Editorial

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Editorial August 5th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Like many in the community I have a little vegie patch. I agree that if I was a little more proactive...

Jul 30

Editorial July 29th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, “Begone damn pox”. As I was lying in my death bed (OK, an exaggeration being made by a male with a Man...

Jul 23

Editorial July 22nd 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As we continue on this fiscal slide that is seeing an ever increasing chasm develop between rents and...

Jul 16

Editorial July 15th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, I must admit that I was quite amused by the media frenzy reporting of the Coral Princess and its 100...

Jul 9

Editorial July 8th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, One of my many daily pleasures is to take my dogs for a walk. They have their favourite route that...

Jul 1

Editorial July 1st 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, When I was a lad I was told that one should never mention sex, politics or religion at a dinner table....

Jun 25

Editorial June 24th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, For decades holiday makers have enjoyed coming to the south coast for weeks at a time, to fish, relax,...

Jun 18

Editorial June 17th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, For those of us interested in history the fact that history has an ability to repeat itself, one way or...

Jun 11

Editorial June 10th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, When we are small we are told wonderous stories of Tooth Fairies, Easter rabbits that poo chocolate...

Jun 4

Editorial June 4th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, We are now hopefully coming from a period of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ to ‘Eyes Wide Open’, both locally and...

May 26

Editorial May 27th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As most of you are aware it is national reconciliation week. Reconciliation in Australia usually...

May 21

Editorial May 21st 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, In a week of political noise, ego, lies, innuendos, controversy and random tackling of children the...

May 14

Editorial May 13th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Things are changing in Eurobodalla. And it appears, so far, for the better. The first thing you notice...

May 7

Editorial May 6th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Like most homes across the region our letter box is brimming with electioneering pamphlets that...

Apr 30

Editorial April 29th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, I first discovered the South Coast in 1977 and immediately fell in love with the area. I was on...

Apr 23

Editorial April 22nd 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, The election is in full swing and there are promises pouring forth with offers of manna from heaven to...

Apr 16

Editorial April 15th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As I write the sky is blue, the winds are soft and the weekend ahead looks as if it intends to behave...

Apr 9

Editorial April 8th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, The election hasn’t been called but you wouldn’t know it. Across the media the Prime Minister is on the...

Apr 3

Editorial April 1st 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As many of you know I grew up in Papua new Guinea. I was incredibly fortunate have done so at a time...

Apr 1

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Mar 25

Editorial March 25th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As we wake from the slumber of lockdowns and begin to pensively explore our region hoping the dreaded...

Mar 19

Editorial March 18th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Recent weeks, recent events will have you looking at your budget. We know that fuel costs have climbed...

Mar 12

Editorial March 11th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Australia, and Australians, have long been regarded as a stoic lot. A quick check of the dictionary...

Mar 4

Editorial March 4th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As we continue to see the devastation of the floods up north and the heartbreak it is bringing to so...

Feb 25

Editorial February 26th 2022

Image, just for a moment, how different life might be for planet Earth if the so called advanced monkeys didn’t have their ego and their...

Feb 19

Editorial February 18th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, The Broulee residents are protesting about the next stage of development that will see another swathe...

Feb 12

Editorial February 11th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive,’ from Sir Walter Scott’s epic...

Feb 5

Editorial Feb 4th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, The question this week is “How do you talk about elephants in the room if the elephants are sitting...

Jan 29

Editorial January 29th 2022

Welcome to this week's editorial, If only there was an upcoming election every month. You may have noticed that the region has been...

Jan 21

Editorial January 21st 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Everywhere I turn I am hearing the message that Omicron is “mild”. In December NSW Premier Dominic...

Jan 14

Editorial January 14th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, This week’s editorial revolves around the word ‘expectation’. At its very core is the generally naive...

Jan 7

Editorial January 7th 2022

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Though it is early days in the year 2022 I am predicting that the most important movie you will see...

Dec 31, 2021

Editorial December 31st 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Over the next twenty four hours or more we are going to be offered countless “Happy New Year”...

Dec 24, 2021

Editorial December 24th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, You can’t help but notice the enormity of our night sky. On a clear night with the Milky Way in full...

Dec 17, 2021

Editorial December 17th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Just a week until Christmas and the summer holidays that everyone has been looking forward to. The...

Dec 11, 2021

Editorial December 10th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, When I was in my early teens I met a millionaire. He was a family acquaintance, newly arrived from...

Dec 3, 2021

Editorial December 3rd 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Election weekend for Eurobodalla and… half of the community have no idea it is on and most of the...

Nov 26, 2021

Editorial Nov 26th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, It’s official. We are under the influence of La Nina and as such it will be a wet summer. I don’t...

Nov 19, 2021

Editorial November 19th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, You can’t help but noticing that our day to day is being overrun with politics. On the nightly news...

Nov 12, 2021

Editorial November 12th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Thirty six years ago anyone arriving by bus to Tuross Head would have found themselves disgorged onto...

Nov 6, 2021

Editorial November 5th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Whilst we are currently witnessing the exposure of the lies and spin of our Federal and State MPs our...

Oct 29, 2021

Editorial October 29th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, The ICAC hearing around the $5.5million that was granted to the Wagga shooting range has been of...

Oct 22, 2021

Editorial October 22nd 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, That scurrilous, rapscallion “rag of a blog” that is enjoyed by many, and loathed by a few, turns five...

Oct 15, 2021

Editorial October 16th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Who to vote for in the local government elections? Where do you start? Like any horse race we are...

Oct 10, 2021

Editorial October 8th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, October 11th will see the Eurobodalla come out of Lock Down. Some might declare it Freedom Day and most...

Oct 2, 2021

Editorial October 1st 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, From a very early age I learnt that not all men were equal. The evidence was all around me and I was...

Sep 26, 2021

Editorial September 24th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, One of my favourite books many years ago was Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood that has a narrator...

Sep 18, 2021

Editorial September 17th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, If you are in the Eurobodalla you will no doubt be enjoying the continued Lock Down, taking time to...

Sep 11, 2021

Editorial September 10th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, Here we were, all hunkered down and doing the right thing. Our shops were shut, we were abiding by the...

Sep 4, 2021

Editorial September 4th 2021

Welcome to this week’s editorial, As a boy I was fascinated with the story of Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes...

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