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Park, 3-6.15pm. Street parade, Main St, Mornington, 5-6.15pm; Flag-raising ceremony at Mornington Park with national anthem singers Aria and Tia Lloyd and an address by Australia Day ambassador Gerry Hanily, chairman of the Starlight Children’s Foundation Victorian advisory board, 6.15-6.45pm; Australian Made tribute to Aussie music at Mornington Park, 6.45-9pm; Fireworks, Schnapper Point, 9-9.30pm (subject to weather).

For more details or a copy of the program, contact the shire’s community and special events team by calling 1300 850 600 or on the internet at www.mornpen.vic.gov.au

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AUSTRALIA Day activities at Mornington have been designed to provide fun for families and children.

The program begins at 3pm at Mornington Park and ends at 9.30pm with a fireworks display centred on Schnapper Point.

In between the opening and closing of the official Australia Day activities arranged by Mornington Peninsula will be the traditional flag-raising ceremony, a street parade on Main St and a live ‘Australian Made’ music concert.

The shire has adopted ‘Recognising our heroes’ as the theme for the day, which begins with a fun run from Safety Beach to Rosebud.

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Australia Day run for heroes ELITE runner Karen Barlow says the Mornington Peninsula’s Australia Day fun run is getting bigger every year.

She also loves the entertainment and free barbecue for the entrants.

This year’s 10-kilometre run is from the Coast Guard headquarters at Safety Beach to the Village Green at Rosebud foreshore.

There are many prizes and medals for all contestants, and the first 1000 pre-registered entrants receive an Australian-made singlet.

There are also prizes for runners who dress up in keeping with the theme of ‘Recognising Our Heroes’.

The run starts at 8.30am on Thursday 26 January and competitors can enter online until 10pm on 25 January at www.ausdayfunrun.com.au or at

the Village Green 4-7pm on 25 January.

A six-kilometre combined run and walk for children and adults starts at 9am from the scout hall near Dromana pier.

Registrations will be taken on the day before the start of each event.

The fun run follows the Bay Trail with breakfast and free activities available at the finish.

The cost of entering the fun run is $35 for adults, $25 for under-13 and under-16 entrants and $100 for a family of two adults and two children.

Registrations can be made online, at Mornington Peninsula Shire offices or by post to PO Box 2260 Rosebud Plaza 3939. For details call 1300 850 600 or visit www.mornpen.vic.gov.au

Set to sing: National anthem singer competition winners who will perform on Australia Day are, from left, Caitlin Morgan, Madison Smith, Brooke Miller, Ruby Benjamin, Laila Cooke, Aria Lloyd and Tia Lloyd.

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SEVEN young voices are in training to lead the way in singing the national anthem during Australia Day ceremonies on the Mornington Peninsula.

The voices belong to the seven winners of Mornington Peninsula Shire’s national anthem singer competition: Caitlin Morgan, Madison Smith, Brooke Miller, Ruby Benjamin, Laila Cooke, Aria Lloyd and Tia Lloyd.

Singing teacher Erik Donnison and pianist Laurie Davis are tutoring the singers in the leadup to the big day, Thursday 26 January.

The seven were chosen by judges on their performances of singing the first two verses of Advance Australia Fair unaccompanied and in traditional fashion.

The singers will be at events organised by the

shire around the theme Recognising Our Heroes:  Dromana foreshore 10.30-11am near the pier, Caitlin Morgan.  Hastings foreshore 11-11.30am, Madison Smith.  Mornington Park 6.15-6.45pm, Aria and Tia Lloyd.  Mt Eliza Community Centre 9.35-10am, Aria and Tia Lloyd.  Rosebud Village Green 10.15-10.30am, Brooke Miller.  Rye foreshore 11am, Laila Cooke.  Sorrento-Portsea RSL, Hurley St, 10.30am, Ruby Benjamin.

For information on all the shire’s Australia Day activities, call 1300 850 600 or visit www. mornpen.vic.gov.au

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THE Mornington Art Exhibition is now in its 40th year.

And this year’s show – beginning on Friday 20 January – has more than 1000 works on exhibition and for sale.

Exhibiting artists range from professional to student, presenting works in many forms and mediums.

Presented by Mornington Rotary Club in conjunction with the Mornington Peninsula News Group, publisher of Mornington News, the annual display and sale features high-quality works from local, regional and interstate artists. “Many local businesses support the work of Rotary through their sponsorship of this exhibition,� Rotarian John Renowden said.

“Some sponsors have been supporting the exhibition for more than 20 of the show’s 40 years.�

Sponsorship and art sales, for which Mornington Rotary receives a commission, has raised more than $600,000 for local, national and international projects.

In recent years these projects have included: ď Ž Building the clock tower in Main St, Mornington, in partnership with the shire. ď Ž Supporting Australian Rotary Health, now the country’s largest health research fund. ď Ž Providing “shelter boxesâ€? to house families left homeless by natural disasters.

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Personal views: Jemma Cakebread’s self-portrait in graphite and charcoal is one of the works by secondary college students at this year’s The News Mornington Art Exhibition.

OPENING night for the 40th Mornington Art Show is Friday 20 January.

The exhibition runs 10am-6pm daily until Saturday 28 January at Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Nepean Hwy and Wilsons Rd, Mornington.

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Tickets will also be available from 6.30pm at the door on opening night.

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Four prizes in art raffle A HIGHLIGHT of Mornington Art Exhibition this month is a raffle with four prizes.

First prize is a luxury Italian designed outdoor kitchen/barbecue worth more than $3000 supplied by Ian Garrow.

Second prize is a $1000 travel voucher from either Travel World or Harvey World Travel Mornington.

Third is an oriental painting by peninsula artist Celia Lawrence valued at $750.

Fourth prize is an iPod Touch 8GB courtesy of Officeworks and valued at $220.

Raffle tickets are available at the art show, which runs from opening night, Friday 20 January, till Saturday 28 Jan. Winning tickets will be drawn on Sunday 29 January and winners notified. The results will be published in The News.

The art show opening night extravaganza is at 7pm on Friday 20 January.

“The gala night with sumptuous food and a range of refreshments is one of Mornington’s great social events of the year,” a Rotary spokesman said.

“It is held in Peninsula Community Theatre, on the corner of Nepean Hwy and Wilsons Rd, and attracts residents and visitors of all ages.”

All proceeds from the raffle and art show will go to local, national and international Rotary projects.

Drawn to art: Mornington Secondary College student artists who have submitted works to this year’s Mornington Art Exhibition are, from left, Siobhan O’Neill, Jemma Cakebread and Calvin Head.

Art class: Toorak College student artists Isabelle Page, Abbey Rich, Rebecca True and Amelia Mellor have all prepared works for this month’s Mornington Art Exhibition.

Student art included in Rotary exhibition SECONDARY college students have entered water colours, oils, sculpture and photographic works in the Mornington Art Exhibition.

It is the exhibition’s 40th year and organisers from the Rotary Club of Mornington have praised the works by students from Toorak College, Mornington Secondary College and Padua College.

Jemma Cakebread’s self-portrait is an example of graphite and charcoal in a hyper-realistic style.

Their entries will be among the 1000 works on show, including many by professional and semi-professional artists.

Multimedia artist Amelia Mellor is a cartoonist, writer and printmaker, and her work at the exhibition will feature her figurative sculptural clock forms.

Siobhan O’Neill will display an acrylic painting showing her artistic alter ego portrait smoking a paintbrush “symbolising that art is my addiction”.

Isabelle Page is a multiple winner of

the Ilford award for photography. Her work on inkjet gloss paper shows a girl immersed in green grass who loses her sense of identity.

Calvin Head expresses his interest in ancient Romans with a futuristic watercolour impression of a Roman soldier in stark red and orange hues.

Rebecca True’s photographic work ‘My Teenage Identity’ featured in the Herald Sun Home magazine as part of the centrefold spread. Her focus is on teenage vulnerability.

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Police ready for Oz Day

By Mike Hast POLICE will be out in force in Mornington on Australia Day, repeating last year’s high-profile presence.

Sergeant Dennis Ramsay of Mornington said police would again have foot patrols, police on horseback and bicycles patrolling potential trouble spots, and a “brawler van”, a large truck manned by four officers that can hold people arrested.

The operation is designed to stop the trouble that occurred on Australia Day in 2010 when teenagers aged 13 to 17 went on a rampage in and around Mornington Park at the end of Main St.

A police commander said teenagers started drinking alcohol in the early afternoon.

Mothers with young children at the park’s playground said they were scared for their safety as youths waving Australian flags charged through the park.

Young people affected by alcohol intimidated families walking streets in the foreshore precinct.

Police were pushed and shoved as they tried to arrest 10 people.

The national day of celebration last year was virtually incident-free due to the police action.

Sergeant Ramsay said all rest days for police based on the Mornington Peninsula again had been cancelled.

Officers from both Frankston and peninsula police districts would patrol the town, he said. This included traffic management units.

Numbers would be boosted by police from Melbourne.

Mornington Peninsula Shire’s events and festivals department has organised more than six hours of activities for Australia Day. A children’s concert and activities will be held in Mornington Park from 3-6.15pm.

The annual street parade down Main St runs from 5-6.15pm.

A flag-raising ceremony including singing of the National Anthem and an address by an Australia Day ambassador is from 6.15-6.45pm.

The band Australian Made, put together especially for the event, performs tributes to Australian music in Mornington Park from 6.45-9pm.

All eyes then turn to the harbour for fireworks, scheduled to light the sky between 9 and 9.30pm, as always, weather permitting. In recent years the fireworks have drawn up to 10,000 people to the fore-shore for a spectacu-

lar show. It’s to be hoped the wild wintery weather of last Wednesday does not reappear.  Police will also have a high profile at the Balnarring Cup race meeting on Thursday 26 January and other major Australia Day events in Rye, Rosebud and Hastings. Police were called to the country race track on Coolart Rd in November 2010 after a brawl erupted.

Three police officers were injured, a police car damaged, and youths and men arrested for brawling and drunkenness.  The Australia Day program for all peninsula events is on page 50.

Special band of note MUSIC fans at Mornington’s Australia Day activities will hear rock classics from Billy Thorpe to Powderfinger courtesy of a tribute band put together for the event.

Oz Made has members from Icehouse, Geisha, The Models, and Boom Crash Opera, led by Chris Doheny of Geisha.

Long-standing peninsula music promoter Simon Mills said there also would be a guest performance by The Badloves front man and the peninsula’s own Michael Spiby.

“A familiar face to peninsula music fans, Chris Doheny has kept busy in the music biz since he first stepped on stage with 1980s super group Geisha in 1984,” Mr Mills said.

“Signing worldwide with EMI and gaining eight Australian top 10 singles in the following few years, including a number one spot with the single Kabuki, Chris was commissioned to write for other notable acts such as Daryl Braithwaite, James Blundell, Lee Kernaghan and international acts including Andrew Ridgeley from Wham.

“In the 1990s Chris scored AustraOz rockers: A “super” group assembled

by Chris Doheny formerly of Geisha, second from right, seen here with bandmates Tommy Rando, left, Steve Morgan and Tom Hosie. Badloves front man Michael Spiby (inset) kicks off the show at 6pm.

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Mr Mills said he had contacted Chris Doheny and asked him to put together a custom line-up for Mornington’s Australia Day. “Chris was quick to organise a great line-up of mates from his years on the Australian rock circuit including Stephen Morgan, an ARIA hall of fame inductee as member of Icehouse, and Tom Hosie from The Models.

“Tommy Rando was next on board.

He has played with Taxiride, Boom Crash Opera and The Models, and was responsible for co-writing the number one ARIA hit Wasabi for another peninsula boy, Lee Harding.

“Together they make Oz Made, and I know the boys are looking forward to turning Mornington Park upside down with a rocking collection of pure Aussie music for all.”

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Michael Spiby and Oz Made hit the stage just after 6pm and perform until the fireworks at 9pm.

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Lights a turn-off for carbon creation

By Keith Platt SCHOOL might be closed for the summer holidays, but lights continue to burn brightly each night along Nepean Highway halfway up Balcombe Hill at Mt Martha.

The 20 lights illuminate the section of highway outside the entrance to Balcombe Grammar School.

Nearby resident Ann Scally calculates that in one year the lights create more carbon than 6925 return flights from Melbourne to Angeles.

“I have crunched some numbers and they are staggering,” Ms Scally said.

“These figures are especially pertinent with current public discussion about excessive energy use during heat waves that may result in the possibility of having to ration power.

“I wonder how the community would feel should they be aware of VicRoads’ power wastage?”

VicRoads claims the lights are “in accordance with the relevant Australian Standards … to ensure the safety of traffic using this intersection” (‘Standard approach to lights – VicRoads’, The News, 6/10/11).

“The traffic lights are in use at all times, including outside school hours, and it is therefore necessary for the street lights to remain on at night to meet appropriate safety standards,” acting chief operating officer David Shelton stated in a letter last year to Mornington MP David Morris.

However, Ms Scally says it is “abundantly clear that the Balcombe school lighting allocation is inconsistent and out of character compared to other

Safety call: VicRoads claims lights outside Balcombe Grammar School, Mt Martha, are left on all night as a safety precaution, but a nearby resident says the greenhouse gases they create are a threat to the environment.

similar highway and school crossing situations I have observed”.

“I am unaware of a comparative school crossing in a rural area with the same number of lights as at the Balcombe Grammar School crossing,” Ms Scally said Ms Scally said she used the carbon calculator at www.carbonneutral. com.au and VicRoads data showing that each light uses 900 kW an hour to arrive at her comparisons between

the Balcombe lights and flights to the United States.

