Category: Illawarra
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Seeing Clearly: Music, Art & Wellness
Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop will be making waves in Kiama next month. We had a chat with co-founder Dom Furber about the music and the mission. Tell us about Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop. Clearly Music, Arts & Wellness is a festival and community engagement project being held in Kiama, NSW, with the inaugural…
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Capturing the heart and soul of Wollongong: a hand-drawn map by Alex Pescud
Feature image: Instagram/ TheWollongongMap There hasn’t been a birds-eye, hand-drawn map of Wollongong since 1840. Until now. Local cartographer and artist, Alex Pescud, sought to capture a moment in time in Wollongong with his ambitious project, The Wollongong Map. We viewed the nearly complete map in Pescud’s art studio over the weekend and were blown…
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Yeehaw United’s Ela Akyol elected as WUSA President
Yeehaw United’s Ela Akyol has been elected President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association. Running under a joint Labor caucus, Akyol received 302 votes, beating Left Action’s Jack Mansell by 34 votes. In a significant move, both Labor factions decided to run under a joint caucus, making use of Unity, Labor Right’s youth faction name…
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Wollongong kicks off it’s first very own comedy fest
An hour until showtime, organiser Riley Jones admitted he was nervous. “It’s a gamble. Comedy’s always a gamble,” Jones told The Tertangala at the showcase last night of the Wollongong Comedy Festival. “People will be like ‘I’m funny’ and then they do it, and then they’re not, and then you fill the room full of…
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Wollongong activists join nationwide protests against US abortion ruling
Feature image: Jordi Maudson Wollongong activists marched with others across the country to protest the overturning of abortion rights in America and demand that Australia doesn’t go the same road. Up to 200 demonstrators battled severe rain to rally against the historic US Supreme Court decision to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, ending…
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Uni’s back, but some students still can’t get a place in the Gong
Rizvi Ahmed arrived in Australia from Bangladesh less than three weeks ago. “I’m enjoying the country and the culture and everything else, the transportation system- everything.” But when it comes to accomodation, the IT students says it’s been “tough.” “The housing expenses is very much higher than I expected,” Ahmed said. “I have to go…
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Student rep calls for more transparency over accommodation sell offs
The student union says there’s been inadequate communication from UOW to residents over a decision to sell three student accommodation sites.
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Morgan was told $300 vouchers would be made available to UOW students. Turns out this isn’t the case.
Image: Kristina Akopova on Unsplash Illawarra community members have raised concerns for students unable to access lockdown support payments because they are already on other Centrelink benefits. University of Wollongong student Morgan Howard reached out to Illawarra MP Sharon Bird and university representatives to figure out if those excluded would get support. “I was informed by Sharon Bird…
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UOW had no aim to fund medical services, letters reveal.
University said there was ‘not an intention’ to provide funding for medical services on campus despite a plea from Campus Clinic.