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Jeremy Lasek

Jeremy Lasek has many decades of experience in media, marketing, events and PR. His career began in the Illawarra with the Lake Times, ABC Radio and WIN-TV. For eight years Jeremy was news director for WIN in Canberra and was national news director before joining the National Capital Authority as head of media and events. Jeremy was executive director of ACT Government Communications, Events, Arts, Heritage and Protocol for many years, was Chief of Staff to the ACT Chief Minister and had responsibility for the Centenary of Canberra celebrations in 2013. Before returning to Wollongong, Jeremy was CEO of the National Australia Day Council (including the Australian of the Year Awards) and head of communications for the Australian Federal Police. Jeremy is a member of the Friends of Woolyungah Indigenous Centre at UOW and a regular contributor to the Illawarra Flame.

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Bold plan for Illawarra regional museum unveiled

Where in Wollongong and the Illawarra can we visit to learn the story of this place? The history of the First Nations people who lived here for tens of thousands of years, our colonial past, the stories of our migrants, industry and trade unions...

Jeremy Lasek

21 hours ago

News

Dragons assure locals new plans for their $50m training facility won’t increase flood risk

Labelled DA-2022/1126/A, the amended plans are available for review on the Wollongong City Council website

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Planning expert says developers must share the blame for our housing crisis

One of our region’s and Australia’s leading town planning experts has hit back at criticism of his profession for causing unnecessary and lengthy delays to new housing development. With Australia in the midst of a housing crisis, the NSW Property...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Noise, flooding parking and footpaths top priority list for new community leader

Jane Robertson looks forward to pursuing issues raised by local residents that impact residents of Wollongong in her new role as Convenor of the city’s central Neighbourhood Forum 5 (NF5). With a nursing background, Jane has always been interested...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Community will be consulted: Council assurance as Yours & Owls heads to the beach

Wollongong Council has acted quickly to allay local concerns about plans for the big Yours & Owls music festival to relocate to a new waterfront location at Lang Park. Over the years, the locally based festival organisers have tried a number of...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Search for a new Hawks training base highlights a big challenge for local sports

Efforts to secure the Illawarra Hawks a permanent new training facility have only served to highlight a serious lack of quality indoor sports facilities in the region, according to other sporting groups. The Hawks confirmed last week they’ve been...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Life in the Gong: A happy, safe place according to community survey

A new survey has revealed something most of us already know; Wollongong is a happy place. Commissioned by Wollongong City Council, the survey of more than 600 residents spread evenly across the city says 90 per cent of us agree Wollongong is a good...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

A frightening Black Summer experience leads to groundbreaking UOW bushfire research

“There were fires around us on all sides, burnt leaves were falling in our backyard, and I was on ember watch for days.“ The ‘Black Summer’ fire season in 2019-20 was one of the most intense and catastrophic on record in Australia with 34 direct...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Looking back at a ‘golden era’ for Wollongong with its former planning guru

In the 1980s and 1990s Wollongong was undergoing what was probably the biggest transformation in the city’s history. At the time, eminent town planner David Winterbottom was at the heart of guiding the city through an uncertain future. Forty years...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

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UOW launches First Nations truth telling, healing plan; a national first

The University of Wollongong (UOW) continues to act as a trailblazer in Indigenous policy and strategy with the release of its Healing and Recognition Track Plan (Truth Telling for a Better Tomorrow). After the defeat of the Voice to Parliament...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Schools after hours may be the answer to our growing sporting needs, says Lord Mayor

The use of school facilities may be the answer to our city’s problems finding enough indoor sporting facilities to cater for our community’s growing needs, according to Wollongong Lord Mayor Tania Brown. Her comments follow The Illawarra Flame...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

News

Bulli High students in training to become our next generation of fire fighters

With our rural fire service volunteer workforce steadily ageing, every effort is being made to attract new blood. Last week teenagers from Wollongong’s northern suburbs were put through their paces in the hope they’ll ultimately join our...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

Arts & culture

New UOW exhibition ‘Matriarch’ honours ‘beautiful, strong black women’

A new exhibition, Matriarch, has opened at the University of Wollongong’s Gallery, honouring eight remarkable Aboriginal women from the region. The impressive display of charcoal drawings, was the culmination of 18-months of highly detailed...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024

Local Business

Gem of a gift idea

As we count down the days to the festive season, how many of us are struggling to come up with a one-of-a-kind Christmas gift which has style, purpose and practicality? Why not consider giving your someone special a unique creative experience, in...

Jeremy Lasek

November 2024