FEATURE ARTICLES 2022
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‘Select few’ sink town plan
Dec 13, 2022 - How the big end of town hijacked the community’s vision for Wonthaggi … Frank Coldebella reports. 
Call of the wild
Dec 14, 2022 - Linda Cuttriss visits Scenic Estate Reserve and finds Nature has reclaimed it despite the best efforts of developers, boy racers, vandals and even conservationists. 
She and I
(and truth and fiction) Nov 28, 2022 - Grace Elizabeth Elkins, a Cape Woolamai writer and teacher, won the short section with an intriguing exploration of the way an adolescent illness has informed personal perspective and memory. 
Sands of Time
Nov 28, 2022 - Cape Paterson author and publisher Kit Fennessy has won third prize in the short section of the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with a witty slice of memoir that seamlessly weaves together metaphysics, geology, history and Jimmy Hendrix. 
A tale of two gardens
Dec 15, 2022 - Amidst the freezing gales of this strange summer, Geoff Ellis has time to reflect on those who came before. 
Fancy footwork
Dec 14, 2022 - After a lifetime of dancing, Gay Gibson is still spreading the joy of a good workout for body and mind. Liane Arno reports |
Prom inspires prize-winning work
Nov 28, 2022 - Lucinda Bain has won the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with The Prom, a personal interrogation of the writer’s place in nature in the midst of a climate emergency. 
The Prom
Nov 28, 2022 - Lucinda Bain's prize winning essay celebrates the beauty of our world and our diminishing hope for the future. It ends on a hopeful, simple, profound fact. 
One Morning, on the Way to School
Nov 28, 2022 - Warragul author Jim Connelly, a retired teacher and church minister, has won second prize in the short section of the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with his rollicking yarn of the daily school bus ride from Garfield to Warragul in the 1940s. 
The thrill of the chase
Dec 14, 2022 - Curator Warren Nicholls warms to the challenge of selecting 26 artists for Phillip Island’s fourth summer pop up exhibition. 
Hats off to a band of amateur brickies
Dec 15, 2022 - Christine Grayden applauds the musicians who built the iconic Cowes band rotunda. |
The battle for Bass
Nov 13, 2022 - For election nerds, the contest for the seat of Bass is a thriller with enough twists and red herrings to keep them awake at night. 
The common touch
Nov 13, 2022 - There’s no sign of moleskins, RM Williams boots and akubra. No private school education either. But then Brett Tessari is not your usual National Party candidate. 
Green skies ahead
Nov 11, 2022 - It’s been quite a year for Callum Bugbird: first he landed his dream job and then he stood for Parliament. 
Against the tide
Nov 11, 2022 - Come November 26, says Independent Jeni Jobe, the most likely result is a Labor Government, ideally a minority one with a strong cross bench – including her. Welcome, strangers!
Nov 12, 2022 – In two weeks a Syrian family will leave Iraq to begin a new life in Wonthaggi. Harry Freeman looks at the road ahead, for the family and their hosts. |
Questions remain over poll chaos
Dec 12, 2022 - Despite the election day chaos at local voting centres, the VEC isn’t saying how it got it so wrong. 
The son also rises
Nov 13, 2022 - Liberal Party candidate Aaron Brown has big shoes to fill and he’s determined to do it his way. 
The winds of change
Nov 11, 2022 - Meg Edwards had no intention of standing for Parliament again – but when the Labor Government floated its offshore wind turbine plan she blew her stack. 
All creatures great and small
Nov 12, 2022 - Animal Justice Party candidate Elly Mousellis’s extended family includes a cockatiel, a gecko, 27 fish and a dwarf rabbit with special needs. 
Man of the trees
Oct 17, 2022 - Sally McNiece goes bush with Ringo Gannon and learns that when it comes to significant trees size isn’t everything. |
Inverloch dune works preferred option
Nov 11, 2022 - Conservation Society supports sand dune renourishment ahead of rock walls, writes Philip Heath. 
