The Bass Coast Post is an online magazine written by and for residents of Bass Coast. It was established in 2012 to provide an alternative voice for the region.
Bass Coast Post, by the numbers
- 13+ years
- 370+ editions
- 4000+ original stories
- 100+ contributors
- 1400+ email subscribers
- 1700+ Facebook followers
- 10,000+ unique visitors per month
- 15,000+ page views per month
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What our readers say ...
Written on the 10th anniversary of the Bass Coast Post in June 2012.
Congratulations and thank you. Future generations will google Bass Coast Post to know who we really were.
Geoff Ellis
The ‘Post’ saved my sanity. Many thanks.
Lorrie Read
I can't remember when I first became aware of the Post but life without is now unthinkable.
Like Brian, I've found it a mine of information and always an enjoyable read on such a wide variety of topics.
Congratulations and I hope you can find a way that works for you and the Post to continue for another ten years at least.
Anne Heath Mennell
Thank you for giving birth to the Bass Coast Post. It enriches our lives and every edition enables us to appreciate and value the environment and the people of Bass Coast.
Anne and Bob Davie
I've been with you since the beginning, recommended The Bass Coast Post often, and even though I don't live in the Bass Coast I still find many articles of interest.
Robin Dzedins
Thank you Catherine for the amazing and informative Bass Coast Post. I guess I have subscribed for years but was overwhelmingly touched when you contacted me about a short eulogy I had sent to you about "My Quiet Acheiver of The Gurdies"my dear husband Ron just over three years ago. You encouraged me to tell you more about him and I found myself sharing his story.
That simple gesture and interest consolidated respect for your journalism.
Well done for 10 years of ethical journalism
Margaret Lee
For ten years you have taken in the opinions, musings, memories and histories of Bass Coast life from a wonderful mixture of talented people. With great skill you fashion all that into a reading delight. Your own writing stands out too for me. The dry wit of the Covid diaries is one example. With my heartfelt thanks,
Doris Tate
I am one of many who are very grateful for and indebted to the wonderful life of your Bass Coast Post. What a great idea you had, and how well you have nurtured it.
Tim Shannon
I look forward to reading all the articles when the email arrives with your new edition. So many interesting writers with wonderful history of Bass coast. Well done to you and everyone who have contributed their amazing stories
Thelma Dowson
The Bass Coast Post is a labour of love from you to be sure.
You enable us to see who we are and what we care about as a community. You connect us and we are all the stronger for it. Deep thanks to you Catherine and all who sail with you.
Laura Brearley
Thanks for giving all of us a platform to express our stories and thoughts. I hope to contribute as long as you can fix my grammar and spelling.
Richard Kemp
The Post is such a gift to the people of Bass Coast - to all those who care about its community, it’s environment, it’s heart and soul. And thanks for the opportunity to write and have my writing published.
Linda Cuttriss
Big thanks for all your creative, interesting and socially important work Catherine.
Max Richter
I am only a recent BC resident of four years, but I got right into the Bass Coast Post and consider it just what Catherine wanted it to be - a magazine covering local affairs in a reasoned, and sometimes light-hearted manner. A place to read and share similar and differing views in a rational way.
Tim Herring
I love the Post with your and other articles which often make me lough aloud and sometimes weep quietly and sometimes both at the same time.
The Post is entertaining as well as informative as well as ethical and well written and presented. Often, I learn local news or about local identities through the post. I congratulate you on your courage to press send ten years ago.
Felicia Di Stefano
Accolades and Orchids to you and to Bass Coast Post.
Phyllis Papps
Happy 10th. Anniversary. I feel you would be bored floating down the Powlett. Thank you for a wonderful 10 years of supplying us with some very interesting articles.
Anne Bevis
Congratulations Catherine on producing a fabulous fortnightly paper with stories of personalities that live in our townships and giving people the opportunity to read and to learn more and understand fully the issues that we face.
I look forward so much to each edition of the Bass Coast Post and recollect the first edition I read which contained a story written by the incredible man, Bob Middleton, and I was hooked.
Thank you for encouraging an old lady with very little formal education, to discover the joy of writing.
You are an absolute legend and to thank you seems miserably inadequate for all that you do.
Joy Button
Congratulations on the Post's tenth anniversary! We are a better community thanks to you - and to all the local writers you've encouraged.
Robyn Arianrhod
Congrats on Bass Coast Post’s 10th Birthday, Catherine - a pretty incredible achievement. Where would I send people to for ready info about Bass Coast if Bass Coast Post had never existed or if it ceased to exist? Apart from supporting all manner of the arts, you are providing a public service that, among other services, is reminding politicians, local, state and federal that they are accountable. And it is empowering ordinary people to have a voice. Thank you.
Meryl Tobin
Ten years! Wow, what a great contribution to this community Catherine, and what an achievement. And so important in the way it has given voice to so many 'citizen journalists' reporting on the things that bind us, that enrich us, that make our Bass Coast region such a wonderful corner of this State and country. Long indeed may it continue!
Tim O’Brien
An excellent publication much enjoyed.
Carolyn Goldberg
As one who lived in Wonthaggi in the '60's and returned here during lockdown, I've found the The Bass Coast Post an absolute mine of information and a thoroughly enjoyable read. I wouldn't worry about it being 'leftish', most publications that care about people and environmental issues are.
