A Warning to Residents: Battery Fires Threatening Lives
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP is urging residents to keep batteries out of household bins due to a growing number of battery-related fires across the…
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Cessnock Electorate to receive $3.1 million for a new preschool under Start Strong Capital Works Grant Program.
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP is pleased to announce Cessnock Multipurpose Children’s Centre Ltd have been awarded $3,143,747 (excluding GST) under the Major Capital Works…
MoreOur First 100 Days
In our first 100 days the Minns Labor Government has hit the ground running to address the serious challenges facing NSW. We were elected with a clear mandate to scrap…
MoreApplications Open for 150 Apprentice Scholarships
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, is encouraging hardworking first-year apprentices who are experiencing financial or other personal hardship to apply for up to $15,000 with NSW…
MoreMain Road upgrade complete at Heddon Greta
Motorists will soon be experiencing safer and smoother journeys with the completion of the Main Road upgrade at Heddon Greta. Minister for Transport and Roads Jenny Aitchison said today was…
MoreFunding Available for War Memorials in NSW
The latest round of the Community War Memorials Fund for 2023-2024 opened on Anzac Day with $125,000 in funding available for the protection and repair of war memorials. Minister for…
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Raising the BARR- Week ending 15 October 2021
A NEW PREMIER! WHAT HAPPENED? Two weeks ago, I had already written for this fortnightly column before the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian decided that it was time for her…
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WHAT EXACTLY IS WELFARE AND WHO GETS IT? One of things that has happened during COVID has been massive spending by State and Federal Governments to get money into…
MoreRaising the BARR- Week ending 17 September 2021
SOME GOOD NEWS I have spent many weeks now, using data and statistics, to convince all and sundry that the vaccinations rates in our local area, the traditional old…
MoreRaising the BARR- Week ending 03 September 2021
THE HARDEST PART OF A 7 DAY LOCKDOWN IS THE FIRST 5 WEEKS I don’t think that too many of us could have predicted that when the Hunter went…
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Tribute to Uncle Les Elvin
Today I pay tribute to Uncle Les Elvin, who passed away unexpectedly on Sunday 16 August 2015, aged 77, not long after his seventy-seventh birthday. Uncle Les was an Aboriginal…
MoreWorkers Compensation Amendment Bill 2015 State Insurance and Care Governance Bill 2015 (second reading)
I lead for the Opposition in debate on the Workers Compensation Amendment Bill 2015 and the cognate State Insurance and Care Governance Bill 2015. I outline from the start that…
MoreTribute to Brian Davey
I make a very brief contribution to finish off this week and to recognise a giant of the community of Cessnock, Mr Brian Davey, who unfortunately passed away this week.…
MoreCessnock District Learning Centre
Madam Acting-Speaker, I welcome you back to this new Parliament and congratulate you on your election and reappointment. I start my contribution in this Fifty-sixth Parliament in much the same…
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