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Wanted: 100 Transport regional trainees and apprentices

Wanted: 100 Transport regional trainees and apprentices
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP is reminding residents that applications are currently open until midnight on 27 August for the Transport for NSW Regional and…
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A Warning to Residents: Battery Fires Threatening Lives

battery fires threatening lives
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP is urging residents to keep batteries out of household bins due to a growing number of battery-related fires across the…
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Cessnock Electorate to receive $3.1 million for a new preschool under Start Strong Capital Works Grant Program.

Cessnock Electorate to receive $3.1 million for a new preschool under Start Strong Capital Works Grant Program.
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, MP is pleased to announce Cessnock Multipurpose Children’s Centre Ltd have been awarded $3,143,747 (excluding GST) under the Major Capital Works…
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Our First 100 Days

In our first 100 days the Minns Labor Government has hit the ground running to address the serious challenges facing NSW. We were elected with a clear mandate to scrap…
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Applications Open for 150 Apprentice Scholarships

150 New Scholarships available to apprentices
State Member for the Electorate of Cessnock, Clayton Barr, is encouraging hardworking first-year apprentices who are experiencing financial or other personal hardship to apply for up to $15,000 with NSW…
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Main Road upgrade complete at Heddon Greta

Main Road, Heddon Greta. Picture by Krystal Sellars.
Motorists will soon be experiencing safer and smoother journeys with the completion of the Main Road upgrade at Heddon Greta. Minister for Transport and Roads Jenny Aitchison said today was…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 10th March

We Are All Paying for Privatisation I have made no secret of my views on privatisation.  I hate it! Government businesses, that often provide a monopoly service, should not be…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 24th February

Long Term Effects of COVID Won’t Be Realised For a Long Time It’s hard to recall anything quite like COVID, in terms of turning our society upside down and shaking…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 10th February

‘TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS’ ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT Over the past 10 years the NSW Government has spent billions and billions of dollars on public transport, almost all of which is…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 9th December

What Do You Think About a Cashless Future? There are a number of issues getting media attention at the moment that forces us to think more and more about a…
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Speeches

Cessnock Electorate Office Staff

Clayton Barr - Private Member's Statement
I take this opportunity to talk about my electorate staff in general. It is perhaps an early Christmas felicitation but more importantly it is a congratulations to Perri Hodge, who…
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Coalmining

Clayton Barr - Private Member's Statement
The number 2,463 is incredibly important for my community and me. It is the number of workers who are directly employed in the resources sector—in coal and coalmining. That is…
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Cessnock Electorate

Clayton Barr - Private Member's Statement
On behalf of my community, post the Federal budget and prior to the State budget, which is about to be released, I want to talk about what is really needed…
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Cessnock District Hospital

Today I speak about an issue that is facing my community and a number of people in my community through no choice of their own. I speak of our wonderful…
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