November 2022

THE ILLAWARRA

November 2022

Keeping community news alive

What Kate did next The Winter Road author to open festival of true storytelling

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Meet Our Contributors Kelly-Maree Michael is an Otford-based theatre writer and director, and president of Stanwell Park Arts Theatre (SPAT). As well as writing, directing and producing several SPAT shows, Kelly has contributed pieces for Rising Arts Productions, 24-Hour Theatre and Short and Sweet Illawarra. She enjoys baking, travel, and hunting down a really good brunch.

Caitlin Sloan is an Illawarra Flame journalist. She was born and raised in Helensburgh and was the fifth generation of her family to attend Helensburgh Public School, graduating in 2010 – almost a century after her great-great-grandmother. Caitlin studied at the University of Wollongong and has a passion for writing, travel and good wine. She also works as a bartender at the historic Helensburgh Hotel.

Roz Pocius was introduced to Chinese healing practices in 2000 while completing a Diploma in Remedial Massage in Coffs Harbour.

A decade later, after an old knee injury re-emerged affecting her mobility, she searched for someone to teach her the art and application of Tai Chi, finding her ideal tutor and mentor living in Thirroul. Not only are her knees in good shape, she is now a Tai Chi instructor and is a passionate advocate for Tai Chi and Qi Gong.

Dr Chris Reid lives in Helensburgh and works at the Australian Museum in Sydney as a research scientist specialising in beetles. His job is a combination of research, teaching or supervising students, and dealing with public enquiries. Chris describes identifying beetles as “a bit like detective work”. “Working on insects means I get to indulge in two favourite pastimes: travel and bushwalking.”

Dr Berlinda Png is a GP at Bulli Medical Practice. She was born in Singapore, graduated with honours from The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2007 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Berlinda’s areas of interest include chronic disease management and skin cancer.

Berlinda enjoys spending her spare time with her husband and four daughters, cooking and walking.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The publishers acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their cultural and spiritual connection to this land. Their stories are written in the land and hold great significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, from the mountains to the sea.

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What’s next for Electrify 2515?

By Kristen McDonald

Dr Saul Griffith joined Electrify 2515 volunteers to present the case for electrification at a forum at Thirroul Community Centre on Sunday, October 9.

Photos: Jeremy Park

There has been an exciting development in our campaign to become Australia’s first electrified community … 2515 has been officially selected to apply for funding!

So, what exactly does this mean? Rewiring Australia has chosen us, alongside two other communities, to submit a proposal to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and, if approved, we could receive financial support to take on a pilot community-wide electrification project. An exciting step forward!

But what is even more exciting to us has been the strong support shown by the community for collective action to reduce our emissions and our power bills. Even if we don’t receive the funding, as a community, we can still work towards widespread electrification.

Whether you’re in 2515 or not, watch this space as we will continue to share information on how we can progress towards becoming a net zero emissions community and how we can help other communities across Australia follow suit.

Who do we need to hear from now?

Renters and strata properties (units, townhouses etc) – we want you! Renters and strata households are all under-represented in the responses so far.

While the project will look slightly different than for standalone homeowners, you are all important parts and beneficiaries of the potential project.

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Please register at electrify2515.org/survey Local business owners – please register your interest and, in the survey’s comments section, indicate which business you own.

Local tradespeople and potential installers – we’re excited about the prospect of strengthening local employment opportunities so if you are a tradesperson, potential installer or supplier who might want to be involved in the roll-out, please email us at electrify2515@gmail.com Business forum in November

We will be hosting a forum in the coming weeks for local business and industry to find out more.

Please email us so we can forward you the details.

Outside of 2515?

We believe there will be opportunities for non-2515 households to benefit from the program, whether it is access to lower-cost power through a potential community energy co-op, access to bulk buys of appliances or shared information, so please keep following the project.

Community Forum Recording

Missed October’s forum? Please watch our recording as it contains fascinating insights and information, especially from energy expert, Saul Griffith. Go to https://electrify2515.org/#forum Thank you to this wonderful community.

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Cemetery in need of care

By Caitlin Sloan

After record rainfall damaged Helensburgh Cemetery, Wollongong City Council spent four months fixing it – but more needs to be done, says a leading member of the local historical society.

Jenny Donohoe is the treasurer of Helensburgh and District Historical Society, a volunteer association that advocated for the preservation of the site for many years. On a visit to the town’s cemetery in mid-October, Jenny described the repairs as “half a job”.

“What council has done is fine for an interim,” she said. “What hasn’t been kept up is keeping the bushland away from the graves, and I really feel that’s council’s problem.”

Council swung into action earlier this year after rain damaged internal roads and gravesites. Josh Saunders, Acting Operations Manager for Memorial Gardens and Cemeteries, said: “Because of the sensitive nature of where it had occurred and the heritage significance and all of that coming into it, once that damage was reported, repairs were very much fast-tracked to be rectified in that area.”

March 2022 was Helensburgh’s wettest March on record, with the Bureau of Meteorology recording 794mm of rain for the suburb, in a month when the average rainfall is 161.6mm.

At the time, community members reported the curbing of four heritage gravesites – dating back more than a century – was disintegrating as overland waterflow eroded topsoil in the cemetery.

Four months of council restoration work was completed in September, by which time Helensburgh had recorded 3008mm of rain. (As a comparison, the average annual rainfall for the suburb is 1417.5mm.)

Josh said the aim was to improve drainage systems and durability of internal roadways.

“Council engaged their own engineers to come up, assess the site, and then basically design a plan for the repairs to the road as well as some repairs and redesign of the drainage in the area to prevent it happening again,” he said.

Josh said this had been done by a surface swale and “raising up land here and there to direct that water away”.

Council also cleared vegetation and put in new concrete pipes.

Josh said there had been no risk of graves washing away, but the damage to sites required a specialist heritage stonemason.

“He does a lot of restoration and refurbishment works for old monuments and knows how to restore them to their original condition … which is exactly what we needed for those four monuments.”

Council is also planning to repair the cemetery’s dilapidated entrance portico, which has been fenced off since last year.

For many years, the Historical Society has urged council to clear surrounding bushland where unmarked graves are acknowledged and to remove invasive trees from the cemetery.

Jenny said, “A lot of the families have moved on, or they’ve died, and I think we should respect them [and] as council, being the owners and caretakers of this, to remove any debris that’s on the graves themselves and get rid of the trees out of them.

“They’ve done what they’ve had to do but the rest of the cemetery is a disgrace for the council.”

Jenny Donohoe is concerned about invasive trees and bushland at Helensburgh Cemetery.

Photos: Caitlin Sloan

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We’ve got the scoop Helensburgh’s Gelato Man is the real deal – born in Italy, maestro trained and passionate about local produce. Caitlin Sloan reports

Before he was affectionately dubbed Helensburgh’s Gelato Man, Massimo Bernardini lived in the picturesque town of Brescia, at the foot of the Alps in Lombardy, Italy.

Naturally, it was while growing up in Italy that Massimo discovered a love for authentic gelato.

One summer holiday, however, he came down with a horrendous stomach ache after enjoying strawberry and chocolate gelato – which made him snub those flavours for 20 years. Suffice to say, Massimo’s customers today are glad he forgave strawberry and chocolate of their wrongdoings.

In 2000, with the intention of holidaying in Australia for six weeks, Massimo met his now-wife Emilie in the back bar of the former Bayswater Brasserie, and six weeks quickly turned into a year.

“Massimo was here travelling, and we just happened to be in the same place at the same time, and the rest is history,” Emilie said.

“We went and lived in Italy together for a while and came back here and got married in 2003… and have been living here since 2004.”

The couple were drawn to Helensburgh because of its proximity to both Sydney and the coast and settled here over a decade ago when Emilie was pregnant with their first child.

Massimo worked as a cabinetmaker for several years after emigrating to Australia. Then, no longer content with this career, he took a chance on the Carpigiani Gelato University course.

“They do these courses everywhere in the world and the one in Sydney was filled up, so I had to go to Melbourne because I really wanted to do it,” Massimo said.

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“The teacher was the owner of Gelato Messina … so after I finished my course, I asked him if I could work for them [and] they said yes.”

After a year and a half at Gelato Messina’s flagship Sydney store, Massimo started producing his own gelato, selling it by the tub in his former cafe, Big Sister Horsie, and other restaurants around Helensburgh.

With its popularity exceeding expectation, Massimo made gelato-making his full-time gig, first with the Gelato Man cart – available for corporate, party, and wedding events – and then the Gelato Man Shop in February 2021.

“I always had a dream to open my own shop so I can really do my things, my creations and things like that, and Helensburgh is a great place,” he said.

As for the name, Emilie said the choice was clear.

“Whenever Massimo would turn up to an event with his cart, everyone would say ‘Oh look, there’s the Gelato Man!’,” she said.

Massimo said that what sets his gelato apart from commercial varieties is his use of high-quality local ingredients and the effort and consideration he puts into each batch.

“We don’t just make the ice-cream, we also make all the other things that go in with it,” Massimo said.

“It’s always very rewarding and inspirational to see people coming back all the time for more with the big smile on their face.

“It’s very good to see they’re always keen on trying a new flavour.”

Find The Gelato Man at 7b Walker St, Helensburgh and on Facebook

Thirroul Village Saved By community campaigner Louise Wellington

After a two-and-a-half-year campaign, myself and the Save Thirroul Village group are delighted by the Land and Environment Court’s rejection of the latest proposal to redevelop Thirroul Plaza (DA 2020/363).

This decision, announced on 19 October 2022, recognises the significant issues inherent in the proposal, and validates the long-held concerns of Wollongong City Council, subject-matter experts and the local community.

Thirroul Plaza Pty Ltd was proposing to redevelop the existing shopping centre by demolishing the existing building and constructing four separate buildings with a new bigger Coles, underground parking, and 77 residential units. The development would have required a new set of traffic lights at the intersection of King St and Lawrence Hargrave Drive, and removal of most of the street parking in the main part of the village.

The developer made four attempts at the DA, each time requiring their proposal to be publicly exhibited. In the last round (March 2022), over 1200 submissions were received.

The developer appealed Wollongong City Council’s refusal in the Land and Environment Court, and after a hearing in July, the Court dismissed the appeal and refused the development application.

Commissioner Dickson found the built form of the development was incompatible with Thirroul, that it would have a detrimental impact on the Illawarra Escarpment Conservation Area, and that noise impacts had not been appropriately addressed.

This win is about more than this DA. For the first time in a long time, the community’s voice and common sense are being considered. How incredible it is for everyone to have their voices heard. Save Thirroul Village would like to congratulate Council and their solicitors for putting forward a powerful defence and for engaging with the community throughout this process. We would like to thank the local media and community organisations who have kept people informed.

Much of this success is owed to our amazing local community. We have been proud to represent your voice in this matter and remain awed by your tireless campaigning and unrelenting dedication.

We hope this decision represents a change in the way proposals are considered for Thirroul.

Of course, the existing site is tired and we would welcome a new proposal that considers the community’s needs, and involves us from the start.

Visit savethirroulvillage.com.au STV’s Stephen Le Bas and Louise Wellington. Photos: Anthony Warry

Council recognises ‘proactive’ community Wollongong City Council welcomed the judgement by the Land and Environment Court to dismiss the development proposed for a central site in Thirroul village.

“We know this judgement will be welcomed by many in our community who advocated against the proposed development,” a spokesperson said on October 19.

“This decision will be regarded as a positive step and reflects the impact a proactive and engaged community can have on decisionmaking.”

