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Leader of the pack

1/6/2018

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Chris Davies with Charlie (left), Meg, Willow and Drift
Chris Davies was a horse woman through and through … until the day Charlie the pet kelpie decided to herd some sheep. 

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Mr Toull’s big day

31/1/2018

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Coronet Bay. A small town where you learn astonishing things about your neighbours. 


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Beyond words

17/8/2017

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Artist Tom Murray-White has learned to turn off the part of his brain that makes words. Gill Heal reports.


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The inside story

3/8/2017

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After 70 hours recording three novels for Audible, Melbourne actor Fiona Macleod welcomes the chance to read to a live Bass Coast audience.


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Leading by example

23/6/2017

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By Gill Heal

​I’VE been thinking about values and patriotism and I think I know what our prime minister means. We’re a first world country; we’re out in front of the pack. And we should be proud of it, not doubt it.

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What if we gave up the booze?

19/5/2017

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A contentious community issue, a lively panel, an open-minded audience … welcome to Bass Coast's first hypothetical.


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Thank you, Dr Brooks

14/4/2017

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​Over 50 years, Peter Brooks made a big mark on his adopted home town of Wonthaggi. Gill Heal recalls a man who valued music and theatre almost as much as medicine.  


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Here’s to Paul

14/3/2017

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Tracey and Ross Denby want their new cafe to feed the soul as well as the body. Gill Heal reports


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Dawn before the dark

17/12/2016

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Gill Heal wonders if anything can stop humanity’s descent into a new Dark Age.
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A woman for all seasons

19/11/2016

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In a Kongwak garden, Carolyn Rowson learned to understand the seasons of her own life. ​


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Little shop revisited

24/9/2016

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Little Shop of Horrors was the Wonthaggi Theatrical Group’s first blockbuster. This time it’s being performed as it was written, with a small ensemble, and in the group’s new home.


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Across the great divide

10/9/2016

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Director Josh Gardiner leaves us no place in hide in his production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
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From left, Albert Dussel (Brad Beach), Peter Van Daan (Adam Turner), Mrs Van Daan (Jaz Kaye), Anne Frank (Cluanie Swanwick), Mr Van Daan (Adam Turner), Edith Frank (Bron Kalos), Margot Frank (Jaz Hendry) and Otto Frank (Simon Furniss). Photo: Geoff Glare

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Half way to paradise

30/1/2016

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Zena Benbow (third from right, at Pioneer Bay’s 
Aussie Day Bash) looked around Pioneer Bay and saw a clutch of houses and residents starved of opportunity to meet one another. So she did something about it.


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Country boy with a city heart

28/11/2015

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The city fascinated the young Darren Talbot but when it came to setting up home it had to be within sight, sound and smell of the sea.


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Leap of faith

17/10/2015

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By Gill Heal 

​ELEVEN years ago, Mariamma Cheriyan arrived in Australia with little more than a passport and a certificate of nursing. She had limited English, almost no money, no job and she’d come alone. Left behind in India were her husband and three young daughters, the youngest just six and four years old.


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Newcomers welcome

5/9/2015

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Maddy Harford and Harry Freeman didn't expect their new lives to be so interesting, they tell Gill Heal. 



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Playing with fire

4/7/2015

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Being an actor is a weird job, Rowena Wallace tells Gill Heal, because the boundary between acting and real life isn’t always clear. ​


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The stuff of dreams and nightmares

6/6/2015

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PictureThe 'Pippin ensemble' with Leading Player Will Hanley. Photo: Tony Dall Masetto
There were a few nightmarish moments on the way to Wonthaggi Theatre Group’s dream-like production of Pippin, director Karen Milkins Hendry tells GILL HEAL.


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Never mind the gap 

2/5/2015

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PictureJaquelina Alves Ferreira at Australia Zoo
Taking a year away from study between school and university is sometimes seen as a slightly dangerous diversion. GILL HEAL spoke to five local students who followed their own paths and found unexpected benefits


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Beyond the headlines

4/4/2015

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At their best, newspapers connect us to something bigger and better than ourselves, writes GILL HEAL.

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Faster! Stronger! Higher!

7/3/2015

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GILL HEAL knows just how Ursain Bolt feels, thanks to her mother’s exquisite sense of timing. ​


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The Prof hits on a winning formula

29/11/2014

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After a lifetime of biochemical research, Dick Wettenhall is now mastering the mysteries of soil, yeast and oak. GILL HEAL meets the prize-winning vigneron.


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Mother Courage

11/10/2014

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It began as snippets scribbled on bits of paper in the depths of a mother’s worst nightmare: a daughter's mental breakdown. Gill Heal reports on Heather Murray Tobias’s new poetry collection, The Glass Staircase.


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A new row to hoe

26/7/2014

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In uncertain times, the days of farmers blindly doing what their fathers did are long gone. The Post spoke to three who are responding creatively to new challenges.


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All in a day’s wok

28/6/2014

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Former Hong Kong chef Tom Liu delights in satisfying the rather strange tastes of his Australian customers. Gill Heal reports


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