Geoff Ellis wonders why we mourn the victims of the Las Vegas killer but are indifferent to the Rohingya genocide.

The joy of a labradoodle led Geoff Ellis to Bass Coast.

By Geoff Ellis ​UP IN the Bass Coast hills the temperature drops rapidly once the sun dips below the ridgelines. Lew Potter’s beanie keeps him warm but there’s not much daylight left and those new-borns...

Friends of the State Coal Mine president Steve Harrop. Visitors to the mine will be able to compare the performance of different panels and batteries. Wonthaggi’s state coal mine has long been a magnet...

Geoff Ellis meets the legendary Mike Cleeland, who’s been digging for clues for three decades. A HEAD full of knowledge with a pocket full of rocks: that’s how Mike Cleeland wants to leave people....

By Geoff Ellis STORM surges and high tides regularly inundate car parks in Rhyll and Inverloch. Anyone who walks the beaches along the Grantville waterline can show you where the foreshore once was...

In our daily travels throughout Bass Coast, we are never far from thousands of years of human history. By Geoff Ellis THERE aren’t any signs and the walkway just ends. Seagulls hover above us. We are...

A nervous Geoff Ellis sets out to track down the creature digging up his lawn. SINCE we moved up the hill to Col de Krowera, life has been punctuated by critters both great and gruesome. The snakes...

A Korinne farming family turned their backs on Big Milk and found a brighter new future. Geoff Ellis reports. By Geoff Ellis "If we had stayed with Murray Goulburn we wouldn't be milking now." In 2015...

Once upon Geoff Ellis knew exactly what the council should do. And then he became a councillor. By Geoff Ellis THE council minutes show how we voted but they can’t note the tears and cheers. It’s a...

By Geoff Ellis NOTE to self: Next time – removalists. A white ute dashes along Sheepways dragging a dust cloaked trailer. Back in Wattle Bank another trailer waits as the next load grows around it....

By Geoff Ellis FRANKENSTEIN wasn't the first scientist to have the next best thing become the exact opposite. He won’t be the last. Glyphosate-based products have long been the standard for weed control....

​By Geoff Ellis THERE are two memorial cairns in Corinella. One reminds us of the failed attempt at British settlement in 1826. The other informs us of Count Paul Strzelecki’s 1840 journey through an...

By Geoff Ellis “It’s NOT the wrong button. Here!” The old remote still worked, if you pressed hard enough. June tossed it back into his lap. “And turn the volume down BEFORE you switch over.” She...

Geoff Ellis looks back fondly to the days when employment services found jobs for people. AT MY last job service network provider interview in Wonthaggi, it was suggested to me that I should apply at...

By Geoff Ellis RECENTLY I drove to Cranbourne and back in a morning. At Wonthaggi unleaded petrol was 115.9 cents (Brand A, Brand B and Brand C). At Bass, 34 kilometres away, unleaded petrol was 96.9...

Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak By Geoff Ellis April 9, 2016 "ANY customer can have a car painted any colour they like ... so long as it is black," Henry Ford (inventing the mandatory option) in...

Put Ricky Muir first and a politician second, urges Geoff Ellis. March 26, 2016 THERE are so many reasons to get angry. Water security, marriage equality, coal seam gas mining, public transport, employment,...