City of Wollongong Lord Mayor: Councillor Tania Brown
Councillor Tania Brown was elected Lord Mayor of the City of Wollongong in October 2024.
She was first elected to Wollongong City Council as a Councillor in 2017, re-elected in 2021 and served as Deputy Lord Mayor from 2019 to 2024.
Tania is Wollongong born and bred, and raised her family here.
She previously worked with the University of Wollongong and the NSW and Australian governments.
Tania is an active member of the Illawarra community and has previously served on the Boards of several local organisations, including Destination Wollongong, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Illawarra Sports Stadium Ltd, the Illawarra Hawks and the Illawarra District Rugby League Club Limited.
Contact the Lord Mayor's Office
- Phone (02) 4227 7111
- Email the Lord Mayor at council@wollongong.nsw.gov.au
From the Lord Mayor's Office
This morning, Friday 15 November, I dropped into the Wollongong Botanic Garden’s Greenplan Plant Sale and picked up some new pot plants.
I know our community values shared pathways and pleasingly there is a lot of work happening right now in suburbs across the city to build or renew these important assets.
For more than 35 years, Wollongong has valued our Sister City Relationship with Kawasaki City in Japan.
One of the key contributions Council makes to the life of our city is enabling residents to participate in a diverse range of sports and recreational activities
This week we started on a winning note with news Wollongong City Council collected two Keep Australia Beautiful Awards at an event on Bathurst last weekend.
This year I’m challenging our community to see if we can up the ante on last year’s City of Wollongong Giving Tree tally.
Wollongong is home to some pretty impressive individuals who go about their lives doing amazing things for their community.
Last Monday was the first ordinary meeting of this term of Council with a 14-item agenda.
What a day it was last Saturday! There was so much colour, energy, music, food and fun in Wollongong as a packed Culture Mix program saw a hive of activity right across the CBD.
Were you one of the many people who came along to Wollongong Town Hall today for the second Illawarra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Business Expo?