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Children enjoyed ‘cheeky’ Haydn

By Felicity Woodhill, founder of Inspire Music Australia

The rain did not stop a fantastic turnout for Piano Music from the Heart, the third concert in the Music and Tea at the Gallery series.

The audience was treated to delightful and inspiring performances from two very young, accomplished pianists, Sophia Bae (age 10) and Elsa Li (11), students of Natalia Ricci at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Rising Stars Program.

Sophia entertained the audience with her descriptions of the works, including describing Haydn as “a very cheeky composer”.

The program opened with local violinist Emma Huang and pianist Elisabeth Stevens; they performed de Beriot’s Scene de Ballet, one of Emma’s favourite pieces. A work combining virtuosity with emotional intensity, Emma described it as “a flight of fancy, depicting an imaginary ballet scene.”

A Diverse and Intergenerational Audience

The audience for this concert spanned multiple generations. Twenty preschoolers from Planet Early Childhood Learning Centre in Coledale attended, making the journey on public transport, an adventure! The children explored the art exhibitions before taking front-row seats on cushions and a comfortable red rug. Concert host Ann Lehmann’s expertise as a music therapist and teacher ensured they felt included, stayed attentive and had the opportunity to ‘wiggle’ when they stood to applaud each work. For many of these children, it was their first concert.

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Of equal amazement on such a wet day was the effort made by the CRAM Foundation to have their clients attend the concert. Incredible enthusiasm is shown by these audience members with diverse disabilities. Their ability to tune into the rhythm and pitch of the music and join in with the music in their own way is inspiring.

Thank you to Wollongong Art Gallery for creating a space and time in which music can be shared in a truly inclusive environment.

November 3’s concert will feature local singer-songwriter, Shalani Thomas.

You can hear Shalani’s A Song For Alice on Soundcloud. A wonderful song about her grandmother’s journey to Australia with beautiful reflections on her life and our changing world.

Pianist Elisabeth Stevens and violinist Emma Huang, of Smiths Hill High School

The final concerts for 2022 will be at Wollongong Art Gallery on 3 Nov and 8 Dec. Free, donations appreciated. Contact inspiremusicaust@gmail.com

Spot the difference. A neap high and low tide range at Coalcliff beach last month.

Photo: Rob Brander

Dr Rip’s Science of the Surf Tides are cosmic – part 2. By Prof Rob Brander

Last month I wrote about the tides and why we get two high tides and low tides per day in NSW and why their timing changes each day. It was all about the way the earth, moon and sun interact and the gravitational pull that the moon exerts on the oceans. But there’s much more to tides than that.

I remember watching early seasons of the TV show Survivor and how the tribes would always build their shelter at the back of the beach, not noticing that the water crept closer every night until one night, to their amazement, they were finally swamped. Aside from the fact that they clearly didn’t pay attention to previous seasons of the show, they also didn’t understand tide range.

Tide range is the vertical elevation difference between high and low tide – think of it as the height of the tidal wave. Unlike many Survivor contestants, you may have noticed that the high tide creeps a little bit higher on the beach each day and then starts retreating on a daily basis. At the same time, the water seems to go further out at low tide and then not so far out. What’s going on?

Well, this is where the sun comes in. Both the earth and the moon orbit around the sun. When the moon and the sun line up, their gravitational pull on the oceans is combined and we get bigger 14 science & nature

tides. The high tide comes up higher and the low tide goes out further, creating a large tide range. These are called ‘spring tides’ and occur around a full and new moon, so about every two weeks. Conversely, when the moon and sun are lined up at right angles to the earth, their gravitational pull acts against each other and we get ‘neap tides’ where the high tide doesn’t come up very far and the low tide doesn’t go out very far – a small tide range. So every lunar month (about 29 days) we get two spring tides and two neap tides. ‘King tides’ are just a bigger spring tide that occurs when the moon and sun happen to be particularly close to the earth and that happens about twice a year (around Christmas and late May/early June).

While our tide range in NSW varies from about 1m at neaps to almost 2m at king tides, tide range varies around the world with some places, like Broome, getting 9m tides. It’s all about the shape of continents, offshore reefs and continental shelves squeezing and amplifying the tidal wave itself. If all this cosmic stuff has you bamboozled, just read the tide tables towards the back of every Flame issue – it’s all predictable years in advance!

Have a question? Email rbrander@unsw.edu.au

The Eastern Osprey is listed as ‘vulnerable’.

Photo: Amanda De George

Beauty of the hunter

By Amanda De George of Backyard Zoology

Is there anything more beautiful than a bird of prey? This is a rhetorical question of course, firstly because you’re reading this and can’t really respond

and secondly, even I know that you can’t have favourites in the world of wildlife. There’s always something new to see or learn about and my passions change with the seasons. Literally. It’s Peacock Spider season and that means my whale obsession has taken a back seat.

Actually, it was while I was out looking for whales a few weeks ago, that I decided to wander around the corner, over the numerous oceansmoothed pebbles and discarded shells, and to look up into the dead tree. I’d heard a bit about this tree from other whale watchers and really hoped that it was going to offer up to me what it had offered up to others before – an Eastern Osprey.

Now, I’d looked at this tree many times before, as that’s how wildlife watching goes, and had only seen it sheltering a kookaburra and a raven. And when I rounded the corner this time, I admit I felt a little disappointment, seeing the familiar kookaburra-esque creams and browns on the bleached, dead limbs of the tree. But I kept walking because I’m practicing optimism and, after a few more steps and some strategic eye squinting, I discovered the kookaburra was not a kookaburra at all but rather the osprey I’d been hoping for.

Eastern Ospreys are smaller than White-Bellied Sea Eagles, which are often seen in the same locations, but ospreys are still quite a large, majestic-looking bird. The majority of their diet is medium sized fish, which they snatch straight out of the water, after plunging in, talons first. They don’t eat the fish whole but perch with it, yes, sometimes even in the dead tree, but rip it apart by holding it with their talons while pulling bits of flesh away with their beaks.

In NSW, they’re listed as vulnerable, which means that they face a high risk of extinction in the medium term future. These are special birds, and I’m really thankful to have been able to watch this one as it stretched and preened and looked around, ever watching. Other people have sighted them in the Royal National Park, around Shoalhaven Heads, Bass Point Reserve, Lake Illawarra and Port Kembla. Basically, if there’s a body of water, there might be an Osprey.

They tend to breed in the same location, and repeatedly use the same nest, just adding sticks and twigs to it. So, if you see a huge nest, which can get up to two metres deep due to this behaviour of adding material each year, high in a tree or even atop of a structure like a radio tower, you might want to keep an eye on it. Come July through to September you might get to see more than one of these incredible birds.

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A Camellia Showstopper

By Jenny Donohoe

Banksia Bushcare has banished lantana.

Below, Sassafras flowers. Photos: Kieran Tapsell

Tree of the Month

By Kieran Tapsell, of Banksia Bushcare

Doryphora sassafras (Sassafras)

Sassafras is one of the most common rainforest trees of the Illawarra escarpment. It is only occasionally found on the coastal plain. It is a medium to large tree, reaching 30 metres. Its leaves are highly serrated and opposite, and highly aromatic if crushed. Its bark is light brown and sometimes grey, soft, flaky and tessellated.

The white flowers are in clusters of three on short stalks, and they appear in July. The fruit is brown when ripe and has a short appendage for wind dispersal. It produces good wood for cabinet making. Two Sassafras were planted in the reserve in 2018 and are protected by a cage against the deer.

Banksia Bushcare winning the lantana battle

Volunteers have finally removed the last infestation of Lantana in the Stanwell Avenue Reserve at the end of Station Street. After 100 years of infestation there remains throughout the reserve a decent seedbed of Lantana that requires constant maintenance, but this was the last infestation. We have replaced it with 13 edible native fruit trees, germinated from local seed, Podocarpus elatus (Plum Pine) and Syzygium australe (Brush Cherry). Their fruits make excellent jam. We have added edible Warrigal Green, Tetragonia tetragonioides, as an understorey. It is Australia’s answer to spinach, but it needs to be blanched first. There is already some growing there naturally. This area enjoys full sun and is ideal for these plants.

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Local horticulturist Jim Powell (the former captain of 325 Station and current president of Helensburgh and District Historical Society) has been growing camellias for the past 51 years in Helensburgh.

Jim’s first plantings were in The Ridge in 1971 and, in a short period of time, he went from only two camellias to growing nearly 1000. Over the following decades, Jim became a well-known grower, judge, hybridizer and exhibitor of all things camellia. His Camellia Show awards were numerous. Jim has won 14 National Trophies – three in 2008 alone – since 1977. His major achievement was in 2017 when he was awarded the Most Successful Exhibitor prize at three major shows.

Jim’s commitment to all things camellia has not wavered in those 51 years. He is also a strong supporter of Camellia Ark Australia. In 2001, Jim lost more than 800 camellias on his property at The Ridge during the horrific Christmas Day bush fires that ravaged the Helensburgh district.

From this time Jim found it impossible to replace valuable camellias he had lost in the fire and, through his efforts and others, Camellia Ark Society was founded to source and preserve endangered camellia cultivars.

In 2022 Jim continues to display his allencompassing love of camellias, doing garden talks, tours of E.G. Waterhouse Gardens and exhibiting at five camellia shows. He was awarded with seven Champion Blooms, nine Highly Commended blooms and 153 combined first, second and third places. Well done, Jim.

In 2017, Dame Marie Bashir, former Governor of NSW, presented Jim Powell and Jenny Donohoe with the ‘Most Successful Exhibitors’ prize at Narrandera’s Camellia Show.

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Left: tiger prawn (photo: CSIRO, Wikicommons).

Right: lawn prawn (photo: Kueda, iNaturalist, Wikicommons)

Beetling About Helensburgh entomologist Dr Chris Reid presents practical ideas for end-of-year school projects

It’s that time of year when it’s warm, things are out and the students have had enough of school for the year. It’s a good time to engage them with some biology.

So here are a couple of ideas, which I tried out about 12 years ago. They work best for years 5 to 6 and I tried them out in November and December.

They require collecting material, which is probably the biggest problem.

First, get a teacher who’s willing to allow a significant disruption to the class – one to two hours. Second, find a local secondary school willing to loan about 15 simple dissecting microscopes and lamps. The school might also ‘loan’ a few science students to help with the class.

Make sure any cables are taped down! For most children, just using a microscope is a great novelty.

A short class project is comparing prawns (I bought a frozen packet of whole ones) with ‘land hoppers’ also known as ‘lawn prawns’. I collected dozens in my garden and froze them.

Prawns and lawn prawns are related but one is aquatic, the other is terrestrial. The class should compare them, draw them, and talk about how their structures reflect the two environments in which they live, e.g. the lawn prawn has strong legs that support body and short feelers; the prawn has weak legs (body supported by the sea) and long feelers. Then discuss how other related animals in the sea and on land show adaptations e.g. seals versus dogs. We did two classes with the same prawns on a hot afternoon – some interesting smells at the end of it.

A longer project (1.5-2 hours) is to arm all the students with a yellow-topped medical sample jar 20 science & nature

(from the pharmacy) and a clip-lock bag. Then take them out to the playground where there are, hopefully, mixed native and weed plants. Each student collects one ‘bug’ (in this exercise I lent them my net) and one whole leaf – try to make sure about 50:50 weeds and natives are sampled. In the classroom identify each leaf as native or weed and get students to estimate percentage damage of each leaf. Graph this as a pair of bar charts for native and weed – one above the other – showing percentage damage for each leaf. I did this three times – there was an average 20% damage to natives and 2% to weeds. Most damage is by insects. Birds feed on insects, so if the students want to encourage birds in the garden, what do they tell their parents? (Hint: no more roses, Mum.) Use the microscopes to examine the ‘bugs’ in the jars and ask them to estimate whether they are predators or not (assume predators = large mouths, large eyes, long legs for rapid movement; non-predators = opposite). There should be less predators than non-predators, but in practice they get very enthusiastic about collecting spiders. But what do spiders eat (and are too difficult to catch)?

