3rd September 2013

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It’s time to count on us IT will all be over at 6pm next Saturday when polling booths close and thousands of Australian Electoral Commission staff across Australia start counting the votes. Will Tony Abbott or Kevin Rudd lead the next federal government? In Dunkley electorate, which covers from Seaford to Mornington, the Liberal Party’s MP Bruce Billson – who has held the seat since 1996 – and the ALP’s Sonya Kilkenny have been battling for the hearts, minds and votes of constituents. Mr Billson has a paper-thin margin of 1.1 per cent, just a few thousand votes, and has made spending promises of more than $4.36 million. Ms Kilkenny says the Labor government has invested millions in Dunkley and will continue to do so if re-elected. Turn to Page 12 for their final pitch to voters. Last chance: Sonya Kilkenny and supporters, including federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus (centre front), at the launch of Ms Kilkenny’s campaign at Long Island Country Club. Picture: Gary Sissons

Save pound pets plea By Mike Hast A DOMESTIC animal lobby group is encouraging Mornington Peninsula residents to lobby the shire council to end the “unnecessary euthanasia of pets that go through the Mornington pound�. The move comes after Mornington Peninsula Shire released its Domestic Animal Management Plan (“Taking control of pets�, The News, 30/7/13).

Pound Reform Alliance Australia has posted a letter on the internet and is asking residents to sign it and send to the shire to “highlight the community’s expectations; it will be harder for council to ignore its residents and ratepayers�. When releasing its animal plan in July, the shire said it was considering neutering all pets to avoid community concern about the number of stray

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dogs and cats being put down. Pound Reform Alliance president Tarsha Andrews said the alliance had “worked with other councils with success in turning around the high euthanasia of pound animals�. The alliance claimed that 15 per cent of unclaimed dogs and 25 per cent of cats in the shire were euthanased. “While on the surface these figures

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are better than many other municipalities, the statistics are misleading as euthanasia figures appear not to include the fate of post-eight day unclaimed animals transferred from Mornington to the RSPCA or Australian Animal Protection Society. “In other words, many of the shelter’s animals transferred to these facilities appear to be included in [shire] sta-

tistics as ‘rehomed’ or ‘adopted’ when in fact many would have been euthanased. The final and true euthanasia figures would be higher than claimed.� The alliance said “community volunteer engagement is now minimal, foster carers are no longer welcome and adoptions are no longer permitted at the community animal shelter�. Continued Page 5

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