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Month: April 2017

Wallsend Misses Out On New Police Resources Again

April 28, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the Police Minister to review the allocation of new Police recruits after it was revealed that the Central Hunter Local Area Command will receive the lowest allocation in the State. 178 new officers will join the New South Wales Police Force but only two…

More Schools Needed For Wallsend

April 27, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has welcomed news that the Government will be spending $5 billion on constructing new schools as a result of increasing enrolments. Last year, Ms Hornery called for more schools in the Wallsend electorate, particularly in the western suburbs where the population is growing rapidly, after it was…

Power Increases Will Be Too Much For Some

April 26, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on the Government to intervene after it recently announced that Wallsend customers will have to pay up to $400 a year more for power from July, because of a 50 per cent increase in the wholesale electricity price. Local residents who are already feeling the…

Two Years On And Still No Work For Wallsend

April 21, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on Newcastle Council to expedite works for the Wallsend Flood Management Plan. Today marks the second anniversary of the April Super Storm of 2015 and almost 10 years since the Pasha Bulker Storm.  Despite a number of studies, work on the Wallsend Flood Management Plan…

Petition To Build Them Here

April 19, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has today launched a petition calling on the State Government to build the new Intercity Rail Fleet in New South Wales with local workers. In August last year, the Government announced it would not have any local manufacturing or materials in the new intercity train fleet contract,…

Another Narrow Miss For Local Residents

April 18, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on Police to increase patrols along McCaffrey Drive after another near miss for residents on Sunday. A young driver crashed into a power pole in the early hours of Sunday morning, narrowly missing residents sleeping in their homes. The accident also caused extensive damage to…

Hornery To Meet With Hospital Workers

April 13, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

Sonia Hornery MP, State Member for Wallsend, will today meet with workers at the John Hunter Hospital to listen to their concerns about traffic and parking conditions. As recently as last week while in Parliament, Ms Hornery has been calling on the Minister to reinstate the successful park-and-ride shuttle scheme from Hunter Stadium that it abolished…

Government Continues To Be Slow On Trains

April 12, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

Responding to the Auditor-General’s report today on passenger train reliability, Sonia Hornery MP, reminded the Government of the need for reliable and timely services on the Newcastle to Central line. The report shows that timetable reliability has fallen since 2011 and is substantially worse than Sydney trains. Ms Hornery is on the record as calling…

Speed Camera Failing As Crashes Skyrocket

April 6, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on the State Government to review a speed camera position at Rankin Park, after documents revealed the number of accidents around the camera have skyrocketed by 367% over the last five years. According to the 2016 review of the state’s fixed and red light speed…

Local Family Forced To Live With Cockroach Infestation

April 5, 2017Media Releaseschad_admin

State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on the Minister for Social Housing to act to remedy a local property that is being infested by cockroaches. Wallsend resident Barbara Randall has been living with a major cockroach infestation being caused by the unsanitary living conditions of her neighbours. Her property has become…

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