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Anzac 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…
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Lower 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…
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Government 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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Kurri Kurri Public Library (Cessnock City Council) Awarded Country Art Support Program Funding

Kurri Kurri Public Library has been awarded $4,460.00 in NSW Government funding for their local project The Library Roadshow! The funding is to go toward the Library’s project The Library…
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Successful 2015 Community Building Partnership Recipients Announced

Clayton Barr, MP, State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock advises the following applicants were successful in receiving funding from the Cessnock Electorate’s $400,000 Community Building Partnership funding allocation for…
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Grant program to improve biodiversity conservation

Building the region’s resilience to the potential impacts of climate change on significant biodiversity habitat areas is the focus of a grant program now available through Hunter Local Land Services.…
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Raising the Barr

Raising 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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Raising the BARR – Week ending 4 November 2016

The Cessnock Gaol Extension Insult to The Community The proposed extension to the Cessnock Gaol has received mixed responses.  In essence it will take the capacity from its current 800,…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 21 October 2016

Sometimes Politics Is Really Hard To Follow Having the privilege of working close to the centre of the NSW political process, one might think that I am better informed and…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 7 October 2016

Is The State Really FREE Of Debt? No, Of Course Not! If the State had no debt, then a fair question to ask would be “why do we pay $2Billion…
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