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30/08/2025

Not long to go until the second Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival event for 2025. It’s all happening on Sept 13, 1-5 at Huskisson Pictures. Below is a comprehensive overview of the suite of films being shown and a link to Try booking to purchase the $15 tickets.

15/08/2025

Happy Birthday Pat. Thinking of you, missing you. Big hugs to Patrick Thompson xox

01/08/2025

It's been 2 years of missing you Bonnie Cassen. Your enthusiasm, knowledge & dedication to environmental issues, always believing in and encouraging the people around you, your big heart, your positive energy.... and so much more. I loved working with you and miss your kind friendship. Fly high Bonnie ###

29/07/2025

Purchase your tickets via this link. https://www.trybooking.com/DDMBI Hope to see you there!

Please go to graphic in the previous post, with the bar code to purchase tickets for the August 9, 2pm film screening. Or alternatively you can use the https://www.trybooking.com/DDMBI Hope to see you there!

13/07/2025

Now available at

This book explores 61 islands of the South Coast of NSW. These islands don't have palm-fringed beaches where you sip cocktails at sunset, and a few people could name more than a handful. But each adds scenic splendour to our rugged coastline and picturesque lakes, rivers and estuaries. Some of the 2...

09/07/2025

An interview with the author of 'BuriednTruths-Respecting Huskisson's Heritage', Shirley Fitzgerald, is being aired this morning, 10 July, on ABC Illawarra Radio at 10:35. Please listen in if you can and hear about this community action to save Huskisson Church and Burial grounds. Looking forward to hear Shirley's interview by Jake Cupitt.

This is the story of a small coastal community who refused to look away, the story of ordinary, persistent people who stood up to developers & decided their little heritage church & the surrounding First Nations burial ground was worth fighting for.
' Buried Truths Respecting Huskisson's Heritage ' embraces the Indigenous history of this town & its connection to the Holy Trinity Church & traces the journey from 1998's first heritage study to 2024 when the site was finally listed & has been meticulously & beautifully recorded by local author historian Shirley Fitzgerald with contributions from many others.
This is the story of our community, its extraordinary inhabitants & a very old, beautiful heritage building.
It is important to note, although the church is now heritage listed, this does not halt ongoing deterioration of the building or the site.

We have Buried Truths in stock & also the moving sculpture by local artist Brant Noack.

05/07/2025

The community centre at Huskisson was bursting at the seams this afternoon. A group of like-minded people collected together to celebrate the launch of Buried Truths: Respecting Huskisson's Heritage.

A book documenting the struggle to get Huskisson Church and Burial Grounds heritage listed and saved from inappropriate development.

A snippet from the book:

At one level this is just the story of a small campaign in a small place to keep a lovely piece of land for its heritage values. So why write it? Because everywhere at present, heritage places are under increasing stress as legitimate needs for more housing, more infrastructure and denser building practices compete for land – especially coastal land. We were told that the church site is ideal for more tourist infrastructure, but destroying unique spaces like this reduces the overall value of the area. It is obvious that heritage places are tourist attractions, and it is blindingly obvious that the former Anglican Church site is a heritage place. In a village of humble origins like Huskisson, there are no grand buildings andtoo many examples where humble but greatly loved places that people value and care about have been demolished in the name of ‘progress’.

Only by recording these kinds of struggles is the community perspective preserved. Too many community campaigns get forgotten because the people involved are often either ‘burnt out’ or have moved onto the next thing that needs doing. There is always something that needs doing for people who carefor community, and this is just one of many campaigns to keep the wonder ofJervis Bay free from overbearing and inappropriate developments.

You can purchase the book from www.envirobook.com.au $35 including postage anywhere in Australia.

This book explores 61 islands of the South Coast of NSW. These islands don't have palm-fringed beaches where you sip cocktails at sunset, and a few people could name more than a handful. But each adds scenic splendour to our rugged coastline and picturesque lakes, rivers and estuaries. Some of the 2...

29/06/2025

Happening soon, hope you can make it to the book launch of Buried Truths; Respecting Huskisson's Heritage. 5 July 3 - 5pm, Huskisson Community Centre.

Envirobook is delighted to invite you to the launch of

Buried Truths
Respecting Huskisson's Heritage
by Shirley Fitzgerald

When & Where:
Saturday 5 July 2025, 3pm-5pm,
at the Huskisson Community Centre, 17 Dent Street, Huskisson, NSW 2540.

When the community learned of plans to demolish Huskisson’s treasured Church, trash its old growth trees and deny the extent of its burial ground, few thought that the campaign that emerged to save this much loved place would succeed. Six years on the site is heritage listed. Now a local publisher and skilled designer have created a beautiful book to complement the story written by one of Australia’s finest social historians.

There will be a small display of materials relating to the immense and creative efforts that went into this community driven campaign.

Light refreshments will be provided.

The book will be available for purchase at the event.

Please RSVP here:
https://events.humanitix.com/buried-truths

25/06/2025

Envirobook is delighted to invite you to the launch of

Buried Truths
Respecting Huskisson's Heritage
by Shirley Fitzgerald

When & Where:
Saturday 5 July 2025, 3pm-5pm,
at the Huskisson Community Centre, 17 Dent Street, Huskisson, NSW 2540.

When the community learned of plans to demolish Huskisson’s treasured Church, trash its old growth trees and deny the extent of its burial ground, few thought that the campaign that emerged to save this much loved place would succeed. Six years on the site is heritage listed. Now a local publisher and skilled designer have created a beautiful book to complement the story written by one of Australia’s finest social historians.

There will be a small display of materials relating to the immense and creative efforts that went into this community driven campaign.

Light refreshments will be provided.

The book will be available for purchase at the event.

Please RSVP here:
https://events.humanitix.com/buried-truths

11/03/2025

Thinking of you Pat Thompson, been missing you every day. It's been 5 years today and gosh what strange years these have been, miss contemplating with you ###

16/08/2024

16/08/2024

Missed your Birthday yesterday dear Pat, sorry for being a day late. Always thinking of you, missing you every day ###