“Based on one year or 365 days, 113 of which are school holidays, the 20 Balcombe Grammar School lights are on for an annual average of 11.75 hours a night, all at times when the school is closed and no one is using the crossing.

“Therefore, the 20 street lights use 77,197,500 kW a year, which is 104,988.6 tonnes of CO2e.

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“As a comparison, one return flight Melbourne to Los Angeles uses 15.16 tonnes of CO2e. Each year the 20 Balcombe lights produce the equivalent CO2e of 6925.36 return trips Melbourne-LA, not exactly consistent with VicRoads’ stated air quality and greenhouse gas emission reduction policies.

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Mornington Peninsula Shire Council Map of Recommended Option Eleven Councillors, Six Wards Ward

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Voters

Deviation

area_sqkm

Briars

3

42,741 +8.28%

67.93

Cerberus

1

12,271 -6.74%

126.15

Nepean

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24,750 -5.95%

39.14

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1

12,318 -6.38%

340.96

Seawinds

3

39,943 +1.19%

54.06

Watson

1

12,710 -3.40%

97.93

Totals for all Electorates

11

Average

144,733 -6.74% to +8.28% 13,157

726.17 121.03

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Multi-councillor wards for shire

By Mike Hast THE Victorian Electoral Commission has recommended Mornington Peninsula Shire wards be cut from 11 to six.

The 11-person council will be retained, but eight councillors will “share” three wards – all on the more densely populated Port Phillip side of the peninsula.

The VEC proposal is a massive blow to the shire’s administration and sitting councillors. The shire ran an expensive and extensive campaign to retain single-councillor wards.

The proposal is also a rebuff of the hard work done by shire CEO Dr Michael Kennedy, who led the successful move to change multi-councillor to single-person wards in 1999 when he first joined the shire.

The much-anticipated VEC review into the electoral structure is a game changer for council elections on Saturday 27 October.

At the 2008 elections, six of the 11 wards were uncontested with many council watchers believing the strong positions of incumbent councillors led to a lack of candidates.

For example, in Red Hill Ward, David Jarman announced his intention to not contest his seat at the last minute and current mayor Frank Martin walked into the job without having to face voters.

The VEC’s final report was released at 2pm on Wednesday after months of intrigue and lobbying by ratepayers, councillors and council officers.

It was originally meant to be released in early November, but was delayed when Electoral Commissioner Steve Tully decided extra time was needed to consider all submissions. The VEC issued an “addendum report” and called for more submission by early December.

The review of the shire’s structure received

more submissions than any other municipality in Victoria, with an overwhelming number of people calling for multi-councillor wards.

In a press release issued on Wednesday, Mr Tully stated the final report would now go to Local Government Minister Jeanette Powell, for her consideration.

A minister has never changed a VEC recommendation.

The shire will now have two three-councillor wards, one two-councillor ward and three singlecouncillor wards (see map at left).

Ward names also have been changed.

Mr Tully said boundaries generally follow the existing structure; however, similar communities have been merged to create three multi-councillor wards to cover the urban population along the Port Phillip coast.

“Single-councillor wards are retained in the less populated Western Port side of the shire,” he said.

The VEC started the review last July with background research. A public information session was held in August, and invited the first round of public submissions.

The VEC released its preliminary report on 5 September 2011, followed by a second round of public submissions and a public hearing.

On 3 November 2011, the VEC released an addendum to its preliminary report to invite further feedback on one of its options, B, which is the one recommended.

The final report is on the VEC website (vec. vic.gov.au) or call 131 VEC (131 832). It is also available from the shire office at 90 Besgrove St, Rosebud.

The shire council will not be making a public statement about the VEC review until next week.

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Call to arms: fresh voices, and ideas are needed THE Emu has been a raging republican since an art teacher named King (who was rumoured to be a queen) took a set against him for drawing a moustache on the British monarch’s portrait in the school assembly hall. A silly youthful jape, admittedly, but the unwarranted “F” for fail has always stung.

So it is with keen anticipation – kept well hidden from his devout monarchist bride – that he awaits what he sees as the now-inevitable decline of the Mornington Peninsula royal family, known more generally as the Mornington Peninsula Shire council.

The king and his courtiers, firmly in control down to the finest details (such as HM having the power to vet any public statement the mayor may wish to make), may face a brace of Cromwells at the council elections later this year, and growing council chamber unrest in the near term.

The days of the divine right are drawing to a close, predicts The Emu. He would not be surprised if the monarch is not already thinking of abdicating early and seeking a role in, say, the development of the Port of Hastings, or elsewhere in the great freewheeling world of private enterprise.

He might even take a couple of acolytes with him, who may not wish to see a revival of democracy among hoi polloi (educative note: no definite article required, since “hoi” is Greek for “the”: “hoi polloi” translates as “the many”).

Such a rebirth could well disrupt the royal court’s well-regulated lives.

So, The Emu believes, the shire could well benefit from a tempest of change – rather than a mere wind – in the next 12 months.

It needs to be a storm that will knock over some tired old wood and give aspiring young saplings a glimpse of the sun.

The Emu is urging readers with an urge to effect change, and the energy to devote to the task, to step up and announce they are candidates for council elections in November. Step up early: you’ll need time to build a public profile well before the poll.

Local government has frequently been a launching pad for state and federal political careers. Think Robin Cooper and David Morris,

BEDDING, BED LINEN + MORE the former and current MP for Mornington, and Judith Graley, the MP for Narre Warren South.

Cooper and Morris were councillors (and mayors) on the old Shire of Mornington, while Graley was a councillor and mayor of the enlarged Mornington Peninsula Shire.

As to the tediously inaccurate but oft-repeated canard that “there are no politics” in the council chamber, The Emu’s attention has been drawn, by a creature that lives behind the shire’s wainscoting, to the following policy statement: “The Mayor is the lead spokesperson for the council on issues arising from matters before and affecting Council including matters of a ‘political’ nature.” No politics? Bah! A council with no politics would be intellectually moribund.

Step forward, aspiring young saplings and old hands with lots of life experience – send a tempest through the place.

Awash in acronyms LOCAL councils love coming up with a good acronym when it comes to aquatic centres, Mornington Peninsula Shire included.

The City of Casey has the Casey RACE (Recreation & Aquatic CEntre) at Cranbourne and the Casey Aquatic and Recreation Centre (ARC) at Narre Warren.

On the Mornington Peninsula, there is the proposed Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre (dubbed SPA) and now in Frankston there is the $46.35 million Frankston Regional Aquatic Centre (FRAC).

Frankston’s mega-pool was approved late last year, bringing a certain angst to those who have been waiting for years for a pool at Rosebud.

One of The Emu’s rude mates reckons Frankston should call it the Frankston Aquatic and Recreation Tank.  Send gossip and hot tips (confidentiality assured) to The Emu at emutips@yahoo.com.au

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SILVERS Circus is staging a Circus Day for Autism on Saturday 21 January.

The show, which starts at 1pm, will raise money to help children on the Mornington Peninsula and raise awareness about autism and the difficulties faced by families.

Bookings can be made through Michael Robertson on 0409 165536 or Martin Wyatt 0407 500158. Tickets can also be bought on the day.

Silvers Circus is at the Bata Shoe company’s site in Nepean Highway, Mornington.

THE Mornington Peninsula and Frankston will get 29 more police officers, the state government announced on Wednesday.

Police Minister Peter Ryan said an extra 275 police would be allocated to 21 divisions in four police regions by 30 June.

The peninsula and Frankston are part of Southern Metro region, which would get 64 officers.

Mornington MP David Morris welcomed the announcement, saying the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula police divisions had received the biggest increase in the region.

Other divisions in the region would receive 21 (Cardinia, Casey, Greater Dandenong), 5 (Glen Eira, Kingston) and 7 (Port Phillip, Stonnington), Mr Morris said.

The government has promise to provide 1700 additional so-called frontline police by November 2014.

Sporty school MORNINGTON Secondary College will become a specialist sport school.

It is one of 12 schools selected to receive $100,000 under the first round of the state government’s Schools Specialisation Grants Program.

The grants enable schools to specialise in fields such as marine science, aerospace, Chinese language, music, sport and visual arts.

Education minister Martin Dixon said evidence showed the most successful learning occurred when students were motivated and engaged in their learning.

“What better way to educate than to teach to students’ interests,” he said.

Mornington MP David Morris congratulated the school. Winning the grant “highlighted the strength of the school’s commitment to delivering outstanding educational choice to its students”.

“The grant builds on the college’s strong partnerships and sports program and will support the development of an athletics club, utilising sport and physical education across the whole curriculum to increase student connectivity, engagement, achievement and retention,” Mr Morris said.

The second and final round of grants for a further 13 schools open early next year.

Heavens above VOLUNTEERS of Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society hold public night sky telescope viewing evenings at 8pm on two Fridays in January – 13 and 20.

“Our moon, with its craters and mountains, should be visible early in the month, as well as with the mighty planet Jupiter and its four Galilean moons during the month,” Peter Skilton said.

The society’s observatory site is at the Briars Park, Nepean Hwy, Mt Martha (Melway 151 E1).

“People are welcome to bring telescopes, binoculars or cameras to obtain hints and tips from experts. No prior experience is necessary.”

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Looking back to see the way ahead

By Keith Platt HAPPINESS may have been a warm gun for John Lennon, but it’s an emotion infinitely more elusive than a song lyric for the social scientist. Not personal happiness, mind you, but the happiness of a whole population is a formidable quarry to flush out.

David Chalke spends his life looking over his shoulder or, more accurately, he’s looking over all our shoulders to gauge our collective happiness, among many other emotions and attitudes.

Chalke is not peering backwards from wariness or nostalgia, but because he wants to know what the future holds.

As a social scientist, he believes knowing how we have reacted to situations and events can be interpreted as data and mapped to show where we are going. Simply, David Chalke spends a big chunk of his life looking for trends.

Besides happiness and satisfaction, Chalke tracks isms: ‘Feminism’, ‘Economic Rationalism’, ‘Environmentalism’ and ‘New Ageism’.

The answers on which his graphs and predictions are based come from a prodigious questionnaire filled out each year by 2000 randomly chosen Australian residents.

The AustraliaSCAN survey is de-

scribed as “a unique, independent, cultural change monitor providing a view of Australians and how they are changing”.

Chalke says the survey began in 1992 and is completed using a mix of face-to-face interviews and self-completion.

The methodology is tailored to meeting the tricky task of measuring culture.

Its results can be used to provide large and small businesses with an understanding of how Australian society is changing, what the established and emerging cultural trends are, and how they are manifesting themselves in a particular category.

Chalke’s Mornington Peninsulabased Strategy Planning Group is a freelance market research company working with Quantum Market Research, which owns AustraliaSCAN. A graduate in medical science, Chalke says his early work as an epidemiologist in Britain involved tracking the spread of disease through human populations. This included the resurgence of TB in Asia, Iraq and Iran.

His thesis was based on the transmission of pathogens through frozen foods “It was all good training for the kind

of work I’m now doing as a social scientist,” he says.

He came to Australia in the mid1970s and fell into advertising planning, becoming planning director at McCann Erickson in Melbourne In 1992 he was a part-owner of AustraliaSCAN with Quantum Market Research when they started monitoring cultural change. Quantum was eventually bought out by another company, which also bought Chalke’s AustraliaSCAN product.

These days Quantum is one of his major clients.

Chalke said AustraliaSCAN “works across cultures”.

His analysis of trends incorporates the impacts of external forces – economical, technological, political, environmental (climatic and seasonal) and demographical.

It is “easy to get a handle”, but culture is more difficult and is a knowledge gap that he “quantifies to find and measure the missing bits”.

“I’m a specialist in social and cultural change, not product testing or advertisements, purely U and A – usage and attitude,” Chalke says.

“Areas associated with cultural change are always a strategic focus.

Themes for 2012 A COMBINATION of uncertainty about the future, relearned prudence and a reappraisal of what is really important in people’s lives has set the mood for 2012, says David Chalke.

“As Australians sail into the new year, the orders from the bridge are ‘Slow ahead together, wheel amidships, check the watertight doors and double the lookouts’.”

Theme 1. Smarter shopping: Everything is now negotiable and can be traded. New versus used, in-store versus online, durable quality versus cheap disposable, decision versus delay. All businesses will need to review their business model to ensure that they are flexible enough to cope with the evolving market place.

Theme 2. Apps with everything: This year will see most Australians owning a smart phone.

The internet, which has disrupted so many markets already, is set to take another great disruptive leap forward as it is liberated from the desktop. Any business without a good smart phone app will be at growing disadvantage.

Theme 3. Familiar faces: With change accelerating and the choice fatigue setting in, there will be a premium on genuine expertise and trust in a familiar face. Keeping in touch with previous customers will secure the core of future business.

Theme 4. Causes lost: Good causes will be put on the backburner. Matters of faith such as the environment will hold less sway and will be lost under the rising tide of practical considerations such as the cost of living. Appeals to people’s altruistic side will need a hardedged, pragmatic outcome to justify action, otherwise economics and self-interest will win out.

Theme 5. Fun and games: The uncertainties of the outside world will sharpen further the focus on home, family and friends. At the same time the desire for entertainment and escapism will grow. From Wii Bobsleigh to speed Monopoly and ‘teapotting’ (similar to the planking craze except people hold a teapot pose), new forms of fun and games will be well received.

Futurist: David Chalke starts each year with a look at social trends.

“We interview 2000 people in their homes each year, making sure they’re a random sample of the adult population.

“Thirty per cent of questions are done face to face and they are paid $50 to complete the questionnaire. Everybody likes to express their opinion and this is a guide for government and business.

