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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.