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Deck time PARKS Victoria contractors are making good progress installing decking on the renovated middle section of Mornington’s pier, says local MP David Morris.

Mr Morris said he would meet with Parks Victoria next Wednesday to discuss plans to renovate the outer, 75-metre section of the pier, which could cost up to $9.5 million.

The News reported earlier this year the outer section was one good storm away from being condemned and possible pulled down after engineers found about 20 per cent of piles of the iconic pier had failed and were not supporting the top deck.

Half of the remaining 80 per cent of piles were in average condition.

Parks Victoria has spent $3.5 million replacing the 53-metre centre section.

The pier was closed last April after a storm damaged piles and dislodged dozens of top deck timbers. Two more storms in August and September with winds of about 60 knots further weakened the iconic structure.

In May, Mr Morris said the pier was one of the most popular on Port Phillip and “very important to the town”, but had been neglected for many years by successive governments.

Kennedy reappointed

By Mike Hast SHIRE councillors on Wednesday afternoon reappointed Michael Kennedy for a fourth term as Mornington Peninsula Shire Council CEO. The decision to rehire him without advertising the job was made at a closed meeting held specifically to deal with the matter.

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Dr Kennedy receives $319,000 a

year plus benefits including a car.

Dr Kennedy was given a five-year contract in 1999 after being CEO of Boroondara, which is in the inner eastern suburbs. He was CEO of the Shire of Hastings for one year before council amalgamations in 1994.

In 2004 he was reappointed to another five-year contract, without the job being advertised. In 2009 he was given a three-year contract, again without the job being advertised.

When he completes this new contract in early 2015, Dr Kennedy will have been the shire’s CEO for 16 years.

The decision on Wednesday was not unanimous. The News believes at least four of the 11 councillors wanted to advertise the job.

Former state senior Liberal MP Robin Cooper told The News he had been told two weeks ago the reappointment of Dr Kennedy was a done deal.

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“I spent some time [at a function] talking with a councillor, who shall remain nameless, and he was quite happy to tell me about the support Kennedy had from councillors,” he said.

Mr Cooper, the former MP for Mornington and Transport Minister in the Kennett government, said the councillor had told him at least six of the 11 councillors supported retaining Dr Kennedy without advertising his job.

The former MP, who was also Opposition spokesman for local government 1985-87, has been a trenchant critic of the council for not testing the “CEO market”.

He criticised the council in 2008 and again in mid-June over not advertising the top job. “My view on [council] appointments, regardless of who it is, is that the market should be tested to see who is available,” he said in 2008.

In June he said his view was unchanged: “Whether you are pro or anti Dr Kennedy, the council should find who’s available.

“To commit the same error [not advertise, as occurred in 2008] a second time, well, the councillors should be held to task. I would be staggered if the Minister for Local Government felt any different.”

Asked about the cost of advertising the job, Mr Cooper said: “It costs a lot to run a state election. Should we just save our money and appoint MPs for life?

Secure position: Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors have reappointed Michael Kennedy CEO for another three years.

“It seems Michael Kennedy believes he has the CEO’s job for as long as he wants it, but testing the market is in the best interests of ratepayers.”

Dr Kennedy will not be confirmed in the job for two weeks as statutory requirements play out.

Long-term CEOs a rare breed AT neighbouring municipalities of Mornington Peninsula Shire, the City of Casey is the only one that has not renewed its CEO since 1999. Mike Tyler was appointed the first CEO of Casey in 1995 following amalgamation of Victoria’s 210 councils to 79. The shire had one CEO before Michael Kennedy, Warwick Dilley, who served 1995-99.

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On track for beach access THE track leading down to Mills Beach from Caraar Creek Lane in Mornington should re-open later this month.

The track was closed last year after a series of landslides caused by stormwater flowing down to the beach from clifftop properties.

At that stage Mornington Peninsula Shire blamed policies of the former Shire of Mornington for approving the drains and said it would ask the Department of Sustainability and Environment to contribute towards repairing the track.

However, it is understood the shire is paying $66,000 for the works which include a 40-metre boardwalk and sections of bitumen at the top and bottom of the track.

Trackwork: Travis Gillespie, front, and Jack Stanton are building the boardwalk section of a track from Caraar Creek Lane to Mills Beach.

MP won’t help police in pay dispute

By Mike Hast MORNINGTON MP David Morris will not help police in their bid for higher wages and better conditions.

A three-man delegation led by Sergeant Jamie Stuart met with Mr Morris on Monday morning at the MP’s new office in Main St, Mornington.

Sgt Stuart, based in Hastings, is the peninsula’s representative on the police union, the Victoria Police Association.

During a brief meeting, Mr Morris told the police he was leaving the controversial wage, or enterprise bargain agreement, negotiations to Police Minister Peter Ryan, Acting Chief Commissioner Ken Lay and the VPA. “I lobby for extra police resources on the peninsula not individual discussions,� he told The News.

The government has offered police a 2.5 per cent pay increase – two per cent less than what the Police Association had asked for.

Sgt Stuart and two delegates from Mornington police station were joined by about 10 other peninsula police in three police cars.

The delegation assured Mr Morris the peninsula was “covered� despite the large police presence at his office.

The meeting with Mr Morris was

part of the next stage in the Police Association’s EBA campaign, which has seen graphic billboards showing police injured in the line of duty.

Other moves since 7 June have included police warning motorists about speed camera locations, police refusing to provide statistics and refusing to perform voluntary duties.

Police Association secretary Greg Davies said late last month delegates had approved a new phase of the campaign, a statewide program of political lobbying. “Delegates will seek face-to-face meetings with every MP in the state to challenge them to take their case for a fair pay rise to their party rooms and to Parliament,� Mr Davies said. “They will be reminding our parliamentarians that Police Association members are prepared to run their EBA campaign right up until the next election if necessary.�

Mr Davies said it was vital that bans are maintained to keep the pressure on the government. “We know they are having an impact.

Our advertising campaign has elevated our case in the public consciousness and we all know the power of public opinion on law enforcement issues. “The worst thing we can do is to ease

Police action: Mornington Peninsula police gather outside Mornington MP David Morris’s office on Monday before a meeting to ask him to lobby on their behalf as part of their pay dispute with the state government.

the pressure on government.�

Mr Davies said the government had been elected on a platform of doing something about law and order.

He said now-Premier Ted Baillieu had “looked us in the eye at a delegates’ conference last year – 79 days before the election – and stated that he supported pay rises for police that took into account of CPI (inflation) plus

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Sgt Stuart said he hoped Mr Morris would take the police message to Cabinet as he represented all constituents on the peninsula, including police. “We’re ready to go; we just want the government to sit down with police,� he said. “We’ll be meeting Hastings MP Neale Burgess on Wednesday and

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LETTERS Mayor’s ball HAVING a ball; wish you were here.

What is it about masked balls and mayors? Pictures of Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Graham Pittock promoting a charity ball at $130 a ticket (‘Mayor masks up for charity’, The News, 26/7/11) raises questions about social equity and the best use of donated charity monies.

Dick Turpin or Ned Kelly would have been beside themselves – and the use of a mask by the mayor was strangely appropriate.

Can the ordinary, community-conscious, environmentally responsible volunteer – who is perhaps self-funded

or on a pension – actually afford to attend such an exclusive gathering of our small insular peninsula society?

Not me personally, as I try to make a difference for local and worldwide charities by volunteer driving, collecting donations, donating blood, cleaning up graffiti and discarded rubbish, getting dumped cars removed, first aiding, entertaining, and donating what spare cash I have left over to universally appropriate charities.

By actually getting your hands dirty at the coal face, you can make a difference, but forking out $130 for a charity ball is inappropriate, despite the shire justification that it is collecting for charities.

Many of those paying to attend this

forthcoming function will have access to government-provided expense accounts.

You, the tax and ratepayer, may be paying for their entertainment. I’d rather my donated money went to the starving, that is, people affected by the current African drought, or the homeless or the mentally disadvantaged.

Ian Morrison volunteer charity worker Mt Eliza

Shire v. bank AS a past shire president and councillor of the Shire of Flinders, I feel I am in a good position to comment on the conflict between Mornington Peninsula Shire and the Rye/Dromana Com-

munity Bank (‘Fireworks over bank loans’, The News, 12/7/11).

Local government is all about local, and serving the community; the community bank is all about the same thing.

The community bank is continually giving to the community and working for the good of the community. That the shire councillors and officers are so small-minded that they cannot see this is to their shame.

Throughout the world, governments are getting into trouble because of debt and this should send out a clear message: do not keep borrowing.

The shire is continually putting up the rates each year at an amount greater than inflation and it also keeps bor-

rowing money, which equates to bad management.

Before amalgamation in 1994, the Shire of Flinders was virtually debtfree.

As a result, its good fiscal position was used to reduce the debt of the Shire of Hastings, managed by Michael Kennedy, and the Shire of Mornington, managed by [the late] David Collings.

Ultimately, the shire should be doing all it can to serve the community that elected it and to live within its means.

Keith Jefferson Dromana Editor’s note: Mr Jefferson was a Shire of Flinders councillor 1981-93 and shire president in 1992.

Briefly Blokes sign books: Billy and Paul at Centro FORMER Geelong footballer and media personality Billy Brownless, and dancer and television presenter Paul Mercurio will sign their new books at Dymocks in Centro Mornington shopping centre on Saturday from 3pm.

Brownless said his book, Billy’s Dictionary for Blokes, will preserve words and phrases so they “don’t go down the gurgler”.

“My book is a dictionary that will make sure blokes don’t make a goose of themselves by getting wrong phrases like ‘hunky dory’ and ‘fair suck of the sauce bottle’.”

Mercurio, the star of Strictly Ballroom and a lifestyle show presenter, will be signing copies of his book Cooking with Beer, which contains about 80 recipes including traditional beer-based favourites such as lamb shanks in Guinness and beer-braised beef osso bucco.

Details: Dymocks, 5976 2711.

Silent movie for cancer FRANKSTON Relay for Life (Cancer Council) is holding a silent movie night at 7.30pm on Friday 26 August at Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Rd, Mornington.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for children under 14.

Organiser Judy Rebecca said it would be a fun family night “where people can dress up in ‘Back to the 20s’ style, and boo and hiss the villain”. The movie is the 1927 classic The General starring Buster Keaton (pictured) with live original musical accompaniment

by David Johnston.

Last year’s event raised $40,000. Details: Judy Rebecca, 0415 109 859.

A time to sow: Jarrod Ruch in the garden at The Briars historic homestead.

Tasting history at The Briars HISTORIC flavours will soon be available for tasting from gardens surrounding The Briars historic homestead at Mt Martha.

Volunteers are being sought to help plant and maintain the original gardens.

The homestead’s former garden included orchards, kitchen gardens and herbaceous perennial beds.

Research into apple and European plum varieties available to English collectors in the 1800s

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has resulted in more than 30 varieties being sourced for The Briars.

Anyone interested in the project can join a team to work and maintain the gardens.

Volunteers will also be able to share in the harvest.

Some of the work is yet to be approved by Heritage Victoria.

For details, call Jarrod Ruch of The Briars on 5974 3686.

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Coramba shipwreck discovery boat now on historic vessel register

By Mike Hast THE Second World War patrol boat used by divers to find the ill-fated cargo steamer Coramba off Phillip Island in May has been listed on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels.

Divers from Mornington Peninsulabased Southern Ocean Exploration found the steamer in 63 metres of water about 15 kilometres southeast of the island, using MV Action as their main dive boat.

Action, based on a British motor torpedo boat, was bought by SOE diver and yachtman Justin McCarthy of Cranbourne earlier this year.

The discovery of Coramba, Australia’s most searched-for shipwreck, closed a chapter in Australian maritime history and brought relief to ageing survivors of the 17 men who were lost when the steamer went down with all hands on a stormy night in November 1934.

Other famous Australian vessels on the historic register include the schooner Alma Doepel, America’s Cup winner Australia II, and the nation’s oldest sailing vessel, The City of Adelaide.

Built in Brisbane in 1942 for the war effort, TMB 02-14 Action was one of 12 PT boats used by the RAAF

as search and rescue vessels in New Guinea.

After the war, the boat was used for ceremonial duties, including carrying Queen Elizabeth across Sydney Harbour in 1953. It was sold to the Williamstown Yacht Club in 1960 and used as the commodore’s boat.

In the late 1970s, an Adelaide consortium bought Action and allegedly used it for drug smuggling.

In the mid-1990s it was used to make a television documentary on the Murray Darling Basin and was moored at Goolwa for three years before changing hands again and undergoing a complete refit.

