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IN FOCUS: Kye Rowles makes a strong tackle for Australia at last year's Tokyo Olympics. Picture: Koki Nagahama/Getty Images

The game will be played at Accor Stadium.

All Stars, Barcelona set to put on a show: Timpano

Joshua Bartlett

SURGING AHEAD: Sam Bremner prepares to pass the ball during her last stint with the Dragons in 2020. Picture: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

Emma Tonegato. Tamika Upton. Botille Vette-Welsh. There are certainly some Ferraris racing around at the back in the NRLW, and Sam Bremner wants to again throw herself into the mix of the league's best fullbacks.

GAME ON: Bremner tackling the mother of all challenges

Cameron Mee

Starting signal: Peter De Vries is confident track upgrades to Kembla Grange are imminent. Picture: Adam McLean

"They first told me about these plans in 2005."

After years of delays, Kembla Grange track upgrade inches closer

Triumph: Warilla's Brian Suckley and Jim McKenzie won the Woonona Over 50s Pairs tournament. Picture: Mike Driscoll

Warilla pair make a perfect start to partnership

Mitch Jennings

GO-TO: Corey Norman's time in Wollongong had run its course, but he was inevitably the player the Dragons went to in tight games the past three seasons. Picture: NRL Imagery

There's a savage irony in the fact that, had Dragons had re-signed Corey Norman last year, they probably would have beaten the Titans on Saturday. It's a good thing they didn't though.

KICKOFF: The long game worth more than a golden point

DELIGHT: Olympian Jessica Hull (right) with founding Albion Park Little Athletics Club president Ian Hatfield and long distance runner Chelsea Nichol. Picture: Skye York

Illawarra Olympians Hull, Carli return to their roots

MAN OF THE MOMENT: Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou. Picture: Jonathan Carroll/Newcastle Herald

They will join the Champion's League race next year.

Ange Postecoglou still hungry for more success: Timpano

HONOUR: Alex Volkanovski was presented with his Warilla Gorillas life membership blazer by rugby league Immortal Mal Meninga on Friday. Picture: Sylvia Liber

His popularity in Wollongong knows no bounds, but the latest in a swag of honours for UFC champ Alex Volkanovski hits a little different

GAME ON: Gorillas honour hits different for Volkanovski

Twin ambitions: Owners Bruce (left) and Ken Noble with their star gelding Count De Rupee. The horse will race for Group 1 glory on Saturday. Picture: Sylvia Liber

"If you were able to win the Doomben 10,000, you're up there with the elite sprinters."

Group 1 glory first goal for Count De Rupee before attention turns to the Everest

GEM: Even quality No. 9s like Harry Grant remain under-valued in an out-of-shape player market. Picture: Getty Images

While clubs regularly break the bank for marquee halves, fullbacks and forwards, the influential No. 9s remain criminally overlooked in our game.

KICKOFF: Player market selling No.9s short

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Wauchope resident Anthony Mahr is asking people not to pat or feed his guide dog. Photo: Liz Langdale. 

Anthony Mahr is asking people not to pat or feed his guide dog.

'Shadow is my eyes': Plea not to distract guide dogs

This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning .

Voters biting the hand that never fed them

Member for Cowper, Pat Conaghan. Photo: Mardi Borg

For the first time since Federation, the seat of Cowper is in limbo

Pat Conaghan on lessons learned and being in election limbo

ON TOUR: Art Simone and Etcetera Etcetera will bring a live show and makeup tutorials to the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre in June. Picture: Supplied

Art Simone and Etcetera Etcetera have teamed up for a live show and drag queen makeup workshop sessions.

From RuPauls Drag Race to Wollongong's IPAC, Queens unite for tour

SAD NEWS: Jackie Monk has paid tribute to her husband David Kiefel.

Wife pays tribute to much-loved husband David Kiefel after long battle.

61-year-old dies from Japanese encephalitis

Hydrogen has been touted by many as the answer to climate change. So what's the deal with it?

Will hydrogen technology be the answer to Australia's emissions woes?

STATEMENT: Jaymee Beveridge, Executive Director (Indigenous Strategy) at UOW and Director of the Woolyungah Centre. Picture: Adam McLean.


The Uluru Statement from the Heart was handed down five years ago, and called for a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament, and a Makarrata Commission overseeing treaty agreement making.

Promise for Uluru statement reignites hope for Illawarra First Nations people

Too close to call: A razor sharp margin separates the two key Gilmore candidates, Liberals' Andrew Constance and Labor's Fiona Phillips. Pictures: Grace Crivellaro.

Gilmore voters may be waiting another two weeks for an answer on who their new representative is.

