Media Releases
Financial Sustainability Review
Wollongong City Council is planning an extensive community engagement program to help develop options for how Council can address its long term financial sustainability.
Council is not broke. However, like most councils across NSW, Wollongong needs to put more money into renewing and maintaining our roads, footpaths, pools, buildings and other key community infrastructure, much of which is more than 40 years old.
To try and address this issue, over the past five years Council has improved its operating result and been able to reinvest over $20 million into infrastructure renewal.
A Strategic and Economic Relationship with Chinese Mega City Xi’an
The Lord Mayor is visiting China at the invitation of the Premier Lara Giddings who is undertaking an Asian Trade Mission.
“On our first day in Shanghai we met with the Vice Mayor of Shanghai Pudong, responsible for international relations, to continue discussions initiated during our previous visit last year surrounding the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.” said the Lord Mayor.
“We will continue discussions between the two cities principally in the areas of education, arts, and culture. As part of those discussions we will also push the wider brief of Antarctic and other important areas that Tasmania has to offer.”
“Shanghai Pudong is seen as a long term strategic interest for the city of Hobart because of its significance with the Chinese Antarctic Program. Shanghai Pudong is an important scientific component of their Antarctic Program.”
“Whilst in Shanghai, we also attended the launch of the Tasmanian office within the Shanghai Austrade office before flying on to the Chinese city of Xi’an to hold discussions on the potential of an ongoing city to city relationship.”
First festival in Australia to eliminate disposable bottled water
The Caloundra Music Festival has taken the next step in creating a sustainable festival.
Initiating the BYO Bottle Campaign it is encouraging festival-goers to bring a re-usable water bottle and refill it during the festival.
Its vision in creating a sustainable festival includes the protection of our unique beachside location by implementing environmentally sustainable policies across the festival.
Get to Know Your Fashionable City
Forrest Place will once again become Fashion Central when the 15th Perth Fashion Festival kicks off, proudly supported by the City of Perth.
A major partner since the Festival’s inception, the City of Perth joins other principal partners the Department of Culture & the Arts and Eventscorp in welcoming in the Festival’s ‘crystal’ anniversary, and an estimated 35,000+ city visitors attending this year’s events.