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New world-class facilities give Hunter race clubs inside running for a winning future

On Tuesday (7 April) Minister for Gaming and Racing David Harris officially opened world-class facilities at Scone Race Club as part of a Minns Labor Government investment of $36 million…
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NSW Fair Trading is blitzing fuel compliance in Cessnock Electorate.

The Minns Labor Government has fast-tracked a statewide fuel price compliance blitz to strengthen fuel price transparency and protect motorists from misleading pricing. FuelCheck is the NSW Government’s real-time fuel…
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Cessnock Electorate benefits from lifesaving equipment at community sport facilities

The Minns Labor Government is backing safer community sport by delivering new lifesaving equipment to clubs in the Electorate of Cessnock among 190 sporting organisations across NSW to have received…
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Community sport scores vital funds in the Electorate of Cessnock

Sporting organisations in the Electorate of Cessnock have shared in $4.49 million following the awarding of grants in the NSW Government’s Local Sport Grant Program. The program provides grants for…
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Three quarters of state’s 100 new public preschools now under construction

The Minns Labor Government is closing in on its promise to deliver the state’s biggest expansion of public preschools, with work now underway on all 12 new sites in the…
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Catherine Parsons recognised as the Cessnock Electorate’s Local Woman of the Year

State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP is pleased to announce Catherine Parsons from Abermain is the 2026 Local Woman of the Year for the Cessnock Electorate.…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 13/03/2026

Future Electricity Supply Since Labor’s Neville Wran was the Premier of NSW in the 1970’s and 1980’s we have enjoyed great certainty in electricity supply. He simply demanded that coal…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 27/02/2026

If Hate Is the Path, What Is the Destination? As I have written previously in this column, it feels like there is a real tension in the air for we…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 13/02/2026

School Students Offered More in 2026 Our time at school is incredibly important in shaping the people that we become in later life. That is why it is so incredibly…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 30/01/2026

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What Has the Government Done to Help Me or My Family? In its campaign to get elected, back in early 2023, the NSW Labor team put forward a promise to…
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Speeches

Hunter Valley Bus Accident

Clayton Barr - Condolences
Mr CLAYTON BARR (Cessnock) (19:03): I have tried a couple of times to sit down and write this speech, and each time I sit down a bit of a fog comes through.…
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State Election

Clayton Barr - Private Member's Statement
Mr CLAYTON BARR (Cessnock) (20:02): I comment on the 2023 State election in the electorate of Cessnock. I recognise from the outset that I have had the chance to make a couple…
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Tribute to Phil Papworth

Clayton Barr - Private Member's Statement
I make a brief statement about Phil “Pappy” Papworth, who died just before Easter. Pappy was a long-time career schoolteacher who taught all over the State. He was an ugly…
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FISAF International World Sports Aerobics and Fitness Championships

Clayton Barr - Community Recognition Statements
Mr CLAYTON BARR (Cessnock) (15:41): I acknowledge three young ladies from Cessnock who are off to the FISAF International World Sports Aerobics and Fitness Championships 2022 in the Czech Republic…
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