Current Feature
What makes a champion
It is 11 o’clock in the morning and Amiel Cavalier just got home from four and half hours of mountain bike training. His blond hair is matted with sweat and dirt. The piercing in his left eyebrow is a sharp green, like his eyes.
He drops his backpack full of gear at the door and walks into the kitchen. His denim shorts hang low around his waist revealing his boxers, and there is purpose in his quick, impatient tread. He fills a glass of water, and takes a hearty gulp. Then he begins to speak.
“It’s a funny story how I got into mountain bike riding,” he says, in a guttural voice, congested by a cold
Current Multimedia
Defense lawyer and critic of the war on terror and the new Australian laws associated with it, Phillip Boulten SC, opened Debra Dawes' exhibition Cover up on a warm November evening at Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney. UOW Journalism lecturer David Blackall shot this short film.
Tide
Creative writing from UOW's Faculty of Creative Arts
Degustation
My husband’s tiny, a baby, compared to me. He wasn’t even born when I had my first kiss. Even stranger, he’s short and thin and round-cheeked
East of Westerbine
Toby fumbled through the stack of envelopes in his leather pouch as Mr Jessop Cole waited, arms folded across his wide chest. Toby remained just outside the yard of the Cole property, his knees bent awkwardly as he leaned back to catch his pouch upon his belly.
Starting Over
Jessica and I loved to play with worms when we were kids. We’d pluck the fat ones from our dad’s award-winning worm farm and allow them to infiltrate the mud pies we molded into ice-cream tubs and then baked in the sun.
Local Currents
Retain our mall
Residents and small business owners are calling for a referendum on the future of Crown St Mall after Wollongong City Council voted to reopen the pedestrian shopping strip to vehicles earlier this month.
Another one bites the dust
Another red brick apartment block on Cliff Road will succumb to the high-rise development boom in North Wollongong, causing residents to claim that development in the area is going too far.
Go ahead for golf course
A new development proposal for an international standard golf course to be established on two former mine sites in West Dapto has been brought before Wollongong Council despite some concerns from local Councillors.
Campus Currents
Oils ain't oils
A new study at the University of Wollongong (UOW) looking at the relationship between omega 3 levels and obesity suggests there may be a correlation between low levels of Omega 3, high levels of Omega 6 and snacking even when you’re not hungry.