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Unfortunately, Lei is not able to be the Beagle any more due to ill health.
The Beagle will be available to view AS IS until 2nd April 2025 so all the articles can be accessed.
Lei would like to thank all the contributors and the community for all the stories, the advertisers and donations for keeping the Beagle afloat and, of course, the readers.
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ALL OF THE NEWS from around the region on One Page below for your convenience


The Beagle
Oct 29, 2021
Gadfly 202
By Robert Macklin What’s the point of a target if you have no bow and arrow? The thought occurred as we drove past the archery course...


The Beagle
Oct 16, 2021
Gadfly 199
By Robert Macklin It’s taken a while to appreciate the full implications of Scott Morrison’s decision to waltz away from the French...


The Beagle
Sep 9, 2021
Gadfly 194
By Robert Macklin Yes, the Covid pandemic is hard to take, but there is a bright side – while the politicians have been occupied spinning...


The Beagle
Aug 6, 2021
Gadfly 188
By Robert Macklin It was our first big adventure. Four of us 13-year-olds in Grade 8 had been signed up by our parents for a Young...

The Beagle
Jun 24, 2021
Gadfly 184
By Robert Macklin The recent sale of a painting - for $93 million - by Jean-Michel Basquiat of a disgusting-looking skull titled In This...


The Beagle
May 29, 2021
Gadfly 173
By Robert Macklin One of the joys of our little Tuross bolthole is that while all the world might be going to pot, this little piece of...


The Beagle
May 20, 2021
Gadfly 176
By Robert Macklin In Canberra last week the students in a regular secondary school began wearing their new uniform - a very colourful and...


The Beagle
May 14, 2021
BURGLED II
By Robert Macklin The story so far: Our home has been burgled on April Fool’s day. The thieves escaped with both family cars, my phone...


The Beagle
May 6, 2021
BURGLED
By Robert Macklin For a split second I thought it was a joke. It was break of day and our two granddaughters had been with us after...


The Beagle
Apr 30, 2021
Gadfly 172
By Robert Macklin The huge Trevor Kennedy collection officially launched at Canberra’s National Museum of Australia last week has the...


The Beagle
Apr 23, 2021
Gadfly 169
By Robert Macklin In his 2018 Memoir, Reporter, the distinguished American journalist [1] Seymour Hersch, who uncovered the My Lai...


The Beagle
Apr 15, 2021
Gadfly 168
By Robert Macklin In December 2018 I published a column supporting a suggested ‘women’s caucus’ to include female MPs and Senators from...


The Beagle
Apr 7, 2021
Gadfly 167
By Robert Macklin Just when we thought the worst of this damnable pandemic was over and we could relax a little, suddenly everything...


The Beagle
Apr 2, 2021
Gadfly 174
By Robert Macklin On 29 March I had my first AstraZeneca shot, a little ahead of schedule because for the last three years I’ve been...


The Beagle
Mar 31, 2021
Gadfly 165
By Robert Macklin The ABC’s blockbuster three-part series, ‘Exposed’ which unravelled the horrors of the murderous 1979 Luna Park fire,...


The Beagle
Mar 25, 2021
Gadfly 163
By Robert Macklin The ghosts of Watergate are curling through the corridors of Australia’s Parliament House, thrilled to be called for an...


The Beagle
Mar 10, 2021
Gadfly 161
By Robert Macklin The timing of the royal imbroglio could hardly be more exquisite, coming as it does in the wake of the pivotal Grace...


The Beagle
Mar 4, 2021
Gadfly 160
By Robert Macklin The imbroglio in Parliament House will probably end badly for the Morrison Government, but it could change for the...

The Beagle
Feb 26, 2021
Gadfly 158
By Robert Macklin The time has come to take back Australia. After 233 years of battering by invaders attacking the First Australians...


The Beagle
Jan 25, 2021
Gadfly 154
By Robert Macklin There’s nothing quite like the temptations of an honours list to reveal the real man lurking inside the prime...

The Beagle
Aug 28, 2019
Moruya Books literary lunch: Robert Macklin Sept 4th
Castaway by Robert Macklin In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was...


The Beagle
Feb 15, 2019
Gadfly 62
I think we’re supposed to be grateful to the Morrison government for initiating the Royal Commission into the aged care system. The...


The Beagle
Dec 14, 2018
Gadfly 57
The suggestion for a women’s caucus among our female Members and Senators is a good one; but it’s only the beginning. The time has come...


The Beagle
Nov 30, 2018
Gadfly 56
One day last week America produced the perfect illustration of the forces that are tearing that country apart. US science achieved the...

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