Open for business
Nov 8, 2022 - The signs are up, the scaffolding is being removed and on Saturday the community finally has a chance to see inside the $115m Wonthaggi Hospital expansion. 
What's a forest worth?
Oct 20, 2022 - Tim O’Brien questions the local environmental cost of Melbourne’s Big Build. |
Away with the birds
Nov 8, 2022 - Microlight aviator Amellia Formby drops in to celebrate Western Port’s migratory shorebirds 
On the koala trail
Nov 13, 2022 - Genetic analysis confirm koalas in the Western Port Woodlands are a rare remnant population. 
Just what the doctor ordered
Nov 8, 2022 - The Wonthaggi Miners Friendly Society’s Dispensary – better known as “the Dispensary” – turns 100 this month. |
Hands off Western Port!
Oct 17, 2022 - In the past decade, more than 200 million has been spent on failed attempts to industrialise Western Port. A bold new plan aims to stop it happening again. 
Stark choices on coastal assets
Oct 19, 2022 - From Bass Coast to Bells Beach, coastal councils are struggling to respond to local flood risks and coastal erosion, writes Bass Coast Mayor Michael Whelan. Lifestyle bounces back
Oct 20, 2022 - Two months after Cowes village refusal, developers win favour with modified design 
Labor lags on woodland protection
Oct 11, 2022 - Four of the five confirmed parties fielding candidates in the Bass electorate have committed to significant action to protect the Western Port Woodlands 
Bandicoots’ wild anniversary
Oct 20, 2022 - Duncan Sutherland still has vivid memories of the night he and a team of rangers released 67 eastern barred bandicoots on Phillip Island. 
Power to the people
Oct 16, 2022 - From the Andes Mountains to the shores of Western Port, communities and the natural environment are under pressure from governments’ focus on the bottom line. Neil Daly reports. 
For Our Future
Oct 19, 2022 - Expect the unexpected when the arts, science and culture come together in a new program celebrating Bass Coast places and people. Laura Brearley explains. |
When knowledge is power
Oct 21, 2022 - Werner is explaining the miracle of heat pumps, striding the room like one of the old Energizer ads. Catherine Watson reports. 
Going wih the flow
Oct 20, 2022 - On the road again, Etsuko Yasunaga enjoys unexpected encounters and a moving reminder of this fragile, precious life. 
Surf’s up, Nauru style
Oct 19, 2022 – In the middle of the Pacific, on a tiny island, Liane Arno discovers a Bass Coast expat making waves. 
The alchemy
of art Oct 17, 2022 - The moment every artist is waiting for, says John Adam, is the moment when they lose control of a work. That’s when the magic happens. 
Paperbark town
Oct 20, 2022 - When the swamp paperbark is in bloom, the snapper are on the bite, writes Terri Allen. 
Where’s the whatsit?
Oct 17, 2022 - Harry Freeman reports a conversation that’s happening more frequently in his household – as far as he can remember. Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak 
Shearwaters are back on track
Oct 13, 2022 - Almost 1.5 million short-tailed shearwaters have arrived on Phillip island right on schedule. |
Labor lags on woodland protection
Oct 11, 2022 - Four of the five confirmed parties fielding candidates in the Bass electorate have committed to significant action to protect the Western Port Woodlands 
Cowes eyesore or vibrant addition?
Sept 23, 2022 - Council narrowly approves four-storey hotel development despite fears it will spoil vistas of the new cultural centre. 
‘5000 trucks a day’ forecast
Sept 22, 2022 - Bass Coast communities to bear brunt of mining expansion for Melbourne’s Big Build. 
Inverloch hotel headed for VCAT
Sept 21, 2022 - The South Gippsland Conservation Society has appealed to VCAT to overturn approval of a four-storey hotel on the Inverloch foreshore. 
$290m extension for hospital
Sept 15, 2022 - Labor Government will spend up to $290 million to complete a second stage of redevelopment at Wonthaggi Hospital if it is re-elected in the November state election. 
