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Salim Mehajer's wife Aysha is a former Wollongong beautician once known as ...

She is known as Aysha, the bride at the centre of one of the glitziest suburban weddings Australia has seen in years. But much has changed for the newlywed wife of controversial Auburn Council deputy mayor Salim Mehajer. Friends said before Ms Mehajer ... >> view original

Wollongong the hardest place in NSW to find rental accommodation

A combination of Sydney meeting its rental demand and its retirees moving south to Wollongong has helped create a drastic rental housing shortage in Wollongong. While accommodation construction in Australia's biggest city has remained strong to meet ... >> view original

Wollongong Roller Hawks captain on finals basketball and overcoming setbacks

The Wollongong Roller Hawks will be out for grand final glory this weekend when they play in the finals series of the National Wheelchair Basketball League. But for the team's captain Brett Stibners, ever since he joined the team after a devastating ... >> view original

Coal miners to extend industrial action at Wollongong mine

Mineworkers at the South32 owned Dendrobium mine west of Wollongong are due to extend their industrial action when a week-long strike ends on Friday. After returning to work, limitations on production will be put in place. 200 workers walked off the ... >> view original

Two kilograms of drugs, semi automatic rifle seized south of Wollongong

Police have seized more than two kilograms of amphetamine, cocaine, MDMA and a semi automatic gun south of Wollongong. Officers say 1 kilogram of amphetamine and 140 grams of cocaine were found in a car stopped on the Princes Highway near ... >> view original

Wollongong to host Australian Chamber Orchestra

It explores how musicians and composers borrow and steal from each other. The ACO's three Wollongong shows will feature Mozart and Beethoven, with the final show dedicated to Beethoven's quartets. Tognetti will perform in the first Wollongong show only ... >> view original

Wollongong researchers use science to make safe sex feel much better

Researchers at the University of Wollongong are using a bit of space age technology to revolutionise one of the most vital, but increasingly underused, inventions in human history – the condom. The new condom – not yet named the 'Wollongongdom' (that's ... >> view original

New type of glass may lead to new technologies

The accidental discovery of a new type of glass holds the promise of new advancements in home electronics. Researchers at the University of Chicago made the discovery when performing optical experiments on glass that had been 'grown' by depositing ... >> view original

Some sharks may be vulnerable to man-made noise, UWA research finds

Some species of shark may be vulnerable to a growing level of man-made noise produced in the ocean, University of Western Australia research has discovered. Although the impact of sound pollution on popular marine mammals like whales and dolphins is ... >> view original

Stargazers hope to break world record

The stars will align for more than 1000 amateur astronomers at the University of Queensland on Friday night for an act of simultaneous stargazing. It's part of a national effort to break the Guinness world record for Most People Stargazing across ... >> view original