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Edgy support rallies round Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au KINGSTON Council is scrambling to do all it can to save the iconic Mentone Hotel. Councillors voted on Monday evening to support any state government review of state heritage procedures to avoid the need for “last minute interventions”. Councillors were surprised when the owners of the pub, Open Door Pub Co, announced The Edgy’s closure earlier this month. There are fears the new owner could try to convert the venue into a residential apartment block (‘Pub loss makes regulars edgy’, The News 12/11/14). Cr Rosemary West said the potential loss of The Edgy, which closed its doors last Sunday, worried many Kingston residents. “This really resonates with our community,” Cr West said. “It is a stunningly beautiful heritage building and we have lost too much of our heritage.” Cr Paul Peulich said council should talk up the Mentone Hotel’s “economic value” to the area despite some criticising the at times “rowdy behaviour” near the pub. “Some segments of the community will bag The Edgy … the business gets hurt,” he said. “[We] should do whatever we can to rescue the situation.” Councillors agreed to support Liberal Planning Minister Matthew Guy’s request to Heritage Victoria to consider a heritage listing for the hotel to protect it from development. Council will approach Mr Guy’s Labor counterpart, Brian Tee, if the Coalition

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THE daughter of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert Hamer visited Kingston’s Green Wedge last week. Julia Hamer, front, accompanied Defenders of the South East Green Wedge members Soumitra Chakrablorty, left, Patricia Cassin and Trevor Shewan on a cycle ride through “the lungs of Melbourne” to see for herself how encroaching development threatens some areas of the non-urban green wedges. See story, Page 7. Picture: Yanni

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GRANTS of up to $5000 are available to help celebrate young people, thanks to the City of Kingston’s Youth Festival grants program. Applications are open for grants to support events and initiatives for young people held during the annual Kingston Youth Festival, which coincides with National Youth Week, over 10-19 April. Kingston Council’s youth services team invites applications from schools, community groups, not-forprofit and non-government groups, young people and student groups. See funding guidelines at the City of Kingston Youth and Family Services website at www.kyfs.org.au or call Kingston’s Youth Services team on 130 36 94 36. Applications close Friday 16 January.

IF all goes to plan, a free mobile phone app developed by a group of Monash students could offer Mornington Peninsula residents economic, social and environmental advantages all rolled into one. Their ‘Sustain Me’ recycling app will make the Mornington Peninsula Shire the first council in Victoria to have a centralised recycling platform that allows residents to recycle more efficiently and effectively. Ultimately, this will allow the shire to reduce its waste volumes and increase its reuse of materials, extending the life of existing landfills and, potentially, reducing household recycling charges resulting in cheaper rates. Such is the shire’s enthusiasm for the app that it has contributed $5000 towards its development. Innovators Eleanor Meyer, of Parkdale, and partner Stephen Halpin, of Mt Martha, say the idea had its genesis in the 2013 Oxfam-Monash Innovators Program, when they and a group of students were given an opportunity to develop their own creative idea for a social justice project. Both are 24. “Our idea was the ‘Sustain Me’ app, an innovative mobile platform designed to engage people wanting to recycle with relevant information in a timely manner,” Mr Halpin said. The massive penetration of mobile phone use made it the ideal medium. Through extensive research, the team identified that Melburnians – and especially those on the peninsula

Innovators: Stephen Halpin with teammate Eleanor Meyer show off their sustainable app. Picture: Yanni

- recognised climate change, sustainability and waste management as “incredibly important” issues. “We found that they wished to act upon this and behave in a sustainable way. However, what stopped them doing so was a lack of accessible information in a convenient, easy-to-access medium,” Mr Halpin said. “Our team also found that, as a result of app technology, people were most happy to use their mobiles as a prime source of information, and so we decided to collate the wealth of councilspecific data with a free mobile app.

“It will provide individual notifications to keep the user engaged, and act as a unique platform between councils and residents, which facilitates a space for dialogue to occur.” This ‘dialogue’ helps users learn about what can be recycled at various councils – such as plastic bags – when to put the bins out and where they can go to dump rubbish sustainably. “There are lots of ambiguities out there about what can go in the recycling bin,” Ms Meyer said. “Broken glass is one: some councils won’t

take it while others will. It’s the same for bike locks: are they metal, plastic or what?” “We found it frustrating that people had nowhere to go to find out the relevant information.” The ‘Sustain Me’ app took 15 months – and 558 hours - of product development and research to complete. The team has signed a memorandum-of-understanding with the shire to partner in its testing and roll out. Renewable resources manager Sophia Schyschow said: “Mornington Peninsula Shire supports the development of the app that will encourage users to recycle in the most efficient way possible. “‘Sustain Me’ will tell its users how to simply and efficiently recycle whichever item they wish to dispose of [in line with] the user’s council guidelines and location.” This support means the shire could be the first council in Victoria to have a truly centralised recycling platform. “It gives residents the opportunity to learn how to recycle more efficiently and effectively,” Ms Meyer said. The group has recently finished its first round of testing and is preparing the free app for launch in the New Year. Pre-registrations are welcome on sustainme.com.au or via the Sustain Me site on Facebook.

Weather worries KINGSTON residents could win $100 by completing a survey on how to cope with extreme weather conditions including heatwaves, floods and bushfires. The survey is part of a joint project between the Kingston Council, Bayside Council, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Federation University and the Department of Environment and Primary Industries. Survey responses wil help develop a website to help locals identify and prepare for the risks of extreme weather events and climate change. See www.climateready.com.au/ survey for a chance to win by filling out the survey by Saturday 6 December.

Waste hub for wedge on horizon Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au A WASTE transfer hub could be established in Kingston’s Green Wedge despite Kingston Council’s efforts to stop the area becoming “Melbourne’s waste hub”. Councillors unanimously voted to ask the state’s planning minister, whoever that may be after Saturday’s election, to consider a formal council request to rezone green wedge land north of Kingston and Heatherton roads from Special Use Zone Schedule 2 to Green Wedge A Zone. This aims to prevent more waste and landfill businesses setting up operations there. However, it has emerged that, dur-

ing the public consultation process, state government agency Sustainability Victoria wrote to Kingston Council advising the Clayton-Dingley area has been identified as one of several possible locations for a waste hub for Melbourne due to its “access to transport networks”. The Clayton Regional Landfill will close in 2016 after Kingston councillors decided not to issue a planning permit extension earlier this year. In 2008, a ministerial order allowed the Alex Fraser Group to conduct concrete crushing operations at a Kingston Rd site in Clarinda, against council’s wishes. At Monday evening’s council meeting, Cr Paul Peulich said rezoning the

area “will make it more difficult for concrete crushers to be established in our green wedge area”. “We want to see better open space for future generations and a better environment for our children,” he said. Cr Rosemary West welcomed councillors’ united front against concrete crushers, but worried delays “for over a year” to agree on the matter, left Kingston’s Green Wedge vulnerable to concrete crusher applications if the planning minister does not approve a planning scheme amendment before 1 June next year. Cr Steve Staikos condemned council’s earlier failure to write to the minister after several of his notices of motion - to protect the area north

of Kingston and Heatherton roads were defeated earlier this year. However, he is pleased agreement has now been reached between councillors. “I’m so happy that we’ve finally got to a place with this council where we can speak with one voice [on this issue],” he said. New mayor, Cr Geoff Gledhill, said: “Broad agreement on this issue has existed within council for some time - the challenge has been to establish the best mechanism to ensure this outcome. “This change will allow the land - some of which is used for landfill sites - to transit on to parks or more appropriate Green Wedge uses, which would reduce the negative impacts

on surrounding residents caused by landfill sites.” Sustainability Victoria’s submission to council, dated 27 October, stated: “SV understands that Kingston City Council is aware of the proposal for Transpacific Industries to expand its Frazer Rd facility to a state-of-the-art material recovery facility” and “subject to appropriate controls, this area is large enough to accommodate a suite of resource recovery facilities”. Any move to expand Transpacific’s Clayton landfill site at Fraser Rd, also known as the Osborne Ave landfill, could set Kingston Council on a collision course with any incoming state planning minister over the matter.

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BOTH major parties have promised major investment in the Mordialloc and Carrum electorates to try to convince voters to back their candidates in this week’s state election. The Liberal and Labor parties have pledged tens of millions of dollars to upgrade the Frankston line including the removal of several level crossings and have spent the past few weeks making multi-million dollar health services, community group and emergency services funding commitments to try to curry favour with voters. Opinion polls favour the Labor Party to win back government after the defeat of the Brumby government in 2010, but a week is a long time in politics and the Liberals could still retain government. Premier Denis Napthine must hope the innately conservative Victorian electorate do not decide to make his Coalition the first one-term government in the state’s history and give him another chance to impress having taken the reins when his predecessor Ted Baillieu stepped down early last year. Labor opposition leader Daniel Andrews, or Dan as he now prefers to be called, seems poised to lead his party back into government but faces criticism concerning Labor’s refusal to give their costings for about $32 billion worth of pre-election pledges to Treasury for assessment.

