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Pictures perfect FRANKSTON Photographic Club is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an exhibition of members’ work at Frankston Arts Centre’s Cube 37. The exhibition, called ‘Looking Through Our Lens’, showcases many aspects of photography including several images from national and international award winning photographic club members. The Frankston Photographic Club has more than 150 members and is one of the largest camera clubs in Victoria. Club members meet at the Brotherhood of St Laurence premises at 24 High St, Frankston on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. Many of these meetings have professional photographers talking about their latest interesting adventures or assignments. New members are welcome to join and learn about new or old photographic techniques. The Looking Through Our Lens exhibition will be hosted at Cube 37, 25-37 Davey St, Frankston until Saturday 24 October. Entry by gold coin donation. See frankstonphotoclub.com.au for further exhibition and club details. Pictured are club members Peter Dwyer, left, Darryl Oates, Rose Burns, Max Lane and Jeff Symons. Picture: Yanni
‘Worst suburb’ tag overplayed Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au FRANKSTON has been named and shamed as “the worst suburb” in Victoria to rent due to just six reviews on a name-and-shame website about rental properties. Tabloid TV show A Current Affair aired a report about the Don’t Rent Me site founded by Sydney-based Anthony Ziebell last month stating
“Frankston is the worst performing suburb - with St Kilda, Highett and Coburg also making the list”. The Don’t Rent Me site allows renters to leave public feedback about their experiences in rental properties and common complaints range from unclean homes riddled with mould to the non-return of rental bonds at the end of a lease term. Six negative reviews for five Frankston properties have been sub-
mitted to the site since its launch in 2012 with many suburbs nationwide garnering at least five negative reviews. The site has about 1400 reviews lodged across Australia. When questioned about the claim that Frankston is the Victoria’s “worst suburb” to rent in, Mr Ziebell told The Times he agreed this could unfairly stigmatise Frankston. “A lot of the wording being used
around ‘what is the worst suburb’ isn’t necessarily our wording,” he said. “We’ve released information comparing suburbs saying ‘these suburbs have more unresolved negative reviews than others’ – that’s what we’ve said. “Different media publications may interpret that in different ways … but we’ve not actually said a suburb is a bad place to rent or is full of bad landlords or bad agents
or anything like that.” The report on A Current Affair followed several newspaper reports also condemning Frankston as “the worst suburb” to rent in based on reviews listed on the Don’t Rent Me site. Mr Ziebell says it may mean people in a specific neighbourhood “are communicating with each other, are helping each other out and are spreading the message”. Continued Page 6
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