Island powers on
Sept 14, 2022 - Phillip Island’s vision to become fully renewable by 2030 is a step closer, with plans approved for a big battery and a trial of community energy storage. 
The Mighty Ayr
Sept 22, 2022 - “Don’t sweat the small stuff” or “From small things big things grow”? Waist deep in his local creek, Ed Thexton ponders the contradiction as he does battle with a demon weed. 
Tiny glider knocks ‘em for six
Sept 15, 2022 - Finding the world's smallest gliding mammal in The Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve was a dream come true for Dave Newman. 
One for the birds
Aug 16, 2022 - When Emma and Steve Plowright bought a small farm, they had no intention of pretending to be farmers. |
From badlands to boutique 'burb
Sept 21, 2022 - While Helen Zervopoulos hails the transformation of Pioneer Bay, Zena Benbow gives a resident’s perspective of the hard work behind it … and the final missing piece of the puzzle. 
Caring for Western Port Country
Sept 21, 2022 - Governments and developers will have carte blanche on Western Port until we fix our “box mentality”. 
The good oil
Sept 13, 2022 - Liane Arno calls in some expert help as she looks forward to the arrival of a community olive press in Wonthaggi. 
The backward glance
Sept 16, 2022 - In Heather Tobias’s 85th year, the last thing she was expecting was her first solo exhibition. 
Forrest Caves and the passing of time
Sept 15, 2022 - Not even the rocks are permanent on this mysterious and constantly changing beach, writes Linda Cuttriss. 
Tall tales and the mighty leek
Sept 22, 2022 - The Wonthaggi Leek Show was serious business, writes Carol Cox, with growers having their own secret leek feed and a special leaf polish. 
Harmers dustup
August 19, 2022 - Federal Labor MP Ged Kearney was once hailed as “swamp saviour Ged” for buying a swampy bit of land in Harmers Haven to save it from development. 
Coronet Bay in lights
Sept 22, 2022 - Teamwork, diversity and lots of laughter mark regular exhibitions on the foreshore. Ann Brown reports. 
Environmental love-in-action
August 18, 2022 - The Sybil Disobedients cross the bay to stand with the Western Port Woodlands. Laura Brearley reports |
Council no to Lifestyle village
August 18, 2022 - Boomer bliss or just a glorified trailer park? Catherine Watson reports 
Apartment building hits the spot
August 19, 2022 - “This is the right building in the right place,” says Cr David Rooks as council approves Cowes development. 
Making a Place for Olive
August 19, 2022 - At a small gathering to mark the completion of Olive Justice Place, Christine Grayden is reminded of those who once called this place home 
What’s special about your neighbourhood?
Aug 18, 2022 - With another 10,000 homes to be built in Bass Coast by 2036, the council wants to know what we value. 
Cape community outgunned
Aug 16, 2022 - Residents are no match for big developers and professional consultants, writes Cheryl Padgett. |
Hello earthlings
Aug 17, 2022 - Australia is planning to send a robot to the moon, writes Neil Daly. Meanwhile back here on Earth the future of Western Port still hangs in the balance. 
My precious piece of Australia
Aug 17, 2022 - Richard Kemp is privileged to share his patch of paradise with creatures great and small. 
Portrait of a town
Aug 16, 2022 - Ten years ago a group of 19 photographers descended on Wonthaggi for a fortnight. Brian Carr was one of them. 
To Siem Reap with love
August 19, 2022 - When Glenda Salter volunteered to help some of Cambodia’s poorest students she soon realised the learning went both ways. |
My EV journey continues
July 21, 2022 - Michael Nugent asks four local EV pioneers about their experience of owning – and driving – an electric vehicle. Warm welcome awaits refugee family
Julky 20, 2022 - Right now a Syrian family on the other side of the world is probably searching for information about a small town called Wonthaggi. 