Eyes on the prize: Labor candidate for Mordialloc Tim Richardson, left, and Liberal MP Lorraine Wreford, right, at an Edithvale polling booth. Picture: Gary Sissons

Mr Andrews has said Labor’s costings will be “signed off” by accountancy firm Moore Stephens before polling day this Saturday 29 November. The marginal bayside seats of Carrum, Mordialloc, Frankston and Bentleigh along the Frankston line will be crucial in determining which party forms government. Liberal MPs Lorraine Wreford in Mordialloc and Donna Bauer in Carrum face tight battles to retain their seats in the face of challenges by Labor’s Tim Richardson and Sonya Kilkenny respectively. All candidates have identified public transport as a key concern for the Kingston community and the

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outcome of the election could hinge again, as it did in 2010, on how voters feel about train services on the Frankston line. Five candidates are contesting the seat of Carrum which Mrs Bauer holds with an estimated slim 0.3 per cent margin after an electorate boundaries redistribution late last year. The Carrum candidates in order of the ballot paper draw by the Victorian Electoral Commission are: nRichard Vernay (Family First) nDonna Bauer (Liberal Party) n Sonya Kilkenny (Australian Labor Party) nHenry Kelsall (Australian Greens) nMargaret Quinn (Rise Up Australia Party)

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election showdown Cannabis warning Ms Wreford has an estimated 1.5 per cent margin, down from 2.1 per cent at the 2010 state election after an electorate boundaries redistribution. Eleven candidates will contest the seat of Mordialloc and preferences could prove crucial in determining whether the Liberals or Labor win the seat. The Mordialloc candidates in order of the ballot paper draw by the VEC are: nDamien Brick (Democratic Labor Party) nTim Richardson (Australian Labor Party) nGeorgina Oxley (Independent) nRod Figueroa (Rise Up Australia Party) nJeevaloshni Govender (Family First) nTristam Chellew (Australian Sex Party) nLorraine Wreford (Liberal Party) nAlexander Breskin (Australian Greens) nLeon Pompei (Independent) nVictoria Oxley (Independent) nRosemary West (Independent) Early voting is underway at polling booths but there is no escape from the how-to-vote cards handed out by party volunteers. Party helpers are manning polling booths in a last-ditch effort to convince voters to back their candidate. How-to-vote cards are distributed by candidate and party representatives and can also be viewed at the VEC website at vec.vic.gov.au Voters can choose to vote ‘below the line’ to decide themselves where preferences are directed.

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Walking the gauntlet: Early voters arrive at an Edithvale polling booth and are greeted by candidates including, far left, Greens candidate for Mordialloc Alex Breskin. Picture: Gary Sissons

THE shock death of a Chelsea Heights man after smoking synthetic cannabis has prompted police to warn of potential life-threatening reactions to the drug. Their comments also follow a raid on a Frankston tobacconist which found packages containing plant matter thought to be the drug. The man, 34, died at a Patterson Lakes house on Friday 14 November after smoking the drug with a friend. Sergeant Leo Raso, of Kingston police, said the man became severely dehydrated and began drinking large quantities of water from an outside tap. Returning inside he went into a bathroom and forced his mouth over another tap and began drinking copiously again. The force of the water swelled his face to such an extent that the tap became lodged in his throat, Sergeant Raso said. A friend tried to assist by pulling the tap off the sink and the man fell to the floor unconscious. Ambulance officers who worked on the man for an hour were unable to revive him. Elsewhere, detectives from the Frankston divisional response unit recently seized a quantity of what is believed to be synthetic cannabis from a Karingal Hub tobacconist. Plain clothes detectives searched the Free Choice tobacconist following a tip off and found packages containing plant matter thought to be synthetic cannabis. The seized substance will

be forensically tested to determine its chemical composition. Detective Sergeant Paul Busuttil said it was vital anyone considering using synthetic cannabinoids understood that the drugs had most likely not been through rigorous testing prior to human consumption. “They have not been produced within a regulated environment and purities and quantities will not be standardised or regulated,” he said. “People purchasing synthetic cannabinoids will have no way of accurately knowing what they are purchasing and consuming - most importantly, whether it is safe.” Dozens of people have been hospitalised after consuming products containing synthetic cannabinoids that are marketed and sold under a variety of brand names of differing chemical composition. Earlier this year, five people were admitted to intensive care units suffering symptoms including loss of consciousness, seizures, agitation, confusion and breathing difficulties after smoking a subsequently banned brand of synthetic cannabis. Ten brands of synthetic cannabis are banned for sale and consumption in Victoria, however, new versions continue to appear on the market, with suppliers altering their chemical composition to circumvent laws. Anyone with information about the sale of synthetic cannabis can call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Police patrol Robber punches victim ARMED robbers stole a quantity of cash from the United Fuel service station in Thompson Rd Patterson Lakes at 12.45am on Monday morning. The attendant said two men rode up to the station on bicycles and stood near the air pump. One of the men then entered the store and asked the price of cigarettes. He then left and the second man entered, walking straight around the counter to the drawer containing the takings. The man said he had a knife in his pocket. The attendant then tried to hold the man while attempting to press the duress button. He was then punched in the face. The thief ran to where his accomplice was waiting and they rode off towards Carrum.

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Playing by the deck of the bay: MOJO will entertain the crowds at this year’s Carols by Kingston event. Picture: Yanni

A STAR-studded line-up for Carols by Kingston has been announced, with a host of celebrities taking to the stage on Sunday 14 December. The much-loved annual event - now with a new name, new venue and a spectacular fireworks’display - will showcase the talents of beloved Aussie actor Shane Jacobsen and carols favourites Sylvie Paladino and Alana Conway. They will be joined by the Mordialloc Jazz Orchestra (MOJO), soul singer Milly Moodie, theatre star Richard Thomas, performers Gee Whiz Kidz, a mass choir led by choirmaster Robert Dryden and a visit from Santa. Kingston mayor, Cr Geoff Gledhill, said he was pleased to present such an impressive line-up. “Our annual carols event is a fantastic time to come

together with family, friends and the whole community to celebrate Christmas,” Cr Gledhill said. “I hope you can join us for a wonderful night featuring some of Australia’s best and brightest performers, all topped off with an impressive fireworks display presented by Westfield Southland. “Thanks to our new venue, we can ensure there is plenty of room for everyone to enjoy the festivities.” Carols by Kingston, an alcohol-free event, is on 6.309.30pm, Sunday 14 December, at Sir William Fry Reserve, Highett . Entry is free. A limited number of reserve seats are available at $15 each online, or from the council’s customer services centres. See www.kingston.vic.gov.au/carols

A BURGLARY in Royal Pde, Parkdale overnight on 20-21 November probably occurred while the victims were asleep upstairs. The keys to a $75,000 red Lexus coupe, a woman’s shoulder bag containing cash and credit cards, and a silver bowl were stolen in the robbery. The car, which had been parked in the street, was later recovered at Northland shopping centre. Any information should be given to Kingston police.

Car park assault A 55-year-old medical services provider was badly shaken when a man approached her in a car park near a Warrigal Rd, Cheltenham aged care centre, and grabbed her arm. The man, in his 30s, demanded medication. The Dingley Village woman,

who was sitting in her car and getting ready to leave, said she did not have any. The man left in a red Holden Commodore when disturbed by aged care centre staff. He is described as being Caucasian, 170cm tall, with dark short hair, of medium build and wearing a red tea-shirt. He possibly has a mental illness. Any information should be given to Cheltenham police.

Trailers on the go TRAILERS are becoming targets for thieves in Kingston. Detective Senior Constable Steven Hemingway said it was important owners secured trailers with wheel locks or chains when on the street or in driveways. “Anything that makes trailers more difficult to steal is warranted,” he said. “All types of trailers are vulnerable to theft – whether they are twin axes or box trailers.” Anyone with information on trailer thefts should call Kingston Crime Investigation Unit on 9556 6111.