History finds history: Top, MV Action underway off Phillip Island during the search earlier this year for the SS Coramba, which was found off Phillip Island after 76 years by members of peninsula-based Southern Ocean Exploration. Now the nearly 70-year-old former RAAF sea rescue boat has been listed on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels. Below, SOE divers meet up with colleagues on another boat and give the thumbs up after finding Coramba. Pictures courtesy SOE and Terry Cantwell

Mr McCarthy said Southern Ocean Exploration used Action as its primary search vessel.

“I am delighted the boat has been recognised for her contribution to our history. It’s wonderful she is still contributing to our national story,” he said.

“The boat has been well maintained over the past 70 years and is a piece of RAAF maritime history, a genuine link to our wartime efforts.”

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Action boasts a large galley (kitchen) and saloon (lounge) with all mod cons, and sleeps nine.  The News reported the discovery of Coramba on 16 June (‘The sea gives up a secret as Depression-era shipwreck found off Phillip Island’.

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Bird spots a song in common PONDERING whether to make a submission to the Victorian Electoral Commission’s review of the shire, Mrs Emu (now there’s a wishbone to send your pulse racing!) went internet researching.

She turned up the Report of local government electoral activity 2008-09 Part III Report of local government electoral representation reviews conducted by the VEC between 2004 and 2008.

This snappy title was bound to yield some gems.

There in bed beside The Emu lay Mrs Emu, propped up on pillows, wearing her seductive floral flannelette nightie and bedsocks, gazing, engrossed, at her iPad. Interrupting The Emu’s bedtime reading of the current Angelique novel at an interesting moment, she warbled: “Listen to this – ‘6.7 Case Study: The City of Boroondara’.” The Emu gently laid Angelique aside, surreptitiously marking his place with a feather.

“Boroondara launched an extensive information campaign using posters, leaflets information sessions, recorded messages, media releases, ‘fact sheets’ – they’ve put the words fact sheets in inverted commas, dear” – this point emphasised with a sharp nudge in The Emu’s ribs to discourage dozing off – “advising people of the review and express-

ing its view on the most appropriate electoral structure.”

Was that all? No, that wasn’t all. But The Emu perked up when Mrs Emu read the next bit: “Then they go on to say ‘The campaign is in a number of ways similar to the campaign run by the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council in 2005, when a bloke called Buck – do you know anyone called Buck, dear? – said the shire’s campaign included involving the elected council and agreeing on a position, including agreement by each individual councillor’.

“They also got the commitment of all staff, CEO, directors, managers and others and had them all ‘sing the same tune’. I didn’t know the shire had an in-house choir, did you? Is the CEO a tenor, a castrato or a basso profundo, d’you think?” Another sharp, painful nudge. The Emu emitted a falsetto squeak.

“Then the shire says it developed a theme – ‘The Ten Tests of Effective Local Government’. Is slamming rates and charges up by nearly 10 per cent effective, I wonder? I suppose they need the money for that pool thing.” The Emu grunted in a neutral sort of way. Emus steer clear of lossmaking public pools.

Her tone descending to darkly portentous, Mrs Emu went on: “It says here that ‘The VEC also notes that there were a number of submissions in both the Mornington Peninsula Shire

and City of Boroondara reviews who expressed concern about the councils’ actions in these reviews. The concern came from two sources – some felt that the council had a duty to present things in an impartial manner and some considered that the amount of public money spent on promoting a particular option was inappropriate’.

“Why on earth,” she wondered, “would anyone expect the shire to be impartial when they want a certain result?”

She fell silent, concentration written all over her beak. She was wracking her brain. She was about to say something deeply significant. The Emu braced for a rib attack.

“Didn’t our CEO work at Boroondara before he came here, dear? Perhaps that explains why we do what they do, or they do what we do – inappropriate spending of our rates money and all that. They’re birds of a feather, these council people, aren’t they?

Just a big club.

Her question went unanswered.

The Emu was feigning sleep. She sighed and turned off the light.

Suzy reigns – still THE shire council’s website moves with the times – horse and carriage times.

If you look up the list of councillors, there’s a nice photo of the chosen 11 – only trouble is former Truemans Ward rep Suzie

Beveridge is pictured smiling on the right-hand side.

Suzie resigned in April, left in June and at a byelection in July 2010, Antonella Celi was elected to replace her.

And under the media releases section, nothing has been posted since June.

Now we know this ain’t so as at least half a dozen missive were received last week.

Perhaps the shire’s webmaster is up the snow for a few weeks.

I think therefore iPad SHIRE councillors are having fun with their new iPads, which go nicely with their iPhones, especially if you’ve mastered getting them to talk to each other – the devices, not the councillors, we mean.

The cheapest iPad retails for $580, so that’s 11 times $580, which equals $6380, although no doubt the shire’s procurement department asked and received a discount.

Then there’s the cost of keeping them connected to the information superhighway.

They’re handy when council meeting get boring.  Got any hot news tips for the bird who sticks his beak where it’s not wanted? Email The Emu at emutips@yahoo.com.au

‘Gay fence’ in VCAT THE so-called “gay fence” battle between Mornington Peninsula Shire and Mt Eliza millionaire Charles Jacobsen will be heard in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Monday and Tuesday.

Shire councillors in late March rejected an application to allow Mr Jacobsen to build a fence either side of his beach house at Sunnyside Beach North aligned with the building’s yard steel fence.

The beach house is part of the historic Norman Lodge property in the green wedge between Mt Eliza and Mornington.

They also rejected his offer to pay half of revegetation cost of about $450,000 for two sections of coastal reserve he has offered to the shire as part of an arrangement allowing him to build two new houses on the historic estate.

Mr Jacobsen paid more than $10 million for Norman Lodge estate, formerly owned by the Myer family, in 2004.

He bought the adjoining 11.7 hectares of the 32 hectares formerly owned by Sir Reginald Ansett for $14.5 million in May 2006.

Earlier this year, Mr Jacobsen told councillors the fence was needed to keep people off the coastal reserve either side of his beach house.

He said the fence would preserve future regeneration work and stop homosexuals engaging in “illegal and antisocial behaviour”.

After the March meeting, Mr Jacobsen said he regretted making the homosexuals remark and wished he had said sex acts by heterosexuals and homosexuals. “Some of my best friends are homosexuals; I am not anti-gay.”

Mike Hast

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Winemakers have a crush on wine FRANKSTON Amateur Winemakers wineshow is on again this year - Sunday 28 August, at The Briars Historic Park, Mt. Martha. There will be a wide selection of wines available for tasting and you can even take home your tasting glass! (which is included in the very reasonable $10 entry fee). Wines on show range from the ‘normal’ grape varieties to more exotic wines made from fruits, herbs, vegetables, leaves and flowers. About 500 entries are expected at this year’s show including still, sparkling and fortified wines and liqueurs.

Wines made from grapes like shiraz, cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay and other ingredients such as raspberries, plums, quinces, strawberries,

parsnips, oak leaves, etc., will be on show and available for tasting. You will be able to meet the winemakers and discuss the ‘secrets’ of their medal winning wines. In addition, the attractions at The Briars, such as the woodland walks, wetlands, bird hides and historic homestead (which has a link to Napoleon Bonaparte), offer an enjoyable day’s outing. You might even like to have a picnic lunch or a delicious meal at Josephine’s Restaurant, right next door to wineshow venue (The Barn).

More information is available at www.fawg. org.au or by contacting Noel Legg, wineshow coordinator on 5996 6620, or wineshow@fawg. org.au

Ahoy below: Underwater Explorer II co-owner Stephen Blond on the bow of the unusual craft that allows people to see below the waves. Top right, the view from inside through thick glass windows that reveal what lies beneath the waves. Right, the vessel during its Rottnest Island heyday. Pictures: Andrew Mackinnon, www.aquamanships.com

Now all can see what lies beneath Port Phillip through looking glass

By Mike Hast TOURISTS will see what lies beneath the surface of southern Port Phillip when the renovated semi-submersible vessel Underwater Explorer II is launched in spring.

The unusual, 22-metre long former Rottnest Island vessel has been bought

by Stephen Blond and Troy Ashley, Ballarat boys who have teamed up to bring a unique experience to residents of the Mornington and Bellarine peninsulas and Melburnians.

About 50 people can sit below the waterline and watch the world beneath the waves with a further 20 on deck.

The aluminium vessel will be based at the new Queenscliff Harbour for eco tours led by marine biologists, in conjunction with Queenscliff’s Marine Discovery Centre.

It will visit reefs off Point Nepean and Point Lonsdale, the human-made artificial reef called Pope’s Eye off

Sorrento, seals at Chinamans Hat and other underwater attractions in Port Phillip. Tours of Western Port are also being planned.

“Imagine a boatload of kids going through a salmon boil or bottle-nosed dolphins coming up to the windows,” Mr Blond said. “It will be fantastic to show people what’s below the surface.”

Underwater Explorer spent 17 summers at famous Rottnest Island off the coast near Perth, but was put on the market after the company operating it and ferries between Perth and Fremantle failed.

Mr Blond said the people of Perth were furious when Explorer was taken off the Rottnest run. “It was a tourism icon. They were even unhappier after hearing it was going east.”

The 66-tonne vessel was built in 1993 at a cost of about $1.4 million

by Fast Craft Marine in WA. It was designed by Gavin Mair of Global Ma-

rine Design. Its replacement cost today would be more than $2 million, Mr Blond said.

The vessel was advertised on a boating website for $250,000 earlier this year.

“About 12 weeks ago I was relaxing at home on a Sunday, minding my own business, when my mate Troy Ashley called,” Mr Blond said.

“Troy said, ‘Look on the internet at a boat called Underwater Explorer, Blondy’; we could do this in Port Phillip.

“We flew to Perth the next day, inspected it, had a chat to the boat broker and bought it.”

The broker asked the duo how they were going to get it to Port Phillip.

Mr Blond said: “We’re going to cart it across the Nullarbor.”

Just like in Monster Moves, The News asked? “The blokes who do those moves are my heroes,” Mr Blond said.

“My days as a house mover came in

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a light lunch.

Monday is Stableford for men and women with AGU handicaps and a non-handicap event.

Tuesday’s event is four ball best ball for men, women and mixed (AGU handicap required) and a non-handicap event.

Registration is at 8.15am for shotgun start at 9.15 with lunch at Carrington Park Club at 1.30pm and presentations at 2pm.

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handy. We cut the top off and put it on a truck, put the hull on another truck, brought it across in five days and then welded it back together again.”

It is currently being sandblasted and repainted at Yaringa Boat Harbour in Somerville. Upholstery and carpets are being replaced by Westernport Trimming.

“Most of the work required is cosmetic,” Mr Blond said.

A 300-horsepower diesel engine pushes Underwater Explorer at 11 knots with a cruising speed of 7 knots.

It has a bow thruster for manoeuvring in tight places.

Mr Blond, 43, is supervising the refit. Born in New Jersey in the United States, his father is a former US Navy lieutenant who served in the Second World War including at the Battle of the Coral Sea. After the war he was a marine engineer with US Lines. His mother, an Australian, and father met

overseas, married and lived in the US. The family of six moved to Australia when Mr Blond was nine.

In Ballarat, he acquired his first power boat at age 17 and bought a yacht in his early 20s, a 47-foot yawl, which he moored at Portsea and once sailed up the east coast to Cairns.

Mr Blond owned antique shops in Ballarat and Melbourne for 20 years before becoming a house mover and restorer of heritage homes.

Business partner Troy Ashley owns the Esplanade Hotel at Queenscliff and the two have known each other since childhood.

They’ll relaunch the Captain Nemoinspired vessel in September, offering 45-, 90-minute and three-hour tours.

Underwater Explorer is bound to attract massive interest as the colourful world below the waves has previously been the domain of only the fit and trained diving fraternity.

Cash for faith groups

“The projects supported aim at increasing an understanding and respect for our religious diversity while breaking down stereotypes.”

Briefly Crime grants COMMUNITY, sporting and business groups as well as local government can apply for grants of up to $10,000 from the state government for crime prevention initiatives.

A government spokesman said Community Safety Fund grants recognise communities are best placed to identify crime and safety concerns. Projects could include security lighting, padlocks, security screens and fences or undertaking awareness activities.

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Golf for seniors TOBIN Brothers Funerals is holding a two-day seniors golf tournament at Rosebud Park golf course with Carrington Park Club and Seniors Victoria on Monday and Tuesday 17 and 18 October.

The event is part of a statewide festival to promote the wellbeing of seniors. Cost is $25 a day and includes 18 holes of golf, a showbag, prizes and

THREE multifaith groups in the Mornington electorate will share in $17,500 from the state government.

