The Austinmer 1st Annual
Fundraising event to support Austinmer Surf Club & raise funds for a new Inflatable Rescue Boat
Saturday 14th September | 6.30pm - 11.00pm | Headlands Hotel
Join us for a 3 course dinner, beverage package, club update and live entertainment, including a performance by Baker Boys.
Adults $135 Scan QR to purchase your tickets
Free Short Film Festival
Pack a picnic and head for Kanahooka
Move over Netflix, budding Illawarra filmmakers and storytellers will put the stream back in streaming on Saturday 7 September with the inaugural Creative Wollongong Short Film Festival.
Starting at 5pm at Kanahooka’s Lakeside Reserve, the free festival will screen the best water-themed entries from the associated short film competition. The competition—
hosted by Wollongong City Council in partnership with Screen Illawarra and Shellharbour City Council— provides opportunities for amateur filmmakers to hone and showcase their craft.
Mirroring a Tropfest tradition, all entries had to hero the same ‘signature item’ – water. Competition winners for the two categories, ages 12-24 and over-25, will be announced after the screening.
Music 4 Medicine concert
7pm Saturday, September 7 at Wollongong Town Hall
This year’s Music4Medicine concert features two extraordinary young Australian artists. Annabel Wouters on flute presents ‘Flights of Fantasy’ and Paul Nicolau on harp presents ‘From Darkness into Light’ including a World Premiere of a new work dedicated to the Flying Doctors.
International/Australian pianist Vivian Choi Milton performs with Annabel and Paul and will dazzle
audiences with a solo piano performance.
The music will span centuries and cultures, composers include Bizet, Clarke, Schocker, Hindson, Debussy, Edwards, Larkin, Albéniz, and Ravel.
WOLLCON Flute Ensemble opens the concert with a short medley of works and the WOLLCON Guitar Ensemble will perform in the Music Lounge while audiences arrive.
7 Sept
Nature Shake at Wollongong Botanic Garden
5-15 Sept
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
Until 29 Sept
Rhododendron and Rainforest Gardens - Spring Showcase
7-8, 14-15 Sept
Grevillea Park Spring Open Days
19 Sept
NSW Leads the Charge: Wollongong
20-22 Sept
Folk by the Sea
21 Sept
Choral Riffs
23 Sept Tognetti. Mendelssohn. Bach.
26 Sept
The Women’s Adventure Film Tour 2024
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Meet an Artist of the Illawarra
By Melissa Barnard
“If you surround yourself with creative practitioners, your work will progress and flourish.”
– Chris Duczynski
Chris Duczynski is a well known, frequently published local photographer and regular exhibitor at the Scarborough Art Show.
In 2005 he started his company Malibumedia, specialising in stills and video and working with high profile clients such as Qantas, Jetstar, Bankwest, AFL, the ACO, NSW Cancer Council and Bluescope Steel. In 2014 he bought his first drone and added a dramatic aerial component to his production,. His photography captures the drama and beauty of his surroundings, natural and man made, accessible and inaccessible, with technical skill and dramatic flair.
Tell us a little about your personal artistic journey. After art school, I decided not to teach but to make my own way artistically and creatively.
I was fortunate to work for Qantas and see the world filming for them. Along the way I met many creative people in music, painting, photography and writing – all of whom were an inspiration to me. I learnt to look at things with the intent of making a piece of artistic work, mainly short films and photography. Also, if you surround yourself with creative practitioners, your work will progress and flourish.
From where do you draw your creative inspiration?
From the industrial environment of Port Kembla. The steel stacks, the cargo ships, the port and their interaction with the natural landscape.
How do your art practice and your life intersect?
I’ve operated a small media company for many years. That involves photography, video and music for corporate clients. Much of my personal work is an offshoot of that.
What will you be bringing to the Scarborough Art Show?
Not sure, probably a mix of heavyindustrial digitally altered photos and some landscapes. We’ll see on the day what I end up with.
What do you enjoy about the Scarborough Art Show?
Definitely the food and the buzz of opening night. If you see a red dot on your artwork, it’s an added bonus!
