For family fun with real community spirit, enjoy Australia Day 2024 in charming Berrima Village. Share in welcoming 32 new residents to our Shire at the 9:30am Citizenship Ceremony in Market Place Park, where Wingecarribee’s Young Citizen and Citizen of the Year will be announced. Hear from our Australia Day Ambassador Robina Beard, an Aussie...
A new free community film festival, focussing on sustainability, and themes to educate and build resilience in our community, kicks off at Bowral’s Empire Cinema on Wednesday 31 January at 6pm. The ‘Earth Flix: Cinema 4 Change’ launch event will offer a special screening of the powerful documentary, “Australia Burns: Silence of the Land” –...
Ms Robina Beard OAM will be coming to Wingecarribee as our Australia Day Ambassador on 26 January, 2024. For over 20 years, Robina was a familiar face to households Australia-wide, playing the part of Madge the Manicurist in a television commercial for Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid. Her memoir, ‘My Life: You’re Soaking in it’ takes its...
Share in the community spirit of celebrating Australia Day 2024, Southern Highlands-style, in picturesque Berrima Village. There’ll be market stalls, kids activities, live music and more! Find out who our community has nominated for Citizen and Young Citizen of the Year at the 9am Citizenship Ceremony. Cheer on the Grand Parade at midday, then enjoy...
It thundered, it rained and it hailed, then as the clouds parted it became apparent even this couldn’t deter the crowds turning out to say THANKYOU! to the Angels in Our Town, taking part in this year’s Bong Bong Street parade. The storms failed to dampen community spirit, with great excitement surrounding the parade and...
