Janelle Saffin MP

LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin has welcomed a $191-million Commonwealth topping up of the NSW Government’s $500-million Fixing Local Roads program, benefitting road users in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of her electorate.

LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin, Shadow Minister for the North Coast Adam Searle and union representatives today (Thursday, 25 June) will launch Mr Searle’s petition to stop the NSW Government’s unfair pay cut for the Lismore Electorate’s 4363 public sector workers.

A FIVE-YEAR timetable for replacing flood damaged buildings at Murwillumbah East Public School is a damning indictment of the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government and just not good enough, according to Lismore MP Janelle Saffin and Shadow Minister for the North Coast Adam Searle MLC.

LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin has welcomed $1 million in progressive announcements by the NSW Government which benefit local communities in Lismore, Tenterfield and Murwillumbah under its Stronger Country Communities Fund Round 3.

A NEW program called PACER which will base mental health clinicians at some police stations should be expanded beyond Sydney to regional and rural New South Wales, according to State Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin.

STATE Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin today (Thursday 4 June 2020) slammed the NSW Nationals for voting against a Private Members Bill that would permanently protect the Northern Rivers from harmful Coal Seam Gas mining.

LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin has welcomed the easing of further COVID-19 restrictions from tomorrow (Saturday, 13 June), including the reopening of food courts across the Northern Rivers and Northern Tablelands regions.

LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin believes the timing is right for the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government to launch a major school building blitz to provide economic stimulus and create local jobs across her electorate, hit hard by the downturn associated with COVID-19.

“I welcome the gradual reopening of local Councils’ public facilities as Covid-19 restrictions ease from Monday June 1, 2020.

LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin has condemned the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government for trying to rip $780 million from the wages of nurses and midwives, cleaners, police, firefighters and public servants from the Northern Rivers and Northern Tablelands to spend on Sydney infrastructure.