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Michael
Giles

South Gippsland golfers eyeing promotion at Country Week

THE 2025 Men’s Country Week Team from South Gippsland, playing at Mildura this week is off to a good start in the Plate Division and rates a good chance of qualifying for the Shield Division next year. They have won their first two games this week...

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Michael Giles

15 hours ago

News

Imported crime impacting Bass Coast and South Gippsland

EARLIER in September this year, local police called in the Police Air Wing’s Beechcraft King Air 350ER, callsign ‘POLAIR35’, to track an erratic driver who hit speeds of over 200km/h down the Bass Highway between Leongatha and Inverloch. That...

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Michael Giles

28 Sep 2025

Community

‘Critically endangered’ Slender Tree-ferns saved at Turtons Creek

GIPPSLAND Forest Guardians spokesman, Stuart Inchley of Turtons Creek, has hailed the announcement by Hancock Victoria Plantations (HVP) this week that they will stop logging the nearby Fellas Track site as a welcome step in the campaign to protect...

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Michael Giles

24 Sep 2025

News

Perfect Parrots make Dyson’s day in Gippsland League grand final

THE Leongatha Parrots were simply too good for Traralgon in Saturday’s Gippsland League Grand Final, seriously too good. You sensed it from the way they attacked the ball and swarmed the opposition from the outset. You’d expect us to say that...

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Michael Giles

24 Sep 2025

News

Parrots take 2025 Gippsland flag with near-record win over Traralgon

THE Leongatha Football Netball Club has had a big day on Gippsland League Grand Final Day at Morwell on Saturday winning the Seniors and Reserves in the football and the Under 13s and B Grade in the netball. But, in the main football game, they...

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Michael Giles

20 Sep 2025

News

Wonthaggi Power tastes success on Gippsland Grand Final day

A HUGE crowd in black, white and teal turned out at the Morwell netball courts on Saturday and they got what they came for first-up when the club C Grade team came through a grueling finals campaign to claim the premiership. Both teams contesting...

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Michael Giles

20 Sep 2025

News

Leongatha Under 13s triumph on big grand final day

THE Leongatha Under 13 Netball Team came back from a Qualifying Final defeat to Sale a few weeks ago to narrowly turn the tables on them in the grand final at Morwell on Saturday, September 20. In a game that started with squally wind, rain and even...

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Michael Giles

20 Sep 2025

News

Reduced bail conditions for accused Wonthaggi pedestrian killer

THE 47-year-old Narre Warren North man, who was allegedly so drunk he didn’t even know he’d crashed into a Wonthaggi pedestrian in March this year, killing her and her neighbour’s dog, is not in jail. In fact, when south-eastern suburbs...

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Michael Giles

19 Sep 2025

Council

Senator Ananda-Rajah launches $9.6M Cowes reinvigoration project

WORK has officially started on the Cowes Foreshore Precinct Project. It is being delivered through $8 million funding from the Australian Government’s Regional Precincts and Partnerships Program along with Council contribution of $1.6m. On...

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Michael Giles

18 Sep 2025

News

Leongatha’s Ben Harding wins league’s best in debut season

LEONGATHA’S Ben Harding has taken out the Gippsland League’s best and fairest award for 2025, the Trood Award and Rodda Medal, in his first season in the region’s top football competition. However, while he was both surprised and delighted to...

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Michael Giles

14 Sep 2025

Football

Jai Newcombe does Poowong proud powering Hawks into a big prelim

IT WAS all about Poowong when Channel 7’s Matty Richardson, Daisy Thomas and Rebecca Madden interviewed Hawthorn sensation Jai Newcombe after the big semi-final win against Adelaide on Friday night. They wanted to hear about his unconventional...

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Michael Giles

13 Sep 2025

News

How even Google is mocking Leongatha’s mushroom murders

YOU can’t control what they say on social media, it seems, and heaven knows there’s been some tasteless comments there following the sentencing of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson on Monday this week. But we should be able to draw the line when...

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Michael Giles

12 Sep 2025

News

Smile, you’re on mobile phone detection camera!

THE State Government has invested a further $156.1 million under its second Road Safety Action Plan to continue to expand its Mobile Phone and Seatbelt Detection Camera technology program through to 2030. And they’re on their way to recovering the...

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Michael Giles

12 Sep 2025