By Tim Peach At the September 20th Shoalhaven Council meeting Mayor Findley took back control moving a Mayoral Minute that could help save the historic Huskisson Church. “Let’s bring on this heritage listing procedure and signal to the community that this council really does care about this site, and the heritage both Indigenous and non-Indigenous […]

By Roger Hart This is the story of the felling of a forest giant in our neighbourhood at Woollamia. I estimate this tree was 50 metres tall with a girth (diameter at breast height) of well over two metres. It was our matriarch tree. In the year 2000, after tree felling commenced at the nearby […]

Shocking evidence has revealed how families were left underprepared to deal with evacuations of their young children during the devastating Black Summer bushfires. Now a special project is surveying those affected to come up with new guidelines to help protect the young and vulnerable in these disaster situations in the future. On the last day […]

Inspired by nature and humanity – an exhibition by the well-known and colourful character of the Shoalhaven, Randall Sinnamon – opened on September 3rd with the galleries packed and the Lady Denman Ferry watching over. For Randall this is a celebration of 30 years of exhibiting; 30 years of rich and raw creativity, and of […]

Pentarch Forestry, the biggest native forest logger in NSW and one of the biggest in Australia, has lost its Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) sustainability certification and has been required to remove the FSC logo from its website.A renewal audit found that Pentarch’s due diligence system was out of date, native forest and plantation wood were […]