While on trial following multiple child sexual assault charges, a political lobbyist and Anglican priest represented developers Sealark and The Halloran Trust on controversial subdivisions in Culburra...

Few topics ignite fierce debate quite like private land ownership and public access to wild places.

Next week’s historic Senate vote on the future of native forestry and the Great Koala National Park has split Australia’s environment movement and trapped the Australian Greens between saving nature a...

After decades of working in nature, I finally joined the Greens. It’s the first political membership I’ve ever held.   But when Drew Hutton, one of three luminary activists who launched the Greens, m...

When conservation biologist, Dr Katarina Mikac, is not navigating night-drones to search for animals in forest canopy, she travels to regional NSW towns with one clear message for farmers and citizen ...

Jervis Bay's mussel farm shifts its strategy from gourmet food to animal health products. But are pet supplements worth risking Jervis Bay Marine Park's unique ecology? by Cat Holloway In summary: ...

It's up to residents, not bureaucrats, to rise from the ashes Key takeaways from Shoalhaven's 'place-based' community consultation structure: * The glaring omission - What these groups are ac...

by Cat Holloway Long before I started Spark Shoalhaven as a citizen journalism platform, Mark Corrigan was burrowing under Shoalhaven's surface, scratching around local political donations to uncover...

488,000 dollars, 102 trees, 4 car parks and 1 councillor who embodies exactly what is wrong with Shoalhaven Council and how it is hurting our community. by Cat Holloway It should have been a moment ...

When Shoalhaven City Council abruptly shut down its own chambers last week over fears of asbestos in the air-conditioning, a deep and dangerous wound reopened in our community. by Cat Holloway Asbes...

As warriors kick, strike and wrestle over the news on Sunday of the arrest warrant for Shaolin Temple Abbot Shi Yongxin, let's meditate for a moment on the meaning to the Shoalhaven of all this intern...

Of all the mad stories I've been told and all the crazy people I've met since starting Spark Shoalhaven, nothing beats the saga of Comberton's Shaolin Temple. But it's no joke. It's serious business....

These were the exact words said to me by Radio 2st presenter, Graeme Day, after he told me he had complained to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) about Shoalhaven Councillors 'leaki...

The second press conference with Shoalhaven Council's Mayor and CEO started off discussing 52 job cuts, but ended up with a call to investigate Councillor corruption and media collusion. by Cat Hollo...

Member for South Coast, Liza Butler, said Shoalhaven Mayor Patricia White has lost the support of her voters because of events in Council since White was elected. Butler didn't hold back in yesterday...

Will old political allegiances define Shoalhaven's new era of development? by Cat Holloway One week ago, Andrew Constance became the new CEO of Shoalhaven City Council. Within days, the Office of Lo...

The year-long quest for Mayor Patricia White to find an ideal CEO partner to run Shoalhaven Council isn't over yet. Public and political backlash against the appointment of ex-politician Andrew Const...

In mere minutes, social media commentary exploded after the announcement yesterday from Mayor Patricia White that ex-Liberal career politician Andrew Constance was Shoalhaven City Council's new CEO. ...

Confused by Mayor Patricia White's claims that Shoalhaven Council job cuts have nothing to do with her or the councillors? Confusion is exactly what they want. But in the effort to centralise and si...

Does composting make you a communist? Are solar panels only for socialists? Will recycling threaten the royalists? Of course not. But party politics and the mainstream media lags way behind the ever...

Another day, another tone-deaf, self-important pollie clinging to power. How much more abuse and neglect can Kiama's people take? by Cat Holloway / Kiama's community is understandably experiencing a...

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Bus for Reconciliation: On Tuesday 13th May 2025, Walking Together collaborated with Ulladulla High School’s First Nations Education Team and Mitchell Lasker from Waminda to PAINT A BUS for Reconcilia...

Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

Warm your hands - and your soul - on this cold weekend with the glowing embers of some follow-ups to previous Spark stories about ambitious idealists in our community whose efforts are making a positi...

by Cat Holloway / South Coast MP, Liza Butler has referred Shoalhaven Mayor Patricia White's serious accusations against Council staff over alleged document tampering to the Office of Local Governmen...

A deafening silence has descended on the Kiama region's usually loud and crowded social media spaces following Friday's jury verdict finding Gareth Ward guilty of three counts of indecent assault and ...

by Cat Holloway / South Coast MP, Liza Butler has referred Shoalhaven Mayor Patricia White's serious accusations against Council staff over alleged document tampering to the Office of Local Governmen...

"This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face." from Agatha Christie's classic crime novel, And Then There Were None by Cat Holloway / All seven directors of Shoalhaven City Council (SCC)...

by Vanessa Barnett, WWF-Australia / In the quiet, forested hills of Yuin Country on the New South Wales South Coast, the Clyde River winds through ancient bushland containing lyrebirds mimicking the ...

Welcome to the new financial year! Our rates go up today by 12%, adding an average of $3.46 each week to residential bills. You've likely seen Council's general announcement, but it's not well underst...

Shoalhaven Mayor Patricia White has released a scathing public statement denying claims that more than 100 Council staff jobs could be axed and accusing Councillor Jemma Tribe of relentlessly coveting...

by Jemma Tribe / The Liberal Party’s women woes are well-documented and, again, they’ve paid the price at the polls. But what can be done about it? A report released in April this year by the Glo...

Bay and Basin Amnesty Group (and anyone keen to join them) will protest outside Fiona Phillips’ office in Nowra at 4 pm on June 5 to stand in solidarity with Israelis and Jewish people around the worl...

If you follow the "news" on commercial radio stations and the South Coast Register, you could be excused for believing that Culburra is a vibrant town on the verge of a housing and infrastructure boom...

Member for Kiama and former Shoalhaven City Councillor Gareth Ward will appear before the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney today over several allegations of sexual assault between 2013 and 2015...

Australia's 2025 Federal Election count officially closed with the final postal votes registered last Friday. Fine details of preference breakdowns and Senate outcomes will dribble out in coming days,...

by Cat Holloway /  Persistence, not resistance, is The Greens' real power. I woke up this morning to a third unsolicited, but perfectly legal, Trumpet of Patriots text. Their toxic coal-dusted ad...

Serious questions surround the March 20 approval to increase commercial mussel farming in Jervis Bay Marine Park, despite dramatic footage from local divers of unusual mussel blooms dominating locatio...

New and valuable real estate is being carved into our urban landscapes by the very experts trained to cut away the dead wood. Conservation Arborists on the NSW South Coast are turning their chainsaws ...

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We need Local Government. But do we need Local Councillors? Switch off the Donald Trump Inauguration tomorrow night and tune in instead to the Shoalhaven City Council meeting as it looks set to be ...