“It is a measurement of social values, attitudes and beliefs. Subjects come and go, like gay marriage, nuclear power.

“We have a huge 20-year database that includes opinions of 40,000 people; there are 10,000 data points recorded for every person.”

Looking back over the years Chalke sees a “hole” where uranium mining has dropped away from being a current issue.

“So much of what we assess as a hot issue eventually passes as white noise.”

However, it seems such hot topics rarely change overall attitudes.

Plans for a carbon tax had created “a lot of debate and we tease out the difference between resentment to the tax and the prime minister’s having fibbed about introducing it”.

Chalke said while opinion polls showed 65 per cent of people were against a carbon tax, he believed the community was evenly split, with 15 per cent being upset at the fib not the tax.

AustraliaSCAN is a subscription service and results are interpreted for specific businesses.

“They want to know what’s coming up that is of interest to their business,” Chalke says. “Find out what attracts people to their competitors or diagnose why they like a particular product.”

Chalke is the first to admit predicting trends is not an exact science and lists the November 2010 federal election as proof: “I was convinced Julia would romp in. Possibly I was wrong because AustraliaSCAN is an annual monitor.

“Australia is essentially a Labor country, social democratic, with big interventionist governments that don’t mind spending. It’s Scandinavian style.”

Chalke says Opposition leader Tony Abbott is not selling a strategic vision, but appears successful because prime minister Julia Gillard is preferred less.

“There’s a horrible sense of unease and uncertainty in the community. Where are we going?

There’s no light on the hill and an absence of leadership.

“The Liberals are not putting forward any alter-

native hope but they’ll just keep kicking and slide into government.

“The reality is nobody is enunciating a vision.

Things are looking very shaky. People are not unhappy, just not happy.”

Confusion also reigns when it comes to the Great Australian Dream.

“The dream taps into all homes and families, but marriage is dying out, de facto is the one bit of Latin in everyday Australian speech.

“Births are below replacement levels and material extravagance is not making us happy.

“In 35 years the number of couples with children has more than halved and yet migrants are religious, conservative and will marry and have children. Catholics are coming out of southeast Asia and orthodox Muslims out of the Middle East.”

Recorded high on the list of concerns is being in control of life: “We’re exhausted and there’s a sense of our lives falling out of control.

“We want the government to fix everything, but we’re uneasy about disempowerment.

“Nobody says this is rational; I wouldn’t have a job if it were.”

An emerging social trend that has made Chalke “gleeful and surprised” are figures showing disquiet with the use of social media.

“It may have a short turnaround because of privacy issues; employers check Facebook to see why someone is absent.

“We have Facebook fatigue addiction and people give it away because it’s unnerving. Specific, very targeted networks appealing to certain types of people will replace it.

“The intrusion of advertisements is also causing dropouts.

“Give customers aspiration, inspiration and an option: roast lamb or sausages. Offer an option to trade down or trade up.”

Chalke sees small business as being nimble and able to cope with changing circumstances.

“Don’t wait for things to go back to normal – they never will.

“Even if you remove uncertainties, the underlying tensions of uncertainty are still there.

“Savings were negative in the early 2000s but now back up to 12 per cent of income, bingo, reemerged prudence.”

His recipe for small business includes providing certainty on price and delivery.

“Be authentic, not a flim flammer. Display your certificates; wear a tie if you’re an accountant.

Customers are looking for clues as to whether you can cut the mustard.

“Have old values, but be modern and up-tospeed, show you have a business that’s underpinned by tradition and has basic values.

“Engage, entertain. We celebrate little victories: send clients congratulations. If you don’t know about your clients’ successes, something’s wrong, because 80 per cent of business is from return clients.

“It is critical to harness that, keep talking to existing customers, you’ll never hear about an opportunity unless you engage people.

“Be positive, don’t share your worries or problems. Find solutions for uneasiness, small business has agility, knows its customers and can pull off things better than bigger businesses.”

Chalke sees house prices “settling down slowly – similarly to what happened in Canada – until earnings and inflation catch up.

While house prices were too high, a floor was created by fewer being built and a migrant-led population increase. “House sizes are going down and conspicuous consumption is disappearing. It’s now: don’t look at me.”

Chalke says the peninsula is divided economically, predicting “Hastings will do it tough until the port gets going, while the other side of the peninsula is continually booming for service industries because of the ageing population”.

Away from economics, Chalke says it “seems incredible” but the young are tenaciously hanging onto their bit of the Great Australian Dream.

“They have this sense of uber patriotism because of threats to the dream. It’s shown by the excessive celebration of Australia Day and Anzac Day and the flag. These things have massive support.”

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Axe marina call

By Mike Hast MORNINGTON MP David Morris has called on the shire council to reject plans for the safe boat harbour in Mornington.

His controversial call comes just days after the state government released its environmental assessment of the boat harbour, or marina, proposal.

Planning minister Matthew Guy, Mr Morris’s Liberal Party colleague, released his report to Mornington Peninsula Shire on 23 December and it was put on the shire’s website on 4 January.

Mr Guy supports all the recommendations of the independent panel set up by the previous Labor government.

But Mr Morris says the approval by Mr Guy is based on outdated policies of the previous government.

Mornington Boat Haven Pty Ltd, a private company connected to Mornington Yacht Club, wants to build a $19 million marina protected by a 210-metre wavescreen.

It has asked the shire council and the government to rezone Mornington harbour from a public area to private.

The project requires government approval of the environment effects statement and the rezoning as well as OK from the shire to build the marina.

This is the third attempt by the yacht club to make the harbour safe.

The wavescreen would protect the harbour from northerly storms that have devastated yachts and boats twice – in 1984 and 2008.

Both earlier attempts were knocked back by the government.

On Wednesday, Mr Morris said: “The public release of the environmental assessment of the proposed

Mornington marina sets the stage for a speedy conclusion to this long-running and divisive attempted at privatisation of Mornington harbour.

“The assessment demonstrates all the flaws so apparent in the policies pursued by the former Labor government.

“The policy, published in the Central Coastal Board’s Boating Coastal Action Plan, was adopted with little local consultation, and no opportunity for debate in the Mornington community.

“The assessment is necessarily based on this flawed policy framework. “[It] identifies a number of significant issues which provide justification for the shire council to abandon the amendment. They include:  A lack of clear evidence that the proposal has sufficiently maximised public benefit.  A need to redesign the proposal to minimise impacts for current users of the harbour.  A need to improve the protection of the current character of the harbour  That the proposal is only unlikely to have significant impact on the marine environment if an onerous monitoring and management regime is imposed.  Confirms that there will be significant effects on visual and landscape values of the harbour.  The need for a genuine and independent assessment of the parking demands generated by the proposal.  The need for an independent auditor, subject to veto by the Department of Sustainability and Environment, to monitor the development’s impact.”

Mr Morris said the assessment provides clear evidence that the proposed marina should not proceed.

Harbouring dangers: Mornington pier has been a place for daring youngsters to test their nerve for generations. Some form of pier has existed for more than 150 years.

Parents urged to end pier jumps PARKS Victoria is urging swimmers not to jump or dive off piers and jetties this summer as warmer weather attracts more people to beaches on Western Port and Port Phillip.

“Parents especially should be vigilant to ensure their children are aware of the dangers of jumping and diving from piers,” Parks Victoria chief ranger Graeme Davis said.

Diving from piers and jetties is highly dangerous, especially on the bays, where varying tidal and sand movements constantly change the water depths and submerged debris can pose

an unexpected hazard.

“Not only is the practice of diving or jumping off piers hazardous to those engaged in the activity, it also puts at risk boat operators attempting to berth and disembark passengers,” he said.

“The safety of swimmers who continue to dive from piers despite clear ‘no diving’ signs is of great concern to Parks Victoria.

“There are much safer places than piers to enter the water to swim and enjoy the beach.”

Every year several people are seriously injured or sometimes die as a

result of injuries caused by jumping off piers.

“The last thing anyone wants to hear is a story of a fun day by the bay resulting in a severe injury or, even worse, loss of life.”

Parks Victoria regularly patrol piers and jetties and has recently upgraded signs at all piers and jetties on Port Phillip and Western Port including clear ‘no diving’ signs.

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By Keith Platt FEW things can be as satisfying as standing at the helm, piloting your pride and joy out onto the water for a day.

However, your pride can promote prejudice in others, drawing attention and attracting thieves and vandals.

It can also cause a few headaches when the wind is blowing and you know your boat is on an exposed mooring. Then again, you might be at work dreaming about being at the helm and just want to have a peek at the real world outside.

Matthew Gordon knows all of those feelings and along with boat builder Byron Miller has invented a multipurpose electronic surveillance device that can feed real time information and pictures back to a phone or computer.

They call it The Smartboat System.

Since buying a boat Gordon has felt the worries that come with leaving it unattended in the water.

“When it’s blowing 40 knots you wonder if it’s on the beach or rocks,” he said.

But now he can access a website that allows him to monitor an on-board camera or a variety of sensors that take regular readings of the amount of water in the bilge and can tell if the pump that keeps the level down is working. A GPS can track the boat’s movements if it breaks free from its mooring.

Small enough to fit in the palm of his hand, Gordon says the electronic box is weatherproof and can be installed anywhere on board.

“Even if someone breaks in through the hatch, finds the security device and cuts all the leads, their picture will have already been taken and put on the net.”

Sensors could also set off an alarm, but Gordon sees little value in this, as passersby are unlikely to swim out to investigate.

But the sensors can turn on the bilge pump and switch on lights.

The camera can take stills every 15 minutes and no information is stored in the device itself; all data is relayed immediately to a remote computer or smart phone anywhere there is reception.

A security firm will be alerted to any break-in. On the Mornington Peninsula Gordon and Miller have teamed up with Telsec, a Sorrento security company, although this can be arranged with other companies anywhere in Australia.

Buying and restoring his own 1961 vintage wooden-hulled boat set Gordon thinking about security, and dreaming about conditions aboard while he worked at his Dromana-based Solution One computer network business.

Speaking with Miller, who was refitting the boat at his Rosebud shipyard, Peninsula Wooden Boats, Gordon realised other boat owners would be just as concerned as he was about their boats.

“Wooden boats do leak, it’s par for the course,” Miller says.

“We are really recognising the need to monitor the general health and wellbeing of a boat.

“The SMS service [automatically generated by the The Smartboat System] can tell people when particular

thresholds have been reached, especially onboard water levels.

“I’ve known three boats to partially sink because of stuffed floats in the bilge. Seagull feathers are bad for pumps.”

A boat moored at Blairgowrie had collected “a bellyful of water” and needed a new fitout, leading to a $45,000 insurance claim and the loss of its use for an entire summer.

The cost of The Smartboat System is $1000 with ongoing charges of $2 a day.

Each unit is fitted with a SIM card and gets its own mobile number and has six sensors, although this number can be increased.

“We can set as many alarms as you like,” Gordon says. “If the boat moves more than 10 metres or the battery gets below a certain level, the information will be relayed back.

“This will work anywhere there is mobile phone coverage.”

It has taken Gordon and Miller eight months to get their device to a marketing level.

At the moment it stores information monitored over three months but this could be doubled if they use cloud computing.

A provisional patent has been issued on the intellectual property.

Several boats are now being monitored, – at Yaringa near Somerville, Sorrento, Blairgowrie and Queenscliff.

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Skate wait nearly over

Bowl up: Contractors start the shaping of the skate bowl, part of the Mt Eliza skate park at Emil Madsen Reserve.

By Mike Hast WORK has started on the Mt Eliza skate park at Emil Madsen Reserve on Wooralla Dve. Contractors started work on the $400,000 “full-sized” skate park last week. It is due to be completed by late March or early April.

Skaters have been calling for a park for almost 30 years. The long push to get the park has been mired in controversy with years lost due to discussion and argument about its location.

Calls for it to be erected in John Butler Reserve in the middle of the town met stiff opposition from some residents and traders concerned it would attract anti-social behaviour.

Last year Mt Eliza Ward councillor Leigh Eustace said locations in central Mt Eliza did not satisfy government siting rules for a full-sized skate park.

People opposed to a skate park at Emil Madsen Reserve said it was too far from the centre of town, about four kilometres. There was no public transport between the town and Wooralla Dve, and no footpath from the Tower Rd-Wooralla Dve roundabout down the hill to the reserve, about 1.6 kilometres.

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Cr Eustace said the park was being built on the south-west corner of the reserve near the toilet block and close to Wooralla Dve. A children’s playground had been shifted to make room.

Cr Eustace said the original figure of $250,000 for a skate park was based on an estimate in 2006 for an under-12s skate park. “This will be a full-sized facility and has been designed with input from professional skaters.”

He said it had been completely redesigned from the original proposal and the final cost had not been known until the tender had been issued.

He said building the “missing link” shared path from Tower Rd to the reserve was important not just for skate park users, but also the hundreds of junior and senior cricketers and footballers using the reserve, and those visiting Mt Eliza Regional Park.

The path also would serve cyclists and walkers using the Baxter to Mornington shared track to be built beside Peninsula Link freeway.  The proposed location for the Mt Martha skate park is on public exhibition until 12 March. The shire’s preferred site is in Eco Park opposite Mt Martha Primary School in Glenisla Dve. The report is online (www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/page/page.asp?Page_ Id=1314&h=0) or call 5950 1765 for a copy of the report.

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Weathering the summer THE weather has see-sawed its way through the start of the holiday season.

Christmas Eve saw a spectacular electrical storm and rain (which did not appear to disrupt the delivery of any children’s toys), followed just a week later by a 40-degree day, which did cause a few meltdowns.

