Sam Gatto’s memoir of his family’s migration from an Italian village to an Australian coal town was written for his descendants, but it’s a remarkable story for the rest of us too.

A lifelong Phillip Islander, Cherry McFee didn’t like to go too far from the sea. Story by Gill Heal

Long before dawn, the milkmen and horses of Hanley’s Dairy criss-crossed Wonthaggi to deliver the daily pint.

How a beached whale became a Wonthaggi icon.

Architectural plans for the first permanent Wonthaggi Hospital dating from 1913 have been returned home after a surprise find at a church sale in regional Victoria.

Janet Akers recalls the close community of Wonthaggi’s Graham Street.

<i>Once upon an island</i> is a collection of 39 stories that chart the history of Phillip Island from 1868.

THE local significance and tragic history of the No. 20 coal mine shaft site, where 17 miners died, is now memorialised with new signage and in a podcast series documenting the heritage of Wonthaggi.

An inspiration to generations of artists and photographers, the bones of the last remaining brace are a moving reminder of Wonthaggi’s extraordinary mining history, writes Carolyn Landon.

THIS week a team of "dino hunters" embark on the first dinosaur dig at Inverloch since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Wonthaggi Miners Friendly Society’s Dispensary – better known as “the Dispensary” – turns 100 this month.

The Wonthaggi Leek Show was serious business, writes Carol Cox, with growers having their own secret leek feed and a special leaf polish.

In the third and final part of John Bordignon’s memoir of working life of a coal miner, as told to him by Wonthaggi miners, he relates the accidents, near misses and bloody silly pranks that were part of working life underground.

John Bordignon’s fascination with the Wonthaggi miners started when his dad took him down into the tunnels not long before the pit ponies and miners were winched up for the last time.

All Jenny Osler had were a few family stories and three family photos, taken on her great-grandmother’s 80th birthday when she went to live with The Little Sisters of the Poor.

Running the Cape Paterson kiosk was no easy task without electricity, a phone line or toilet, but for newlyweds Janice and Wazza Coldebella that was all part of the adventure.

It can be hard to find the women in Bass Coast’s local history. Christine Grayden marks Women’s History Month by pointing to some online resources.

Wonthaggi’s Country Style bakery employed generations of locals ... and horses.

Crayfish, whiting, mutton birds, rabbits ... there was full and plenty on Phillip Island in the 1930s and 1940s as long as you knew where to look for it., wrote Norm Jenner

Wonthaggi’s own Hefty Stuart was right up there with ‘Oppy’ in Australian cycling lore.