The Mornington Peninsula Interfaith Network, Muslim Women’s Council of Victoria and Mt Eliza-based Shiva School of Mediation and Yoga would help the faith-based and community organisations generate understanding between all faiths and build on the unity of Victorians, Mornington MP David Morris said.

Help for Holly A ‘HUCKLEBERRY’ craft and homemade goods market will be held from 9am-2pm on Sunday 21 August at Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Rd, Mornington, to raise money for Holly, a two-year-old girl born with a rare neurological condition who needs 24 hour a day care, equipment and therapy. Details: 0438 058 145.

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Great white returns for fish meal

Keeping tags on shark’s course

Tagged: A great white shark is fitted with a radio transmitter which, for a year, can be used to track its movements whenever it breaks the surface of the sea.

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By Keith Platt THE Mornington Peninsula-based White Tag shark research group has electronically plotted the course of a great white shark as it travelled up the east coast from Gippsland.

White Tag’s research is focused on the Bass Strait corridor, but intends at some stage to investigate other sites such as Western Port, Lady Julia and Percy islands, Port Fairy, Cape Bridgewater and Portland.

“We want to specifically concentrate on Corner Inlet, inside and out, as we know large sharks mix with smaller sharks here,” Kent Stannard, who established the White Tag trust, said.

“We are almost convinced this region is the point of origin for an east coast population of white sharks. We have the one juvenile shark tagged, that being the one before Christmas at Corner Inlet and its movements out of Bass Strait to the Port Stephens area and back to Bass Strait has cemented our beliefs this is the point of origin.”

Mr Stannard said White Tag was preparing for National Science Week and running a series of programs with the CSIRO at the Melbourne Aquarium, including a talk by scientist Barry Bruce, recognised as Australia’s foremost authority on great whites.

White Tag is now affiliated with commercial fishermen working out of Corner Inlet, Surfing Victoria, shark fisherman and west coast South Australian tow-in surfer Jeff Schmuker.

Mr Stannard has contributed to an article with Jock Serong at Surfing World and recently spent a morning with “shark enthusiast” and filmmaker George Greenough.

“By getting regular updates on shark activity in other areas around the Australian coast we are starting to gain a better understanding on the movement patterns and behaviour of white sharks on a seasonal basis.

“This gives us a network of reliable eyes and ears around the country of people who are constantly on the water.

“The satellite tag can only send signals when the shark breaks the surface and it needs to record three surface breaches to plot a point.

“The tag has a battery life of about 12 months if it doesn’t foul up, which is always possible.

“The Corner Inlet shark has a satellite tag fitted to its dorsal fin and an acoustic tag in its stomach lining. The acoustic tag sends off signals to un-

derwater listening stations moored to the ocean floor which record a shark’s behavior, such as when it arrives and leaves an area and how long it stays there.

“The satellite tag will drop off near to the 12 months while the shark will retain the internal tag forever.”

Mr Stannard said White Tag planned to position a series of listening stations in Corner Inlet to continuously record the behaviour of tagged sharks in the area.

“While it first appeared the shark was hugging the coast, these juveniles operate out to the 120mile contour, which is from inner shore out to the edge of the continental slope.

“Ultimately, when the satellite tag drops off we will be able to record the temperature, light levels and depths the shark swam to.”

Mr Stannard said the main prey of juvenile sharks were coastal schooling fish such as salmon, snapper and mullet.

“As they move into sub-adulthood – about 2.8 metres long – they begin to explore new areas and depths and incorporate larger prey into their diet.

“This shark has almost confirmed our thoughts that Victoria’s Corner Inlet may be the nursery and pupping ground of an east coast population of white sharks.

“For some reason, the juveniles don’t appear to want to go any further west than Wilsons Promontory, which seem to be the cut off line.”

Mr Stannard said these juvenile sharks “may well be genetically hard-wired to know this is home range … and this may have something to do with the land bridge that once ran from the mainland to Tasmania”.

“We have also found populations of sharks on the western side of Wilsons Promontory out and around to South Australia and Western Australia.”

Tagging in the future will help find out if there is any mixing of these populations.

“All points on the compass suggest Bass Strait may hold the key to the reproductive and birth cycle of the white shark,” Mr Stannard said.

CSIRO scientist Barry Bruce will share the latest research on the movement of great whites and their behaviour in Australian waters at Melbourne Aquarium’s Ocean Theatre 5.30-7.30pm Sunday 14 August and midday-2pm on Tuesday 16 August.

Cost is $15 on presentation of the National Science Week program booklet at ticket office.

Addicted to economic growth This is the fourth of an occasional series of articles by Andrew Raff and Peter North covering a range of environmental topics including the CO2 debate, use of resources, future energy and the nuclear power debate. Both are members of SHIPPS, St Andrew’s Habitat Improvement, Preservation and Protection Society, on the southern peninsula.

FROM the beginning to the end of the 20th century, economic output – measured by global GDP – rose by about 20 times, equivalent to an average of 3 per cent per year – increasing over the last decade of the century to about 4 per cent a year.

At 4 per cent growth the economy doubles every 18 years. If average 4 per cent growth is maintained for the next 100 years, the economy in the year 2110 will be 50 times its present size.

For a couple of hundred years since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the world has accommodated this manic expansion of growth. But given the size of the present global economy, conservationists consider such future exponential growth now seems absurdly unachievable for a small planet presently struggling to feed and house its burgeoning population.

However, despite the degrading environment, mounting resource shortages and expanding population, the

idea that “growth is good” remains almost unquestioned in the minds of the planet’s powerbrokers.

Economic growth has become the cornerstone of economic policy – way ahead of long-term survival.

The downside of the growth obsession is barely considered by the collective voice of business, media, economists, politicians and the wider community.

Even failure to grow at an acceptable rate is lamented by community powerbrokers. Negative growth – recession or depression – spawns outright panic in the financial media, along with advice that people should abandon their good sense and spend their savings to head off a momentary downturn in consumption.

Thus it was in 2001 when the United States economy dipped after 9/11.

US President George W Bush urged his constituents to “sing patriotic songs, think patriotic thoughts and go shopping”.

During the 2007 global financial crisis – with widespread approval of the media, business and the Opposition (which later deplored the commensurate increase in government debt) – the federal government gifted $900 a head to most of the working population to head off the prospect of a recession.

Recipients were advised it was their patriotic duty to spend the money and quickly!

Australia also found an additional “solution” to the GFC by propelling rates of migration through the roof during 2008-09.

Since the majority of immigrants are admitted only if they have adequate means (paupers drifting to our shores are accommodated on Christmas Island), the country’s GDP will increase simply by expanding the population with cashed-up migrants.

By dint of more than 300,000 new arrivals, and without actually doing anything, the PM could claim that Australia had weathered the GFC better than any other OECD (developed) country.

Of course that didn’t mean the existing population had become any richer. In fact, per capita, they had

become about 2 per cent poorer due to the 2 per cent population increase in that year.

In the longer term, increasing the population rendered meeting the country’s greenhouse targets very less likely, exacerbated water shortages,

worsened the trade deficit and required expensive infrastructure ($653,000 per new outer-suburban dwelling according to a Curtin University study endorsed by the Victoria government) to add to government debt or to the burden of existing taxpayers.

Such are the magical powers claimed for economic growth that the economic

and environmental downsides scarcely impact on community consciousness – and are almost entirely ignored by the media.

Only a small band of sceptics of mainstream economics disagree. To them, the ever-expanding economy is like a parasite sucking the life out of the host that sustains it – the natural world.

On occasions that this monster fails to grow at an acceptable rate, its minders – economists, politicians and business worthies – gather around the patient to administer booster shots such as the first home owners grant, the baby bonus and the $900 gift voucher to nurse the ailing parasite back to health.

Regrettably, the custodians of this fledgling cuckoo, motivated by their own short-term interests, remain oblivious to the condition of the nest.  Andrew Raff has lived on the Mornington Peninsula for 50 years, was in the Royal Australian Navy for 20 years, served in Vietnam, and has studied the nuclear industry and climate change. He is a member of Sustainable Population Australia and founded SHIPPS last year.  Peter North has degrees in engineering and commerce, and has worked in the petrochemical, mining, manufacturing and construction industries in Australia and overseas. He has published nine books on business, travel, environment and economics, has written for the environmental magazine Pacific Ecologist and is also a member of Sustainable Population Australia.

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This form guide’s on the move

By Keith Platt IN racing circles, Peter Ellis would be classed as a stayer, not a sprinter. He’s clocked up commendable times in three Melbourne marathons and power walks up to 15 kilometres a day, or night. But my assessment would have Ellis shaking his head. I’m not using enough data - history, form, fitness, weather, or condition of the track on the day.

Ellis is a racing tipster. A race form analyst, as he puts it. He’s a horseracing expert. His assessment of a horse’s form, as opposed to my naive assessment of him, is more mathematical and considered.

I’m the type of person he’d class as a mug punter.

To the outsider, Ellis has a glamorous life. He is feted by racing clubs who subsidise flights and accommodation overseas so he can attend race meetings. He’s a one-man business in the Sport of Kings.

He sends dispatches to various outlets from wherever he is in the world (including his On the Track column for The News), buying and then throwing away printers – which at $40 are cheaper to buy and throw away than carry as luggage – after running off copies of the statistics that form the basis of his predictions.

The destinations and the big races roll off his tongue like days of the week: Dubai, Hong Kong (15 majors), Singapore, England (Royal Ascot, Goodwood, York, Epsom), Ireland (Leopardstown), Italy (San Siro), France (Longchamp, Chantilly, Deauville) the United States (Kentucky Derby, Saratoga, Santa Anita, Arlington Park). Places and races still to be ticked off include Russia, Japan, South Africa and Argentina. On one trip he attended 28 meetings in 30 days in England and Europe. On yet another he was in Hong Kong on a Sunday, New York by Monday, then on to Cincinnati from where he drove to Louisville to attend races Tuesday to Saturday before arriving back in Australia on the Sunday. Sitting in one of his favourite coffee shops in Hastings, Ellis recalls thinking about the strangeness of it all as he pulled his car up alongside a cornfield outside Toledo in Ohio to email his tips for the next Moonee Valley races. “I couldn’t do it without the internet. On these hit and run trips you need access to information because you can’t afford to be in the dark for too long a time.” Ellis estimates he works up to 80 hours a week studying form, keeping his records, drawing ‘speed maps’, filing

Inspired: Peter Ellis goes trackside for this year’s Kentucky Derby at Louisville in the United States.

Pier review: Peter Ellis often ends his daily walk deliberating over upcoming races with a coffee at Pelican Pantry near Hastings pier.

copy for publications, speaking on the radio and attending race meetings. Up to 30 of those hours are spent watching DVDs or videos of horse races, noting where each horse was placed during a race as well as at the finish.

His pay TV subscription is made solely to watch overseas races. The history, the running and the track all are added into his calculations, which end up as predictions.” I don’t know anyone in the industry who watches more races,” he says. “Few people do what I do because it’s so hard.”

When he goes the track – which can be up to three times a week – he checks the turf after the meeting is over, looking for soft spots or any other physical aspect of the turf that might have

affected the run of the horses. Everything will be carefully noted and added to his store of information to be factored into the next outing of the horses that ran on the day.

In one 20-year patch he only missed going to a meeting for one week. His details on tracks span 40 years, although works like the new drainage system at Mornington can make them redundant almost overnight. Ellis has been around the tracks a long time.

After tiring of football and cricket on the Mornington Peninsula in the early 1970s, he and a few friends began driving to Frankston to catch the train to Flemington. He worked up to the status of “form man” and found work with a friend who ran a tipping com-

DSE plans to increase burns DESPITE recent rains, the Department of Sustainability and Environment is planning to increase burns and fire prevention works.

Land and fire manager for Port Phillip region Nick Ryan said planning for burning over the next three years has been done and the maps of proposed burns and other fuel reduction works were available for viewing and comment.

“These plans are created by looking at areas that haven’t been burnt in recent years, deciding which areas will best provide protection from future bushfires and incorporating local input from the many conversations we have had around the community about burning,” Mr Ryan said.

New fire management zones for public land had been released that “will help decide where, when and how often to burn to give the best protection from bushfires”.

Mr Ryan said DSE would this month hold sessions at Frankston South and Rosebud to discuss the plans and zones across Port Phillip while

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maps of the proposed burns and works could be seen on the DSE website.

“We really value local knowledge and expertise from residents when we’re doing our fire planning so we can get the burns done in the places that will give the best protection from fires and will help the bush too,” he said.