The heart of the house
July 21, 2022 -Iain Ritchie was the steady rock and guiding hand for so much good stuff that happened in our community, writes Pat Atkinson. 
The art of reconciliation
July 21, 2022 - A group of student artists and photographers visited the NAIDOC Exhibition of Indigenous Art. |
Close to home
July 21, 2022 - Covid put a stop to Dave and Jackie Newman’s wildlife safaris around Australia and introduced them to the natural riches just down the road. 
In the mood for winter
July 20, 2022 - Winter has a bad reputation but Linda Cuttriss loves its many moods. 
Lessons in life, country style
July 21, 2022 - A summer job at Wonthaggi’s bakery was the start of Frank Coldebella’s real education. 
The Australian court house
July 21, 2022 - If you have to go to court, pay attention to the architecture, suggests Tim Shannon. |
Reconciliation walk bridges the divide
July 15, 2022 - More than 1000 people walked across the bridge from San Remo to Millowl (Phillip Island) yesterday in a Massive display of support for reconciliation 
Let the bidding begin
July 1, 2022 - When a cavalcade of senior politicians is heading down the Bass Highway, you know it’s good news for Bass Coast. 
Local government on the big stage
June 30, 2022 - Cr Leticia Laing has plenty to think about after attending her first National General Assembly. 
Lido Place and The Glade
June 30, 2022 - A new development is planned for Inverloch’s gathering place. Ed Thexton reckons it’s like having an elephant in your lounge room. Where is the vision?
June 30, 2022 - Trevor Forge asks why the Inverloch Design Framework is being snubbed. 
A power for good
June 30, 2022 - Wanted: 100 Phillip Island households to share renewable energy. Zoë Geyer explains the watts and volts of Bass Coast’s first neighbourhood battery tariff trial. |
Tales from the Underground
June 30, 2022 - In the third and final part of John Bordignon’s memoir of working life of a coal miner, as told to him by Wonthaggi miners, he relates the accidents, near misses and bloody silly pranks that were part of working life. 
The new post
July 1, 2022 - We could have got in a team of expensive management consultants but my friend Linda Cuttriss came up with a plan for nothing. 10 reasons I love the Post
June 30, 2022 - Christine Grayden pays tribute to the writers and artists who have woven in and out of the Bass Coast Post over the past 10 years. 
Hallelujah!
June 30, 2022 - The Bass Coast Chorale returns on Sunday for its first concert in three years. 
Lighting up winter
June 30, 2022 -Some talented musicians and an attentive audience made for a warm session at The Goods Shed Open Mic. Ellen Hubble reports. 
Riding the Mega Tropis
June 30, 2022 - Writing a book about Jakarta in Wonthaggi brought both into sharper focus for Max Richter. 
All hands on deck
June 30, 2022 - Western Port belongs to all Victorians, writes Neil Daly. Your vote can determine its future. |
Locked out
June 17, 2022 - It’s meant to be a conduit for the community to raise issues of concern, but a Grantville mining committee operates more like a secret society, writes Neil Rankine. 
Cycle of life
June 18, 2022 - A walk with Terri Allen is an education. The conversation roams from history to botany to bird watching but it might also cover drainage, swamps and local politics. 
End of the line
June 16, 2022 - Glenn certainly had a go but he was no match for the forces of economic rationalism. John Coldebella pays tribute to a battler. 
Band on the run
June 17, 2022 - They need ten grand and an oboe, reports Geoff Ellis. And when the South Gippsland Concert Band gets serious, anything could happen. 
The boundary wars
June 16, 2022 - The battle to save Cape Paterson’s ‘sea village vibe’ is half won. Now a group of locals is working to finish the job. Cheryl Padgett reports. |
Post mortem
June 18, 2022 - As the Bass Coast Post turns 10, editor Catherine Watson looks back in wonder. 
Calling Gippsland writers
June 17, 2022 - Entries are open for the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction, one of the richest competitions for non-fiction in Australia, with a total of $10,000 in prize money. 
