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Baird Government underspends education budget while inner west school maintenance backlog soars

Jo Haylen, the Member for Summer Hill, gave a stinging speech in Parliament today condemning the Minister for Education’s failure to act on a 2014 request from St John’s College to reform its council following the near-death of a student in 2012.

The Baird Government should bring forward elections for the Inner West Council to September 2016 rather than leaving their unelected Administrator to make decisions for 16 months.

Inner West residents deserve to know why this Government is tearing up our suburbs for a project no-one in the inner west wants.

This is the Government’s way of doing business – ignore residents and weaken opposition to their privatisation and pro-development agenda.

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

I’m very pleased that the NSW Government has seen sense and recognises that a licensing system is not in the best interests of sex workers or the community.

This will be a huge construction zone, marking the beginning of a long period of destruction and disruption to build a road no-one in the Inner West wants.

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!

Ms Haylen joined Prue Car, the Shadow Minister for Skills, at Petersham TAFE to condemn the Baird Government’s continued attacks on TAFE education in NSW.