We’re hoping the national focus on our seat will deliver some ironclad commitments for investment from all sides of politics. Tired of being the reliable seat that will happily accept the odd scrap tossed its way, we want all parties to put serious coin on the table – for roads, health, employment and education. 

When the Prime Minister dropped into the Register office on Wednesday to show off his freshly minted candidate, we made that quite plain, saying we wanted real action on improving the Princes Highway south of Nowra. 

While federal politics threatened to overshadow everything, we reported on a bold new plan Shoalhaven City Council has for waste management – one that just might remove the need for a green bin but still enable residents to easily dispose of their garden refuse.

After the NRMA revealed a big backlog in council roads maintenance, residents told us which ones they thought needed urgent attention.

And we ran away to the circus – well, not exactly, but we did talk to someone who had. And what a fascinating story it was.