Sick of waiting, a community built its own skate park

Glen Humphries
December 23 2021 - 8:00am
Homegrown: Oscar Simmonite trying out the DIY skate park built by locals in Port Kembla. Picture: Sylvia Liber
Homegrown: Oscar Simmonite trying out the DIY skate park built by locals in Port Kembla. Picture: Sylvia Liber

They missed out on some of the millions in dedicated funding, so they took matters into their own hands and built a skate park.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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