Mr Carr made the pledge before the state Labor conference endorsed the introduction of a new offence of industrial manslaughter. The State Government is also looking at strengthening laws to prosecute negligent employers for work place related deaths.
'With our levy on the poker machine profits of richer clubs, we've done just that,' he said.īut the club industry has been prevented from putting its side of the case to this weekend's conference, with both the unions and the Party's left and right factions falling in behind the State Government. He announced the State Government would set up a new super growth health fund, kickstarted with the $420 million budget surplus, which would earn $80 million in interest over four years.īut he says the State Government had also had to find other sources of revenue to invest in the fund. Mr Carr was overseas earlier this week when the club industry staged its big protest against the State Government's pokies tax increases, with up to 15,000 people marching through central Sydney.īut on his first day back at work today, he used his address to the state Labor Party conference to himself raise the contentious tax issue. New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has pledged that every cent of his Government's planned tax hikes on clubs will go into a special new investment fund that is being set up to generate extra money for public hospitals and health.
