Sydney’s beaches & Eastern Suburbs, every month.

The Beast is the free monthly magazine for Bondi and the East — 62,020 copies of local news, sport, satire and smiling local faces, with beautiful cover art by local artists. Read every issue right here.

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About Us

The Beast is a free monthly magazine for Sydney’s beaches and Eastern Suburbs. From 10,000 copies of a 40-page mag, it has grown into a 62,020-copy, 100-plus page behemoth — the largest distribution of any publication in the area.

Every issue covers local news, sport and the arts, with smiling local faces, light-hearted prose, hard-hitting opinion and a celebrity cover interview each month.