Wonthaggi Mine Disaster 1937
Through February funeral processions weaved their way through Wonthaggi to the cemetery. In March grief and mourning gave way to anger.
Wonthaggi women
Linda Cuttriss salutes the women who made Wonthaggi their home and gave the town its heart.
The Scots and Red Wonthaggi
Scottish miners were a driving force in the militant unionism for which Wonthaggi became known. By Linda Cuttriss
From Italy to Wonthaggi
If you see a yard with a vegetable garden with climbing beans and plump, red tomatoes there’s a good chance it belongs to an Italian Wonthaggian.
From the Old Country to Wonthaggi
People crossed the oceans to work in the State Coal Mine at Wonthaggi. Linda Cuttriss’s grandfather was one of them.
From tent town to model town
Wonthaggi arrived much later than most of the towns around Bass Coast, but it grew at breakneck speed. By Linda Cuttriss
Long haul to first state coal mine
The State Coal Mine came to life almost overnight. But it took more than half a century and a state of emergency for it to happen. By Linda Cuttriss
Kilcunda coal
Linda Cuttriss had always wondered about that mullock heap. It wasn’t until she was held up by roadworks that she stopped to find out more.
A wreck, a whale and that shiny black rock
Linda Cuttriss explores Wreck Beach and finds a complex web of events linked by coal.