NSW budget unlikely to allocate extra funding for long-promised great koala national park

The NSW treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, and the premier, Chris Minns, speak to media. He will deliver the state budget next Tuesday. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

The long-promised “great koala national park” is not expected to get any additional funding in next week’s New South Wales 2025-26 budget despite being a centrepiece of the state government’s environment policy.

“When it comes to the great koala national park, people will see that we’re making progress on it,” the state treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, told Guardian Australia.