State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the Minister for Water, the Hon Melinda Pavey MP, to give Hunter Water the necessary regulatory requirement to fix the Wallsend flooding issues. Ms Hornery recently wrote to Hunter Water asking why they had not included the Wallsend Flood Mitigation plan in their five…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the NSW Treasurer to push ahead today with the M1 extension from Beresfield to Raymond Terrace. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to announce around $4 billion in infrastructure stimulus projects today and the M1 extension was one of four NSW projects short-listed that…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the Education Minister to put her money where her mouth is, after seven local schools were forced to apply for Community Building Partnership grants for basic maintenance issues. Ms Hornery recently wrote to the Education Minister regarding previous issues of school applying for grants…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called for urgent action to address the continuing trend of bullying in the Hunter New England Local Health District, following the release of the 2019 Alliance NSW Hospital Health Check. The report showed that one in two junior doctors at John Hunter Hospital, and one in…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today move a Notice of Motion in the Legislative Assembly, asking the Minister for Transport to reverse a raft of recent bus stop relocations. Keolis Downer and Transport for NSW have recently installed new bus stop signage right across the Newcastle Transport network as part of…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today move a Notice of Motion calling on the Minister for Transport to reverse the new charges for Opal Card retailers. On 1 November, retailers who sell Opal Cards and have a top-up machine were slugged with new fees, which for some was just too much….
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the Minister for Transport to rethink the new fees that retailers now face to have an Opal Card machine in their store. A number of retailers have contacted Ms Hornery’s office to say they could not afford to keep their machine as they cannot…