A LARGE Illawarra charity is at crisis point, with a cold winter and the high cost of accommodation forcing many people to seek assistance.

NOWRA man Andrew Timbs is no stranger to tragedy.

THE statewide shortage of prisoner accommodation again reached crisis point this week, with Sydney remand detainees shipped to Wollongong.

IF YOU want to borrow a book in Kiama, you will have to go to Nowra.

The story of a desert tribe's first meeting with white men is all the more remarkable for being so recent, writes LOUIS NOWRA. Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert By Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson and Yuwali Aboriginal Studies Press, 208pp, $45