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Students and Elders collaborate on film INDIGENOUS students at Elisabeth Murdoch College in Langwarrin have been working to complete a film project about Aboriginal culture. The project, titled 60,000 Years of Resilience and Beyond, has seen the students interview Aboriginal Elders about the impact of COVID 19 on the preservation of culture. The film is being co-produced by Frankston-based group Nairm Marr Djambana. Gathering place coordinator Naaz Stojkova said “this is the first of its kind for the indigenous communities in the Frankston area.” “The COVID-19 pandemic no doubt will accelerate the process of cultural and traditional loss. This project aims to maintain and preserve this. Indigenous people have an enormous wealth of traditional knowledge derived from their ancestral practices including their own health systems. The purpose is to showcase and provide insight through the eyes of young people,” she said. The film is expected to be screened on 27 July at the Frankston Arts Centre.
STUDENTS interviewing Aboriginal Elders for a film project. Picture: Supplied
Plans in place for Playne Street development Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au A NINE storey building could soon tower over Playne Street. At their most recent meeting, Frankston councillors flagged their support for the project at 35 Playne Street. The proposed development would be used for retail tenancy and
commercial use. A Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing for the proposal has been set for 30 August. Frankston Council will advise VCAT that it supports the proposal. The proposed development will stand at 39.3 metres, which exceeds the preferred height limit of 32 metres nominated in Frankston Council’s metropolitan activity centre structure
plan. The proposal features 67 car spaces, which council officers wrote was “less than the standard statutory requirement of 203 spaces for the floor space proposed”. The report prepared by Frankston Council officers read “a retail tenancy is proposed at ground floor level comprising 512 square metres. Additionally, services including waste storage, communication and NBN,
bicycle spaces and associated lockers and change rooms, electric substation main switch room, fire pump room and gas are located at ground floor level.” “Commercial use across levels three to eight comprise a total floor area per level of 1049 square metres. A possible future tenancy split has been identified which would allow for tenancies of approximately 585 and 435 square metres per level. Level nine comprises
a roof top plant.” The development is projected to cost nearly $28 million to construct. The office space in the building is expected to accommodate between 450 and 629 people. The support for the nine storey development comes after a plan for a 14 storey building on the site was rejected in 2019. Continued page 6
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