Jo Haylen MP, Shadow Minister for Seniors and Cost of Living, has made an official complaint to the NSW Electoral Commission about the Nationals’ Regional Seniors Travel Card rort.

An expansion of the eligibility criteria of the $250 Regional Seniors Travel Card has failed to include seniors who receive a carer’s payment or disability support pension. 

In what appears to be another major issue with the card, only seniors in receipt of the Aged Pension are able to apply, leaving some of the neediest and most vulnerable seniors in regional communities without access to the $250 scheme.

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.

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.

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”.

A question to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services.

A question to the Minister for Transport and Roads.