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How Flagstaff is building its future after Boxing Day fire

As Flagstaff Group marks 60 years, CEO Rodney Von Clark explains how it is strengthening its businesses and sustaining jobs after the Boxing Day fire.

21 hrs ago • Gayle Tomlinson

Are Australians really overtaxed? It depends what you think government should do

What taxes reveal about who we are as a nation

Oct 4

The $1.5m view from the top of The Works Corrimal - for now

The first 180 homes have topped out at Corrimal’s former coke works, with taller buildings proposed as part of a broader plan for about 850 homes.

Oct 2 • Gayle Tomlinson

Adam Zarth takes the helm as Illawarra’s renewable energy zone takes shape

Plus the list every NSW council wanted in on

Oct 1 • Janine Graham

'I made that up': the lies that helped define Operation Rosny at ICAC

Ten weeks. Twenty witnesses. Zero chill

Sep 29 • Janine Graham

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The Pulse Illawarra provides public interest reporting on the issues shaping our region, including infrastructure investment, housing pressures, workforce challenges, and economic transition.

Kaine vows to keep pushing for UOW reform, warns of ‘social licence’ damage

Ignore your community at your peril, she says

Sep 28 • Janine Graham

UOW’s reset test: the high-stakes battle to find Michael Still’s successor

Unions say reform has not gone far enough

Sep 27 • Janine Graham

Card surcharges banned from October 1. What’s changes at the checkout?

Price rises are on the way

Sep 26

An OpenAI agent hacked Medicare. Will anyone be held responsible?

Legal loophole exposed

Sep 25

The Canva gig felt like an underground rave. Here’s what happened inside

Canva took over UOW as CEO Melanie Perkins pushes Wollongong Goals.

Sep 24 • Gayle Tomlinson

Greater Illawarra’s $65 billion economy makes case for investment

What happened at Colliers’ Wollongong Investment Briefing

Sep 23 • Gayle Tomlinson

Don’t miss the chance to have your say on WIN Precinct's $700m makeover

Infrastructure NSW wants your feedback

Sep 23 • Janine Graham

‘Can-do, never-say-die’: Susan Wallis named Social Justice Champion

She was recognised at Community Industry Group’s annual Social Justice Luncheon.

Sep 22 • Gayle Tomlinson

‘White picket fence’ politics won’t work: Scully says Wollongong shows another way

‘We cannot simply turn back the clock’

Sep 21 • Gayle Tomlinson

Former UOW interim vice-chancellor may have committed contempt, parliamentary inquiry finds

The finding is part of a sweeping report declaring university governance across NSW “not fit for purpose”.

Sep 21 • Gayle Tomlinson

$16m bombshell: Lord Mayor slams proposed 67% cut as a 'kick in the teeth'

Wollongong funding could plunge to $7.7m a year

Sep 20 • Janine Graham

Blackmail, surveillance, and the deep state, according to Jean Nassif

Week 8 of Operation Rosny gets wild

Sep 20 • Janine Graham

Wollongong’s ‘paper parks’ rezoned, six sites eyed for future development

Housing pressure puts selected parcels in focus

Sep 19 • Janine Graham

Hysata expansion to create up to 50 jobs as Bowen makes case for hydrogen's future

$49m backs Hysata’s next phase.

Sep 18 • Gayle Tomlinson

Operation Scandi

Former UOW interim vice-chancellor may have committed contempt, parliamentary inquiry finds

The finding is part of a sweeping report declaring university governance across NSW “not fit for purpose”.

Sep 21 • Gayle Tomlinson

Professor Lu emails staff as UOW acts on ICAC fallout: Fund closed, council stripped back

But Vice Chancellor says quiet on his involvement

Jul 14 • Janine Graham

Unforgettable quotes from every day of the three-week UOW ICAC hearing

In their own words ...

Jul 12 • Janine Graham

Defiance, then tears: Alyssa White's dramatic final day in the ICAC witness box

'I felt very desperate ... I didn't think through my actions'

Jul 10 • Janine Graham

'I compromised the process': UOW's ex-governance chief admits rigging recruitments

Sworn confessions spill out on Day 14

Jul 9 • Janine Graham

Future Proof

The missing link holding back South Coast youth from landing a job

And the plan to fix it

May 17 • Connor Pearce

Tahmoor closure exposes gaps in government plan for a post-coal Illawarra

When the next Illawarra coal mine closes, who’ll be left to build the industries that follow?

Apr 13 • Connor Pearce

It's AI-generated with a fake author - the rise of one of Wollongong's most searched websites

It's built on the trusted wollongong2022.com.au url, but is everything as it seems?

Mar 15 • Connor Pearce

Inside the movement building a circular economy in the Illawarra

How a grassroots campaign is changing how Illawarra businesses deal with waste

Mar 1 • Connor Pearce

The new wave of Illawarra businesses combining profit and purpose

It's not business as usual.

Feb 15 • Connor Pearce

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