NSW's $90 billion spend on this sector will see a jobs boom

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet says $90 billion spent on infrastructure will create more than 100,000 jobs. (Photos: Getty, AAP)

The NSW government’s $89.7 billion infrastructure plans across the next four years will directly or indirectly create approximately 107,000 jobs, according to modelling by the state government.

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the coalition’s infrastructure plan was a “critical pillar” of the state’s economic future, with the jobs influx creating a positive ripple effect in communities all over NSW.

“With unemployment already at an all-time low in NSW right now, our infrastructure projects mean security and opportunity for workers in the short term, while opening up a world of new opportunity for our communities in the long term,” he said.

Infrastructure was a “mainstay” of the NSW economy, Perrottet told SMH.

“Continued investment is incredibly important to economic growth going forward. Our public investment over the next four years is crucial to our prospects and our biggest threat to that is Labor running on a platform of cancelling projects and higher taxes.”

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