Tighten Your Laces!

Registrations are open for this years' Cooks River Fun Run! Choose from a 5km or 10km run, 5km walk or 2km kids run, and get active.

When: Sunday 19 June
Where: Freshwater Park, Strathfield

31 Years is a Long Coffee Break...

It takes 31 years for a takeaway coffee cup to begin to break down. So that coffee-a-day habit you have? In just one year, that's 365 cups sitting in landfill for the next 30 years. That's enough to mocha you crazy!

Switch to a reusable cup today - better latte than never!

Have Your Say - Library

The Strathfield Library survey closes on Sun 24 April. Take the survey now to ensure your feedback is included.

Street Festival 2140 - Local Business Feedback

Are you a local business in Homebush or Homebush West? We want your feedback on your experience with Street Festival 2140. Request a survey today.

Learn English at Strathfield Library

Practice speaking English, learn more about Australia and make new friends with people from the Strathfield area. Conversation Club is a weekly group focused on improving fluency and learning new vocabulary through informal group discussions.

Get Moving at Home

MoodActive is offering a FREE 4 week Wellbeing Workout program that combines exercise with education on healthy behaviours and what to do when things get tough. The program runs April - May and includes disability friendly seated exercises.

Throwback Thursday

Gunner Alan Hulls, War Correspondent

Daily Telegraph WWII war correspondent Gunner Alan Hulls lived at Broughlea, 82 Abbotsford Road, Homebush. A sports editor before enlisting, he fought in the Middle East with the 9th Division, later reporting on the war from New Guinea along with poet, Kenneth Slessor. He campaigned tirelessly for the conditions and pay of frontline soldiers as well as for the care of those suffering mentally as a result of war service. In 1945 he received the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Ribbon by command of General MacArthur who noted that the recipients ‘added lustre to the difficult, dangerous and arduous profession of war correspondents.’

War correspondent Alan Hulls receives a haircut in New Guinea from Salvation Army Adjutant George Woodland, 19 November 1943. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.