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Hamer legacy under threat THE daughter of former Victorian premier Sir Rupert Hamer visited Kingston’s Green Wedge last week to see how her late father’s legacy could be threatened by encroaching development. Julia Hamer joined Defenders of the South East Green Wedge president Trevor Shewan and fellow environmentalists on a cycle ride from Seaford wetlands to Braeside Park and the Southern Golf Club. Her father, a Liberal premier from 1972 until 1981, famously described the non-urban green wedges as “the lungs of Melbourne”. The Hamer government mapped out the green wedges to protect future generations

from excessive urban sprawl. Ms Hamer said the environmentally-sensitive areas “should not be interfered with at all”. “The green wedges have been nibbled at over the years,” Ms Hamer said. “My father would be set against any kind of development in the green wedges”. Ms Hamer expressed disappointment at recent Kingston Council moves to seek to rezone some parts of the Kingston Green Wedge for potential residential development. “We only have so much habitat and once it’s gone it’s gone for good,” she said. “It should be used for parks and open space”. Neil Walker

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF VICTORIA From Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria

A message from the Board of Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria. On Tuesday 18th November, the Labor Party announced a policy that we believe will have grave and disastrous consequences for CFA. As CFA volunteer firefighters with an average of over 40 years’ service each and as the elected board of the body established in Victorian law to be the voice of CFA volunteers, we feel the need to take this unprecedented action of activating all Victorians to help us stop a policy that has the potential to destroy CFA. Our concern with the recently announced Labor policy is that it establishes external industrial interference with the CFA Chief Officer’s power to decide where and when and how he uses CFA firefighters. We are also concerned that Labor’s policy will reduce CFA’s volunteer firefighting force by thousands of volunteers, pushing volunteers out of CFA stations and hundreds of CFA trucks off the road when we need them for major fires such as Black Saturday. Labor has grossly underestimated the cost and impact of its policy. Labor’s promise of $141M and an additional 350 paid firefighters actually only provides 70 additional paid firefighters on the ground at any one time under current paid firefighter rostering arrangements, and it will come at the expense of thousands of highly trained and professional volunteer firefighters. We support and welcome additional paid support and resources for CFA, provided these resources are required and provided that the CFA determines the need, not a union. Don’t be fooled, the plan announced by Labor is not about improving community safety in Victoria, the detail included in their announcement is about giving the control of CFA to a union. Labor’s policy announcement includes specific provisions to surrender CFA operational decisions to an external industrial relations panel. Instead of Labor’s policy, we need a plan that will recruit and train more CFA volunteer firefighters, provide trucks and equipment to combat fires and other incidents, investment in a modern firefighting fleet, give CFA the flexibility to deploy resources when and where they are needed and remove industrial control over how CFA uses its workforce. Victoria is one of the most fire prone areas in the world and there are predictions of longer, hotter and more severe fire seasons ahead. If Labor’s policy is allowed to push trained and experienced CFA volunteers out of fire stations across greater metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria will not have the fire fighting force it needs for day to day incidents and certainly will not have the force to deal with major incidents when they occur, such as Black Saturday. When you vote on Saturday 29th understand one thing, as some of Victoria’s most senior volunteer firefighters, we believe Labor’s policy for CFA is not good for CFA volunteers, is not good for Victoria and is not good for the future of CFA. Signed and authorised by Hans van Hamond AFSM – 48 years’ volunteer service State President, Ex Captain Wendouree Fire Brigade

Nevyn Jones AFSM – 45 years’ volunteer service State Vice President, Captain Moorooduc Fire Brigade

Bruce Pickett AFSM – 44 years’ volunteer service Ex Captain Geelong West Fire Brigade

Tom Brodie AFSM – 51 years’ volunteer service Ex Captain Longwood Fire Brigade

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Gary Lyttle AFSM – 50 years’ volunteer service Former President VFBV, Cardigan Fire Brigade

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Rubber duck rescues rubber duck... CARRUM’S volunteer surf lifesavers received a surprise when investigating two objects floating in the Bay off Carrum beach last weekend. Lifesaver Daniel Male saw the objects about 1.5km off the coast near Keast Park, Seaford, 1km south of his lookout at the Carrum Surf Life Saving Club. Lifesavers could make out what appeared to be a yellow duck and another white object that resembled a kite surfer’s kite. They dispatched the club’s inflatable rescue boat - their rubber duck - to investigate. At the scene, lifesavers David Hyde and Catherine Paulsen found a yellow inflatable rubber duck and an inflatable white swan. The duck was tied alongside and they returned to the clubhouse. The swan was retrieved by the Coast Guard. Club captain Paulsen said “rescuing a rubber duck with the rubber duck” was the bright side of the event. The duck’s happy owner said later it had drifted away from the beach at Chelsea, almost 4km north of where it was found. Ms Paulsen reminded beachgoers to be careful when using inflatable toys at the beach, particularly on windy days. “Around this time last year we raced to rescue children drifting out to sea on inflatable mattresses in almost this exact same location,” she said. Lifesavers urge beachgoers to follow safety directions on inflatable toys.

Colourful rescue: Carrum Surf Life Saving Club captain Catherine Paulsen and vice president David Hyde with the rescued rubber duck.

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LIFESAVERS have urged beachgoers to play it safe when using inflatable toys and other craft at the beach. In a number of incidents last weekend, Carrum’s volunteer surf lifesavers rescued four people in the space of two hours on Sunday afternoon and on Saturday retrieved two inflatable toys that had drifted to sea. Patrol captain Ben Rooks said Sunday afternoon was busy despite the relatively calm conditions. “We were expecting a fairly quiet weekend but ended up responding to a number of incidents – all involving inflatable toys or other craft,” he said. The first rescue involved a man that had fallen from a plastic canoe about 200 metres from shore. Exhausted from an endurance event he had completed earlier in the day, he was unable to get back onto the craft and was drifting away from shore. Carrum Surf Life Saving Club captain Catherine Paulsen was the first lifesaver to reach the man. “He was close to losing a grip on the canoe and then he would have been in real trouble,” she said. The man was brought back to the beach on a rescue board by lifesaver Scott Crabtree while Ms Paulsen retrieved his canoe. Mr Rooks said the second rescue occurred an hour later - after the lifesavers had packed up their patrols. “We stayed back after packing up to keep an eye on a mother and her two young children in an inflatable

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boat that we thought might get in trouble,” he said. “It became obvious that she wasn’t going to get back to shore without assistance, as the wind was blowing the craft away from the beach.” Mr Crabtree helped the mother and her children to shore on a rescue board. Lifesavers at Carrum say all of their rescues over the past two summers have involved people getting into difficulty while on or after falling from craft. These incidents include: n Two children floating away from shore on inflatable mattresses at Keast Park n Two children floating away from shore on boogie boards at Patterson River n A woman who got into difficulty after jumping from a boat to retrieve a hat “It doesn’t take a strong wind for these inflatable toys and craft to start drifting away from shore, and once they do, it can be difficult to paddle back against the tow,” Mr Rooks said. Lifesavers urge parents to keep children within arm’s reach whenever using inflatable toys, either at the beach or in a pool. “It’s just another reason to swim at patrolled beaches, between the red and yellow flags,” Ms Paulsen said. Carrum’s volunteer surf lifesavers patrol the beach every Saturday, Sunday and public holidays from noon-5.30pm.

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MORDIALLOC Ivory Design

Ivory Design are a full service creative studio specialising in logo design, branding and websites.

ensures no two days are ever the same – which keeps them on their toes and thoroughly loving what they do.

Always thinking outside the box, their passion is to create innovative design solutions that are always on brief and blows their customers away.

The Ivory team is made up of graphic designers, marketing consultants and website developers. They are a friendly bunch and don’t mind a chat, so if you spot their elephant signage out front why don’t you pop upstairs and say hello!

Ebony Round, director, has been in business for over 9 years. “We love working here, there’s something wonderful about coming to work where you can catch the scent of the sea and the pace is a little slower, which gives us a little more time for creative thinking.” Since Ivory Design was born, they have produced literally thousands of projects for a diverse range of local businesses and organisations. This diversity

You can also check out their ever-changing portfolio online.

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Bayside Physiotherapy Bayside Physiotherapy has been in Mordialloc for over 25 years treating all types of injury including back pain, sporting injuries and work-related strains and sprains. Whether you do your back in the garden or your groin trying out a Plie we are here to help you

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beer, cider or cocktail by the kerb of Main St or in the terrace overlooking the marina as the summer weather starts to warm your toes. Private functions and events space, intimate dinner bookings, live entertainment, Trivia nights and weeknight feed specials plus so much more, the Supper Club Crew have got you covered all year round! 539 Main Street, Mordialloc 3195 Phone 9580 7005 Open: 4pm-Late 7days enquiry@mordysupperclub.com.au www.mordysupperclub.com.au

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Aged care land plan divides council Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au COUNCILLORS are divided over plans to build an aged care home in Collins St, Mentone, with some backing a community push to use the land as public open space. Council has begun an expressionsof-interest process to find an aged care provider to buy the site but some councillors would like it to also look at a second option: building a 70-bed facility at the Mordialloc Community Nursing Homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Remo St site in Mentone instead (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Aged care home an open space invaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, The News 29/10/14). The councillors argue the Collins St

land should be used for parkland. Kingston Council is exiting the aged care sector and will divest itself of management responsibilities for Mordiallocâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nixon House, Edithvaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Northcliffe Lodge and Mentoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corben House once a larger aged care home is built in Mentone. Council expects to hand over management of the homes in mid-2015 and it is expected to take two to three years to build an expanded aged care home in Mentone. Crs Rosemary West, Tamara Barth, David Eden, Paul Peulich and Steve Staikos are pushing for council to also ask aged care providers to submit business cases to run a care home at Remo St, rather than just put the Col-

lins St proposal out to market. Council has received confidential legal advice on running a dual request for proposal process. Councillors were due to discuss the matter behind closed doors on Monday evening but voted to defer the matter until Decemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s council meeting to receive further briefings from council officers. The soil at the 101-103 Collins St site, a former council depot housing chemicals, is currently being decontaminated by specialists Ausdecom at a cost of $1.1 million. This decontamination work is expected to be completed in about a monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time. Existing aged care homes will continue to operate while a centre is built.