Brian Carr
Thanks for your gentle shepherding of a bunch of neophyte scrawlers- me included. And thanks for giving voice to the many other species which call the Bass coast home. I hope the board of directors give you a massive pay rise - at least 100%!
Mark Robertson
Geoff Ellis
The ‘Post’ saved my sanity. Many thanks.
Lorrie Read
I can't remember when I first became aware of the Post but life without is now unthinkable.
Like Brian, I've found it a mine of information and always an enjoyable read on such a wide variety of topics.
Congratulations and I hope you can find a way that works for you and the Post to continue for another ten years at least.
Anne Heath Mennell
Thank you for giving birth to the Bass Coast Post. It enriches our lives and every edition enables us to appreciate and value the environment and the people of Bass Coast.
Anne and Bob Davie
I've been with you since the beginning, recommended The Bass Coast Post often, and even though I don't live in the Bass Coast I still find many articles of interest.
Robin Dzedins
Thank you Catherine for the amazing and informative Bass Coast Post. I guess I have subscribed for years but was overwhelmingly touched when you contacted me about a short eulogy I had sent to you about "My Quiet Acheiver of The Gurdies"my dear husband Ron just over three years ago. You encouraged me to tell you more about him and I found myself sharing his story.
That simple gesture and interest consolidated respect for your journalism.
Well done for 10 years of ethical journalism
Margaret Lee
For ten years you have taken in the opinions, musings, memories and histories of Bass Coast life from a wonderful mixture of talented people. With great skill you fashion all that into a reading delight. Your own writing stands out too for me. The dry wit of the Covid diaries is one example. With my heartfelt thanks,
Doris Tate
I am one of many who are very grateful for and indebted to the wonderful life of your Bass Coast Post. What a great idea you had, and how well you have nurtured it.
Tim Shannon
I look forward to reading all the articles when the email arrives with your new edition. So many interesting writers with wonderful history of Bass coast. Well done to you and everyone who have contributed their amazing stories
Thelma Dowson
The Bass Coast Post is a labour of love from you to be sure.
You enable us to see who we are and what we care about as a community. You connect us and we are all the stronger for it. Deep thanks to you Catherine and all who sail with you.
Laura Brearley
Thanks for giving all of us a platform to express our stories and thoughts. I hope to contribute as long as you can fix my grammar and spelling.
Richard Kemp
The Post is such a gift to the people of Bass Coast - to all those who care about its community, it’s environment, it’s heart and soul. And thanks for the opportunity to write and have my writing published.
Linda Cuttriss
Big thanks for all your creative, interesting and socially important work Catherine.
Max Richter
I am only a recent BC resident of four years, but I got right into the Bass Coast Post and consider it just what Catherine wanted it to be - a magazine covering local affairs in a reasoned, and sometimes light-hearted manner. A place to read and share similar and differing views in a rational way.
Tim Herring
I love the Post with your and other articles which often make me lough aloud and sometimes weep quietly and sometimes both at the same time.
The Post is entertaining as well as informative as well as ethical and well written and presented. Often, I learn local news or about local identities through the post. I congratulate you on your courage to press send ten years ago.
Felicia Di Stefano
Accolades and Orchids to you and to Bass Coast Post.
Phyllis Papps
Happy 10th. Anniversary. I feel you would be bored floating down the Powlett. Thank you for a wonderful 10 years of supplying us with some very interesting articles.
Anne Bevis
Congratulations Catherine on producing a fabulous fortnightly paper with stories of personalities that live in our townships and giving people the opportunity to read and to learn more and understand fully the issues that we face.
I look forward so much to each edition of the Bass Coast Post and recollect the first edition I read which contained a story written by the incredible man, Bob Middleton, and I was hooked.
Thank you for encouraging an old lady with very little formal education, to discover the joy of writing.
You are an absolute legend and to thank you seems miserably inadequate for all that you do.
Joy Button
Congratulations on the Post's tenth anniversary! We are a better community thanks to you - and to all the local writers you've encouraged.
Robyn Arianrhod
Congrats on Bass Coast Post’s 10th Birthday, Catherine - a pretty incredible achievement. Where would I send people to for ready info about Bass Coast if Bass Coast Post had never existed or if it ceased to exist? Apart from supporting all manner of the arts, you are providing a public service that, among other services, is reminding politicians, local, state and federal that they are accountable. And it is empowering ordinary people to have a voice. Thank you.
Meryl Tobin
Ten years! Wow, what a great contribution to this community Catherine, and what an achievement. And so important in the way it has given voice to so many 'citizen journalists' reporting on the things that bind us, that enrich us, that make our Bass Coast region such a wonderful corner of this State and country. Long indeed may it continue!
Tim O’Brien
An excellent publication much enjoyed.
Carolyn Goldberg
As one who lived in Wonthaggi in the '60's and returned here during lockdown, I've found the The Bass Coast Post an absolute mine of information and a thoroughly enjoyable read. I wouldn't worry about it being 'leftish', most publications that care about people and environmental issues are.
Brian Carr
Thanks for your gentle shepherding of a bunch of neophyte scrawlers- me included. And thanks for giving voice to the many other species which call the Bass coast home. I hope the board of directors give you a massive pay rise - at least 100%!
Mark Robertson