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Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, has welcomed the overwhelming victory for the Equality Campaign in the recent Marriage Equality Survey. 

LOVE WINS! A resounding victory for our LGBTIQ brothers and sisters, Australia took a significant step forward in terms of social justice and equality for all.

The Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2017 amends the Act that underpins planning regulations in New South Wales. These measures aim to tidy and to streamline planning processes across the State. I will briefly address some of the elements of the bill that may have the greatest impact. 

Jo continues to defend our bus systems from privatisation. Privatisation of public buses has not worked, either overseas or in New South Wales. This is an embarrassing record, but still the transport Minister thinks he is onto a good thing. Enough is enough. If it is good enough to listen to a poll and name a new ferry Ferry McFerryface, then it is good enough to listen to the 20,000-plus residents who have signed these petitions. It is time the Minister admitted his mistakes and left our Inner West buses in public hands.

One in three people in NSW would benefit from a clearer set of rules around the termination of rental properties as detailed in Labor’s latest announcement on making housing affordable and fair.

Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, has slammed the decision by the Liberal State Government to remove bus stops on key inner west routes in advance of the sell-off of local bus services. 

Thank you for taking the time to fill in my survey. 

• Renters will no longer be subject to unfair evictions under a Foley Labor Government, which has today committed to protecting tenants and working with industry on making it a fairer system.

Labor representatives Jo Haylen MP and Clr Anna York today slammed the Government’s failure to upgrade Petersham and Lewisham stations despite both being ranked more highly than other stations approved for upgrades.