Pamela Rothfield’s meticulous history of the first 73 occupants of the Phillip Island cemetery provides a moving snapshot of this fledgling society: the vulnerability of babies, children and pregnant women, the prevalence of depression, the high rate of d

Bruce Campbell believes he has grown up in the luckiest family, in the luckiest district, in the luckiest country in the world. His grand-daughter Merryn Chapman recounted his story at Kernot’s Australia Day breakfast

The last shift of miners emerged from the The last shift of miners emerged from Kirrak shaft on the morning of December 21 1968 to be greeted by their fellow workers, a few casual onlookers and a contingent of reporters and photographers from Melbourne.

Descendants of some of Phillip Island’s first selectors will be among a cast re-enacting the first land ballot in Cowes next weekend.

Christine Grayden’s combination of meticulous research and an engaging approach to sharing history has been recognised by Museums Australia.

Few visitors to Inverloch are aware of a shipwreck buried in the surf beach for a century and a half.

A musical and acrobatic show in Bass Coast next weekend pays tribute to some of the least likely heroes of the First World War: the musicians who also acted as stretcher-bearers and medics

Private Ernest Berryman of Glen Forbes is one of 103 service men and women with connections to the Bass Valley district who will be honoured at the unveiling of a plaque in Bass next month.

The Wonthaggi & District Historical Society recently unearthed a series of intriguing short stories and memoirs by a former miner named Arthur Baker.

More than a century after the first Western Port Times went out of business, a new online version is uncovering the rich history of the Waterline communities.

A century of real estate ads spruiking the charms of “Victoria’s Most Beautiful Seaside Resort” are on display in a fascinating new exhibition by the Inverloch Historical Society.

The shacks built in the dunes of Harmers Haven and the fibro shacks that followed were holiday homes to a tight-knit socialist community, writes Marguerita Stephens.

Jim Bell never forgot the day the gaming squad raided the Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club with sledgehammers and axes.

Samuel Jabez Pickersgill’s memoirs of life at Griffiths Point (San Remo) in the 1870s and 1880s make fascinating and often harrowing reading.

Mark Robertson is uncovering the stories of the everyday objects in the Wonthaggi museum. He shares some of them with Carolyn Landon.

Any time after Guy Fawkes Day, the cry would be raised, “Let’s go out to the Wreck!” Carolyn Landon revisits Joe and Lyn Chambers’ evocative essay.

No pasta, no salami, no tinned tomatoes ... Italian migrants had to start from scratch when they arrived in Wonthaggi.

If you’d visited Queensferry a century ago, you would have found a seaside settlement with hotels, a licensed colonial wine saloon, three public halls, a store and a series of large and small houses.

As Miss Somerset, I was appointed by the Victorian Education Department to the Powlett Coal Field School in Wonthaggi in 1910.

The Inverloch Mechanics’ Institute minutes provide a fascinating insight into the social life of a small town over 81 years. By Eulalie Brewster