SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS BEFORE STADIUMS

Member for Charlestown, Jodie Harrison today said that NSW Labor is ramping up its campaign to put schools and hospitals before stadiums.

NSW Leader Luke Foley this week kicked off his tour Schools and Hospitals before Stadiums tour of NSW to highlight the Berejiklian-Barilaro Governments wrong priorities from wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on the Sydney light rail project and WestConnex toll road to ripping the guts out of TAFE and failing to invest in education.

The decision to spend billions of dollars on knocking down and rebuilding two Sydney stadiums while 100,000 children are being taught in demountables and elective surgery waiting lists are at record highs are the height of irresponsibility, she said.



We have been demanding the Berejiklian Government and the National Party explain and justify why they are spending $2.7 billion on new stadiums in Sydney while rural, regional and coastal families get a second-class education and health system.



This Government is completely out of step with the needs of the community, preferring to spend billions in Sydney while our school children are facing years of being taught in demountables or in classrooms with leaky roofs and mould, and toilets that dont flush.

P&Cs are being forced to use their hard earned fundraising monies on basic school maintenance and essential amenities.

$2.7 billion would allow 139 primary schools or 62 high schools or 4 regional hospitals to be built.