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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. |