2 years of o'farrell

7/29/2019 2 years of O'Farrell

1/12

YEARS OF

TheOFarrellGovernment

NSWLetDown


2/12

YEARSLET DOWN

Message fromNSW OPPOSITION LEADER,

JOHN ROBERTSON

Barry OFarrell has let down the families of NSW.

After two years, the Premier has xed nothing.

Despite promising to lower the cost of living, Mr OFarrell has sent household bills

soaring by more than $1,000 each year.

Instead of investing in the basic services we rely on, the OFarrell Government has cut

$1.7 billion in funding from our schools and $3 billion from our hospitals.

School resources and assistance for students are being cut back, while hospital

wards and beds are being closed across the State.

Rather than improving community safety, the Premier has failed to take action on drive

by shootings and gun crime in Sydney.

Debt has blown out by $10 billion under this Government, and the States AAA credit

rating placed on negative outlook.

Mr OFarrell and his colleagues have xed nothing and let down the

families of NSW.

John Robertson MPNSW OPPOSITION LEADER


3/12

THE OFARRELL GOVERNMENTHAS LET FAMILIES DOWNAND SENT TAXES AND BILLSSKYROCKETING:

Electricity up $594

Gas up $171

Green slips up $98

Council rates up $52

Water bills up $24

New land tax will cost $267 each year

Public preschools up $40 per day

Catholic school fees forced up because ofState Government budget cuts

Social housing rent for pensionersand veterans up $618

PUBLIC TRANSPORT FARESUP 10 PER CENT WHILE SERVICES GET WORSE:

Campbelltown, Penrith and Blue Mountainstrain fares up $208

Wyong and Gosford train fares

up $156

Stratheld and Faireld train fares

up $156Rockdale and Stratheld bus fares

up $124.80

Balmain bus fares up $83.20

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Risingcostofliving

It is imperative that the rst home buyers

incentives for the purchase of existingproperty be reintroduced.

(REINSW, 21 January 2013)

CUTS TOWORKERSCOMPENSATIONhave left thousands of workers

and their families struggling

to pay basic household and

medical bills

LOCKINGFIRST HOMEBUYERS

OUT OF THEMARKET:

Stampdutytaxorfrsthome

buyersupby$17,990

Axed$7,000grantorfrsthome

buyerspurchasinganexisting

home


4/12

The OFarrell Governments $1.7 billion educationfunding cut is hurting schools and TAFE.

THE IMPACT IN OUR SCHOOLS:

Hundreds of school support staff and teachers aides sacked

School demountable replacement program axed

Funding for special needs students cut

Catholic and independent schools forced to raise fees due to budget cuts

Board of Studies loses $8.7 million in funding

Up to 400 regional education ofcers to be sacked

School cleaning hours cut

Students asked to supply schools with reams of paper and tissues

School infrastructure funding cut

Program to replace unued heaters scaled back

School Drug Prevention Unit abolished

School Sports Unit loses teaching experts and funding

HSC Advice Line axed

THE IMPACT IN OURTAFE COLLEGES AND VET SECTOR:

800 TAFE teachers and staff sacked

TAFE fees up 9.5 per cent

Funding for the Apprentice Joint Group Training Scheme abolishedArts courses no longer receive government funding

Support for TAFE students with a disability cut back

TAFE courses slashed, including more than 30 in the Hunter

Cutstoschools&TAFE

How can the government claim thatthese cuts will not affect the delivery ofeducation and especially the education of

high-needs children and young people?(Letter from the public, Catholic and independent school sectorteachers, principals and parents, 15 November 2012)

CUT

CUT

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5/12

FAMILIES ARE FACINGBED SHORTAGESAND GROWING WAITING LISTS:

$2.2 billion cut from hospital budgets and services

$775 million cut from hospital stafng budgets Longest surgical waiting list in history 71,509 currently waiting

Patients with life threatening injuries forced to wait an hour and a half for treatment

3,600 health workers set to lose their jobs

THE IMPACT OF THE GOVERNMENTSATTACK ON OUR HOSPITALSIS ALREADY BEING FELT, WITH:

Prince of Wales Hospital forced to close an entire ward and 26 beds Cardiac unit at Mount Druitt Hospital shut down

More than $3 million cut from the stafng budget at the Sydney Childrens Hospitals

Nursing shifts cut at John Hunter Hospital

St George Hospital forced to cut back on vital bowel cancer surgeries

Hydrotherapy pool at Prince of Wales Hospital to be privatised

More than 90 per cent of health job cuts are coming from frontline hospital positions

Ambulance night shifts cancelled to cut costs

Regional patients waiting up to ve hours for an ambulance

One in three ambulances forced to wait more than 30 minutes queuing outside

Emergency Departments

405 hospital beds the Minister claims to have opened were actually open

before the last election

Chairs are counted as beds in NSW hospitals as a cover for major bed shortages

Cutstohospitals

The Council remains extremely concerned at theprospect of severe reductions in budget and theconsequences for patient management and thedelivery of clinical services.(Prince of Wales Staff Medical Council, 28 February 2013)

CUT

CUT

Families across our State rely on a top quality health system,but they are being let down by the OFarrell Governments$3 billion funding cut to NSW hospitals.

