Although typically quiet, the lower end of Wollongong's shopping mall was unrattled by an Australian Federal Police raid on Noreen Hay's electorate office this week.
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The search of the Wollongong MP's office, at 111 Crown Street, over allegations of electoral fraud went seemingly unnoticed, despite happening about midday on Wednesday.
It was business as usual for nearby shop owners.
Two undercover police officers were reportedly seen wandering through the mall, but workers at the dozen businesses approached by the Mercury on Friday saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Some said a story in Friday's Mercury was the first they knew of what had unfolded in the nondescript multi-storey building, which fronts a section of the city's main shopping strip.
"Nobody knew, not even the [Nikolovski] lawyers next door," one business owner, who didn't want to be named, said.
An employee at OurWorld Travel Wollongong, which is diagonally opposite Ms Hay's office, said her staff "didn't notice anything".
"We didn't see the police out the front," the woman said.
South Coast Runners owner Karl Hayes said: "I didn't see anything".
