Hunter let down by Sydney Labor (again!)

How many times have we heard that Sydney Labor has provided great funding to Sydney and cut funding to Newcastle?

The Hunter Council of Social Services (HCOSS) is the umbrella organisation for many important social welfare organisations in Newcastle and the Hunter.

In light of the shift by both the Iemma Government and the Howard govrnment to get the non-government sector to do the work that the government sector used to do, certainly an organisation worthy of Government support.

According to the Department of Community Services annual report, these were some of the peak bodies that received Sydney Labor government funding (including recurrent funding):

* In the Minister's electorate (generous Reba Meagher): Western Sydney Community Forum $361,209

* The Illawarra Forum (the area Labor lost to the Greens in a recent Federal election): $661,793

* Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development (close to Parliament House): $92,271

And, how much recurrent funding from the Sydney Labor government for the Hunter peak body? ZIP!