by Zoe Bradbury | May 19, 2019 | Govt & Politics, News
Candidate and incumbent Member for Cunningham Sharon Bird has a long history as a member of the Australian Labor Party and a longer connection to Wollongong – her family has called the Illawarra home for five generations. “My own family has worked in the...
by Shawn Burns | May 14, 2019 | Govt & Politics, News
The final days of the federal election campaign have seen candidates for the ultra-marginal seat of Gilmore sharpen their pitches to the electorate. All seven candidates for the NSW south coast seat took part in a fiery ABC Illawarra-hosted candidates forum at the...
by Sarah Gore | May 10, 2019 | Govt & Politics, News
Stephen Jones is re-contesting his seat of Whitlam in the upcoming election – a seat he sits in with pride. “I am proud of the region where I grew up, the Illawarra— the place where I first acquired my interest in politics. The Illawarra is the place where I learned...
by Caitlin Pace | May 10, 2019 | Govt & Politics, News
When she was a little girl, Carmel McCallum and her siblings would take advantage of Australia’s natural landscape. She would spend her time hiking through the bushland, riding their bikes and swimming in rivers that were carved in the ground between the...
by River Mccrossen | Apr 29, 2019 | Govt & Politics, News
Gilmore Nationals candidate Katrina Hodgkinson keeps a distance from the controversies that have occupied her Liberal coalition partners. When asked on the ABC about the replacement of local Liberal pick Grant Schultz with former Labor boss Warren Mundine, she...