Shifting soil: Decontamination works are underway at the Collins St former depot site with an aged care home earmarked for the land. Picture: Gary Sissons

A Will and a way for forward looking seniors

Girls steered by call of the siren IT seems girls just wanna play football, according to the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League. Such is the demand that the league is planning to introduce two all-girl football competitions next season to run alongside the junior boys. There will be divisions for 9- 12 year olds and 13-18. MPJFL girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; football coordinator Jenny Walker said junior football clubs considering fielding girls teams include

Balnarring, Pearcedale/Baxter, Somerville, Moorooduc, South Mornington, Beleura, Rye, Rosebud and Mt Martha. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether they do, of course, depends on the number of girls interested in playing,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The games will be just as tough and rugged as the boys â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way the girls want it.â&#x20AC;? Ms Walker â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a member of the Rye Junior Football Club - said girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; football was one of the fastest growing

sports in the country: â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a league, we are looking forward to bringing it to all the girls who are interested.â&#x20AC;? To promote the new competition, the league is hosting a girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; football skills day 5.30-6.30pm Friday at South Mornington Junior Football Club, Helena St, Mt Martha. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The girls should just wear runners not footy boots,â&#x20AC;? Ms Walker said. To find out more email the MPJFL at admin@mpjfl.com.au

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THE importance of correct planning was the key message at a Wills and Powers of Attorney forum held for seniors in Frankston and surrounding areas. The forum, held by Peninsula Community Legal Centre, Frankston Council and Seniors Rights Victoria, aimed to give seniors the knowledge needed to protect themselves and their assets. When opening the forum Cr Rebekah Spelman stressed the important contribution made by seniors to the life of a community. Gary Ferguson, of Seniors Rights Victoria, lead the 71 participants through the different Powers of Attorney that can be used to ensure that the right people make the right decisions for them in the future, if needed. The seminar, presented by Saskia Rijfkogel from the Peninsula Community Legal Centre, provided up to date information about wills, including tips and traps to ensure will-makersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wishes are effective. All participants were given a copy of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Take Controlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; booklet produced by Victoria Legal Aid and the Office of Public Advocate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This forum addressed two of the most important issues people are faced with during their lifetime - planning for the unexpected and the inevitable,â&#x20AC;? the legal centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manager Andrea Staunton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were pleased to see that sur-

vey responses indicated that seniors understood the benefits of having an up to date will and how best to ensure their needs are properly looked after in the event of incapacity. A common theme was a desire to ease the burden on their families.â&#x20AC;? Ms Staunton said the survey results also indicated that 96 per cent of participants now knew where to go for help. Peninsula Community Legal Centre is a not-for-profit organisation that provides free advice on most legal issues, with ongoing assistance available for clients experiencing disadvantage. The centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head office is in Frankston, with branches in Bentleigh, Cranbourne, Frankston North and Rosebud, as well as visiting services in Chelsea and Hastings. For more information about free legal services, call 9783 3600 or visit www.pclc.org.au. Seniors Rights Victoria assists people to prevent and respond to elder abuse, call 1300 368 821 or www. seniorsrights.org.au

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Exquisitely presented and renovated throughout, this elevated beach side property is positioned in a prime blue chip location only minutes to the beach. A mature, well landscaped yard has a mineral salt swimming pool and entertaining area. The endless list of features include 3BR’s – main with FES & WIR, two separate living areas, designer kitchen, covered alfresco dining area, polished floors throughout, GDH, air conditioning plus a gas log fire. A home for the seasons!

AUCTION This Sunday, 30th November at 12.30pm Inspect

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Charming 2 bedroom house on cottage 386sqm block located within the Frankston high school zone. Ideal for home buyers, retirees and investors alike with spacious bedrooms, full ensuite to master bedroom & walk in robe, new carpet in lounge, Blanco stainless steel oven in the kitchen, air conditioner, lock up garage & room for either extend or maybe park the van. Walking distance to Heatherhill shop & bus service. Will sell quickly.

Well maintained in quiet street, this home has a great floor plan and comprises living room, kitchen with meals area, three good size bedrooms located towards the back of the house, bathroom separate toilet & laundry, exposed floorboards, new guttering, tiled roof and all on a well-fenced 582sqm level block with decent backyard. Invest and rent out or occupy and TLC into your own place. A sweet buy in anybody’s language.

2 Price

Buyers over $320,000

Contact Shane Dawes 0411 302 925

1/474 Nepean Highway FRANKSTON phone e: frankston@obrienrealestate.com.au

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FRANKSTON 75 Kars Street

FRANKSTON 34 Leonard Street

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Price

Buyers over $240,000

Inspect

By Appointment

Contact

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FRANKSTON 159 Gould Street

IT WON’T TAKE MUCH TO CREATE YOUR DREAM HOME

All the foundation work is here and ready for your own creative flair to turn this solid home into your dream beachside retreat. Endless possibilities provided with the existing attributes of this WB home on 418sqm block backing onto Kananook Creek comprising living room, kitchen/meals area, three bedrooms, fourth bedroom/second living area and two bathrooms. With a short walk to a glorious beach, CBD, train station and entertainment venues, this property is a Frankston Golden Mile gem which will not take long to be discovered so call today. TERMS: 10% DEPOSIT, BALANCE 90/120 DAYS

AUCTION Saturday 13th December at 12pm Inspect

Thurs 5-5.30pm & Sat 12.-12.30pm

Contact

Andrew Milne 0418 303 591 Shane Dawes 0411 302 925

FRANKSTON 2/39 Highview Road

FRANKSTON 3 Long Street

NEST OR INVEST

RED HOT AND READY TO GO

Located in the Frankston High School Zone, this 2BR unit which is sure to impress the savvy investor or first home owner. Within walking distance to Uni, shops, hospital and the CBD you can throw away your car keys! A functional floorplan includes spacious open-plan lounge & dining area with a renovated kitchen featuring s/steel appliances and there is access out to a paved courtyard. Both bedrooms have BIR’s and share the one bathroom. The unit also has a garage.

Whether you are looking to live in or investment this is the property for you. Located in Frankston Heights location this 2 bedroom unit has fully renovated kitchen with stainless steel appliances including dishwasher, refurbished tiled bathroom, gas ducted heating, large meals area, timber deck, lock up carport and big yard suitable for a dog. The bonus is there is only two on the block and the unit has it’s own privacy. Will sell quickly

2 Price

Buyers over $285,000

Inspect Saturday 12.00-12.30pm Contact Samantha van Hoof 0404 829 693

Price

Buyers over $280,000

Inspect

Saturday 1.00-1.30pm

Contact Shane Dawes 0411 302 925

Michelle Ferguson 0423 467 087

1/474 Nepean Highway FRANKSTON phone e: frankston@obrienrealestate.com.au

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MARKET PLACE MOUNT ELIZA 9-11 Wimbledon Avenue

Expressions of interest

Hidden haven

HOLLYWOOD LUXURY MEETS FENG-SHUI BRILLIANCE • Blue Chip Location

• Flood lit Mod Grass tennis court

• Just doors from the Ranelagh Club,

• In-ground pool & spa (heated)

beach & village

• Giant hedges

• Design brilliance

• 4 bedrooms, 3 living area

• Situated on 1700sqm (approx.)

• 3 car garage and workshop

• Spread over 4 levels

• A designer Japanese beech kitchen

• Magnificent timeless granduer

• Poolside alfresco terrace, sauna & oval spa

• Landscaped garden

• Views to Mornington harbour

and the list goes on and on, a truly unique and magnificent property Contact Helen Sly on 0408 336 603 or 9787 5181 for further details Expressions of interest close December 15th, 2014

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WITH lovely leafy trees all around, this private home enjoys an elevated position with some rural and water views. The spacious and bright home will appeal to families and even those downsizing from larger properties. The interior has a contemporary look and the pleasant neutral decor is enhanced by quality floor coverings and polished timber floors. There is a choice of two grand living areas: a separate formal lounge has a woodheater, and the family zone has a central galley-style kitchen and accesses the outdoor entertaining area. There are three bedrooms at ground level, including the main bedroom which has an ensuite and walk-in robe and upstairs is a fourth bedroom and third living area which opens to a private balcony with views out to the bay. The vast 1200-square metre block is well-grassed with plenty of space for children and pets, and other external features include a double garage with workshop space. Address: Price: Agency: Agent:

33 Pacific Drive, BALNARRING Negotiable over $590,000 Harcourts, 10/14 High Street, Hastings, 5970 7333 Tim Hughes, 0410 470 515

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Mornington The Filling Station

FOR SALE Mornington Tommyfields Fish & Chips

16/90 Main Street

FOR SALE

32 Main Street

Located in a prime corner position at the end of the busy Main Street Mall with indoor and outdoor seating this hot spot is waiting for you. Low rent, easy to run business with scope to increase outdoor seating and add your own flair. n 45m2 approx n Low rent n Commercial kitchen n Plenty of natural light

