Media Releases

HOSPITAL STATISTICS CONTINUE TO SHOW WOLLONGONG HOSPITAL UNDER MASSIVE PRESSURE

14 March 2018

Independent Bureau of Health figures for the October-December quarter released today continue to show that Wollongong Hospital is under significant pressure with some patients waiting more than 400 days for elective surgery procedures.

$24 MILLION TRAIN SURVEY SPEND COULD HAVE SCRAPPED THE STEPS AT UNANDERRA STATION

13 March 2018

Member for Wollongong Paul Scully has taken aim at a $24 million train ‘customer experience’ survey, the funds for which he says should have instead be used to scrap the 72 steps at Unanderra Station.

WOLLONGONG ELECTORATE WOMAN OF THE YEAR – A FIGHTER FOR FAIRNESS

09 March 2018

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

POLICY OF PROCRASTINATION ON MALDON-DOMBARTON RAIL PROJECT MUST END OR FUTURE VIABILITY OF PORT KEMBLA AT RISK

02 March 2018

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.

WARD SPRUIKS FUNDS THAT BYPASS WOLLONGONG

01 March 2018

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 RE-INTRODUCES MEDICINAL CANNABIS BILL AS GOVERNMENT DRAGS FEET

15 February 2018

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.

SCULLY TELLS PARLIAMENT FUNDING FOR WEC UPGRADE A MUST

13 February 2018

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.

SCULLY RENEWS CALL FOR INQUIRY INTO WOLLONGONG HOSPITAL RESOURCES

07 February 2018

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.

GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO IDENTIFY ONE SINGLE BENEFIT TO ILLAWARRA FROM SPENDING $2.5 BILLION ON SYDNEY STADIUMS

07 February 2018

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.

SECRET MALDON-DOMBARTON BUSINESS CASE RELEASE MAY BE STEP CLOSER

01 February 2018

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