Media Releases
TRANSPORT ACCESS PROGRAM CUT BY $80 MILLION – ANOTHER BLOW TO UNANDERRA STATION LIFTS
28 July 2017
The Government program that funds upgrades to train stations has been cut by $80 million in the 2017-18 NSW Budget.
ILLAWARRA HOSPITALS - BLUE POLYESTER BLANKETS VS WHITE COTTON LINEN: ANOTHER LIB-NAT HEALTH STUFF-UP
21 July 2017
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 REVEALS OLD NEWS ON SCHOOL FUNDING
18 July 2017
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has visited a Wollongong school this morning to re-announce old news on maintenance funding.
PREMIER INVITE FOR VISIT TO UNANDERRA STATION
17 July 2017
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.
TIME FOR EXCUSES ON MALDON-DOMBARTON OVER SAY ILLAWARRA MPs
14 July 2017
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.
MORE REVELATIONS THAT POLITICS IS DICTATING TRAIN STATION ACCESS PRIORITIES
07 July 2017
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.
SICK OF THE CONSTANT(CE) EXCUSES ON RAIL
06 July 2017
Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully MP, has demanded the Government publicly release the secret report on South Coast Line rail improvement options, including the cost of a Thirroul tunnel, immediately.
CONSTANCE SHOULD PROPERLY ASSESS SOUTH COAST RAIL IMPROVEMENTS
04 July 2017
The South Coast Line could be properly assessed for rail improvement options if the New South Wales Government listed it as a priority for a share of the Federal Government’s $20 million for the development of business cases for strategic rail corridors.
CRUISE DEVELOPMENT PLAN STILL RUDDERLESS
30 June 2017
The mystery Cruise Development Plan, first promised by the New South Wales Government in June 2014, is still to be finalised it has been revealed.
LABOR LEADER RE-AFFIRMS ILLAWARRA JOBS ACTION PLAN
22 June 2017
NSW Labor Leader Luke Foley today used his Budget-In-Reply speech in the Legislative Assembly to re-affirm a Labor Government elected in 2019 will implement all measures contained in the Illawarra Jobs Action Plan.