Australian of the Year Awards 2017
The Australia Day Council of New South Wales invites nominations of inspirational Australians from our community in the 2017 Australian of the Year Awards. Through the Australian of the Year…
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Cessnock Electorate Budget Allocation 2016-2017
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP announces that the following Program Funding was allocated specifically for the Cessnock Electorate in the 2016-2017 Budget handed down yesterday…
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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 2016. Applications for funding…
MoreAnzac Day 2016 Brochure and Service Information
Each year we commemorate ANZAC Day, showing our gratitude for those who served. This brochure seeks to tell us more about a few of those people. The stories give us…
MoreLower Hunter Open Community Session
5.00 – 6.30 pm, Tuesday 22 March 2016 at Mulbring Lower Hunter residents are invited to an Open Community Session with Board Members and staff of Hunter Local Land Services. The casual event…
MoreGovernment Property – Our State for Sale
For some strange reason, the New South Wales Government has been acting more like a Real Estate agency than a Government for the people lately. The result is that we,…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 13 January 2017
Crystal Ball Predictions for 2017 As always, I try to dedicate my last column of the year, in part, to some whacky tongue in cheek predictions for the year ahead.…
MoreRaising the BARR – Week ending 16 December 2016
We Have an Education Crisis of The Sexes Where have our boys gone? Congratulations to all of the girls that got end of year awards at their school presentation days,…
MoreRaising the BARR – Week ending 2 December 2016
Sport & Recreation Camps – For Sale A really crucial part of a child’s school experience is the school camp. In NSW Sport & Rec camps have been a vital…
MoreRaising the BARR – Week ending 18 November 2016
Your Land Title – at risk I have written about the issue of Land Title previously. It is such an incredibly important issue that I find myself again penning a…
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