NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell and Shadow Minister for the Central Coast Chris Hartcher will today meet with concerned residents and call on the State Labor Government not to proceed further with a high density public housing development in The Entrance until Wyong Council and the community are properly consulted and appropriate traffic management, car parking and other services are provided.

The recently announced transport tax is yet another example of cost shifting by the state government on NSW local government, the Shadow Minister for Inter-Governmental Relations, Chris Hartcher, said today.

Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, Chris Hartcher, has called on local Labor MPs, David Harris, Grant McBride and Marie Andrews, to explain why they voted in the Labor party room, to waste $300 million on the now-abandoned Sydney Metro system when the money could have been spent on the Central Coast.

The 2010-11 rate peg of 2.6 per cent, announced this week by the Minister for Local Government, Barbara Perry, offers no additional assistance to councils to meet their obligations, according to Shadow Minister for Inter-governmental Relations Chris Hartcher.

Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, Chris Hartcher, has called on Belinda Neal to announce when work on the Sydney to Newcastle dedicated freight rail line will begin.

“Last night another freight train broke down on the Central Coast rail line causing inconvenience to commuters for the second time in one week,” Mr Hartcher said.

“….it is not possible to differentiate in the audited annual financial statements between unrealised and realised gains or losses…”,

Minister for Local Government, Barbara Perry, Question on Notice 9068, December 2009.

Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, Chris Hartcher, today said the NSW Liberals & Nationals $250m Literacy and Numeracy Action Plan would help ensure children on the Central Coast develop the foundations for success in literacy and numeracy at an early age.

Chris Hartcher, Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, has today called on Member for Robertson, Belinda Neal, to deliver her 2007 election promises to construct the Newcastle to Sydney freight rail line.

A NSW Liberals & Nationals Government will formally recognise the Central Coast as a region in its own right under a plan announced today by NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell and Shadow Minister for the Central Coast Chris Hartcher.

 Puppet Premier Kristina Keneally has used her third day in office to serve the Central Coast its biggest snub yet; appointing the former “Minister for Long Lunches”, Ian McDonald, as the new Minister for the Central Coast despite the fact that he lives 290 kilometres away in Carcour near Orange.

In March this year the Rees Labor Government refused an opportunity to participate in public debate over the introduction of ‘recall’ elections in NSW, despite it being Labor policy for at least 50 years, Shadow Special Minister of State Chris Hartcher said today.

The appointment of Tripodi’s puppet, Kristina Keneally, to the Premiership has thrown Central Coast Labor MPs into chaos. Pitted against each other, on either side of the leadership battle, Coast MPs are now scrambling in the self-interest-driven chaos of NSW Labor politics.