Get them to think about this ‘pyramid of numbers’ (drawn on the whiteboard). What’s at the bottom? What’s above predatory spiders and bugs?

What’s at the top? The cleverer ones will say humans.

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Meet a Keeper

Amanda De George chats to Zoe Ridge at Symbio Zoe Ridge, taking the path less travelled

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Zoe Ridge’s day is pretty typical, for a zoo keeper.

There are the early starts, the cleaning of exhibits, the feeding of animals, weighing, providing her charges with enrichment and the educational talks. The path she took to becoming a zoo keeper, though, that was a little more unusual, and had a few extra steps along the way.

To become a keeper, you generally need a Cert IV in Captive Animal Management from TAFE and a lot of volunteering. It’s one thing to learn the theory of catching a kangaroo, but it’s something else entirely when faced with a large marsupial, which can jump! However, before you even start out, you need to know what you want to do and becoming a keeper was the last thing on Zoe’s mind. “I knew I was going to get into science. I always loved science when I was at school... I studied a Bachelor of Zoology and I kind of thought that I’d go into the research side.”

But as Dr Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park would say, ‘Life finds a way’, and a job opened up nearby at Symbio in Guest Services. Zoe applied and loved the work. It wasn’t until five years into that role that she began to think that keeping might be something she’d like to try and so she added volunteering to the mix and has now been employed as a keeper for a couple of years.

“When I first started, I didn’t really know where I wanted to be. I’m a mammal person so I got put on Natives [section] and I’ve never looked back.

Natives has been my heart since I’ve started.”

And on her arm too. She has a brand-new tattoo of a koala, an animal that has become her favourite. There’s a lot to love about koalas, including the fact that they have two thumbs and that the joeys eat their mum’s pap, a special type of poo to build up their gut bacteria. Zoe laughs: “When I do my talks, I love throwing that fact in and watching everyone’s faces.”

Even though she works as a keeper, Zoe continues to work in Guest Services two days a week. “My story is pretty different to a lot of other people. I think being in the Guest Services section helps me a lot,” she says.

Somehow she also manages to fit netball and board games into her week, along with a healthy dose of reality TV. I hate to use the word ‘journey’ but in light of the reality TV it seems only fitting. Zoe’s journey to where she is now isn’t usual, but it’s made her the amazing keeper that she is today.

“I don’t know if I’d ever go back to zoology now that I’ve started zoo keeping. I love what I’m doing.”

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Time for a spot check?

By Dr Berlinda Png of Bulli Medical Practice

Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. About two in three Australians will be diagnosed with some form of skin cancer before the age of 70.

Have you ever wondered if the mole on your body is cancerous?

Types of skin cancer

There are three main types of skin cancer, named after the type of skin cell they start from: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma skin cancer.

Basal cell carcinoma: Most common form of skin cancer but the least dangerous. Appear as round or flattened lump or scaly spots. Red, pale or pearly in colour. May become ulcerated, bleed and fail to heal. Grows slowly over months or years. Usually found on the upper body, head or neck.

Squamous cell carcinoma: Less common, but more dangerous than basal cell carcinoma. 1-2% can spread and cause death. Look for scaly red areas that may bleed easily, ulcers or non-healing sores that are often painful. Grows over a period of months. Often found on lips, ears and scalp.

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Melanoma skin cancer: Least common but most serious form of skin cancer. Can appear in a new or an existing spot, freckle or mole that changes colour, size or shape.

Grows over weeks to months anywhere on the body (not just areas that get lots of sun).

If untreated, cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body.

UV damage to the skin

These conditions are not cancer but may predispose you to skin cancer or be a warning sign that skin damage has occurred. Dysplastic naevi: Odd-shaped moles usually with uneven colouring that may indicate a greater risk of developing melanoma. Solar keratoses: Hard, red, scaly spots on sun-exposed areas of the skin, commonly occur on the head, neck and the backs of the hands.

Prevention

Skin cancer develops when a cell in the skin goes through a series of changes. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the main factor that causes skin cells to become cancer cells. Remember to protect your skin in five ways (slip, slop, slap, seek, slide) and see your doctor for regular skin checks.

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A history of Helensburgh Memorial Pool

By Jim Powell, president of Helensburgh & District Historical Society

The community swimming pool was opened in December 1969. It came about after an outbreak of hepatitis in Helensburgh in the early 1960s. This was due to a septic tank spill-over into our creeks and dams, contaminating the water courses and favourite swimming places. An appeal was launched in our local community with large donations coming from the Miners Federation, the Joint Coal Board, our local Returned and Services League (RSL) Sub Branch and our local business community. Wollongong Council agreed to match dollar for dollar and enough money was raised to put in 25-metre swimming pool in the hope that later on an Olympic pool could go in alongside the smaller one.

How did it become the War Memorial Pool?

At the end of World War I, the local RSL SubBranch was formed and it took over the School of Arts building in Walker St. It had a liquor licence and held dances in the hall for fund-raising and held its meetings and other functions there, such as weddings and family parties. A flag pole was erected out the front and on the Sunday before Anzac Day and on Remembrance Day a march up the main street took place with a service held outside the RSL Hall, Cecil Everingham was the secretary during this time.

However, when the Bowling Club opened in 1953, the liquor licence transferred to the Bowling Club and patronage of the RSL Hall declined except for private functions amongst the RSL members and other local groups. The Honour Rolls and the flag Pole were moved to the Post Office, the flag pole where the Miners Statue is today and the two Honour Rolls placed in the vestibule of the Post Office. This is where the town held its Anzac & Remembrance Day services until the Memorial Cenotaph was opened in Charles Harper Park in 1993. So it was only fitting, to give the swimming 24 clubs & community

pool some recognition of the sacrifices given by our service men and women. The swimming pool was a place to show friendship and freedom they fought for during the two World Wars, a place where the community spirit would live on through the next generations within the town and its hamlets.

Town marches finished around 1970, as a lot of RSL Diggers wanted to go into Sydney to meet up with old colleagues and our local Town Band wound up in 1968-69. During the 1960s when we held the services at the Post Office, Earl Dowson would play the Last Post or if he was away with the Navy I would play it for the services. Now everything happens at the Charles Harper Park Cenotaph and the event is becoming as big as it was during the 1950s and 1960s.

Helensburgh Pool, where community spirit lives on.

Photos: Anthony Warry

Remembrance Day in Helensburgh Please gather on 11 of November 2022 at 10:45am at the War Memorial at Charles Harper Park. Everyone is invited to attend.

For more information about how you can take part in Remembrance Day activities or donate to the Poppy Appeal, visit remembertoremember.com.au

In Remembrance

By Jenny Donohoe, researcher at Helensburgh & District Historical Society

In 1969, the Helensburgh War Memorial Swimming Pool was opened and dedicated as a War Memorial on the 6 December. The pool was opened as a memorial to the people who sacrificed their lives during World War II. It was reported in The Helensburgh News in 1969 that about 200 adults and scores of excited children from all parts of the Helensburgh District attended the opening by the mayor of Wollongong, Ald E Ford.

At Remembrance Day on the 11th of November 2022 we should remember these brave souls that gave all for country in WWII. Listed are the known names of those who died from the district recorded by the Helensburgh & District Historical Society.

• BELL, Mervyn Colin (NX34074) • BISHOP, John Archer (NX83170) • COOK, William Henry (NX34221) • COX, Dr Frederick Henry (Warden) • CRAIG, David Hopeto(u)n (NZ15657) • CRAIG, Sr Marie Eileen (501399) • DWYER, Albert Sidney (NX58890) • FLETCHER, Albert Ernest (NX23409) • FLETCHER, John Wills (NX31289)

• • • • • • • • •

FREW, Robert Gordon (417771) HOTCHIS, George Stewart (413386) HURRY, Ernest Edmond (NX37334) HYDE, Arthur Harold (NX50408) JORGENSEN, Leslie Hunter (Q137511) LUCK, John Douglas (NX17831) MANNERS, Seth Tilstone (403142) MARTIN, Ian Erington (422221) MCAULIFFE, William Russell (NX11529) & (RAF42470) • MCLACHLAN, Thomas David (NX55072) • MOORE, Arthur (N256103) • MULHOLLAND, Norman George (RAF34098) • OLIVER, Norbert Charles (RAN16729) • SAUNDERS, Ronald (NX77803) • SELLAR, William Lambeth (NX88650) • SHAW, Mervyn David (NX53747) • SMITH, Albert (QX38259) • STUBBS, William Joseph (NX85178) • TIDESWELL, Harry (NX125098) • TOON, David Jackson (N255454) • WEEKS, Richard (NX6397) • WILLISCROFT, Albert Archibald (NX169917) Rest in peace.

Heathcote Community Update A letter from Lee Evans – your State MP

As all in our community know the 11th of November each year is a very special day for all Australians. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month is Remembrance Day, the day the guns fell silent after the Allied armies pushed the German troops back in WW1.

The day the Germans called for an armistice to allow the securing of a peace settlement.

The day that hostilities ceased on the Western Front which has become a universal day of remembrance for all those who have lost their lives in war.

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I wish to take this opportunity to recognise all those families who have lost someone to war and to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice they made to keep us all safe.

Wherever you may be at 11am on this important day please take a minute of silence to pay your respects to those who have fallen and their families and to be grateful to be living in peace in this beautiful country we call home.

Lee Evans, Member for Heathcote

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o t e m i T wage war games

Janice Creenaune meets Austinmer’s Chris Hardy and Neil Mudge, two long-time mates who find time to research historical international warfare, create and paint accurate models and scenery, and war-game

Chris and Neil immerse themselves in the world of historical warfare. They recreate world-changing conflicts and war-game appropriate to the period.

Their passion is for historical accuracy and depth of skill in painting and model-making. Theirs is a time-consuming and engrossing hobby that delivers local and international friendships.

The “Flames of War” (1:100) miniature gaming system is one such area where both men have chosen to focus. Neil, a retired civil engineer and senior public servant, has a particular interest in 6 June 1944, or D-Day. “I have read for decades but in retirement the Normandy invasion is a particular interest of mine.

Warfare is really high-level project management and Normandy was the largest amphibious invasion in history. The logistics of transporting approximately 500,000 people, together with weaponry etc makes an amazing study.”

Neil and Chris read historical books daily and have weekly surges in model painting, and sometimes discuss strategies. “But we don’t take ourselves all that seriously,” Neil says. However, he does believe that “both adults and children really respect the models and the painting expertise”.

Chris shares Neil’s interest in the Normandy campaign, but his interests diverge into many other

warfronts, including ancient historical battles.

Chris comes from a military family, so his early life revolved around army bases with full-scale tanks and military weapons. An interest in strategy and warfare has long been part of his psyche.

A carpenter by trade, then a science teacher for 20 years, he often shared his warfare and modelmaking skills with students during lunch or after school. Chris has returned to carpentry, but he also administers “Flames of War Painting Group”, an international website with over 4500 members.

“There is much discussion on uniforms, tactics, historical accuracy discussion,” he says. “We read widely, we have shared interests and we remain committed to our studies, our model and scenery-making and developing our skills.”

Neil says: “This hobby does need some patience and concentration, but it is relaxing and when focusing, all-absorbing. The time seems to just slip away and we become totally absorbed.”

