State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today move a Notice of Motion in the NSW Parliament, calling for the Minister for Regional Transport to make the Regional Seniors Travel Card fair for all local residents. The Motion calls on the Minister to ensure that all seniors, including veterans, disability pensioners, carers and…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on the community to donate their old footy boots, to support local refugee families who cannot afford new boots. The Development and Relief Agency (DARA), a registered charity of the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, operates to support vulnerable people in our local community. DARA are…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on local residents to show some love to a local business after a post on Facebook went viral earlier this week. On Monday night, a post in a local residents group went viral claiming that a local business had made disparaging comments about a group…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on Minister for Customer Service, Victor Dominello MP, to apologise to local residents for the lack of information following the temporary closure of the Wallsend Service NSW Centre. Ms Hornery received a number of calls, emails and messages late yesterday and last night following the…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the Minister for Transport to explain why recent upgrades and resurfacing at Beresfield Train Station have resulted in larger gaps for passengers catching trains. In early 2019, Ms Hornery wrote to the Transport Minister about the large step up that passengers faced when trying…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on the Regional Transport Minister to show some love for residents in the Newcastle Local Government Area, veterans, disability pensioners and carers this Valentine’s Day, after reports that they have all been excluded from the Regional Seniors Travel Card program. Despite initial information from the…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called on Ausgrid management to explain why 15 linesmen where kept in the Wallsend depot yesterday, despite more than 100,000 homes and businesses remaining without power across the Ausgrid Network. Ms Hornery has spoken with the Electrical Trades Union who raised concerns about workers being forced…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today move a number of Notices of Motion calling on the Health Minister to address failing infrastructure at the John Hunter Hospital. In recent weeks the John Hunter Hospital has faced ongoing problems with air-conditioning not working during heat wave conditions. Management failed to have engineers…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today move a Notice of Motion calling on the Roads and Transport Minister to review the classification of vehicles towing caravans, trailers and boats on the M2 and M7 Motorways. Late last year, the operator of the toll road, Transurban, changed the classification of passenger vehicles…
Today is World Cancer Day and State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, is calling on the community to use this opportunity to raise awareness and consider what actions we can all take to tackle cancer. The day seeks to empower communities all over the world to make progress in the fight against cancer….