“We are particularly interested in comments or feedback on specific burns or specific locations – is there an area of public land near you that you would like to discuss with DSE in relation to planned burning?”

The DSE has burnt more than 447 hectares in planned burns across the Port Phillip region in 2010-11.

The draft Port Phillip Fire Operations Plan for 2011-12 to 2013-14 can be seen at DSE and Parks Victoria offices or online at www.dse.vic.gov.au/ fires until Friday 26 August.

Details are also available from DSE’s customer service centre on 136 186.

pany. Writing a column for the Hastings-based Independent News Group later led to work with The Age – which still likes to label him The Pro when he covers the Spring Racing Carnival – and one of his staples, RadioTAB, which he broadcasts his show every Saturday morning to listeners in South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Bet-Busters, the Gulf News and the Mornington Peninsula News Group also publish his tips and opinions. He also does consulting work with trainers and jockeys. Ellis says he has developed “a good following because my strike rate is good. What I say is down the line. I’m not copying anyone else’s tips.”

Although his predictions can have an effect on the odds Ellis says no one has ever asked him to “play up or down a horse”.

However, “with money attached, there’s bound to be skullduggery sometimes” and from his observations and knowledge he knows if a horse “hasn’t run to form when it should have won”.

These “inexplicable rides” will be noted in Ellis’s records and factored into the horse’s form.

“I would know more than the steward’s because I see these horses at different tracks and know their form.”

Just as he doesn’t follow other tipsters, Ellis keeps a friendly distance from other racing insiders such as trainers, breeders and jockeys.

“I talk to trainers, but it’s just conversation. I’m not interested in where they think a horse will come because they only know how their horse is doing.” When it comes to breeding, “eve-

ry horse is an individual. I try to find their strengths and weaknesses – if you find that key, you’re firing”.

“Jockeys can be that far off that it’s unbelievable. They think they can analyse a horse, but what can they see?

I’m standing back and can see all three dimensions and that’s why I prefer to see races live, because I can watch what’s happening at the back, middle and front of the field, not just where the cameras are pointed.

“My perfect scenario is watching the horses in the mounting yard, watching them race, go to scale and then recover. If I’ve got the video as well, I’ve had the whole package.”

Ellis reckons a 30 per cent strike rate is the “absolute best” a jockey can achieve “and if you follow a jockey you’re 99 per cent sure of losing in the long run”.

“It’s all about mathematics and not the strike rate on the day.

Ellis has ridden a horse ... once: “as a kid and the ground seemed a long way off”. He admits to punting in a small way, but says “being a professional would mean giving up what I do”.

He knows of pro punters with a $1 million monthly turnover who aim for a five per cent profit “who hire people like me”.

“I’ve never been a pro punter. I possibly might be one day, but I’d have to drop everything. I like what I do and to be a punter you need to do it properly.

You would need to work just as hard as I do. There are no short cuts, you get reward for effort.”

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Helping young drivers go past L MENTORS are being sought to help young learner drivers clock up 120 hours behind the wheel.

Mornington Peninsula Shire’s L2P learner driver program helps learner drivers aged 16-21 who do not have a supervising driver or a vehicle to practice their driving.

The program runs with support from volunteer mentors using a council-owned vehicle.

The driving is done in stages while the learner also has lessons with a professional driving instructor.

Mentors are trained and supported VicRoads and the shire.

“I learned a lot during that training; this has benefitted me as a driver and will also benefit the person I am supervising,” driver mentor Ann Gradzka said.

Graham Cooper, another mentor driver, said he signed up because he wanted to “give something back with my experience in driving”.

“For the small amount of time given to the

L2P program, it is very rewarding to see L-platers growing in confidence with their driving and self-esteem, and at the same time I have become aware of my own driving skills improving.”

For details of how to volunteer for the L2P program, call 5950 1666.

On the road: Former Hawthorn AFL player Graham Cooper is helping young people learn to drive.

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Father and son saddle up for world’s ‘toughest’ tour

By Keith Platt GEORGE and Bryce Paterson are keenly interested in Timor Leste, but have chosen arguably the most arduous way to explore the once-troubled country to Australia’s north.

The father and son team from Rye have entered the third Tour de Timor, a mountain bike race billed as being the toughest in the world.

A part time resident of the nearby Indonesian island of Rote, George is keen to find out about the “economic and sustainable development challenges” faced by the fledging nation of Timor Leste.

The former East Timor gained independence in 2002 following the withdrawal of occupying Indonesian forces in 1999, which ended a 25-year bloody struggle.

“We hear a lot about East Timor here in Australia and its increasing importance to us, so visiting Timor Leste via a fundraising event seemed the perfect opportunity to gain an otherwise unobtainable insight into a neighbouring country,” George said.

The insight will come during the sixday 550-kilometre ride that goes from sea level to 1600 metres on day one.

Son Bryce, a post-graduate student who was awarded a scholarship to study Asian law at Melbourne University, said the tour will give him the chance to “apply some of those funds to experience first-hand, and on the ground, the environment and culture of East Timor”.

“Cycling around Timor Leste will provide a close up and raw view of the many issues and problems facing one of our nearest international neighbours.”

George said he has “seen and ex-

perienced first-hand the deprivations of our nearest neighbour’s provinces and have been amazed by the resilience and determination of the West Timorese to deal with their numerous problems”.

“This trip to Timor Leste is going to be an opportunity to see what is happening across the border and see how that fits into the east Asian puzzle.”

Last weekend the pair barely worked up a sweat riding along the Esplanade from Mornington towards home base in Rye. But there will be no escaping the heat and cold as they and about 330 riders compete for the $100,000 in prizes offered by the Tour de Timor.

Finishing is the main aim, and George has spent the past six months training towards riding more than 100 kilometres a day for several days in a row.

A surfer and runner, George says it has been rewarding “trying to master a new sport”.

“My training in West Timor and Rote has involved a fair amount of riding in searing temperatures and similar terrain as East Timor.

“The challenges of East Timor will be greater, as the country has significantly higher mountains and passes, to negotiate.”

George returns to Rote at the end of August to collect the mountain bikes and race equipment in Kupang, West Timor, before going 200km overland to Dili, the capital of Timor Leste.

Bryce will fly from Darwin, about 720km away, with the 150 other Australian competitors in the tour that starts on 11 September.

For details about the Tour de Timor visit www.tourdetimor.com.

On tour: George and Bryce Paterson catch up at Dromana during a weekend training ride. For six gruelling days in September they and 330 other bike riders will compete in the 550-kilometre Tour de Timor, rapidly being recognised as the toughest race in the world.

Riding days: This profile, left, of each day’s ride shows the ups and downs of the Tour de Timor, which will see cyclists go from flat lands at sea level to mountains more than 1600 metres high – and then back down again.

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A rustic charm with a sense of warmth and character, sun filled rooms and positioned within a short walk to the beach and all other amenities. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, upstairs living and dining area north facing and opening out onto the substantial balcony with bay views as the back drop. A paved driveway leads to HUGE tradesman garage with space for 4 cars + home office.

Step into this impeccably presented home and enjoy quality, luxury and stylish flair all within easy strolling distance of the beach and McCrae Plaza. Flooded with natural light and blessed with picture perfect bay views from the second floor, this near new 3BR townhouse delivers open plan living and dining extending to the balcony, a family room and superb kitchen.

Located on the hillside of McCrae is this great home with plenty of room for everyone and everything. Boasting 3 bedrooms all with BIRs and semi ensuite, 2 living areas with formal and informal dining. With a large covered sun room and covered entertaining deck at the rear you can just sit back and relax and enjoy the view.

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This generous 5 BEDROOM townhouse is HUGE in comparison to others. Inspection is a must! Quality built and solidly constructed the elaborate residence has space for the whole family with 2 living areas, 3 bathrooms and GDH & evaporative cooling throughout. Enclosed yard with possible access for boat, caravan or jet ski/s. North facing balcony with bay glimpse.

Quintessential holiday home with outstanding, panoramic 180 degree bay views plus views of Arthurs Seat from the studio/ study. A galley style kitchen leading straight through an open plan living area and out to a private deck, very much encourage entertaining. Two bedrooms promote a cosy feeling & a further level has large family room with a balcony.

There are many reasons to view this fantastic home. Just 450 meters (approx.) to the Peninsula’s best beach is this stunning family home. Light, bright & airy, featuring 2 outdoor entertaining areas, 3 bedrooms plus a study/home office. Master with FES & WIR & also 2 separate living zones. Whether for permanent or holiday use, this home is sure to suit your needs.

Set just 300 meters approx. from the Dromana foreshore, walking trail, public transport and the shops is this fantastic property. Either use the existing 3 bedroom brick veneer home as a holiday house, investment/rental property or renovate and extend into your perfect permanent home. Gas heating, ample bench space in kitchen, side rear access for boat/s.

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Live, lease out or use as a weekender the choice is yours! A tranquil setting and only 300 meters to the Peninsula’s best beach! Wow! Call now to inspect this tremendous residence offering 3 bedrooms, spacious meals and living areas, ample bench and storage space in kitchen, gas heating and lot of potential for renovation. Enclose yard and LU garage.

One of the quietest, most secluded locations on the Horizons Estate with a park over the back fence and approx. 800 meters to the beach. A modern home together with 3 bedrooms + study; open plan living and a very private entertaining area with full size outdoor spa& large double garage with roof cavity for storage.

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MORNINGTON

$325,000 - $345,000

MORNINGTON

NEG OVER $950,000

NEAT AS A PIN! JUST MOVE IN! Set amongst delightful gardens on a generous 570m2 lot this spotless BV home has a warm and inviting ambience. Including 3 bedrooms (BIRs to all), 2 spacious living areas plus a large sunroom, attractive galley kitchen with dishwasher and there is an adjoining meals area. Also a separate laundry ,single carport, a big powered workshop, gas heating, s/system reverse cycle air conditioning & dishwasher.

Very close to schools & buses.

43 Carramar Street

Inspect by appointment

MOUNT MARTHA

AN EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE - WITH THE LOT! Absolute 1st class presentation, open luxurious floor plan, positioned high in the exclusive Summerfields Estate, with views across to Mount Martha and Arthurs Seat.Comprising gracious formal entry with superb Jarrah timber staircase, feature ceilings to large lounge and separate dining, granite topped chefs kitchen, adjoining meals alcove & large tiled family room, 4 bedrooms & study (huge master with oval spa, exotic shower & WIR), 3 bathrooms plus powder URRP ODUJH XSVWDLUV OLYLQJ URRP )HDWXUHV Â&#x2021;7ULSOH DXWR JDUDJH ZLWK UHDU U GRRU Â&#x2021;3RRO KRXVH ZLWK IXOO EDWKURRP VDXQD SHUVRQ VSD Â&#x2021;'XFWHG KHDWLQJ YDFXXP DLU FRQGLWLRQLQJ Â&#x2021; [ P YLHZLQJ GHFN Â&#x2021;:DWHU WDQN ZDWHU IHDWXUHV Â&#x2021;6HFXULW\ FDPHUDV Â&#x2021;6RODU KHDWHG fenced IG pool & gazebo.

IN A WORD - WOW!

$490,000 - $530,000 FOUR BEDROOM FAMILY FAVOURITE Private & secure on a big 893m2 court lot this most attractive BV home offers zoned living ideal for a growing family & convenience to Osborne Primary, Bentonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square & bus services. With 4 generous bedrooms (FES/WIR to master), sunny formal lounge, large kitchen with s/steel appliances including dishwasher, tiled family/meals, separate rumpus & double auto garage with rear door access to storage area. Also Including ducted heating & evaporative cooling, big 12x3m covered timber deck with pot belly stove & a fenced sunken above ground pool.

17 Galilee Court

Inspect Wednesday & Saturday 2-2.30pm or by appointment 84 Summerfields Drive

MOUNT MARTHA

$539,500 NEG

MORNINGTON

BEACHSIDE OPPORTUNITY! TO LIVE &/OR DEVELOP!

A delightful garden setting on a 414 M2 cul-de-sac lot in the desirable Mayfair Estate invites you into this stylish BV home, offering approx. 18 squares of living plus double auto garage with internal access.

With 3 generous bedrooms (FES/WIR to master), a bright hostess kitchen with adjoining meals, a large multi-purpose room & a spacious tiled living room opening to a large timber deck, ideal for entertaining.

Including ducted heating, S/S R/C Air/con, 9ceilings with down lights, water tank & shed!

