Wollongong train commuters are set to be hit by a 20 per cent increase in Opal fares.

Two Labor State MPs have claimed the billion dollar budget blowouts for Sydney-based infrastructure projects are hindering regional jobs growth and business opportunities between the Illawarra and South-West Sydney.

Wollongong MP, Paul Scully is urging the region’s elderly and chronically ill to take advantage of free flu shots in the lead up to the winter season.

Secret documents published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald have revealed that the NSW Liberals are holding Illawarra rail improvements ransom in favour of boosting a toll road as part of the F6 extension into Sydney CBD.

The NSW Government has confirmed it will not match Labor’s policy to relocate Liquor and Gaming NSW to Wollongong.

NSW Labor has this afternoon reintroduced into the NSW Parliament the Securing NSW Steel Industry Bill 2017, following the lapse of a previous Bill in late February after the NSW Government used tricky political tactics to avoid a vote.

Wollongong City Council should conduct an immediate review of its procurement policies to ensure it is not being misled by suppliers on materials for its infrastructure projects.

The NSW Parliament is set to debate the need for a thoracic surgeon at Wollongong Public Hospital following a notice of motion moved earlier this afternoon by Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully.

Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully MP, has today called on the NSW Government to appoint community representatives on the Project Steering Committee overseeing the development of the Wollongong Harbour master plan.

The Illawarra’s steel industry needs more action not just more talk at today’s steel industry procurement roundtable.