In Labor’s first state budget since 2010, Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will announce policies targeted at housing affordability, essential services and public sector wages.
A key promise of Labor’s campaign in the May election was to ditch the state’s wages cap for public sector workers, which wouldon what government employees – like public nurses and teachers – could earn.
That will be dedicated to long-term growth in pay for frontline workers such as nurses, paramedics, health workers, police, firefighters, prison officers, teachers and child protection workers.
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