Health concerns drive calls for new homes to be all-electric

On the eve of World Asthma Day, about 50 people rallied outside Wollongong City Council’s Burelli Street offices. Their goal: to urge council to make new developments all-electric, with research showing gas stove use is estimated to cause 12% of childhood asthma in Australia. Councillors Jess Whittaker, Kit Docker, Deidre Stuart and Andrew Anthony attended the May 5 gathering, which featured speeches, signs calling for “No New Gas in the Gong” and to “Electrify Illawarra”, and a rousing pro-electrification reboot of Gloria Gaynor’s classic I Will Survive by Margi Curtis, of the Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against Greed (IKNAG).