Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully, took aim at the NSW Government for slurring the City of Wollongong during a fiery debate on new planning laws, which mandate new local planning panels, last night on the floor of the Parliament.

The voice of 12,000 Illawarra petitioners opposing the privatisation of Shellharbour Hospital was heard in the Legislative Assembly of the NSW Parliament this afternoon.

Labor Leader Luke Foley has met with young workers in Wollongong to hear their concerns about wage theft while outlining his comprehensive plan to eliminate the exploitation of vulnerable employees.

A Foley Labor Government will introduce laws to crack down on businesses – including head franchisers – that are guilty of ongoing, widespread and systematic wage theft – the practice of underpaying staff or paying them less than the legal minimum wage.

The Government program that funds upgrades to train stations has been cut by $80 million in the 2017-18 NSW Budget.

NSW Labor today called for an independent investigation into the State Government’s blunder where it replaced white cotton linen hospital blankets with blue polyester microfibre ones – which patients in the Illawarra say are unsuitable for winter.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has visited a Wollongong school this morning to re-announce old news on maintenance funding.

Wollongong MP Paul Scully is ready to drop everything to meet the Premier at the bottom of the 72 stairs at Unanderra Station so she can see with her own eyes the need to install lifts.

It is time for the excuses on finishing the Maldon-Dombarton rail line to end following revelations that a secret NSW Cabinet paper has concluded the project has an ‘exceptional’ cost-benefit ratio.

New information revealed through a Freedom of Information request confirms that it is politics first and people last when it comes to deciding disabled access upgrades for train stations in New South Wales.