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Michael
Giles

Senator’s hypocrisy claims cut both ways, says Leonard

SENATOR, the Hon Jane Hume, Shadow Special Minister of State and Liberal Senator for Victoria has taken aim what she calls “Teal hypocrisy on integrity and transparency”. But in a cameo of what we can expect to see during this truncated election...

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Michael Giles

1 hour ago

News

Helicopter flies for stage 2 of Forrest Caves project

AS PART of Phillip Island Nature Parks’ long-term vision for upgrading and maintaining the ageing infrastructure at local beaches it was helicopter lifting day at Forrest Caves last Thursday, February 27. From early morning, a helicopter was...

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Michael Giles

9 hours ago

Community

$250,000 for Wonthaggi Power ground upgrade

GREAT news, just prior to the start of the football-netball season for the Wonthaggi Power Football Netball Club. The club’s oval at Wonthaggi has received a $250,000 grant for various works to be undertaken as part of $1.4 million round of...

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Michael Giles

27 Feb 2025

News

Disaster averted: Morning coffee fix is back on!

HUNDREDS of people arrived at their local café for their morning coffee fix today, Thursday, February 27, only to find the “cash only” sign posted in many shop windows. According to reports on social media, those cafés using the Square eftpos...

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Michael Giles

27 Feb 2025

News

Lock it in – Federal election date will be Saturday April 5

YOU heard it first here! The Federal election will be held on Saturday, April 5, little more than four weeks from now. How do we know for sure? One of the candidates told the Sentinel-Times today (Wednesday, February 26) that they attempted to make...

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Michael Giles

26 Feb 2025

Community

Postergate: How Council is killing community involvement at Berninneit

THERE’S a deepening controversy over the Bass Coast Shire Council’s unwillingness to display handmade posters or pull-up promotional signs, created by Grade 5 students at Newhaven Primary School, in the Berninneit cultural centre at Cowes to...

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Michael Giles

25 Feb 2025

Sport

Koony-Leongatha RSL claim women’s cricket premiership

KOONWARRA Leongatha RSL have narrowly defended their 20-over total of 131 to take out the first premiership of the 2024-25 Leongatha and District Cricket Association season. Batting first at the McMahon Reserve in Wonthaggi on Sunday, the Koony-RSL...

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Michael Giles

23 Feb 2025

Council

$980,000 pathway funding a win-win for Phillip Island

IT WAS a case of one door closes and another door opens, across two days last week, for the Bass Coast Shire Council with a $1 million pay day at the end of it! At the urging of Phillip Island councillor Tim O’Brien, the council removed the...

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Michael Giles

23 Feb 2025

Council

Record 42 questions raised at Bass Coast Council meeting

QUESTIONS about the coastal erosion crisis at Silverleaves on Phillip Island, why the council refused to allow local students to display their art at Berninneit, the cost of the mayor’s electric car and the opening up of council briefing...

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Michael Giles

22 Feb 2025

Football

How Isaac Chugg will split his time between Tassie and Wonthaggi

IT WOULD have dumbfounded good judges of the Gippsland League to hear that Wonthaggi Power’s star recruit of 2024, the pacey winger from Collingwood, Isaac Chugg, received umpires’ votes in only one match last season. Chugg played 20 games for...

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Michael Giles

21 Feb 2025

Council

Endangered plants and people power block Grantville sand miners’ application

THE homeowners of the bushy Adams residential estate, south of Grantville, have won the first round. But long-time residents like Janet Grimes are still up for the fight. At last Wednesday’s council meeting, a majority of Bass Coast Shire...

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Michael Giles

21 Feb 2025

News

Sam’s raft of rubbish aims to interrupt our thinking about just about everything

HE’S built a raft entirely out of the rubbish he’s found on the beach and he’s sailing it all the way from Tasmania to Sydney. Maybe further. Picture Chuck Noland and ‘Wilson’ on their raft (only bigger with a better sail) trying to escape...

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Michael Giles

20 Feb 2025

News

Newhaven Jetty was ‘top priority’ for work, they say

THE fight to save the Newhaven Jetty was taken to a new level on Wednesday this week with the petition-generated debate occurring in the Legislative Council of State Parliament. The Nationals’ Member for Eastern Victoria and sponsor of the...

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Michael Giles

19 Feb 2025