For further info, contact Chris Hardy via the “Flames of War Painting Group” on Facebook.

Janice Creenaune is a volunteer for PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) Foundation Australia. Email janicecreenaune@gmail.com or phone 42674880

Neil (left) and Chris at an exhibition at Thirroul Library earlier this year.

Photos supplied

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2022 NINA OUTINGS NOVEMBER & DECEMBER

Bookings made through the office. Please call in advance as some tickets need to be pre purchased. Limited number on buses. Pick up and drop off direct to your home.

DATE

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Thursday 3rd Nov

Music & Tea at Wollongong Art Gallery

$10.50

Friday 4th Nov

Dapto Shopping

$11

Wednesday 9th Nov

NINA AGM, Client & Volunteer BBQ

Friday 11th Nov

Warrawong Shopping

$11

Tuesday 15th Nov

Bunnings – Bellambi

$5.50

Friday 18th Nov

Shellharbour Shopping

$11

Tuesday 22nd Nov

Sydney Wildflower Nursery

$5.50

Wednesday 23rd Nov

Outing to Bundeena for Fish & Chips

$16 + Lunch

Friday 25th Nov

Engadine Shopping

$5.50

Friday 2nd Dec

Sylvania Shopping

$11

Monday 5th Dec

Woronora Cemetery Visit

$11

Tuesday 6th Oct

Bunnings – Kembla Grange

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Thursday 8th Dec

Music & Tea at Wollongong Art Gallery

$10.50

Friday 9th Dec

Dapto Shopping

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Friday 16th Dec

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NINA receives funding from the NSW Govt to assist commuters who find it hard to access general public transport. If you have limited or no access to private or public transport due to your location, or financial resources, physical or cognitive capacities, then NINA can help you! If you think you are transport disadvantaged and need assistance then please give the office a call on 4294 1900.

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Panto is back – but not as you know it

SPAT president Kelly-Maree Michael tells how finding an old papier-mâché sarcophagus led to writing an archaeological adventure with a feminist twist

My first production with Stanwell Park Arts Theatre (SPAT) was a fun little piece called Murder in the House of Horrors. Now, 10 years later, I’m the president of the SPAT committee and at the helm of our first “panto” in three years.

The Christmas pantomime has been an annual tradition for our community since the 1970s.

Murder… featured an iconic piece of SPAT memorabilia, a full-sized papier-mâché sarcophagus that the killer jumped out of during the ‘Big Reveal’. I remember being absolutely flabbergasted at the craftsmanship of SPAT volunteers in bringing a piece of Egyptian history to life for our small stage, and I still marvel at the thrifty ingenuity of community theatre.

As a writer, I have long wanted to base a pantomime on the classic adventure serials of the 1930s and 40s, and, of course, their modern counterparts like Indiana Jones. When I came across the sarcophagus gathering dust, buried in the bowels of our theatre – a little worn and rat-eaten, but still intact – it seemed like a sign from the universe.

I felt like one of the heroes of the aforementioned stories discovering a piece of long-forgotten treasure. Inspired, I convinced local 28 arts & culture

writer Bernadette LeMesurier to join me in my quest, and the resulting script, Montana Smith and the Raiders of the Lost Land, promises to be one of the most ambitious and fun pantomimes that SPAT has produced in its nearly 50-year history.

Although pantomime traditions are upheld, we’ve added a few progressive twists to carry the format into the future. The sarcophagus is a perfect metaphor for the merging of old with new, a piece of the past made modern with a little innovation.

While our audiences will be treated to a pure-hearted hero, a dastardly villain, a simpering dame, wise-cracking sidekicks, all of the classic “It’s behind you” and “Oh no, you didn’t!” gags, and more local references than you can shake an Illawarra flame tree at, we’ve also included a few modern updates. For example, our “Duke” is a young woman dressed as a macho man to complement the Dame’s hyper-femininity.

Throw in some upended adventure movie conventions like a tongue-twisting narrator, an inept archaeologist, a clutch of baddies hell-bent on colonising and pillaging the environment, and a tap-dancing pantomime camel, and you’ve got the formula for a swashbuckling show.

Kelly, Emma and the sarcophagus.

Photos: David Slezak

The 2022 SPAT Pantomime will be performed at the Stanwell Park CWA hall on weekends from 2-18 December, more information and tickets at www.spat.org.au

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November 29

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By Caroline Baum

Fresh back from three months in Europe, Kate Holden is enjoying being at home in Austinmer with her partner, Tim Flannery, and their son.

The compact house they built on a sloping bush block is now becoming a home, the unpacking phase over. It’s time for a bit of nesting and contemplation after the surprise of winning a Walkley award for her first venture into environmental investigative journalism with The Winter Road – which also won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Award for non-fiction and the 2022 Davitt Award for non-fiction.

The Winter Road is a complex account of the murder of environmental compliance officer Glen Turner by farmer Ian Turnbull at Croppa Creek near Moree in 2014. The crime attracted national interest and headlines, and was seen as 30 arts & culture

something of a watershed moment in the conflict between those seeking to protect the land from excessive clearing and those who live from agriculture.

“I’d never written anything that required that kind of research,” says Kate, sounding still a little astonished by her win. “I found it exciting to discern patterns in our history and make connections between the past and the present.

A huge chunk of the book was discarded as my manuscript was much bigger, but these days, people’s attention span is shorter.”

She wants to stay with inquiring essay writing, and is considering what her next project might be.

Two issues keep humming in her very curious and observant brain.

“One is the transition this area is undergoing,

Kate Holden at home in Austinmer with her husband, climate scientist and author Tim Flannery. Photos: Anthony Warry

which is apparent to me every day, the potential future conflicts over development and change, the contemporary dilemmas we face and how they are richly informed by the past.

“The other is my dismay as a mother of a nine-year-old with the education system in our public schools. My education was so different. My mother started an alternative school with just 30 pupils in all. Learning was play-based, it never felt like a chore, it was enriching.

“The system here is so constricted, regulation is so oppressive. I’ve seen people here defeated trying to start a nature school featuring outdoor learning.

It’s a real shame.”

It’s been 17 years since Kate published her first memoir, In My Skin, a candid account of her personal experiences in the hidden world of heroin

use and prostitution, a story of survival that she can still tell anecdotes from with a gleam of provocation and pride – certainly no shame – in her eye. It’s fair to say that nothing about addiction or desire shocks her.

“Writing that opened up the power of emotional honesty to me. Sometimes memoir feels selfish and ruthless but it is also an act of generosity and you never know how it will resonate. It gave me a career but also I still get responses to it from readers.”

That willingness to expose and excavate her own past with penetrating insight makes her in demand as a teacher of creative non-fiction at the South Coast Writers Centre and festivals around the country.

Since moving away from memoir, a strong streak of idealism and activism permeates Holden’s sense of purpose as a writer. “I want to contribute to the greater good. Sometimes everything feels either grim or frivolous.”

She is not attracted to public office, preferring to leave that role to others with more time and skills – she confesses to being a bit phobic when it comes to meetings and committees.

As well as her progressive, radical values, Kate is trying to maintain a spiritual commitment to “enchantment and re-enchantment: to fighting the soporific haze, fatigued indifference and to heal ourselves with a sense of awe, blessedness and small magic, reminding ourselves of beauty, the sublime and mystery as an antidote to late stage capitalist neoliberalism and its appalling reductive policies”.

Nothing too woo-woo, mind you. Kate’s wafty sentiments stay anchored to reality. She maintains her optimism by interviewing a wide range of creative individuals for her regular column in The Saturday Paper, and from quieter more contemplative moments when she is doing something craft-based, or spending time in the bush, or everyday domestic rituals.

Asked about what she cherishes most at the moment, she pauses to consider.

“The escarpment and the sense of enclosure that our home provides, with its back to the cliff, snug and out of danger. It was such a good experience building it with Tim and collaborating with the builder, Shane Simpson, and his crew.

“But also I think that this is a pretty special, pretty cool community we have here. There’s such an abundance of talent, I’m grateful to be part of it.”

Kate Holden is the keynote speaker at ‘I Am Not Making This Up’, a festival of true storytelling at Coledale Community Hall on November 26 and 27. Tickets from $15 at southcoastwriters.org

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Saturday and Sunday 26 & 27 Nov 2022

Meet true storytellers At a time when truth is under threat in so much of what we read, I Am Not Making This Up celebrates the power of fact in storytelling, bringing together some of the brightest talents and most distinctive voices writing non-fiction today.

At Coledale hall on 26 & 27 November, I Am Not Making This Up is a co-production of the South Coast Writers Centre and the Flame, with artistic direction by Caroline Baum.

Tickets from $15 at southcoastwriters.org or scan the QR code above

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Kate Holden was born in Melbourne but now lives in Austinmer. She is the author of two memoirs, In My Skin and The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days.

Her first foray into investigative journalism, The Winter Road, revisits the murder of an environmental officer by a farmer, prompting analysis of the tensions that characterise the history of white settlement and the conflict between protecting and clearing the bush. The book has won a slew of awards

Gary Jubelin is arguably Australia’s most high-profile homicide detective, leading investigations into the disappearance of William Tyrell, the killing of three Aboriginal children at Bowraville and the killing of Caroline Byrne. He retired from the NSW Police Force after 34 years. Gary is the host of the I Catch Killers podcast. His new book, Badness, revisits notorious cases to understand how evil can become part of human nature

Jodi Edwards is a proud Yuin woman with kinship connection to Dharawal Country. Her work addresses continuity of cultural practices in the Yuin and Dharawal Nations through her company, Gumaraa Aboriginal Education. She has a PhD in Traditional Aboriginal Pedagogies and a Masters in Language Education.

Jodi has been involved in many Indigenous projects, including practices of fishnetting, boat making and possum skin cloaking

Diego Bonetto runs foraging workshops that teach participants how to engage with delicious wild food while starting conversations around belonging, sustainability, and agency. He has collaborated with chefs, herbalists, environmentalists, and cultural workers.

He is also an artist passionate about using his practice to return botanical literacy to communities.

Diego is the author of Eat Weeds

Lo Carmen is an Australian singer songwriter, musician and actress. She has released seven albums in the Americana alt-country indie rock vein. She also appeared in The Year My Voice Broke and played the real-life part of Sally Ann Huckstep in Blue Murder. Her memoir Lovers Fighters Dreamers looks at the messy and often painful path to a creative life as pursued by her female idols including Robyn Archer and Billie Holiday

Zanny Begg is an award-winning artist and filmmaker. Editor of The Beehive (with Jose da Silva), she has been a winner of the Blake Art Prize. She works with film, drawing and installation to explore ways in which we can live and be in the world differently. Her recent film works include Magic Mountains, Stories of Kannagi; The Beehive and The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod)

Malcolm Knox writes fiction and non-fiction with equal polish. He won a Walkley award for his investigation of the fraudulent author Norma Khoury. His other non-fiction includes Secrets of the Jury Room; Bradman’s Wat and Boom: The Underground History of Australia from Gold Rush to GFC. He is a keen surfer and a cricket tragic

Phillipa McGuinness is the author of Skin Deep (Penguin 2022), The Year Everything Changed: 2001 and editor of Copyfight.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Inside Story and Meanjin. She is a regular commentator on book publishing, maternal health and life and politics. Phillipa is the editor of Openbook magazine for the State Library of NSW and lives in Sydney

Rob Brander, aka Dr Rip, is a coastal geomorphologist and professor at the University of NSW. He’s studied beaches for three decades, starting in Canada where water temperatures convinced him to come to Australia. Rob is an international expert on rip currents and beach safety and runs a community education program called The Science of the Surf.

