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Michael
Giles

You too can sail away from life’s pressures today

Film maker and journalist Otis Filley will be joining ‘Project Interrupt’ garbage raft sailor Samuel McLennan on the next leg of his journey around into Port Phillip Bay. The Project Interrupt raft, made out of found objects around the Tasmanian...

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Michael Giles

19 Aug 2025

Council

Rate rises and new emergency levy hit struggle street

PEOPLE are hurting. Between the rises in energy costs, housing, low wage increases and all the rest, there’s a real squeeze on the household budget. Which is why, when shire rate notices started arriving in Bass Coast last week, and the same is...

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Michael Giles

19 Aug 2025

Sport

Undermanned Power turns it on but is it too late?

WONTHAGGI Power have kept alive their slim hopes of making the Gippsland League finals with an upset, 16-point victory over their neighbouring rivals and ladder-leaders Leongatha in a dour struggle at Wonthaggi on Saturday. Either Warragul or...

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Michael Giles

18 Aug 2025

News

They tell us where the renewable energy equipment goes...

THE release of the 2025 Victorian Transmission Plan (VTP) on Sunday this week, represents a major milestone in Victoria’s energy transition, according to the Minister for Energy and Resources, The Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio MP. “As coal-fired power...

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Michael Giles

17 Aug 2025

Community

Two new dog parks highlight of shire’s draft domestic animal plan

THE keenly awaited review of the Bass Coast Shire Council’s Domestic Animal Management Plan (DAMP) has just dropped on the shire’s website (see link below). And at first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything controversial. There is...

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Michael Giles

15 Aug 2025

Council

Green light for RACV expansion

IT’S basically the reannouncement of a reannouncement. But it’s still major news for Inverloch and the tourist economy in Gippsland and Bass Coast this week, that a long-awaited, $15 million-$20 million expansion of the RACV Inverloch Resort...

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Michael Giles

15 Aug 2025

Community

What it took to get a Woolamai farmer a drought-relief cheque

Woolamai grazing country should look like this but dramatically less rainfall this year have left pastures distressed, water storages low, and primary producers with big feed bills. IT TAKES a lot to prise money out of the State Government, it...

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Michael Giles

15 Aug 2025

Police

Fearful Cowes incident highlights lack of police, says victim

A 68-year-old Cowes woman was awoken at 1.30am on Tuesday morning this week by the sound of a car door banging repeatedly. Living close to the town’s main street, noises are a regular occurrence, but this was different. “I wasn’t going to get...

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Michael Giles

13 Aug 2025

News

Inverloch ‘Cape to Cape’ report savaged in parliamentary inquiry

THE State Government’s Climate Resilience Inquiry report is out, and Inverloch’s erosion crisis is in it, front and centre. Finding 3 of the Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee’s report admits we’ve got problems, serious...

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Michael Giles

12 Aug 2025

News

Why Simon’s alleged poisoning charges were dropped

ON MONDAY, July 7, 2025, Leongatha mother of two, Erin Patterson, was found guilty on four charges, three counts of murder against her in-laws Gail and Don Patterson and Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, and one of attempted murder against Ian...

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Michael Giles

11 Aug 2025

News

Powerful memories, steadfast friends… and some missing silverware!

YOU could buy a ‘spacious 4-bedroom brick veneer home’ in Wonthaggi for $259,000, the Wonthaggi windfarm was under construction and Gippsland Power, featuring the likes of Daisy Thomas, Scott Pendlebury and a young Beau Vernon, won the TAC Cup...

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Michael Giles

10 Aug 2025

News

Finals hopes dashed for error-riddled Wonthaggi Power

THE crucial game between Traralgon and Wonthaggi started just as the home side would have wanted it to. The contest was fierce at the first ball up with Jye Gilmour, Ollie Dawson and Jai Williams coming in quickly to help their onballers; Jasper...

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Michael Giles

10 Aug 2025

Community

In life and in death Noelene Lyons served us well

THE late Noelene Lyons of Wonthaggi maintained that you could judge the strength of a community by the way it looked after those who had gone before. Which is why she had a lifelong passion for and interest in local cemeteries, especially the...

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Michael Giles

08 Aug 2025