Sick of waiting, Port Kembla residents build their own skate park

Glen Humphries
Updated December 22 2021 - 6:19pm, first published 4:30pm
Homegrown: Oscar Simmonite trying out the DIY skate park built by locals in Port Kembla. Picture: Sylvia Liber
Homegrown: Oscar Simmonite trying out the DIY skate park built by locals in Port Kembla. Picture: Sylvia Liber

After missing out on some of the millions in a Port Kembla-dedicated funding program, locals have taken matters into their own hands and built a skate park.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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