial and Productive Post-Mining Land Use
- Establish a community benefit funding model for the Hunter Renewable Energy Zone
Housing
- Commit to funding for enabling infrastructure for local government valued at $100m per year indexed to support Local and State housing targets
- Repurpose temporary housing used for the Hunter Transmission Project (and for future REZ projects) to contribute to long term housing across the region
- Funding Masterplans (range $500k per Masterplan) and enabling infrastructure to catalyse development of Transport Orientated Developments (TODs)
Financial Sustainability of Local Governments
- Commit to a three-way equal shared funding model (federal, state & local) for funding improvements to council owned water & sewer infrastructure
- Amend disaster recovery funding arrangements to support water & high priority community infrastructure
- Establish a non-competitive resilience and betterment funding framework that allows resilience upgrades during the emergency works phase of recovery
- Return 9% of the waste levy previously provided to Hunter councils to support delivery of the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041
- Support advocacy to Federal Government to increase Financial Assistance Grants to 1%