NSW North Coast electorates big winners in second stimulus package

The North Coast electorates of Page, Cowper, Lyne and possibly Richmond are big winners when it comes to the number of families eligible for the Rudd Government's $950 cash bonus, according to Possum Comitatus.

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Those seats in the top right corner are the ones that are expected to receive the greatest overall relative benefit from the stimulus while the ones in the bottom left are expected to receive the least relative benefit.
Also remember that electorates aren't homogeneous, in that there is a fair bit of variation within each electorate - so this chart wont tell the complete and comprehensive story, but merely the broad political story of which seats are getting the best end of the stimulus stick.

Along with promised building spend on every NSW North Coast school and money that may be flowing through from additional funding for regional and community infrastructure and roads, this has to be one of the best 'catch-up' financial years our combined communities have experienced if we are willing to get in there and fight for our fair share.

Let us hope that Kevin Rudd does not let the NSW Government distribute the proceeds from this second stimulus package in such a way that it starves rural and regional areas in order to feed the hungry maws of the big NSW metropolitan areas.