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What we are really teaching kids when we keep them too safe

By Simone Potter, founder of Bush Magic Adventure Therapy We live in a world where children’s lives are more protected, programmed, and padded than ever before. Helmets, knee pads, safe surfaces, safety scissors – these things have their place...

9-Letter Challenge, 7 July 2025

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Energy Transition

An exclusive visit inside one of Australia’s most energy-efficient 10-star homes

In these days of spiralling energy prices, how a home is built can make all the difference when power bills arrive, with their growing impact on the household budget. The Illawarra Flame has been granted exclusive access to one of the nation’s most...

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From memoir writing to novel mapping: 6 new courses for writers at SCWC

Even though the South Coast Readers & Writers Festival has come and gone, there are still plenty of writing opportunities coming up at the South Coast Writers Centre, including SIX new writing courses and workshops for everything from romance to...

Elizabeth Heffernan

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Council says 440,000 new trees in the ground as native plant experts call for even more to be done

Despite Wollongong Council planting hundreds of thousands of new trees in recent years, two leading advocates for a native tree planting blitz in our suburbs have called for more to be done to prepare the city for future global warming. While...

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Volunteers have a whale of a time at ORRCA Census

ORRCA volunteers celebrated an exciting 26th annual whale Census in 2025, writes Phebe Fidge. It’s another day in paradise, and these volunteers won’t waste a minute! As the sun rises, Jody, Lyndell and Khynan from the Organisation for the...

Lightbulb moment: How the Illawarra Urban REZ is leading a quiet revolution

“The huge advantage of operating a system like that is – if done right – it could democratise equitable access to locally generated, low-cost renewable energy,” Ty Christopher says.

Genevieve Swart

Use of toilet paper and mobile phones spell doom for this suburban toilet block

The battle by locals to save a small toilet block in a small suburban park in Gwynneville appears to be over. Using a combination of mobile phone data technology and toilet paper use, Wollongong Council has decided the toilets must go. Lord Mayor Cr...

Quick Crossword, 4 July 2025

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Lord Mayor says skydiving at Stuart Park is here to stay and financially ‘what’s in the past, is in the past’

The Lord Mayor has stood by Council’s decision to support skydiving at Stuart Park on an ongoing basis and says any issue with Council giving the long-term operators, Skydive the Beach, a “sweetheart deal” is “history” and “in the past”. At this...

Clubs & Community

Four inductees and the winner of the Southern Cross Award for 2025

By Ian Badham of HARS Aviation Museum Four exceptional individual candidates have been identified for induction into the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame in 2025 and one organisation has been recognised to receive of the AAHoF Southern Cross Award...

Play WordroW - 3 July 2025

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Yuin musicians to share songs and stories at free concert celebrating NAIDOC Week

Ahead of 2025’s NAIDOC Week celebrations, Yuin musicians Ron Callaghan and Kyarna-Rose will perform at the free Music and Tea concert at Wollongong Art Gallery tomorrow morning, July 3.

Tyneesha Williams

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Illawarra abuzz: UOW biologist to give free native bee talk in July

When it comes to native bees, Illawarra folks have a bit of a hive mind; we all love them! The success of the recently launched Illawarra branch of the Australian Native Bee Association is proof of that. Lots of local families have gotten themselves...

Amanda De George

Kooky fun with a Kiwi twist as Mr Red Light stops at IPAC

Set in a pie shop, Mr Red Light is set to serve up kooky humour “with a Kiwi twist” at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre tonight. Think a touch of absurdism with “Buster Keaton-esque clowning”, says the show’s co-director, Ben Crowder.

Genevieve Swart

NF1 objects to water pipeline, worried it may pave way for Maddens Plains development

By Neighbourhood Forum 1 (NF1) convenor Warwick Erwin NF1 has submitted an objection to a Development Application for a 7km drinking water pipeline from a Helensburgh reservoir to Illawarra Country Club at 190 Princes Highway, Maddens Plains. The...

Quick Quiz: 2 July 2025

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Ebb and flow: New series features Illawarra waterways

We’ve looked recently at gardening for lizards, for insects, for birds and for platypus, and I’ve really enjoyed the journey. But taking that sequence further (’Gardening for whales’ anyone?) would require leaps of creative imagination and...

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