Govt creates huge controversy to save a tiny amount of money

Glen Humphries
Updated November 17 2017 - 1:36pm, first published 1:35pm
FARE FIGHT: A Gong Shuttle bus pulls into a Burelli Street stop during Sunday's "Save the Free Bus" rally and street march. Picture: Georgia Matts
FARE FIGHT: A Gong Shuttle bus pulls into a Burelli Street stop during Sunday's "Save the Free Bus" rally and street march. Picture: Georgia Matts

The money the government will save through Gong Shuttle fares represents the tiniest sliver of its key public transport services budget – 0.000006 per cent to be precise.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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