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Latest news/media releases

NSW Schools Bursting At The Seems: Berejiklian’s Botched Enrolment Cap Leaves 32% of Public Schools in Cessnock Electorate Overcrowded

The Berejiklian Government’s school enrolment cap crackdown has been a massive failure. Recent investigations by Labor have unveiled that 45% of schools subject to the cap are overcapacity announced State…
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NSW Bushfire Inquiry Submissions Closing Soon

Clayton Barr MP, State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock and Shadow Minister for the Hunter is urging bushfire-affected residents, emergency and support personnel, organisations and the general public to…
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Relief Package for International Students Too Little, Too Late

NSW Shadow Minister for Tertiary Education Clayton Barr has criticised the Berejiklian Government for taking too long to announce relief measures for international students after a $20 million temporary housing…
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Nurses and Midwives Fighting for our Communities Left Out In Cold from Wage Freeze

“On International Nurse’s Day 2020 our Nurses and Midwives have been left out in the cold by plans by the Berejiklian Government to push through legislation for a public sector…
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Pavey Must Stop Tick-and-flick Rush, and Acknowledge Drought in Future Water Plans

Labor says Berejiklian Government Minister Melinda Pavey must not approve out of date Water Sharing Plans (WSP) for 19 NSW water catchment areas, because they fail to acknowledge droughts over…
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2020 Community Building Partnership Program Applications Now Open

State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP, has announced that the NSW Government will once again conduct the Community Building Partnership Program in 2020. Clayton Barr MP…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 30 June 2019

People living on Struggle Street In this past 2 weeks I have had the very good fortune to increase my awareness of the many many people across the Hunter Valley;…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 14 June 2019

NSW Budget – What you won’t hear the Government say As you read this column you will have spent the past 24-48 hours hearing many stories from the NSW Budget…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 31 May 2019

Emergency Services – Workers Compensation – and a 15% Fee Coming Your Way Late last year, literally the last day of Parliament, a new piece of Legislation was passed that…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 17 May 2019

Imagine Our Country Without Medicare? Last week, Bob Hawke passed away.  Reading the many tributes and lists of achievements I was reminded about the historic path of our wonderful scheme…
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Speeches

Outer Metropolitan Bus Service Contracts

I acknowledge the recently elected member for Northern Tablelands who is in the Chamber. I hope he had a good first week in this place. Well done. I speak on…
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Coal Industry

Today I offer my complete and unabated support for the coalmining industry in New South Wales. I was raised in Cessnock on a bed of coal from the coalfields of…
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Cessnock City Council Beresfield and Tarro Infrastructure Funding

It is with pleasure that I make a private member’s statement about local government. However, I note that the Minister for Local Government is leaving the Chamber. I draw to…
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Tribute to Mary Lawson

Mary Lawson is renowned in Weston and its neighbouring communities as a tireless worker for the Weston Public School Parents and Citizens Organisation as well as spending more than a…
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