Milder weather since New Year’s Day has again brought satisfaction to visitors drawn to the Mornington Peninsula, although police confiscated a record number of licences from drink drivers and there was no shortage of road accidents.

A cold snap came through on Wednesday, again leaving the beaches

clear of people, except for one man trying his luck with a metal detector at Mothers Beach in Mornington.

A rain squall that hit the harbour obscured masts in the mist, covering any signs of the 11-metre flybridge powerboat lying on the seabed.

At Martha, another boat was upside down in the shorebreak, a lifejacket was bobbing in the overflow of a stormwater drain, while the outboard motor cover and plastic fuel tanks had been taken to higher ground in the lee of a boatshed.

The weather bureau is predicting the return of summer this weekend.

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BRILLIANTLY positioned in the heart of Mornington, this compact, low-maintenance, two-bedroom townhouse really does have it all. On the top floor are the main living areas, which are open plan in design and feature polished timber floors throughout. The kitchen is very modern with stainless-steel appliances including a dishwasher and under-bench oven. From the large living area you can step out to a private balcony with views over the town. The main bedroom also has a balcony plus an ensuite and built-in robe. Downstairs is a second bathroom, laundry, double garage and courtyard. The property is just a stroll to Main Street shops, cafes and restaurants, and just a little further to sparkling beaches.

YOU literally can’t get any closer to a beach front property than this. And making the property even more appealing is the redevelopment options (STCA) that it presents. Of course you may just want a nice, basic holiday home to enjoy endless summers in and the home certainly provides for this as well. The single-level, flat roof residence would be suitable for extending upwards (STCA) to further capitalise on the position with views across the bay, but even in its current condition, which is certainly tidy, the home still has something to offer. There are three bedrooms, the large main bedroom has a nice bay window and all have built-in robes. An open-plan dining and lounge area is positioned toward the front of the home with a formal entry accessed from the porch. The kitchen has been partitioned to the side by a supporting wall. The block measures 975 square metres and is well fenced and will certainly attract interest.

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EĞƐƚůĞĚ ŝŶ Ă ƋƵŝƚĞ ĐŽƵƌƚ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ƚŚŝƐ ĂƩƌĂĐƟǀĞ ŚŽŵĞ ŚĂƐ ůŽĂĚƐ ŽĨ ƐƚƌĞĞƚ ĂƉƉĞĂů ĂŶĚ Ă ǁŝĚĞ ĐŝƌĐƵůĂƌ ĚƌŝǀĞǁĂLJ ƚŚĂƚ ůŽŽƉƐ ƚŚƌŽƵŐŚ ŵĂŐŶŝĮĐĞŶƚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƐƉƌĂǁů ĂĐƌŽƐƐ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƐƐŝǀĞ ϭϬϭϭƐƋŵ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ĂůůŽƚŵĞŶƚ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚůLJ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ŵĂƐƚĞƌ ďĞĚƌŽŽŵ ǁŝƚŚ & ^͕ ƐĞƉĂƌĂƚĞ ƐƚƵĚLJ͕ ƐƉĂĐŝŽƵƐ ŽƉĞŶ ƉůĂŶ ůŽƵŶŐĞ ƌŽŽŵ ĂĚũŽŝŶŝŶŐ Ă ǀĞƌLJ ůĂƌŐĞ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ƌŽŽŵ͕ ďŝŐ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ǁŝƚŚ ůŽĂĚƐ ŽĨ ĐƵƉďŽĂƌĚƐ͕ ĨƵůůLJ ĞŶĐůŽƐĞĚ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ ĚĞĐŬĞĚ ĂůĨƌĞƐĐŽ ƉĂƟŽ ƚŚĂƚ ŽǀĞƌůŽŽŬƐ ŵĂŶŝĐƵƌĞĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶƐ ƚŚĂƚ ǁŝůů ĚĞůŝŐŚƚ LJŽƵ ĨƌŽŵ ĞǀĞƌLJ ĂŶŐůĞ͘ dŚĞ ƌĞĂƌ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ ĂŶ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ŵĂƚƵƌĞ ĂŶĚ ĨƵůůLJ ůŽĂĚĞĚ ĨƌƵŝƚ ƚƌĞĞƐ͘ ƵĐƟŽŶ͗ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϭƚŚ &ĞďƌƵĂƌLJ ϮϬϭϮ Ăƚ ϭϮ͘ϬϬ Inspect: Home Open Sat 1.30-2.00pm

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MORNINGTON 8 Ellabella Way $710,000-$760,000

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YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĐƌĂŌƐŵĂŶ ďƵŝůƚ ŚŽŵĞ ƐƵƌĞ ƚŽ ƟĐŬ Ăůů ƚŚĞ ďŽdžĞƐ͘ KīĞƌŝŶŐ Ă ƚŽƚĂů ŽĨ ϯϭ ƐƋƵĂƌĞƐ ;ĂƉƉƌŽdžͿ ŽĨ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ƐƉĂĐĞ ŽŶ Ă ŚƵŐĞ ĨƵůůLJ ůĂŶĚƐĐĂƉĞĚ ϭϭϬϬƐƋŵ ĂůůŽƚŵĞŶƚ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƉƌĞƐƟŐŝŽƵƐ ^ƵŵŵĞƌĮĞůĚƐ ƐƚĂƚĞ͘ &ĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞ͗ ϵŌ ĐĞŝůŝŶŐƐ͕ ƐƚƵĚLJ͕ ĚŽǁŶƐƚĂŝƌƐ ŵĂƐƚĞƌ ďĞĚƌŽŽŵ ǁŝƚŚ t/Z͕ ƐƉŽƩĞĚ ŐƵŵ ƟŵďĞƌ ŇŽŽƌŝŶŐ͕ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ǁŝƚŚ ůŽĂĚƐ ŽĨ ďĞŶĐŚ ƐƉĂĐĞ ĂŶĚ ƐͬƐ ĂƉƉůŝĂŶĐĞƐ͕ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ƌŽŽŵ ĂĚũŽŝŶŝŶŐ Ă ƐĞƉĂƌĂƚĞ ƌƵŵƉƵƐͬŐĂŵĞƐ ƌŽŽŵ Θ ϮŶĚ ůŝǀŝŶŐ ĂƌĞĂ ƵƉƐƚĂŝƌƐ͘ ŽǀĞƌĞĚ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŝŶŐ ĚĞĐŬ ǁŝƚŚ ďƌŝĐŬ Y͕ ŐĂƌĂŐĞ Θ ĚƵĐƚĞĚ ŚĞĂƟŶŐ͘

WƌŝǀĂƚĞ ^ĂůĞ Inspect: LJ ƉƉŽŝŶƚŵĞŶƚ

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ROSEBUD126 126Rosebud RosebudForeshore Foreshore ROSEBUD $79,000 $74,950- $85,000

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Christmas/New Year best wishes from all the staff layout www.stockdaleleggo.com.au/rosebud 1/70 Warranilla Avenue Rosebud 42

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LARGE VILLA CLOSE TO SHOPS & BEACH Just a leisurely stroll to the sand, services and Rosebud Plaza shops, this 8 year old, large 2 bedroom villa unit is heaven for the retired couples or singles. Complete with a flickering gas log fire, a large sun drenched courtyard and a garage, the home provides all the comforts of a full-size home without the timeconsuming maintenance. This villa unit also comes with the rare option of buying a second luxury 3 bedroom home at the rear making the pair ideal for extended families who want their elderly parents nearby or to house semidependent family. For the more traditionalist, the front villa offers timeless design and decor including a large open plan living and dining area opening to the entertaining courtyard, a hostess kitchen with stainless steel appliances, while 2 large bedrooms have built-in robes and a light-filled bathroom with large open ended shower. Also features a spacious laundry/utility room, reverse cycle aircon and internal access to the garage.

Auction Saturday 11th February 2012 at 11.00am Inspect Wednesday & Saturday 11-11.30am Contact Amanda Kaye 0408 888 607

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STYLISH VILLA UNIT Just a pleasant stroll to popular Rosebud town centre and the beach, this stylish compact 8 y/o home is your own private oasis in the heart of the southern peninsula.

Heavenly for the active retiree, young family or as a low maintenance beach escape away from busy suburbia, the 3 bedroom home offers unique style and fabulous entertaining space as well as the option of also buying a neighbouring 2 bedroom villa that is perfect for housing extended family or elderly parents. Featuring an indulgent alfresco undercover entertaining area complemented by a stand of colourful Japanese maples and designer water feature, the home looks superb with polished concrete floors, bold splashes of contemporary colour, open plan living and dining, a sleek modern kitchen, in-floor heating, a gas log fire, evaporative cooling and a remote double garage.

The neighbouring villa is styled for more traditional furnishing and features a gas fireplace, large outdoor entertaining courtyard and a garage.

Auction Saturday 11th February 2012 at 11.00am Inspect Wednesday & Saturday 11-11.30am Contact Amanda Kaye 0408 888 607

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Deceased estate - Must be sold!

74 Marine Drive Safety Beach Just under 1000sqm of prime land opposite the beach ready for further development (STCA). The current brick veneer dwelling has been very well maintained and features three bedrooms and a bathroom with combined lounge and dining and separate kitchen. The home has a flat roof, so going upwards is an option and there is plenty of space on the flat block that measures 15m x 65m. Plenty of options here to sub-divide, re-build, go up or extend. Property will be sold on or before auction day. t es nv i r yo a d li ho

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12 Henry Court McCrae

Safety Beach

So Close To Everything

Bargain Hunters

Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Serenity

The Atrium - Unique Business Opportunity

You are located close to beaches, golf, restaurants, cafes, shops & public transport - what else do you need? If you are looking for a holiday, investment or permanent home then look no further. Boasting 3 bedrooms with BIRs, master with ensuite, modern kitchen with gas cooking and dishwasher, heating and air conditioning. Also featuring lock up garage and plenty of storage. Just sit back and relax.

This very neat and tidy, 5 year old (approx) brick townhouse is a fantastic buy - so be quick. The front townhouse of only two on the block, this lovely residence features large open plan living, high ceilings, quality marble tiling in the bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, ensuite to main, gas heating and cooking and paved entertaining area ideal for summer BBQs. Complete with double remote garage and remote front security gate.

Located only a short stroll to the beach this stunning modern residence allows you to relax & entertain your family & friends with bay glimpses from this 1/4 acre, private garden oasis. This contemporary home boasts a remarkable open plan indoor/ outdoor living space, complete with a glorious entertainment deck.

The kitchen includes an island bench, European appliances and is filled with natural light. Blue-chip weekender or permanent base.

A unique landmark commercial development overlooking the fairways and tennis courts of the Mt Martha Valley Country Club and moments from the Martha Cove Marina, The Atrium is one of the Mornington Peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest restaurant/function centres with potential to further develop the business or change its use (STCA). Offering sports and casual bar areas, an 80 seat restaurant, function room that can seat 400 or 220 at tables.

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61 Pickings Road Safety Beach

Safety Beach

Super Close To Beach - Hot Position!

Why Are The Owners Selling?

Walk To The Beach

Style, Sophistication & Sure To Impress

Ready, set, go!!! Be quick to view this ideally located home just a short walk to the foreshore, public transport and yacht club. Recently refurbished, the home features 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, spacious open plan living, room for upto 5 vehicles, an excellent storage shed and a circular drive way. With million dollar water front homes selling just across the road this trendy beach pad is a must see.

Price $485,000 plus Inspect By appointment Contact 03 5987 3233

With an abundance of style and character this home will impress with its many pleasing features. Situated opposite the golf course and a short stroll to the beach and public transport this incredible residence is set on approx 782sqm of land and offers 3-4 spacious bedrooms all with BIRs, master bedroom with FES & WIR, spacious open plan living/kitchen/meals area & polished timber floors.

Located within walking distance to pristine sands this immaculately presented, 35sq approx home on approx 641sqm block boasts 4 bedrooms, master with FES & WIR, open plan modern kitchen/dining/ living area with another two living areas giving plenty of room for the whole family.

GDH throughout, split system in master bedroom, ducted vacuum. Remote DLUG with internal entry and side access.

Uniquely designed and positioned in a picturesque setting this contemporary family home is set on over 834sqm approx of land.

Huge open plan living features polished timber floors, there are 3 spacious bedrooms, ensuite to master, large entertainment balcony with views as far as the eye can see. Huge 4 car garage which could be converted to extra living or bedrooms if required.

Paved driveway and rear enclosed yard.

Price Inspect Contact

Price Inspect Contact

Price Inspect Contact

5987 3233

$595,000 - $645,000 Sat 2-2.30pm 03 5987 3233

$699,000 By appointment 03 5987 3233

McCrae

$685,000 - $725,000

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193 Point Nepean Road, Dromana VIC 3936

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For Sale

9 Alfred Street, Mornington Spacious Sanctuary in Prime Position Exclusively positioned in a picturesque beachside pocket between Main Street and the bay this 3 bedroom home radiates quality and class. This luxury townhouse features a sun drenched north facing living and dining area overlooking private patio and entertaining area, granite bench tops & European appliances to the kitchen. The master EHGURRP LV Ă&#x20AC;W IRU D TXHHQ ZLWK JUDQGHXU surroundings, large en-suite, a dressing room and bay views.

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Absolutely immaculate four bedroom plus VWXG\ IDPLO\ KRPH VHW RQ DSSUR[ VTP block. Ideal for permanent living or just for holidaying there is lots of natural light beaming into the family room and main living area ZLWK RSHQ Ă&#x20AC;UH SODFH DQG RYHUORRNLQJ WKH RXWside entertaining area and established gardens. Cook up a storm in the gourmet kitchen with Caesar stone bench tops. The two storey home has master living and ensuite upstairs with bay views and natural setting.

