Quick Quiz: 4 Dec 2024

Lord Mayor’s Column: 4 December 2024

By Lord Mayor of Wollongong Councillor Tania Brown Earlier this week I joined Premier Chris Minns and local MPs as they announced State and Federal funding to establish the Illawarra Heavy Industry Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at TAFE NSW...

The Illawarra Flame

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Here come the cicadas: Don’t miss summer’s best show

There’s a pulsating shriek, the call of dozens of cicadas yelling into the heat of the early summer morning. Their big, fat bodies thud against the house before careening back off into the sky. Many become food for our local growing family of...

Amanda De George

18 hours ago

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Get ready to Jingle Bell Rock: Con to lead free Carols at MacCabe Park

Get ready to ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ on Thursday, December 12, when bands, singers and circus acts will come dancin’ and prancin’ into the first Carols in MacCabe Park led by the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. “Be ready to sing along,“ said...

Genevieve Swart

19 hours ago

Corals of our Coast: Dive into the Illawarra

By Phebe Fidge If you thought corals were warm-water spectacles exclusive to distant underwater seascapes, think again. Shellharbour scuba instructor Bob McKee has corrected many a tourist who’s assumed it’s too cold for corals on the South Coast...

The Illawarra Flame

19 hours ago