Media Releases

Shadow Minister for Active Transport, Jo Haylen MP today met with cycling and walking advocates from across the Byron Shire to discuss active transport across the Northern Rivers.

The Shadow Minister for Seniors and Volunteers, Jo Haylen MP today joined with the State Member for Lismore, Janelle Saffin in commending the tireless work of volunteers at the Lismore Showground Evacuation Centre and the Salvation Army Lismore.

Shadow Minister for Seniors, Jo Haylen MP and State Member for Lismore, Janelle Saffin MP today met with seniors outraged by the Nationals failure to budget for 60 per cent of seniors living in regional NSW, who could miss out on the $250 Regional Seniors Travel Card due to poor budget planning by the Nationals.

The Government has raised fears its plans for mass rezoning from Sydenham to Bankstown have been resuscitated with its “new approach to precinct planning”.

Cyclists will be banned on George Street between Town Hall and Wynyard, just weeks before the CBD Light Rail is set to open.

The Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has slammed Australia’s aged care system as a “complex, confusing, bureaucratic maze” that “essentially depersonalises older people”.

Labor has revealed that since the Liberals sold off the Inner West bus network it has never run on time – news that spells disaster as the Liberals start to sell-off Sydney’s remaining public bus services.

The Government’s cost of living pressures are failing those who need it most, with 13.3% of all people in NSW living in poverty according to a damning report by the NSW Council of Social Services.

The Treasurer is ignoring his own hand-packed panel on NSW-Federal Financial Relations by failing to adequately invest in active transport infrastructure.

Labor is calling on the Berejiklian Government to consider the needs of seniors and non-English speaking people who are missing out on access to government services.