'Relief and Reform': Pre-Election Budget Promises
The package includes $10.3 billion for health staffing, $9.2 billion for schools and a lower toll cap for 200,000 drivers.
- On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey delivered the Labor government's final budget before the state election, focusing on targeted cost-of-living relief for struggling families amid economic uncertainty.
- Amid global economic uncertainty and interest rate hikes, NSW faces a $2.3 billion deficit for 2026-27, marking the seventh consecutive budget deficit—the longest spell of negative balances in the modern era.
- Motorists will see weekly toll caps drop from $60 to $50 for 12 months, benefiting about one million drivers, while the budget commits $22.2 billion to health and $9.2 billion toward constructing or upgrading 260 schools.
- NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane criticized the budget, arguing families are "going backwards," while Greens MP Abigail Boyd claimed the treasurer was "managing optics, not the crisis."
- The government projects a return to a $1.1 billion surplus by 2027/28, positioning this budget as the final fiscal plan before the state election scheduled for March 2027.
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NSW Budget 2026-27 winners and losers
With voters in NSW set to head to polling booths next March, the Minns government has delivered a pre-election budget focused on boosting the state’s health system, handing out cost-of-living relief, and bolstering infrastructure in Western Sydney.
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Sydney's Budget. What About the Rest of NSW?
Country Women's Association of NSW The Country Women's Association of NSW says the 2026-27 NSW Budget reads like a plan for Sydney, with regional, rural and remote communities left searching for their share of a record spend.CWA of NSW State President Tanya Jolly said the Budget has confirmed what many in regional, rural and remote NSW have long suspected: that this Government's commitment to bush communities runs deeper in rhetoric than it does…
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