Steve George - Labor for Cessnock

09/12/2025

My Summer 2025-26 newsletter should be arriving in your mailbox soon! If you haven't received your copy yet, you can read it online now.

This edition covers some exciting developments for our community including:

🚗 The preferred design for the Newcastle Link Road/Minmi Road upgrade - a major step forward for easing congestion at Cameron Park
🏥 FREE virtual health care now available to every NSW resident via Healthdirect (1800 022 222)
🏫 First look at designs for the new Huntlee primary and high schools
👮 36 new police officers have joined Hunter Valley Police District since the 2023 election
🎓 Record $3.4 billion investment rebuilding TAFE after years of neglect
🏗️ $446,209 secured for 13 local infrastructure projects through the Community Building Partnership Program
🚑 Land purchased for new ambulance station at North Rothbury

Plus details on my Barr-beques returning this summer - 12 locations across the Electorate from January to April.

Read the full newsletter online: https://claytonbarr.com.au/newsletters/

09/12/2025

Bob Hawke. Born this day in 1929. The kid from Bordertown who became a Labor legend and a national icon. He gave us Medicare, super, and outlawed s*x discrimination. Cheers Hawkie!

02/12/2025

“Strong business investment and consumer spending powers Australian economic surge.”

Australia’s economy is tipped to record its fastest growth rate in three years, as businesses and households lift their spending.

02/12/2025

New solution to a vintage problem: Minns Government delivers improved school bus services for the Hunter Valley. Clayton Barr MP in the news, read about his work for the people of the NSW Electorate of Cessnock.

30/11/2025

Well, that’s a wrap on this weekend’s highly anticipated two-part revolution... and what a damp squib it was.

Crowd estimate was 188 as I, in the pettiest way possible, measured the area where they gathered. We can generously round it up to 200 if we include confused shoppers and that bloke walking past with a Boost Juice.

The Line-up was mostly One Nation speakers. Pauline Hanson took the stage and within minutes, a fight broke out. Because nothing says “put Australia first” like punching each other while a pensioner rants about migrants.

A few NSN lads popped up like herpes.

We also saw the usual ponchos, sharpies on T-shirts, and enough flags to violate fire code.

Excuses from cookers already include “the media photoshopped the crowd.”, “Dan Andrews made it rain from his secret lair.”(probably) and something about “Southern Cross escalators being a psyop"... classic.

This looked less like a movement and more like an RSL day trip where the bus left early.

That’s it. That’s our Australia First double feature. One part flaccid nationalism.
One part revolution cosplay. Zero momentum.

The revolution was postponed due to light drizzle and confusion of dates.

29/11/2025

With today’s abysmal flop in Sydney, the ‘Put Australia First’ rally has officially redefined “ghost town idiot chic.” We know cookers can’t count... so expect claims in coming days that hundreds of thousands turned up but the media’s just too “scared of the troof” to show it.

So here’s a little reality check (cheers Andy for the aerial snap). I measured the actual area they occupied (all 995sqm of it) and crunched the numbers like a petty adult with too much time on his hands.

Even if we gave them the benefit of the doubt, you’re looking at a maximum of 299 people.

That’s not a movement. That’s a queue at Centrelink.

But go on. Tell us how the government deployed invisibility cloaks and CGI horses to cover up the truth. We’ll wait.

28/11/2025

Former Deputy PM and families man Barnaby Joyce has left his long-term political home after flirting with a much younger party. https://chaser.com.au/national/nation-shocked-as-barnaby-joyce-doesnt-remain-faithful/

28/11/2025

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21/11/2025

Rebuilding TAFE NSW! 🔨📚

The Minns Labor Government is backing our teachers and rebuilding TAFE!
Under the Minns Labor Government:
✅ TAFE NSW will receive guaranteed, long-term, and predictable funding directly from the Government
✅ TEACHERS are returning to the classroom and developing courses- not consultants
✅ STUDENTS can enrol with confidence, knowing that they are at the centre of their learning.

It’s all part of our commitment to build a better NSW by restoring TAFE as the strong public training provider our community needs 🤝

12/11/2025