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Drone filming on the Far South Coast.  Image courtesy Raymond Toms. Far South Film, an association of professional and emerging filmmakers in the South East region of NSW, is calling for submissions from regional filmmakers around Australia for its inaugural Far South Film Festival. Due to COVID-19, this year's festival will be...

Owners of non-desexed cats and restricted and dangerous dogs on the Far South Coast will be required to pay for new annual permits in addition to their pet’s registration in changes introduced by the NSW Government today. Designed to promote responsible pet ownership and improve animal welfare, owners of cats that...

Discarded fishing line found at the Moruya Breakwall. Image courtesy Eurobodalla Shire Council.  Local and visiting fishers are being urged to ‘look after their tackle’ in a new nationwide campaign aimed at reducing lost fishing line in waterways. Fishing line is one of the top-20 items of litter impacting Australian waterways, where it...

Surf Life Saving NSW says it has been a "strange and tragic" season. Image courtesy SLS NSW. Surf Life Saving NSW has released figures for the 2019/2020 season which has officially ended. The organisation says it was a strange and tragic season for surf lifesavers with a higher than average number of...

Eden-Monaro’s drought and bushfire-stricken farmers are demanding that candidates in the area’s upcoming by election commit to meaningful climate change policies. In an open letter published in local newspapers today, nearly 60 primary producers from across the electorate say they experienced the impacts of climate change first hand when they battled...

  Coronavirus restrictions are being eased further on the Far South Coast and across NSW.  From today the 50 person limit for venues is now gone, in favour of the one-person, per four-square metre rule. Community sport is returning and even some golf clubs locally are allowing two people per buggy.         

The Far South Coast's vulnerable koala population suffered during the bushfire disaster as did many populations of the much-loved marsupials along the east coast. The bushfires, as well as continued logging and development on koala habitat, and a massive increase in land-clearing on private property in NSW, means if something...

  The Greens candidate for the Eden Monaro by-election Cathy Griff says recent figures show that Eden-Monaro has poverty levels almost double the New South Wales average. "Between 15% and 25% of people in the electorate are living under the poverty line and these people would be especially disadvantaged after bushfires and...

 Above: Gypsy of the Deep’by Sam Anderson, at Sculpture Bermagui 2019: The Destination Agency’s Managing Director, Anthony Osborne, is calling on all events managers, committees or anyone who has an event planned on the Sapphire Coast to register for the consultation phase. A new tourism recovery initiative commenced today - the Tourism...

Bega Valley Shire Council has joined with its recovery service partners to host a series of informal, COVIDSafe drop-in sessions starting in July, in bushfire impacted communities. “Before the pandemic, we were meeting face-to-face with people in their community regularly; having to stop that weighed heavily on us,” Mayor Sharon Tapscott...