Let there be delight
June 16, 2022 - The joy shines through when you are doing what you love, writes Etsuko Yasunaga 
Tales of the Underground
June 16, 2022 - Part 2 of John Bordignon’s memoir of working life of a coal miner, as told to him by Wonthaggi miners, including his own father. 
On the koala trail
June 3, 2022 - Once koalas were hunted to the point of extinction. Catherine Watson joined a hunt for their survivors. |
Back to nature
June 4, 2022 - In the 1960s and 70s a dodgy developer sold 337 seaside blocks on Phillip Island, many to overseas buyers. The former housing estate is now a conservation success story. 
Tales from the Underground
June 2, 2022 - John Bordignon’s fascination with the Wonthaggi miners started when his dad took him down into the tunnels not long before the pit ponies and miners were winched up for the last time. |
A chat with Matt
June 2, 2022 - Neil Daly is ready and willing to help Matthew Guy ‘Recover and Rebuild Victoria’. 
Together we can
June 2, 2022 - When World Environment Day met Reconciliation Week … Laura Brearley celebrates the transformative power of collective action in Bass Coast. 
Here’s to you, Tex
June 2, 2022 - Liane Arno raises a toast to Tex Abrahamson, “a man of few words and no principles whatsoever“. |
‘Resolve mining conflict first’
May 20, 2022 -Council challenges Government to fulfil its charter to protect environment and biodiversity. 
The more the merrier
May 17, 2022 - Vibrant democracies encourage people to get involved. Christine Grayden suggests six ways we can play our part. 
Spotlight on Coronet Bay
May 20, 2022 - Discovery of five swamp antechinus heartens those working to improve biodiversity. 
The times they are a-changing
May 7, 2022 - Mat Morgan says something has changed when more people are having a go at their Liberal MP than at the guy in a Greens T shirt. |
The coal miner’s daughter
May 17, 2022 - From humble beginnings, Wendy Crellin has built a life filled with arts and service to her community 
Leo’s climate action story
May 19, 2022 - Attending his first climate strike on Phillip Island, Leo Wood-Ingram realised he was part of something important. Photos by Laura Brearley and Terry Melvin 
My spider and I
May 19, 2022 -Catherine Watson tries to remember the good times. Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak 
Why I do care a fig
May 17, 2022 - John Coldella pays homage to the fruit of the gods and original G string. Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak |
One of us
May 7, 2022 - One Nation’s Allan Hicken says he’s just a blue collar worker who wants the best for his kids. 
All at sea
“May 7, 2022 - I’m just a normal guy,” David Welsh (Australian Federation Party) told the candidates forum. Everything he said after that went to prove the opposite. 
The paper candidate
May 7, 2022 - The United Australia Party’s Christine McShane lives in Oakleigh but she has visited the Monash electorate! 
The numbers game
May 6, 2022 - We all know the game, writes Bass Coast CEO Ali Wastie. It doesn’t matter whether you vote left or right but whether you vote marginal. 
Welcome aboard!
May 4, 2022 - Cr Rochelle Halstead welcomes a new fellowship program that plans to get more women to stand for Bass Coast Council. |
Take him or leave him
May 7, 2022 - Liberal Russell Broadbent marches to his own beat, often annoying his own party as much as he does his opponents. 
Actions speak louder
May 7, 2022 - Independent Deb Leonard decided to stop complaining about politicians and have a go herself. 
The true believer
May 7, 2022 - Labor’s Jessica O’Donnell found her party at the age of 10 and has never wavered. 
The contest of ideas
You can credit the socialist democratic paradise of Sweden for making Meg Edwards a Liberal Democrat. 
Shock on mine expansion
May 7, 2022 - Mayor says serious community and environmental concerns have been ignored. |
Harmers swamp 'under threat'
May 4, 2022 - Attempts to subdivide the swamp have been rebuffed for 70 years. John Old hopes the latest attempt will be treated the same way. 