Scarborough Art Show will be back at Scarborough Public School on October 12th (10am5pm) & 13th (10am-2pm).
Mother Nature makes the best coparent
By Andy Lawrence
Ihave been parenting for four years now and if there’s one lesson that I come back to time and again, it’s this: Mother Nature makes the best coparent.
My kids love going to the park, but in general, I am not so fond of park play-time. I tolerate it for my kids but it’s not really how I would choose to spend a Saturday morning unless there’s caffeine involved and another adult to share the
swing duty. I like to take them to places where the level of enjoyment is a little more equitable.
Enter: Mother Nature.
There are a few spots we have found over the years that tick all the boxes of optimal nature play: distance from buildings and roads, the presence of water and no play equipment in sight. These places have become regular haunts
Cascade Falls track. Photo: Andy Lawrence
for us. The kids are able to explore and free-play and I’m not being pulled in seven different directions pushing swings and dodging e-bikes.
I find that when we wrap ourselves in nature, I am calmer, I enjoy our time more and so do my kids. They are unencumbered by expectations of how and where to play and as a result, a unique adventure becomes inevitable.
It reminds me of that Bluey episode (a phrase and phenomenon that has become modern-parenting canon) called ‘The Creek’. Bandit (Bluey’s dog-dad) takes the kids to the park where they promptly become bored. The Kiwi collie suggests they go to the creek. After some hesitation at the new setting, Bluey settles into the creek play and ends up enraptured. There’s even a magical shared moment with a potoroo. Not even the leeches bother her by the end. Our playdates with nature often follow a similar path. Given the choice, my kids will still ask to play at the park instead. I think they probably feel a level of comfort knowing what to expect: a dazzling array of ready-made play implements. But when mum makes the executive decision to head into the (relative) wilderness, that’s when they truly come alive. Their little brains fire with creativity and they have to push past the boredom block to create their own adventures. Meanwhile, I am also bathing in the tranquility of nature. It’s in those times that I remember Mother Nature is the original co-parent.
Here are 3 of our favourite spots.
Purry Burry Jetty, Primbee
This hidden gem is always quiet and gets bonus points for being relatively central. Park your car by the lake off Bundah Place and take a short paved walk down the she-oak lined path. Mind the dog poo, an unfortunate staple of this pathway. Or when life gives you dog poo, create a game of dodge the dog-bombs! You’ll reach a ramshackle cul de sac that has been commandeered by an overzealous fig tree. The low-hanging branches make for excellent climbing. At this point you’ll have reached the jetty, a
glorious expansive stretch of boardwalk over the shallows of Griffins Bay that the NSW government recently spent $161,900 renovating. There is a sandy beach, perching cormorants, schooling fish and the graceful Lake Illawarra locals, our black swans. If you’re feeling extra adventurous, sunset and sunrise are spectacular from this jetty’s viewpoint.
Fred Finch Park, Berkeley Park at the end of Hooka Creek Road or in the small car park at the corner of Holborn and Sussex Street to begin some lake and creek-side adventures. There are endless pathways to explore, both paved and ‘off road’. Several bridges cross Hooka Creek, where I’ve seen a plethora of bird and marine life. Egrets, spoonbills, kingfishers, stingrays and schools of mullet, to name a few. The ibis are in their natural environment here, wading through the wetlands instead of through Sulo bins. Small tracks leading into the brush at the back of the baseball fields lead to mangroves and plenty of mud if you feel like letting your kids get really close to nature. There are marked areas of rehabilitation to be aware of but also endless rustic paths to explore.
Cascade
Falls Walking Trail
A little further afield is the prehistoric majesty of the rainforest at Macquarie Pass National Park. The Cascade Falls walking trail is easily one of our favourite adventures. The path is 2km return and easy enough for the kids to walk. The pristine creek hugs the pathway the entire way before feeding into Macquarie Rivulet. This means that side quests are inevitable and encouraged. There are many points of easy access from the path to the water among the strangler figs and moss-covered boulders. The aura of this place demands hushed reverence for its ancient beauty. It feels as though you’re as likely to stumble across an Iguanodon as you are a lyrebird. And as the kids enter under the tree canopy, they become just as entranced by the magic of the land as I do. The falls are beautiful but often we don’t even make it that far as a side-quest becomes the quest.
