With now less than three weeks until the March 23 election, the election fairy is continuing to sprinkle the election fairy dust over the Illawarra and South Coast.
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In fact the fairy dust was in full flight on Wednesday.
Indeed it was less sprinkle, more crop dusting south of Nowra as the NSW Liberals and Nationals pledged nearly a billion dollars in funding for the Princes Highway as part of an election promise.
The $960 million in funding promised would meaa the duplicating of sections of the highway between Jervis Bay Road and Sussex Inlet Road, building the Moruya bypass, planning for Milton and Ulladulla bypasses and on highway upgrades from Burrill Lake to Batemans Bay.
The Coalition says it plans to duplicate the highway between Nowra and the Victorian border over the next 20 years.
Last year, the Illawarra Mercury joined with our Australian Community Media publications to help them launch the Fix It Now campaign and the pledge is a mighty victory for that campaign.
NSW Labor kindly pointed in response, this has been an issue in the electorate and region of Transport Minister Andrew Constance for the past eight years while he has held his position within cabinet, but it's taken two weeks before the election to resolve.
It's kind of a valid point.
Anyway, closer to home NSW Labor was sprinkling election fairy dust over West Dapto.
This time it was a promise of a new school at West Dapto, an area of the Illawarra expanding rapidly and more than deserving of such a service.
Labor has committed to start building in their first term either a primary school with an attached preschool or a K-12 college facility.
Who knows where the election fairy is going to sprinkle their dust yet over the coming fortnight.
Only problem is, only one of the major "dust sprinklers" will hold government and be expected to deliver on their promises.