When you ask Chantelle Ross about her son, she doesn’t talk about how he died.…
From his first primary school cross country race, to the start line at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Archie Hewett’s path to representing Australia has demanded everything he has.
The Peninsula Light Operatic Society, as it was first known, was born in 1962. Today, the name has changed, the venues have changed, and the repertoire has evolved dramatically, but the DNA remains the same: talented people from across Melbourne and the peninsula, working together to put something extraordinary on stage.
Onda, the new coastal Mediterranean dining room built on pylons over Port Phillip Bay inside the brand-new Sorrento Ferry Terminal, is the kind of place that seems almost too good to be true with floor-to-ceiling windows, uninterrupted water views, and a pizza oven crackling at the heart of the kitchen.
Megan Smithies has spent decades making music – as a professional cellist she still performs today, and as president of the Peninsula Music Society (PMS), she ensures others get the same chance. It’s a role she clearly relishes.
A whole lot of talent, training and perhaps some help from her lucky number has taken Mornington long jumper, Geena Davy, all the way to the World Athletics Under-20 Championships, after she sealed her spot on the Australian team with a qualifying jump of 6.27 metres.
Black figs carry deep meaning in Aboriginal ways of knowing. They’re associated with birthing, nourishment, and community gathering, so it seemed the right name for a café built to do exactly that.
Langwarrin-based author Jodie Fitzsimons spent years navigating the kind of obstacles every aspiring writer knows all too well.
Kelly Nash has spent her life saying yes to things that terrify her. And now, as she returns to the role of Patch in Sea Wolves Howl, she’s doing it again: playing a character who has found profound healing in the very thing Kelly herself isn’t a big fan of – the open ocean.