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Paul's patch
May 17, 2023 - “I can’t save the world … but I can make a difference locally,“ Paul Speirs told Gill Heal. 
The power trip continues
May 17, 2023 - The renewable energy revolution is taking place somewhere near you, writes Werner Theinert. 
Tall tales and true from island’s past
May 17, 2023 - Have you ever wondered why the main street of Cowes is called Thompson Avenue, or when motorsport became part of Phillip Island's culture? 
The good oil
May 17, 2023 - You’d hate to be paid by the litre for picking olives, but OMG, what olive oil! Catherine Watson was there for the first pressing of Wonny Olives. 
Mission Crimson Berry
May 17, 2023 - A team of ecological crusaders salvages critically endangered plants from Wilsons Prom to help regenerate the species on Phillip Island. |
Beneath our shifting sands
May 19, 2023 - Walk around Inverloch with Aunty Sonia Weston and you see her ancestral links to Country are lived every day, writes Sally McNiece. 
More than memories
May 17, 2023 - Like many descendants of Wonthaggi coal miners, the State Coal Mine is in Linda Cuttriss’s DNA. 
Lost and found
May 17, 2023 - As her mother’s memory declines, Liane Arno forges a new relationship with her. 
One step at a time
May 18, 2023 - Some magical days the mind clears and Etsuko Yasunaga feels like she could run forever. 
This one’s for Nature!
May 17, 2023 - Having worked in concrete for most of his career, artist Phil Henshall calls time on sand mining in woodlands. 
The art of uncertainty
May 17, 2023 - This year’s Winter Solstice exhibition at ArtSpace Wonthaggi asks artists to respond to the theme of climate change . |
That’s a wrap!
April 22, 2023 - As the DAL hearings draw to a close, Catherine Watson looks back on a tumultuous two months in which our community has been probed, questioned, pondered and revised as never before. 
Give us a go!
April 22, 2023 - The State Government should hand the State Coal Mine back to the Wonthaggi community that values it, writes Brett Tessari 
Trees versus views
April 22, 2023 - Like most civil wars, the battle over the Corinella foreshore reserve is complicated and goes back several generations. Catherine Watson reports from the frontline. 
On a wing and a prayer
April 19, 2023 - After 10 anxious weeks of looking after eggs and chicks, the adult hooded plovers are exhausted, writes David Hartney. And the hoodie volunteers aren’t far behind. 
Lowest prices are just the beginning
April 20, 2023 - Herds of metal dinosaurs lumber across the landscape, issuing plaintive beeps, as if calling for mates. Mark Robertson has a ringside seat for Bunnings’ big build. 
Creative conversations from afar
April 21, 2023 - Inverloch artist Susan Hall enjoys a rich creative collaboration with Melanie Yazzie, a Navajo artist. The two artists exchange creative messages – by post. 
A chance encounter of the seedling kind
April 19, 2023 - Neil Daly discovers scientists – citizen and otherwise – are working towards the same end on the Queensferry foreshore. |
In the flow
April 22, 2023 - In his 81st year, John Mutsaers’ stamina might be diminishing but his creativity is blossoming. 
Listen carefully: Broadbent
April 17, 2023 - Liberal MP says an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament is the start of Australia’s healing. 
Enjoying the ride
April 22, 2023 - Eight months in, EV driver Michael Nugent couldn't be happier, except … 
Frog find puts woodlands on map
Discovery of endangered southern toadlets at multiple sites reinforces calls for protection of Western Port Woodlands. 
Short and sharp
April 13, 2023 - “Anyone can make a short film,” says the director of the Bass Coast Shorts Film Festival. And he hopes locals will take up the challenge. 
Fig favourite
April 13, 2023 - There are so many delicious things to do with figs and apples, writes Liane Arno. Here’s her favourite. 
Nature’s cure
April 13, 2023 - An old Post story on Henry’s Creek Sanctuary inspires Margie Matheson to dream big. |
‘This is our story!’
