What you can expect from NSW Budget

NSW BUDGET: WHAT'S ALREADY ON THE CARDS

WINNERS

* $12 billion: Sydney Metro railway project

* $3.8 billion: NSW prisons

* $1 billion: child protection and foster care

* $500 million: water pipeline from Murray River to Broken Hill

* $300 million: domestic violence prevention, including nearly $3 million to an Australian-first trial of fitting GPS tracking bracelets on high-risk offenders

* $135 million: Sydney and Parramatta Light Rail projects

* $58 million: Raising Warragamba Dam wall and flood risk management

* $25 million: the new Sydney School of Entrepreneurship to help foster more start-ups

LOSERS

* $1.41 billion in cuts to government agencies with the back office annual efficiency dividend measure to continue

* Additional four per cent stamp duty surcharge for foreign investors buying homes and apartments

* Extra 0.75 per cent land tax hike on residential real estate for overseas buyers

SCRAPPED

* Mortgage duty, share transfer duty and non-real transfer duty taxes: worth a joint $1.8 billion over the forward estimates