Spacious & comfortable to live in now, with big potential for the future, this hi-set BV home offers 4 bedrooms (FES/WIR to master), formal lounge & dining with timber flooring, modern kitchen with adjacent family/meals, a large covered/paved entertaining area, double carport, ducted heating, dishwasher & shed. Set on a gently sloping approx 742m2 lot with potential bay views from a second storey, in a convenient beachside location.

Inspect Saturday 1-1.30pm or by appointment 18 Mitchell Street

MORNINGTON

$500,000 - $540,000

MOUNT MARTHA

$570,000 - $615,000 FABULOUS FOR A FAMILY!

When describing this property words like Chic, Groovy & Spunky come to mind. Basically this is all Brand Spanking New, so just move in, sit back and relax with not a cent to spend. Located within a 2 minute stroll to Main Street this fabulous beachside residence would be a wonderful Investment, perfect home or ideal downsizer. Comprising 3 bedrooms and 3 living areas furnished with 1st class appointments throughout. Luxurious bathroom and kitchen, feature lighting and coffure ceilings, single garage and extra off-street parking. Landscaped to perfection, secure, and private.

ITS GOT THE LOT

Get in now for Summer with this easy breezy entertainer on a big 1019m2 court lot. With a decked in-ground spa & fenced, paved in-ground pool with cabana this is the perfect place for when the warmer months arrive. Offering 5 bedrooms (FES/WIR to Master), 3 separated living areas, granite bench tops & s/steel appliances to the central kitchen, a big double carport and shedding. Spread the family out and entertain to the MAX!

Inspect Saturday 4-4.30pm or by appointment 9 Stanton Close

$650,000-$690,000

Inspect Saturday 3-3.30pm or by appointment

MOUNT MARTHA

$650,000 - $700,000

BRAND NEW & BEACHSIDE !

BIG FAMILY FUN & A SERIOUS SHED!

7KLV H[FLWLQJ QHZ UHVLGHQFH HQMR\V D SUL]HG EHDFKVLGH location , close to the Village, beach & buses & offers an extra spacious 23 squares of skilfully designed OX[XU\ OLYLQJ 'RZQVWDLUV KDV WKH PDVWHU EHGURRP with FES/WIR plus front study, stylish kitchen with s/steel appliances including dishwasher & 900mm range + :, SDQWU\ 7KH KXJH OLYLQJ URRP KDV SROLVKHG WLPEHU flooring. Upstairs are the other 2 generous bedrooms plus another living area and main bathroom with w/c. Including ducted heating, s/s r/cycle air/cond., a delightful alfresco area, 9 ceilings up & down, paving & landscaping Absolute WOW factor top location!

Set on a huge 1304 m2 court lot in the beautiful Balcombe Crest Estate, this exciting property offers space & a pool for enjoyable family living & also facilities for some serious home hobbies! With 4 bedrooms plus study (FES/WIR to Master), formal lounge & dining, stylish central kitchen, a very large light-filled family room looking out to the fenced pool & covered entertaining area. Including ducted heating & evaporative cooling, s/s r/cycle air conditioner, dishwasher, double carport, double auto garage plus a huge powered 9.5m x 10.5m barn-style colour bond shed.

Inspect Wednesday & Saturday 11-11.30pm or by appointment 5 Sabo Place

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MORNINGTON

8 Perkins Street

$550,000 - $600,000

EASY CARE LIVING WITH SPACE & STYLE!

26 Trafalgar Square

1/10 Kent Street

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MOUNT MARTHA

10 Legacy Drive

$700,000 - $750,000

SO CONVENIENT - WITH SPACE & QUALITY!

A beautifully presented property in an ideal location for a family home or a fabulous weekend getaway, with the 905 M2 lot convenient to the golden sands of South Beach, Mt. Martha Primary and overlooking a WUHHG UHVHUYH 7KLV VSDFLRXV KRPH LV ]RQHG IRU UHOD[HG living, with downstairs comprising 3 bedrooms, a study area, a family bathroom and rumpus room, & with upstairs offering a large master suite [with FES/WIR], superb kitchen with stone bench tops and s/ steel Smeg appliances, a large open-plan lounge and dining area with polished timber floors, all opening on to a large alfresco entertaining deck. With a double carport, single garage, 4000 litre water tank & shed & with magnificent gardens complimenting the 2 undercover entertaining areas.

7KLV VWULNLQJ DV QHZ VWRUH\ UHVLGHQFH ILQLVKHG ZLWK flair & high quality fittings, is ideally situated only a short stroll from the sandy shores of Fishys beach & the boutique cafes of Main Street. With approx. 23 squares of luxury living & comprising 4 bedrooms [palatial master suite with FENS/WIR & Juliet balcony], two other full bathrooms, a deluxe granite kitchen with s/steel appliances, 2 spacious & separated lightfilled living areas, a double auto garage with internal access & a private paved rear courtyard. Spotlessly SUHVHQWHG LQFOXGLQJ KLJK FHLOLQJV *'+ GLVKZDVKHU security system & ducted vacuum.

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NEG OVER $700,000

Inspect Saturday 2-2.30pm or by appointment

MORNINGTON

$730,000 - $770,000

BIG & BEACHSIDE!

SPREAD OUT IN SPACE & COMFORT!

As you enter this substantial beachside residence you will feel that all your Christmasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have come at once, with plenty of space for a growing family. Set on a huge 1010m2 allotment and offering 4 large bedrooms plus study, master with FES & WIR, 3 separate zoned living areas including formal lounge, separate rumpus & family living & large kitchen with S/steel appliances.

7KH EDFN\DUG LV OLNH \RXU RZQ WURSLFDO RDVLV ZLWK OXVK manicured gardens around your lovely solar heated in-ground swimming pool with in-built spa area, huge decked entertaining & extra storage/play area. Also including auto double garage & extra parking space for a caravan, boat or trailer.

A superb 1304m2 court lot in the exclusive Summerfields Estate is an ideal setting for this big living B/V home, featuring a West Australian Limestone faade & beautiful polished timber flooring. With 4 bedrooms plus study (master with FENS (spa)/WIR), formal entry & spacious lounge, vinyl wrap kitchen with S/S 900mm appliances & W.I. Pantry, dining room, a large family room, a separate rumpus/games room & double auto garage with internal access. Relax on the 7 x7 metre deck looking over the fenced solar heated I.G. Pool. Including ducted heating, evaporative cooling, 9 ceilings, downlights, dishwasher & secure parking for a boat/caravan. Easy Walk to Benton Junior College & buses.

Inspect Saturday 1-1.30pm or by appointment 4 Cottage Place

MORNINGTON

8 Ella Bella Way

$680,000 - $730,000

THE GOOD LIFE - IN A GARDEN PARADISE!

MORNINGTON

24 Jacaranda Crescent

MORNINGTON

NEG OVER $740,000

Inspect Saturday 3-3.30pm or by appointment

MORNINGTON

$285,000 - $310,000

SPACE & SPLENDOUR IN SUMMERFIELDS!

IN CLOSE AND VERY INVITING

Landscaped gardens & a big 1100m2 lot provide a perfect setting for this exceptional BV home, offering 31 squares of living plus a double auto brick garage with rear r/door & an adjoining workshop. A combination of beautiful timber flooring & quality carpet invites you inside, with 4 bedrooms plus study (Master suite FES/WIR & study both downstairs), spacious lounge & dining with open fireplace, a deluxe granite kitchen with s/s appliances, a large family room, a separate rumpus/games room, a generous upstairs living room & an 8 x 5m covered entertaining deck with on-line gas brick bbq. Including ducted heating, dishwasher, 9ceilings, powder room, & a big secure rear yard.

$ WUHDW IRU 67 +RPHEX\HUV DQG ,QYHVWRUV ZLWK WKLV well presented BV villa that enjoys a quiet beachside location. Offering 2 bedrooms, spacious open living, a stylishly renovated kitchen with s/steel appliances, carport and a sensational entertaining front courtyard and all privately placed behind a wall of established trees and high fencing.

Inspect Saturday 2-2.30pm or by appointment 2/14 Fleet Street

MORNINGTON

1/2 Hunter Street

$285,000 - $310,000

Inspect Saturday 11-11.30am or by appointment

MORNINGTON

$375,000 - $395,000

HI! MY NAME IS OPPORTUNITY!

A VERY STYLISH SEASIDE VILLA!

And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m knocking at your door. If you are dangerous with a paint brush & creative in the garden, then this front BV Villa of 3 only, just a comfortable stroll from the Village, might be ideal for you. With 2 generous bedrooms (BIRs), spacious lounge with gas heater & s/system reverse cycle air conditioner, attractive kitchen with adjoining meals, single garage & 2 rear courtyards.

EASY COSMETIC IMPROVER!

Nestled behind a wall of ti-tree with relaxing walks & beautiful views only 80 metres away at the Esplanade, this most stylishly renovated BV villa is one of only 3. With 2 bedrooms (large master with 2-way bathroom),the modern kitchen has a dishwasher and there is an adjoining meals area, spacious light-filled living room & internal comforts include s/system reverse cycle air conditioner plus private courtyard & carport with storage. Buses, beaches & local shopping at your fingertips

Inspect Saturday 1-1.30pm or by appointment 2/5 Gleneagles Avenue

MOUNT MARTHA

NEG OVER $480,000

Inspect Wednesday & Saturday 12-12.30pm or by appointment

MORNINGTON

$587,500 NEG

BUILDING A DREAM!

BIG BLOCK - POTENTIAL SUBDIVISION!

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

No foreshore pool: Members of Friends of Rosebud Beach and Foreshore, Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers and Residents Association, Blue Wedges Coalition and McCrae Action Group protest outside Nepean MP Martin Dixon’s office in Monday morning. Mr Dixon was in Melbourne.

‘Friends’ quit over Rosebud pool

By Mike Hast THE Friends of Rosebud Beach and Foreshore group has handed back a $5500 grant and resigned in protest over the proposed Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre (SPA).

Last week Mornington Peninsula Shire issued a press release revealing it had been given a glimmer of hope over its 12-year-old proposal to build a multimillion dollar pool complex in Rosebud.

Mayor Graham Pittock stated Environment Minister Ryan Smith had invited the shire to complete and submit its Rosebud Foreshore Management Plan, which identified a site for the aquatic centre.

The press release stated: “The Minister stated in a letter to Shire Mayor Cr Graham Pittock that he would ‘instruct (his) department to process the plan in a timely and constructive manner as the appropriate first step in the

approval process for SPA’.”

It is the first positive indication yet that the state government will allow a pool on the shire’s preferred foreshore site, which the shire has been seeking for more than five years.

Since 2006, the shire had repeatedly been told by the Department of Sustainability and Environment – the government’s foreshore land manager – that a pool on the foreshore would not be approved.

DSE guidelines state buildings on Port Phillip foreshore must be coastal dependent, for example, life saving club, yacht clubs and coast guard offices.

Intense lobbying by Nepean MP Martin Dixon, shire CEO Michael Kennedy and Crs Pittock and David Gibb plus a change of policy – which appears to have been forced on DSE by the new state government – makes a foreshore pool more likely than ever.

The change by the government has

infuriated the Friends group, formed 14 years ago to improve the foreshore section centred around the Village Green, the preferred site for the pool.

On Friday it returned $5500 to DSE with a letter of protest and cancelled foreshore work that had been started the day before by a shire contractor.

Under the terms of the grant, the Friends group joins with the shire on specific projects, with the shire hiring a contractor and the Friends providing labour.

With this latest grant, the shire had hired the contractor to spray weeds and repair fences, and about 25 per cent of the grant would go to this. The Friends would use the balance to buy plants and then devote more than 350 hours to mulch and plant trees, shrubs and grasses, charging their time at $15 an hour. In this way the value of a $5500 grant is doubled.

“There’s not much point beautify-

ing this part of the Rosebud foreshore if the shire is allowed to build a twostorey aquatic centre and sealed car park,” Friends spokeswoman Eunice Cain said.

“Our foreshore is precious and will be subject to rising sea levels. The aquatic centre should be built on Boneo Rd near the shire office and Olympic Park.

“The site is within walking distance of Rosebud Secondary College and Eastbourne Primary School.”

Mrs Cain said the shire’s argument that the pool should be on a major bus route was wrong. “Very few people take public transport to pools; most drive.”

Mrs Cain said volunteers had spent 7192 hours working on the foreshore over 14 years.

“At $15 an hour, this represents almost $108,000 worth of labour. We have planted more than 26,000 native

By Keith Platt USED corrugated iron may have a romantic place in Australian architectural history, but that place is not in full view of visitors to a bustling bayside shopping centre.

