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THE 2025-26 NSW Budget will include $27.3 million over four years to fund the Future Jobs and Investment Authority, initially focusing on the Hunter and Central West regions. “The Authority will help guide the future economic development of the four coal mining regions – the Hunter, Central West, Illawarra, and North West – from coal production towards other economic opportunities and employment,” the NSW Government said in a statement. As part …

NSW budget provides major bus service growth funding

Image: Transport for NSWThe New South Wales government has announced its budget for 2025/26, and the bus industry is a major winner. Prior to the NSW budget being handed down this week, the state government hinted it would address rising demand for more bus services across Sydney and regional NSW. It has delivered, with an additional $452 million provided in the budget to increase the number of bus services around the state while also accelerati…

NSW budget provides funding for bus service growth, road safety funding and transport infrastructure

The first girder lift at Heatherbrae. Image: Transport for NSWThe New South Wales government has officially handed down its budget for 2025/26, with transport being a major winner in the funding announcements made. The third budget handed down by the Minns Labor government provides a $452 million investment to expand and maintain bus services in growing areas of the state, while also providing a boost to major road safety projects. The bus provi…

NSW Government’s $452 million bus investment

THE NSW Government has made a $452m investment in bus services in its 2025-26 Budget. Backing TWT’s campaign in 2021, l to r, Member for Bennelong Jerome Laxale; former Ryde councillor Bernard Purcell; and serving Ryde councillor Penny Pedersen. That will include funding to meet the rising costs of local bus operators, increasing the number of services and spending on new articulated – or ‘bendy’ – buses to help service the TWT Territory communi…