View www.harcourts.com.au For Sale $95,000 (No GST) Kara James M 0412 939 224 P 9788 7400 E kara.james@naiharcourts.com.au HARCOURTS LIMITLESS P 9788 7400

Located at the beach end of Main Street, Tommyfields presents a golden opportunity to be a part of the buzz. With a welcoming shop front, plenty of storage, rear entrance with car parking and a 2BR residence upstairs. n Healthy profits n Two street frontage n Long Lease n Get in now for Summer trade

View www.harcourts.com.au For Sale $110,000 (No GST) Kara James M 0412 939 224 P 9788 7400 E kara.james@naiharcourts.com.au HARCOURTS LIMITLESS P 9788 7400

SOLD

Mornington Sienna Jack

FOR SALE

5/134-136 Main Street n n n n n n n n n

Mornington Plenti 104 Main Street

Contemporary style fit out 7 work stations Two wash basins Short cuts salon software Strong local clientele with huge database Business showing good profits Large colour room with amenities at the rear Highly regarded business Long lease

View www.harcourts.com.au For Sale $59,000 (No GST) Kara James M 0412 939 224 P 9788 7400 E kara.james@naiharcourts.com.au HARCOURTS LIMITLESS P 9788 7400

Cafe at the front &clothing at the rear Fit-out just over 12 months old n Commercial kitchen with grease trap n Counter with display fridges could easily convert to a bar n 5+5 year lease signed June 2012 n 200m2 seldom found in this location n Suit restaurant looking to add night time trading n n

View www.harcourts.com.au For Sale $59,000 (No GST) Kara James M 0412 939 224 P 9788 7400 E kara.james@naiharcourts.com.au HARCOURTS LIMITLESS P 9788 7400

Brent Pullar Director Harcourts Limitless Mobile: 0419 148 081 Ph:9788 7400 brent.pullar@harcourts.com.au Kara James Commercial Specialist Mobile: 0412 939 224 Ph:9788 7400 kara.james@naiharcourts.com.au

Mortgage Express Suite 11/20-22 Ranelagh Drive, Mount Eliza Christine Penford 0414 228 891 christine.penford@mortgage-express.com.au

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Coffee at my place

Big land bonanza

SET on a prominent corner position with good shop space, this cafĂŠ is a popular business is this busy shopping centre, with plenty of passing traffic along the main arterial road through the town. The owner is retiring and this fantastic business demonstrates good takings and a long lease is in place allowing you to make your own personal touches to the decor and menu.

THIS significant land parcel is available to purchase by public tender, and is one of the few development options on the peninsula with endorsed plans, an approved Town Planning Permit and landscape design to build a 53 unit retirement village, which includes a community centre and work shed. The land area measures about 1.65 hectares and may also suit (STCA) a church, school or traditional residential unit development. The site is in an excellent location, just off Peninsula Link, with amenities in Baxter including schools, a medical clinic, dentist, train station and shopping centre. Generous settlement terms of up to 6 months are available if required, however purchasers can opt to settle immediately and begin the retirement village development, or alternatively, take the time to submit new plans to council.

Cafe, SOMERVILLE Price: $149,950 plus sav Agency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 1/26 McLaren Place, Mornington, 5977 2255 Agent: Kevin Wright, 0417 564 454

34 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 46 Baxter Tooradin Road, BAXTER For Sale By Tender: Tenders close this Thursday at 4.00pm Agency: Nichols Crowder, 1/1 Colemans Road, Carrum Downs, 9775 1535 Agent: Michael Crowder, 0408 358 926

For Lease

4 Silkwood Rise Carrum Downs

Quality Office Warehouse

Auctions

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Under instructions from The Menzies Homes for Children

Either Way You Win Frankston CAD

Beach Street

Brand new office warehouse High clearance warehouse: 1620m2* Air-conditioned/carpeted office: 249m2* Fully fitted kitchen and lunch room Access via 4 roller doors under canopy Secure yard and fencing Great location opposite a park with additional street car parking *All sizes approx

412 408

Outline indicative only

408: Land area: 1,022m2* Building area: 390m2* 412: Land area: 781m2* Building area: 117m2* Zoned: Commercial 1 Suit office, medical or residential unit development (STCA) Close to the Frankston CAD Excellent exposure Freeholds such as this rarely *All sizes approx come on to the market The properties are to be sold separately

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The media: a medicine not to everyone’s taste David Harrison david@baysidenews.com.au JOURNALISTS love a good quote. Here’s one from Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, who pioneered mass-circulation newspapers in Britain. “News,” he said, “is what somebody, somewhere, wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Not a bad definition, one that the Mornington Peninsula News Group (MPNG), publisher of this newspaper, has as a lodestar, especially when confronted with the sort of “white noise” and other evasive techniques employed by wannabe suppressers of all sorts. Keep Northcliffe’s definition in mind when next you read your daily or weekly newspapers and watch or listen to news and current affairs programs. The “spin” – politicians trying to persuade people that white is black, or at least a shade of grey – is prodigious, the aim as much to confuse and disorientate, and to appeal to prejudice and bigotry, as it is to inform. Since Northcliffe’s lifetime (1865– 1922), politicians, pop singers, business barons, colourful racing identities, celebrity chefs, oft-married doctors and other folk have employed platoons of press secretaries, advisers and other “flacks” to try to suppress what they don’t want published, with depressingly regular success. Standing between prominent persons and the public, the flacks (including those in local government) have tasks including distributing run of the mill information such as what their bosses have been doing, or plan to do, who they have met and what triumphs they wish to trumpet.

Their most important task: dealing with disasters and embarrassments that must be suppressed or spun away. Recently Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been flacking for the PM about Mr Abbott’s pre-election “No cuts to the ABC or SBS” promise. Mr Turnbull has been telling us it’s not a cut, it’s an adjustment, and we must not take his boss’s words out of context. Further, Mr Turnbull has continually pointed out, the public must remember that he and Treasurer Joe Hockey had repeatedly stated pre-election that cuts would have to be made across the board, including to the ABC and SBS. Mr Turnbull was indulging in classic spin. A “cut” became an “adjustment”; the “context” (Abbott’s plain promise was not in a “context”) was a huge red herring; and then came a Turnbull hint that the PM’s pledge was, silly boy, just him off on another irresponsible, undisciplined frolic, departing, tsk-tsk, from the message being put out by his more responsible colleagues Turnbull and Hockey. Desperate stuff, when analysed, but reported widely – and defended widely by the PM’s acolytes in the press and on radio and television. But with a deft touch of anti-Abbott malice, reflecting Mr Turnbull’s leadership ambitions. Beautiful work! Like it or not, the ABC is a central pillar of the Australian media and of Australian life. It plays a role for all, in every city, town, village and remote outback farmhouse, including for those who don’t listen or watch. It is as vital to all as are roads, even to non-drivers. Almost all politicians have, at one time or another, been victim of the ABC. Their egos can’t abide negative

publicity. Many governments have set out to nobble it via funding “adjustments”. In more turbulent nations, coup leaders head straight for the media, to control the message. North Koreans know only what the state tells them. Try to imagine Australia without the ABC. Try to imagine the world without the BBC – for insomniacs, it brings Australia news and features on ABC’s News Radio throughout the night. Try to imagine our radio dominated and diminished by Sydney shock jock types like Alan Jones, or by an Australian version of America’s appalling Rush Limbaugh, or TV news and opinion from Rupert Murdoch’s disgraceful US channel Fox News. Spin at a more mundane local level has been Mornington Peninsula Shire’s regular approach to our annual rates increase, announcing a rise that was always less than the … dare one say “truth”? It has done this by calculating the “rate” (in the dollar) and omitting a substantial “charge”, the Municipal Charge – although (refer to your rates notice) the shire is obliged to state your bill as “rates and charges”, which cannot exclude the hefty Municipal Charge. Then the shire hired Marilyn Kearney as its chief financial officer. She acknowledged the error and remedied it. MPNG newspapers had pointed out the rates spin and Ms Kearney, now alas departed from the shire, had responded properly – as the shire had failed to do in the past. That is but a minor example of the local media’s crucial role, which is, to use the vernacular, “to keep the bastards honest”. Many politicians keenly resent being held to account, except on their terms.

