Labor for Cootamundra

01/06/2026

💯👏👇 Prue Car MP Stephen Lawrence MLC NSW Labor

We've made more than 25,000 teachers and support staff permanent.💥✏️

At the 2023 election we committed to transition 16,000 NSW education staff to permanent roles, we delivered on that promise and will continue to invest in our teachers.

This is all part of the Minns Labor Government’s work to rebuild public education in NSW, ensuring every family has access to a world-class public education with a qualified teacher in every classroom. 📚🏆

27/05/2026

🎯💯👇 Stephen Lawrence MLC NSW Labor

This is big for local businesses. Local Jobs First!

For the first time in NSW, local workers and businesses will be prioritised for Government tenders, under the Local Jobs First Commission legislation being introduced this week by Minister Courtney Houssos.

The reform puts three priorities at the centre of every government purchase: locally produced goods and services, local jobs and skills, and support for local small and medium sized businesses.

It is the most significant reform to NSW Government procurement in a generation, and realises an important election commitment.

The Bill has been developed following extensive consultation with unions, businesses and industry groups, which showed strong, broad-based support for reform. During the consultation period, more than half of respondents were small and medium businesses, reflecting the demand for a more level playing field.

The Bill delivers on those priorities by:

🌟 introducing a Local Procurement Policy, prioritising local workers and businesses with a 30 per cent tender weighting for local jobs and skills, local content, and small and medium business participation,

🌟embedding training requirements for apprentices and workers learning new skills on major Government projects, helping to re-build the state’s skills base,

🌟establishing a Local Jobs First Advisory Board to inform policy that will boost local supplier competitiveness,

🌟requiring Local Procurement Plans for major contracts to lock in commitments to local jobs and local content, and

🌟establishing a Local Jobs First Commissioner to champion and monitor local content, local jobs and skills and small and medium business participation across government procurement.

20/05/2026

👀👇 Steve Whan MP Stephen Lawrence MLC

Year nine Cootamundra High School student Jack Miller and teacher, Claudia Raleigh were able to test out their shearing skills at the Ag industry day in Wagga Wagga this morning.🐑

Hosted by TAFE NSW Primary Industry Cente, hundreds of students came along to look at what sort of career opportunities the sector can offer. 🚜

📸Jack Miller and Claudia Raleigh testing out their skills at the industry day. Image: ABC News, Simon Wallace

19/05/2026

Please note changes involving our region 👇

Regional communities deserve reliable, comfortable public transport. That’s why the Minns Labor Government is delivering a major upgrade to the NSW TrainLink coach network 🚍

From 1 July, new and improved coach services will roll out across
the state, with modern vehicles, better connections and more routes designed around community feedback.

Upgrades include:

🚌A new Yass–Young coach route connecting with rail at Yass (saving up to two hours on a Young–Sydney trip), plus a two-hour journey time saving for Griffith and Temora passengers travelling to and from Sydney and Canberra. Services will include Yass Junction to Young on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and Young to Yass Junction on Thursdays and Sundays. These will connect with rail services to provide a faster, more direct service between Young and Sydney.

🚌 The Goulburn-Canberra-Goulburn day return service will run seven days a week, providing a weekend service for the first time.

🚌 The Mildura–Cootamundra route will instead operate to Wagga Wagga. The Griffith to Cootamundra route (formerly part of Mildura to Cootamundra) has revised timings and days of operation to provide a more seamless rail connection at Cootamundra, delivering a massive 2-hour journey time saving for Griffith and Temora passengers travelling to and from Sydney and Canberra.

These upgrades mean better access to the places people need to go, when they need to get there, with more comfortable, more
reliable services.

13/05/2026

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11/05/2026

We’re rebuilding public education in NSW.

The Minns Labor Government is delivering 100 new public preschools - and 90% of them are now under construction.

Add your name to our petition and show your support in building our public education system. https://www.nswlabor.org.au/petition_nswlabor

06/05/2026

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💰 Do you have a community organisation project across my duty electorates of Bathurst, Cootamundra, Dubbo, Barwon and Orange that could benefit from funding? The Community Building Partnership 2026 program is now open, supporting local infrastructure projects that help strengthen our community and enhance the spaces we all use and enjoy.

Expressions of Interest close 8 May 2026 (5 pm AEST). To learn more or apply, visit nsw.gov.au/cbp

02/05/2026

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🚔 👨 👩 Class 368 on Friday! Biggest in 13 years! Think of the challenges and service these people have in front of them. Western Region is getting 29. The class includes 90 women, 20 First Nations recruits, and officers born in 20 different countries – reflecting the community! 349 in total. We are rebuilding and boosting frontline resources across the state.

Yasmin Catley MP

Labor for Cootamundra Bathurst Labor Dubbo Region Labor Barwon Labor NSW Labor: Parkes Branch Labor for Lithgow NSW Broken Hill Labor

02/05/2026

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How to trigger our opponents.........

01/05/2026

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