Fiona Phillips MP

Kiama Smash and Mechanical Repairs

Cedar on Collins

BottleMart

Springside Hill

Speering Wealth 

First National Real Estate

Gareth Ward MP

What are two things all the above have in common?

1. They support The Bugle through advertising and sponsorship (thanks!), and
2. They do not own or are a financial beneficiary of The Bugle.

It’s certainly been an interesting last couple of days for us at The Bugle. 

We are a small local operation that on the whole, brings genuine (and mostly) positive news to our community. 

But serving the local community also means we listen to the community, and when they raise concerns, we shine a spotlight. 

Sometimes we make mistakes, we’re only human. We’re a lean operation that does not have the might, resources and a multi-million dollar budget. 

That’s why it’s astounding to see the response from Council when we put forward our View. We wonder how many hours of rate payer wages it took to formulate that very polished media statement. 

It did, however, highlight that Council’s IT system had inadvertently created a broken website link to the November 2023 meeting minutes – which has now been rectified.

On the subject of by-lines, we admit that sometimes we do not have a by-line and this can be for a number of reasons.

One of those reasons, unfortunately, is that our (largely casual, but very committed) workforce has been targeted by parts of the community because of reporting the news. This type of behaviour is unacceptable and The Bugle, and I, will frankly not apologise for keeping our team safe.

Our journalists have been left in tears, had nervous breakdowns and have had panic attacks as a result of being harassed and berated by those who think it is okay to try and stand over them.

I, and The Bugle will not cop that. 

When the community raises its concerns with us, we will report on it.