It was once the role of the press, now the task of all media, to shine a light into dark corners, now in a time of diminishing funds and shrinking newsrooms. This is a lofty concept but a vital one. Democracy is incomplete and ultimately unworkable without the oxygen of facts, with independent news media doing their job dispassionately and objectively. Whistleblowers Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are holed up beyond reach of infuriated politicians because they could not and would not be suppressed. The spin against them has been gargantuan, partly a reflection of politicians’ fear of having exposed what they are accustomed to suppressing, and not generally for national security reasons, as they argue. Newspapers were once regularly referred to as the Fourth Estate, the other three estates comprising the English parliament – the Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal, and the Commons. The great English parliamentarian Edmund Burke had given this definition in 1787, when reporting of parliament was finally permitted, and had added: “... but, in the Parliament’s Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important [by] far than they all”. The Australian Constitution refers to the Parliament, the Executive Government and the Judicature as the nation’s three chief estates. It is inconceivable now to think that reporting parliament would ever have been prohibited. Here’s another quote beloved of journalists: “The only way to look at a politician is down.” It came from the acerbic typewriter of American newspaper columnist Henry Louis Mencken. The term politician should, incidentally, be widely defined

to include councillors, barrow-pushers for causes and unelected officials with the power to control aspects of our lives. Interrogate the internet for Mencken quotes. You will be well rewarded. Another lively example: “Say what you will about the 10 commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only 10 of them.” Journalism is regarded by some serious practitioners as a vocation. But this is to make the craft (it is not a profession) too serious, some say. A venerable definition has it that, to be a journalist, one needs a plausible manner, a good serve of rat cunning and a little literary ability. But that is too trite a note on which to end. Some more quotes are called for, starting with Mencken. Some are appropriate in light of the state election: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” “It is [a politician’s] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.” “If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” Lord Northcliffe (pre-elevation to the House of Lords): “When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.” Adolph Hitler: “How fortunate for rulers that the people don’t think.”

Golfers tee up to a four-course feast THE proposed merger between the Long Island and The National golf clubs will give members access to four championship courses. They are Long Island Country Club’s existing 18-hole layout between Skye and FrankstonDandenong roads, Frankston, and The National’s Old, Ocean and Moonah courses at Cape Schanck. Members of both clubs will vote on the merger on 14 December. To get up, it must receive a 75 per cent ‘Yes’ vote from both clubs. This will create the first private 72-hole golf club in Australia. Long Island Country Club general manager Nick Dastey said the merger would make both clubs “bigger and better” for members.

“It’s a great opportunity for both of us,” he said. “It will create a fantastic facility and extend our reach. Combining the two clubs will make us a much better club and give us a competitive advantage.” Mr Dastey said The National had many peninsula-based members. “Our site is ideal because it’s so convenient to them,” he said. “We are a traditional sandbelt course – like Royal Melbourne or Kingston Heath – whereas The National is made up of links courses.” If the merger succeeds, the 750 members at Long Island and 2500 at The National will have the choice of playing where and when they like on a “diverse combination of courses”.

“Long Island is rated 62 in Australia although many golfers would argue that it should be higher,” he said. “The National has two in the top 10 – the Old course at eight and Moonah at 10.” Mr Dastey said a merger was appropriate in a changing market. “It’s well known that demand for golf has been in decline for a number of years, and we want to act now while we are in a position of strength,” he said. “We want to be a leader in the marketplace and, to do that, we need a strong membership base. There are great advantages to members in this merger which is all about creating something better for the members. We will both be financially better off.” Fees are unlikely to change at

either club. Long Island members pay about $3200 in a traditional feepaying arrangement, and those at The National just over $4000 in a share-based scheme. These fees are tradeable and vary in price depending on demand. Mr Dastey was confident the proposed merger would boost demand for places at the clubs, thereby increasing the value of The National’s shares. In September 2013 the Peninsula Country Golf Club merged with Kingswood Golf Club, the first merger of two golf clubs in Australia. It is now called Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club. Stephen Taylor

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PARC parking review ordered by council CAR parking arrangements at the Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre will be reviewed following last week’s formal request to centre management by Frankston City Council. The chair of the PARC board has promised to take the matter to the next board meeting in December. Currently, the first hour of parking is free. On week days, the maximum charge is $8 for three hours, reducing to $6 after $2 for the first hour is deducted. At weekends, there is a maximum charge of $4 for three hours, reducing to $2 after the first hour is deducted. Frankston City Council’s chief executive officer Dennis Hovenden

acknowledged that the charging regime introduced by the PARC board had aimed to ensure high levels of accessibility for those using the facility. “However, as it was the council’s original intention to provide free car parking to all patrons, we have asked the PARC board to come up with a plan that provides this, as well as ensuring a reasonable turnover of parks, to allow access for all users of the pool,” Mr Hovenden said. “It is our view that changes need to be made to the car parking arrangements to ensure free parking is possible for all patrons. “We don’t want a situation where

people park there for hours on end, thereby limiting other people’s access to parking, so any solution will have to balance these competing issues. “It is now up to PARC’s board to consider some options at their next meeting in December and get back to council with their decision. “Hopefully, we will have a workable result that meets our original intention, keeps patrons happy and ensures the long-term viability of PARC.”

Parking problems: The Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre has been dogged with criticism over parking fees since it opened this year. Picture: Yanni

Praise heaped on ‘long, lazy’ lunch

Master class: Top trumpeter James Morrison shares the flashlight with Frankston High School band members after performing at this year’s Long Lazy Lunch, left, which was enjoyed by Cynthia Gubby, Karen Thoday and Maree Eason. Pictures: Margaret Harrison, BusinessTimes

PROUDLY Frankston’s second Long Lazy Lunch is a likely nomination for the 2014 Frankston Community Event of the Year. At least one prominent Frankston identity has indicated the charity lunch sponsored by South East Water will be in the running for the award. The sell-out event featuring James Morrison, just voted the world’s leading jazz musician, attracted plenty of accolades. The trumpet virtuoso added his own praise, saying he had turned down a booking to perform for world leaders,

including US president Barak Obama, at the G20 conference in Brisbane in order to play at a fan’s wedding and then with the Frankston High School stage bands. More than 500 guests packed Mornington Racing Club’s Gunnamatta Room after dodgy weather forced the relocation from Frankston Oval. Highlights were James Morrison, the school’s stage bands, fine wines mainly from peninsula growers, and catering by Wise Choice. Frankston’s own Sam ‘King’ Soliman, IBF middleweight world boxing

champion, made an appearance with his championship belt and heaped praise on his home town. The CEO of Ritchies Stores, Fred Harrison, was MC at both lunch events and described it as “an outstanding day”. “Last year was great, this year even better. Seriously, to have those superstars in the room at once, with the passion, with the vibe – it had to be seen to be believed,” Mr Harrison said. “All credit to the Proudly Frankston campaign. Outstanding leadership from Alan Wickes and the

committee and I am delighted I was able to do my little bit. “Last year I probably had 10 to 20 people come up to me and comment how good the day was. This year at least 100 people wanted to shake my hand, chat and compliment the organisers.” Former Frankston mayor Christine Richards described it as an “absolutely fabulous day”. Proudly Frankston president Alan Wickes said there was no satisfaction like “real team success”. “We have started something with

a team that is growing in capability and credibility and this latest event, I think, further enhanced our reputation.” A cheque for $2000 was presented to Frankston High principal John Albiston for the school’s music program. Proceeds from the event will be split between Frankston charities. The Proudly Frankston campaign was launched two years ago to encourage citizens to feel good about their community. Tony Murrell

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Exploding soda fountain causes death in Chelsea Compiled by Melissa Hodge THE Programme of The Dromana sports club appears in our advertising columns, which takes place on Boxing Day. *** Mr Alec Clarey will deliver his second lecture in the. Frankston Mechanics’ Hall on Wednesday evening next on the identity of the British Race with the Lost Tribe of Israel will be further elaborated. *** THE friends of Mr T. Nicholl of Frankston, will regret to hear of the death of his wife which sad event occurred at The Melbourne Hospital on Friday afternoon, after having undergone an operation in that institution. The remains were brought to Frankston and buried on Sunday afternoon. The Rev A P. McFarlane officiated at the grave. *** THE purely voluntary surrender by the Public Service of a percentage of salary, as a contribution to the war fund, will mean a handsome contribution. The Teachers Bench has adopted a minimum of 2.5 per cent. A junior teacher earning 4 pounds monthly subscribes 1 pound, 4 shillings per year. Some of our Victorian citizens as might well ponder this. *** The American Tea held in the Frankston Park and the funds of the Brass Band was in every way a success, thanks to the committee of ladies who worked arduously during the afternoon and evening, with the

result that the profit of over £22 was made. *** AT the invitation of Mr W. Holtz of the Pier Hotel, Frankston, a party of gentlemen took advantage of the public holiday proclaimed on the 18th for the purpose of a days shooting of the rabbits in the district. The place chosen was Mr C Wells paddocks on the Hastings road and after a pleasant drive in one of Mr Benson’s cabs the party was dropped off at its destination. No time was wasted in starting operations on one of the numerous warrens. Burrows were found, the ferrets were sent on their different ways forcing bunny out of his hole where it was immediately met by a party and speedily dispatched. Unfortunately the place selected must have been pretty extensively gone over shortly before the arrival of the hunters and the catch was not as good as was anticipated, but a most enjoyable days outing was spent. Refreshments were liberally provided by the host, and after tramping round the extensive warrens in the different paddocks, they were duly appreciated by the company. About seven o’clock the cabs returned, and a pleasant drive home in the cool of the evening terminated a very pleasant outing. *** THE Choral Society’s concert on Saturday, December 5th promises to be one of the most interesting they have ever given. In addition to the

first appearance of Miss Rosa Alba who is looked upon by critics as a coming prima donna, a recital of several quaint old English songs by Mr Frederic Earp is announced. In England Mr Earp was regarded as an authority on this branch of music and is often engaged as lecturer by leading Shakespearian and other educational societies. The original manuscript of “Summer is calling you” (one of the items promised) is preserved with great care in the British Museum London, as it is the oldest piece of decipherable music existing. Nobody knows exactly who composed it, but antiquarians assign it to a monk who lived in Reading Monastery about the year 1226. Another song is about an old-time agricultural laborer being distinctly humorous. Though this song has been well known to the old fashioned villagers in the country of its origin for many generations, Mr Earp was one of the first singers of standing, to introduce it into high class concert programmes. Mr Earp will give a selection of six of these little songs all new to Australia, from his collection of over two hundred. *** ON Sunday last the Rev A. P. McFarlane and Rev G. A. Kitchen exchanged duty. Mr McFarlane took all the services at Frankston and Seaford. In the afternoon Mr McFarlane officiated at the funeral of Mrs Nicholls. ***

