The state government is pledging a ban on no-fault evictions for renters by early next year. Speaking at the New South Wales Labor Conference, Premier Chris Minns laid out a timeline for one of his key election promises. He also announced that his government will introduce minimum wages and more protections for food delivery riders and other gig economy workers.
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00:00You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet was the soundtrack to a rock star welcome.
00:10The first sitting premier to front New South Wales Labor's annual conference since 2009.
00:15The job has just begun.
00:20But not everyone clapped for Chris Minns.
00:23One man held a Palestinian flag.
00:25Outside, protesters made their voices heard.
00:28Right here Labor is meeting this weekend.
00:31Demanding funding for domestic violence services.
00:34Every woman turned away is a government failure.
00:40State Labor was elected on a promise to ban the eviction of renters without a reason,
00:45but has been criticised for how long it's taking.
00:47Sadly we have seen the New South Wales Labor government delay on delivering this reform.
00:52Today the government announced it would finally happen early next year.
00:56The premier also used his speech to flag new legislation to protect gig economy workers
01:02like food delivery riders.
01:04Laws will be introduced this year to give the state's industrial relations commission
01:07the power to set minimum pay and conditions.
01:10This will be the first time these workers will be protected by Labor laws in the history
01:15of New South Wales.
01:17At Burwood in Sydney's inner west, delivery rider Joy Ying welcomed the proposed changes.
01:24Some of the drivers, their wage doesn't even reach $100 a day.
01:29But it wasn't all plain sailing for the Labor government.
01:32There was robust debate over new laws that make it harder for teenagers charged with
01:36crimes like car theft to get bail.
01:39They are a knee-jerk reaction and they are harmful and they are dangerous.
01:44People are having their houses broken into.
01:48They are being battered in their own homes.
01:51An urgent motion demanding the scrapping of the legislation was put to the vote.
02:03Some key social issues still dividing the party.