Hmmm... Mr. Pencil-beak would be a Sooty Oyster-catcher. You get their cousin, the Pied Oyster-catcher here in Perth.
The shag is a Pied Cormorant - but as to it being the Great or Little I could not say for sure without some sort of scale. I think it may be the Great. OTOH, it may be a female Spotted Cormorant. The NZish shags differ somewhat from the Australian ones.
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The shag is a Pied Cormorant - but as to it being the Great or Little I could not say for sure without some sort of scale. I think it may be the Great. OTOH, it may be a female Spotted Cormorant. The NZish shags differ somewhat from the Australian ones.