Quick Quiz: 16 July 2025

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Quick Quiz: 16 July 2025

The Illawarra Flame

Jul 16 2025

Bird of the Month: Southern Emu-wren

The bird of the month for July is the Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus). This tiny wren species inhabits the heathlands and grasslands spanning coastlines from southeastern to southwestern Australia. Whilst this species is generally shy...

Ewan Auld

11 hours ago

Science & Nature

Bothered by mozzies? Here’s 1000 reasons a night to love microbats

Over the summer months I’m lucky enough to have microbats visit my yard. I have no idea where they spend the day roosting - in one of the tree hollows across the road? Someone’s shed? Under shedding bark of old growth trees? - but come dusk, they...

Amanda De George

11 hours ago

The Illawarra Flame

How Thirroul bowls club is helping Linda through heartbreak

When Linda O’Neill lost her husband Michael earlier this year, she struggled with even the simplest tasks. The two had been inseparable - her soulmate, she calls him - and when Michael died just six days before what would have been their 20th...

Tareyn Varley

July 2025

The Illawarra Flame

A Welcome Reunion

By Cristina Sacco of the Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra (MCCI), which delivers the Welcome Experience, a free support service in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Lita and Livia grew up in the same small, tight-knit and vibrant Fijian...

Cristina Sacco

July 2025