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Tuesday 17 October 2023
For all advertising and editorial needs, call 03 5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Picture this: Gil Ottosen with one of his photographs on display at the Mornington U3A art show. Helen Watts, of Safety Beach, right, with her painting Circle of Nature. Pictures: Gary Sissons
Approach to art the seniors way
THE Mornington U3A art show opened last Friday (13 October) with a colourful display of works. The show was opened by the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council mayor Cr Steve Holland and among the audience were politicians, councillors and members of the public. Visitors had the opportunity to view art in various mediums and talk with artists exhibiting their work. U3A art show committee member Joan Yalden said the two-day art show – held at the Currawong community centre - was timed to be part of the Victorian Seniors Festival. From an initial meeting of 25 people in 1990, the Mornington U3A is now a learning community of more than 1100 members, offering seniors the opportunity to live, learn and enjoy.
Peninsula in step with national No Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au VOTING patterns in the Voice to Parliament referendum on the Mornington Peninsula were close to those recorded across Australia, resulting in a clear No. The latest counting on Monday morning showed 57.89 per cent of No votes on the peninsula (60.59 nationally) and 42.11 per cent Yes (39.41 nationally). Neighbouring Dunkley, which includes Mount Eliza, recorded 50.07 per cent No and 43.61 per cent Yes. There were some pockets on the peninsula where Yes votes triumphed - Mount Martha and around the Red
Hill area - but No votes dominated elsewhere, from Portsea and Sorrento to Dromana and across to Baxter, Somerville and through Hastings on the Western Port side of the peninsula. Flinders Liberal MP and a supporter of the No campaign waged by the federal opposition, Zoe McKenzie, used a German word when using Facebook to urge people to vote in the referendum: "Turns out Flinders are weltmeister [world champions] when it comes to early voting, with 54% of us having voted by close of business on Thursday.” Dunkley MP Labo’sr Peta Murphy, on voting day on Facebook, said voting Yes was “our chance to close the gap on health, education and housing. Let’s take it”. There was no mention
of the No victory on her Facebook page on Sunday. Labor MP for Hastings, Paul Mercurio, uploaded a video of himself and labor colleague Eastern Victoria MP Tom McIntosh “turning some democracy sausages … I voted Yes not because I'm Labor but because it is the absolutely right thing to do,” On Sunday, after the referendum was lost, Mercurio’s Facebook showed pictures of a microwave meal he’d cooked but made no reference to the result. On voting day, the latest post on Nepean MP Sam Groth’s Facebook page congratulated Dromana Tigers on their Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League division one premiership. Fellow Liberal and MP for Mornington Chris Crewther told
how “exciting” it had been at the official opening of the new Jubilee Park stadium in Frankston. McKenzie had made no secret of her advocacy for a No vote, saying five months ago that although being “firmly committed to the recognition of Australia’s First Nations peoples in the Constitution … I cannot recommend a Yes vote due to the unacceptable constitutional and legal risk it contains”. “While lawyers disagree about what the worst-case scenario might be, former High Court justices have warned that if a court were to find a duty to consult the Voice before the execution of any executive power, then it could ‘bring the government to a halt’ or ‘make government unworkable’ (“A
risk to executive government” The News 30/5/23). The three polling places in Hastings recorded the largest margin between voting preferences on the peninsula, with No receiving 10,170 votes and Yes 5731. The 187 comments on the Hastingsbased Willum Warrain Aboriginal Association Facebook made after the referendum result was known ranged from being sympathetic (“devastating outcome”) to derisive (“what a waste of money”). On the other side of the peninsula, Rosebud’s six polling places added 14,087 No votes and 9555 Yes votes to the tally. Mornington’s six polling places recorded 12,603 No votes to 9718 Yes.
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