Coverage of the Cliff Green Short Story Competition 2018 writer celebration and winners presentation event, hosted at It's 12 o'clock Somewhere on December 2nd 2018.

As well as a recording of the presentation hear readings of the winning short stories (The River by Jacinta Sanders and The Merchant by Thomas Curnow) plus interviews with Alistair Rowse, AmyLee Perry, Meegan Hall and Kevin Bonnett, as well as full readings/extracts of the stories they submitted.

Recorded at the Warrandyte Historical Society's AGM at the Grand Hotel Warrandyte, Peter Hanson provides a fascinating insight into Warrandyte's gold-mining history and the remnants of that piece of our past.

WOULD YOU know what to do when you come across a wonky wombat, or what to do for its puggle?

Living in the Green Wedge has many benefits, there is a multitude of birds and animals we gladly share an environment with.

However, this relationship is not always mutually beneficial.

Our native wildlife come off second best when negotiating traffic, fencing and other man-made obstacles.

When coming across a sick or injured animal, would you know what to do?

A group of locals recently learned how to help, when two wonderful wildlife rescuers Narelle Thompson and Kim Davis presented a two hour seminar on "wildlife triage" at the Warrandyte Neighbourhood House.

The Warrandyte Insyte team sits down with Julie Quinton from Quinton's IGA, Marymae Trench of the Stonehouse Gallery and Chris Sharp from Rivva PT to discuss how choosing to stay in Warrandyte for shopping and entertainment can benefit the whole Warrandyte community, the environment and our own health.

Thanks to our sponsors, Warrandyte Community Bank Branch.

The Diary's Podcast team recently attended the Grand Read, the annual celebration of poetry and prose which takes place on the first Tuesday after Warrandyte Festival weekend.

This year the featured writer is Jessica Wilkinson, senior lecturer at RMIT and founder of non-fiction poetry journal RABBIT.

We also hear from Christmas Hills poet Sandy Jeffs, Cliffy 2017 winner Kevin Bonnett, local poet Wendy Fleming and bush poet Laurie Webb.

This podcast is a recording of a live event, at times, there may be some bad language and minor audio distortion.

Warrandyte Insyte sits down with CFA, Police, Forest Fire Management Victoria to talk about preparing for Summer, and we get an Insyte from VicRoads about the bridgeworks due to commence in the coming weeks.

Warrandyte Insyte discusses issues important to the Warrandyte Community.

For our first episode we join the South Warrandyte CFA at the recent fire readiness forum, to learn how to plan for the upcoming fire season.

Recorded on November 29 2017