NSW budget 2024: the biggest winners and losers
by Elias Visontay from on (#6NKDN)
From bulk billing GPs and frontline workers to renters and the environment, here's who won and lost in the Minns government's state budget
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The New South Wales government has unveiled a bold plan to ease costs for GP clinics in order to nudge doctors into bulk billing more patients, as part of a suite of budget measures it hopes will deliver cost-of-living relief to citizens.
However, in announcing a $3.6bn deficit, the Minns government's budget of must-haves not nice-to-haves" leaves a raft of key societal issues without new funding or a clear path to improvement.
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