Rob is the author of Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book and an Illawarra Flame columnist

Illawarra Flame contributor Jo Fahey manages ‘on farm’ diversification at Darkes Glenbernie Orchard. She joined the sixth-generation family business full time in 2013 after a career with the NSW Department of Education. Jo is responsible for the creation of Darkes products, such as cider and vinegar, and runs orchard experiences, including fruit-picking.

Diversifying has been the key to the farm’s success and its cider has won many awards

Patti Miller is the founder of the Life Stories Workshop, an award-winning writer and Australia’s most experienced and successful life writing mentor. She is the author of nine books of non-fiction, fiction, and writing texts, published

by Allen & Unwin, Random House, Routledge and UQP. She has taught life writing workshops since 1991, in particular for the Faber Academy, Sydney and London, and the Paris Memoir course

Mark Mordue launched his career in Sydney as a rock journalist deeply involved with the post-punk era of the 1980s. He has edited three national publications: Stiletto, Australian Style and Neighbourhood. Mark is a winner of a 1992 Human Rights Media Award and the 2010 Pascall Prize: Australian Critic of the Year. He is a widely published journalist and the author of poetry collections and the biography Boy on Fire – The Young Nick Cave

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PROGRAM OF EVENTS SATURDAY – 26 NOVEMBER WORKSHOPS

Heather Rose is the author of eight novels.

Her most recent, Bruny, won the ABIA 2020 General Fiction Book of the Year. Her seventh novel, The Museum of Modern Love, won the 2017 Stella Prize. Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love are both in development for the screen, and the play of The Museum of Modern Love premiered at Sydney Festival in 2022.

Heather lives by the sea in Tasmania

Andy Muir has worked as a researcher and script coordinator for television shows such as Underbelly, MDA and All Saints. He also has writing credits on Home and Away, Neighbours and Silver Sun. Andy has written material for Thank God You’re Here. He is the author of Hiding To Nothing and Something To Nothing

11am Truth-telling in Memoir -1pm A masterclass with award-winning author Patti Miller 4-6pm Wild Weeds Workshop Explore the edible local landscape, with Diego Bonetto 2.15pm DOORS OPEN

2.30pm Types of Truth keynote speech -3.30pm By Kate Holden, Walkley awardwinning author of The Winter Road 3.45pm True Friends Patti Miller talks -5pm about the thorny aspects of female friendship with Caroline Baum 5.15pm Darkes Cider Tasting Jo Fahey -6pm shares the tale of a farm’s transformation, and its awardwinning produce 6.15pm Dinner at Earthwalker with Diego -8pm Bonetto The Eat Weeds author in conversation with artist Zanny Begg SUNDAY – 27 NOVEMBER 9.45am DOORS OPEN

David Roach is a visual artist, an awardwinning screenwriter and director, and the president of the Clifton School of Arts committee

Anne Howell is a former SMH journalist whose memoir, All That I Forgot, is a sometimes humorous, sometimes scary account of losing her memory The festival’s artistic director, Caroline Baum is a journalist, author of Only: A Singular Memoir and presenter of Life Sentences, her podcast about contemporary biography. She is an Ambassador for the Older Women’s Network

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10.15am Do You Speak Dharawal?

-11.15am Indigenous advocate Dr Jodi Edwards talks to Clifton School of Arts president David Roach 11.30am Mind & Body Anne Howell, -12.30pm (All That I Forgot) speaks about amnesia and Phillipa McGuinness (Skin Deep) shares the inside story of our outer selves 12.30-1.30pm LUNCH

1.30pm Who’s Bad? Former homicide -2.30pm detective Gary Jubelin discusses his sequel to I Catch Killers with crime writer Andy Muir 3pm Dr Rip on the Science of the Surf -4pm Rob Brander in conversation with journalist & surfer Malcolm Knox 4.15pm Seek Pray Love Novelist Heather -5.15pm Rose unveils her new memoir, a surprising soul search in the aftermath of family tragedy.

With Caroline Baum 5.30pm Carrying the torch From cabaret -6.30pm to blues, via yodelling, singersongwriter Lo Carmen explores the lives of women performers who have given her a voice on the stage and the page in her unconventional memoir, Lovers Dreamers Fighters with music journalist Mark Mordue

What’s On at the Writers Centre

By South Coast Writers Centre director Sarah Nicholson

If you are interested in freelancing as a creative, in research and writing, or getting creatively inspired under a grand tree in Wollongong Botanic Garden, you can learn from SCWC’s Wollongong Botanic Garden Writers-in-Residence in November.

On Saturday, 5 November, Rebekah Lambert leads ‘Translating your creative love into paying your way’ at Coledale Hall. You might be dreaming of the day where you can work from home as a creative – but, how green will the grass really be?

Writer, freelancer and freelance advocate Rebekah will take you through an interactive test, and will be your guide to creative courage, value, and commercial reality.

On Wednesday, 23 November award-winning essayist Elizabeth Walton will share her workflow in a research masterclass. Regardless of your genre of writing, at some stage you may be faced with the daunting task of reducing all of your material into the tip of the iceberg that goes to publication. In this workshop, Elizabeth will throw open her own

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Whether or not you are a big reader as an adult, the memories of books we carry from childhood tend to be cherished. They evoke feelings of pleasure, excitement, adventure, warmth… The list is endless. This is perhaps why our most treasured part of the bookstore would have to be our Children’s section. Listening to the kids talking, giggling and engaging with books is an absolute pleasure and knowing the books are contributing to their growth and development is very special for us. The young readers of 2515 are incredibly fortunate kids. They enter the world a step ahead because their families encourage them to join the world of books, and we love that we are helping to create the book memories they will take into adulthood.

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research process to help you to enhance yours.

And on Sunday, 13 November you can meet us at Wollongong Botanic Garden to creatively explore the spectacular Dragon Tree. Working from the mythologies and origin stories of the Dragon Tree, singer and voice teacher Karen Cummings will take participants through exercises using sound, writing and drawing to respond to the tree and its stories, in embodied and creative ways.

We are also welcoming new books! Coledale Community Hall will host the launch of Two Hearts by poet Kathleen Bleakley on November 5, and The Heroines Anthology Volume 4 of short fiction and poetry on November 6.

If you’ve ever wanted to deepen your understanding of film, don’t miss out on our monthly Coledale Film Club. Hosted by film director Graham Thorburn, these screenings come with the added benefit of receiving Graham’s rich insights into film-making and the opportunity to join the post-film discussion. In November, Film Club presents the funny, tender and thoughtprovoking The Truman Show; then, in December, the Swedish film As It Is In Heaven, in which a world-class conductor agrees to help the local choir hone their harmonising skills.

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Meet a co-op volunteer

Denise Farrier is a long-serving volunteer at the Flame Tree Co-op

Thanks to my daughter, Lucy, I have been volunteering with the Flame Tree Food Co-op for many years now. When the Co-op first opened in Thirroul, she said to me: “Hey Mum, you’ve got to get involved with the Co-op. Don’t just join, become a volunteer! You’ll love these people! They are passionate and committed to supporting local producers and avoiding packaging. I joined because I know that these people can teach me how to live sustainably! And some of them are your age!”

Rightio then! So I did venture into the Co-op, liked what I saw and became a member. I later became a volunteer. At that time it was operating in a very small space, tacked onto the back of a dress shop. Despite this, the shop was crammed with a wonderful array of fresh foodstuffs. I enjoy cooking and I like to eat fresh unprocessed healthy food.

Shopping at the Co-op enabled me to buy as much or as little as I needed. No more packets of dried food going to waste in the pantry! I could buy tiny amounts of deliciously fresh spices or bulk buy food items for everyday use.

The Flame Tree shop is now in a much larger space on the other side of Lawrence Hargrave Drive and it has employed some paid staff to keep the wheels turning.

There was, and continues to be, a good vibe with a strong sense of community. It is communityowned after all and it could not have survived for so long without its big, bold community spirit. So, if you have never visited the Flame Tree Co-op, come on down. You don’t have to be a member to shop there, it’s open to all.

Oh, and my daughter? She now lives with her little family at Lake Conjola, where she works to protect our threatened species and, in her spare time, runs a cloth nappy library online. The people at the Flame Tree taught her well.

Denise and her daughter, Lucy

Visit Thirroul’s Co-op at 355 Lawrence Hargrave Drive. flametree coop

Photo contest

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Lions Clubs in south-east NSW and the ACT are pleased to launch our inaugural photography competition, which is open to anyone who has a passion and interest in photography and community service.

This competition is a novel and innovative way to support your local community through the arts.

Entries will need to align with the Lions’ six focus areas: Youth Opportunities, Health, Humanitarian, Emergency Response, The Environment, Research & Innovations. These subjects present significant challenges to humanity, and Lions around the world are uniting to tackle them.

The Photo Competition runs until 11 December 2022 and is open to everyone.

Non-members will need to nominate a local Lions Club (for example, Helensburgh Lions) as their sponsor.

You would be hard pressed to find a more prolific writer and a more active supporter of community issues than Peter FitzSimons. The Friends of the Wollongong City Libraries look forward to hosting a literary dinner in November featuring FitzSimons as special guest speaker.

He is the author of more than 27 non-fiction books, including Eureka, Breaker Morant and The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia’s greatest explorer.

FitzSimons’ work led to his being named a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to literature and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations.

The dinner will be held at Villa D’Oro, Flinders Street, Wollongong on Tuesday, 29 November, 5.30pm for 6pm. Tickets cost $60 for members and $65 for non-members. Bookings can be made via Eventbrite.

By Fran Peppernell, of Helensburgh Lions

More details and entry forms are at Lionsclubs.com.au/lionsinfo/photocomp

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at this stage – so that’s less than $3 a film! Visit www.ifs.org.au for a sample of the offerings. IFS meets at the Gala Cinema, Warrawong, on Sunday evenings. Go to ‘Buy Membership’ on our website.

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Old Mine Surgery Open Day and Book sale

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Sat, 19 Nov, 10am-2pm, 78 Parkes St, Helensburgh.

Drop in to tour Dr Cox’s 1935 surgery, look through the Helensburgh and District Historical Society’s photo collection, get help with your family history, or update us with new information and photos. Check out the new miners’ memorial and information panels, our renovated toilet block and restored baker’s oven. Great bargains on local history books! Pay by EFTPOS or cash or pre-order for pick-up. Contact info@historichelensburgh.org. au or Jan 0418 681 384

Look out for Bunker Down: Survival of the Fittest

by Thirroul sculptor Sally Kidall. Her interactive work encourages viewers to imagine a luxurious underground property, “architecturally designed with the latest subterranean survival technologies”.

It reflects on feelings of dread and dispossession, and was inspired by Bradley Garrett’s book, Bunker, Building for the End of Time. To see inside this safe Landcare’s Rise and Shine Clean-up Come along on Sunday, 13 November from 1pm to and spacious home, visit www.bunkerdown.info help Helensburgh Landcare volunteers clean up an Ethics teacher training workshop area of bushland out the back of the old tip site.

