Ryan Park

I would like to commend the Emergency Services for the bravery and professionalism which ensured not a single life was lost and many homes were saved in the recent disastrous bushfires in Tathra on the New South Wales Far South Coast. In light of this event I thought it important to raise some concerns with the Minister for Emergency Services regarding the vulnerability of the northern suburbs of the Illawarra if a similar event were to happen here.

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A job creation scheme set up by the Liberal government in 2015 has hit just one per cent of its target at the mid-way point through the program, a Labor Opposition freedom of information request has found.

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Shadow Minister for the Illawarra Ryan Park has once again written to the NSW Rugby League inviting them to visit the region to look at the facilities available with a view to have the NSW State of Origin team training camp based in the Illawarra.

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More staff cuts are slated for TAFE this year as the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government continues its ideological assault on state-funded tertiary education.

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Despite continual attempts by the Berejiklian Government to paint a rosy economic picture for the state, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal unemployment and underemployment are still on the rise.

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The latest survey of visits to NSW national parks has revealed the public’s love affair with our national parks continues to grow with visitation skyrocketing in the last two years, going up 32% from 39.2 million visits in 2014 to 51.8 million in the latest 2016 report. The Royal National Park is number 2 in terms of volume with 4.6 million visits

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Shadow Minister for the Illawarra and Member for Keira Ryan Park has again criticised the Berejiklian Government for unnecessarily delaying medicinal cannabis applications from doctors for patients with terminal illnesses and other serious medical conditions.

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Ryan Park, Shadow Minister for the Illawarra is urging the Government to prioritise funding for Mt Keira and follow Labor’s lead and match the $5 million commitment to upgrade facilities at the Mt Keira summit park.

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Shadow Minister for the Illawarra Ryan Park has said a proposal by the Greens to change Australia Day to another day is one that he does not support and fails to recognise the fact that our national day has now become an opportunity to educate and inform Australians about the fact that Aboriginal people were the original inhabitants of the land we all call home.

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The Berejiklian Government’s advertising spend has jumped up by $16 million dollars in just a year, with millions wasted on policies that were ultimately abandoned.

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