The Partnerships fund, announced by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, will give $100 million over two years to 10 priority investment regions. In NSW those are The Snowy Mountains, Hunter and Newcastle and the Parkes region.

The economies were selected because they experienced "the brunt of natural events" such as bushfires, COVID-19 and drought.

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Kiama MP Gareth Ward said if it was meant to go to communities impacted by drought, bushfires by and COVID-19, "our community fits all of those categories".

"I don't begrudge for a second those ten communities that have been included but I think it's appropriate that we be included as well," he said.

"Today I wrote to the Prime Minister and asked for this matter to be revisited, it's important local representatives always stick up for their communities.

"I don't have any problems upsetting anybody at any level of government regardless if they are in my own party."

Gilmore MP Fiona Phillips said it was "disgraceful" the whole NSW South Coast missed out and had no clue why.

"I have no idea, it's just so ridiculous that I don't think there is any reason that we should have," she said.

"I'll be back in parliament on Monday and I certainly will be taking it directly to Scott Morrison and Michael McCormack and also in parliament itself."

She said it "makes sense" Mr Ward was also calling for the region to be included.

"It's not about political parties it's about getting the right assistance that our area needs."

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In a statement, a spokesperson for the Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack did not say if the government would consider adding the South Coast to the fund but instead encouraged the region to apply for other grants.

"The Government also recently announced a $200m Building Better Regions Fund round, $100m of which will be dedicated to tourism related infrastructure and we look forward to seeing many applications from the Shoalhaven/South Coast region once applications are open," the spokesperson said.

"The Federal Liberal and Nationals Government is committed to ensuring that all of Australia bounces back from the COVID-19 pandemic, last summer's bushfires and in parts of Australia an ongoing drought."

The spokesperson said the government worked closely with state governments and used "real-time" data to decide which regions would be included.

"In order to identify the 10 priority regions for Regional Recovery Partnerships - just one of the Government's programs - we worked closely with state governments to assess each region's existing economic resilience and ability to cope with disasters or downturns," the spokesperson said.

"The evidence-based work with the states has also included monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in particular, using a large range of real-time data from the ABS and other sources, such as payroll and employment data, alongside information from the regions themselves, to determine the areas of greatest need."