Free. Nov 12-13, contact ann.hollifield@ Drive through the open gate next to the old tip primaryethics.com.au gate, and the area is opposite the sewerage pumping station. Access is from Nixon Place. Wear Women in Steel: Steel City Strings long sleeves and closed-in shoes, bring gloves and 7.30pm Sat 19 Nov Wollongong Town Hall; 2pm water. If you are able to come, please email Sun 20 Nov Berry School of Arts. Inspired by the merilyn@helensburghlandcare.org.au or ring 0414 Illawarra Women of Steel documentary, Steel City 819 742. I will then be able to advise you if the Strings and percussionist Claire Edwardes clean-up has to be cancelled at the last minute. premiere a concerto for percussion and string orchestra by Australian composer, Natalie Girl Guides Christmas Tree Sale Williams. The work Steeling Fire pays homage to If you would like a ‘real’ tree this year, Helensburgh the battle of the Jobs for Women campaign against Girl Guides would love to see you on Friday, 2 Australia’s most powerful firm, BHP, between December at the Helensburgh Girl Guides Hall, 1980-1994. $10-$45, book via merrigong.com.au where you can choose your own beautiful tree. for Wollongong or steelcitystrings.com.au for Berry Christmas Trees will also be available on Saturday, 3 December from 8am if we are not sold out prior.

Oils on Porcelain All proceeds from the sales help maintain our Illawarra Porcelain Artists Annual Exhibition and Helensburgh Girl Guides Unit for the year ahead.

Sale on November 26 and 27, 9am to 4pm at the Old Court House, Belmore Basin.

Helensburgh Library Lego Club Tuesday, 1 Nov 3.30-4.30pm, free.

Helensburgh Men’s Shed Annual Open Day Preschool Storytime 11 & 25 Nov, 10.30-11.15am Saturday, 12 November, at 199A Parkes Street.

Enjoy a Shed Tour, lovely cakes and a cuppa, and Thirroul Library a Sausage Sizzle. There will be Christmas gifts to Sat 5 Nov 11am Music in the Library peruse. Visit helensburghmensshed.org.au Thu 3 Nov 10.30am First Thursday Book Club.

Reading Tell me why: the story of my life and my Join the Illawarra Film Society music by Archie Roach The Illawarra Film Society has opened its 2023 Preschool Programs – weekly during term time memberships (join for $90 per annum). IFS Baby Beats – Thursdays 10am; Toddler Time – presents a wide collection of arthouse, classic, Fridays 10am; Lego Club – 2nd & 4th Wednesday documentary, and foreign films. We are working towards an extended 2023 film program – 33 films of each month; Story Time – Tuesdays 10am 38 arts & culture

Artists of the Illawarra Painter Edith McNally invites everyone to follow the new Art Trail

November offers an absolute feast of opportunities for anyone who enjoys art or anyone looking for a great day out. I can’t believe I live in an area so well served by creativity, inspiration and sheer goodwill.

The Northern Illawarra Art Trail (NIAT) will see 20 studios open so that the public can cruise around our beautiful region, enjoying our scenery and cafe culture, while taking a look at the work of more than 20 local artists as they practise their craft.

Studios will be open from 10am-3pm on November 19 and 20. Entry is free. For more details, head to niarttrail.com which provides maps and summaries of artists’ work and style.

Even more great news for art-lovers: Clifton School of Arts will host a wonderful exhibition called Travelling on in November. This is a group show by members of the Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA). Viewers can expect paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and mixed media works.

IAVA is a professional artists’ group, providing members with group exhibitions, social

networking and professional mentoring. It is a not-for-profit organisation, supporting and promoting art and artists from the Illawarra. Visit www.iavacontempart.org for more details.

IAVA President Melissa Ritchie says: “We love exhibiting at Clifton School of Arts. The building has a rich artistic legacy that goes beyond bricks and mortar. As a group, telling our stories through our art and exhibited within those walls, we feel connected to that legacy.”

IAVA member Pilar Helmers says: “When you visit an exhibition, you’re not just engaging with the experience for yourself. You’re also validating and uplifting artists by simply turning up. I’m proud to be showing with this group.”

Travelling on will be staged from November 21 to December 2, 10am-4pm. The opening event is Friday, November 25. Entry is free.

It doesn’t get much better than what the artists of the Northern Illawarra have on offer, to my way of thinking. Come and enjoy.

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Joeys new to Austi Scouts

By 1st Austinmer Group Leader Stephen Turner

Austinmer Scout Group was formed on 16th November 1923 and since then the group has seen many changes in the organisation including the renaming of the original sections – Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts and later Senior Scouts – to Cub-Scouts (7.5-11 years), Scouts (10.5-15 Years), Venturers (14.5-18 Years) and Rovers (18-25 Years).

The next major change was the addition of Joey Scouts (6-8 years), and 1st Austinmer started this section on Wednesday, 12 October 2022, trialling a 4:30-5:30pm weekly meeting time.

Our first group of Joeys have so much fun they don’t want to leave at the end of the hour.

Got the wobbles?

By Paul Blanksby of Helensburgh Men’s Shed

A recent commission for one of our lovely coffee shops got us thinking. We were ‘removing the wobble’ from some of the tables and we thought, hey, sometimes we get the wobbles.

My wife and I are quite active, walking or swimming and exercising at Alison’s Fluro Fun N Fitness. Other friends enjoy time at the Burgh Healthy Hub, surf, bike ride, dance or garden.

Maybe they are enjoying learning to use the fitness equipment in Charles Harper Park, with a coffee and muffin at Tradies afterwards (a Council health initiative running for six weeks from Friday, 29 October).

All these things and more help to strengthen our bodies, keep us flexible and get our balance right.

Plus I’ve learned a new vocabulary: glutes, abs, core, reps, plank (aarrgghh!) and, my personal favourite, rest.

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We have been overwhelmed with interest from families wanting to join Austinmer Joeys Scouts, which is incredible.

We love welcoming new friends and families into our Scout Group to enjoy camps, adventures and social activities together.

Until we can train our new leaders, District Joey Leader Leanne Senn has been planning and leading the fun activities we know young Scouts love.

A major achievement for Joeys is the Joey Scout Challenge Award Adventurous Journeys, which are a way for Joey scouts to get out in nature and the outdoors with their Patrol.

The Joey Scout can choose what type of journey they want to do. It could be a bushwalk, cycling, sailing, or something else.

This will mean that parents, or another adult family member, will need to be available for a few hours to assist the Joey Leaders.

The Joey age group works best with a ratio of one adult for every four Joeys, especially when craft and outdoor adventures are involved.

With the addition of Joeys to 1st Austinmer we now have all five sections of Scouting in our Group, which is very uncommon in NSW, and more special in that Austinmer is quite a small town in comparison to others in the region.

With our centenary approaching in 2023 we have set a goal to have 100 youth members by our 100th year.

Pictured above: Leanne, District Leader (at left) and Jayne, Trainee Leader (at right) and the first ever Joeys at Austinmer

And in the lead-up to Christmas, please come along to our Annual Shed Open Day, Saturday, 12 November.

We’re also part of The Garage Sale Trail – who knows what you may find!

There will be demonstrations of tools and techniques, enjoy a cuppa and a cake, maybe grab a sausage sizzle and a drink, peruse our ShedShop and have a tour – see what your Men’s Shed is all about! And you may even get to meet Sammy, the Shed Skink.

Visit helensburghmensshed.org.au, 199A Parkes Street Helensburgh 9-3 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Call Michael Croft 0413401522, Ron Balderston 0410564752 or Paul Blanksby 0403 701 788

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Don't build Bulli Bypass

Your Letters Submit Letters via the Get in Touch page at theillawarraflame.com.au Well done to students, parents & teachers

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Helensburgh Public School has been recognised by the NSW Department of Education’s Secretary as one of the most improved NAPLAN 2022 schools in NSW based on NAPLAN Reading and Numeracy top 2 band results for 2022. We are very proud of our students.

The school has been focusing on planning high-impact literacy and numeracy professional learning, data-informed teaching and observation of teaching practice.

Congratulations to Helensburgh teachers, parents and students for the excellent collective effort and achievement!

– Helensburgh Public School principal Ewen Neild NSW Justices Association Wollongong Branch provides free JP services at Community Desks at Thirroul, Corrimal, Wollongong and Dapto libraries.

The association holds a monthly meeting for members and other JPs at 7pm on the second Tuesday of the month at the City Life Church in Jardine St, Fairy Meadow. All services given by JPs are free of charge. They cannot give legal advice and there are certain forms and documents that they are unable to sign or witness, but they can assist you in finding where these can be dealt with.

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Ben Wollen ('Build Bulli Bypass', October) points out that in our car-dependent society there are too many roads taking up space that could be better used. Absolutely right. But I have to take issue with his claim that the proposed Bulli Bypass would be “situated for maximum benefit”.

It would be lovely to restore an early 20thcentury streetscape in Bulli and create a heritage precinct showcasing the neglected heritage buildings. That’s Ben's dream but is it realistic?

Many of us objected to the Woolworths development at the time but look how popular it is.

Let’s consider the “benefit” of this bypass for our escarpment. This is one of the major constraints on Wollongong’s development. The roads are slip-prone and dangerous and there’s only one inadequate rail line. We can’t afford to build transport links that fail. Look how often the Bulli Pass is closed for roadworks.

The bypass road reserve exists as far as the Bulli Showground. But then what? If built it’ll presumably divide the Grevillea Park then proceed through beautiful bush on steep fragile slopes to meet the hairpin bend. Some of this is Illawarra Escarpment State Conservation Area. Does the rest of the trouble-prone Bulli Pass road remain as is?

Do we really want to sacrifice some of our protected escarpment forests, have a compromised Grevillea Park and lose the showground as a site for great events like the Illawarra Folk Festival? Not in my dream.

– Helen Wilson, Bulli

An ode to Daisy

I was getting old and kinda lazy So I scanned the net and found Miss Daisy She’s a farm girl, you know what they’re like Full of fun and full of fight She comes from a so-called intelligent breed But she must have missed out when sowing the seed She jumps fences, scratches and bites Runs away with all her might People are saying behind my back What were you thinking and I’ll agree with that A two legged version would have been easier But I’m locked in now and the exercise is pleasing Ten k’s some days and still not hurting But when she’s asleep with her head on my lap All things are forgiven and I’ll drink to that.

– Kevin, via email

Meet a councillor

Journalist Brian Kelly meets Cameron Walters, a Liberal councillor for Ward 1, which covers the northern part of our city

Ward 1’s Cameron Walters. Photo: Wollongong City Council

Most residents would welcome the fact that their councillors have their feet firmly on the ground, if only in the sense they are engaged and watchful concerning community needs.

Cameron Walters, Ward 1’s energetic Liberal representative, is all that and yet, in one way at least, he wants to soar high above it all. At 30, Walters has come a long way since being the six-year-old desperate to fly a Boeing 767, and indeed holds a private pilot’s licence. He speaks longingly of life flying above the clouds.

“Maybe this summer, January or February,” says Walters, who needs to refresh his licence.

Taking to the air is not the only way Walters meets a need for speed; he has followed in his father’s tyre-tracks, racing around tracks in the same Ford car that his dad drove in the 1980s/90s.

As for a passion about debating issues that matter: “I suppose I was the nerdy kid who listened to Question Time,” said Walters, who grew up in areas including Dapto before moving to Helensburgh nearly three years ago. He was drawn to the Liberals through an interest in his family’s business, having started as a tyre-fitter at 16. He joined the party at 21, around the time the federal Australian Labor Party was becoming a train wreck before its 2013 election loss.

“I’m small business-oriented and progressive on social policy,” he said, mentioning an invitation to an upcoming same-sex wedding. “We need to accept these social advancements and move on.

“I always look at an issue and ask ‘How does that affect my life?’ The sky certainly hasn’t fallen in since same-sex marriage began in Australia.”

Walter’s civic pride ran to mowing his lawn just before the UCI Road World Championship races

started in Helensburgh – an event he thought was mostly well run.

“Business was not consulted enough on its effects, but there were amazing scenes here and it was a great advertisement for our area,” he said, asserting that council should back more events outside Wollongong’s CBD. His work as a government consultant in the energy sector gives Walters a prime view of society’s transition to renewable sources, one he feels council is addressing well.

