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NSW’s election end result will not be finalized for not less than one other three weeks, with a file variety of postal votes nonetheless being tallied and a scarcity of employees to depend them.
The depend will not be completed till all postal votes have been returned to the Electoral Commissioner.
Postal votes are nonetheless being returned in excessive numbers and can proceed to roll in till April 6, with 4 million votes counted to this point.
“Greater than 540,000 postal vote packs have been despatched out for this election and round 400,000 have been returned to this point,” the NSW Electoral Fee mentioned on Thursday.
“Greater than 400,000 declaration votes have been additionally issued. The variety of early, declaration and postal votes is larger than at any earlier state election.”
It additionally famous that it confronted recruitment challenges in some districts, with 30,000 short-term staff wanted to complete the depend.
Higher home outcomes are anticipated to be declared on April 14, and the decrease home depend could be finalized by April 20.
Labor wants two extra seats to succeed in the 47 wanted to kind a majority authorities and is hopeful it will possibly clinch the Liberal-held seat of Ryde.
A Liberal Occasion insider informed AAP the celebration was assured of retaining Holsworthy, Terrigal and Goulburn.
Whereas Labor waits to see if it will possibly win a majority authorities, the celebration’s consideration is targeted on schooling as its primary precedence.
Deputy Labor chief and Schooling Minister Prue Automobile mentioned the federal government would get to work on a renegotiated pay cope with academics, as educators have been “crippled” by present workloads.
“We will likely be working clearly to barter the academics’ pay and circumstances, reducing workload down considerably, which is a crippling burden on our academics,” Ms Automobile mentioned at Penrith Public College.
“A lot of why we have been elected on Saturday was to make sure that we truly maintain our academics.”
After months of strikes and industrial motion final 12 months, NSW public faculty academics have been handed a pay resolution by the Industrial Relations Fee of two.5 per cent backdated over 2022 and three per cent over 2023.
The pay rise, certain by a public sector wage cap, was known as insulting by the top of the NSW Lecturers Federation, Angelo Gavrielatos.
The brand new authorities has dedicated to scrapping the previous authorities’s cap on public sector wages.
Ms Automobile additionally mentioned the federal government would preserve its election promise to fund Foodbank’s College Breakfast four Well being with an extra $eight million over the subsequent 4 years, supplying 1.5 million college students with breakfast throughout 1000 colleges.
A cell phone ban in all public colleges would additionally progress, she mentioned.
Various independents have pledged to help the federal government with provide and confidence.
-AAP
