Wollongong's Deputy Lord Mayor Tania Brown calls for action on Hill 60 safety

Cr Brown has submitted a notice of motion ahead of next Monday's ordinary council meeting to request that council staff liaise with the Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, NSW Police's Marine Area Command, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and Randwick City Council about their experiences and suggestions to improve safety.

Randwick City Council was the first municipality to implement the provisions of the Rock Fishing Safety Act, which provides for the mandatory wearing of life jackets in declared high-risk locations.

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Cr Brown said Wollongong council needed to ask Randwick whether the measures had worked.

She also wants to form a delegation of councillors, the council's general manager and Wollongong MP Paul Scully to meet with Local Government Minister David Elliott, and Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall, to express concern about the deaths at Port Kembla's Hill 60 and discuss ways to ensure the safety of rock fishers.

There was no doubt that council staff were already considering the issue, Cr Brown said, but a formal review process needed to be introduced.

"We all can't sit back and say, 'It's Sydney Water land, it's their problem' or 'It's Fisheries' - we need a coordinated response," she told the Illawarra Mercury.

She said preventing the further loss of life at the site would require a multi-pronged approach.

Cr Brown will also call on the council to recognise and give gratitude for the efforts of those involved in efforts to save the men on Friday night.

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