“There is no real debate that matters more than the best way to do it. If someone has a good idea, why not back it?” says Walters, confirming his intention to attend an approaching residents meeting in a nearby suburb to discuss solar battery potential and a belief that party politics “don’t play day to day” at council level.

Sports facilities are another area of interest, particularly as Walters prepares to take a role on a council committee which helps steer $500,000 in grants each year.

“Sport is a huge thing for our community,” he said. “You don’t need to have kids to see that or benefit from it.

“A lot of our grounds have good facilities, but others do not. Particularly nowadays with more women participating in sports, it’s important – it’s not very welcoming to newcomers if facilities aren’t up to scratch.”

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DA news, plus a good clean-up Thanks to NIRAG secretary Ross Dearden and the Thirroul Village Committee for producing this report

The Northern Illawarra Residents Action Group (NIRAG) and Thirroul Village Committee (TVC) are local community groups that work on issues that affect residents.

NIRAG is presently also representing the Neighbourhood Forum 3 (NF3) area from Woonona to Austinmer and the TVC mainly Thirroul. The TVC and NIRAG recently worked together on the proposed Development Application (DA) known as Lot 101 Amy Street, Thirroul (DA-2021/1324) due to the impact the proposed development would have on the neighbouring residents and the wider community.

NIRAG and the TVC met with the developer, and later with neighbouring residents about the proposal, which involves two sites in McCauley’s Estate, Bulli and one off Amy St, Thirroul.

There are two lots to the east of Panmills Drive in McCauley Estate. To enable driveway access to these lots, the DA before Council proposed that a portion of the public walkway/cycle path known as Wilkies Walk, off Panmills Drive, be demolished and rebuilt at a later date south of its current location. The DA also sought approval to allow building on a small 323sq m parcel of land fronting Amy Street where the minimum block size is 450sq m. This is 29% below the minimum block size. Development on this site would lead to the closure of the cycle and pedestrian access from Amy Street to Corbett Avenue.

Due to Council’s deemed refusal of this DA, the developer lodged an appeal with the Land and Environment Court (LEC), which resulted in a Conciliation Conference being held on site on Wednesday, 12 October. Five local residents, including a TVC representative, spoke to the Commissioner of their concerns about the development that is proposed on both sites. A large number of residents living near the two sites attended, along with the developer, Council staff, development experts, legal representatives for both parties and the LEC Commissioner. The matter has been adjourned until 2 November.

DA at 254 Lawrence Hargrave Drive

On Tuesday, 11 October the TVC made representation to the Wollongong Local Planning Panel (WLPP) outlining concerns about the design and setback of the proposed DA for commercial space at 254 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Thirroul.

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felt that the flat roof design proposed did not fit in with the surrounding buildings and believed that a pitch roof form would be a more appropriate and sympathetic design given the context and nature of properties to the east.

The TVC also felt that the proposed building should have been set back further from the footpath to allow more visibility of the heritagelisted building and a safer pedestrian pathway.

Unfortunately, not all members of the WLPP nor Council shared this view so approval has been granted. (Below is an image of what is proposed.)

Volunteers clean up

NIRAG and the Hewitts Creek Bushcare Group organised our Annual Rise and Shine Clean-up on Monday, 10 October along Hewitts Creek and behind the beach to Sandon Point. Even after the rain and big storm seas it was pleasing to find that there was very little plastic and rubbish amongst the drift wood and debris along McCauleys Beach this year.

Upcoming Meetings

The next NIRAG / NF3 meeting will be held on Wednesday, 2 November at the Bulli Community Centre Hall, Bulli, at 7pm. Representatives from Council will attend and all are invited to come along to help contribute to improving our local area. You can contact NIRAG by email: nirag@bigpond.com or send a text to 0411 484 166 (Ross Dearden, Hon Secretary).

The next TVC meeting will be held on Sunday 27th November at the Thirroul Railway Institute (TRIPS) Hall, Railway Street Thirroul starting at 4pm. Residents are invited to come along.

This will be the final meeting for 2022.

Email tvc@internode.on.net

Tim Boxall (left) and Mattias Samuelsson at the new garden

Fresh food for church pantry

By Hope 2508 pastor Lionel Rattenbury

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A local family who attends the church heard of the need and offered their land and labour to grow 100% organic vegetables. They partnered with Tim Boxall, who will help them construct garden beds that are fully enclosed to keep deer and birds away.

Thanks also go to Spot-On Hose and Fittings, who donated a generator, water pump and hoses, and Woonona Eye Care, who donated $200.

We are on the way! Work has begun on the construction of the enclosure that will house 16 raised garden beds. Members of Helensburgh Seniors Travel Group have volunteered to raise seedlings from seeds. This will reduce the overall running costs of the garden.

Mattias said, “I’ve always been a big believer in helping our local community, so when Lionel came to me with an idea that would assist those in our area who needed it, I was more than happy to get involved.”

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The Make-Do Library of Things has moved from Bulli to a garage at Coledale hall. Photo: Unicorn Studios

How much is enough?

By architect Ben Wollen

One of the big items on a lot of our clients’ lists is ‘more storage’. They’ll tell us their cupboards are bursting at the seams and they have to park their car on the driveway because the garage has been converted into a storage shed. And I for one, can empathise!

Every November I join the national ‘Garage Sale Trail’ to sell unwanted stuff that we bought, thinking it was a good idea at the time. Out-grown toys, unwanted gifts and those retro collectables, which made so much more sense back when you were in a share house with uni mates – all this makes it into our garage sale in the hope that someone else will find treasure in our trash.

Even the most minimal zealot like Marie Kondo knows that, despite best efforts, unwanted stuff makes it into our houses and linen closets, wardrobes, garden sheds and garages. So how much area should you allow for storage in your house? I’ve heard all sorts of ideas on the magic number. Some use the 80/20 rule, some suggest 10%, the minimalists out there who live a spartan monastic type of life might suggest a single chest of drawers. Rumour has it Australian fashion designer Akiro Isogawa lives like this and, if Steve Jobs’ biopic movie is accurate, the Apple entrepreneur had a big house containing only a record player and a mattress.

For the rest of us with semi-hoarding tendencies it is helpful to ask: how much storage we do actually need? With the average construction cost of a custom-built home averaging out at $5000 per square metre (the high end edging closer to $10,000), and the average size of a new house in 46 clubs & community

Australia being 235 sqm, at 10% this storage area will end up costing $117,500!

It seems silly to spend this kind of money on more storage when you could be renting a space at the local storage centre for $1/ sqm/month. First and foremost, I think there’s the question of what items are essential in your life and used regularly. Marie Kondo urges us to discard any item that doesn’t bring us joy. I’m a bit more practical and if there’s something I haven’t used in a year, then out it goes. An example of this is my eldest daughter’s kayak. We had nice adventures on this back in the day and I was hoping my youngest daughter would get some use out of it but, alas, she’s semi-petrified of open water. Please come to my garage sale if you’re after a junior kayak in good working order!

What about rarely used essentials? Enter the “Make-Do Library of Things”. Brainchild of former Austinmer local Andrea Persico, the library of things is based on the sharing economy model.

Previously located at the old Bulli lawn bowls building, they’ve found a new spot in the garage below the Coledale Community Hall. Need an angle grinder – they have three. Need kids party bunting – they’ve got it. And did I mention they take donations?

So have a garage sale, donate those once-a-year items to Make-Do and clear out your shed.

Just think of all that space you can create, and then fill with Christmas presents!

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Stitching together the past By textile artist Tina Antico

My exhibition of hand-stitched textile images of cabins that used to be at Bonnie Vale in the Royal National Park is on show at Thirroul Library during November.

Strolling between the Bonnie Vale cabins during the 1970s was a step back in time to unpaved, sandy lanes, outhouses and lean-to’s, rainwater tanks, even an old bore hand-pump with mossy basin on a stump catching the drips. Some cabins were distinctive, with individual colours, style and haphazardness, even a child-like cubby-house quality. All were neat and well-maintained, bounded by mown lawns, garden plantings or a makeshift fence. The cabin owners were houseproud and always busy, gardening, hanging out washing, painting and mending walls and roofs.

Bonnie Vale campsite was a lively and friendly place where wire doors slammed, neighbours yarned to neighbours and called after their kids who ran free and barefoot year round. As a regular passer-by in the 1970s, I was always greeted and maybe even recognised by residents. However, I was an outsider and felt the strong sense of belonging that connected the cottage families.

In 2000, I returned to a modern Bundeena and newly envisioned Bonnie Vale campsite. I took photos of the last 20 or so cabins. They were all that was left of the charming village of the 1970s, when there were about 170 cottages. Only a handful were well-maintained, and the rest stood deserted and

hollowed-out, marked with a yellow X, slated for demolition. I wanted to preserve what was left of my 30-year-old memories. I imagined I might one day make a quilt-like memorial, so I drew up a blueprint of my favourite cottages from my photos.

This drawing hung on a wall for another 20 years.

In 2021 I used this blueprint to create a series of hand-stitched cabin replicas as my major work for my Diploma of Visual Arts. Each cabin is stitched using various thread types, embroidery stitches and appliqué techniques in a naive, patchwork style. Some fabrics were purpose-bought, but mostly I used scraps and remnant fabric sourced from friends, op-shops and garage sales.

In recreating Bonnie Vale’s demolished cabins, I also acknowledge the historic presence of the Dharawal people by including their middens as a key element in my representation of the cottages.

In a literal sense, these middens were the very foundations of the cabins. To invoke images of the middens, I have used shells and found objects stitched into the foreground of each cottage.

A manicured campsite has replaced the empty plots at Bonnie Vale but you can listen to the memories of nine cottage families interviewed by Edie Swift on Wollongong City Libraries oral history website, Illawarra Stories.

Visit illawarrastories.com.au/shacks-of-theroyal-national-park

Tina Antico’s works include Bali-Hi and the Pink Cottage scheduled for demolition.

Also pictured are women and children outside a cabin at Bonnie Vale in the 1950s (P24223, from the collections of the Wollongong City Libraries)

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Tony’s tiny van

How ‘roughing it’ has changed For some people, a tiny van might seem like an ordeal.

Not when you remember the good ol’ days of camping, writes Tony Ryan

After buying a very small caravan, it was time to take ourselves “way out west”, to go places in NSW that I had never been as our first adventure. Thanks to our famed ‘drought busters’ moniker, the bride and I were assured that the wet weather would follow us. Great to see the countryside of Bathurst, Orange, Cowra, Parkes, Dubbo and Mudgee. The canola fields flowering were a highlight.

We did pretty well despite a few hiccups, including chickening out of putting up the van in Orange, due to the pumping down rain, and succumbing to hiring a cabin for a night.

Caravans and caravan parks certainly have changed since I was young. Vans now have all the mod-cons (TV, toilet, shower) and campsites have en-suites. It’s funny seeing kids “roughing it” with their iPads. I heard one dad complain to his wife that their kids had been on Ebay all day. (I just said if they were still on there tomorrow, he should lower the price.)

When we were young, the old man was a keen camper and several family holidays included packing up the old EH Holden and going bush.

One time (unfortunately, it was not at band camp) he convinced us to go to the Hattah car rally, in the heart of Mallee country, pretty much a desert. He said it’d be great: heaps of families, big open fires at night, new friends, and we could explore the bush while he worked at the rally.

Being a young bloke, I assumed the desert would be hot so I took hat, thongs, shorts and T-shirts.