March 25, 2023 - A double blow has left Wonthaggi’s premiere – and only – tourist attraction reeling. Catherine Watson reports 
Every seal counts
March 22, 2023 - On International Seal Day, a Phillip Island Nature Parks researcher is appealing to local fishers not to discard fishing line. 
Adventures at VCAT
After a week spent binge-watching a pivotal case, Ed Thexton concludes that between the theatre and the tedium, a clash of world views is reduced to trivialities. 
Time for a ceasefire
Feb 17, 2023 - Sally McNiece calls for the chainsaw brigade to lay down their arms while there’s still some remnant vegetation left to save. 
Call this a compromise?
Feb 18, 2023 - After years of community consultation and planning on McBride Avenue, the Wonthaggi Club takes all. Catherine Watson reports 
Further, wider, stronger
Feb 17, 2023 -Western Port and the hinterland are inextricably linked, writes Neil Daly 
Dino team return to their happy hunting ground
Feb 17, 2023 - “Dino hunters” embark on the first dinosaur dig at Inverloch since the COVID-19 pandemic. 
What is calling through this art?
Feb 18, 2023 - Darug artist Daniel Church will be a special guest at a Deep Listening Circle being held to accompany his exhibition at Wonthaggi ArtSpace. 
The colonial curse
Jan 25, 2023 - Christine Grayden’s great-great-grandparents were brutalised by the British Empire but at least their descendants were born into freedom. Unlike many Aboriginal people. |
The story teller
March 24, 2023 - Olive Justice never lost her adventurous spirit, positive attitude and love of a good story. Christine Grayden celebrates one of Phillip Island’s great characters in Women’s History Month. 
Good as new
March 24, 2023 - Wonthaggi’s Fixit Café is about more than recycling and reducing waste; it’s also a great way to connect to Wonthaggi’s social grid, writes Hilary Stuchbery. 
The art of the matter
March 23, 2023 - Ken Griffiths’ “Hippeastrums” will be raffled at the Inverloch Art Show to raise money to buy food boxes for local people in need. 
The numbers are good today
March 23, 2023 – These days Geoff Ellis’s morning routine starts with a finger prick and ends with toast. 
As good as Melbourne!
Feb 16, 2023 - Since the new Wonthaggi Hospital opened in December, previously healthy locals seem to have become strangely accident prone. 
Why I’m disappointed
Feb 17, 2023 - The National Anthem was a serious omission from Bass Coast’s recent citizenship ceremony, writes John Cobbledick 
Something to chew on
Feb 17, 2023 - How tooth decay led Matt Stone on an exotic holiday. 
No. 5 Brace
Feb 17, 2023 - The decaying bones of Wonthaggi’s last remaining mine brace are a moody reminder of the town’s early history, writes Carolyn Landon. |
Let’s get together
Jan 25, 2023 - Given the lack of political will to protect Western Port, Neil Daly proposes a citizens assembly with the results to be presented as a petition to Parliament. 
A feast of good gardening
Jan 25, 2023 - Bass Coast gardeners show and tell all in the second Edible Gardens Weekend. 
Once upon a time in Inverloch
Jan 25, 2023 - Etsuko Yasunaga could have said no but a small voice whispered to her that adventures lay ahead. 
Flights of fancy
Jan 26, 2023 - Tim Shannon looks back to an era when airports celebrated the wonder of flight, rather than being shopping malls flanked by giant carparks. |
Guide Park: the review
Jan 26, 2023 - Adventure playground experts Esme and Clem check out the $1.77m makeover. 
The men who could make anything
Jan 26, 2023 - Trained in the Wonthaggi mine workshops, Danny Carr and his workmates proved a boon to the district after the mine closed. 
Operation Fairy Tern
Jan 27, 2023 - Three summers ago, 31 fairy tern pairs fledged 49 chicks on Churchill Island. Since then, not a single chick has survived. 
Yes please, more trees
Jan 27, 2023 - Cowes and Inverloch are the standout towns for tree cover in Bass Coast and San Remo is the barest. |