Wollondilly Matters with Robert Khan: Supporting our local media and celebrating volunteers

Supporting our Local Media

When our community faced drought, bushfire, flood and COVID-19, we turned to our local media for information. In the Wollondilly area, Facebook has been a popular platform to share local news stories, highlight issues affecting our towns and villages and discuss events that impact us.

Last week Facebook withdrew from supporting news coverage in Australia, (if only temporarily) which meant needed to change the way we accessed our local news.

Fortunately, you can always keep up to date with what's happening in Wollondilly by heading directly to the website pages of our media outlets, tuning in to local TV and radio stations or picking up a hard copy of the newspaper at the newsagent.

Wollondilly Council wants to support our local journalists and media outlets in these changing times, to make sure we always have our local stories told. Let's get behind them so that we still have them around the next time we face a crisis!

Celebrating Volunteers

Council's amazing volunteers were acknowledged at a Mayoral dinner last week in the Botanic Gardens. We are very lucky to have 170 Council volunteers who work with us to support the community in a range of ways, and many of them joined us on the night for dinner and musical entertainment.

Thank you to all the volunteers who make Wollondilly such a unique and special place to live.

Robert Khan - Mayor of Wollondilly