Wollongong, Australia News

Tony Deliseo plans to knock on high-profile doors when he takes up a role on Wollongong City Council's newest advocacy board this week.

DAVE TOMLINSON, one of the 800 workers shed by BlueScope Steel at Port Kembla last year, is the sort of advertisement the federal government and mining industry love.

'We need help. I don't want a politician's promise, i want real hardcore change' said Wayne Phillips.

MEDIA RELEASE 25 May 2012 Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union - National Unity Government A meeting of representatives from across the continent gathered to confirm their intent to form a National Unity Government of the Sovereign Union of First Nations Peoples in Australia.

Moves are underway to renew the two coal seam gas exploration leases which have been the cause of ongoing controversy across the Illawarra.

The musical journey of internationally renowned guitarist Michael Fix will come full circle tonight when the Port Kembla boy returns to Wollongong to launch his Australian tour at the same venue he played his first show aged 14.

As the IT industry attempts to attract more specialist businesses to the Illawarra region, representatives from the sector have joined forces with the University of Wollongong, Wollongong City Council, and New South Wales Trade and Investment to launch the 'Wollongong is IT' campaign.

Alright, here we are at the Revit Technology Conference in sunny Wollongong, Australia! The pre-conference event has begun: the first ever VizDay, a day that concentrates on rendering and visualization, primarily with V-Ray and mental ray.

On a regular Monday afternoon, you might find Oak Flats Bowling Club chairman Kevin Grainger sitting behind a desk, visiting a bowling green or meeting with his board.

The most vocal advocate for a new airport at Wilton, west of Wollongong, is about to square off in Canberra against one of the proposal's biggest critics.

The Premier of New South Wales, the Hon Barry O'Farrell, inaugurated the third teaching block of the University of Wollongong in Dubai in Block 14 of Dubai Knowledge Village, during his official visit to the UAE.

Number plates, wallets and GPS systems are on the radar of Illawarra thieves, and car owners are giving them a free ride.

The National Broadband Network will help underpin a new IT precinct in Wollongong on the south coast of New South Wales.

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after allegedly leading police on a pursuit in a stolen car near Airds yesterday morning.

NSW has recorded the highest number of cocaine seizures in the nation, but there seems to be a different drug of choice in the Illawarra.

Australia's top financial watchdogs were asleep at the wheel while an international crime syndicate was busy robbing Wollongong investors.

That was the vision shared by a group of young men from Berkeley's Illawarra Sports High at a youth forum in Wollongong Youth Centre yesterday.

Bob Katter's wide-brimmed Akubra may be heading to the Illawarra soon as the flamboyant MP tries to sell his distinctive brand of country politics in the hope of unseating the region's Labor MPs at the next federal election.

The construction arm of St Hilliers Group has been placed in voluntary administration, throwing into disarray building projects in regional Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT.

Sunday I fly off to Australia to join 300+ attendees at RTC 2012 Australasia , which starts on Wednesday 23 May.