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WE regret to have to record the death of Mrs G Lindsey (Miss Etly Cullen) at the early age of 24 years and offer our condolences and sympathy to the sorrowing relatives. The deceased was well known in Frankston previous to her marriage and was greatly appreciated as an elocutionist in which capacity she appeared several times in connection with the Choral Society’s concerts some two years ago. *** THE danger of allowing persons to use pea rifles in the township, was exemplified on Tuesday evening, when Miss Masterton was shot in the hand while walking in her garden, in Bay Street, Frankston. It is not known who fired the shot, but it was a lucky thing for the lady, that she was not shot in a vital part, though no thanks is due to the careless shootist for that. *** THERE is at present on view in Mrs Hayes window, in Bay street, Frankston, a very handsome handbag, made of handwork crotchet. Miss Martindale, who made the article, intends to raffle it for the benefit of the Patriot fund, and tickets may be had for the small sum of 3d each. *** AMONG the successful candidates for the Musical Society’s recent examinations, were Miss Dorothea Overton, who obtained 1st diploma for the pianoforte, and Miss Dorothy Thornell passed, with honours, for the elementary certificate. These young

musicians are well known residents of Somerville, and reflect great credit upon their teacher, Miss Olive Sherlock, Frankston. *** IN accordance with the provisions contained in the Electoral Act in regard to compulsory enrolment. Mr W. J. Field, divisional returning officer for Flinders division, has issued a batch of 500 summons against persons who have failed to have their names placed upon the roll, and there is a further batch of between 300 and 400 to follow. The first of these cases will come on at the Dandenong court on Tuesday when proceedings will be taken against 90 offenders. *** A sad accident happened at Sherwood Avenue, Chelsea, on Sunday afternoon, when Ernest Tillbrook attempted to rectify a fault in a soda water fountain. The machine exploded and Tillbrook was thrown violently to the ground, and killed instantly. Tillbrook visited Mrs Ballard’s tea gardens at Chelsea. The sodawater fountain was out of order, and Tillbrook remarked that he knew all about the workings of such a machine, turned to the tap. An explosion followed immediately, hurling Tillbrook to the ground. When he was picked up he was dead, the only wound visible was in his right arm, which was almost torn off at the elbow. Tillbrook, who was 23 year old, was unmarried. From the pages of the Mornington Standard, 28 November, 1914.

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The utterly compelling truth about clutter By Stuart McCullough IT’S on. We have decided to sell our house. Ultimately, this will require us to pack up all our things in an orderly fashion and move. But not yet. First we must undergo a painful process in which we ‘de-clutter’. Although it sounds like something that may require both a young and old priest, not to mention a decent supply of holy water, the term ‘de-clutter’ is, in fact, a nice way of saying ‘remove all the materials in your house that have seen the neighbours dob you in to A Current Affair as a chronic hoarder’. It’s ironic. Three years worth of old newspapers are incredibly useful when you’re moving house and yet they’re the first thing a prospective real estate agent will ask you to remove from the hallway. There’s no avoiding the awful truth: we have collected a lot of stuff. Some of it deliberately, but much of as a by-product of life. Over many years, it has accumulated and filled every nook and cranny until, like a pair of jeans that are two sizes too small, stuff simply spills over the edges. And, just like that very same pair of trousers, it’s confronting. We’ve been ingenious, too. We’ve used every inch of every cupboard as well as the roof. Now comes the reckoning. For years, we’ve acted like clowns getting into a Minnie Minor. Finally, it’s time to undo in a few days what took us years to achieve. The reason for de-cluttering is simple. We have to make our house look as nice and as neat and as flat-out wonderful as possible. In modern par-

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lance, we need someone to ‘pimp our ride’. For those unfamiliar with the process, this involves a stylist coming to look at all your possessions and then judging you. In some instances, this means high praise. Apparently, the vintage movie posters in the hallway

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are entirely appropriate and should be retained. This is a powerful validation of my taste, if not in movies, then at least in posters. That these works have been selected to survive the culling process says that I was right all along. However, not all the art work as been

so lucky. To date, there is no word on the framed picture of ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ whose fate hangs in the balance while it hangs in the study. Last time I met the stylist, she pointed in the general direction of one half of the house and simply said everything at that end could go. As a person whose job it is to make everything look as chic and as stylish as possible, she couldn’t even bring herself to say the words ‘Dogs Playing Poker’. It truly is the artwork that dare not speak its name. I have a lot of instruments. Sadly, these are not of the surgical variety because our house would have been a lot bigger were that the case. Musical instruments, it must be said, take up a lot of premium space. Apparently they’re an unwanted distraction and have to go. As a result, they’re being evicted from the house. It’s a bitter blow but, as an adult, I can take it. And, as an adult, there’s only one responsible course of action available to me – I must take my beloved instruments, cram them into a Ford Focus and then hide them in various cupboards at my father’s house. It must be said that my father is a very patient and understanding man, at least about things other than the cruel and vexatious decision to cancel A Place To Call Home. I’m sure he’ll realize that the violin in the linen cupboard is not his and that the Stratocaster in the pantry stuffed between the barbeque shapes and the sugar bowl is only there on a transitional basis. It seems that moving out of your childhood home house is the work of a lifetime. In many respects, it’s incremen-

tal. I left home when I was a teenager, but plenty of my possessions stayed put. It’s true of my siblings too. Once again, I have to move back home, at least in part. De-cluttering your house is an exercise that is part cleaning, part archeology. I’m not ashamed to say that I have upheld the family tradition by locating a range of foodstuffs that expired in a decade other than the current one. I also found press releases for old bands that serve as a reminder of how far the art of word-processing has come in the last twenty years. There are school reports and assignments that I was sure I would one day need again. It’s time to let them all go. Once it’s done, you are left with a house that was far neater than when you started and a nagging sense of: why didn’t we always live like this? It’s because human beings are meant to accumulate. I don’t mean expensive objects, but the everyday stuff of life. We collect and gather up objects great and small because they remind us of things. Of moments when we were happy. Of people we loved and, if we’re lucky, loved us back. These items are evidence of a life lived. Tomorrow, oddly stylish furniture will arrive. It will make our house look neat and wonderful, just as it should, but it’s not me. The proof that I existed is packed up in a range of boxes. Perhaps more than anywhere else, the real me can be found in the various nooks and crannies of my father’s house. Which is exactly as it should be. stuart@stuartmccullough.com

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and clubs of northern England, before teaming up with Mike Stock and Matt Aitken to record Astley’s first solo offering Never Gonna Give You Up. The release was an immediate success, sending the song to the top of the British charts for five weeks and making it the year’s highest selling single. In addition to the UK success, the song topped charts in the US, Australia and Germany – the first of 13 worldwide Top 30 hit singles - making Astley a household name within months. Peninsula fans will get the chance to see one of the most well known pop stars on the planet in a rare Australian performance of hit songs and memories at the Chelsea Heights Hotel on Friday November 28. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and the venue, with doors opening at 8pm. For more info, head to www.chelseaheightshotel.com.au

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If you’re a member of Generation Y, chances are you have a vague memory of a Rick Astley song you may have heard on the radio in between your BMX rides when you were about five or six years old. If you’re a bit older – or indeed a GenY with a knack for remembering hits of the late 80s – you’d know the name well, as one of the success stories coming from production trio Stock Aitken Waterman, alongside Jason Donovan, Kylie Minogue, Bananarama and many more. Now, some 25 years since his breakthrough single Never Gonna Give You Up burst onto high rotation radio and gained No.1 status in 25 countries worldwide, Rick Astley is coming to our shores to show Australian audiences what he’s been up to since, as well as belt out his late 80s/early 90s hits. Rick Astley’s musical career began in the pubs

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Kangas in a world of pain PROVINCIAL

By IT Gully LANGWARRIN’S season went from bad to worse on Saturday after being skittled for just 93 in its match against Heatherhill. The Kangas have been in disastrous form with the bat in recent matches but some had forgiven them given they were against Sorrento and Mornington. However, despite only a modest attack, Langwarrin wilted under the Hill’s bowling pressure. While the Kangas were nothing short of pathetic, the Hill’s bowlers were superb.