'Very, very tight': Greens preference will decide Gilmore

The interim Albanese frontbench. Picture: AAP 

Crossbenchers Rebekha Sharkie, Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie, Helen Haines and Zali Steggall have given Labor confidence of supply.

Labor secures support for a working minority government, but hopeful of more

The May 23 post-election front pages of publisher ACM's daily newspapers in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT

From Barnaby country to Labor's heartlands: what the ACM papers say

This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning till the end of the election.

The hoary old chestnut of hip-pocket politics no longer cuts it

ON TOUR: Friends! The Musical Parody celebrates the misadventures of our favourite group of 20-something pals as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in 1990s Manhattan. Picture: Supplied

Friends! The Musical Parody will bring it's '90s nostalgia with characters Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Joey and Phoebe to the Illawarra.

Friends! The Musical Parody bring '90s nostalgia to IPAC

UGLY SCENES: Video has emerged of two men brawling in Newcastle on Sunday morning before a third man is stabbed. 

A man has been stabbed during an ugly brawl between two groups in Newcastle in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Man stabbed repeatedly during ugly brawl

Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as prime minister before heading to Tokyo for a Quad meeting.

Mr Albanese and Senator Wong will head to Tokyo on Monday afternoon.

Albanese sworn in as 31st prime minister

Anthony Albanese and new Labor MP for Reid Sally Sitou on Sunday morning. Picture: AAP

Labor's Sally Sitou said her own victory proved voters wanted politicians who 'reflect the community'.

Albanese takes first steps of governing, as Liberal recriminations begin

Vote growth: Greens candidates Dylan Green (centre) and Jamie Dixon (right) celebrate the party's gain in vote share. Picture: Anna Warr

Voters in the Illawarra increasingly turned to minor parties, with one notable exception.

Illawarra Greens buoyant as minor parties increase their share

Team ride: The FCs with ride founder Mark Hawwa (centre). Picture: Sylvia Liber

The Wollongong ride, now in its sixth year, is one of the top fundraising rides globally.

All the photos from Wollongong's Distinguished Gentleman's Ride 2022

Josh Frydenberg (left) appears to be among a number unseated moderate Libs, as Simon Birmingham says the party needs to bring more women into the fold. Picture: AAP

Peter Dutton is the heir-apparent for the Liberal leadership, but moderates want someone who can bring more women into the fold.

Libs moderates seek Morrison successor to increase women in the party

It was Soctt Morrison's way or the highway. And he was wrong. Picture: AAP

Voters have given a mandate for a federal ICAC with teeth and serious climate action.

The flawed political gambit that lost the election

Outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins. Pictures: AAP, Karleen Minney

Every single pollster said the women were coming for Morrison. Every single pollster was right.

Women driving change: The moment that seeded a movement

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A new assessment tool will show companies how to measure and report on nature-related risks.

Ethical investors shaping nature risk tool

Former superannuation minister Jane Hume is one of the favourites to become the next Liberal deputy leader. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Members of the Liberals' decimated moderate faction are swinging in behind Melbourne-based senator Jane Hume to become the party's deputy leader.

Sussan Ley, Jane Hume loom as deputy options amid fight over Liberals' direction

Nurse Kate from Bulli's Urgent Care Centre has advised people to use the centre for minor injuries and illnesses. Picture: Supplied.

The quickest place to get sick girl medical care in Wollongong this week

Ellen Sandell wants the general sale of second generation rodent poisons banned in Victoria.

Vic store mice poison ban push set to fail

Exit-polling shows climate action was a priority for voters in regional NSW seats like Gilmore.

Climate a priority in NSW regional seats

Sandra Mullaly is cheerful in her police photo but her time in the force was anything but.

Former cop says she was driven to breaking point by the organisation she once loved.

An addict broke her jaw. The force broke her spirit

Military on patrol in troubled northeastern Nigeria.

Militants kill at least 50 in Nigeria

Fascinating time-lapse vision of a trip from Revesby to Burrill Lake in 1971.

Rare footage of long, winding road south: video

Jamain Russell threatened staff at Berkeley Coles with an axe. Picture: File

In subjecting Jamaine Russell, Judge Andrew Haesler said rehabilitation would be best achieved out of prison.

Man who threatened Berkeley Coles staff with axe released from jail

Hoping to buy in Bulli? You may be in luck

Old Bulli hospital to be transformed into new residential area

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Shell Cove's total transformation continues with six-storey tower

Shellharbour Mayor Chris Homer and Frasers Property development director Mat Gulliver inspect construction of the six-storey Nautilus apartments. Photos: Sylvia Liber.

The two waterside apartment blocks that mark the next stage in the growing Shell Cove development are underway.