“Their little brains fire with creativity and they have to push past the boredom block to create their own adventures. Meanwhile, I am also bathing in the tranquility of nature.”
– Andy Lawrence
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Welcome to the Emma McKeon promenade
By Zachary Houtenville
Australia’s greatest ever Olympian, Wollongong’s Emma McKeon has now received another accolade: the new North Wollongong Beach promenade has been named in her honour.
Emma, who has returned home to the Illawarra after her gold, silver and bronze medals at the Paris Olympic Games, attended the official opening ceremony of the Emma McKeon AM Promenade on Friday.
“I feel so very lucky to have grown up in Wollongong and been part of a community that is so supportive,” Emma said during the ceremony.
“It seems quite surreal to think that this beautiful promenade will carry my name and I just hope that it inspires others to follow their dreams.”
The promenade is part of Wollongong’s Blue Mile, with the seawall in front of it serving as a buffer for the North Wollongong Surf Life Saving Club.
Public demand for Wollongong City Council to name the promenade after Emma grew following the Tokyo Olympics, during which she won seven medals in total (including four golds), which was the highest medal tally ever for a female swimmer at a single Olympic Games.
“Watching Emma race, and then her extraordinary humbleness at her success, inspired everyone and saw the community call for Council to do something to recognise her accomplishments,” said Lord Mayor Councillor Gordon Bradbery AM.
Emma McKeon at the naming ceremony. Photos: Zachary Houtenville
North Wollongong Beach is a special place for Emma, so the decision was easy.
“I love coming down here, going for walks along here, getting coffee, taking the dog for a walk,” Emma said.
“It’ll be a bit surreal when I do come down here for my next walk.”
Rise of a superstar
At her Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Emma won her first gold medal, in the 4x100 metre freestyle.
At the Covid-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Emma desired an individual podium, which she captured in the 100-metre freestyle.
Emma spoke of “that intense pressure, and then the pressure of having the Olympics delayed”.
“Just to pull it off, I’m very proud of that,” she said.
Emma has competed against some of
the world’s best swimmers, including Australian greats such as Bronte Barratt, with whom she won silver in the 4x200m relay at Rio. She credits these elite athletes with pushing her to greatness.
“Across my career, we have had people really raise the bar and that has set the bar for me to chase.”
Emma announced her Olympic retirement as the Paris Games wound down, but she’ll continue her involvement in competitive swimming.
“It’s been a huge journey,” Emma said.
“I’ve always looked at what can I improve on, what the next thing is.
“I think it’s important to take that step back and reflect, actually learn to be proud of what you’ve done without thinking about what more I can get out of myself.”
“It seems quite surreal to think that this beautiful promenade will carry my name and I just hope that it inspires others to follow their dreams.”
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Emma McKeon AM
Gorgeous lily in flower now
By Emma Rooksby of Growing Illawarra Natives
Above: A bunch of Bulbine Lilies in a garden setting, putting out tall flower spikes to get above the surrounding vegetation.
Photo by Emma Rooksby
It’s fair to say that spring has sprung already, and many of Illawarra’s local plants are flowering or fruiting weeks or even months ahead of normal.
One that has really caught my eye is the Bulbine Lily (Bulbine bulbosa), a small, dense perennial herb with masses of bright yellow flowers in a good spring. I’m not entirely sure what constitutes a ‘good spring’ for this beautiful species, but the many plants about to burst into flower at Purrungully Woodland last weekend suggest that this is going to be one.
On an hour’s wander in that beautiful woodland area in West Dapto, we saw dozens of plants putting up flower spikes, though no flowers actually open. By now they’re probably looking spectacular.
In the Illawarra region, West Dapto is one of the strongholds of Bulbine Lily, and I’ve rarely seen it elsewhere (apart from in gardens). One of the qualities of this species is that it can form large, or
very large, stands in the right conditions. Pictured below are the striking yellow flowers of Bulbine Lily (B. bulbosa). Seen close up there are delicate green and yellow stripes on the unopened flower buds. Photo by Elena Martinez.