This is the opinion held by a growing number of traders and residents in Rye where roofing iron is being used to fence off a near-vacant block.

The fence has been approved by Mornington Peninsula Shire officers who demanded the property be fenced as a safety precaution.

It seems red tape prevents them tackling the aesthetics of the fence.

Luke English, team leader development compliance, says the property owners have been asked to “show cause” why the derelict buildings at 2123 Point Nepean Rd should not be demolished.

Depending on their response, the municipal building surveyor could order demolition and, once cleared, the

fence could then come under normal planning permit processes.

This could be “time-consuming”, according to Mr English, and will depend on the “level of cooperation” shown by the owners, who could also suggest alternatives.

In a letter to Cr Bill Goodrem, surf shop proprietor Ted Bainbridge accused the council of complacency when dealing with the “unsightly condition of the property … one of the first commercial properties which visitors see as they enter our township”.

Mr Bainbridge said the property had been derelict for the five years since he first contacted the council in September 2006 and was told by the then municipal building surveyor, Peter Phillips, that “cases of this nature regrettably can take some time to investigate and resolve”.

“We are all opposed to the unsightly construction which imposes on the sight lines to our businesses,” Mr

Bainbridge stated.

He said other business owners had also complained to council.

“As our local councillor, I urge you to take immediate action to have this allotment tidied up and the fence removed, by 1 September or sooner.”

Real estate agent Ian Oldstein has told one council officer to “be prepared for a fight”.

In a letter he said there were “many security, safety and public nuisance issues”.

“I have horrific visions of groups of youths and troublemakers setting up camp behind this fence later in the year, which will do nothing to enhance Rye’s image,” Mr Oldstein said.

“The fence is poorly constructed in places and will blow down in a reasonable wind or worse, materials will cause harm to people and property in the process.”

Fenced off: The fence made from roofing iron that greets visitors to Rye.

plants, spread 340 cubic metres of mulch, organised fencing of the work site between the Village Green and the beach, and converted the derelict tennis courts into a park,” she said.

The shire stated the Rosebud Foreshore Management Plan was “expected to take a number of weeks to complete, before being presented to the council for consideration”.

Cr Pittock welcomed the letter, “which followed a meeting with Minister Ryan some weeks ago”, and said he was pleased that consideration of the foreshore management plan would now provide a basis for the council to progress planning for SPA. On Monday morning 17 people (and a dog) protested outside Mr Dixon’s office in McCrae and handed a document to an electorate officer that stated the Friends group had resigned.

Mr Dixon was in Melbourne.

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Tide times raise queries over dredging at The Heads

Critical depth: The deepest section of The Heads at about 90 metres is the C-shaped old bed of the Maribyrnong River, which used to flow from Melbourne to Bass Strait before Port Phillip was formed about 10,000 years ago. Tides, variable depths, winds and swell from Bass Strait make the entrance to Port Phillip one of the most dangerous in the world. The red lines at left and right define marine parks and the cross-hatched areas in red show where dredging occurred. Graphic: Port of Melbourne Corporation

By Mike Hast LARGER ships entering and leaving Port Phillip Heads must wait for slower tide flows after the Port of Melbourne Corporation issued a restriction notice to mariners last month.

Tankers of 11.6-metre draught or more cannot transit The Heads if the tide is flowing faster than 3 knots in either direction (about 5.5km/h, or 3.4mph).

Other vessels of 12.1-metre draught or more cannot transit with a 5-knot or faster flood (incoming) tide or 4-knot ebb (outgoing) tide.

The “tidal stream limits” were imposed on 8 July in a temporary Notice to Mariners and made permanent on 20 July.

The restrictions raise questions about the controversial $1 billion Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project (CDP), which saw 550,000 cubic metres of limestone and sandstone removed from The Heads between early 2008 and mid-2009.

Dredging was designed to allow

14-metre draught vessels entry at any time instead of the previous restriction of 11.6-metre draught ships at any time or 12.1-metre draught ships with tide assistance.

At the 2004 environmental effects assessment panel hearing into the proposed CDP, Port of Melbourne Corporation said dredging would allow 24-hour access though The Heads for all vessels up to 14 metres draught through all stages of the tide.

The corporation stated the CDP was needed to keep Melbourne’s port competitive with Sydney and Adelaide, which can take 14-metre draught ships.

Delays of even a few hours while bigger ships waited for higher tides would be a major economic burden on the shipping industry, the port corporation said.

The tide restriction has stunned port experts as well as conservationists who tried to stop the dredging project.

Port of Melbourne Corporation did not respond to questions from The

News.

A shipping source told The News PoMC’s harbor master had said delays would be minimal.

The restriction came soon after the port corporation increased its infrastructure levy by $1 to $34.10 plus 3 per cent GST on every full 20-foot container.

The charge is “part of the cost recovery schedule for the successfully completed Channel Deepening Project”, the port announced on 30 May. One port expert, who did not want to be named, told The News the restriction had been imposed because of cross-currents affecting ships transiting the Great Ship Channel, the name given to the entrance to Port Phillip, which was deepened to 17 metres to accommodate 14-metre draught ships.

“At 245 metres wide, the channel is narrower than the internationally required width, and risk assessments are obviously showing that deep draught vessels have to take into account the cross-currents.”

Little slack in tide velocity AN appraisal of 2007 tide tables showed 1411 tides and the number of tides where the water velocity remained below 3 knots was 279, that is, just undcr 20 per cent of the total number of tides.

The 2007 predicted maximum flood tide through The Heads had a velocity of 8.1 knots and the ebb tide a velocity of 6.8 knots.

Slack water in The Heads occurs for just four one-hour periods every 24 hours.

Corporation Notice to Mariners No. 095 / 11: Port Phillip Heads – Tidal stream limits for vessels transiting Port Phillip Heads:

THIS is the full transcript of the PoMC notice:

Transit restricted during periods when the flood and ebb tides are over three (3) knots.

Port of Melbourne

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Mariners are advised that tidal stream limits apply to vessels when transiting the fairway through Port Phillip Heads.

Transit restrictions relate to the short periods of high tidal flow and apply as follows: Tankers of 11.6m draught and over:

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All vessels (except tankers) of greater than 12.1m draught: Inbound vessels’ transit restricted during periods when flood and ebb tides are five (5) knots and over.

Inbound vessels’ transit restricted during periods when flood tide is five (5) knots and over, or the ebb tide is four (4) knots and over. (signed) David Shennan, Harbour Master  The Notice to Mariners can be viewed at: www. portofmelbourne.com/ shipping/notices/ntms.asp

The entrance to Port Phillip is regarded as one of the most dangerous port entrances in the world.

Tidal flows cross the Great Ship Channel simultaneously in contrary directions and the conditions are complicated by ocean swells in Bass Strait.

Tides running into or out of the bay can be up to eight knots or more, and deep draught vessels can be pushed sideways, risking being forced outside the Great Ship Channel into the shallower channels either side – the Eastern and Western Ship Channels, 11.9 and 11.4 metres deep respectively, which were not dredged during the CDP. With 14-metre draught tankers carrying 100,000 tonnes of oil and other vessels carrying 10,000 tonnes of fuel oil, a ship grounding in The Heads could have disastrous effects on the fragile marine environment.

A second port expert, who also did not want to be named, queried how the Port of Melbourne would measure tide flow speeds.

“How are port managers gauging tidal flows at any given time? Where are their instruments located? Are they using the information from the federal government’s National Tidal Centre?”

He said that at various times of the year, tide predictions could vary by up to one hour. Also, it was well known that at The Heads the tide on the surface can be flooding (coming in from Bass Strait) when the tide on the bottom was ebbing (going out).

“When the corporation was doing the dredging, it had five tide flow metres but they have been removed,” the source said.

He said the corporation (and by implication shipping) had been lucky so far.

“Anecdotal information from Port Phillip Sea Pilots – who were not allowed to speak at the two environmental effects assessment hearings – reveals many incidents occurred before dredging of The Heads.

“Most pilots claim they have been swept up to 100 metres off course during heavy weather and high tide flows. There is no room for error in a 245-metre wide channel when piloting a 300-metre plus ship.”

Anti-dredging campaigner Jenny

Warfe, of Blue Wedges Coalition, said the new restrictions were “puzzling”.

“Port of Melbourne Corporation’s notice states the restrictions will only apply for ‘short periods of high tidal flow’, but there are many days all through the year when the flow regularly exceeds 3, 4 and 5 knots.

“The constraints imposed could have major impacts on shipping schedules and hence the economic justifications for the channel deepening project,” she said.

“When tides are at their strongest, when the moon is in new or full phase, tidal flow at The Heads can be 7 or 8 knots. So for half of every month, shipping could be greatly restricted, causing delays in departures and arrivals. Even on neap tides – when the moon is in its quarter phases – tide speed can often be at least 3 knots.

“So what’s changed and why? Old tide tables, from before The Heads was deepened, also show many days when speed was predicted to be in excess of 3, 4 and 5 knots.

“The tide has been flowing in and out at those speeds for thousands of years, so why has it become more dangerous to enter and exit Port Phillip, even for some vessels that pre-channel deepening were not restricted?

“In 2004, an 11.6-metre draught oil tanker had no restrictions on entry or exit at any height or speed of tide.

Now it has to wait for 3 knots or less.”

Perhaps insurers had decided for some reason that The Heads now presents a greater risk for them, she said.

“It is starting to look like the $1 billion channel deepening project is a giant white elephant – leaving us with a toxic dump in the bay forever [polluted material dredged from the Yarra was dumped off Mordialloc and covered with clean sand from the South Channel] and a buggered beach at Portsea – all for nothing.”

Queen of rocks: The Queen of the Netherlands trailing suction hopper dredge removes rock in the Great Ship Channel in 2008, the “fairway” for ships passing through Port Phillip Heads. The work was to allow ships of 14 metres draught to enter at all times, but now tide restrictions have been placed on vessels. Picture: J J Adams

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Hastings port shock

By Mike Hast MELBOURNE’S Webb Dock should be a higher priority than developing the Port of Hastings, says one of Australia’s key port executives.

David Anderson, chief executive of Ports Australia, the peak body representing ports and marine authorities in Australia, told a regional ports conference in Tasmania two weeks ago the infrastructure for accessing Hastings was “pretty diabolical” and it would take 30 years to fully develop the port.

Webb Dock was far more important than plans to build docks in Western Port, he said.

Webb Dock is at the entrance to the Yarra River and faces Hobsons Bay at the head of Port Phillip.

Port of Melbourne’s other key docks – Swanson, Appleton and Victoria – which are fast running out of land, are upstream of West Gate Bridge, which restricts the height of vessels.

Mr Anderson’s comments come at a time when the push to develop the Port of Hastings intensifies and opposition mounts.

Legislation is before the upper house of Parliament that will decouple the Port of Hastings from the Port of Melbourne Corporation, which the Brumby Labor government joined together late last year just before losing office to the Ted Baillieu-led Coalition of Liberals and Nationals.

The legislation would create a new body, Port of Hastings Development Authority. It is expected to be approved when Parliament reconvenes for the spring session on 16 August.

The legislation, which has the support of all political parties, was listed for voting before the Parliament rose for its winter break, but time ran out.

The new government has been under pressure to fast-track the expansion of Hastings, which the previous government planned to do over 20 years in three stages.

An expanded Hastings port would need a duplicated Western Port Hwy and a rail line to take goods to and from southeast Melbourne and from Gippsland, including timber and coal.

A coal slurry pipeline has also been proposed.

Western Port Hwy is currently one lane in each direction – little more than a country road – between North Rd, Pearcedale, and Hasting.

Expert’s call to develop Webb over Western Port As supporters of the ports of Melbourne and Hastings argue over scarce resources and timelines, environment and community groups are organising opposition.

A citizen lobby group formed to oppose Hastings port expansion when it was first mooted in 2006, Westernport Action Group, has joined Blue Wedges Coalition, an umbrella group of 65 organisations formed to oppose the dredging of Port Phillip in 2008-09.

They in turn have aligned with Victorian National Parks Association and Westernport and Peninsula Protection Council.

The latter was formed in the 1960s when the Bolte Liberal government opened the Western Port region to de-

velopment, in particular Hastings and Crib Point, where steelworks, jetties, gas and oil refineries, tank farms and infrastructure were built along with engineering and marine firms to service the enterprises (see ‘Back to the future’).

Hastings retains this industrial infrastructure, but at Crib Point only a gas and oil jetty remains operational.

VNPA marine and coastal project officer Simon Branigan says an expanded Hastings port would transform the area into a highly urbanised industrial zone that would become busier than the Port of Melbourne.

