NSW state budget 2015: $7b in stamp duty drives record surplus

By Sean Nicholls
Updated June 23 2015 - 12:18am, first published 12:00am
Gladys Berejiklian's first budget is "the culmination of four years of fiscal repair". Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
Gladys Berejiklian's first budget is "the culmination of four years of fiscal repair". Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
The government will be exposed when the property boom ends, warns Luke Foley.  Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
The government will be exposed when the property boom ends, warns Luke Foley. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

The booming Sydney property market has underpinned a record $7.29 billion stamp duty take for the NSW government this financial year, supercharging Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian's first budget.