Media Releases

DYLAN AND CHER ON THE WAY TO WOLLONGONG…BUT STILL WAITING FOR NSW TREASURER TO MAKE JUST ONE VISIT.

17 July 2018

Wollongong has seen a royal visit, a Sir Elton John concert and now legends Bob Dylan and Cher are on the way…but we have still yet to host a visit by the NSW Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet MP – in more than 16 months since his appointment on 30 January 2017.

BEREJIKLIAN GOVERNMENT ONLY OFFERS HOMELESS HELP BASED ON POSTCODE

05 July 2018

NSW Labor has slammed the Berejiklian Government for introducing a two-tiered system to assist people experiencing homelessness in a few selected postcodes.

PORT OF PORT KEMBLA PART OF NSW ECONOMIC FUTURE

03 July 2018

NSW Deputy Opposition Leader and Shadow Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Michael Daley MP, Shadow Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy, Adam Searle MLC, and Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully MP were updated on plans for the future growth of the Port of Port Kembla today.

A CONSISTENT DEFINITION FOR WOLLONGONG UNDER LABOR

02 July 2018

The NSW Labor Conference yesterday resolved that a NSW Labor Government will develop and use a consistent definition for Wollongong and other major centres outside of Sydney.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED – GONG SHUTTLE REMAINS FREE

26 June 2018

Illawarra Labor MPs Ryan Park and Paul Scully have today welcomed the official signing of a deal that will keep the Gong Shuttle free labelling it a “victory for people power”.

LABOR WILL END THE WOLLONGONG FUNDING LOCK OUT

21 June 2018

NSW Labor Leader, Luke Foley MP, has reaffirmed the $225 million Illawarra Jobs Action Plan in his Budget reply speech in the Legislative Assembly this morning.

TREASURER HAS NO ANSWER FOR STATION UPGRADE RORT

20 June 2018

Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has no answer to a question on the rorting of the Transport Access Program (TAP) which saw a senior Cabinet Minister caught on camera on Monday boasting about how “skulduggery and manoeuvring” saw the tiny Hawkesbury River train station “bumped up 150 places” over other busier stations, like Unanderra.

IT’S OFFICIAL – UNANDERRA STATION MISSED OUT BECAUSE OF LIST RORT

19 June 2018

A senior NSW Cabinet Minister has been caught out boasting that train station upgrades have been “bumped up” the Transport Access Program (TAP) list by political “skulduggery and manoeuvring”.

WOLLONGONG ELECTORATE SHORT-CHANGED IN PATHETIC BUDGET DESPITE HANDING OVER $52 MILLION IN RESIDENTIAL STAMP DUTY

19 June 2018

Wollongong has been short-changed in the 2018-19 NSW Budget today despite handing the Berejiklian Government $52 million in stamp duty in the 9 months between 1 April 2017 and 31 January 2018.

SCULLY TELLS MINISTER TRAIN OVERCROWDING CAN BE ADDRESSED NOW BY TAKING THREE SIMPLE STEPS

18 June 2018

Wollongong MP, Paul Scully has written to the Minister for Transport with an immediate three step plan to help ease overcrowding on the South Coast Line.