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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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Media Release – Labor Calls For Local Council Elections To Be Postponed Due To COVID-19 Concerns – Hunter

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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Labor Calls For Parking Fees In The Hunter’s Public Hospitals To Be Waived

Patients and family members visiting our local public hospital should not be forced to pay car parking fees for the next six months, according to NSW Labor. Currently Hunter hospitals…
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Successful Applicants for the 2019 Community Building Partnership Program – Cessnock Electorate

State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP, announced today the Cessnock Electorate received $300,000 in funding for a total of twenty one projects through the NSW Government’s…
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Kurri Kurri Girl Guides Complete Successful Community Building Partnership Renovation

After – Clayton Barr and Dianne Bailey District Manager Kurri Kurri Girl Guides State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP, dropped by the Kurri Kurri Girl Guides…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 8 February 2019

The Political Spin of Elections Will Be Enough To Put You Into a Spin As someone who works and lives inside of the state political “bubble” I see all kinds…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 25 January 2019

A life of privilege is something we can all give to our kids For most of us, when we use the phrase “life of privilege” we immediately think of money…
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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…
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Raising 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…
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Speeches

Cellar Door Subsidy Scheme

Tonight I inform the House about an incredibly important issue in my electorate—namely, the Cellar Door Subsidy Scheme. The Cellar Door Subsidy Scheme, which ceased on 30 June 2012, provided…
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Tribute to Andrew “Joey” Johns

This afternoon I once again gloat about the achievements of people from the Cessnock electorate and congratulate Andrew “Joey” Johns on his induction into the Rugby League Immortals and into…
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Grandparent Carers

I draw the attention of the House to the plight of grandparents who must step in to raise their grandchildren. It is most fitting to raise this issue on the…
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Abermain Eisteddfod

Today I pay tribute to the Abermain Eisteddfod, which celebrates its ninety-second year. Recently I had the good fortune to assist with the Abermain Eisteddfod in a small way. Unfortunately,…
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