Documents released to the NSW Labor opposition under freedom of Information laws have revealed that the electorate of Keira has over 63 demountable classrooms, Wollongong has 12 and Shellharbour has 40.

Illawarra State Labor MPs – Anna Watson, Paul Scully and Ryan Park – have labelled the community consultation process on the proposal for a correctional facility at Kembla Grange today a farce.

Sporting organisations in Wollongong have been ruled ineligible to apply for either metropolitan or regional sports infrastructure funds leaving them without access to any source of funds to improve sporting infrastructure.

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.