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![]() Nice campus. Shame there are no students
July 13, 2024 - Despite Chisholm Institute’s impressive advertising hoardings, the institute doesn’t offer a single in-person course in Bass Coast. Malcolm Beasley’s out to change that. ![]() Our war on pitto
July 11, 2024 - This enemy overpowers everything in its way, but Jon Temby is equally pitiless. And the tide is turning. ![]() A little thing called Tryssglobulus
July 9, 2024 - Only two specimens have ever been collected and one of them was found in the Western Port Woodlands. Ian Pascoe tells the tale of his favourite fungus. ![]() Call in the A team
July 10, 2024 - It starts with a jumble of disconnected paintings. It takes Karin Murphy Ellis, Susan Hall and Ursula Theinert to turn it into an exhibition. ![]() Stuff and nonsense
July 12, 2024 - It's hard to resist a pile of stuff on a nature strip, writes Catherine Watson. ![]() Lights, cameras, action
July 14, 2024 - Do you have a story to tell? The Bass Coast Shorts film festival is seeking submissions for our next festival in April 2025. |
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![]() Invitation to a memory
July 12, 2024 - Janet Budge’s extraordinary fabric collages were the unexpected hit of the Woodlands Exhibition, writes Geoff Ellis. ![]() Maritime adventures and misadventures
A lifetime of research and experience has gone into John Jansson’s A Source Book of Western Port Maritime History. Christine Grayden reports. ![]() The universal language
July 13, 2024 - Robyn Arianrhod’s new book celebrates the power of signs and symbols. The Post asked our resident mathematician to tell us more – in simple terms. ![]() For Rex and Freddy
June 8, 2024 - A future prime minister, a dean of medicine and a brutal superintendent all play a role in The Killings at Newhaven. But author Joe Fairhurst never forgot that at its heart are two frightened young boys who died horrible deaths. ![]() A cook’s journal
July 11, 2024 - Lemon tarts are lovely but limes take this tart to a whole new level, writes Liane Arno, a proud Limey. |
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