“We fear that expanding Hastings into a container port will be done with little consideration of protecting and

Back to the future IT was dubbed “The Battle for Western Port” and grabbed national media headlines in the early 1970s.

Industrialists and conservationists fought a bitter battle over development after the Liberal state government, led by premier Henry Bolte, marked the region as a site for heavy industry in the 1960s.

One plan called for a nuclear reactor on French Island and the now-defunct State Electricity Commission bought up large tracts of land on the island, displacing farming families and reducing the island’s population by about 80 per cent.

Allied to the nuclear plan was one to build a causeway across the shallow waters north of the island, which would have interrupted tidal flows. Neither plan came to fruition.

The government bowed to concerns of conservationists and commissioned the “Westernport Bay Environmental Study”, which became the basis for the Shapiro Report, a major study led by US

scientist Maurice Shapiro.

The report stands as an important environmental document as Professor Shapiro studied the entire Western Port catchment and the results shaped government policy toward the region for many years.

In the end, Bolte’s vision for Western Port to become the “Ruhr of Victoria”, named after the heavily industrialised city in Germany, fell well short of ambitions.

BP built a refinery at Crib Point that is now abandoned.

John Lysaght Pty Ltd built a steel mill near Hastings, now owned by BlueScope Steel, and Esso built a gas refractionation plant near the steel mill, both of which still operate.

Conservationists have called on the government to undertake a “Shapiro Mark II” before expanding the Port of Hastings.

The battles of 40 years ago will be fought again.

Mike Hast

enhancing Western Port’s immense environmental and recreational values,” he said.

“The development authority should have the protection of the bay’s environmental values as its core operating goal, not just fast-tracking development based on a projected growth in container shipping traffic.”

Blue Wedges president Jenny Warfe said once the development proceeds to the environmental effects statement (EES) phase, “proponents control the process, with economics being the focus, not the environment”.

“EES assessments of major projects – with dredging of Port Phillip a prime recent example – invariably rely on economic analyses and ignore environmental values lost. They do not objectively assess the real economic benefits,” she said.

Port of Hastings’ own figures show the port will move 3.7 million containers a year by 2035, she said. “It will be even busier and congested than

Melbourne, which handles 2.2 million containers a year.”

Karri Giles of Westernport and Peninsula Protection Council said the bay had fragile marine environments, including internationally significant Ramsar-listed wetlands for migrating birds from the northern hemisphere.

“It’s unbelievable that in the 40th anniversary year of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the government wants a massive industrial container port that could result in the death of the bay as a healthy, functioning ecosystem and place for recreation.”

Internationally respected bird scientist Clive Minton said in an interview on the peninsula’s community radio station 3RPP last month that Western scientists and governments had criticised the draining of wetlands and building of industries in Ramsar sites in East Asia.

An expanded port at Hastings will cost Victorian taxpayers $9.4 billion, according to figures prepared last year for the previous government.

The Victorian Freight Logistics Council is pushing the government to start infrastructure planning now, especially the rail link to Hastings.

Executive officer Rose Elphick reportedly said the opportunities to get rail in were being threatened by further development in the corridor.

Dockside: The existing wharf at BlueScope, Hastings.

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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT

The confessions of a non-participant

By Stuart McCullough LAST week I saw the final installment of the Harry Potter series. To say that the movies have been something of a big deal is like saying the Titanic had some teething problems.

I enjoyed it immensely, although my nephew Brodie was keen to identify the differences between the movie and the book that underpins it. Apparently there are heaps. Certainly enough to occupy the time it takes to drive from Knox shopping centre to Narre Warren. It’s fair to say the movie may disappoint die-hard fans, not least for the conspicuous absence of Bruce Willis. That said, Alan Rickman is all over it, so perhaps this is some consolation.

At the time of the original movie, my nephews were small enough to sit on my lap. This time around, they drove to the cinema. Well, not quite, but they’re well past sitting on anyone’s lap by now. I’ve seen the occasional Potter film and, so far as I can tell, they all lead to a battle between good and evil. This, I feel, falls under the heading of ‘give the people what they want’ rather than, say, a Crying Gamestyle twist that will make you fall from your chair. (Although, to be honest, that would be amazing.)

I confess that I am yet to read a word of the boy wizard’s adventures.

This, I am sure, makes me one of only three people in all of Western civilisation who remain immune to the literary charms of the juggernaut that is J K Rowling. It’s not by design – I have absolutely nothing against her – I simply haven’t read any of

her books. This means I am uniquely unqualified in an area of prime cultural importance. A complete social dunce, if you will. An absolute certified pariah in our great global village. In metaphorical terms, I am a castaway on a lonely island, totally cut off from the continents of humanity. For all intents and purposes, I might as well reside on another planet. It is for this reason that small talk with me can be like pulling teeth. Indeed, this

general sense of cluelessness has been directly responsible for the death of more dinner party conversations than is polite to mention. For, in truth, my ignorance of Harry Potter is far from the only example of this self-imposed social exile.

I suppose I could characterise my failure to read Potter’s adventures as being the result of a refined literary palate and that I would never lower myself to slum it with the Hogwarts

crew, but that would be a big, fat, dirty lie. Indeed, were I to assert that my lack of familiarity with Harry Potter and friends is a result of being up to my armpits in Foucault, Balzac and whichever other French malcontent ever put pen to paper in between sparking up a Gitane and necking a bottle of exotic plonk, my nose would most certainly be pressed up against the computer screen by now. The fact is that absolutely nothing (and really mean nothing) is beneath me.

Put simply, anyone who watched the first three series of Big Brother cannot sit astride the cultural high horse and look down on anyone.

It’s not just Potter either. I am yet to read a book by Dan Brown, listen to an album by Lady Gaga, create a Facebook page or watch an episode of Glee. I’m not sure what the current criteria for being Amish is right now, but I am reasonably certain that I tick a lot of the boxes. In fact, I’m pretty much on the cusp of rejecting zippers and Velcro. Only the fact I am completely and utterly useless at barn-raising prevents me from having to nominate “other” in the religion question on the coming Census.

There can be no reasonable excuse for being quite so disconnected. All I can say for myself is that I simply never got around to doing all the things I ought. Frankly, I’m the first to admit that I can never really consider myself to be a well-rounded individual if I don’t first gorge myself on every cultural treat that’s available.

It’s time to make amends. From now on, I’ll speak of the Twitterverse

as though it was something real and important and not just something that under-employed comedians do. I will treat the idea of an “everyday rewards card” with the respect it deserves and even give it a top up amount to compensate for the fact that they suck like a nuclear powered Hoover.

Finally, I will start sending text messages on a regular basis, ending all of them with “OMG”.

But to make my bid to be a better, more modern (less Amish) human being complete, I should begin with a simple apology. To Harry Potter, I am sorry. From this point on, I shall devote all my energy to ensuring quidditch is finally recognised as an Olympic sport. I’ll overlook the fact that the love story sub-plot between Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley is the most improbable love affair since Mr Snuffalufagus sent Big Bird a Valentine’s Day card. I’ll keep my thoughts to myself about whether the entire battle between good and evil might have been wrapped up a lot quicker had Potter put down that crooked-looking wand and traded it in for an AK47 assault rifle. What a different film it might have been if Lord Voldemort – with his strange 1970s rock star missing nose – had been summoning up the forces of evil, only to find Harry Potter coming over the horizon in a Black Hawk helicopter. Had that been the case, though, there’s every chance I would have shown some interest a lot sooner. www.stuartmccullough.com

Krakouer brothers make their marks on stage THE amount of admiration and publicity surrounding the skill of indigenous footballers has always been shadowed by racism and social inequalities surrounding Aboriginal communities.

Brothers Phil and Jim Krakouer fascinated Australian rules fans in the 1980s, as did their subsequent tangles with the law and society.

Their style of football was dubbed “black magic”, reflecting skill, daring and resilience that was also needed off the sporting field.

The play Krakouer! documents their trials on and off the field.

Told by a cast of three and Illustrated with historic video footage Krakouer! shows how the brothers reached new heights after leaving Western Australia with the Kangaroos until injury and

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personal dramas undid their careers.

Jim Krakouer finished his career at St Kilda Football Club.

Krakouer! will be performed at Frankston Arts Centre next week with Phillip Krakouer and possibly some present-day St Kilda players staying for a Q&A after the show.

The play was written by Reg Cribb and based on Sean Gorman’s book Brotherboys: the story of Jim and Phil Krakouer.

The play shows how the brothers fought with and for each other against racial vilification, gambling addiction, the legal system and personal tragedy.

Cribb was nominated for Best Script in the 2009 WA Premier’s Book Awards for Krakouer!, and since then the play has toured the nation.

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“I wasn’t aware of the public interest in the Krakouer brothers’ story … it’s rekindled an interest in the history of Indigenous football, and they certainly sit pretty high up in the pantheon of that. I’m absolutely over the moon about the tour,” he said.

Krakouer! is showing at the Frankston Arts Centre at 8pm on Tuesday 9 August at (captioned performance) and 1pm on Wednesday 10 August. Tickets are available from the Box Office on 9784 1060.

The performance is also part of the arts centre’s education program, with discounted tickets for secondary students and Splash Card holders.

For more information or to book go to www.artscentre.frankston.vic.gov. au or call 9784 1060.

Entertainment SINCE it was formed in 1979, the Frontier Touring Company has been at the forefront of promoting and presenting international and Australian performers to music-loving audiences in Australia and New Zealand.

Led by Michael Gudinski (pictured), the company has run more than 500 concert tours; from small shows in pubs and clubs to massive stadium rock events and outdoor concerts.

Frontier has brought Down Under major artists such as Leonard Cohen, Lionel Richie, The Police, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, Ma-

donna, Tom Jones, The Eagles and Australian artists Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Barnes, Kasey Chambers and many more.

To celebrate 30 years of concerts, Frontier is publishing a limited edition coffee table book, Every Poster Tells a Story! 30 Years of The Frontier Touring Company.

It is a colourful collection of Frontier concert posters – some easy to source and some that proved to be elusive: “But we managed to track down every single one,” a spokesman said.

The hardback, 286-page, full colour book features 536 posters and lists individual concert dates for each tour through to the end of last year.

There’s a foreword by Frontier cofounder and co-owner Michael Gudinski, and music journalists from Australia and New Zealand have contributed essays for each era.

They set the scene of what influenced the Australasian public’s music tastes as well as what was affecting everyday lives – socially, politically and musically.

The book is on sale from Friday 12 August online via www.frontiertouring.com and at book and music stores. *** FOR more than four decades, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has married

with Gary Turner Jones’s Cry The Beloved Country.

Their performance with Paul Simon on Sesame Street is legendary and is one of the top three requested Sesame Street segments in history.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform at Melbourne’s State Theatre on Friday 28 October. To book tickets call 1300 182 183 or 136 100. www.abpresents.com.au www.mambazo.com the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to the sounds and sentiments of Christian gospel music. The result is a musical and spiritual alchemy that has touched worldwide audience representing every corner of the religious, cultural and ethnic landscape.

Their musical efforts over the past three decades have garnered praise and accolades within the recording industry but also solidified their identity as a cultural force to be reckoned with.

In the mid-1980s, Paul Simon made his initial trip to South Africa and met members of the group. Having heard

a cassette of their music, Simon was captivated by the stirring sound of rich tenor, alto and bass harmonies and incorporated the traditional sounds into his Graceland album – considered seminal in introducing world music to mainstream audiences and that won many awards including a Grammy for album of the year.

Later, the group provided song for Disney’s The Lion King Part II as well as Eddie Murphy’s Coming To America, Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, Marlon Brando’s A Dry White Season, Sean Connery’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and James Earl

each race followed by placing our bets up the lane with our SP bookie. Lost again.

My friends often won because they knew never to back anything I backed.

Another Magpie victory, home for a quick meal and to a dance, always living in hope, rarely satisfied. Was that me back then?

“In each instant of their lives men die to that instant. It is not time that passes away from them, but they who recede from the constancy, the immutability of time, so that when afterwards they look back upon themselves it is not themselves they see, but strange ghosts in their image, with whom they have no communication” (Charles Morgan). Spot on.

The TAB began in the 1980s and grew like topsy with profit the golden word. More executives, bigger buildings, bigger shareholder profits with not one iota of interest in our losses other than that said losses come their way. Ditto the AFL, banks, insurance companies, et al. Buy shares? Can’t afford it.

Newspapers are owned by the rich on behalf of their shareholders. Electricity, gas and water costs rising?

They tell us everyone is to blame except themselves. They lie. Where do the extra costs flow? To the privatised companies (shareholders/administrators) and our government.

