Welcome to the Bass Coast Post, an online magazine written by and for residents of Bass Coast. The next edition will be published on October 16. Email submissions to editor@basscoastpost.com
NEWS
Lights, cameras, action
DO YOU have a story to tell? The Bass Coast Shorts film festival is seeking submissions for our next festival in April 2025.
Nice campus. Shame there aren't any students.
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.
The line to Wonthaggi
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.
The universal language
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.
Invitation to a memory
Janet Budge’s extraordinary fabric collages were the unexpected hit of the Woodlands Exhibition, writes Geoff Ellis.
Stuff and nonsense
There’s something about a pile of stuff on a nature strip that’s hard for Catherine Watson to resist.
Our war on pitto
This enemy overpowers everything in its way, but Jon Temby is equally pitiless. And the tide is turning.
Lime tart
A cook’s journal Lemon tarts are lovely but limes take this tart to a whole new level, writes Liane Arno, a proud Limey.
Call in the A team
It starts with a jumble of disconnected paintings. It takes Karin Murphy Ellis, Susan Hall and Ursula Theinert to turn it into an exhibition.
VIEWPOINT
Come on Labor, finish the job!
Despite years of promises, the nationally significant Western Port Woodlands remain as vulnerable as ever to sand quarrying.
From ram raids to road repairs
After a couple of busy weeks in Canberra, Mary Aldred is back to the issues closer to home
Harriet Shing bows out
After 12 years representing Eastern Victoria in the Victorian Parliament, there were a few digs, some personal reflections and a spirited defence of the record of the Labor governments she served under.
ENVIRONMENT
The bush as supermarket
On a walk through The Gurdies, Bunurong ranger Ross Henry reveals a landscape where every plant has a story and most have a use.
Planting against the odds
Eighty volunteers brave wind, sand and salt to begin the long haul to restore Inverloch’s lost dune habitat
What’s killing Phillip Island’s eucalypts?
Research student Evie Cowling discovered the answer is complicated.
Don’t dream it’s over
Fifty-five years ago Professor Shapiro wrote “Western Port is more than an amenity; it is a treasure to be cherished for generations to come”. By Neil Daly
The koala detectives
Koalas living in the Western Port Woodlands are part of the special Strzelecki genetic lineage, but there is still much to learn.
ARTS
Breakthrough
Anabelle Bremner was there to see Bass Coast’s young performers take their first steps into the real music world.
A colourful call for Western Port
Community gathering celebrates the bay’s biodiversity and calls for stronger protection
LOCAL HISTORY
‘We never stand still!’
For over 100 years, the Kongwak Hall has been the heart of this community. By Jillian Durance
Gordon House and the Union Café
Newly arrived in Wonthaggi, Nannie Grieve found a way to make a living and a home for her family.
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