Upon arrival, my brothers and I were shocked that the oasis we’d been promised was a campsite in the middle of nowhere. We also noticed there were

no other families – most blokes had decided it wouldn’t be much fun for their wife and kids.

To make it worse, our three-man tent was barely that, food was in tins, and we only had a couple of 20-litre bottles of water to get us through three days. There were no showers and the toilet was a hole in the sand. Also, open fires had been banned due to the dry summer and older blokes were filling our heads with stories of snakes and wild pigs terrorising the camp at night. Despite the heat, we did our own exploring – as did the thousands of flies that explored our noses, ears and mouths.

Due to the cold desert nights, my lack of clothing, and the absence of fire, we were all in bed just after sunset. Huddled in the foetal position to keep warm, it was the tightest I’d rolled myself into a ball since I took up a ‘dare’ as a nine-year-old and set off the shark alarm at Altona Beach. (I hid under my bed when a policeman friend of the old man came over to tell him I’d evacuated the whole beach. Jaws was the number one movie at the time so fair to say people had extracted themselves from the water pretty quick when the shark alarm sounded. Whilst my mates and I thought it was funny, the ramifications were hard and swift once the old bloke pried me out from under the bed.)

Despite a few rock fights with my brothers, we managed to survive and returned home in good condition, taking a tonne of sand with us. None of us had showered for days so all four windows of the car were open for our eight-hour trip home.

There is nothing better than the creature comforts of home, like a hot shower, a comfy bed and the soft touch of real toilet paper.

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Operation Crayweed

By Sarah Forest, a French student interning with Surfrider South Coast

Last month the Surfrider South Coast Crew went to Bondi to support Operation Crayweed whose mission is to restore Sydney’s underwater forests.

Crayweed started to disappear from Sydney’s beaches in the 80s due to the sewerage that was pumped onto our beaches back then. This is where the original crew from Surfrider Foundation stepped up and started their famous ‘poo’ marches; our first volunteers campaigned to the various State Governments to treat and take the sewerage further out to sea.

Luckily for us, there is lots of crayweed to the north and south of Sydney’s beaches, so our Illawarra waters have an abundance of crayweed thriving on our rock platforms.

Crayweed sequesters carbon, provides a healthy habitat for marine life and is vital to keep our marine ecosystems healthy. Volunteers learned how to differentiate between male and female crayweed, so they can be planted together to repopulate the seabed and regenerate Sydney’s beaches. The girl crays have lovely lump patterns, and the boy crays have sausage-like patterns. Easy!

Sustainable science of surfing

In October we were invited to meet Professor Marc in het Panhuis in his laboratory at the Innovation campus of UOW. His Surf Flex Lab team focuses on making surfing a science by researching and testing sustainable materials for high-performance surf equipment.

The Surf Flex Lab is the foremost laboratory in the world in the field of surf engineering. By bringing together experts from the fields of surfing and science, Marc is developing cutting-edge research to create a sustainable surfing future.

To support the Surf Flex lab and their important projects involving high performance and sustainable watercraft, please donate here: www. uow.edu.au/giving/donate-now/surf-flex-lab/ Shaping the future

Our branch was invited to make a submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water regarding solutions for the International Treaty on Plastic Pollution. It was an honour to be in the cohort of many highly respected Australian scientists who were asked to voice their opinions on how we can shape our global future.

Ocean Care Day with the Disabled Surfers Association

The Surfrider team went to Bondi to work on Operation Crayweed. Below: the lovely lady lumps distinguish female crayweed.

Join us as we celebrate Ocean Care Day on Saturday, December 3 at Thirroul beach when we team up with the Disabled Surfers Association (DSA) South Coast.

Surfrider Foundation loves to share the stoke of surfing with people of all abilities and we are a keen supporter of DSA South Coast. The DSA initiative is a fun community event that builds selfconfidence, self-esteem and self-reliance for people of all abilities.

During the morning, the Surfrider Foundation will be hosting a beach clean, so we would love you to join us. Bring your swimmers if you want to help out in the water, but if you prefer to stay dry you can assist on the beach.

I guarantee this will be one of the most rewarding days you will ever spend. Please come and get involved and we look forward to seeing you at Thirroul to put smiles on faces and get our beach sparkly clean!

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Good neighbours: Jim Bowen (left) and John Pappas. Photo: Caitlin Sloan

Year of the Comeback

By Caitlin Sloan

It’s been almost four decades since former national pro boxing champion Jim Bowen hung up his gloves, but in November the 70-year-old Helensburgh resident will return to the ring at the Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast.

With last year’s Games cancelled due to Covid, Jim has appointed 2022 the year of the comeback.

After all, his first comeback, at the age of 30, saw him take out the Australian Super Bantamweight title, which he held several times over the following two years.

Having boxed professionally on and off since the age of 18, Jim is certain his years of experience will be beneficial at the Masters Games. “[The age division] is 60 to 80, so I’m hoping to get the 80-year-olds,” Jim said with a laugh.

“I can still throw punches pretty good, but as far as copping it on the chin – obviously I’m older than I was when I was Australian champion 40 years ago.

“I’m confident I can dish it out.”

Over recent weeks, Jim’s 29-year-old neighbour, solicitor John Pappas, has become his designated pad holder during weekly training sessions.

“I need a week to recover – he hits my hands too hard,” John said, laughing.

Jim was apologetic though: “I’ve said, ‘Look, please forgive me if my timing’s out and I hit you on the chin. Please don’t pick me up and throw me over the fence’.”

Coincidentally, John will also be on the Gold Coast in early November competing in a top-level sporting event: the 2022 International Powerlifting League (IPL) Drug Tested World Championships.

“It was just weird, the chance of us both being in the Gold Coast within a week of each other,” John said. He regularly competes in powerlifting events, and recorded impressive lifts in the sport’s three disciplines – squat, bench press and deadlift – at this year’s Australian Powerlifting League Drug Tested Nationals in June.

“It’s something I’ve done for 12 or so years now,” he said. “It’s good stress relief.”

With his wife Amy and three-year-old twins Hunter and Mia joining him for support, John is hoping to bring home another title.

Perhaps the Illawarra can soon lay claim to two new local champions in two very tough sports.

New club dives in

By Catherine Ryan

Coalcliff Ocean Swim Club had its first swim on Sunday, 16 October. Dave Winner and Brigid Collaery were there to give the club members a safety briefing before heading down to the water. Thirty people turned up to swim, with 29 swimmers completing the course and one choosing to stay on dry ground … this time. With a few nervous faces at the beginning of the day, swimmers stepped up to support each other.

Everyone completed the swim around the buoys at least once and came out of the water with a smile.

We are looking forward to the next swim on 30 October at 11am (for an 11.30am start). The new club is sponsored by Equilibrium Healthcare.

November 59

Find tranquillity and strength

By Tai Chi instructor Roz Pocius

Tai Chi, or more properly T’ai chi ch’uan, is an internal style of Chinese martial art that is hugely popular in China and is practised throughout the world, mainly for its health benefits.

There are many different styles of Tai Chi, but Yang is the most well-known form. Tai Chi is often combined with gentle Qi Gong (pronounced ‘chee gong’) exercise, a form of moving meditation.

Tai Chi is safe and low impact and regular practice can result in many benefits, including reducing the physical effects of stress, as well as improving balance and leg strength.

Since 2010, Thirroul locals may remember seeing Sifu Jason Biondo and his Silk Dragon Academy students practising Tai Chi and Qi Gong at Thirroul Beach Park and in the Austinmer Surf Club. When Covid-19 arrived in 2020, face-to-face classes disappeared. More recently, there has been renewed interest in the health benefits of practising this ancient art.

There are several instructors teaching and groups in Thirroul and around the Illawarra. It may be useful to sample different styles before deciding which type and teaching method suits you best.

For example, there is a class combining Qi Gong and Tai Chi at 9.30am most Saturdays on the reserve behind Thirroul Surf Life Saving Club.

Beginners are welcome.

Those interested in learning the traditional Yang style 108 Tai Chi form; Shaolin 32 form Tai Chi; Qi

Final pointscore coming up Ian Pepper reports

Thrills and spills at Coalcliff for Pointscore #9 with sunshine and great conditions all day.

Huge performances with Harrison Agnew coming all the way through the club from micros to get his first ever A Grade win over Joshua Pepper in 2nd and Dylan Pearse 3rd. And congratulations to Zahlia Short getting herself a much-anticipated win in the Open Women’s. Kasey Hargreaves was 2nd and Shyla Short 3rd.

Some stand-out surfing came from Ashton Mekisic in the Under 12s and Macey Jolley in Junior Girls, both taking the wins. Other winners include Charlie Kelly in the 18s and Keelan Rankin getting up in the Under 14s.

Big thanks to the Coalcliff SLSC and the Ocean 60 sport & leisure

Gong styles and weapons are welcome at the Austinmer Surf Club on Tuesdays at 7.30pm.

Call Sifu Adam (0409 701 790) for Tuesday classes at Austi. Contact Ric (use this QR code above) for Saturday classes at Thirroul Park.

Swim Club for sharing the beach with us!

In other news, well done to all our teams who represented the club and our area: • 24 September Masters Surftag (over 40s) @ Curl Curl Beach • 1 October Men’s Surftag @ Queenscliff Beach Finally don’t forget our last pointscore for the year is 6 November and 2022 presentation is at Beaches Hotel on Saturday, December 3.

Junior girls finalists: from L to R: Soraya, Melody, Macey, Marlie.. Photo: Ian Pepper.

Golf news Tradies Social Golf Barry Thompson reports

Who’d be a groundsman in these times of turbulent weather?

Just when the course is improving it buckets down again and you’re back to square one.

However, reports suggest that Boomerang’s preparation was better than anticipated and some respectable scores were recorded.

The lack of carts restricted our numbers to 11 and Ivan McMillan won the day with a 41, just outshining his playing partner, Dave Astill, with a 39. Tung Nguyen carded a 38 for a third placing.

They, of course, will be off to Helensburgh Butchery and Gallardo’s Pizzeria to claim their prizes. Geoff Hammonds rounded off the prize list by winning the Helensburgh Driving Range voucher.

Congratulations to Dave Astill who becomes our Match Play champion with a 5-3 win over Jerry Reilley.

Would those holding trophies please return them to Mick to be prepared for our Presentation Night, which will be held at Tradies on Friday, 2nd

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December. Mick is also taking names of attendees for this event.

We have two outings listed for November. The first is on Saturday 5th at Boomerang with a 7am tee-off. This is the big money event, the second Championship round where reputations are made and broken.

We return to Boomerang on the 19th (7am) to contest the Uptown-Downtown Cup. I don’t subscribe to mumblings about Terry Maney’s Uptown crew’s tactics in winning the last two encounters. All the same, it wouldn’t hurt us Downtowners to keep an eye on them.

Hope to see you at both events and may we play in sunshine.

Helensburgh Sunday Social Golf Club Robert ‘Indy’ Jones reports

The HSSGC tour attempted a return to Kareela after a number of months, but alas the weather yet again ruined the opportunity to get the coveted “Hole in One”, the unlikely “Eagle”, or for some, those “A” graders, see the “birdies” jump onto the score card.

Our next scheduled events are to be held at Campbelltown on November 20th, followed by Kareela on December 4th. Updates to members via email and contact “Titanium” Tony on 0418 863 100 for membership information.

Please continue to support our sponsors Christian’s Premium Meats and Helensburgh Golf Range and other local businesses that support the local community.

Back on course, join us to enjoy a game of golf, the outdoors and good company.

Indy signing off: What are the primary components of a golfer’s diet? A lot of greens and water … Lately, water has been very prominent.

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