Tenders Open for Testers Hollows Roadworks
State Member for Cessnock, Clayton Barr MP, has welcomed news that long awaited works at Testers Hollow are one step closer as Transport for NSW calls for tenders for the…
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Labor Demands Liberal – National Government Speeds Up Singleton Bypass
NSW Labor has demanded the Liberal-National Government comes clean about its promise to build the Singleton bypass, amid growing doubts about its ability to deliver the desperately needed road. Around…
MoreParliament Will Shed Light on Dark Corners of Influence That Forced Pavey to Lift Water Embargoes
Labor Shadow Minister for Water, Clayton Barr, and the NSW Labor Opposition have successfully found the support of Parliament to launch an inquiry into Water Minister Melinda Pavey’s decision to lift the embargo on water harvesting and…
MoreSuccessful 2019/2020 Anzac Community Grants Program Recipients
State Member, Clayton Barr, MP is pleased to announce the successful recipients in the Cessnock Electorate who are to receive funding from the 2019/20 Anzac Community Grants Program. Of the…
MoreNational Parks and Wildlife Service
There have been a number of concerns regarding hazard reduction activities and the management of national parks in New South Wales. Hazard Reduction versus Back-burning Hazard reduction burns and back-burning…
MoreNationals Botch the Roll – Out of the Regional Seniors Travel Card
Shadow Minister for Seniors Jo Haylen MP and State Member for Electorate of Cessnock Clayton Barr MP Member have called on John Barilaro to explain why the Nationals have botched…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 11 January 2019
Fish deaths in Murray Darling is greedy preventable madness The sight of millions of dead fish out near Broken Hill has been a shocking sight for all of us. But…
MoreRaising the BARR – Week ending 4 January 2019
Crystal Ball Predictions for 2019 In what is becoming possibly the most powerful and important column of the year, anywhere in Australia and possibly the world, the Raising The Barr…
MoreRaising the BARR – Week ending 30 November 2018
Endeavour Industries closure Over recent months we have all been shocked by the closure of the Endeavour Industries group. While the administrators were called in and the sale of property…
MoreRaising the BARR – Week ending 19 October 2018
The world is trying to tell us lies Folks, the “truth” is that we need to have our guard up for the many lies that the world is trying to…
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Kirkton-Lower Belford Community Save Our Suburbs Group
I draw to the attention of the House the power and passion I and my staff have witnessed recently from two of the small communities in my electorate—the community of…
MoreCows Create Careers Program
I inform the House that once again the Cessnock electorate is representing New South Wales and doing the State proud. I am not talking about famous luminaries from my area…
MoreBeresfield RSL Remembrance Day Service
I congratulate the member for Castle Hill on the arrival of his second daughter, Amelia Frances, on 28 September. It was with great pleasure that I was invited to the…
MoreHunter Expressway Construction
I raise an issue in the House today that is of considerable concern to residents in my electorate—that is, the construction of the Hunter Expressway. I speak on this issue…
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