What we’re learning from the woodlands
May 5, 2022 - The woodlands campaign is a living example of active hope, writes Laura Brearley. 
Country Life
May 7, 2022 - Dick Wettenhall has won the annual Wonthaggi-Jeetho West-Gurdies Pumpkin Growing Cup for the second year in a row. 
Solidarity forever
May 4, 2022 - Geoff Ellis celebrates the annual gathering of the comrades under the Wonthaggi mine whistle. 
Seven line up against veteran MP
April 21, 2022 - There is just enough happening to suggest the Monash election could be more interesting than it looks on paper. 
How to talk to children about climate change
April 21, 2022 - Meg Humphry hopes her new book offers a gentle way into a very tough subject. 
Why we do the work
April 22, 2022 - Most of the signs were soon stolen or smashed but the message lives on. Images and photostory by Laura Brearley and Terry Melvin |
The space between
April 21, 2022 - Watching a great modern film in her mother tongue, Etsuko Yasunaga revels in the familiar words – and the silence. 
In search of Bridget
April 21, 2022 – All Jenny Osler had were a few family stories and three family photos, taken on her great-grandmother’s 80th birthday when she went to live with The Little Sisters of the Poor. 
A year through the lens
April 22, 2022 - One student turned up for Geoff Ellis’s first photography class. Since then it’s grown into a group with a focus on friendship as much as learning. 
Full strings ahead
April 22, 2022 - If you’ve never heard a mandolin orchestra, Marion Blaze can tell you it’s a unique and thrilling experience 
Back to earth
April 22, 2022 - We all have a part to play in regenerating the planet we share, writes Christine Grayden, and Earth Month seems a good time to start. 
The ‘climate first’ election
April 21, 2022 -There was an overwhelming message at last weekend’s climate rally, reports Jessica Harrison 
Let’s join the dots
April 20, 2022 - Treating Western Port and the region as an entity is the best way to resolve the issues that plague it, writes Neil Daly. |
Never mind the devastation; look at the vista
March 9, 2022 - There is nothing in the Distinctive Areas and Landscapes about how to protect our woodlands. There is, however, plenty about how to protect sand mining. Catherine Watson reports 
Blue carbon skies ahead
March 8, 2022 – Restoring mangrove, seagrass and saltmarsh ecosystems in Western Port could play a major part in reducing carbon emissions. 
The kiosk on the hill
March 8, 2022 - Running the Cape Paterson kiosk was no easy task without electricity, a phone line or toilet, but for newlyweds Janice and Wazza Coldebella it was all part of the adventure. 
Covid hits home
March 7, 2022 - Bass Coast Health board director Mim Kershaw knew all the statistics about COVID 19 – but she really didn’t understand the impact until she caught it herself. |
Tutus not required
March 7, 2022 - Liane Arno puts her best food forward at Wendy Crellin’s ballet class for seniors. 
The non-talking cure
March 7, 2022 - Making art has allowed Maggie Bell to work through the trauma of domestic violence without having to talk about it. 
What’s in a nickname?
March 8, 2022 – A mate by any other nickname wouldn’t be quite the same. John Coldebella delves into the art of taking the piss. |
Crunch time for Inverloch
March 25, 2022 - The mapping is done and now it’s time to make some hard decisions on Inverloch’s eroding coastline. Catherine Watson reports 
Ring the changes
March 23, 2022 - Sexual harassment derailed Ali Wastie’s first career. Bass Coast Council’s CEO is determined it won’t happen to anyone else on her watch. 
Brown Junior steps up
March 26, 2022 - Local Liberal powerbroker Alan Brown’s dream of establishing a political dynasty came a step closer when his son Aaron Brown was selected as the Liberal Party candidate for Bass. 
Back to nature
March 25, 2022 - Residents of our coastal hamlets value their connection to nature, writes Emily Clarke, so don’t try to turn them into suburbia. 
Your election form guide
March 25, 2022 - Neil Daly grades the parties on their election policies for Western Port and environs. 
