Media Releases

More than 20,000 Newcastle seniors have been excluded from the NSW Government’s Regional Seniors Travel Card program, despite it being available to those living in neighbouring... more

NSW Labor Leader Jodi McKay and Labor State Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp have backed pleas for Stockton Beach to be declared a Natural Disaster following... more

Despite an apology and admission of error, the Department of Education has improved its process to communicate developments in the Newcastle East Public School asbestos crisis... more

Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp has called on NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman to open his chequebook for the Jenny’s Place Domestic Violence Resource Centre when he... more

Newcastle East Public School staff, students and cleaners have been found to have been potentially exposed to hazardous friable asbestos, more than two years after Newcastle... more