Book review by Peter McCullough Australia’s contribution in World War One is well known: from a population of less…
Local Interest
It’s all in the design
With the promise of warmer days on the horizon and the sun, sand and surf beckoning, the hot property in real estate bec…
HMAS Goorangai – lost with all hands
By Peter McCullough HMAS Goorangai was the first Royal Australian Navy ship lost in World War II, the first RAN surface …
The Dame and the Emperor
By Ilma Hackett – Balnarring & District Historical Society Dame Mabel Brookes was an amazing woman. The l…
The Battle of Moorooduc
By Peter McCullough Moorooduc might be little more than a locality but for a number of years it boasted two community ha…
Putting in the yards
He’s a former pizza shop owner who now owns a busy gym in Rosebud and has taken out some of the world’s most prestigious…
Three young men named Meyrick
By Ilma Hackett – Balnarring & District Historical Society Many people are familiar with the name ‘Merrick…
Sport on an isolated island
By Ruth Gooch Little known, even by those mainlanders who live closest to it, French Island is the largest of the Weste…
The Peninsula’s link with U.S. war hero
JOHN Basilone was born in Buffalo, New York State, on 4 November 1916. Completing middle school at the age of 15, he d…