Kangaroo Valley Voice

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…

When the weather cools and leaves start falling, the Valley’s colours change and we change in response. This can be internal, governed by our emotional response to colour and to light, and it can be…

Whoever we are, whatever age or gender, we can sometimes feel “I just want my mum”. For many, the yearning is not for our actual mum, or it’s part of grief for a mother who…