The notice of motions, to be more accurate.

It took place on Tuesday, when Shellharbour MP Ms Watson put forward a notice of motion complaining about Kiama MP Mr Ward’s war of words with federal Gilmore MP Ann Sudmalis over funding for the Nowra Bridge.

The motion called on the two Liberal MPs to “end their civil war and fund the Nowra Bridge”.

“This civil war between Gareth Ward and Ann Sudmalis should not continue,” Ms Watson said.

“The people of the South Coast deserve better than a war of words between two political representatives of the same political party.”

That same day, Mr Ward shot back with his own roads-related motion, moving the field of combat from the Nowra Bridge to the Princes Highway.

His motion claimed “Labor ignored the Princes for 16 years in government” and that federal and state governments were working on a new bridge to span the Shoalhaven River.

“NSW Labor ignored the Princes Highway for 16 years in government and at the last election, Ms Watson failed our region by not standing up for the Albion Park Rail Bypass,” Mr Ward said.

“In fact, NSW Labor’s State Infrastructure Strategy failed to even mention the Illawarra!”

It’s not the first time the pair of press-release pugilists have squared up against each other.

Two months ago, they were at it in parliament, where Ms Watson tagged Mr Ward as carrying on with “his arms waving around like a blow-up air puppet”.

Mr Ward took feigned umbrage at Ms Watson’s “puerile vitriol” and suggested she “behave as a member of Parliament, not as a child”.

In February, during a parliamentary debate on Illawarra infrastructure, Ms Watson said her Kiama counterpart was one of two “blowholes” in the town.

He responded by saying “despite geography, the metaphor more correctly applies to other people”.