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RSL honours those who served MORNINGTON RSL hosted a stirring Remembrance Day ceremony at Memorial Park, Thursday 11 November. Official guests, Health and Aged Care Minister and Flinders MP Greg Hunt, Mornington MP David Morris, the mayor Cr Despi O’Connor and Cr Anthony Marsh, watched as MC Allan Vidler read the Lord’s Prayer and conducted the service before about 150 guests. Bugler Joseph Tobias played the Last Post and The Rouse, and Piper Lindsay Burgess played a lament while the names of the fallen from Australia’s two world wars and the Vietnam and Korean wars were read out by Valerie Wilson OAM. Ms Wilson has written a book detailing the biographies of the 120 Mornington men who fought in World War I: The Names on the Mornington Honour Roll 1914-1918: Who were they? Colin Fisher recited In Flanders Field and president Allan Paynter recited Binyon’s Ode. Wreaths were laid by the guests: Mr Hunt for the federal parliament; Mr Morris for the state parliament; Crs O’Connor and Marsh for the shire, Ms Wilson for the Korean veterans and member Rod Young for the Vietnam veterans. The RSL’s Keith Bubble manned the flag pole. Amalia Foy, the granddaughter of Mornington RSL president Allan Paynter, sang the Australian and New Zealand anthems because, as Colin Fisher said: “We are both Anzacs”. Lest we forget. Picture: Yanni. More pictures Page 27
Diverting rubbish away from landfill Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire has joined 14 other councils in Melbourne’s south east to form a company to deliver an advanced waste facility to process household rubbish rather than bury it. It is all part of the state government’s new circular
economy policy – Recycling Victoria: A New Economy whose target is to divert 80 per cent of waste from landfill by 2030, with an interim target of 72 per cent by 2025. The company, a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle called South East Metropolitan Advanced Waste Processing Pty Ltd, has its own legal identity. It will provide advanced waste processing on behalf of the
councils in the biggest tender for this type of infrastructure ever undertaken in Melbourne. The facilities, regulated by the Environment Protection Authority Victoria, are being used safely and reliably around the world, including in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, the shire says. The tender has been described as “historic” by the mayor Cr Despi
O’Connor. “By signing up to the SPV we are strengthening our ability to secure the economic, environmental, and social benefits from the facility,” she said. “Advanced waste processing will do more with the resources that are being put in landfill and achieve better financial, environmental and social outcomes.
“Advanced waste processing is a great solution for household rubbish that would normally go to landfill.” But Cr O’Connor warned that the shire will “still need to continue kerbside recycling and green and food waste collection services as part of a total approach to managing waste”. See Victoria A New Economy at vic.gov.au
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