State Parliament was told this afternoon that installing lifts at Unanderra Station is now simply about fairness.

Upgrading the Illawarra Cycle Club’s velodrome to improve disabled access to facilities is the big winner with $20,000 going towards the project under the Local Sport Grants Program in the Wollongong electorate.

The NSW Government must lift the two-year veil of secrecy surrounding the Register of Interest (RoI) evaluation process report into the Maldon-Dombarton rail link by publicly releasing it.

The NSW Government must back in the Maldon-Dombarton rail project following confirmation during a Senate Estimates Committee hearing overnight that Infrastructure Australia will not recommend the rail link for Federal Government funding support.

State Illawarra Labor MPs have today demanded the State Government refund Shellharbour City Council for all expenses relating to legal proceedings in the NSW Land and Environment Court and Kiama Municipal Council for the plebiscite last year against the forced amalgamation proposal.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast Gareth Ward was sidelined from leading the Government’s response to the introduction of the Steel Industry Protection Bill this morning.

State Illawarra Labor MPs have today congratulated “people power” for standing up to the stubbornness of the Berejikilian Government after its enormous backflip on the forced merger of Wollongong and Shellharbour City Councils.

The Berejiklian-Barilaro Government is jeopardising the future of Illawarra students by refusing to name the vocational education providers that have had their funding suspended after misconduct and quality control failures.

A maintenance backlog at Towradgi Public School will take 22 years to fix on current funding allocations by the Berejiklian Government, according to statistics released under Freedom of Information (FoI) laws.

Illawarra State Labor MPs Anna Watson, Paul Scully and Ryan Park have today written to Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra and South Coast Gareth Ward requesting he arrange a meeting for 48 senior Illawarra clinicians and the Health Services Union (HSU) with the new Minister for Health about the proposed privatisation of Shellharbour Hospital.