Alison Byrnes (Cunningham, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

On Saturday the people of New South Wales voted for a fresh start with the election of a Minns Labor government. In my community, that fresh start means a $22 million upgrade for Wollongong Hospital; $20 million for the Albion Park bypass; a $10 million study into the South Coast rail line; $10 million for M1 ramps at Dapto; $6 million for the Helensburgh police station; $2 million for a domestic violence recovery centre; $70,000 for the lunch program at the Warrawong Community Centre; $30,000 for Berkeley Neighbourhood Centre upgrades; extension of the Bulli hospital urgent care clinic to seven days a week; a local TAFE centre of excellence in domestic manufacturing; a review of the South Coast rail timetable; funding commitments for the local school sports groups and community organisations who need it the most; and, finally, getting those lifts built at Unanderra station. That is a great achievement by the member for Wollongong. This positive and fresh agenda for the Illawarra is only now possible thanks to the hard work of our local Labor members and candidates in my electorate of Cunningham: the re-elected member for Keira, Ryan Park MP; the newly elected member for Heathcote, Maryanne Stuart; and the re-elected member for Wollongong, Paul Scully MP. Although counting continues, I hope to be able to soon call Labor's candidate in Kiama, Katelin McInerney, the new Labor member for Kiama. It has been a great job by our local representatives in the Labor community.

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