Wollongong leaders call for clarity over "regional" funding

Kate McIlwain
Updated August 3 2017 - 7:26pm, first published 5:00pm
"Are we the city or the bush?": Councillors agreed Wollongong was "not just another southern suburb of Sydney" and must be recognised as regional. Picture: Adam McLean.
"Are we the city or the bush?": Councillors agreed Wollongong was "not just another southern suburb of Sydney" and must be recognised as regional. Picture: Adam McLean.

Wollongong is continually missing out on government funding because of a “fractured” and confusing definition of whether the city is metropolitan or regional.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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