In 1841, two Aboriginal men shot and killed two sealers on the beach at what is now called Harmers Haven. Terri Allen relates the events leading up to the murders. ​

Teaching a young man to read and providing a sympathetic ear on were all part of the job for Wonthaggi’s first librarian, Georgie McRae. Carol Cox reports

Teaching a young man to read and providing a sympathetic ear on were all part of the job for Wonthaggi’s first librarian, Georgie McRae.

Nell Sleeman recalls Wonthaggi during the Second World War

The name McHaffie has been synonymous with Phillip Island for more than a century and a half.

On Christmas Day in 1909, a young man called John Price Jones, newly arrived on the Powlett River coal fields, sat down to write to his family in Wales. More than a century later, the letter provides a rare first-hand account of Wonthaggi’s beginnings.

“Twenty-six-year-old blacksmith Vic Benetti is Wonthaggi's most eligible bachelor”.

It took more than 50 years of debate and struggle to establish Wonthaggi’s first public library. CAROL COX looks back at that struggle in a series to mark the library’s move to new premises in Murray Street.

Terri Allen's memoir of her house at Frog Hollow, its surrounds, and the people who have lived there since 1915.

High tides recently exposed old tramway rails at the Cape Paterson beach. The 150-year-old rails are the last link to the earliest efforts to mine coal in our area, Mike McCarthy writes. WILLIAM Hovell's...

Beau Sleeman’s verse gives a fascinating insight into the Wonthaggi of the mid-1900s, a world of backyard chooks, the Friday night town parade of fighters and preachers, and a laid-back miner who was too smart for the managers.

Wonthaggi’s original co-op bakehouse is under threat, and not for the first time. By Carolyn Landon

The State Coal Mine whistle has played a central role in Wonthaggi life for more than a century.

The Wonthaggi mother, teacher, librarian, historian, author and activist believed everything we do is ultimately a political decision. By Carolyn Landon

The mining families of Wonthaggi spent some of their most treasured times at Cape Paterson beach. By Carolyn Landon

In January 1958, the Powlett Express interviewed Wonthaggi’s Anna Coldebella, who had just become a naturalised Australian. Fifty-five years later, almost to the day, Anna’s son fills in the back story about her early years in Wonthaggi.

May 2012 marks the centenary of the Wonthaggi Railway Station

As a two-mile fire front races from Wonthaggi towards Cape Paterson, a constable gallops across town taking a four-year-old boy to safety ... Carolyn Landon reports on the great fire of February 14, 1944

Coffee pots, polenta pans, musical instruments and tools of trade were in the luggage of Italian migrants who arrived in Wonthaggi in the 1950s. By Carolyn Landon

In 1923, a 25-metre whale washed up on the beach near Wonthaggi. By Carolyn Landon