While roads crumble, potholes widen, and essential services are stretched to the brink, councils across the Hunter are throwing your money at an unelected bureaucracy that’s pushing radical climate ideology—and plotting the slow death of our mining industry.
It’s called the Hunter Joint Organisation (Hunter JO)—and it raked in over $565,000 from local councils in just one year. Cessnock alone handed over $51,000 of your hard-earned rates. That’s money that could’ve been spent fixing roads, upgrading parks, or keeping rates down. Instead, it’s being wasted on “net zero transition plans” and glossy brochures about a “post-mining” future.
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