Despite pleas for the third largest city in New South Wales to be included in the Greater Sydney Sports Facility Fund, the Minister for Sport, Stuart Ayres MP, has rebuffed the call leaving Wollongong sporting groups with no funding opportunities to improve their facilities.

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.

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

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.

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.

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”.

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 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.

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 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.