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Latest news/media releases

Celebrating local excellence in vocational education and training

Two local students from the Electorate of Cessnock have been recognised and celebrated as part of the 2025 Hunter and Central Coast Regional Training Awards. The awards celebrate the success…
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Cessnock City Council awarded $200,000 to fund local circular waste solutions.

Cessnock City Council has been awarded $200,000 by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to help deliver innovative local waste and recycling solutions, supporting the state’s transition to a circular…
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Funding boost for Multicultural festivals and events

The Minns Labor Government has announced $1 million in funding for culturally diverse festivals and events held across the state in 2025 and into next year. The Stronger Together Festival…
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Financial Assistance for Flood-Affected Residents in Cessnock Electorate

Our community has once again faced the immense challenges of severe weather. My thoughts are with everyone impacted by the recent East Coast severe weather event and flooding in NSW.…
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More than 1,000 apprentices, trainees and cadets to start careers in NSW Councils including in Lake Macquarie City Council and Cessnock City Council

Hundreds of new apprentices and trainees vital to the delivery of essential local services have hit the ground running with councils across the state, thanks to a landmark $252.2 million…
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Start your midwifery career with NSW Health

Registered nurses in Electorate of Cessnock are encouraged to start their midwifery careers by applying to become a midwifery student in a NSW public hospital. Applications have now opened for…
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Raising the Barr

Raising the BARR – Week ending 22/11/2024

A LOT OF IMPORTANT STUFF IN POLITICS RARELY GETS A HEADLINE One of the top 5 complaints that I receive in the Electorate Office is to do with parking fines.…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 08/11/2024

OPINION – WHAT THE US ELECTION INDICATES FOR US Dangerously, this a bit of a stream of consciousness on what I have been able to absorb, understand and mis-understand, interpret…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 25/10/2024

THE POINTY END OF PRIVATISATION IS BEING FELT IN BROKEN HILL When the poles and wires of the NSW electricity network, along with the transmission lines, were sold off by…
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Raising the BARR – Week ending 17/10/2024

I AM NOT SURE HOW CHANGING LGBTIQA+ LAWS WILL HARM THE UNAFFECTED One of the proposed new laws that the NSW Parliament will need to consider in the coming weeks…
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Speeches

West Wallsend Butterfly Cave

Clayton Barr - Private Member's Statement
The Butterfly Cave is a sacred Aboriginal women’s site in the West Wallsend village in the electorate I have the great privilege to represent. In the past eight or nine…
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Bushfires

It is a pleasure to follow the good member for Port Macquarie’s wonderful contribution to this motion of condolence and to hear her talk about her community with such passion, pride…
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Greta Army Camp – Greta Mining Camp

On 9 and 10 November—just last weekend—in the small country town of Greta located in the Cessnock electorate, celebrations were held to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the founding of…
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Coal Industry

Tonight I speak on the issue of coal. It probably will not come as a surprise to people that I would want to talk about coal. Indeed, the last time…
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