Kangaroo Valley Voice

In the Valley this school term, young people have been given the opportunity to connect to nature and sense their belonging to the world in new ways, through two powerful programs facilitated by cultural education…

In 2015, sisters from Matamata, East Arnhem Land, Grace and Kitohnia Gurruwiwi, stayed with Mike and Cathy Gorman. The girls, who were 15 and 12 at the time, are Yolngu people and belong to the…

Last issue introduced the Valley’s Loo Taylor, designer-manufacturer of the luxury lingerie brand Loo Taylor Lingerie, which rose to prominence in the 1980s and 90s, as a lens to look at pre-fast-fashion fashion. This month…

Year 6 Luka was itching to start high school. Entering a cohort of 200-and-something students, a huge jump from my Year 6 class of eighteen people, was really exciting. I was a shy kid but…

In 2018–19, Australians threw out 780,000 tonnes of textile waste, just over a third of it clothing. This put textile waste on Tanya Plibersek’s Priority List 2023–2024. In my other job at the post office,…

In April 2023, NASA announced their Artemis II test flight mission to the moon, originally planned for 2024, would be pushed back to “No earlier than September 2025”. This is the test flight for the…