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Sep 3, 2023
Welcome to this week’s editorial
Being a teenager in the 1970’s came with owning lots of T-shirts. Back then T-Shirts carried the message of your firmly held views and...
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 15, 2023
Letter to the Editor, Shameful day for Eurobodalla Council
The Beagle Editor For over two hundred years our First Nations people have been ignored by various governments with paternalistic,...
Aug 15, 2023
A Better Eurobodalla Presentation
A Better Eurobodalla (ABE) Presentation to the Eurobodalla Shire Council Public Forum on Tuesday 15th August 2023 – GMR23/031 Review of...
Aug 15, 2023
Southcoast Health and Sustainability Alliance presentation - heat havens
NOM 23/003 – 15 August 2023 The Southcoast Health and Sustainability Alliance (SHASA) supports Councillor David Grace’s motion that a...
Aug 15, 2023
Eurobodalla for Yes ask Council to support the Voice to Parliament
Walawani: Mayor and Councillors, Today, I stand before you to lend my voice in support of a rare opportunity for our nation, an...
Aug 15, 2023
Public Forum Submission by Jeff de Jager
Public Forum Submission by Jeff de Jager regarding - GMR23/031 - Bay Pavilions Financial Performance Review A big thankyou to the Mayor...
Aug 15, 2023
Presentation: Bay Pavilions Financial Performance Maureen Searson
Councillors, I am not able to attend the council meeting tomorrow to speak on GMR23/031. Here is my presentation. Firstly thank for...
Aug 15, 2023
Presentation to Council 15/08/2023 in support of NOM23/003 Heat Havens
Presentation to Council 15/08/2023 in support of NOM23/003 Heat Havens Urgent Action Needed: Protecting Vulnerable Demographics from Heat...
Aug 15, 2023
A Better Eurobodalla (ABE) presentation 15 August 2023
A Better Eurobodalla (ABE) presentation to Eurobodalla Shire Council public forum on CAR23/012 Aboriginal Advisory Committee...
Aug 15, 2023
Presentation - GMR23/031 REVIEW OF BAY PAVILIONS – Lei Parker
Presentation - GMR23/031 REVIEW OF BAY PAVILIONS – Lei Parker August 15th 2023 – Public Forum. Councillors, I would like to address...
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 28, 2023
When smoke can't shroud the unspoken truths
The Beagle editor, I appreciate that you are more focussed on local issues however the presentation by Bunja Smith to the Eurobodalla...
Jul 28, 2023
The climate crisis reaches boiling point the Premier of the Coal State’s silence is deafening
The era of global boiling is here. Communities in the Northern Hemisphere are sweltering under unprecedented temperatures, sea surface...
Jul 25, 2023
SHASA presentation to Council on 25 July 2023
NOM23/002 - UPGRADES TO EVACUATION CENTRES SHASA presentation to Council on 25 July 2023. The need to prepare for the 2023/24 bushfire...
Jul 25, 2023
Pussy footing and teeth pulling: but in the end the community had its day at Council
It might take pussyfooting and diplomatically skirting around what should be said but eventually, like pulling teeth, it there is a...
Jul 25, 2023
Presentation: Council's Code of Meeting Practice
A Better Eurobodalla presentation to Eurobodalla Shire Council public access session on Code of Meeting Practice 25 July 2023 I am...
Jul 25, 2023
Presentation: Upgrades to Evacuation Centres
ABE Public Forum Presentation to Council 25 July 2023 - NoM 23/02 Upgrades to Evacuation Centres By Dr Brett Stevenson Co-Convenor, A...
Jul 24, 2023
Presentation: BiBS study recommendations
Presentation in Support of NOM23/002 - UPGRADES TO EVACUATION CENTRES - to Eurobodalla Shire Council on 25th July, 2023 Australian...
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 14, 2023
A tale of two cities: It's like chalk and cheese
Dear Editor, I read your editorial of 7th July concerning emergency preparedness in the Eurobodalla Shire Council with great interest and...
Jul 11, 2023
SHASA lights a fire under Council in regards to their shortcomings of bushfire preparation
Over the coming weeks The Beagle will present the many community requests and concerns voiced after the last emergency that have fallen...
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 2, 2023
Deserving more than peanuts
The Beagle Editor The editorial in the On-line Beagle of 30 June 2023 informed readers that the Eurobodalla Councillors had voted...
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 27, 2023
If the RFS hadn’t acted when they did the outcome could have been very different
Dear Editor, Late last Saturday morning June 24th 2023 the RFS was called out to a large unattended campfire in Boyne State Forest. It...
Jun 27, 2023
Tomakin Road speed limit reduction : Why isn't Council listening and representing
Eurobodalla Council Public Access 27th June 2023 Submission from the Tomakin Road Resident Group Re: Tomakin Road speed limit reduction ...
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 20, 2023
Greens put brakes on Housing Fund
At a time where Australia is in desperate need of affordable housing and a strategy to reduce the pain of hundreds of thousands of...
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 14, 2023
For us to listen, they need a Voice.
To the Beagle Editor Dear Sir, You concluded your recent editorial with ‘… under Australian laws we are all the same.’ In principle this...
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 6, 2023
Sculpture for Clyde more than measures up as a hallmark event
The 2023 Sculpture for Clyde event was a huge success for Batemans Bay and the wider region with measurable figures that showed a marked...
Jun 4, 2023
In response to the EV editorial
The Beagle Editor: Dear Sir, Re: Your Editorial in Vol 313, 2nd June 2023 You quote a reference: Lithium is a non-renewable mineral. Its...
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...
Jun 2, 2023
A Comprehensive Cyberbullying Guide for Parents
The Beagle Editor, I recently read your article where you mention bullying, here: https://www.beagleweekly.com.au/post/2018/04/19/bullyi...
May 30, 2023
Time for Forestry to pay respect
The Beagle Editor, “Last week, Forestry Corporation NSW, issued a temporary reprieve to the public native forest around Big Spotty, the...
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 17, 2023
The market worships at the altar of profit not goodwill
The Beagle Editor, Another excellent Beagle editorial at the weekend. Our various governments’ and regulators’ inaction over the past 10...
May 14, 2023
Hey Council ! Fair suck of the Sav
From time to time it would pay for our councillors to follow social media. Some still smirk and say they aren't on Facebook and if...
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
An honest ad: The Reverse Bank of Australia
An ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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 17, 2023
Review of Bay Pavilions Operations
The Beagle Editor, Your readers might find the following letter I have sent to the Eurobodalla Mayor, Matt Hatcher, of interest: Dear...
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