Celebrating four remarkable women strengthening Cessnock
Four outstanding local women with a track record of volunteering in Cessnock have been honoured on the 2025 Hidden Treasures Honour Roll. The Hidden Treasures Honour Roll is a Minns…
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Construction underway on new public preschool, primary school, and high school in Huntlee
The Minns Labor Government has broken ground on a major public school project and key election commitment in Huntlee, delivering the area’s first public high school as well as a…
MoreInvesting in regional jobs & improving RFS fleet management
The Minns Labor Government is backing regional communities with a $470 million investment in the 2026-27 NSW Budget to modernise management of the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) fleet. This…
More$1 million for multicultural events across NSW
Community organisations in the Electorate of Cessnock are invited to apply for their share in $1 million delivered by the Minns Labor Government to help bring cultural festivals and events…
MoreBellbird Fire Brigade celebrates 100 years
Bellbird Fire Brigade has today celebrated a major milestone as it commemorates 100 years of operation. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) Deputy Commissioner Michael Morris joined local firefighters at Bellbird…
MoreDesign unveiled for new North Rothbury Ambulance Station
Communities in the Hunter are being given their first look at the design for the new North Rothbury Ambulance Station which will boost emergency and mobile medical care across the…
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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…
MoreRaising 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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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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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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Rural and regional NSW
Labor does not value investment in the regions because Labor simply does not understand the regions. We should not be surprised at that because it is in Labor’s DNA to…
MoreProperty Tax (First Home Buyer Choice) Bill 2022
How do we define “business” in 2022? If you are a first home buyer, your occupation is web designer and you work in the front office or at the kitchen…
MoreCommonwealth Youth Parliament Participant Ethan Floyd
Mr CLAYTON BARR (Cessnock) (18:32): I congratulate Cessnock resident Ethan Floyd, who has been chosen as the New South Wales Commonwealth Parliamentary Association representative to the Commonwealth Youth Parliament in…
MoreAsset Privatisation
Mr CLAYTON BARR (Cessnock) (17:11): To help members on that side of Parliament understand what we are talking about today, I will break it down for them. I will provide…
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