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Aug 27, 2023
Editorial Aug 25th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, This week we saw representation at NSW Parliament House supporting the establishment of an alliance,...
Aug 19, 2023
Editorial Aug 18th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, You might find a few letters to the editor in this edition written in response to Council’s decision...
Aug 13, 2023
Editorial Aug 11th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, At the next Council meeting on Tuesday 15th of August 2023 a scathing report will be tabled on the...
Aug 4, 2023
Editorial August 4th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Council’s Public Access session this week saw a member of the public coming forward asking what the...
Jul 21, 2023
Editorial July 21st 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Unsurprisingly I have been asked my thoughts on the Voice Referendum and several readers have submitted...
Jul 15, 2023
Editorial July 14th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Over the last six and a half years many of you will have seen the articles in The Beagle that raised...
Jul 8, 2023
Editorial July 7th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, According to the World Meteorological Organization Australia is set for a hot, dry El Niño. Before...
Jul 1, 2023
Editorial June 30th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Between a rock and a hard place. Eurobodalla Council has recognised that, unless they change course,...
Jun 25, 2023
Editorial June 23rd 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Of late we have heard much about affordable housing, and the lack thereof. It turns out, and not...
Jun 16, 2023
Editorial June 16th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, For those who are new to The Beagle I offer a little background of why The Beagle came into being. In...
Jun 9, 2023
Editorial June 9th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Beware… what follows may be controversial but I need pursue it so that I might bring the elephant in...
Jun 3, 2023
Editorial June 2nd 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, When it comes to EV cars I am reminded of the ‘Snake Oil sellers’ of old who would spruik the many...
May 27, 2023
Editorial May 26th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, You may have read in past editorials my references to the Good Ship Eurobodalla (sometimes scathingly...
May 20, 2023
Editorial May 19th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, The readership of The Beagle is broad. Because it is on-line it reaches well beyond the boundaries of...
May 13, 2023
Editorial May 12th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Facts are interesting when you look at them, especially when combined together with others to offer a...
May 6, 2023
Editorial May 5th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, There is little doubt that our elected councillors are about to find themselves between a rock and...
Apr 29, 2023
Editorial April 28th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Back in days of old there was an expectation that a hotel would provide shelter and hay for a guest’s...
Apr 21, 2023
Editorial April 21st 2023
Welcome to this week's editorial. In a week of remembering. Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand...
Apr 14, 2023
Editorial April 14th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, “Surplus to need” is an interesting expression and one that is raising the hackles across the shire....
Apr 8, 2023
Editorial April 7th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Ah, Easter. A time of mixed metaphors. There is the pagan fecundity believers, the chocolate rabbit...
Mar 31, 2023
Editorial March 31st 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, It is no longer a rare thing to hear of a car being stolen. Local Social media has at least one story...
Mar 24, 2023
Editorial March 24th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, The vexing question this week is what to do with that vote you have. We are all encouraged to vote and...
Mar 18, 2023
Editorial March 17th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, This time of year sees the visitation of the Grey Nomads. School is back, the roads are a little more...
Mar 11, 2023
Editorial March 10th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, This week saw the celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD), an annual event held on March 8th. ...
Mar 3, 2023
Editorial March 3rd 2023
Welcome to this weeks editorial, It is an absolute fact that the South Coast of NSW is the perfect environment for growing marijuana....
Feb 25, 2023
Editorial February 24th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, The old expression of “Softly Softly, Catchy Monkey” comes to mind this week. For those not familiar...
Feb 17, 2023
Editorial February 17th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, From time to time, like all of you, I encounter a tin can or bottle by the side of the road that must...
Feb 10, 2023
Editorial Feb 10th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Earlier this week a group of locals gathered at the new Eurobodalla Regional Hospital site and...
Feb 4, 2023
Editorial February 3rd 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, There is a breath of fresh air sweeping over the Shire and it found its way into a public meeting at...
Jan 27, 2023
Editorial January 27th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Another Australia Day comes around. And once again, as I have done for many years, I reflect on what...
Jan 20, 2023
Editorial January 20th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, To many elections are a pain in the backside and an interrupt to their otherwise politic free life....
Jan 14, 2023
Editorial January 13th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, As you are no doubt aware there is much being said, and very little being done, around homelessness...
Jan 13, 2023
Ignoring the housing crisis wont make it go away
NSW is suffering a homelessness crisis and an affordable housing crisis. But no-one in charge is actually doing anything other than...
Jan 6, 2023
Editorial January 6th 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Having lived on the South Coast for 36 years I have seen many Christmas holidays come and go. Like...
Dec 22, 2022
Editorial December 23rd 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, December 23rd and I am excited. While Christmas might be prawns and stonefruits the big one for me is...
Dec 17, 2022
Editorial December 16th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, There is a buzz in the air as we approach the last week before Christmas. A trip to Moruya greets you...
Dec 9, 2022
Editorial December 9th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, It is not at all unusual for me to leave the editorial to the very last before publishing the latest...
Dec 2, 2022
Editorial December 2nd 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, The season of HoHo is upon us and with that comes the carols and the tinsel of the season. Most of us...
Nov 24, 2022
Editorial November 25th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Several years ago I laughingly commented that New Zealand should rename themselves to “get farked”...
Nov 19, 2022
Editorial November 18th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Spring is the time when things bloom. Days warm, Summer approaches and we rejoice as we leave the...
Nov 12, 2022
Editorial November 11th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, This week saw the arrival of the new Council General Manager, Warwick Winn, to the shire. After nine...
Nov 6, 2022
Editorial Nov 4th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, An interesting week for those who tuned in to watch celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge’s TV show, Kitchen...
Oct 28, 2022
Editorial October 28th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Like many across this vast land I was interested in the handing down of the National Budget. We had...
Oct 21, 2022
Editorial : Eurobodalla being let down by itself, and the Gonzos
At the moment there is a pandemic of graffiti from the Bay to Narooma, the majority of it appears to be from one particular braniac who...
Oct 15, 2022
Editorial October 14th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Happy sixth birthday to The Beagle. Since I first launched your free on-line newsfeed in October 2016...
Oct 7, 2022
Editorial October 7th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, While it might be La Nina outside for the third year in a row, and the shire is saturated, we must...
Oct 1, 2022
Editorial September 30th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, My failure to deliver a Beagle Weekender last week was a first in 278 editions. Every Friday, come rain...
Sep 27, 2022
Editorial Sept 24th 2022
Welcome to this week’s (Sept 24th, 2022) editorial, This week brings the end to an interesting era at Eurobodalla Council and it would be...
Sep 17, 2022
Editorial September 16th 2022
Welcome to this week’s editorial, Back in the late 1950’s my father came up with the idea of providing the township of Madang, on the...
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