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Mayors advocate for shared Hunter priorities REPRESENTATIVE members of the Hunter Joint Organisation (HJO) visited NSW Parliament House on Thursday, 16 October to advocate for greater investment in the Hunter’s communities, industries, jobs, and economic future. The HJO is a collaborative body that represents the 10 Local Government Areas (LGA) of the Hunter region. At Parliament, Council leaders met with the NSW Premier, Treasurer, and senior Ministers and Shadow Ministers. According to the HJO, the shared advocacy priorities being communicated “seek to deliver new jobs, safer roads, more housing and greater resilience to natural disasters for our region”.
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The HJO delegates met with senior NSW Government politicians and officials at Parliament House. Photos: HJO.
Hunter in ‘prime position’ to prioritise agriculture in coal transition
THE state’s peak farm body says Newcastle and the Hunter Valley have a golden opportunity to build a strong
future around agriculture in the transition from coal. Last Thursday NSW Farmers Board Director
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Bronwyn Petrie launched “Beyond Coal: New Growth for Newcastle and the Hunter”, a discussion paper
which laid out how the region could create 88,000 new jobs and generate an additional $20 billion for the state
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economy within the near future. “We’re hearing from all sides of politics that there
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