EXCLUSIVE: The cost of living is replacing health as the top priority amid mounting financial pain

The annual WAMN News Budget Surplus Opinion poll has closed and the results are in: health has overtaken as the top priority for the first time in the poll’s four-year history.

The poll, which looked at the state government’s fiscal priorities for the upcoming fiscal, yielded interesting results.

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