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3/5 Lucerne Avenue, Mornington /X[XU\ %HDFKVLGH Townhouse 3RVVLEO\ WKH Ă&#x20AC;QHVW WRZQKRXVH RQ WKH Peninsula, this is an outstanding opportunity to secure this 26 square residence that is so FORVH WR WRZQ ,QFOXGLQJ D P [ P VRODU heated lap pool, extensive decking, covered day bed and alfresco BBQ area. Fabulous atate of the art aitchen with integrated appliances. Three spacious bedrooms plus ODUJH VWXGLR RU VWXG\ EHDXWLIXO OLJKW Ă&#x20AC;OOHG bathroom, powder room and ensuite. ,PSUHVVLYH WLPEHU Ă RRUV DUH WKURXJKRXW WKH large living area that spills into the outdoor area.

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6 Avery Court, Mount Martha Elegance & Sophistication 2Q $ *UDQG VFDOH

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A luxury two storey rendered Simmons home situated in cul de sac location of prestigious Mount Martha location. The grand entrance has high ceilings and a sweeping stair case leading to the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four bedrooms and large retreat with balcony overlooking a semi-rural vista. The double bi- fold doors separate the formal area from the main living areas. A Master chef kitchen with granite bench tops has large pantry and the meals and family room DUHD VXUURXQGHG E\ Ă RRU WR FHLOLQJ ED\ ZLQGRZ overlooking in-ground pool.

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8 Chateaux Close, Mount Martha Still Time For Summer fun!

This absolutely stunning entertainers home FRQVLVWV RI Ă&#x20AC;YH ODUJH EHGURRPV PDVWHU ZLWK parents retreat and FES. If you love entertaining this grand home is for you! Open plan living with a modern kitchen, European appliances and breakfast bar central to family and meals area overlooking alfresco decking and sandstone in ground salt water and solar heated pool. From the rumpus/ lounge room to the pool area, your family and friends will envy the large space that surround the home.

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Price: $790,000 - $840,000

For Sale

25 Lynn Close, Mornington Sensational Lifestyle In 6XPPHUĂ&#x20AC;HOGV Nestled at the end of a peaceful court with low maintenance gardens, this 3 bedroom plus study family home will tick all the boxes. )HDWXUHV LQFOXGH TXDOLW\ Ă&#x20AC;WWLQJV WKUHH VHSDUDWH bright & open plan living areas, three large bedrooms with BIRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, master with WIR & FES with corner spa. Ducted vacuum, split system heating and cooling & undercover outdoor entertaining area. Huge shed great for tradesman. ALL OFFERS CONSIDERED. OFFERS TO BE SUBMITTED BY 5.00PM MONDAY 16TH JANUARY 2012.

Price: On Application

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This gorgeous two storey townhouse has been WDVWHIXOO\ GHFRUDWHG ZLWK TXDOLW\ Ă&#x20AC;[WXUHV DQG Ă&#x20AC;Wtings. Approx 24 square in size with master bedroom, ensuite and walk in robes on the ground level that leads into a open plan style living area spilling out into alfresco outdoor entertaining area. Gourmet kitchen with granite bench tops, porcelain tiles. Internal access from the double lock up garage.Separate laundry and powder room.Top level, 2 double bedrooms, separate living/ study area, main bathroom and spa.

Price: $890,000 -$950,000

19 Dorset Road, Mount Martha Fabulous Family Home

For Sale

1/16-14 Lucerne Avenue, Mornington *RUJHRXV %HDFKVLGH Townhouse

For Sale

34 Finlayson Avenue, Mount Martha 8Q LQWHUUXSWHG %D\ DQG City Views )URP WKH ODUJH EDOFRQ\ HQMR\ PDJQLĂ&#x20AC;FHQW degree views with un-interrupted bay and city skyline vista that will leave you spellbound. Set RQ DSSUR[ VTP RI ODQG WKH PDLQ KRXVH offers 2 bedrooms plus rumpus room that could be converted into another two bedrooms. Open style living, renovated kitchen, meals and family room. In ground pool and outdoor entertaining area. Great holiday home or live comfortably while planning to build your dream home.

Price: $830,000 - $870,000 Inspect: Contact agent for times

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WĞŶŝŶƐƵůĂ ŝĐŽŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ͕ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ͕ ĐŚĞĂƉ ƌĞŶƚ͕ ǀĞŶĚŽƌ ǁŝůů ĚŝƐĐƵƐƐ ƐƉůŝƫŶŐ ƚŚĞ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ͕ ĨĂŶƚĂƐƟĐ ĮƚʹŽƵƚ ĂŶĚ ŝƐ priced to sell. Rent is approx $499/week (no GST) + outgoings. ƉƉƌŽdž ϭϬϯŵϮ ƐŚŽƉ͘ KƉĞŶ ϱͲϭϬƉŵ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ

ďƐŽůƵƚĞ ƉƌŝŵĞ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ďĞĂĐŚ ĞŶĚ ŽĨ DĂŝŶ ^ƚ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ ͘ dŽƚĂůůLJ ƌĞĨƵƌďŝƐŚĞĚ Įƚ ŽƵƚ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ďŝ ĨŽůĚ ĚŽŽƌƐ ĂŶĚ ĨŽŽƚƉĂƚŚ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ͕ ŐƌĞĂƚ ůĞĂƐĞ͕ ůŽǁ ƌĞŶƚ ǁŝƚŚ Ă Ϯ ďĞĚƌŽŽŵ ƌĞƐŝĚĞŶĐĞ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞĚ͘ Ğ ƋƵŝĐŬ͕ ǁŽŶ͛ƚ ďĞ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ůŽŶŐ͘

ŽĚLJ ƐƐĞŶĐĞ ŽĨ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ ĐŽǀĞƌƐ Ăůů ĂƐƉĞĐƚƐ ŽĨ ďĞĂƵƚLJ ĨƌŽŵ ƚĂŶŶŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ǁĂdžŝŶŐ ƚŽ ƐŬŝŶ ƌĞũƵǀĞŶĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƚŽdžŝŶŐ͘ dŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ďŽĂƐƚƐ ƉƌŝǀĂĐLJ ĨŽƌ ŝƚƐ ĐůŝĞŶƚĞůĞ ǁŝƚŚ ŝƚƐ ƵƉƐƚĂŝƌƐ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ ĞĂƐLJ ƉĂƌŬŝŶŐ͘ ^Ğƚ ƵƉ ĐŽƐƚ ǁĞůů ŝŶ ĞdžĐĞƐƐ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĂƐŬŝŶŐ ƉƌŝĐĞ͘

KīĞƌĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƐĂůĞ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ĮƌƐƚ ƟŵĞ ŝŶ ϰϬ LJĞĂƌƐ ƚŚŝƐ ŐĞŶĞƌĂů ƐƚŽƌĞ ƐŚŽǁƐ ĞdžĐĞůůĞŶƚ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ ĂŶĚ ŝƐ ĂŶ ŝĚĞĂů ĨĂŵŝůLJ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝŶ ĂŶ ĂīŽƌĚĂďůĞ ŚŝŐŚ ƉŽƉƵůĂƟŽŶ ŐƌŽǁƚŚ ĂƌĞĂ͘ KƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚLJ ĞdžŝƐƚƐ ƉƵƌĐŚĂƐĞ ĨƌĞĞŚŽůĚ͘ /ŶĐůƵĚĞƐ ůŝƋƵŽƌ ůŝĐĞŶƐĞ͕ ŝƐ ĂŶ ĂƵƚŚŽƌŝnjĞĚ ŶĞǁƐ ĂŐĞŶĐLJ͕ ŇŽŽƌ ƐƉĂĐĞ ŽĨ ϮϳϮƐƋŵ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ĐŽŽů ƌŽŽŵ ĂŶĚ ƐƚŽƌĂŐĞ͘

Sale Price: $240,000 + SAV Contact: Gary Ralph 0418 535 503

Sale Price: $150,000 WIWO Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price: $89,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

Sale Price: $449,000 + SAV Contact: Gary Ralph 0418 535 503

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dŚĞ 'ĂƌůŝĐ <ŝƐƐ ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŝƐ ĂŶ ĂǁĂƌĚ ǁŝŶŶŝŶŐ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ĂŶĚ ĞĂƐŝůLJ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ WĞŶŝŶƐƵůĂ͘ ƵƌƌĞŶƚůLJ ŽƉĞƌĂƟŶŐ ŽŶůLJ ϱ ůƵŶĐŚĞƐ ĂŶĚ ϰ ĚŝŶŶĞƌƐ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ ĂŶĚ ĐůŽƐĞĚ ĨŽƌ ϱ ǁĞĞŬƐ ƚŚƌŽƵŐŚŽƵƚ ƚŚĞ LJĞĂƌ͕ ƚŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŚĂƐ ƉůĞŶƚLJ ŽĨ ƐĐŽƉĞ ƚŽ ŝŶĐƌĞĂƐĞ ƚŚĞ ĂůƌĞĂĚLJ ŚĞĂůƚŚLJ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ͘ ZĞĂůŝƐƟĐĂůůLJ ƉƌŝĐĞĚ͘

KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƉĞŶŝŶƐƵůĂƐ ďĞƐƚ ŬŶŽǁŶ ůĂĚŝĞƐ ďŽƵƟƋƵĞƐ ƚƌĂĚĞƐ ϱ Ъ ĚĂLJƐ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ ĂŶĚ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ ƐƚƌŽŶŐ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ ƚŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŚĂƐ ŵĂŶLJ ƉůƵƐĞƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ͕ ĂīŽƌĚĂďůĞ ƌĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ Ă ǁĞůůͲĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚ ĐůŝĞŶƚĞůĞ͘ EŽƚ ƚŽ ďĞ ŵŝƐƐĞĚ͘

ŽŵďŝŶĞ LJŽƵƌ ƚĂůĞŶƚ Θ ĞŶƚŚƵƐŝĂƐŵ ǁŝƚŚ Ă ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƵƉƉŽƌƚ ŶĞƚǁŽƌŬ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ůĞĂĚĞƌ ŽĨ ǁŽŵĞŶ͛Ɛ ĮƚŶĞƐƐ͘ hZs ^ ŝƐ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ĮƚŶĞƐƐ ĨƌĂŶĐŚŝƐĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ǁŽƌůĚ ǁŝƚŚ ϭϬ͕ϬϬϬ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶƐ ǁŽƌůĚǁŝĚĞ͘ KƉĞŶŝŶŐ ŝŶ DĂƌĐŚ ƚŚŝƐ LJĞĂƌ ƚŚĞ ^ŽŵĞƌǀŝůůĞ ĐůŝĞŶƚ ďĂƐĞ ŚĂƐ ŐƌŽǁŶ ƋƵŝĐŬůLJ ƚŽ ĂůŵŽƐƚ ϰϬϬ ĂŶĚ ŝŶĐƌĞĂƐĞƐ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵŽŶƚŚ͘ tŝƚŚ ŐƌĞĂƚ ŚŽƵƌƐ͕ ůĂƌŐĞ ŇŽŽƌ ƐƉĂĐĞ͕ ŶĞǁ ĞƋƵŝƉŵĞŶƚ͕ ĐŚĞĂƉ ƌĞŶƚ ĂŶĚ ĞdžĐĞůůĞŶƚ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ ƚŚŝƐ ŝƐ ƌĞĂůůLJ Ă ĨĂŶƚĂƐƟĐ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚLJ͘

Sale Price: $850,000 + GST if applicable Contact: Gary Ralph 0418 535 503

Sale Price: $250,000 + SAV Contact: Kevin Wright 0417 564 454

Sale Price: $89,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

Sale Price: $229,000 + SAV Contact: Gary Ralph 0418 535 503

For Sale – Crib Point

For Sale – Mornington

For Sale – Rosebud

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Wholesale Bakery

dŚŝƐ ƚŚƌŝǀŝŶŐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝŶ Ă ƉƌŝŵĞ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ƚƌĂĚĞƐ ϱ ĚĂLJƐ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ /ĐŽŶŝĐ ǁĞůů ĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚ ǁŚŽůĞƐĂůĞ ďĂŬĞƌLJ ĂůůŽǁƐ LJŽƵ ƚŽ ƐƚĞƉ ŽƵƚ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ĞdžĐĞůůĞŶƚ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ ǁŝƚŚ ŚƵŐĞ ƉƌŽĮƚƐ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƌĂƚ ƌĂĐĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚƌĞĞ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͕ ŶŽ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚƐ Θ ǀĞƌLJ ĞĂƐLJ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ǁŝƚŚ ĐŚĞĂƉ ƌĞŶƚ͘ ƚŽ ŽƉĞƌĂƚĞ͘ WŽƚĞŶƟĂů ĨŽƌ ƵŶŝƋƵĞ ĐĂĨĠ ŽŶ ŵĂŝŶ ƐƚƌĞĞƚ Žƌ ĞdžƉĂŶĚ ǁŚŽůĞƐĂůĞ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƟŽŶ ĨŽƌ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ ŽĨ ůŽĐĂů ĨĂƌŵĞƌƐ ŵĂƌŬĞƚƐ͘ ,ƵŐĞ ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ͕ ůŽǁ ƌĞŶƚ͙Ψϭϴϳ͘ϮϬ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ н '^d н ŽƵƚŐŽŝŶŐƐ͘

