I can now confirm that Bluescope Steel (formerly BHP) have retracted all support for anything happening at the Illawarra Regional Airport including anything to do with the upgrading of the runways.
They have indicated they have no intentions of any further involvement with the HARS projects, unless there is some complete change of attitudes in Bluescope and quite firmly indicated that they will not be getting involved with the upgrade projects on the airfield due to their own concerns about questionable processes and management issues.
For a company of this size and stature to pull-back from such a community project says volumes about what might be happening at the Illawarra Regional Airport. I might also add that with the retraction of that level of support would say that a lot of projects on this airport are now dead-in-the-water!