An organisation that has provided support services for over 3,500 survivors of childhood trauma and abuse has received $50,000 from the Australian Government to continue this important work. Mayumarri is a community-based organisation that helps sufferers of childhood ...

Member for Hunter Joel Fitzgibbon has welcomed changes to the proposal to more fairly and efficiently tax mining profits. “Good faith consultation and negotiations between the new Prime Minister, key ministers and the mining industry has produced a ...

Federal Member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon today announced that computers, provided through the Australian Government National Secondary School Computer Fund, have been delivered to six schools in the electorate of Hunter. Kurri Kurri High School has installed 151 ...

Just as he inspired the Newcastle Knights to numerous victories, Paul ‘the chief’ Harragon is set to inspire a legion of job seekers in the Hunter area to secure work. Member for Hunter Joel Fitzgibbon today announced the ...

The Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP today officially opened the new classroom block at Scone Grammar School that was built as part of the Australian Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER). Scone Grammar School received $2.2 million under the ...

Member for Hunter Joel Fitzgibbon officially opened another big Hunter infrastructure project today. The opening is a key milestone in the project to increase capacity on the Hunter Valley coal lines with today’s official opening of Australian Rail ...

Claims by National Party candidate Michael Johnsen that the Rudd Government will push up LPG prices by imposing a new tax is best described as embarrassing. Mr Johnsen must surely know that the new tax was introduced by ...

I note that Mr Abbott was in the Hunter today ramping up his scare campaign on the RSPT. Our coal and other minerals are owned by all Australians, were developed over millions of years, and will only be ...

The Minister for Rural and Regional Health, Warren Snowdon and the Member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon officially opened the Maitland men shed in the Hunter Valley and announced $1m funding for the facility today. The Maitland Men’s ...

The drilling equipment has moved in and the bulldozers will soon follow as the $1.65b Hunter Expressway moves closer to construction.

Federal Member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon today visited Aberdeen Public School to turn the first sod on the site of the school’s new Hall and COLA as part of the Australian Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER).

Federal Member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon today officially opened a number of projects which were funded through the Rudd Labor Government’s Economic Stimulus Plan.

Federal Member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon today welcomed the announcement of 81organisations in the Hunter electorate who will receive funding from the Australian Government’s Volunteer Grants 2009 initiative.

Anthony Albanese, Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, and Joel Fitzgibbon, Member for Hunter, today announced that the Rudd Labor Government will provide more than $139,000 towards two bike path projects in the Cessnock Local Government Area. Mr ...

Federal Member for Hunter, Joel Fitzgibbon today announced Australian Government investment of $1,293,759 for conservation projects in and around the Hunter electorate. The Sandstone Wall Restoration Project at Merriwa will receive $53,823, The Singleton Showground Pavilion Project will ...

Federal Environment and Heritage Minister Peter Garrett, and Federal Member for Hunter, the Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP, today announced $53,823 in Australian Government funding for a conservation project in Merriwa.   The Sandstone Wall Restoration project will receive ...