Back in 1996, I set up a website at Angelfire.com – but 30 years later in 2026, Angelfire shut down.

Now I will be adding blog posts from selected pages from the Angelfire site, on my special interests when I was a Wollongong City Councillor, to this new site.

I have also added some of my other interests:

• Heritage Issues
• Environment Issues – CANS & Wollongong Council’s LEP 38 (1989)
• Aboriginal Issues
• ACT Team Archive Pages
• Stroke Resources
• Genealogy
• Katrina’s Kids Page

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By Y2K, individual groups in the Illawarra were getting “joined-up” more formally to create a broader social movement, instead of the earlier isolated/fragmented groups. These groups were able to share knowledge and experience at an explosive rate – email traffic was heated at times, both within groups and with WCC.

I had seen the Net’s potential for the community from 1996-1997, although for many local government councillors it would have been daunting to set up their own web page then – needing to learn HTML. But thanks to past uni assignments in Fortran, Pascal & C languages, I was able to pick up some basic HTML & set up my own web pages. And of course back then it was the early years of the Net – will dialup access before broadband.

These webpages enabled communication with more people in my community, sharing knowledge, and disseminating information much faster.