Jon Powell was the pick of them, tearing through the visitor’s batting line up, finishing with 7/31 off 17.4 overs. His figures included six maidens and 10 no balls. At one stage, Langwarrin was 4/17. Bowling all-rounder Jake D’Atri was tried up the order but that idea failed, falling for just five. It was once again left to old timer Danny Weare to score half of the team’s runs in his first senior game for the season. Weare finished with 45. In reply, Heatherhill will resume at 4/69. Adrian Mack and Dwayne Doig have two wickets each for the Kangas. Pines bowlers did the job on Saturday against Moorooduc,

however, their batsmen are again in a spot of bother. Ricky Ramsdale led the charge for the Piners with 4/37 to help roll the Ducs for 157. Bobby Wilson top scored for the home side with 45. In reply, Pines are 3/41. Baxter and Mt Eliza are locked in tight battle after the opening day claimed 12 wickets. The Mounties batted first and made 171, thanks largely to Timmy Strickland (46) and skipper Lyle House (45). Dale Irving was at his magical best for Baxter with 5/41. Baxter will resume on day two of the match, looking comfortable at 2/68

after Shane McComb blasted 40. Mornington’s batsmen stepped up to the plate in the grand final replay against Sorrento, helping the side reach 249. It was the star Ben Clements who turned his season around with a powerful 117, while Luke Popov was next best with 31 and Michael Heib hit an unbeaten 29. Liam O’Connor as the best of the Sorras bowlers with 4/9 and Anthony Blackwell chipped-in with 2/27. Peninsula Old Boys continue to get the job done, setting Long Island 245 for victory. The Old Boys have been very consistent with their scoring this

season and despite being up against a very good attack, were able to score more than 200 again. Scott Phillips claimed 3/60 and Andrew Tweddle 2/27 for the Islanders. Crib Point has already claimed the 12 points against Rye and will be looking for an additional eight points when they begin day two this Saturday. The Demons batted first and were bowled out for 128, Luke Herrington picking up 4/35 and Glenn Barclay 4/41. In reply, the Magpies are 2/150 after Herrington made 72. Rob Hearn will resume unbeaten on 66.

Blues in trouble DISTRICT

By IT Gully HASTINGS will be looking for a miracle when it heads out into the middle on day two of its District round five match against Seaford Tigers. Suffice to say that the opening day at Belvedere Park belonged to the bowlers, with 15 wickets falling on the opening day. The Tigers won the toss and elected to bat, however, quickly found themselves in real trouble at 3/7. Mitch Floyd was on fire after taking the new ball and snared the first three wickets. He finished with 3/27 from 13 overs. Corey Hand, as he has done so often over his career, saved his side with 57, while Matty Meagher also contributed a valuable 23 to help the Tigers to a modest yet defendable 148. Carey Sawosz again rewarded his skipper for a bit of faith, returning figures of 4/34 from 13 overs. Looking to capitalise on their bowlers’ great work, the Hastings batsmen couldn’t follow it up. Hastings lost 3/8 in seven overs, including Jake Hewitt for a duck. Only four runs have come from the bat of Hastings’ players. Meagher was superb for the Tigers with the new cherry, bowling three over and finishing with 2/3. Carrum needs 43 runs with five wickets in hand in its match against Mt Martha. The Reds batted first and made 166. A number of batsmen got starts but none could go on with it. Luke

Moran top scored with 37 and Mitchel Darville hit 34. Dean Polson was the best of the Lions’ bowlers with 3/19. In reply, Carrum will resume at 5/104. However, they will be disappointed to have lost 5/35 after cruising at 0/69. Openers Dale O’Neil was run out for 36 and Shaun Foster eventually went for 55. Curtis Stone snared 3/52 from 11 overs for Mt Martha. Main Ridge and Delacombe Park are evenly poised in their match. However, this was another game that belonged to the bowlers with 14 wickets falling on the first day. Main Ridge batted first and made 161, Brad Rossborough superb with a team high score of 81. Shane Deal was equally as good for the Parkers with 5/29 off 14 overs. Flinders has set Seaford 221 for victory after making 8/220. Andrew Power top scored for the Sharks but fell one short of a half century, while keeper and opener Tim Clark was next best with 38. Faisal Payenda was the pick of the Seaford bowlers with 3/46. In the final game for the round, Somerville needs 149 run with nine wickets in hand against Baden Powell. The Braves batted first and made 166, Rhys Elmi top scoring with 56. The Eagles will resume at 1/18.

Bowl–fest: Fourteen wickets fell in the first day of the game between Main Ridge and Delacombe Park. Picture: Andrew Hurst Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News 19 November 2014

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Embarrassed Buds bowled out for 53 SUB-DISTRICT

By IT Gully ROSEBUD will be hoping for a lot of luck when it resumes in its match against Frankston YCW. The Buds were awful on Saturday, bowled out for just 53 in 35 overs. Only Kane Donald could make it to double figures, top scoring with 17. Two players were removed for ducks, two batsmen made just one run and there were a further two batsmen who were removed after making just two runs.

It was a shocking day for the Buds, especially when you consider the fact that it was the evergreen Andrew Kitson who did the bulk of the damage for the Stonecats. Kitson has been retired for a number of years, however, made a return this season. On Saturday, he opened the bowling and picked up 5/23 from 18 overs. Jeremy Daniel also opened the bowling for the Stonecats and snared 3/21. The Stonecats faced the final 45 overs for the day and batted cautiously,

scoring at just over a run per over. The visitors will resume at 3/58, Sammy Preston unbeaten on 16. Pearcedale has already won its game against Ballam Park. The Knights returned to their old ways on Saturday, dismissed for 107. Chris Dew picked-up 6/29 for the Dales and Shayne Gillings and Kaine Smith claimed two wickets each. In reply, Pearcedale is cruising at 1/116 with Brad Trotter unbeaten on 46. Gavin Moore backed-up his ton in the last match with another 40 on Saturday.

Carrum Downs has set Tootgarook a massive 284 for victory in their match after Mark Snelling blasted 101 and Matt Grayson hit 85 in only his second match. Grayson and Snelling put on 193 after coming together with the score 1/12. Balnarring is defending 192 against Tyabb and the Yabbies are a third of the way there, resuming at 1/40 this weekend. Chris Murphy top scored for the Saints with 67, Brad Watson hit 43 and David Ross 40 to help their side

to almost 200. Adam DiTrocchio was the pick of the Yabbies’ bowlers with 3/29 while Sam Holland-Burch also snared 3/55 from 17 overs. Dromana will resume on day two 209 runs behind Skye but with all 10 wickets still in hand. Skye batted first on Saturday and made 227, Stephen Smart top scoring with 82, while Pat Clinch made 62. Zacc Klan was the best of the Dromana bowlers with 4/35. Dromana hit 18 runs in the final four overs of the day.

Time for a change FOOTBALL NEWS

By Toe Punt THE Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League (MPNFL - trading as PCNSA) has approved the collective withdrawal of membership of Casey Cardinia FNL clubs. The clubs have been granted conditional approval (subject to some administrative requirements) to establish their own administration and governance, which will be centred within a new administration wing at Casey Fields. According to AFL South East General Manager, Jeremy Bourke, given the unique structure of the MPNFL (governance of three seperate leagues), the collective withdrawal of membership of a league was an unprecedented and complex process. “As such, the discussions that have been conducted between all parties over the past few months have been equally unique. AFL South East would like to thank and acknowledge all parties for the respectful and measured manner in which these discussions have taken place, leading to an amicable resolution,” Bourke said in a statement. The inauguration of an administration and Board focused exclusively on the operational needs and strategic development of the league heralds an exciting new era for the Casey Cardinia clubs. This in no way diminishes the contribution made by the MPNFL to the management and development of the competition over 20 years. In fact, without that contribution many CCFNL clubs may not be in existence today. “Football Netball clubs within the South East growth corridor have always maintained a strong community connection,

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a high degree of popularity and a diverse range of offerings. AFL South East will provide whatever support is required to ensure the new structure builds on these elements and enhances their dynamics,” Bourke said. It is understood that the under the new management structure, Casey Cardinia clubs have forecast a profit of beyond $100,000 in 2015. AFL South East will oversee the management of the competition. Exciting initiatives including videoing every match and an online footy show are amongst the plans. It is an exciting time for the Casey Cardinia Clubs. However, it turns the microscope back onto the PCNSA management and board. There are a number of Nepean and Peninsula clubs disgruntled with the management of their leagues and this show of strength from Casey Cardinia clubs may just give them the confidence to stand up and be heard. The reality is that the MPNFL has not developed over the past 20-plus years and it’s time for an overhaul. Footy clubs need it, players need it and most of all, supporters need it. AFL South East have an enormous amount of experience within the management of the organisation and are supported by the AFL. They are in place to support, grow and develop football in this region. Casey Cardinia clubs have allowed them to do what they (AFL South East) are here to do. It’s time others put their personal agendas aside, do what’s right for football in our region and let AFL South East get on with the job.

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Win within grasp: Somerville need 149 runs with nine wickets in hand. Picture: Andrew Hurst

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