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Australian households generate 30% more waste over the Christmas and New Year period. While consuming less is always the best way to avoid waste, we can also do our bit by recycling. Here are some tips to help you recycle your festive waste correctly and minimise our impact on the environment.

Be a part of Australia’s biggest community and sustainability event, Garage Sale Trail on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October by hosting a sale or shopping the trail.

Woollahra Council are proudly supporting The Big Anxiety Festival with a series of events at Woollahra Libraries.

Paddington has long been the go-to place to shop for designer fashion and style. But did you know that it’s now the hottest place to shop for furniture and homewares?

Do you know a woman who has made a significant contribution to our community?

Nominations close at 5:00 pm on 25 October 2019.

Watch this video to discover some of the things you told us you value about our local area. We used your comments to help write a 20-year land use vision for our first Draft Woollahra Local Strategic Planning Statement.

Have your say before 8 November 2019.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Woollahra Design Excellence Awards.

Additional signs have been installed along the Parsley Bay suspension bridge to warn of the dangers of jumping off the bridge.

The 3-council program ‘Solar My School’ has won a 2019 National Local Government Professionals Award in the category of ‘Environmental Leadership & Sustainability’.

Do you own or are you thinking of buying an electric vehicle? Public charging stations are now open across the eastern suburbs as part of a first of its kind program in Sydney, and local government-backed charging infrastructure in NSW.