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Latest news/media releases

The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

Ice cores are a window into the past hundreds of thousands of years. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Ludovic Brucker Ben Henley, University of Melbourne and Nerilie Abram, Australian National University…
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Berejiklian Government Attempts Sneaky Privatisation of Service NSW

The NSW Opposition has moved to stop the Berejiklian Government from sneakily attempting to privatise Service NSW and prevent the flow of sensitive customer data into the hands of private…
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Inquiry to Examine NSW Emergency Services Agencies

The NSW Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has established an Inquiry into emergency services agencies to inquire into and report on the response to bullying, harassment and discrimination within emergency services…
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Anzac Day 2017 Brochure and Service Information

In this Centenary of Anzac it is important that we reflect on the Anzac spirit of courage under fire, selfless and unwavering loyalty, tenacity and mateship that was forged in…
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Cessnock City Council Awarded Public Library Infrastructure Grants Funding

Cessnock City Council has been granted $200,000 towards Elevating Cessnock Library with NSW Government funding through the 2016/17 Public Library Infrastructure Grants Program. The Public Library Infrastructure Grants Program supports…
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Urgent Notice To All NSW Citizens! Save the Title To Your Properties Against the Privatisation of LPI

I am letting everyone know about this important event on behalf of the following Institutions and Professional parties: The Law Society Of NSW The Institution of Surveyors NSW The Real…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 26 January 2018

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…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 12 January 2018

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.…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 15 December 2017

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…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 3 November 2017

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…
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Speeches

Abermain Public School Road Safety

Recently I had the pleasure of attending Abermain Public School to meet with students and staff about an issue of significance to them. I am talking about the intersection of…
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Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation

Tonight I speak about a magnificent organisation, the Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation. I recognise that the Ungooroo corporation services the Wanaruah people, whose lands stretch from the Liverpool Ranges in the…
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Pedestrian Safety

Sometimes being a State member gives one the opportunity to have interesting conversations with people within the electorate that sometimes remind us of things that have slipped off the radar.…
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Beacon Foundation

I speak today about education and young people—I seem to find myself doing that quite a lot; it must be a passion of mine—and about the Beacon Foundation. I recently…
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