Jo Haylen, the Member for Summer Hill, condemned the Baird Government’s continued attacks on TAFE in NSW, with confirmation in the NSW Budget this week that the West Street campus will close, enrolments have plummeted and thousands of TAFE teachers and support staff have been sacked. 

No Lewisham Station upgrade; Petersham West St TAFE closing; No funding to build GreenWay. Baird's budget is bad for the Inner West. 

“If the Government refuses to maintain West St as a TAFE campus, they should categorically keep the property in public hands.

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.