Family and Community Services Minister Gabrielle Upton has announced more than 290 people a day are being helped by the NSW Government’s new Link2Home telephone service to tackle homelessness. More than 45,000 calls have been taken in the first five months of operation from its 24/7 call centre in Liverpool which Ms Upton visited today […]
Hospitals across NSW are continuing to strive for further improvements in patient care, figures in the latest Bureau of Health Information (BHI) Quarterly Report (July-September 2014) demonstrate. Health Minister Jillian Skinner today congratulated staff at hospitals in the city and country for their commitment to driving enhancements in both emergency and elective surgery. “Patients right […]
Attorney General and Minister for Justice Brad Hazzard today saw first-hand how the Heavy Vehicle Driver Training Program – which operates at five of the state’s prisons – is skilling up inmates to get jobs when they are released. “This program, which I saw in operation today at the Outer Metropolitan Multi-Purpose Correctional Centre, is […]
Following its tradition Deepavali Festival of NSW organised the 3rd interfaith conference at the Parliament House of NSW on 12th November 2014, to facilitate promotion of multiculturalism and expunction of racial discrimination. The Hon Amanda Fazio- Opposition whip, Legislative council and the Hon Michael Daley – Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Roads, sponsored the […]
In a shocking revelation, as many as 163 Indians, most of them brought to the US as teenagers from villages in northern India to be trained into Vedic Pandits by two institutions set up by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of transcendental meditation fame, appear to have gone missing over the last 12 months. Of the 1,050 […]
Scenic World, located in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, will make you feel small again with free festive entertainment and early bird ticket discounts this holiday season. Ride the Scenic Railway – the world’s steepest train – into the Jamison Valley where you can explore ancient rainforest on the Scenic Walkway. Glide past Katoomba Falls […]
The search is on to celebrate remarkable women with Minister for Women Pru Goward announcing the nominations for the fourth annual NSW Women of the Year Awards are now open. Ms Goward said for the first time in the history of the awards a new category acknowledging regional women has been added. “The new Rex’s […]
Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello today welcomed the decision of NSW Police and the Department of Family & Community Services (FaCS) to become the first NSW government agencies to sign up to White Ribbon’s Workplace Accreditation Program. Mr Dominello, a White Ribbon Ambassador, said that increasing the number of NSW government agencies accredited […]
Minister for Women Pru Goward and Member for Coogee Bruce Notley-Smith today marked White Ribbon Day by visiting a Safety Action Meeting, a key element of It Stops Here: Safer Pathway, the NSW Government’s domestic and family violence reforms. Ms Goward said for the first time in NSW’s history, domestic and family violence victims in […]
NSW Premier Mike Baird today unveiled details of a $20 billion plan to turbocharge infrastructure in NSW, including a second Harbour rail crossing and a third Harbour road crossing. “Rebuilding NSW will bust congestion, boost productivity, create jobs and set this great State up for generations,” Mr Baird said. “This is a visionary plan for […]