Surpluses ahead but we'll pay for our success
Sean Nicholls 1:49 PM NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian has unveiled budget surpluses worth more than $8 billion over the next four years.
State Budget 2016
The budget explained in six charts
![Schools, trains and unicorns are winners, while public servants and foreign property investors lose out.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/8/i/b/l/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpn9my.gpn60y.png/1466519921177.jpg)
Inga Ting 6:18 PM It all looks rosy now but there's a sting coming.
Why NSW will lose more than $10 billion
![Other states are beneficiaries of NSW's success.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/q/y/r/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpn5w5.gpn60y.png/1466497105684.jpg)
Matt Wade 4:49 PM NSW is a victim of its own success when it comes to the taxing of goods and services.
$1b for new suburban trains
![The Baird government has earmarked more than $1 billion for new suburban trains.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/3/z/i/r/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpn80u.gpn60y.png/1466497105684.jpg)
Matt O'Sullivan 12:40 PM It is the first major purchase for Sydney Trains since the troubled Waratah project.
NSW Budget 2016: Winners and losers
![Schools, trains and unicorns are winners, while public servants and foreign property investors lose out.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/8/i/b/l/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpn8n4.gpn60y.png/1466520919949.jpg)
Kirsty Needham 5:21 PM Schools, trains and unicorns are in the money, while public servants and foreign property investors lose out.
New schools, 1100 new classrooms
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Kelsey Munro 4:14 PM Sydney's north is the big winner in new school allocation.
$1b health boost but funding cliff still looms
![Consumers should be able to give online reviews of their doctors, hospitals and medical procedures.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/0/a/8/d/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpn8ea.gpn60y.png/1466505708656.jpg)
Kate Aubusson 5:34 PM Health services will receive almost $1 billion additional funding in the latest NSW budget, but the budget fails to address the impending funding black hole.
$80 million for cycling infrastructure
![Cyclists on the steps leading up to the Harbour Bridge.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/n/j/1/5/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpnhdl.gpn60y.png/1466497105684.jpg)
Sean Nicholls Improving bicycle access to the Sydney Harbour Bridge could be one of the projects bankrolled by a new $80 million cycling infrastructure fund.
Latest NSW news
Defence force recruits forced to rape
![Close to 100 applicants are denied entry to the ADF each year on average.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/8/v/s/6/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpo36m.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw 6:54 PM WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Teenage Australian Defence Force recruits were subjected to horrific sex acts that allegedly caused one to suicide, a royal commission has been told.
'I feel like my research is totally useless'
![University of Sydney students at the College of the Arts will move to the University of NSW.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/s/2/n/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpofi2.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Lisa Visentin, Emily Smith 7:06 PM Sydney University will shut down its Sydney College of the Arts campus and transfer students to UNSW. The proposed merger has been met with a backlash.
Snipers' capabilities 'greatly diminished'
![The best trained officers in the country were outside the Lindt cafe, the inquest heard.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/7/b/1/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpo8qz.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Patrick Begley 5:15 PM Sniping the Sydney siege gunman was never more than a remote possibility and a likely missed shot risked "catastrophic" consequences, an inquest has heard.
Could you beat the Class of '67?
![Cumberland prefects of 1967. David Cook (Far left, second row) Malcolm McDivitt (Centre, bottom row).](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/m/m/2/6/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gplr6y.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw The very first students to sit the HSC had no calculators. Can you answer the questions they faced?
'It's a weight off my shoulders'
!["Housing is my biggest issue," says April Sheppeard.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/m/7/c/i/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpm39e.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Kirsty Needham April Sheppeard was living in a refuge with a baby when she enrolled in TAFE. Now she's getting high distinctions.
NAB customer 'felt violated'
![Ross Kent will start at National Australia Bank on May 2.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/k/e/u/k/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gplh6h.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Esther Han A major bank is being tipped off when disloyal customers approach its rivals seeking loans.
Early elections not ruled out
![Inner West Council Administrator Richard Pearson was heckled at his council's first public meeting.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/2/y/b/k/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpn3o8.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Jacob Saulwick The administrator appointed to run an enlarged Inner West Council says he would have no problem with council elections taking place early next year instead of September.
$3 million a week a 'waste'
![Labor Treasury spokesman Ryan Park.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/z/0/l/k/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpmgeu.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.png)
James Robertson NSW taxpayers are spending $3 million a week on consultants, new figures show.
Surgeons charge patients exorbitant fees
![Mark Brandt and his wife Linda used their savings to pay his out-of-pocket health costs.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/m/e/d/n/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpmebg.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Kate Aubusson Cancer patients are being charged exorbitant out-of-pocket costs for "flashy" surgeries by surgeons who don't disclose the full financial burden or alternatives in the public system, cancer experts say.
The 20 companies with no women on boards
![It's still lonely for women at the top of Australia's corporate ladder.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/4/e/g/5/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gplsct.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Jessica Irvine Is it acceptable that 20 companies in the ASX200 still have zero female representation on their board?
Question no one in government can answer
![The NSW government says "certain limitations" in IT systems mean it cannot count up reports of child sexual abuse.](/web/20160621154150im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/o/o/u/p/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpj6jg.11bc3y.png/1466506400254.jpg)
Patrick Begley The NSW government does not know how many reports of sexual abuse against children in state care it receives.