The Triangle is a not-for-profit, local, community newspaper created by volunteers that comes out every month except January.
The ‘Triangle’ refers to the area bounded by three mountains on the far south coast of NSW: Peak Alone, Gulaga, and Mumbulla. We serve the communities and localities of Quaama, Cobargo, Bermagui, Dignams Creek, Tilba and the wider surrounding district.
We’ve been publishing since 2002 and have a print circulation of 1800 copies, with a larger circulation over the summer holiday season. Our paper is free and available online and in print through many outlets listed below.
This community publication is possible thanks to our advertisers and your donations in collection tins at every distribution point or online.
If you live outside the Triangle area, an annual subscription of $35.00 will cover delivery of all 11 issues. Email treasurer@thetriangle.org.au or post your cheque and details to: The Triangle, PO Box 293, Bermagui, NSW, 2546.
Meet the team
The current Triangle Committee includes:
Linda Sang (President) is an enthusiastic eater, occasional caterer, booklover and retailer. Moved permanently to the area in 2003.
Bhagya (Treasurer & Layout) is old enough to have had a few titles – publishing software reseller, real estate agent, layabout. Moved to Quaama in 2006.
Angela Marshall (Editor) worked for three decades as an editor, two decades as a cook; retains a passion for cooking, gardening and is a political tragic who came here from Majors Creek in 2003.
Jacob Round (Podcast) is a composer, broadcaster, and award-winning audio producer who grew up in the Triangle area.
Steve Williams is a reluctant retiree who came to the Triangle area 10 years ago and enjoys gardening and the vitality of the area’s people.
Stuart Absalom (Vice President) worked in horticulture, health, community and hospitality and has lived in the Triangle since 2003.
Tikka Wilson (Secretary & Website) works in online publishing and research ethics, first moved to the Triangle area in 1989, left to find work, and returned in 2020.
Debbie Worgan (Layout) is a Graphic Designer and teacher who came from rural NSW to the Triangle area in 2018.
Flick Ruby (Podcast) is a writer, activist and policy wonk who moved to the Triangle area in 2018.
Marita Reynolds works in the university sector and moved to the Triangle area in 2020.
Where can you get a print copy of The Triangle?
Bega: Candelo Books, Bega Library
Bermagui: 777 Supermarket, Post Office, Shell Bermagui, Bermagui Country Club, Bluewave Seafood, Library, Visitors Centre
Central Tilba: Post Office, ABC Cheese Factory, Sweet Spot
Cobargo: Post Office, United Petrol, Cobargo General Store, The Bowerbird Op Shop, Well Thumbed Books, Information Centre
Wallaga Lake: Merrimans Land Council
Narooma: BP station, Library, Casey’s Café
Quaama: The Quaama Store
Over two decades of community news!
The Triangle emerged thanks to the friendship between Rosemary Millard and Louise Brown. They saw the need for something new after a discussion in 2002 about how hard it was to find out what was going on in the Triangle from Bega or Narooma papers. After an initial injection of funds by an anonymous donor, the paper was already funding itself after one year thanks to local business advertising.
Louise said in 2013 when she stepped aside, ‘You can create something, but it can only be deemed a success if it survives when you walk away’. It has survived. While the look and technology behind it has changed, the participation of the community contributing articles about the issues they care about and the events they are organising has not. The publication continues to survive thanks to this vibrant community generating ideas and contributing articles, and also our advertisers, with some businesses supporting us from the very beginning, including the Cobargo Coop, Miracles by the Sea, the Dromedary Hotel, Benny’s Butchery and others.
We have consistently had monthly updates from Cobargo, Tilba and Bermagui, and more recently from Quaama (since 2008) and Dignams Creek (since 2022). Other regular features are My Triangle profiles, Service Directory, Thumbs (up and down), the Entertainment page (changed to Fridge Door), Garden Magic (now What’s Growin’ On), and the Book Review (began in 2009). We have had lots of other sections that readers might remember like the Police Report, Sporting News, Brogo Babble, Mullet Ova (the fishing report), Blokes of the Triangle, Horse Hype and Water Watch. It would be great to see those sections make a comeback.
One of our proudest editions came in February 2020, the Bushfire Issue. Of the nine Triangle committee members at the time, eight had been evacuated on New Year’s Eve. Still, an issue was put together after inviting the readership to send their stories, photos and poems. We published everything we received, with our usual 36 pages growing to 60 pages of stories of our community holding together with heartbreaking courage and selflessness. Readers said that edition was ‘a comfort’, ‘a precious reminder’, and ‘the glue that binds us together’. It was an honour to be of service in this way.
From being a print-only community newspaper (for a time generated on our own photocopier), we gained a virtual presence as part of the begavalley.com site initially, before setting up our own domain in 2015. Colour front pages made a big impact in 2015. And since May 2025 we have a refreshed website design.
We have really progressed from a humble, small publication to something the committee and all the Triangle community can be proud of. And what a marvellous record it is of this area – the issues that mattered enough for people to write about it. For those who want to research local history, The Triangle archive is available on our website and through Trove on the National Library’s website. The archive is also fully searchable through a nifty little tool on our website.
Past members of The Triangle committee
A lot of work is involved in generating a monthly publication including technical and computer work, getting and writing the news, selling the advertising space, paying the bills, as well as editing, layout and distribution of the paper. Some of these marvelous people worked on The Triangle for over 10 years and many continue to contribute articles. Thank you one and all!
Louise Brown
Rosemary Millard
Lyn Anderson
Linda Livingston
Greg Wightman
Louise Barton
Cathy Thomas
Peter Bray
John Small
Sharon Wotton
Ewen Genders
John Quelch
James Lynn
Jen Severn
Nerida Patterson
John Champagne
Maggie Clowes
Sally Ward
Sally Hand
Veronica Coen
Taina Podlesak
Jo Lewis
Harry Bate
Prue Kelly
Richard Tilzey
Maralyn Callaghan
Carolyn Banados
Virginia White
Elizabeth Andalis
Sarah Gardiner
Chenyne Morris
Terry Freemantle
Sharon Cole
Leanne Lucas
Cliff Tarrant
Christine Montague
Sally Pryor
Paul Payten
Julie Dibden
Rosemary Beaumont
Ros Hewett
Nicola Hutteman
Sarah Breaky
Ann Maree Menager
Kathryn Haynes
Rebecca Blunden
June Tarlinton
Georgina Adamson