Installing four new light poles at the Figtree RSL Bowling Club is among the projects to awarded a share of $50,000 in funding under the Local Sport Grants Program in the Wollongong electorate.

Wollongong MP Paul Scully has urged Illawarra residents who have purchased frozen pomegranate at Coles in recent weeks to return them to the supermarket chain or throw them away – after a Wollongong resident contracting hepatitis A has been linked to consuming them.

Claims made by the Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast, Gareth Ward MP, that the Wollongong electorate has benefited from increased funding over the last seven years of the Berejiklian Government have been demolished in Parliament yesterday evening.

Illawarra Labor MPs have today requested an urgent briefing from the Minister for Corrections, David Elliott MP, following a proposal to build a new corrections facility at Kembla Grange.

The 72 step struggle at Unanderra Station will end if a Labor Government is elected in 12 months.

Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully, has told the Treasurer to stop ignoring Wollongong – the third largest city in New South Wales – and to start investing in the infrastructure the city needs to build on its strengths in a pre-budget submission.

For the first time in five years, overall NSW smoking rates have increased – but the Illawarra-Shoalhaven local health district is improving, bucking the trend with the second lowest smoking rate in the State.

The Queensland Government has announced it will impose a ban on single-use plastic bags from 1 July 2018 leaving New South Wales the only remaining state not to take any action.

Premier Gladys Bereijiklian has been unable to point to one single benefit from her Government’s plans to spend $2.5 billion knocking over and rebuilding Sydney stadia in an answer to a question on notice from Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully.

State Labor has congratulated Illawarra families for their unwavering support for vaccinations – with the region reporting fewer baby whooping cough cases than Sydney, Newcastle and the North Coast. However, State Labor stressed that the community must remain vigilant as we gear up for winter.