A look inside the $60 million Shellharbour Civic Centre

Kate McIlwain
Updated September 2 2017 - 5:30pm, first published September 1 2017 - 3:30pm
This huge brass bowl which will soon be filled with water, which will flow into a man-made creek bed for children’s play throughout the civic plaza.
This huge brass bowl which will soon be filled with water, which will flow into a man-made creek bed for children’s play throughout the civic plaza.

It may be one of the most controversial buildings in the Illawarra, but – after years of protests and even debate on the floor of parliament – the Shellharbour Civic Centre is almost complete.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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