Councils
What Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama actually decided and what it costs you: three interleaving meeting cycles, read from the business papers, minutes and orders themselves.
17,069 residents for each Wollongong councillor, 9,063 in Shellharbour, 2,575 in Kiama. One region, a factor of 6.6, and Wollongong the highest of the 37 councils NSW classifies a regional town or city, by three residents.
Councils
The compulsory-livestream rule died with May’s disallowance, so a council may now post a recording afterwards instead. Wollongong, Kiama and Shellharbour all say they still stream. On the routes a resident would actually use, two of the three publish a 2026 recording you can play.
16 August 2026
Councils
A May disallowance motion removed the 2025 Model Code, so mandatory livestreaming no longer applies and the 2021 code is back. It lets a council publish a recording live or afterwards. Wollongong’s draft keeps it live and moves Public Forum back into the meeting. Feedback closed 12 August 2026.
4 August 2026
Councils
The rezoning is endorsed at three to six storeys with 60 per cent social and affordable housing; the infrastructure deal with Homes NSW is on exhibition now.
19 July 2026
Councils
The varied Performance Improvement Order moves the deadline to 2027-28 in exchange for tighter conditions, including a ban on outsourcing domestic waste and a business case for Blue Haven Terralong.
19 July 2026