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Stigma-breaking housing model offers dignity for all with owners and renters living side by side Meet Sandra and Sandra — one is a tenant and the other a home owner in Australia's first building to integrate private, social, and affordable housing without segregated facilities.

Sandra and Sandra living their best life by the sea

National Strategic Fleet needed for shipping - ABC listen Being an island nation, Australia is heavily reliant on the shipping industry to bring goods into the country, and to export what we're trying to sell.

Tenders are about to close for a pilot program that could change the face of Australian shipping:

Australia looks to secure shipping supply chains with national strategic fleet With only nine Australian-crewed ships still operating, the proposed National Strategic Fleet could be the key to securing supply chains in times of crisis.

Australia's maritime industry has just nine Australian-crewed ships.

A proposed National Strategic Fleet aims to reverse the decline and secure supply chains, but critics warn of high costs and trade impacts:

Developer subject of new integrity rules after review of 13,000-home Sydney development approval An investigation into the fast-tracking of Walker Corporation's Appin development in June leads to the creation of a new probity framework governing the NSW government's dealings with the property...

Walker Corporation subject to new probity framework after probe into rezoning of Appin development::

Is this what the offshore wind farms of the future might look like? Visualisations of a proposed offshore Illawarra wind zone in New South Wales are released by the federal government, following intense community scrutiny of the project.

Here's what the federal government says the proposed Illawarra offshore wind zone could look like:

A most delicious way to start Friday

Referendum results for Illawarra, South Coast and Southern Highlands

Cunningham
Yes 49,075 51.66%
No 45,927 48.34%

Whitlam
Yes 37,103 35.40%
No 67,711 64.60%

Hume
YES 25,052 26.45%
NO 69,661 73.55%

Gilmore
YES 39,658 38.22%
NO 64,113 61.78%

ABC Illawarra For the latest features, programs, news, audio, podcasts, sport, recipes, events, photos and videos, the latest weather for Albion Park, Bowral, Braidwood, Goulburn, Nerriga, Nowra, Taralga, Ulladulla...

The forecast -partly cloudy, light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the morning then tending northerly 15 to 20 km/h in the late evening. Tops of 23 in Bowral, 24 in Nowra and 22 in Wollongong

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The Illawarra Hawks opened their NBL season with a loss to reigning champions the Sydney Kings 96-81.

In sport - Albion Park's Jessica Hull has finished fifth at the inaugural World Road Running Championships in Lativa in the premiere of the road mile event. She finished the race in 4:32:45.

Desmond, 12, knows people believe in him as he strives to become a doctor High-potential and gifted Indigenous students are focusing on academics and culture in a program that is opening career paths for the next generation.

12-year-old Desmond Lawlor is a high potential and gifted Aboriginal student on the state's south coast partaking in Aurora College's Young and Deadly Mob pilot program.

A man remains behind bars after a police pursuit through the suburbs of Wollongong over the weekend.

The strong winds also impacted high voltage power lines and caused the loss of power for thousands of households at Dapto and Albion Park in the region.

The SES responded to 120 calls for assistance on Sunday during damaging wind conditions. Thirteen incidents were logged in the South Eastern region with several calls in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven.

The Shoalhaven RFS says extra volunteers on the long weekend helped respond to the region's first serious bushfire of the season. Several properties were issued with a Watch and Act warning in Bawley Point yesterday as a bushfire burnt out of control near the coastal town.

Transport for NSW Chief Customer Officer, Roger Weeks says the department has committed tens of millions of dollars to vegetation management, and has prepared roads as best they can ahead of this summer.

Former New South Wales minister and Bega MP, Andrew Constance says Transport for New South Wales has failed the community with a lack of bushfire preparation along the Princes Highway.

NSW communities fear Black Summer 'deja vu' as fuel loads increase along key road routes Four years ago these residents of Sussex Inlet were trapped in their town, cut off by fire. They fear the same thing could happen this summer.

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Residents of the South Coast say lessons haven't been learned in the wake of the black summer bushfires, with road preparation lacking ahead of a dangerous summer season