Ms Rebecca Lachlan has been awarded recognition as Wollongong Electorate Woman of the Year, Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully, has announced today.

The long term viability of Port Kembla will be severely constrained and currently available infrastructure no longer able to provide secure train paths to the port and Illawarra in as little as a decade unless construction of the Maldon-Dombarton rail link starts soon, the secret business case on the project has warned.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast, Gareth Ward MP, has been accused of spruiking funding programs that give false hope to local sporting groups in the “Illawarra” because if they are based in Wollongong and Shellharbour local government areas – they simply are not eligible to even submit an application.

NSW Labor has today re-introduced a Bill into the NSW Parliament to legalise access to medicinal cannabis for the terminally ill and people with a serious illness.

NSW Parliament has been told this afternoon that the upgrade of the Wollongong Entertainment Centre (WEC) is a must following another successful weekend of tourism activities in Wollongong, including the Wigan v Hull FC Super League match.

NSW Parliament was told that the Berejikilian Government had placed the health needs of the Illawarra on the shelf for the last 12 months as “it turned itself inside out” over whether to privatise Shellharbour Hospital.

The Deputy Premier was unable to provide the details of a single benefit to the Illawarra of spending $2.5 billion on Sydney stadiums during Question Time in the NSW Parliament this afternoon.

The NSW Information Commissioner has recommended that Transport for NSW reconsider its decision not to publicly release the Maldon-Dombarton business case.

Member for Wollongong Paul Scully MP, has written to Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast, Gareth Ward MP, proposing a bipartisan push for this year’s NSW Budget to include funding to upgrade Unanderra Station, including installing its much-needed lifts.

Twenty-two organisations throughout the Wollongong electorate will share in $300,000 in funding under the 2017 Community Building Partnership (CBP) grants, Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully, announced today.