by Sophie Wright | May 14, 2025 | News
The sausage sizzles have long cooled and the ballots have been counted, and while the 2025 federal election has delivered its winners, in the Illawarra’s Cunningham electorate, the results suggest a deeper shift, with voters recalibrating. Long considered...
by Matilda Smith | Oct 16, 2023 | Govt & Politics
Wollongong Greens Councillor Cath Blakey has labelled the Voice to Parliament referendum a ‘misinformation win’ after the majority of Australians rejected the proposed changes to the constitution. The results so far show 60.6 per cent of Australians voted ‘no’ while...
by Sophie Wright | Sep 22, 2023 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, News
The Australian Electoral Commission has turned down a request from the Yours and Owls music festival to be a registered place to vote in the referendum. Yours and Owls will take place rain or shine over the weekend 14-15 October at the University of Wollongong...
by Patrick Bell | May 18, 2019 | News
They came for the voting, but stayed for the food at polling booths around the seat of Cunningham today. The seat centres on Wollongong and the suburbs to the north, and has never been won by the Liberal Party. Labor’s Sharon Bird MP is expected to win the seat...
by Victoria Ellis | May 3, 2019 | Govt & Politics, News
The rush is on to vote early in the marginal seat of Gilmore. The hotly contested seat marginal has national attention ahead of the May 18 federal election and, with its high profile candidates exchanging public blows, voters have swarmed to pre-polling stations....