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Dear Corinella and beyond
March 22, 2024 - In a few shocking minutes Jen Rutherford lost her house. That’s when a community wrapped their arms around her and told her she was not alone. Get used to it
March 22, 2024 - As climate change accelerates, Helen Zervopoulos says it’s time to stop the blame game and get ready. Back from the brink
March 22, 2024 - The astounding recovery of Eastern Barred Bandicoots highlights the potential of the former Holden Proving Ground as a predator-proof sanctuary for threatened species. Relief for Ruttle Estate residents
March 23, 2024 - Residents chalk up second victory in their battle to preserve the wetland reserve. The thin green line
March 22, 2024 - Ed Thexton visits the Corinella Foreshore and finds the locals have achieved something remarkable. Road upgrades back on the agenda
March 20, 2024 - After a resounding collective NO! to a $32 million scheme to seal, pave and drain Surf Beach and Sunderland Bay, more than 130 property owners are requesting road upgrades. Say that again
March 22, 2024 - Hard of hearing? Then you might need a different kind of smoke alarm. Liane Arno reports. |
Silver lining for little old penguin
April 3, 2024 - One of the oldest penguins ever seen at the Phillip Island mega-colony has returned to sea after five weeks of intensive rehab. Lights out for shearwaters
April 12, 2024 - Phillip Island residents and business are being asked to dim the lights to protect short-tailed shearwater chicks on the first leg of their first migration to the northern hemisphere. The power trip continues
March 22, 2024 - The lights stayed on during our recent prolonger power outage, reports Werner Theinert. Facing Island, Facing Mortality
March 22, 2024 - Christine Grayden revisits the life of Jan Bassett, a remarkable historian whose family roots were deep in Phillip Island. Art of the woodlands
March 23, 2024 - Prize money of $2500 is up for grabs in an art exhibition celebrating the Western Port Woodlands. The wreck of the Speke
March 11, 32024 - How one of the world’s biggest steel rigged ships came to grief on Phillip Island’s rugged south coast. By Pam Rothfield A family affair
March 22, 2024 - Open Gardens Victoria features two contrasting Inverloch gardens, owned by mother and daughter Judy Morcom and Sue Jarvis. |
The forgotten south
Feb 23, 2024 - It’s all very well to expand to the north of Wonthaggi but what about the south, asks Beryl Farr. Ian Robinson Q&A
Feb 23, 2024 - After a long writing career, Ian Robinson’s first children’s picture book opened up a rich vein of creativity. Time at the Tech
Feb 16, 2024 - It only takes one teacher to change a life, and Bruce Phillips was lucky enough to find several in his Wonthaggi school years. AI and me
Feb 23, 2024 - Catherine Watson discovers that we’re all replaceable. Except perhaps for cleaners. |
The woman with the x-ray eyes
Feb 23, 2024 - Melissa Lowery sees things that no one else does. And she’s transformed our knowledge of the dinosaurs that once roamed Bass Coast. A splash of joy
Feb 22, 2024 - Our mortality reminds us to cherish each special day, writes Etsuko Yasunaga Across the Narrows
Feb 20, 2024 - Time and tide wait for no man and nowhere is the saying more apt than in the narrow channel between San Remo and Phillip Island, writes Linda Cuttriss On the arrival of Warren at the Homestead
Feb 22, 2024 - Ron Kousal’s mostly fallacious rabbiter’s guide to Rhyll, from Don Giovanni to La Causa Nostril. |
Wonthaggi hopes and fears
Jan 26, 2024 - With our little country town destined to become a major regional centre, the Post asked residents to reflect on what lies ahead. Bigger - or better?
Jan 25, 2024 - The developers are already circling Wonthaggi, eyeing the prize and working out how to maximise the carve-up, writes Mark Robertson. The views have it
Jan 24, 2024 - Corinella homeowners have won the right to a sea view, with the long awaited landscape plan. Debate remains whether that's a victory for common sense or environmental vandalism. John Lippmann and Jenny Date put the case for and against. Yes, no, dunno
Jan 25, 2024 - Bass Coast councillor Les Larke continues to perplex. His latest council lark is not to vote, reports Catherine Watson. Not a good look
Jan 25, 2024 - Writer Selena Routley sometimes works in convivial spaces such as cafés and pubs. And that seems to upset some people. Australian made
Jan 25, 2024 - Geoff Ellis finds himself the custodian of things that were built to last. Total immersion
Jan 25, 2024 - There’s no separation between Mae Adams’ life and art. Her bush block provides the materials for her exquisite weavings. |
Time at the Tech
Feb 16, 2024 - It only takes one teacher to change a life, and Bruce Phillips was lucky enough to find several in his Wonthaggi school years. Across the Narrows
Feb 20, 2024 - Time and tide wait for no man and nowhere is the saying more apt than in the narrow channel between San Remo and Phillip Island, writes Linda Cuttriss The great ships of Phillip Island Millowl
Jan 19, 2024 - As the Phillip Island Conservation Society marks its first 55 years, Christine Grayden ponders how members have kept up the good fight for decades without wavering. The other war
Jan 22, 2024 - If you love living here, imagine how much First Nations people must have loved it before the British invasion, writes Frank Coldebella. Not a murder, just an unkindness
Jan 25, 2024 - A mass gathering of ravens at The Oaks intrigues Ed Thexton. Shootout at the RK Homestead
Jan 22, 2024 - You might think they’re cute. Ron Kousal begs to differ. Extreme painting
Jan 26, 2024 - Mark Schaller’s been having fun. He hopes we’ll enjoy the results. 'The eye of a hawk and the hand of a surgeon'
Jan 25, 2024 - Noted ceramicist Rob Matheson has been engaged to run a monthly class in Wonthaggi. Liane Arno gets to know the man behind the work. |