State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, will today question the Minister for Energy about why a large section of the Wallsend electorate was left out of the Empowering Homes solar battery loan offer. The Government recently announced the program that will help homeowners in the Hunter region access interest-free loans to install solar…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called for the Water Minister, Melinda Pavey MP, to make Hunter Water undertake its part of the flood mitigation works in Wallsend. The call follows a sudden downpour yesterday which nearly saw Ironbark Creek break its banks and years of inaction on the part of the…
State Member for Wallsend, Ms Sonia Hornery MP, has called for an explanation from Hunter Water and the Minister after a planned water outage in the Wallsend CBD left businesses without water. Hunter Water failed to provide local businesses with any notification of the planned outage and a number of businesses and their staff suffered…
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…