Push and pull
March 25, 2022 - Donna Wright’s exhibition explores the way the natural world refuses to be subjugated by humans. Review by Ellen Hubble. |
Family secrets
March 26, 2022 - Lauren Burns talks about her new book: part memoir, part detective novel, and part warning on the global assisted reproduction industry. 
Gamble responsibly
March 24, 2022 - Harry Freeman’s cautionary tale about a backgammon game with a Kurdish carpet seller that nearly ended his marriage 
Short and sweet
March 25, 2022 - Marny Javornik prepares to hunker down and enjoy Bass Coast’s inaugural film festival. 
Where are the women?
March 25, 2022 - It can be hard to find the women in Bass Coast’s local history. To mark Women’s History Month, Christine Grayden points to some online resources. 
Summer of strangeness
March 23, 2022 - Feral tomatoes, transgender nuts and ravenous birds … summer was full of surprises for local gardeners, reports John Coldebella 
Cooking with Pip
March 25, 2022 - Blackberries and blood plums make this crumble a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. |
Bass Coast’s 50-year plan
March 10, 2022 - Township boundaries revised; disappointment for woodlands group. 
Turning points
March 9, 2022 - Three women with very different stories … Rebecca Slavin, Emma Grabham and Sally Conning each recall a moment when their life changed. 
The good life reimagined
March 10, 2022 - In the midst of a climate emergency and housing crisis, Zoe Geyer imagines a sustainable tomorrow for her daughter. 
Too close to home
March 10, 2022 - Local people are being forced to leave Bass Coast because they cannot find a place to rent. Helen Searle wants action. 
A taste of paradise
March 9, 2022 - Desperate to escape the COVID misery of Phillip Island, Rory Marshall packed up the van and headed north to a new life. 
Sign of the times
March 9, 2022 - Clearing vegetation for the new Inverloch pathway reveals a sign erected by the council warning against the clearing of vegetation. |
Crunch time
March 9, 2022 - The old Mazda has served Michael Nugent well but he’s ready for the EV revolution. He invites us to join him on the journey. 
Any which way
March 7, 2022 - John Coldebella reckons you can pick a Wonthaggi local by the distinctive sense of direction. 
A different kind of summer visitor
March 7, 2022 - Gayle Marien is lucky enough to observes a leaf-curling spider at work. 
The next small thing
March 9, 2022 - Ed Thexton reports on the latest in nest box technology, including new methods to deter Indian mynas and other raiders. 
Treasures in the woodlands
March 9, 2022 - Tim Herring's close encounter with a mighty monitor lizard in the Western Port Woodlands. 
Deliver us our daily bread
March 9, 2022 - Wonthaggi’s Country Style bread was delivered by generations of locals and horses who knew every customer. |
Detours ahead
Feb 23, 2022 - Dave Sutton calls for some fine tuning of the proposed inland pathway route between Inverloch and Wonthaggi to retain mature bushland, while Dave Drummond explains why a coastal route isn’t feasible. 
A recipe for fun
Feb 23, 2022 - Bass Valley Primary School students will be watching with interest to see how “their mangroves” perform over the coming years. Neil Daly was there to watch the muddy adventure. 
Summer bliss with a twist
Feb 25, 2022 - A close encounter reminds Linda Cuttriss that humans aren’t the only ones enjoying the great ocean. Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak. 
Jonathon Livingston Seagull: the final chapter
Feb 25, 2022 - If you see a seagull at Cape Paterson, say hello from Harry Freeman. 
Island of plenty
Feb 25, 2022 - Crayfish, whiting, mutton birds, rabbits ... there was full and plenty on Phillip Island if you knew where to look for it., wrote Norm Jenner |
Rescue at the Bridge
Feb 23, 2022 - In the 2021 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction, Garfield writer Roman Kulkewycz was commended for Rescue at the Bridge, his vivid account of a bad flood and a brave rescue 
Time and motion
Feb 25, 2022 - Outdoor adventures bring Etsuko Yasunaga exhilarating new perspectives and welcome encounters with friends and strangers. 
