COVID-19 ratepayer relief approved at Wollongong's first online council meeting

Kate McIlwain
Updated April 6 2020 - 9:45pm, first published 5:39pm
Deputy Lord Mayor Tania Brown at Wollongong City Council's first online meeting. Picture: Twitter/@tanbrown1
Deputy Lord Mayor Tania Brown at Wollongong City Council's first online meeting. Picture: Twitter/@tanbrown1

Wollongong City Council held its first socially distant council meeting on Monday night, passing a rate relief package that could dent the city's budget by up to $43 million.

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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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