Raising the Barr

Mad as Hell About Liddell It’s like a Monty Python sketch that goes something like this – Coalition Government insists on selling all assets to privates, Coalition Government give away,…

Financial challenge ahead for NSW It is now officially less than 12 months until the next NSW State election.  Election Day will be Saturday March 23, 2019.  Mark it in…

Petition for Schools and Hospitals before Stadiums As most will be aware, I had sent out a Petition calling for the Government to prioritise their spending of $2.5B.  Most would…

The Future of Kurri Kurri Ambulance Station Just last week, the Health Ministers office confirmed that the damaged Kurri Kurri Ambulance Station will be repaired and re-opened, but the repairs…

Still Recovering From the Windstorm That Hit Kurri Kurri Last Year In early November last year, a freak wind and rain storm swept through the Kurri Kurri shopping strip. In…

The Importance of the GDP to You Recently, the game-show host currently running America gave a $1.5T gift to business by way of tax cuts.  $1.5T is more than double…

Crystal Ball Predictions For 2018 As always, I try to dedicate my first column of the year, in part, to some whacky tongue in cheek predictions for the year ahead.…

Courage and Tragedy brings down Institutional Abuse As we head toward Christmas, a particularly holy time in the Christian calendar, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse…

When Customer Service Is Sacrificed For Profit You know, the play book is pretty straight forward for the big corporates.  And we, the customers, lose out every single time.  Step…

Good News for Our Local Hospitals Our 2 local hospitals, Kurri Kurri and Cessnock, are due to get a bit of an upgrade to operating theatres in the coming months. …