Local State and Federal Labor MPs and Labor’s candidate for Gilmore today met out the front of West Wollongong TAFE to sign a pledge to guarantee funding for TAFE with Labor’s State Shadow Minister for Skills, Prue Car. 

Flu presentations to health facilities in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven have increased by 34% over the last 12 months.

The NSW Government yesterday defeated proposed legislation that would have decriminalised medicinal cannabis possession in a set-back for terminally ill people, their families and carers in the Illawarra.

Member for Wollongong, Paul Scully, took aim at the NSW Government for slurring the City of Wollongong during a fiery debate on new planning laws, which mandate new local planning panels, last night on the floor of the Parliament.

The voice of 12,000 Illawarra petitioners opposing the privatisation of Shellharbour Hospital was heard in the Legislative Assembly of the NSW Parliament this afternoon.

Labor Leader Luke Foley has met with young workers in Wollongong to hear their concerns about wage theft while outlining his comprehensive plan to eliminate the exploitation of vulnerable employees.

A Foley Labor Government will introduce laws to crack down on businesses – including head franchisers – that are guilty of ongoing, widespread and systematic wage theft – the practice of underpaying staff or paying them less than the legal minimum wage.

The Government program that funds upgrades to train stations has been cut by $80 million in the 2017-18 NSW Budget.

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 Gladys Berejiklian has visited a Wollongong school this morning to re-announce old news on maintenance funding.