Feb 23, 2022 - As Jan Cheshire hangs up the cooking apron after nine years with the Post, we welcome Pip (Philippa) Sibley, one of Melbourne’s most acclaimed chefs.
Cooking with Pip
Feb 25, 2022 - Choose the best and ripest tomatoes you can find for this sensational seasonal focaccia, a favourite of Pip Sibley. 
A feast of good gardening
Feb 25, 2022 - The inaugural Bass Coast Edible Gardens Festival hit the spot, writes Maddy Harford. |
Independent spices up Monash election
Feb 11, 2022 - An independent candidate adds an element of uncertainty in the very safe Liberal seat of Monash. 
Same old story
Feb 11, 2022 - When Frank Coldebella saw the front page headlines about a bike path in the Sentinel Times, he had a sense of deja vu. 
Where we belong
Feb 11, 2022 - Walking on the Corinella foreshore, Alison Normanton vows to do her bit to preserve it for future generations. 
Big cat sighting adds to mystery
Feb 11, 2022 - The Grantville area has long been a hot spot for big cat sightings. Meryl Tobin reports 
Jonathon Livingston Seagull: a diary
Feb 11, 2022 - When Harry Freeman rescued a seagull, he had no idea the bird was taking notes. |
Saved by Martha, Two sticks of Wood and a Woolly Sheep
Feb 11, 2022 - Leongatha writer Leonie Margetts was highly commended in the 2022 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction for her memoir of a devastating grief and the surprising way she survived it. 
Cowes reimagined
Feb 11, 2022 - Another summer, another year of traffic chaos in Cowes. It doesn’t have to be this way, writes Christine Grayden. 
Kings of the road
Feb 11, 2022 - This weekend’s Tour of Gippsland is a welcome return of elite cycling to a shire with a proud cycling history going back over a century. 
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Making peace
Jan 28, 2022 - Australia Day, 2022 … In the shade of a casuarina tree, overlooking a glittering Andersons Bay, two women are undoing some of the wrongs of the past. Catherine Watson reports 
It’s time we set the agenda
Jan 28, 2022 - If Western Port is to be saved, ‘the people’ have to set the agenda for the politicians to follow, writes Neil Daly. 
‘We’re ready.’
Jan 28, 2022 - Josh Latham has plenty of reasons to get out of bed early these days. Now he’s inviting business leaders to join him for breakfast. Geoff Ellis reports 
‘We shouldn’t have to live like this’
Jan 28, 2022 - This week Jan Fleming did something she never thought she would do: she called a real estate agent to come and give an estimate on her house. 
Arsonist strikes again
Jan 28, 2022 - Four fires in the past fortnight revive memories of the infamous arsonist who terrorised Wonthaggi in 2015. 
23 signs you have it
Jan 28, 2022 - Unfortunately there’s no vaccine against pandemic craziness, writes Christine Grayden. |
Wallace Avenue Community Park, Inverloch
Jan 28, 2022 - Inverloch writer Judy Vradenburg won third prize in the 2021 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction with this absorbing insider’s account of the realities of community activism. 
Nothing to hide
Jan 28, 2022 - Francesca Curtis was buried n the beautiful Phillip Island cemetery in the midst of a spectacular electrical storm that seemed apt to mark the life of a freedom fighter. 
A feast of garden ideas
Jan 28, 2022 - Bass Coast gardeners will show and tell all in the inaugural Edible Gardens Open Weekend. 
Stories of us
Jan 28, 2022 - Interviews with farmers, hoteliers, an artist and a newspaper editor provide a fascinating insight into Phillip Island’s rich history, writes Andrea Cleland. 
Rally Round the dunes
Jan 12, 2022 - More than 250 people braved strong easterly winds on the Inverloch surf beach on Wednesday to call for urgent action to save the disappearing sand dunes. |