WƌŝĐĞ KŶ ƉƉůŝĐĂƟŽŶ Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

For Sale – Mount Martha

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Calling All Foodies

dŚŝƐ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚůLJ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶĞĚ Ğůŝ ƐŝƚƵĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ďƵƐLJ DĂŝŶ ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ DŽƌŶŝŶŐƚŽŶ ŝƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƌŬĞƚ͘ ǀĞƌĂŐĞ ƚĂŬŝŶŐƐ ŽĨ ĂƌŽƵŶĚ Ψϵ͕ϬϬϬ ƉĞƌ ǁĞĞŬ ƚŚŝƐ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ƐĞĂƚ ϲϬ ŝŶƐŝĚĞ ĂŶĚ ϭϲ ŽƵƚ͘ 'ŽŽĚ ĐŽŵŵĞƌĐŝĂů ŬŝƚĐŚĞŶ ĂŶĚ ƚĞƌƌŝĮĐ Įƚ ŽƵƚ͘

'ƌĞĂƚ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚLJ ƚŽ ƐĞĐƵƌĞ ƚŚŝƐ ƵŶŝƋƵĞ ĐĂĨĠͬƉƌŽǀĞĚŽƌĞ ůŽĐĂƚĞĚ ĚŝƌĞĐƚůLJ ŽƉƉŽƐŝƚĞ ƚŚĞ ďĞĂĐŚ ŽŶ Wƚ EĞƉĞĂŶ ZĚ͘ dŚŝƐ ůŝĐĞŶĐĞĚ ĐĂĨĠ enjoys strong, regular clientele, solid takings, great lease terms ĂŶĚ ƚŚĞ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƚLJ ƚŽ ĨƵƌƚŚĞƌ ŝŵƉƌŽǀĞ͘ dŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ŝƐ ĞdžƚƌĞŵĞůLJ ǁĞůů ƉƌŝĐĞĚ ƚŽ ƐĞůů ĂƐ ǀĞŶĚŽƌƐ ĂƌĞ ŵŽǀŝŶŐ ŽŶ ƚŽ ŽƚŚĞƌ ǀĞŶƚƵƌĞƐ͘

Sale Price: $220,000 + SAV Contact: Kevin Wright 0417 564 454

Sale Price $95,000 + SAV Contact Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Mornington

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Sale Price $77,000 + SAV Contact: Gary Ralph 0418 535 503

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For Sale – Seaford

Urgent Sale - Vendor Must Sell

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Backpackers Mornington

&ƌĞĞŚŽůĚ &ĂĐƚŽƌLJͬKĸĐĞ ^ƉĂĐĞ

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

Backers say he’s a cop who cares, but force says he’s dated, one-dimensional

By Cameron McCullough POLITICIANS and community leaders have rallied behind a former police officer’s efforts to rejoin Victoria Police.

Former Hastings police sergeant Andrew Brady’s hopes of re-entering the police force appeared to have been dashed after an official report labelled his approach to policing as dated and one-dimensional.

The only option now open to Mr Brady, who spent nearly a quarter of a century in the force before leaving in 2007, is to rejoin as a recruit, do the full 33-week course, and be eligible for promotion to senior constable after four years.

Hasting MP Neale Burgess emailed Mr Brady to say that he had spoken with Police Minister Peter Ryan “and your case is going to be raised directly with the Chief Commissioner [Ken Lay]”.

“I have spoken to police command seeking a review, and I will continue to push the issue” Mr Burgess told The News.

Federal MP Greg Hunt described Mr Brady as “the best and most creative youth worker I have ever seen”.

Mr Brady was awarded the Victoria Police Ethical Standards Medal in 1997, a Divisional Commendation in

2005 and was named Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Citizen of the Year in 2008 for services to the community.

He hoped his vast experience would have allowed him to re-enter the force by undergoing a refresher course, rather than the full rookie training.

“It is offensive to suggest my 22 years’ service counts for nothing,” he said.

Mr Brady gained a reputation for working outside the square in his years of policing at Hastings.

Former police sergeant Andrew Brady is well known for establishing the Western Port Warriors RecLink football team, which has proved to be highly successful in helping disadvantaged people in the community.

He also pioneered other community projects including the Walking School Bus, essay competitions on the dangers of throwing rocks at trains and the importance of bike helmets, giving all Hastings Westpark Primary School preps a Christmas present, and many other community projects.

“The idea was to get to kids before they got into trouble, and get them onside. While it proved successful and popular in the community, this kind of policing was not encouraged [by superiors],” Mr Brady said.

“The frustrations I felt lead me to

taking leave and eventually resigning from the force.

“I fully believed that the approach had [now] changed in the force and that my approach may have been more acceptable, but it seems I am wrong.”

Mr Brady says his reason for rejoining was to continue to serve the community he loves, the recommendation means he may wait years before being able to return to Hastings.

The assessor, Sergeant Philip Bradley, simply stated that “service in a policing jurisdiction for a minimum of four years” would be required to be “eligible for consideration for in-situ promotion to the rank of senior constable”.

This is still below the rank of sergeant, which Mr Brady held at the time of his resignation.

The assessor stated that Mr Brady’s

rank at the time of his resignation was senior constable.

There are no guarantees that Mr Brady would be based in Hastings in the four years it would take to reach senior constable.

“I can’t rejoin as a rookie,” Mr Brady. “It is akin to them saying they just don’t want me back and flies in the face of the very thing I was trying to achieve.”

MPs, civic leaders add their thoughts “While I don’t know the details of Andrew’s police career, I do know that he is the best and most creative youth worker I have ever seen. He would be an asset in any team.”

Greg Hunt, Federal MP for Flinders “I believe he was an outstanding police officer, and he is an outstanding man. Any police force should bend over backwards to have him as one of their members.

Neale Burgess, State MP for Hastings “This is a disgrace. Andrew Brady would have to be the best police officer this area has ever seen. If they don’t get him back into the local police force, it will be a huge loss for Hastings and the Western Port region.”

David Nelli, past president of Western Port Chamber of Commerce “It is beyond belief that Victoria Police would not take the opportunity to get Andrew Brady back into policing. He was an asset to the community and, from a community policing point of view, was the best we’ve ever had.”

Brian Stahl, JP OAM, former Hastings area shire councillor and shire mayor

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

It’s a dolphin, so keep your distance BOAT and jet ski drivers have been told to keep away from dolphins and seals.

Last summer two dolphins were killed by possible boat strikes to the head and three people were bitten by seals.

While licensed tour operators can go within 50 metres of a dolphin and 100m of a whale, the distance is more than doubled for recreational boats and jet skis.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment’s compliance operations manager Glenn Sharp said it is important that people who use the water understand that marine mammals are protected wildlife.

“It is great to see dolphins and seals in our waters, but we need everyone to behave safely and lawfully to ensure these amazing animals aren’t harmed or placed under pressure in their natural environment,” Mr Sharp said.

“If people are not willing to meet their legal responsibilities and they approach a dolphin or seal at a distance closer than the law allows, they will be penalised.

The rules are: Recreational boaters must stay 100m away from dolphins and 200m from whales, except if approached by the animals.

High impact vessels like jet skis must stay 300m away from whales and dolphins.

If people find themselves close to a dolphin, whale or seal, they should reduce their speed to five knots or less and steer away from the animal.

People must keep 30m from a seal on a beach.

Swimmers must not go within 50m of a whale or 30m of a dolphin.

Aircraft including helicopters must be at least 500m above a whale or dolphin.

Recreational boaters must stay 200m away from dolphins within the Ticonderoga Bay Sanctuary between Police Point and the Port Phillip Heads.

All boat and jet ski operators must not exceed five knots within 200m of shore within all coastal waters and ports of Victoria.

For more information on the new regulations, visit www.dse.vic. gov.au or call 136 186. To report an emergency (stranding, entanglement, injury or death) involving a whale or dolphin, call 1300 136 017.

Appreciation: Stephanie Strongman and Shae Greber (centre) with Peninsula Health Palliative Care Unit manager Susan Blashki, family members (including Stephanie’s mother and grandfather, husband of Elizabeth) and unit staff.

Schoolgirls’ quilt keeps memory alive TWO students have used needles and threads to show their appreciation for the care shown to one of their grandmothers during her final days.

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Their inspiration came from seeing quilted artwork adorning the walls of the unit.

Stephanie's grandmother Elisabeth Reid had spent time in the unit, and members of her family said they appreciated the efforts by staff to make her stay as pleasant and comfortable as possible.

“We are so honoured and impressed by the thoughtfulness of the girls,” the pallia-

tive care centre’s nurse unit manager Susan Blashki said.

“The skill, time and effort put in by Stephanie and Shae is a true testament to Elisabeth’s memory.”

The quilt made by the two Dromana Secondary College students has now joined the other quilts on the walls of the unit.

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Fire safety bungle Traffic issues rule out reserve fire refuge at Red Hill

By David Harrison RED Hill, McCrae and Balnarring will have no Neighbourhood Safer Place this bushfire season because of council decisions.

A Mornington Peninsula Shire fire management committee meeting on 3 October endorsed Balnarring and McCrae as so-called NSPs – three days after the statutory deadline to have council approval for them had passed.

The fire committee described McCrae Plaza and Balnarring shopping centre as “fairly low bushfire risk” and therefore suitable.

But Red Hill’s large, twooval recreation reserve, site of the famous Red Hill market, was refused endorsement as a NSP despite a shire pledge to provide one either at the reserve or elsewhere in Red Hill.

It was refused because its top oval – less than 20 per cent of its area – is used as an emergency staging area by the CFA and other agencies.

Allowing it to be used as a NSP could create “traffic management issues”, the committee ruled unanimously.

The committee decision was an about-face on a shire promise made more than a year ago.

On 8 November 2010, in answer to a question from this writer at a council meeting, the shire’s director of sustainable infrastructure, Alex Atkins, told councillors that “Red Hill is one of those areas where a Neighbourhood Safer Place will be designated – not necessarily at the sports reserve, but could well be”.

Despite this unambiguous

public statement, the meeting minutes recorded his response as “... a Neighbourhood Safer Place in Red Hill will be considered by the officers”.

Red Hill Recreation Reserve was previously approved twice in the three-stage designation process, but was later knocked back when the CFA strongly opposed sharing the 20-hectare site with residents.

The minutes of the Mornington Peninsula Fire Management Planning Committee meeting on 3 October reveal that municipal fire prevention officer Damien Taylor stated that the shire feared that fourwheel drives towing “horse floats, etc” would put an “extra load” on police dealing with traffic at the reserve if it were a NSP. The minutes record Mr Taylor saying that police “have a priority to guard CFA’s security” and that they are required “to look after pets at relief centres. If you get people that decide that their [bushfire plan] doesn’t work” they are “going to bring their animals there and they have to be dealt with”.

Mr Taylor then moved that the Red Hill reserve be rejected as a NSP. He had been recorded in the minutes as stating earlier: “I have been told to put forward to this committee for a decision [sic].”

In an email to this writer, Mr Taylor referred to the minutes, stating they “are not an accurate reflection of the meeting’s discussion”.

The mayor Frank Martin, who is also Red Hill Ward councillor, said the “stance had been taken”

by CFA and Victoria Police not

to permit the reserve to be used as a “place of last resort”.

This had placed the decision “out of the shire’s control”, he wrote in an email.

Earlier, in a letter to this writer, who was acting on behalf of Red Hill Community Action group, bushfire committee chair John Francis of the CFA wrote that “Whilst the Shire was notified that the site was deemed compliant, the Council is then required to consult with other agencies and stakeholders, including the CFA as part of the approval processes before a final decision is made. “... It was the unanimous decision of the voting delegates [to refuse endorsement to the reserve’s] Top Oval...”

Mr Francis’s letter made no mention of whether the rest of the reserve could be used by residents. His reasons for refusing NSP status were: “The site is already an identified Emergency Services Staging Area; “Identifying the site as an NSP will cause traffic management issues; “Messaging to the Red Hill residents should be targeted at leaving early and away from the high bushfire risk area, not staying in the township and relying on the NSP as a ‘Contingency’ or bushfire plan.”

On 12 December 2010, responding to a further question from this writer, the shire’s director of sustainable environment, Stephen Chapple, stated: “A Neighbourhood Safer Place is a place of last resort, when all other plans have failed.

NSPs may still be subject to ember attack and do not guar-

antee safety.

“They are not relief centres.

There are limited facilities and no support or services are provided. They are not places to relocate when leaving early.

And finally, can I just point you

to a very helpful website for further information, and that’s saferplaces.cfa.vic.gov.au.”

Ten NSPs have been endorsed on the peninsula – Blairgowrie, Dromana, Flinders, Mt Eliza, Mt Martha, Portsea, Rosebud,

Tootgarook, Rye and Sorrento.

Details of their locations are available from the shire.

Balnarring and McCrae are likely to be formally designated by the council as NSPs in winter.

COMMENT

Safer places bungle a fire fiasco WHAT a fiasco. In a fire-prone shire, and in a shire-designated “wildfire” zone, Red Hill, residents are refused a Neighbourhood Safer Place because, according to the shire’s fire prevention officer, people might turn up with “horse floats, etc” behind their four-wheel drives.

And McCrae and Balnarring miss out because the shire missed a statutory deadline to get NSP approval through council.

No matter how the shire might try to spin this, it is a bungling, fumbling disgrace.

Almost three years ago, great swathes of the state were ablaze. The peninsula was spared on Black Saturday, 7 February 2009. It’s to be hoped the peninsula is spared this year, and every year. On Black Saturday, 173 people died and many communities were devastated.