As a garden plant, Bulbine Lily does well in a part-sun position, with plenty of moisture to promote solid flower growth. In natural conditions it grows together with a wide variety of other ground covers and low plants, so you can mix and match it with many different species, such as Prickly Rasp Fern (Doodia aspera/Blechnum neohollandicum), Basket Grass (Oplismenus aemulus) and Bearded Tylophora (Vincetoxicum barbatum).
I have found in garden situations that it can be overrun by some of the more dominant grasses such as Weeping Grass (Microlaena stipoides). But in remnant vegetation this doesn’t seem to happen, and I’m not sure why.
Spring time for asthma plans
By Alexander Brown, Asthma Programs Coordinator, Healthy Cities Illawarra
Did you know that 2.8 million people in Australia are living with asthma?
It is one of our most common chronic diseases, with 1,005 emergency department presentations and 254 hospitalisations attributed to asthma in 2021-2022 in the Illawarra Shoalhaven alone.
The start of spring, September 1-7, is National Asthma Week. The warmer temperatures, bushfire smoke, and higher pollen counts that accompany the change of season can all lead to asthma flare-ups. About 80% of people with asthma also experience hay fever symptoms (allergic rhinitis), so getting on top of your hay fever is particularly important at this time of year.
If you have asthma, learning how to self-manage your condition is one of the best ways to stay healthy. Many people
with asthma rely on short-acting reliever medications that are available over the counter from pharmacies. But using a long-acting preventer medication as prescribed can help to avoid potentially dangerous flare-ups.
Using inhaler devices correctly is essential to ensure asthma medications are effective. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that up to 94% of people with asthma do not use their inhaler devices correctly. The most common inhaler is a metered dose inhaler or ‘puffer’. For most people, it is essential to use a spacer with your puffer. It might seem like a hassle, but without a spacer most of the medicine will just end up deposited in the back of your mouth, instead of getting into the small airways in your lungs where it needs to go.
If you have asthma, it’s a great idea to
“For most people, it is essential to use a spacer with your puffer.”
– Alexander Brown, Asthma Programs Coordinator, Healthy Cities Illawarra
visit your GP at least annually (or six-monthly for children) and ask them to review your Asthma Action Plan. Take your puffer and spacer or other device with you and ask the doctor or nurse to check your inhaler technique. Even if you have been managing your condition for a while, it never hurts to check in with your healthcare professional.
Asthma Australia’s free helpline is a great first step for people with questions about living with asthma. Call 1800 ASTHMA (1800 278 462) to speak with an Asthma Educator or book a call through the Asthma Australia website.
The Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) also offers a Community Asthma Service to assist people with asthma and their carers. The
Community Asthma Service can help you to learn how to self-manage your condition, develop an Asthma Action Plan, and learn Asthma First Aid so you know what to do if a loved one with asthma experiences a life-threatening flare up. Learning more about your own or your child’s asthma can help to prevent dangerous flare-ups and keep you out of hospital.
Make an appointment with the Community Asthma Service by calling the ISLHD Access & Referral Centre on 1300 792 755.
With the right medication and support, most people with asthma can lead an active, healthy life. Act now to get your asthma back under control and put a spring in your step!
Super swooper tips
By Amanda De George
“Australian magpies, or ‘maggies’ to you and I, bear the brunt of the bad press.”
– Amanda De George
It’sthat time of year when we don bike helmets – whether we own a bike or not – and carry umbrellas or sticks on every walk. It’s swooping season.
Australian magpies, or ‘maggies’ to you and I, bear the brunt of the bad press. These black and white warblers are a favourite amongst bird lovers for most of the year. But for 4-6 weeks each spring, humans and birds become more foe than friend.
And it’s not just magpies. Plovers, butcherbirds, magpie-larks and the odd kookaburra all make the list of potential swoopers. And they’re all swooping for one reason: to protect their nests.
Masked Lapwings, aka plovers, take nesting duties seriously. Just not seriously enough to choose a safe space to hatch their babies. They’re always nesting in the middle of sports ovals, on roundabouts and on the verge of busy roads. Their nest isn’t a nest in the traditional sense but rather it’s just a scrape in the earth. It makes sense then that they become very defensive when they have eggs or hatchlings nearby, as they are literally often in harm’s way.