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6/12

BUDGET DEBT & DEFICITS:

Debt up by more than $10 billion

NSW is going into a $776 million decitthis year

Triple A credit rating on negative outlookEconomic growth is expected to fall from

2.6 per cent in 2010/11 to just 2 per cent

this year

Economic

mismanagement

The negativeoutlookreects our view that thereisa one-in-three

chanceofadowngradein thecoming24 months, basedon ourview

that NSWs budgetaryperformancecould weakenand might

notprovide NSW withthe capacityto... contain its debt burden.

(Standard&Poors,25October2012)

PUBLIC SECTORWORKERS SACKED,WITH MORE TOCOME:

3,600jobsrom

ourhospitals

2,400jobsromschools&TAFE

900jobsromcommunityservices

400jobsromemergencyservices

1,140jobsromrailsaetyand

maintenance

EXODUS OFJOBS FROM NSW:

500atKell&Rigby

500atWestpacinSydneyand

hundredsmoreattheCommonwealth

Bank,QBE,ANZ,NAB,Suncorpand

MacquarieBank

250Hunteraluminium

smelterjobs

190atReckittBenckiser

106atPacifcBrands 100jobsatRosella

The OFarrell Government has let down families by plunging theState into debt and increasing taxes, with nothing to show for it.

JOBS SUFFER:

15,000 workers sacked, includingteachers, nurses, emergency services

workers and rail safety staff

Thousands of private sector jobshave left the State

Government voted against Labors planfor a Jobs Commissioner to create and

protect jobs

YEARSLET DOWN


7/12

DELAYS ARE GETTINGWORSE, WHILEFARES INCREASE:

Nine major train delays at the beginning

of 2013 saw hundreds of thousands of

commuters left stranded for hours

Seven out of 16 train lines running late

Buses running late in every region

Grafti incidents up 10 per cent

29,000 complaints made to CityRail in

just one year a double digit increase

170 per cent train overcrowding on the

Western, Illawarra and South Line

DIRTY ANDDANGEROUS TRAINS:

Security patrols cut at stations

across Sydney

CCTV cameras turned off

on station platforms

1,140 rail safety and maintenance

workers sackedTown Hall and Wynyard stations

dangerously overcrowded

30 complaints lodged weekly

over dirty trains and stations

MAJOR PROJECTS DUMPED,DOWNGRADED OR LEFTWITHOUT FUNDING:

No start date, nish date or costings

for North West Rail Link (NWRL)

NWRL downgraded to a shuttlebetween Rouse Hill and Chatswood

Transport experts say the bus will

be faster than the NWRL

Parramatta Epping Rail Link scrapped

No express train services from

Campbelltown, Blue Mountains,

Penrith and Central Coast

New platforms at Town Hall

and Wynyard scrapped

Western Express dumped

Sydney Ferries privatised

REGIONAL TRANSPORTFORGOTTEN:

Removing the Newcastle Rail Line

20 Year Transport Masterplan completely

ignores regional NSWNo upgrades to CountryLink services

Transportchaos

Weve done some calculations from just abouteverywhere where someone would begin the trip to the

city, and except for the Cherrybrook people, there wouldbe a signicant saving in time by sticking with the bus.

(David Hensher on the NWRL, 2 September 2012)

After two years, the OFarrell Government hasnt xedour transport system. Delays are getting worse,while fares continue to increase.

YEARSLET DOWN


8/12

Instead of taking action on gun crime, the OFarrellGovernment has cancelled Police Academy classesand left police stations understaffed.

COMMUNITY SAFETY AND ATTACKSON OUR HARDWORKING POLICE FORCE:

More than 210 shootings since the OFarrell Government came to ofce

Class at the Police Academy cancelled preventing 300 new police ofcers graduating this year

Western Sydney police stations left critically understaffed

The Premier has failed to use legislation to outlaw criminal bikie gangs

Financial support for police ofcers injured in the line of duty slashed

FIREFIGHTERS HIT WITH HUGE BUDGET CUTS,DESPITE A HORRIFIC BUSHFIRE SEASON:

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) budget cut by $64 million

Rolling re station closures because of cuts to the FRNSW stafng budget

Up to 420 reghters face the axe from FRNSW and 120 reghters

from the Rural Fire Service

The re engine replacement program has been slashed by 20 per cent

Communitysafetyatrisk

April 2012 was the worst month in thepast decade for the offence of dischargerearm into premises with 20 incidentsrecorded.(BOCSAR 6 September 2012)

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9/12

HuntinginNationalParks

Hunting in national parks: 10/10. Its coming, like Christmas.(Shooters and Fishers Party 2013)

PREMIER WARNEDOF DEATH OR INJURY

The Governments own risk

assessment states there is arisk of:

Death or injury to park visitors,staff and hunters themselves

Animal carcasses causingdamage to waterways

Bushwalkers and campers

coming face to face with

hunters

Death or injury to nativeanimals

Reduced visitor numbers

Dangerous confrontations

between armed hunters and

protestors

Hunters will be unsupervised

in the majority of national park

areas

The OFarrell Governments deal to allow hunting innational parks has put public safety and our environmentat risk.

