Cost of living

NSW Labor is calling on the Government to stop energy companies charging customers to receive paper bills. 

Inner West Courier, 18 April, p.20. “Local suburbs need local branches to thrive and we’ve seen too many services disappear over the past few years,” Ms Haylen said.

OSHC is vitally important to working families, and its in crisis. 

As the impacts of climate change become ever more apparent, we will see more and more extreme weather events and greater pressure placed on our emergency services personnel. We on this side know that it is the families, the poor, the vulnerable, the uninsured who will suffer most as a result. 

NSW Labor has a plan to help level the playing field for first home buyers in the Inner West.

Jo Haylen, Member for Summer Hill, today welcomed news that if elected in 2019, NSW Labor will reverse cuts to Community Legal Centres which will come into effect on 1 July.

Paid domestic violence leave is critical to support victims and help them keep their job.

Paid domestic violence leave offers certainty where there would otherwise be none. It enables women and children to leave abusive relationships. It provides space and time for women to get themselves back on their feet.

Jo Haylen, the Member for Summer Hill, today moved a motion in Parliament calling on the Baird Government to hold an urgent parliamentary inquiry into the butchering of trees across the inner west by Ausgrid contractors. 

The community accepts that the Government has a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Ensuring that those entrusted with managing and collecting debt are properly licensed and subject to the highest levels of accountability and transparency is the very least that we can do.