The shire budgeted another million dollars to make us safe, and has bragged about it endlessly since.

FireSafe Victoria is not all that impressed, apparently. Nor are those still waiting for roadside slashing and dangerous tree removal.

At the bushfire committee meeting on 3 October, convened to consider NSPs, the shire itself led the charge to deny Red Hill such a place, despite a specific promise made publicly by a senior and very experienced shire officer, Alex Atkins.

Mayor and ward councillor Frank Martin later tried to exonerate the shire on the Red Hill decision, saying the matter was taken “out of the shire’s control”.

Come again? The meeting’s minutes show that municipal fire prevention officer Damien Taylor recommended against Red Hill getting a NSP, then moved the motion, which was carried unanimously.

Why did Mr Taylor do this? And why did he tell the committee he had “been told” to put the matter to the committee? Told by whom? Were his riding orders to support a Red Hill NSP? The latest bushfire slogan from government and various authorities is “Have a plan. Get out early when a Code Red day is announced”.

Easily said. But what of fires deliberately lit on non-Code Red days or those accidentally started during storms? Arsonists and lightning don’t observe bureaucratic diktats.

The CFA estimates about 43 per cent of bushfires are deliberately lit. Can the CFA provide a fire plan to cope with them?

And where does one escape to on the day before a Code Red day? Presumably we are all to join the gridlock on the totally inadequate road system north – to join the traffic jam caused by up to 150,000 locals and the tens of thousands of holidaymakers also dutifully leaving early, with their caravans, boats, jet skis and horse floats.

Red Hill’s recreation reserve was once a “safer place”. It is where locals will almost certainly head in an emergency, as a last resort. Will the shire, the police and the CFA turn them away?

David Harrison

Scientists warn of bird drop in Western Port

By Keith Platt SCIENTISTS have found a significant drop in the number of water birds in Western Port over the past four decades.

A long-running survey found increased numbers in just one of 38 bird species.

The decline in numbers is blamed on changes in land use from as far away as the Yellow Sea off east China and nesting grounds in Western Port being disturbed by dogs and people.

Reports of the demise of water birds in Western Port coincide with a survey that shows booming populations of inland wetland birds.

The University of New South Wales has released findings of a survey covering 30 per cent of Australia that shows high breeding rates among water birds following rainfall increases, which signalled the end of the drought.

Scientists from the Department of Sustainability and Environment’s Arthur Rylah Institute

worked with volunteer birders from Bird Observation & Conservation Australia to track birds using Western Port internationally recognised Ramsar wetlands.

Project officer Birgita Hansen said the Australian pied oystercatcher was the only species to have increased in numbers.

“The counts found numbers of 16 species have declined significantly, including migratory shorebird species like the common greenshank, curlew sandpiper, eastern curlew and greytailed tattler,” Dr Hansen said.

“There’s increasing evidence from elsewhere in Australia and around the world showing migratory shorebirds may be declining because of the changes in land use in Asia, including reclamation projects on the Yellow Sea. “These birds fly a long way to get to their breeding grounds in the northern hemisphere during our winter and so they are sensitive to anything which makes them work harder to find food on

the way. We have also found that disturbance by humans and dogs on their feeding grounds, including those in Western Port, is having some impact on them.”

Dr Hansen said the 37-year survey was one of the longest running involving scientists and the community.

The survey is part of the Western Port Welcomes Waterbirds program run by the Central Coastal Board and financed by the federal government.

Dr Hansen said state government had a responsibility under the Wildlife Act 1975 and the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 to protect threatened species.

“These animals and plants contribute significantly to the biodiversity of their ecosystems.

The knowledge we acquire about these species helps us to then take the on-ground steps needed to ensure their survival.”

Numbers down: Fewer species of birds are being found in Western Port’s internationally recognised wetlands.

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AROUND THE REGION

Aquatic centre with the lot

By Mike Hast FRANKSTON will get an aquatic centre with the lot after councillors last month agreed to spend $46.35 million.

The so-called “full scope” Frankston Regional Aquatic Centre (FRAC) at Samuel Sherlock Reserve on Cranbourne Rd will have:  A 51.5-metre main pool.  Program pool and learn to swim, leisure and play water and water slide.  Spa, dry, wet sauna and wellness centre.  Gymnasium, twin program rooms and a dedicated spin room.  Entry foyer with retail shops, ground floor administration, cafe and changing areas,  Occasional care centre with outdoor area.  Lift, stairs and parking for 250 cars.  Enhanced environmentally sustainable design elements estimated to cost $4 million.

Last June, councillors agreed to build a basic centre for $33 million, with the council spending $20.6 million and the state government $12.5 million. The state money was promised in the lead-up to the 2010 state election by then Frankston MP Alistair Harkness.

A builder will be appointed in August 2012 and the pool will open in May or June 2014. Concept designs will be prepared by Williams Ross Architects and the project consultant is SGL (Simply Great Leisure), one of the Australia’s leading sports and recreation companies, which has been involved in Mornington Peninsula

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Aquatic vision: An artist’s drawing of how the aquatic centre with the lot might look in Samuel Sherlock Reserve.

More designs are being created.

Shire’s Rosebud aquatic centre project.

The Frankston pool will be adjacent to Chisholm TAFE’s proposed multistorey development.

The 1929-vintage Samuel Sherlock Hall in Quality St, also known as the Scout Hall, will be demolished and new homes found for Frankston District Scouts, Frankston Senior Citizens’ Club, Russian Seniors, Polish Senior Citizens’ Club, Frankston Chess Club, and Grace Christian Community Church.

Moving from the sports reserve will be Frankston Baseball Club and

YCW Cricket Club. It will cost about $850,000 to move the baseballers to Robinsons Park in Robinsons Rd for the 2012 winter season and $465,000 to move the cricketers to Peninsula Reserve in Frank St in October 2012.

Frankston Council now has the task of finding more than $13 million extra.

A report to councillors stated Mike King of SGL had recommended the council “forms a high level lobby group to make representation to Federal Government Ministers in Canberra”.

Last September, the federal government knocked back a request for pool

AQUATIC centres traditionally use lots of energy and water, and the proposed Frankston centre could use as much as 15 per cent of the council’s energy budget.

Frankston Council says investing $4 million in environmentally sustainable design elements will reduce greenhouse gas emission and costs.

“The Environment Department is preparing a submission for a stormwater grant from the Federal Government,” the pool report stated.

“We have had some initial discussions with Chisholm TAFE and they welcome the idea of a ‘precinct’ approach to stormwater management.”

This could include catching water off the roofs of the proposed TAFE trade training centre and existing buildings for treatment and reuse at the aquatic centre.

Future Chisholm development could use FRAC treated water for toilet flushing.

funding under the Regional Development Australia Fund.

Frankston was relying on getting between $5 and $8 million from Canberra, and will reapply.

The mayor, Cr Brian Cunial, said a deputation had visited Canberra in early 2011 and lobbied MPs. “Kris Bolam, Christine Richards, Colin Hampton and I met MPs. There was some interest there, but there was nothing promised, of course.”

He said the council could afford to borrow some money.

Even if Canberra says no again, the

council will go ahead with the aquatic centre, says Cr Brad Hill, who with a few council colleagues revived the pool idea when he joined the council in 2008.

“It’s taken a long time to get our aquatic centre,” he told The News.

“The idea has been around since the early 2000s and in that time, the City of Casey has built two aquatic centres – at Narre Warren and Cranbourne.”

The News understands the council will find the extra money through a combination of loans, rate rises and cutting other capital works.

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All the fun of the circus Scaling new heights FROM breathtaking stunts to amazing skills, take a trip through magic and illusions, comedy and the unexpected.

Family fun is promised and certainly will be delivered under the Big Top of Silvers Circus.

It’s action from start to finish with beautiful women high in the air and the fabulous talents of international artists providing an impressive display of acrobatics and strength. Hoola Hoop twirling, wire walking, balancing – it’s all there; live entertainment at its best.

The Wheel of Steel has the

audience holding on to the edge of their seats as it rotates from the floor to the tip of the big top while Phoenix Harrison performs on this giant apparatus.

See the talented Miss Emma demonstrates her graceful ballet routine on the high wire.

Hold your breath as the Phoenix Riders enter the big top and ride into the four-metre diameter ‘Globe of Death’.

It’s up and down and round and round at a cracking pace as the three riders cross over and under each other with only millimetres to spare. There’s

no room for errors in their performance.

This is an amazing spectacle and affordable for everyone with tickets selling from just $20 for children (3-12 years) and $30 for adults. Family tickets cost $80.

Silvers is in the Bata Shoe grounds, 1158 Nepean Hwy, Mornington, until 22 January with shows at 8pm Wednesday to Saturday evenings and 1pm from Tuesday to Sunday every week Details and bookings: Silvers on 0413 880 044 or Ticketmaster.

just for sheer fun THE state-of-the-art indoor rock climbing centre Bayside Rock in Carrum Downs is ever evolving.

For the first time in Australia offers a fully automated climbing area called Climb Time.

Unlike regular climbing gyms where parents and partners are required to go through training and have to belay (do the rope work) for the climbers, Climb Time is all action for climbers while parents can sit back and relax.

The automatic belay stations are the safest of their kind and are suitable for climbers ranging from 10 kilograms to 100 kilograms so the fun isn’t limited to the kids.

Parents can now climb safely up the wall next to their children or sit back and relax while enjoying a hot or cold drink, in air-conditioned comfort, another first for a centre of this kind.

Climb Time sessions cost $20 a child and run for a full hour.

Alternatively, book a Climb Time adventure party for your child’s next birthday, priced from $180 for up to 10 children.

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Boneoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing wetlands BONEO Maze and Wetlands is only a five minute drive from Rosebud, off Boneo Rd on the Mornington Peninsula.

With heaps of activities and great things to do and see, it is a must-visit location this school holidays.

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Get lost in the mazes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the largest hedge maze stands two metres tall with a centre viewing platform. The small maze was designed for the

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The timber â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; maze has 1.5-metre long tunnels â&#x20AC;&#x201C; enter if you dare.

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Bring a picnic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; stage coach and picnic tables in the gardens, but bring a blanket (no barbecues).

The Tearooms serve homemade Devonshire tea, light refreshments and great coffee.

The Gift Shop offers a range of puzzles, games, chess sets, garden gifts and other quality giftware.

It is closed Christmas Day and on extreme weather days.

Opening hours: Monday to Thurday 10am to 4pm, Friday to Sunday, public and school holidays 10am to 5pm.

Boneo Maze and Wetlands is at 695 Limestone Rd, Fingal.

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Peninsula at play, artfully JANUARY at the Manyung Gallery Group’s Mt Eliza and Sorrento galleries sees summer fun and Mornington Peninsula nostalgia as primary themes, with top artists’ works in the ‘Peninsula at Play’ summer series.

The Manyung at Mt Eliza January exhibition features Katherine Boland, Terrence J Hadler, Fred Colla, David Ardley and Melanie Hava.

Manyung at Sorrento opens a new exhibition of works by Janine Daddo (pictured) at 11am on Saturday January 21.

The ‘Peninsula at Play’ theme features in Janine’s works with a playfulness, summer fun and all that has attracted visitors to the Mornington Peninsula for generations.

For all Manyung Gallery Group inquiries call 9787 2953 or visit www. manyunggallery. com.au

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Riding h high igh in the saddle by the sea THERE are many activities for families to enjoy on the Mornington Peninsula and one is horse riding along a beach.

No experience is necessary when riding with Gunnamatta Trail Rides and so it doesn’t matter if you have never ridden before.

Riding a beautiful horse along a pristine ocean beach is a memorable adventure and a ‘must do’ experience.

The two-hour St Andrews Bush and Beach ride starts at the refurbished stables of Gunnamatta Trail Rides, which is 10 minutes from Rosebud and Rye. The ride to the ocean beach takes 45 minutes and is mainly a walking ride with short bursts of trotting.

The track leads up and over some lofty

sand dunes from where the views are simply breathtaking.

The horses then walk down to the expansive sands of St Andrews Beach, which is a part of the coastal Mornington Peninsula National Park.

Riders can choose to keep their horses walking or go for a trot beside crashing ocean waves where surfers can often be seen.

Having experienced riding a horse along the beach, there are photo opportunities to capture the moment and provide you with proof that “you did it”.

The St Andrews Beach ride is the most popular ride and has been seen on numerous television shows such as Postcards and Coxy’s Big Break. If Coxy can do it, so can you. Details at gunnamatta.com.au or call 5988 6755.

A market for everyone SUMMER is here and the Mornington Peninsula is all of a buzz, especially at Market @ Drive In at Dromana Drive In every Sunday in January from 8am to 1pm.

Each market day brings unique and interesting finds, daily needs, one-offs and hard to find items.

A wide array of stallholders sell fresh produce, plants, antiques and collectibles, art and craft, toys, clothing, and new and pre-loved tools.

There is a playground for the children, plenty of parking; it’s a place to chill out for a while. Shel’s Diner, 1950s

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retro styled, is open from 8am for brunch.

A wide range of food and drinks is available including egg and bacon rolls, burgers, scones with jam and cream, cappuccino, milkshakes, Dip’n’Dots Ice Cream and more.

Dine in or grab a bite to stroll around.

So come along and visit Dromana Drive In, National Trust and Heritage Victoria listed.

For more information including dates of coming markets, having a stall at the market, see website, http://

www.drivein.net.au/market. htm or call Shelley, 0428 314025.

The drive in is the perfect place to take in a film and enjoy the nostalgia of a classic 1960s drive in. Movies screen nightly at sunset, so grab the kids, your friends, partner and ‘Make a Memory at the Dromana 3 Drive In’ this summer.

