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Rental Package in Dire Need of Improvement to Help Tenants and Mum and Dad Investors

Clayton Barr MP has welcomed the decision to recall the NSW Parliament to debate the Berejiklian Government’s woefully inadequate rental package, which does nothing to help tenants or mum and…
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Anzac Day 2020 Brochure and Service Notice

We have an unusual, but not unprecedented, Anzac Day ahead of us this year, with no services to take place because of COVID-19. The last time that Anzac Day services…
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Calls for Government to Rule Out Lifting Water Pries During Drought

NSW Labor is demanding the Liberal-National Government rule out lifting water prices during times of drought, warning it will widen social inequalities across Sydney. It follows draft recommendations from the…
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Media Release – Labor Calls For Local Council Elections To Be Postponed Due To COVID-19 Concerns – Lake Macquarie

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 – 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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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 3 May 2019

NSW Parliament Heads Back to Work On Tuesday of this week the new session of the 57th Parliament officially began. It is quite a series of tradition, pomp and ceremony…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 5 April 2019

Surprise Election Win Considering the Amount of Hate Out There Can I start my first column, post-election, by thanking the many people that voted to support my bid to serve…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 8 March 2019

Our Police are listening There is no doubt that our local area could use more Police.  This is, as always, an ongoing work in progress.  Certainly our crime rates, our…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 22 February 2019

My Position on Coal Last week there was some media attention suggesting that Hunter Members of Parliament, State and Federal, did not support the coal industry. It was an absurd…
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Speeches

Mining Safety

Last Sunday I was humbled and privileged to attend the Northern District Branch of the United Mineworkers’ Annual Memorial Service at the Jim Comerford Memorial Wall in Cessnock. The wall…
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City of Cessnock

I take this opportunity to tell the House about the town of Cessnock, which gives my electorate its name and is the town where my family and I live. We…
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Parkinson’s Unity Walk

I rise to speak of a fantastic event to be staged this Sunday, the Parkinson’s Disease Unity Walk. The unity walk is in its fourth year and is a major…
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Cessnock Electorate Events

What a privilege to be back in Parliament. I started my inaugural speech in this House using a phrase something akin to “brimming with pride and enthusiasm”. I start this…
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