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Bass Coast votes
Oct 7, 2024 - Twenty-two of our fellow citizens have raised their hands, eager to serve us over the next four years.
Now it’s up to us to choose nine of them for the new Bass Coast Shire Council.
With ballot papers due to arrive in our mailboxes this week, here is the Post’s survey of candidates to help you choose.
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Now it’s up to us to choose nine of them for the new Bass Coast Shire Council.
With ballot papers due to arrive in our mailboxes this week, here is the Post’s survey of candidates to help you choose.
Read more ...
$13m ‘hotel’ for health workers
Oct 11, 2024 - Bass Coast Health has secured $5 million in State Government funding to build hotel-style accommodation for key health workers and their families on vacant land behind Wonthaggi Hospital. 
Mission accomplished
Sept 13, 2024 - How Clare Le Serve and Michael Whelan changed our lives. By Catherine Watson 
Saving our beaches
Sept 12, 2024 - Conservation Society pushes for urgent dune reconstruction to prevent further damage to the Inverloch surf beach. 
The tourist trap
Sept 10, 2024 - Council’s flawed rural tourism strategy could be the death knell for farming on Phillip Island, warns Greg Johnson 
To solar or not to solar - that is the question
Sept 12, 2024 - Tim Herring crunches the numbers on home battery storage. 
Earthly delights
Sept 12, 2024 - Two inspirational Bass Coast native gardens kick off the Open Gardens Victoria spring season, writes Kate Anderson. 
Big Honcho to the rescue
Sept 11, 2024 - A note on the rusty handlebar advised "Will start on eighth go". Geoff Ellis took a chance. 
Call of the wild
Sept 12, 2024 - Sixteen local naturalists share the challenges and joys of working in nature. |
Grow your own
Sept 9, 2024 - Graeme McAlpine is keen to pass on the secrets of his mind-bending craft, reports Liane Arno. 
Travelling north
Sept 12, 2024 - Etsuko Yasunaga’s winter escape brings new experiences and some unanswered questions. 
The line to Wonthaggi
Sept 13, 2024 - Just 10 weeks to lay the railway line from Woolamai to Wonthaggi sounds incredible. What’s more, most of the work was done by pick and shovel, writes Carolyn Landon. 
Across the Waters
Sept 11, 2024 - Wanted: a six-word sentence that describes how you feel about Western Port (Warn Marin) 
Nature notes
Sept 11, 2024 - Happy times when the yellow tailed black cockatoos call in for a visit. Brownie points for pet rescue group
Sept 12, 2024 - It started when Jen Rutherford borrowed a trap to catch her bantam, Brownie. Now she wants to repay the favour. 
A cook’s journal
Sept 9, 2024 - Pork cheeks, anyone, or would you prefer Carrilleras de cerdo al vino? Liane Arno is inspired by a Spanish tapas dish. Community diary
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