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Find new ‘Inspirational Women’ Rose at Wollongong Botanic Garden

Visiting Wollongong Botanic Garden this summer? Look out for the new ‘Inspirational Women’ rose donated by local Rotarian Dorothy ‘Dot’ Hennessy OAM.

Tyneesha Williams
December 2024
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Get a load of this: Soft plastics drop-offs coming to Wollongong after Christmas

It’s been two years since the collapse of the REDcycle supermarket scheme for recycling soft plastics. But the volunteers at Circular Plastics Illawarra are ending the year on a happy note – the soft sound of scrunching plastics at special...

Genevieve Swart
December 2024
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Bushwalk reopens: First look at Wodi Wodi Track

Where once bushwalkers had to scramble or slide, there are now beautiful sandstone stairs. Welcome to the new and improved Wodi Wodi Track. After being closed for repairs for a year and a half, the track reopened today, December 20. It’s another...

Genevieve Swart
December 2024
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Speaking to power

The University of Wollongong’s Ty Christopher has a cost-cutting clean energy message he says we should be “screaming from the rooftops”. It’s been lost as election-bound politicians debate our electricity mix decades into the future and the...

Genevieve Swart
December 2024