NSW State Budget 2021-22
NSW State Budget Overview:
Covid response
Total additional spending on Covid-19 response now at $4bn.
$1.1bn to be spent on health response including:
$261.3m on vaccine distribution
$340m for PPE
$200m for pop-up clinics
$145.4m on quarantine of returning overseas travellers
$100 vouchers* to spend in the CBD, at cost of $50m
Families and communities
$119m to continue two days of free preschool until end of 2022
$43.9m for $100 Learn to Swim vouchers
Five days’ bereavement leave for miscarriages’ leave for premature births
$18.6m boost to Community Building partnership program. Each electorate will now get $400,000 a year for sport and community infrastructure
Regions
$48m for Farms for the Future programs
$30m regional tourism activation fund
$460m for upgrading regional jobs precincts such as racecourses
Bushfire recovery
$268m in response to bushfire inquiry
$719m to upgrade communications networks for first responders
Transport
$490m* package to encourage the uptake of electric cars, including:
stamp duty waived on vehicles under $78,000 (from 1 September)
$3,000 rebate on the first 25,000 vehicles purchased with a value under $68,750
$17m to build more charging infrastructure
$33m to transition the government fleet
Health – total recurrent budget $27bn
$214m over four years for ambulance service for new state operations centre, jet aircraft and retraining paramedics for intensive care
$70m to boost hospital security
$21.6m* to boost access to keyhole cardiac treatments (aortic stenosis)
$109.5m for child and adolescent mental health services
Education- total recurrent budget $20.25bn
$196.6m* over four years for first major rewrite of the school curriculum in 30 years.
$2bn* over four years for Tafe infrastructure and subsidised courses.
State employees and service delivery
End of 1.5% wage cap on public servant wages and return to 2.5% cap at cost of $2.7bn*
$268.2m *over four years as part of the NSW government’s response to the independent NSW bushfire inquiry.
$500m over three years to boost digital delivery via the digital restart fund (now $2.1bn)
Arts and events
$200 m* State Significant Event Fund – delivered over four years
$40m* to support the attraction of major international cultural exhibitions to NSW over the next four years
$220.6m* for capital works, including funding for the completion of Sydney Modern project at Art Gallery NSW
$119m* to revamp historic Macquarie Street
$80m* for multi-day walking tracks
Infrastructure
Total pipeline over four years is $108.5bn
For more information download - NSW State Budget 2021-22