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(OPEN 8AM-6PM WEDNESDAY, 8AM-8PM THURSDAY, 8AM-6PM FRIDAY)
Cessnock Returning Office, 14 Vincent Street, Cessnock.
Kurri Community Centre, 251 Lang Street, Kurri.
ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES
(OPEN 8AM-6PM SATURDAY)
o Abermain Plaza Hall
o Barnsley Public School
o Bellbird Public School
o Black Hill Public School
o Branxton Community Hall
o Broke Public School
o Cameron Park Community Centre
o Cessnock East Public School
o Cessnock Public School
o Cessnock West Public School
o Edgeworth Public School
o Ellalong Public School
o Greta Arts & Sports Community Hall
o Hawkins Masonic Retirement Village, Edgeworth
o Hunter Life Education Centre
o Kearsley Public School
o Kitchener Public School
o Kurri High School
o Kurri Public School
o Milbrodale Public School
o Millfield Public School
o Minmi Progress Hall
o Mount View High School
o Mulbring Public School
o North Cessnock Community Hall
o Nulkaba Public School
o Paxton Public School
o Pelaw Main Public School
o Pokolbin Rural Bush Fire Brigade
o Stanford Merthyr Infants School
o West Wallsend High School
o Weston Civic Centre
o Wollombi Public School
(DISCLAIMER: Polling places are subject to change. Please check closer to election day for any changes.)
JESSICA PRICE-PURNELL - THE NATIONALS
Jessica Price-Purnell is the fresh voice that is needed in Cessnock.
Having grown up on the South Coast, Jess understands the experiences and frustrations of regional life and the desire to get our fair share of services and funds.
After completing a Bachelor of Business at the University of New England, Jess stayed in Armidale where she utilised her skills working for both NAB and Regional Development Australia Northern Inland. It was during her time at RDANI that she realised that regional NSW needs strong voices in government.
Most recently Jess has worked for the NSW Minister for Education. The depth and breadth of her experience will give her the platform to deliver the results Cessnock deserves.
The key things that Jess has noticed throughout the electorate are roads and infrastructure, education and jobs.
Unfortunately, the Cessnock electorate ranks lowest in the state for school completion and this needs to change.
We need to make staying in school an attractive option for children. The state of the roads in the electorate is well below par and by addressing the huge infrastructure backlog we will boost investment in the local community as well as create hundreds, possibly thousands of jobs.
LINDY WILLIAMS - THE GREENS
I am honoured to be the Greens candidate for Cessnock. I am a mum with three children. Our family have been living in Wollombi for the past 12 years.
I trained as an occupational therapist and worked in psychiatry and community mental health for more than 10 years.
Last year I experienced the closure of our small rural school. This short-sighted decision touched me personally and very deeply.
Throughout this time I have been supported by the Greens and felt it was an appropriate time to stand with, and for, the community.
I feel very grateful for the environment in which my children are being raised. The bush, fresh air and open space and the challenges to our life when the river floods.
My main focus in this campaign is to fight cuts in education and to protect services in small communities. I want our TAFE and hospital systems to be fully funded, protected and to stay in public hands.
CLAYTON BARR - LABOR
There is no doubt that the future of the communities that make up the Cessnock Electorate will be based on education and aspiration.
Unfortunately, the area has the state’s lowest levels of education and any person seeking to represent this region must know this, embrace this and plan to turn this around.
This will be all but impossible with billions of dollars taken out of education by State and Federal Liberal/ Nation-al Governments.
For a start, you can’t rip down our great TAFE system, smash it to pieces and then have the hide to say “we need lifters, not leaners”.
Meanwhile, you can’t sell off the state’s poles and wires and have hundreds of Hunter workers sacked, stop taking on apprentices and set us on a course of more power outages because the “maintenance fund” is tucked away as profit (probably to be sent offshore to an international owner).
Did you know that in South Australia, $421 from very household, every year, goes off to the Singapore-based owner as a “profit” from the electricity business he now owns? And in the privatised Canadian electricity market, communities went three months without power after maintenance was cut.
On March 28, we can all say “NO!” to this.
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The Advertiser did not receive a response from No Land Tax candidate Domenic Loprieato or Christian Democratic Party candidate Julie Johnson.
