Words from the Woodlands
Many of us have been walking in the woodlands lately. Now Laura Brearley invites us to share the experience through poetry or prose.
A community in action
Laura Brearley is inspired by the community’s willingness to come together and raise their voices to save our local woodlands
The Bass Coast sound
Bass Coast musicians add the finishing touches to seven short films celebrating our special places. Laura Brearley reports.
In the flow of love and loss
Word spread quickly about the loss of hundreds of mature grass trees, writes Laura Brearley, and a community showed itself ready to stand tall on behalf of the fallen trees
Aunty Fay’s mission
Boon Wurrung Elder Fay Stewart-Muir knew the Australian history she learned at school was dishonest. Her life’s work has been to improve our understanding, writes Laura Brearley
The places we love
When a call went out for descriptive writing and images of our favourite places in Bass Coast, the response was heart-felt. writes Laura Brearley
Songs for Western Port
With hearings set to begin next month on AGL plans to build a terminal and gas plant in Western Port, Laura Brearley says it’s time to raise our voices.
Places in the heart
Do you have a special place in Bass Coast? Write 150 words about the place you love and it could feature in a series of short films celebrating our natural landscape.
And the band played on
Street parade tradition continues despite COVID, led by a couple of inventive Inverloch musicians, writes Laura Brearley
Birds are Singing Country
The birds come in waves, writes Laura Brearley, each one connecting us to Bass Coast and the people who came before us.
Country comes alive
Place names give voice to Country, writes Laura Brearley, when the language is spoken and sung again.
Forged by fire
In the wake of her family’s ordeal in the Mallacoota bushfires, Laura Brearley reflects that catastrophe reminds us of what matters.
An ocean of possibilities
INTERCULTURAL collaboration is a slippery and elusive art, writes Dr Laura Brearley, but also a revealing place to work.
