This week on The Local Update Graham Farram returns to the history of Bega Primary School, the local newspapers and the life of early settlers to the region. Later in the episode we’re back in the garden. This time we’ll catch up with Julie Davies and Geoffrey Grigg from the Saphire Coast Producers Association (SCPA). […]

This week Graham Farram continues his look at the history of Bega Public School. Using pieces written about W.H Brain, Emma Otton and Robert Sharpe. Later in the episode we return to the community of Candelo and catch up with Katie Bourke and Robyn Martin, two of the members of an amazing new local band, […]

This week Graham is winding the clock way back. He’s returning to the story of newspapers in Bega and looking at the very first, The Bega Gazette. This paper was starting out in the mid 19th century, and the tale Graham tells is that of Bega’s business district in a stage of development with new […]

Well, we did it folks, 10 episodes in a row. Season one of The Local Update done and dusted. I must say I’m a little touched to see Graham Farram wind up the first season with something close to my heart. My folks and I arrived in the Bega Valley in 1983, I was one […]

This week on the Local Update we’re forgetting about Covid 19 briefly. Our regular guest, Graham Farram, continues his look at the history of Newspapers in Bega. He also uses the slight ease in isolation restrictions as an excuse to look at the condition of our local roads… 100 years ago that is.  After the […]

This week I set Graham a challenge. With the recent announcement that Australian Community Media were axing a whole lot of their regional local newspapers it was a relief to see that the Bega District News survived the chopping block. Ben Smyth and his team at the BDN have been an amazing support and source […]

This week we return to Candelo with our regular guest Graham Farram. Graham has found a collection of pieces about Candelo and Kameruka. We’ll also catch up with Mia Maze from the Bega Valley Innovation Hub. Mia tells us about a series of workshops they are running to assist local business in switching things up in […]

This week we’re on the road. In the first half of the show Graham Farram is taking us on a journey from Eden to Bombala on a German wagon. Then we join Henry Lawson as he tries to escape through the river mouth of Malacoota on a small boat. In the second half of the […]

This week on The Local Update Graham Farram has found a story published in the ‘Old Bulletin Reader’ at the turn of the last century. This piece by John Haynes and J.F Archibald is relatable in this Covid-19 lockdown as everyone involved is feeling poorly. He also tells us about a German wagon, which is […]

Tbis week on the program we’re talking to Alexandra Seddon from Potoroo Palace. Potoroo Palace is a native wildlife sanctuary which, sadly, has been impacted pretty badly by the sudden downturn in tourism due to fires, floods and corona virus. Whilst lots of us in these tourist communities have staff to think about if we […]