Cost of living

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.

The Branch is vital to the residents and small businesses in Summer Hill. 

Motion condemning the Baird Government's tolls for Westconnex.

We must do more to protect people caught in a debt spiral by the enforcement of fines.

Jo Haylen, Member for Summer Hill, today welcomed the announcement that a Foley Labor Government will deliver improved rail and bus services to Sydney Airport, to relieve the congestion nightmare around Australia’s busiest airport. 

We should be encouraging people to use public transport, not slogging them with higher fares.

Food trucks are an essential element in global cities like New York and Toronto and I’m glad we can add Marrickville to that list!