OFARRELLS

BROKENPROMISEWE HAVE NOINTENTION OF DOINGDEALS WITH THEMINOR PARTIES.

THERE WILL NOTBE A DECISION TOTURN OUR NATIONALPARKS INTO HUNTINGRESERVES.

Barry OFarrellSydney Morning Herald13 April 2011

Most projectile injuries to people are likely tocause serious injury or death. Accordingly this risk

consequence is categorised as major.(Government risk assessment 2012)


10/12

ENVIRONMENTALVANDALISM:

Abolished the Department

of Environment, Climate

Change and Water

Imposed a ve yearmoratorium on marine

parks and allowed shing

in protected ocean areas

Allowed grazing in nationalparks despite risks to ora

and fauna

Cut endangered species

protection for the Yellow

Bellied Glider and logged

its habitat

Initiated a trial of horse riding inwilderness areas, undermining

ecological protections

Expanding duck and

quail hunting

Introduced draconian wind

farm guidelines to shut downinvestment in the industry

Warontheenvironment

On the key indicator of ecosystem protection, the NatureConservation Council has marked the government with

2/10, the equivalent of an F.(Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 2013)

The OFarrell Government has trashed environmentalprotections in NSW over the past two years.

BROKENTHE 26 YEAR BANON URANIUMEXPLORATION IN NSW

DUMPING 5,000 TONNESOF RADIOACTIVE WASTEfrom an abandoned uranium

smelter on the North Shore

in Western Sydney

RENEWED 22 COALSEAM GAS EXPLORATIONLICENSES IN NSW

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11/12

MOTORISTS FORCED TO PAY MORE:

Higher tolls on the M2, Harbour Bridge and Tunnel

Hiked up E-tag fees for drivers on the Harbour Bridge and Tunnel

Hundreds of new speed cameras and mobile speed cameras

Sevenfold increase in mobile speed camera operating hours 30 per cent jump in speed camera revenue

ROAD SAFETY SPENDING SLASHED:

Road Toll Response Package budget cut by half

$160 million slashed from the road maintenance and safety budget

500 road maintenance workers axed

MAJOR ROAD PROJECTS UNFUNDED AND ABANDONED:

The Government has broken its pre-election promise to fund the Pacic Highway duplication

50:50 with the Commonwealth, and pushed back the 2016 deadline by years

Wasting $20 million renaming existing roads, while safety spending slashed

Worseroads

highertolls

Whileinopposition,thecurrentNSW[Liberal] Governmentfrequently

called onthe NSW LaborGovernmenttomatchFederal fundingforthe Pacic

Highwaydollar-for-dollar andwesupportedthiscall too.Tonowsuggestthat

fundingshouldsuddenlyberevertedto an80:20modelwouldensurefurther

longdelaysinnallyupgradingthisdangeroushighway.

(WendyMachin, NRMA,27February2012)

Motorists have been let down by the OFarrell Government they are paying higher tolls and new charges to travel onincreasingly congested roads.

SYDNEY PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC SLOWS TO A CRAWL

Average speednow just 36km/h

(down 12km/h)


(down 7km/h)

Average speednow 82km/h

(down 9km/h)


(down 3km/h)

M4 M5 M7 ANZACBRIDGE

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12/12

THIS YEARTHE OFARRELL

GOVERNMENTIS WASTING

$270.5 MILLIONpurchasingand upgrading cars for Ministers

and top bureaucrats

$35 MILLION on a cost blowoutfor North West Rail Link tenders

$20 MILLION renaming roads in NSW$20 MILLION on executive trainingfor top bureaucrats

$19 MILLION for the dangerousplan to allow shooting in our national parks

An extra $14 MILLION on functions,events and support for Ministerial ofces

and government boards

$10 MILLION reimbursing companieswho make unsuccessful bids for the

North West Rail Link

$5.3 MILLION delivering a tax cutfor people with their own private jetties

$4.43 MILLION on new furnitureand ttings for Treasury

$1 MILLION advertising the failed

regional relocation program

OFarrellGovernmentwaste

Families have been let down by the Premiers decision toclose hospital beds and cut school resources, while he is

wasting billions on ministerial travel, new road namesand ofce upgrades.

OVER THISTERM OFGOVERNMENT,THE PREMIERIS WASTING:

$901 MILLIONonMinisterialand

bureaucrattravel

$256 MILLIONonGovernment

advertising

$230 MILLIONonconsultantreports

$188 MILLIONontheailedregional

relocationgrant

program

$116 MILLIONonextraspending

orthePremiersown

department

$3.2 MILLIONornewTreasury

ofcials

YEARSLET DOWN

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