Chris Minns defends promise to scrap public sector wages cap as party leaders scramble in final week of NSW election campaigning
opposition leader, Chris Minns, has been forced to defend the cost of his signature wages policy after the state’s independent budget analysis agency noted “significant risks” of a blowout.
Perrottet on Tuesday labelled the opposition “amateurs” after a Parliamentary Budget Office analysis raised concerns wage growth “could exceed the government’s targets” by scrapping the 3% cap and that “fully offsetting savings may not be identified”.
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