What can we do? We look at what we have and fight those who seek to reduce them or take them from us altogether. Pensions, unemployment benefits, free health (up to a point), free education (again to a point), wages parity and anything that puts us in a worse position than we presently hold.

Time to have a go, ya mug?

Top 10 albums 1 The Best of Ladysmith Black Mambazo 2 Journey – Fortunato 3 The Road From Memphis – The Booker T Jones 4 Philharmonics – Agnes Obel 5 Moonfire – Boy & Bear 6 The Last Stand – Cold Chisel 7 Proud to be Here – Trace Adkins 8 Out of the Darkness – Peta Evans-Taylor 9 101 Power Ballads – Various 10 Falling into Place – Adam Harvey

A Grain of Salt WRITING is a strange experience. I ignore it for two weeks and suddenly 900 words come out of nothing. My problem? I never decide what to write.

I can get stuck into those whingers writing about dog poo or new units blocking their precious views. Perhaps have a go at Teddy Baillieu cutting library funding. The swimming pool, Marty? It’s a long way to Cranbourne.

Two worlds; the conscious and the subconscious.

Your mind directs the action. Sometimes it flows, to my constricted standards, sometimes. Not too vicious, not too sexy. I’m tempted, but I resist, just. I hear gossip and say nothing; bits float around and come to the surface if I have anything to say on a general subject. Something occurs by thought, print or company. Make a note, which may or may not be followed up. I’ve run out of notes, my mind a blank, what to say? That takes care of the first 157... *** THE vitriol Julia is receiving from the public is reaching a crescendo. Is this all Murdoch’s doings or are the shock jocks simply anti-female rightwingers? The common catcall is that the lady lies. True, she announces cer-

tain policies at one time and at a later date announces a change of policy, but if you base her lies on a vote for the Opposition, wouldn’t you at least realise that policies like no GST, weapons of mass destruction and children overboard must be considered? She got stuck into Kevvy, but ditto Tony into Turnbull. Obvious stuff really.

And yet, how to explain the fathomless depth of self-satisfaction from so many Herald Sun readers? Do not use lying as a reason, people. Think harder. Think non-gender, neuter. *** IT’S Saturday winter 2011, and I’ve spent all afternoon watching Collingwood win again with a few Carlton Draughts and a bet or two. A typical Saturday winter 1953: Order of importance was always the races at No. 1 followed by football (premiers, again) with females a long last unless a chance popped up. If you got lucky it would move to number 1 at any time other than a Saturday, particularly if they told you they loved you.

So there we would congregate, harmless enough, at 10am, always standing at the bar of the Peacock Hotel in High St, Northcote. A general discussion on which horse would win

*** “HAVE a go, ya mug” has been a part of our vernacular forever. Indifference reigns heavily among us as can be seen by the pathetic leaders of both major parties but more particularly among nonchalant voters. The Liberal Party has always been in favour of stretching the difference between the rich and the poor. Chooky’s Labor Party is there to look after all of us but primarily themselves. Generalisations maybe, but mostly truth.

The most ridiculous and strange, fresh for you...

*** ONE did not have to be Einstein to see what they were doing to former top cop Christine Nixon. It was intriguing who the television news people went to for an opinion on her book Fair

Joke!!!

with Cliff Ellen Cop and her suggestion that the Bushfires Royal Commission was a kangaroo court, which of course it was, perhaps. Herald Sun editor Simon Pristel, Police Association secretary Greg Davies and the holier than thou Neil Mitchell. It’s like getting an opinion on Jesus from Lucifer. *** THOUSANDS flock to London to see Kate’s wedding frock. “Wooden it be loverly.” My fervent wish is that I could be there. A lifetime thrill?

“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” (Mark Twain).

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RIddle Solution

A man’s car stalled on a country road one morning. When the man got out to fix it, a cow came along and stopped beside him. “Your trouble is probably in the carburetor,” said the cow.

Startled, the man jumped back and ran down the road until he met a farmer. The amazed man told the farmer his story.

ANSWER: An envelope.

Sudoku Solution

“Was it a large red cow with a brown spot over the right eye?” asked the farmer. “Yes, yes,” the man replied.

“Oh! I wouldn’t listen to Bessie,” said the farmer. “She doesn’t know a thing about cars.”

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Rallying is a family affair BROTHER and sister Steve Kenway and Lauren Palmer are leading the 2011 Exedy Victorian Rally Championship.

Steve, 26, is a mechanic at Roberts Automotive in Frankston and Lauren, 28, is a teacher at Woodlands Primary School in Langwarrin.

The siblings grew up in Pearcedale, attended Mount Erin Secondary College and live separately in Hastings.

They have competed as a team for eight years as members of Pakenham Auto Club and had a background in motorkhana and autocross before taking to the forests when Steve obtained his road licence.

This year started perfectly with an outright win in round one, the East

Gippsland stages in the wet and slippery forests north of Bairnsdale.

Round two, the Bega Valley Rally again on wet tracks in the forests around Eden, was less successful and they finished seventh after electrical and computer problems.

However 16 July saw them back on the podium with another outright win at round three, the George Derrick Memorial Rally held in the challenging forests around the old goldfields of Avoca.

“This year is our most successful yet and with a big gap till round four in October, the car will be getting a mid-season rebuild to give us the best chance in the last two rallies,” Steve said.

Mastering the mud: The 1999 Subaru Impreza makes easy work of a muddy corner.

Sibling smiles: Brother and sister Steve Kenway and Lauren Palmer make a great team.

Their car is a much-modified 1999 Subaru Impreza WRX STI. Steve does his preparation at Roberts Automotive, of course, Tyrepower Frankston look after wheel alignment and fit the special Dunlop rally tyres, and Critical Damping maintain the shock absorbers. The pair is also sponsored by Bayport Group, Eastern Plant Hire, Newco traffic management and Subaru Parts.

“Darren and Craig Roberts, Gerald Mammi, Bryce Palmer and our mum and dad have been fabulous supporters,” Lauren said.

Their next events are the Akademos Rally (in the Alexandra region) on 15 October and Rally Victoria (Drouin) on 12 November.

Tough times for soccer fraternity on peninsula IT has been a tough couple weeks for the Mornington Peninsula’s football fraternity both on and off the field.

Langwarrin stalwart Steve Wallace died far too early, leaving behind wife Joan, children Alistair and Tanya, and an unmatched legacy of service to the football community.

Hundreds turned out to Western Port Christian Family Church on Tuesday 26 July to farewell the much-loved and highly regarded “Big Wal”.

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Aside from playing a pivotal role in building the powerhouse Langy is today, his membership of a number of leagues and committees made him one of the game’s greatest advocates in the southeast.

Tributes to memorial sites flowed from across Australia in honour of the one-eyed Glasgow Rangers tragic, a fitting tribute to the warm-hearted bloke that he was.

On the field, Langwarrin remains a division 1 demotion danger after taking just one point from its past two outings, going down 3-1 to Bulleen and drawing 2-2 on Saturday against Whittlesea at Lawton Park.

With just five rounds remaining,

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Langwarrin has a tough run home including first-placed (Port Melbourne) and second-placed (Southern Stars) teams, but two wins and a draw would probably do it.

Mornington is continuing its domination of state division 3, sitting atop of the ladder on 40 points, despite a lacklustre 1-1 draw with cellar-dweller Berwick City on Saturday.

Peninsula Strikers returned to form, defeating Doveton 2-1 at the weekend to lodge themselves in fifth spot on the division 3 table.

Sill in division 3, Frankston Pines still has a mathematical chance of surviving the chop to the Provisional leagues after taking a point from its

clash with Fitzroy City at Monterey Reserve on Saturday.

The previous week, Mornington, replete with half a dozen of Pines’ best from its glory days of the mid-2000s, showed no mercy by dishing out a 5-1 drubbing in the pouring rain at Dallas Brooks Park.

Nicky Waite scored a hat-trick against his old club, which was on the back foot after conceding an own goal in the opening minutes.

Gulls coach Adam Jamieson, who was controversially deposed from his coaching position at Pines after winning the 2007 state league division 1 title, seems set to take Mornington to

the upper echelons of Victorian football, with the team poised for its fourth promotion in five years.

Skye managed a point from its encounter with Hampton Park Sparrows on the weekend to keep a slim hope of avoiding the chop. The club is keeping tight-lipped at present about a change at the helm with long-term coach Bruce Gardiner rumoured to be calling it quits.

In Provisional 2, Seaford is looking the goods for a late promotion tilt after defeating Old Carey 2-0 on the weekend to be just a point off secondplaced Riversdale with five games to go.

SPORTS DESK

Peninsula gallopers continue to shine MORNINGTON trainer Tony Noonan could have unearthed another star performer in Massoni.

He has raced only three times for a win at Cranbourne and a convincing victory over 1400m at Caulfield on Saturday.

On that basis Massoni – a 4yo by Bianconi – may well prove a valuable replacement for the classy mare Ortensia.

Importantly Massoni has proven his adaptability having coped with heavy going at Cranbourne and then being equally comfortable on a dead track at Caulfield.

The way he is going the gelding may well win a group or listed race in the early part of the spring.

Two other spring hopefuls from the Mornington Peninsula – Cedarberg and Rekindled Interest – are coming along nicely in their spring preparations.

Rekindled Interest, who showed his ability when beating Derby winner Lion Tamer in the AAMI Vase (2040m) at Moonee Valley last October, is being aimed at the feature staying race by trainer Jim Conlan.

The son of premier sire Redoute’s Choice galloped pleasingly at Sale on Sunday 31 July and is expected to resume in the next few weeks.

According to Mornington-based trainer Pat Carey (pictured), Cedarberg is being prepared for both the Caulfield and Melbourne cups.

It is very much in the 5yo’s favour that he qualified for those races by the winning the Group 1 BMW at Rosehill (2400m) in April.

Carey has not made a final decision, but has indicated Cedarberg will take a weight-for-age path to the rich handicaps. *** Michael Kent, who is priming AJC Oaks winner Absolutely for the coming feature races, appears to have a respectable understudy in Good Value.

A sparingly raced 6yo had conditions against him when an unlucky second to another Cranbourne-trained galloper, Diggersanddealers, at Caulfield on Saturday.

With natural improvement he can be expected to soon atone for the defeat in

the near future and could develop into a Cranbourne Cup contender.

A Cranbourne trainer who deserves the highest of praise for his work with the marvellous old sprinter Stanzout is Colin Davies.

A Group 2 winner, the grey has been competitive against some of Australia’s best sprinters and continues to perform with distinction as his fast-finishing third to Peter Moody’s Mid Summer Music in the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday indicated.

Judging on that performance, the 9yo is one to keep in mind when playing exotics in the coming weeks.

Horses to follow: First starter Snitzem created a good impression when third to race-fit Hot Spin over 1000m at Caulfield on Saturday.

A $160,000 purchase, Snitzem showed blistering speed to lead from an outside barrier and was only gathered over the final 50 metres.

John McArdle’s Kid Kobe and Doug Harrison’s Havelock Express will also be hard to beat over the next few weeks.

Another to catch the eye over the 1000 metres at Caulfield was Forever The Chill who finished powerfully when runner-up behind Canberra-trained Jackpot Queen ($3.80 favourite).

A beautifully bred daughter of Choisir out of classy sprinter The Big Chill, the Russell Cameron-trained debutant has black type written all over her. Fourthplaced Peronne Lady also hit the line with intent and will be well suited when she steps up to 1200 metres or further.

Cranbourne-trained The Red Em-

peror is now ready to win following five starts from a spell. Carrying the familiar Harrison family colours, The Red Emperor (50/1) did all the bullocking work in front and only conceded in the latter stages.

Makeadreamcometrue (15s to 9s) showed his first glimpse of form this year and is also worth backing when he drops back a grade.

Lopov has continued to improve this campaign and may have found his niche. Stepping to 2400 metres for the first time, the Savabeel 4yo produced a career-best performance when towelling 15 opponents at Caulfield.

Cranbourne-trained Minne Mah should be a good bet in a mares’ event

over the next few weeks. Having her second run after a spell, she was forced to do an enormous amount of work from an outside barrier and was only gunned down late by long-shot Procida.

Sixth-placed Bondarenko was also disadvantaged in running, charging home from near last on straightening.

Others worthy of respect are Lakedro, Anabaa’s Legacy, Motorised, State Grade and Carnero.

Best: Bondarenko Doing well: Top left, trainer Pat Carey.

Above, Massoni with Dean Yendall in the saddle wins the Steve Walsh Handicap at Caulfield on Saturday 30 July.

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