Newsletters
Our members get news and updates by direct email, according to what is happening in Lorne and what input or action we need. In addition we put out longer Newsletters which are also public on our website a few times a year.
December 2025. Pt Grey misinformation, GORCAPA’s logic in habitat and vegatation management, hoodie nest, seal care, and Lorne’s bulbine lily.
October 2025. A meeting with the GORCAPA CEO, foreshore tea tree being kept to protect eucalyptus, upcoming vegetation Q and A, new hoodie nest
August 2025. Options being progressed for workers. A win on the phased foreshore tea tree removal. Pt Grey and swimming pool updates. And an invitation to go bowling!
July 2025. More on Pt Grey. SCSC-facilitated discussion on worker housing. And the Lorne yellow-bellied gliders that attract naturalists from afar.
March 2025. Pt Grey; essential worker housing – an opportunity to be briefed on a specific proposal; our local hoodie chicks – good and sad news; weather extremes – the impact of the “green drought”
November 2024. AGM reminder; is there enough water for Lorne and the platypus; affordable housing progress; hooded plover nest; golden weeds; Lorne P-12 College production
May 2024. Swimming pool lease negotiations; affordable housing progress; small second dwellings explained; the Lorne Theatre reborn; New Holland Honeyeaters
December 2023. Population growth and Shire plans for additional housing; water planning for Lorne; AGM report; reviewing planning applications; our magpies.
May 2023. Microgrids & energy security; native title in local region; current status of Point Grey; planning applications process; how animals drink.
January 2023. Using iNaturalist; January events; coastal vegetation & Lorne’s foreshore; use of surf cams that screen live footage; housing essential workers; nature strips; water supply; making FoL stronger; caterpillar palates.
July 2022. Affordable housing, sculpture biennale, coming event – tree webinar, Great Ocean Road coastal walk, Point Grey, Great Ocean Road Communities Network (GORCN), identifying Lorne’s gum trees.
January 2022. Pt Grey, worker accommodation, water supply, structure plan loopholes, rufous bristlebirds, huntman spiders
September 2021. Coastal erosion, Lawrie Baker tribute, southern right whales, Pt Grey, economic development strategy, review of wildlife Act, Lorne Hotel sold, platypus monitoring.
May 2021. Pt Grey, renewable energy in Lorne, sea foam.
October 2020. Forest fires, evidence based planning, Pt Grey, transsexual fish.
July 2020. COVID, Friends of Lorne history, Pt Grey decision, Erskine Paddock, renewable energy, Lorne by numbers, GORCAPA starts, sugar gliders.
April 2020. COVID, change of rules, Pt Grey, Committee for Lorne, re-inventing tourism, mopokes (owls).
January 2020. Fishing history, poetry prize, support from CBA, cowries (shellfish).