Ryan Park

Ryan Park MP is demanding answers from the Liberal-National State Government about what else their latest health budget cuts will mean for Shellharbour hospital.

Christmas should be a time for celebrating and goodwill. Spending time with those you love the most and reflecting on the good times. Yet for many local families across the Illawarra it is a time of hardship and struggle. For too many children, it lacks the happiness and joy we all too often take for granted. 

NSW Labor is demanding the Berejiklian Government provide a mammogram machine for the Royal Hospital for Women at Randwick after today’s appalling revelations that the State’s biggest women’s hospital doesn’t have one.

To mark World Homelessness Day today, Labor Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Ryan Park is calling on the NSW Liberals and Nationals to make reducing the homelessness crisis a priority.

Shadow Minister for the Illawarra and South Coast Ryan Park has today written to the NSW Fair Trading Commissioner to seek an urgent investigation in the organiser of the Festival of Light and Foam that was supposedly meant to take place over the long weekend but failed to eventuate costing local small businesses money and time.

As one of the sponsors for this Bill I am delighted to see this historic legislation pass its final hurdle today in the Legislative Assembly that will ensure the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW.

I have long supported such legislation and I am very pleased for the many women who I have met or who have contacted me and shared their personal stories so that going forward NSW legislation will treat this issue how it should be as a health and medical one not as part of the Crimes Act.

Mountain biking is a popular sport with growing interest and I am keen to encourage this here in the Illawarra. Already popular with locals, mountain biking in our region has the opportunity to grow and expand.

Commuters on the South Coast Line have long suffered with a lack of carriages meaning a long trip spent standing for many. On a weekend service it is more common to find a train with four carriages rather than eight.

The NSW Labor Opposition has said that the latest report from the Bureau of Health Information shows that the NSW health and hospital system has been run down by the NSW Liberals and Nationals, as waiting lists for surgery have soared, ambulance response times have slowed, and more people are stuck in emergency departments under the watch of Minister Hazzard.

The Keira community will benefit from two great projects granted funding from the My Community Project program, Member for Keira, Ryan Park announced today.