The first sign of trouble, which might just be you walking past, and the lapwings will call loudly and have their pointed yellow wing spurs at the ready.
While it’s only for a few weeks each season, being swooped is no fun. Here
are our tips to keep both humans and birds safe during this time.
Try to avoid the area: Birds tend to be territorial in a radius of 100-200 metres around their nest. The best way to avoid being swooped is to avoid the area. Take a wide berth or better still an alternative route where possible. Let other community members know of nesting areas so they can also avoid the area.
Safety in numbers: Birds tend to target individuals so if you can’t avoid the area, grab a friend or three and walk together. And a coffee. Coffee makes everything better.
Don’t run, do get off your bike: It can be tempting to run through an area when you’re getting swooped but this can be seen as a threat so get off your bike and calmly walk past.
Protect your head: Generally swooping is a bluff and contact is rarely made. They want you to move past their young, not engage in mortal combat. However, it’s always a good idea to protect your eyes and head. Think: helmets, hats, umbrellas and sunglasses and if you do carry a stick, don’t preemptively wave it around, as tempting as this might be. Yes, sticks are fun but it could be seen as a threat to nesting birds. And hang in there, in a few short weeks you’ll have your favourite park back and some new birds to enjoy.
Illawarra Grevillea Park
Mythbusting Mozzies
By Dr Andy Lawrence
“In this group of mosquitoes, both the daddies and the mummies eat flower nectar.”
“Despite their menacing appearance, they will not come buzzing for your blood.”
– Dr Andy Lawrence
In a time of rampant political and ideological polarity, I see it as my duty to our society to invite nuance and complexity to the table. The entomological table at least.
“What is the purpose of mosquitoes?”
“Can’t we just invent a technology to wipe them all out?”
“What would even happen if we got rid of them?”
“Do those mosquito repellent stickers work?”
I’ve been asked these questions multiple times by multiple people throughout my time as an entomologist and only one can be answered with a yes or no. You’ll have to read the rest of my article for that answer though.
A brief pause to note that the major problem with three out of four of these questions is that pesky thing, the human ego, that has us centering ourselves as the sun in our ecological solar system. We like to justify our approval or distaste for other creatures by measuring their impact on us.
So, sure, no one likes being bitten by mosquitoes. They carry and cause a lot of significant human disease, including malaria, the disease that continues to be the leading cause of preventable illness and death worldwide. BUT, mosquitoes as a group (like all organisms on earth) hold ecological function. AND, not all mosquitoes bite humans.
Male mosquitoes feed on flowers, not Toxorhynchites speciosus in Cairns. Photo: Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0
blood, and thus they play a role in plant pollination. AND, mosquitoes are also an important food source to a variety of animals including but not limited to amphibians, birds, bats and other insects.
Now, to unsuspectingly lure you into appreciating mosquitoes… Well, one group of species at least.
Introducing: elephant mosquitoes! Otherwise known by their scientific name: Toxorhynchites (toxo-rin-KIEtees). Their common name stems from their large size relative to other mosquitoes. The group boasts the largest mosquito species in the world at nearly 2cm in length, roughly four times the size of other mosquitoes. Another fun taxonomic trait is their peculiar curved proboscis, which is the needle-like mouthparts used to pierce skin and suck blood, or in the case of Toxorhynchites, feed on sap and flower nectar.
Yep, you heard correctly. In this group of mosquitoes, both the daddies and the mummies eat flower nectar. Despite their menacing appearance, they will not come buzzing for your blood.
Not only that, Toxorhynchites larvae dine on other mosquito larvae, including the mosquito species that do bite humans. Studies found that Toxorhynchites consume from 300 to 5000 mosquito larvae during larval development1. Not only that, Toxorhynchites exhibit a pre-pupal murderous rampage, where they attack and kill a large number of mosquito larvae without consuming them2.
