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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.
Vale the Beagle. until next ... lei
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ALL OF THE NEWS from around the region on One Page below for your convenience
The Beagle
Nov 16, 2017
Gadfly 23
Harvey Weinstein has a lot to answer for. First and foremost, he’s been a serial offender in pressing himself on vulnerable women and...
The Beagle
Nov 3, 2017
Gadfly 19
When Foreign Minister, and sometime Acting Prime Minister Julie Bishop pointed out that President Donald Trump’s spurning of the Iran...
The Beagle
Oct 20, 2017
Gadfly 18 by Robert Macklin
What a contrast! After 10 days in Tasmania your columnist was propelled by fate’s fickle finger all the way to the little town of...
The Beagle
Sep 29, 2017
Gadfly 17
My crusade to bring our natural and man-made place names out of the vile colonial shadows into the sunlight of modern Australia has...
The Beagle
Sep 13, 2017
Gadfly 15
There is a very clear and simple alternative to the nuclear conflict that seems to be heading our way caused by the two worst haircuts on...
The Beagle
Sep 6, 2017
Gadfly 14
I’m delighted to report that the recent column on renaming Australia’s natural features that currently commemorate utterly unworthy...
The Beagle
Aug 24, 2017
Gadfly 13
Here’s a scoop. In all the fuss over Section 44 of the Constitution, no one seems to have asked what was behind the framers’ decision to...
The Beagle
Aug 8, 2017
Gadfly 11
Coincidences, I’ve discovered, are so common that I’m starting to believe there’s some system at work behind the scenes that we don’t...
The Beagle
Jul 27, 2017
An Open Letter to Malcolm Turnbull by Robert Macklin
Dear Malcolm, Sorry to be a killjoy, but saving some ghastly calamity it now seems that you and your Coalition mates are on the way to...
The Beagle
Jul 17, 2017
Gadfly 9 by Robert Macklin
The trial of Cardinal George Pell comes at the end of a long and heart-breaking commission into child abuse that plumbed the depths of...
The Beagle
Jul 10, 2017
Gadfly 8 by Robert Macklin
Things have come to a pretty pass when war is in the tiny hands of the two blokes with the worst haircuts on the planet. The awfulness of...
The Beagle
Jun 29, 2017
Gadfly 7 and the Alternate Facts
Opponents of President Trump – and they are legion – reserve their most savage attacks for his ‘alternative facts’. These are the...
The Beagle
Jun 21, 2017
The Dragon and the Kangaroo with Trump somewhere in between - Gadfly 6
My first response to Donald Trump’s spurning the Paris climate change accord was anger. One foolish fellow had used his power to put the...
The Beagle
May 23, 2017
Gadfly 5 by Robert Macklin
There are times when you have to wonder whether Western democracy is all it’s cracked up to be. Now is one of them. I don’t just mean the...
The Beagle
Apr 16, 2017
Gadfly 3 by Robert Macklin
I don’t wish to be alarmist, but unless we sign a Treaty with our Aboriginal compatriots soon our continued occupation of the Australian...
The Beagle
Mar 23, 2017
Gadfly 2 by Robert Macklin
The best thing about Donald Trump’s election to the most visible office on earth is his stupidity. For the first time ever, the...
The Beagle
Feb 9, 2017
Seven 43 By Robert Macklin
Seven 43 By Robert Macklin It’s a sad day for the Federal Government when their best electoral asset is the Leader of the Opposition. Yet...
The Beagle
Jan 24, 2017
"The ‘Beagle Weekly’ is just one example of where regional newspapers might be in the future&qu
Robert Macklin, in his latest article in Canberra's CitiNews writes: "WHILE traditional newspapers are going the way of the dodo and...
The Beagle
Jan 24, 2017
Seven 41 By Robert Macklin
Seven 41 By Robert Macklin As Australia yawns, stretches and prepares its return to the workaday world, much has changed over our sleepy...
The Beagle
Dec 14, 2016
Seven 40 by Robert Macklin
Seven 40 By Robert Macklin Twenty-sixteen has been a big surprise. So many forces coalesced it’s as though a new era began before we...
The Beagle
Nov 10, 2016
Robert Macklin visits Moruya
The Moruya Bookshop hosted Robert Macklin last Wednesday to a sell out luncheon at The Waterfront where Robert spoke of his latest book...
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