Media Releases

The Aboriginal Flag will permanently fly on the Sydney Harbour Bridge if Labor is elected to government in March 2019. Currently, the Aboriginal flag flies on top of the Australian icon for only 15 days of the year, on occasions such as Australia Day and during NAIDOC week and Reconciliation Week.

The NSW Labor Opposition moved to censure embattled Transport Minister Andrew Constance for his mismanagement of the state’s public transport systems.

Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, has hit out in support of Ashfield Bowling Club patrons, who are under siege from round-the clock WestConnex construction.

The Premier and Transport Minister have blatantly ignored community outrage, pushing ahead with the Liberal’s privatisation of the bus network.

The Government is expected to make an announcement about the new private operator of the Region 6 buses imminently, a move which will inevitably lead to reduced services and job cuts.

Member for Summer Hill, Jo Haylen, today congratulated the successful applicants in this year’s Community Building Partnership grant program, which saw $300,000 distributed to local community groups.

Jo Haylen MP has welcomed today’s release of the Broderick Cultural Renewal report, which lays bare the misogyny and toxic culture in residential colleges at the University of Sydney.

Local MPs Sophie Cotsis, Jodi McKay and Jo Haylen, have condemned the Minister for the Environment’s roll-out of the Return and Earn container deposit scheme, with the Minister’s own figures showing there will be fewer than half the promised number of collection points up and running by the start of the scheme this Friday. 

Labor Member for Summer Hill today cautiously welcomed the introduction of long-awaited legislative reforms of governance arrangements at St Johns College at the University of Sydney. 

State Labor today demanded that the Berejiklian Government guarantee patient safety in the inner-west would not be compromised by its decision to close and sell the Summer Hill ambulance station.

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