State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has again called on local Police to increase patrols along McCaffrey Drive after yet another near miss for residents last night. A young woman has had her car damaged by a vehicle travelling at speed down McCaffrey Drive. Her car was extensively damaged but the other vehicle…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is supporting calls by the NSW Police Association for more Police Officers, particularly in the Central Hunter Local Area Command. Of the 226 new Officers that joined the New South Wales Police Force at the last graduation, a staggering 83% were stationed in Sydney, with the rest…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called for an urgent meeting with the Minister for Transport and the CEO of Keolis Downer following a number of incidents involving school children this week. On Wednesday this week, a young Waratah school girl was forced off a bus and left on the roadside near…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on Ausgrid and their accredited service provider, Transelect, to stop a power outage that will cost a local Maryland business more than $40,000 in sales. Ausgrid has authorised Transelect to disconnect the power in parts of Maryland on Thursday this week, which will cause the…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today host a community forum on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill. This will be an opportunity for interested local residents to be directly consulted on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 (NSW), which was released publicly in May, and formally introduced in the Parliament in September….
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, yesterday raised concerns about how Police resources are allocated, particularly in the Central Hunter Local Area Command. Ms Hornery debated a Notice of Motion calling on the Government to review how resource allocations are made to Local Area Commands after it was revealed that only one new…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has cast doubt on figures provided in a an answer to a Question on Notice by the Minister for Transport on the number of bus services cancelled by private bus operator, Keolis Downer. In the response provided by the Minister, only 0.1% of services were cancelled in…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will this week move a Notice of Motion calling for a stop at Cardiff train station to be reinstated when a new early morning express train service between Newcastle and Sydney begins in November. The new service will leave the Wickham interchange at 5.03am, is expected to…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, yesterday used Question Time to ask the Minister for Transport why the Newcastle public transport system has gone backwards. Ms Hornery asked the Minister to confirm why the recently privatised transport network was not “world class” as he had promised. In his response to the Question Without…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on the Government to give renters more certainty in a Notice of Motion to the NSW Parliament. The Notice of Motion moved in Parliament yesterday, calls on the Government to end no grounds termination notices and require landlords to provide reasons for the termination of…