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Media Release – Labor Calls For Local Council Elections To Be Postponed Due To COVID-19 Concerns – Cessnock

GREG WARREN MP  – LABOR SHADOW MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT CLAYTON BARR MP  – STATE MEMBER FOR THE ELECTORATE OF CESSNOCK, LABOR SHADOW MINISTER FOR THE HUNTER NSW Labor has called on the…
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Media Release – Labor Calls For Local Council Elections To Be Postponed Due To COVID-19 Concerns – Singleton

GREG WARREN MP  – LABOR SHADOW MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT CLAYTON BARR MP  – STATE MEMBER FOR THE ELECTORATE OF CESSNOCK, LABOR SHADOW MINISTER FOR THE HUNTER NSW Labor has called on the…
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Media Release – Labor Calls For Local Council Elections To Be Postponed Due To COVID-19 Concerns – Hunter

GREG WARREN MP  – LABOR SHADOW MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT CLAYTON BARR MP  – STATE MEMBER FOR THE ELECTORATE OF CESSNOCK, LABOR SHADOW MINISTER FOR THE HUNTER NSW Labor has called on the…
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Kurri Kurri Girl Guides Complete Successful Community Building Partnership Renovation

After – Clayton Barr and Dianne Bailey District Manager Kurri Kurri Girl Guides State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP, dropped by the Kurri Kurri Girl Guides…
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BHI Data Shows Hunter/New England Public Health System Under Massive Strain

NSW Labor has warned the public health system in the Hunter and New England is already at breaking point and desperately needs a massive injection of resources to cope with…
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HUNTER UPDATE – Novel Coronavirus (COVID – 19)

Shadow Minister for Hunter, Clayton Barr MP, is calling for calm, urging people to listen to health authorities and to practicing good hygiene including hand washing, cover your mouth when…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 20 March 2020

Stay Calm, Carry On and Care for Others COVID-19 is changing our society every hour of every day.  At this stage it is in part due to the virus and…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 06 March 2020

For its next trick the Government plans to sell TAFE I have dedicated many lines in this regular column to the recent struggles of TAFE since the introduction of the…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 21 February 2020

Green Grass Does Not Signal End of Drought It is pretty wonderful to see some green grass out there. Whether its front lawns, sporting fields or farms and paddocks, the…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 7 February 2020

Welcome Rains I had to smile at some small children playing in a running water-course over the weekend. While I am not sure how old these little ones were, it…
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Speeches

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and Cessnock Electorate

I speak tonight about an issue that came to my attention just today. It is a serious concern and is causing some alarm across my electorate. It has to do…
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Cessnock Electorate Excellence in Leadership Awards

Today I recognise three great educational leaders in the Cessnock community who recently received Excellence in Leadership Awards. Mr Len Boughton, Principal of Abermain Public School, received an award for…
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Wollombi and Laguna Public Schools

It looks as if the Department of Education and Communities is going to close a small school in the electorate of Cessnock. From the outset, I want to make clear…
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Public Libraries Funding

I am proud and willing to speak about public library funding. I have been presented with a petition signed by 10,000 people. I understand that the petition continues and has…
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