All that bloodthirsty, carnivorous behaviour in their larval form means that the protein requirements for reproduction are met before pupation and adult emergence, allowing the adults to skip the steak and enjoy a vegetarian lifestyle. As a result, these mosquitoes are not just benign but beneficial to human life. They are caught in a somewhat unhealthy symbiotic relationship with us, in that we benefit from them without them even knowing they are in a relationship. The ethics of informed consent among humans and mosquitoes aside, their use in pest mosquito control has been explored and in some regions
they have been used as biological control. Many studies overseas have proven the effectiveness of Toxorhynchites larvae at wiping out the larvae of Aedes aegypti, otherwise known as the yellow fever mosquito. Besides yellow fever, this mosquito also transmits Zika, chikungunya and dengue fever, and the control of its population in endemic regions is vital in limiting human disease and mortality. There are about 70 species of Toxorhynchites worldwide but only a handful exist in Australia, the most common of which is Toxorhynchites speciosus.
This homegrown elephant mosquito has proven itself effective at reducing common nuisance species including Aedes notoscriptus and Culex quinquefasciatus, both of which breed in water containers and are common in Australian backyards3. So you see, these friendly giants might appear shocking, but you would be blessed to find one emerging from your frog pond.
While we are on the topic of mosquito misrepresentation, Toxorhynchites is arguably and ironically the most famous mosquito (at least cinematographically) after being featured in Jurassic Park, stuck in a block of amber. If you don’t remember, the mosquito is the key to re-aliving the dinosaurs by extracting DNA from dino blood within the mosquito. The misrepresentation is two-fold: firstly, the mosquito they picked is male and no male mosquito feeds on blood; and secondly, the females of this group don’t either! I am a really fun person to watch sci-fi films with. I’ll pick out and ridicule all the scientific inaccuracies until the film loses all its appeal for both of us.
If there is one message I want to transmit here, it’s that not all mosquitoes are scheming to make your life hell, some actually help us.
And no, those repellent armbands do not protect you from mozzie bites, don’t get sucked into the hype. If in doubt, use something containing DEET; otherwise Picaridin and oil of lemon eucalyptus have been shown to be effective too, depending on the concentration.
Follow Dr Cameron Webb’s mozzie blog
New season, new skills: Where to find workshops
By Amanda De George
Lately,I’ve been throwing myself into learning new skills: crochet, pottery and insect pinning. My office is strewn with notes and half finished projects. But there is one skill that I’d been wanting to learn but hadn’t quite made a start on: weaving.
If you have read my story on local archaeologist and tapestry artist Diana Wood Conroy, you’d know I’m a huge fan of her work.
Recently I was lucky enough to attend a weekend tapestry weaving workshop at the Wollongong Art Gallery run by Diana herself. There really is something to be said about walking through an exhibition of the artist’s work, looking at all the tiny details, the loops of hand dyed yarn, the telling of stories through the weft and warp and to then go into a room and learn the basics yourself.
By the end of the weekend I had gotten over my mid-process ‘I just can’t do this’ tantrums and walked out with a teeny tapestry that I was so proud of that I un-ironically ran back into the exhibition and took photos holding my little weaving in front of Diana’s works.
Spring is more than just a time to clean up the house. Why not use it as a fresh start for the mind and soul and try
some new things? Here are two of my favourite local places to do just that. Number 99 Port Kembla
This new space, ‘dedicated to making, gathering, playing and creating change’ has been opened by local creatives Ali Gerritsen and Elle McNeill.
There’s a wide range of upcoming workshops. Think: lino prints, jewellery making and woodcarving with Rachel from Waiting for Spring who we featured last year.
www.number99pk.com for bookings
Wollongong City Libraries
Let’s face it, libraries are not just about books anymore. If you’re keen to learn some basic sewing skills and make sustainable bags for yourself and the community, there’s monthly classes at Corrimal and Thirroul.
Maybe a henna workshop or learn to line dance is more your style or you’d love to learn how to keep some chooks. If you’re keen to learn, your local library will have a class for you. They even have a series of classes, Hello Spring, just for the new season.
Follow Wollongong City Libraries on Eventbrite for details.
The master and the apprentice. My teeny tapestry next to one of Diana’s impressive works.
Photo: Amanda De George
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