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4 hours ago

$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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7 hours ago

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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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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21 Feb 2025

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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21 Feb 2025

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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20 Feb 2025

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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UPDATED: Community objectors block Grantville vegetation removal for now

RESIDENTS of the Adams Estate along Stanley Road and McGrady Road, Grantville, and Glen Forbes have followed up their 54 objections to the removal of vegetation on their roads by filling the public gallery at today’s Bass Coast Shire Council...

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Superbike riders demonstrate ‘the need for speed’ at San Remo

PRACTICE ahead of the World Superbikes at the Phillip Island Circuit from this Friday, February 21 to Sunday, February 23 and the start to the 2025 Superbike World Championship Season is done and dusted but the riders still had a need for speed on...

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Fisheries fiasco: ‘There will be no more Fisheries Officer positions in the State of Victoria’

NO recreational fisher wants to see the checkerboard coloured car or boat, emblazoned with Fisheries logo of the Victorian Fisheries Authority pull up in the car park or berth next to them at the boat ramp. Even if you’re doing the right thing...

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VicGrid leaves South Gippsland high-voltage towers on the table

VICGRID, the State Government authority which is coordinating the planning and development of Victoria’s transition to renewable energy has failed to rule out a second transmission crossing on the Gippsland coast. Following a community drop-in...

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18 Feb 2025

Interest rates cut by 0.25%, down to 4.1%

THE Reserve Bank of Austrlia has cut inteest rates by .25% to 4.1%. More to follow

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18 Feb 2025

One local winner emerges from Country Week Tennis

THE curtain has come down on another Tennis Victoria Country Week, at the best venue for the annual event, at Swan Hill and once again the South Gippsland area has punched about its weight with participants. Although not with winners this year. The...

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