Media Releases

The Nationals have delayed the card, excluded whole communities, underfunded the card by $135 million and now veterans are being turned away when they try to apply. It’s just not good enough.

The Nationals’ have had nine long years to act on rail trails and have done next to nothing to build them. The benefits are clear. John Barilaro needs to stop the talk and get rail trails built in bushfire affected communities.

We know that the contribution seniors make to our community is too often overlooked or undervalued, and the failure of Ms Berejiklian to appoint a permanent Minister sends a terrible message. 

Labor has launched a new push to make it is safe for children to walk to school, and is calling on students, parents, teachers, and the community to help them do it.

Labor is warning that the Nationals are disadvantaging seniors in rural and regional NSW already hit by drought and fires, after delaying the Regional Seniors Travel Card until February.

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.