Ben Langford

South Coast

Journalist at Illawarra Mercury

Enviro journalist @illawarramerc Trypophobe (don't laugh). Chaotic good. My employer is free to their own opinion.

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Articles

Parents' phone use linked to poorer development for toddlers, UOW study finds

4 days ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

Marcelo Toledo-Vargas is researching links between parental phone use and child development. Picture by Robert PeetParents' phone use can be detrimental for toddlers' development because it interrupts the natural flow of interaction, a new study by University of Wollongong researchers has found.
'In summer it looks like the Maldives' but murky waters may lie ahead for Lake Illawarra

5 days ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

Julie Collareda, who has seen a huge improvement in Lake Illawarra water quality over 40 years. Picture by Robert PeetJulie and John Collareda have lived on the edge of Lake Illawarra for 40 years, making the vast and moody body of water an integral part of their everyday lives and something they look at "100 times a day".
The suburbs at highest risk of bushfire under new RFS plan include Robertson

1 week ago | southernhighlandnews.com.au | Ben Langford

Rural Fire Service operational officer Inspector David Bartlett. Picture by Sylvia LiberFive areas in the Illawarra have been selected to be the focus of bushfire planning and preparation over the next five years.
Rising UOW executive jumps ship for permanent job at rival university

1 week ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

Professor Sue Bennett (second from left) with MP Paul Scully, Cambodian ambassador Chanborey Cheunboran and Trade Minister Anoulack Chanthivong at an ASEAN market update event in February. Picture by Adam McLeanThe University of Wollongong is losing its interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Senior Professor Sue Bennett, who will shed the "interim" when she moves to La Trobe University.
The Illawarra suburbs at highest risk of bushfire under new RFS plan

1 week ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

Rural Fire Service operational officer Inspector David Bartlett. Picture by Sylvia LiberFive areas in the Illawarra have been selected to be the focus of bushfire planning and preparation over the next five years.
Farmer Wants a Wife bombshell leaves us asking: WTF was that?

1 week ago | thecourier.com.au | Ben Langford

Thomas feels something that suggests he may still be alive.. Welcome back to Australia's favourite family comedy where country blokes try and make the move from animal husbandry to human husbandry: Farmer Wants a Wife.
Forget the Wife, this zombie Farmer just wants to eat some brains

1 week ago | thecourier.com.au | Ben Langford

'Did you know oysters are an aphrodisiac?' she actually said. Images: 7plusWelcome back to Farmer Wants a Wife, Australia's favourite agriculture-related matchmaking TV show.
UOW protest sends a message to new Vice-Chancellor over 200 job cuts

2 weeks ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

This scene will be put on protest postcards as UOW staff continue to push against more job cuts. Picture by Anna WarrStaff and students at the University of Wollongong have staged a noisy protest to voice their disapproval at how the university is being managed.
Mine's $2.9m fine for draining drinking water catchment goes to swamp project

2 weeks ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

Workers (left) on site removing invasive species from the Wingecarribee Swamp, and (right) the Wingecarribee leek orchid. Pictures supplied, NRARA 5000-year old peat bog in the Southern Highlands is the beneficiary of a $2.9 million payment from the Dendrobium coal mine owner, for draining 5 megalitres litres of water from the drinking catchment to its mine every day for five years.
Farmer Wants a Wife but is shaken to learn women are not crops.

2 weeks ago | illawarramercury.com.au | Ben Langford

Farmer Thomas keeps his women in the hot tub until he's ready to set them a challenge. We start with a promise of drama, tears, a rodeo, and the dreaded sight of tail lights heading away down the driveway.