See www.drivein.net.au or call 0359 872492 for movie titles. The drive in is at 133 Nepean Hwy, Dromana, Melway 160 E5.

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Mt Eliza farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market building a top reputation

Train shop maintains a head of steam TRAINS and model trains is one hobby that most stores have really missed the train on.

The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest hobby, and one of the oldest, is sadly overlooked by many, and good train sets are hard to find.

For close to 40 years one of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest pure train stores has been tucked away in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton, supplying train enthusiasts worldwide with local and imported products to satisfy all their hobby needs.

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trains and anything to do with trains including model train sets, locomotive, carriages, freight wagons, track, accessories, spare parts, tools, scenic materials, glues, paints, books, DIY books, magazines, CDs, videos, DVDs and more.

For younger customers there is Thomas the Tank engine and friends, Chuggington and Hogwarts Express from Harry Potter. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a one-stop shop for train and model train enthusiasts as well as beginners.

LOOKING for a place to buy locally sourced and sustainably produced food that tastes amazing and is affordable? Mt Elizaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market has gained an excellent reputation for being the perfect place to shop, says co-organiser Melanie Wigg.

Held on the fourth Sunday of the month (not always the last), the market operates from 9am to 1pm, rain, hail or shine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;An abundance of produce is available that has travelled the bare minimum distance from paddock to plate and is being sold by its genuine producer,â&#x20AC;?

Ms Wigg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since starting in March 2010, the market has been

touted as one of the best in the state due to high-quality produce, festive atmosphere and entertainment.â&#x20AC;?

The market has also gained accreditation with the Victorian Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market Association, meaning the stallholders and market organisers have gone through a rigorous process ensuring that the shopper is buying direct from the land. VFMA accreditation also means there is no craft, bric-a-brac, onsellers or re-packagers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; market in the true sense of the word. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The next market will be held on Sunday 22 January and will have wonderful summer stone fruit as well as

berries, local cheeses, organic sourdough bread, free range eggs and meat, organic salad greens and more,â&#x20AC;? Ms Wigg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come and enjoy brekkie cooked by the Rotary Club of Mt Eliza while perusing the stalls.â&#x20AC;?

The market is a not-forprofit initiative of the Mt Eliza Chamber of Commerce, contributing to the Mt Eliza Lions and Rotary clubs.

It is held in Mt Eliza Village, corner of Mt Eliza Way and Canadian Bay Rd. BYO shopping bags or trolleys Detaikls: 0429 398 684 or www.mtelizafarmersmarket. com.au

A wide variety of goods is stocked or can be ordered from one of Train Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many local and overseas suppliers.

Mail order, special orders, purchases and advice are only a phone, fax or email away or you can post Train World a letter.

See the Train World advert for details and have a train running around your Christmas tree this year or surprise the special someone with a train set for Christmas.

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By Stuart McCullough TRUTH be told, it took me a very long time to find Kate.

The mere fact that I am 40 years of age and have not previously been married says it all. Indeed, many who know me well must have wondered whether I would ever find anyone willing to regard me as a suitable partner for life.

Certainly, while it’s fair to say I’ve had my fair share of offers when it comes to wedlock, it must be said those offers were exclusively in email form, were from Russia and required me to deposit large amounts of money into a bank account as a sign of ‘good faith’.

As much as I appreciated the repeated offers by strangers to travel around the world to live with me in exchange for cash, I declined them all. Call me old fashioned, but I hoped for something more.

For a long time, I believed that in order for anyone to find me a suitable partner, I would need present a certain image of myself. Like a blue-light mosquito zapper, I hoped to lure people to my luminous glow.

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myself a more likeable and interesting person.

Now seems as good a time as any to make a confession.

I feel it may go some way to explaining what many of you may well have long suspected.

My various eccentricities were, in fact, desperate and doomed attempts to be more interesting.

For example, during the period 1994 to 1997, I wore a

woollen cardigan in the genuine belief that this would make me appear more sensitive. It must be understood that this was during the period in which the ‘Sensitive New Age Guy’ was said to be the ideal man, a theory I managed to singlehandedly disprove. Wearing a cardigan did not make me look ‘sensitive’. It made me look semi-retired.

In the summer of 1997, I became the world’s worst vegetarian. This is something of an achievement as the world is full of vegetarians, many of whom range from ‘occasional’ through to ‘lapsed’.

I did it not because I was overly concerned for the welfare of animals, although I did own several Morrissey albums, but because all the vegetarians I knew seemed interesting, not to mention healthy, and I thought it was as good a club as any to belong to.

With the benefit of hindsight, I doubt that vegetarians were ever fooled by this blatant charade. The fact that I kept smothering my tofu with barbecue sauce was probably something of a giveaway.

These days I regard myself as a ‘non-practising’ vegetarian and still regret the steakless summer of ’97. When I finally capitulated and returned to my true, carnivorous self I thought that outraged vegetarians would intervene and try and make me see the error of my ways. Instead, they greeted the news with a shrug of the shoulder, while I marked the occasion by a shoulder of lamb.

The likelihood that a large number of animal activists will suddenly appear on my doorstep as part of an intervention is becoming ever more remote.

In 1989, I had my ears pierced. This, I believed, would give me the appearance of a hard-edged rebel with a heart of gold. Instead, it made me look like a poorly dressed pirate.

This was partly attributable to the fact that the first earrings I owned were purchased from the local chemist and may have been designed with ladies north of 60 and a purple rinse firmly in mind.

It is true, I feel that it’s difficult to look like a hard-edged rebel when you’re wearing earrings that rightly belong to Dame Edna Everage.

From 1993 to 2002, I routinely carried large and difficult books with me wherever I went. These would be produced while on public transport for the sole purpose of impressing all those within my immediate vicinity and drawing attention to my awesome intellect.

For years I carted the works of Foucault, Sartre, Camus and Nietzsche as a not-too-subtle means of advertising what a brainiac I was. It must be said, I do not remember a single word I read during that time. In fact, I doubt that carrying difficult books fooled anyone, although it did ensure that I always got a seat all to myself.

In truth, all my attempts to make a better me failed spectacularly.

I met Kate on 17 November

2005. My business partner had agreed to give a talk to some clients of a law firm, before booking himself an overseas holiday. I arrived not knowing anyone and it was then that I met Kate.

What I remember most about that night is how easy it was to talk to her. I didn’t feel anxious or panicked. I didn’t feel the urge to re-insert my earrings, slap on a cardigan or pretend to be a vegetarian. There wasn’t any need. I could just be myself. In many ways, the conversation that we started that night has continued ever since.

When I look back at the years before I met Kate, I don’t think of them as having been wasted, although I do deeply regret wearing that cardigan for as long as I did.

I’d like to think that I was waiting for the right moment. I will be forever grateful to Kate.

If history is any guide, it takes a person of extraordinary patience and grace to endure my myriad eccentricities.

It seems as remarkable to me today that such a person should even exist. I am pleased to have found her, when I least expected it. www.stuartmccullough.com

A drawcard for all ages DRAWCARD Entertainment was founded

by Norbert Graetzer to bring great and affordable entertainment to local communities while raising much-needed funds for local charities and giving some families a hand.

Drawcard played a vital role in raising funds for the victims of the 2009 bushfires and the 2011 floods by staging shows, including the star-studded show at the Drum Theatre, which included performers Glenn Shorrock, Lisa Edwards, Dave O’Neil and

Lhemo.

Drawcard has also put together shows to raise money for people in need of medical equipment.

The company will be hosting a number of shows at the Peninsula Community Theatre in Mornington throughout 2012 with a great line-up of acts kicking off the season in April with The Eagles Story.

Drawcard sales manager John Wells said the tribute show played to a full house late last year.

“It was a spectacular sight with more than 300 people

attending,” he said.

“There are a few changes in store for 2012. Ticket prices have dropped from $48 to $35 per head and drink prices will be lower also.

“Morning Melodies is also a big part of our business and we are putting together a program for the people of the Mornington Peninsula that will include morning tea and a very entertaining show all for about $20.”

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Performance AFTER the tragic death of Amy Winehouse last July, some of the producers and musicians who worked with her revisited the many recordings she made before, during and after the release of Frank and Back to Black.

It’s been said Amy never performed a song the same way twice. It quickly became apparent to close friends Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi they had a collection of songs that deserved to be heard, a fitting testament to their artist friend.

Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Island Records), the third album from Amy Winehouse – one of the most talented artists to emerge in popular music for decades – has been released by Universal Music.

The 12-track album features previously unreleased tracks, alternate versions of classics and a couple of new Winehouse compositions. Amy’s family helped put the album together.

Amy’s father Mitch said: “I spent so much time chasing after Amy, telling her off, that I never realised what a true genius she was. It wasn’t until I sat down with the rest of the family and listened to this new album that I fully appreciated the breadth of Amy’s talent, from jazz standards to hip hop songs; it really took my breath away.”

Amy performs a reworking of the classic 1960s song Our Day Will Come, a big hit for Ruby and The Romantics; Between The Cheats, a song Amy recorded in 2008; Tears Dry, a ballad she wrote in 2005; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, the Carole King classic; and The Girl From Ipanema, the first song an 18-year-old Amy sang when she went to Miami to record with producer Salaam Remi in 2002.

Amy teams up with Tony Bennett to cover the 1930s jazz standard Body and Soul, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London in March 2011 and produced by Phil Ramone. This was Amy’s final studio recording.

Amy recorded an emotional version

of the Leon Russell classic A Song For You, made famous by Donny Hathaway, who was Amy’s all-time favourite artist. The song was recorded in one take, just Amy and her guitar at her London home in 2009 as she battled her demons.

Amy also teams up with rapper Nas and sings Like Smoke, recorded in 2008. Other tracks include Wake Up Alone, Valerie, Halftime, and Best Friends.

The 27-year-old singer had been troubled by alcohol and drug problems throughout her career and news of her death was quickly followed by suggestions that it could be related to one or the other.

The troubled artist had cancelled all performances after a series of erratic public appearances, but news that she had been found dead at her north London home in July 2011 came as a shock to many.

Her father – taxi driver-turned jazz singer Mitch Winehouse – was returning to the UK from New York where he had been due to give a concert.

As is the case with all the true greats, Winehouse became an icon almost overnight when she first hit the music scene. Her tattooed arms made her an instant antidote to the Britneys and

Christinas who had for too long dominated the pop music landscape, and her constant run-ins, flare-ups and lack of concern for her public image made her a true rebel.

Lioness: Hidden Treasures gives fans another chance to experience Amy’s trademark vocals and wonder what could have been.

For much too short a time, Amy offered listeners the vintage visceral soul that poured out of her. www.amywinehousefoundation.co.uk www.amywinehouse.com www.getmusic.com.au *** SHOCK Entertainment will release the blu-ray format of the classic DVD The Doors: The Story of LA Woman on January 27.

Last year was the 40 th anniversary of the album’s release and the death of Jim Morrison, and this program details how the album came about, its recording and what was happening to the band at the time.

The story is told through new interviews with the three surviving Doors – Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore with contributions from Jac Holzman, founder of their label Elektra Records; Bill Siddons, who was their manager; Bruce Bot-

did a fine job under enormous pressure? Why use the F word in every sentence? Are parents partly to blame?

I was at a cafe next morning with an episode of the ABC’s The Slap right in front of me. A little monster ignored, broken glass, non-stop banging; sadly no slap; not even mild admonishment.

Fascinating selfishness.

And so, if you happen to be lazing on the beach on a sunny day this month catching up from lost sleep, and you’re hit by a tennis ball or football or sand is accidentally sprayed on your face, do not be alarmed. It’s all in fun.

I suggest you laugh and say something along the lines of “That was fun.

Thanks for including me. Love the music. Can you turn the volume up?”

If you really want to communicate with them, include the F word indiscriminately. Enough. *** WHAT motivates us? Big question, many answers. I’ll name six but there are many more: Power, obviously, the desire for approval, vengeance, idealism, food and pleasure. Oscar Wilde put it all down to pleasure. He would have enjoyed NYE. A survey of men and women taken at a university campus in the United States (where else)

notes the difference in the pursuit of perceived pleasure.

Women approached by men accepted a date 50 per cent of the time, but if asked to come back to their flat only 6 per cent agreed. None agreed to have sex. They reversed the test, as in women asking men, and 69 per cent of men agreed to go back to their flat and 75 per cent agreed to sex. PS: Nobody approached me. *** THE year 12 results came out and there he was, our very own Martin Dixon, the former headmaster now Minister for Education, happy for the kids’ results, on the telly. I said “Hi” from my couch, but he probably couldn’t hear me. Those photographers must follow Marty everywhere he goes, which would be most annoying, but, to his credit and full marks, he keeps on smiling. Go Marty. Don’t forget our swimming pool, mate. It’s in my diary for 2020. *** IT’S all good news politically in Victoria with Teddy’s mob cutting 3600 public service jobs, forcing us to have smart meters, upping the cost of driving licences, and freedom of information slammed shut. A budget surplus to

take to the next election.

A surplus or deficit has to be the biggest con of the past 40 years. So many times the worries about this come from people who rely on our daily newspapers to form their opinions. Teddy and Julia believe that with a budget surplus their re-election chances are improved, even though 90 per cent of us voters haven’t a clue about what it means.

The basic philosophy of finance remains, which is to take the money out of our pockets to put into theirs. Some say this is simplistic and they may be right, but so am I. What was it those Christians said centuries ago; “You can justify any actions with good intentions.” Yeah, right. *** JUST for a change I’ll write about females because they’re everywhere this month; in your face, so to speak, beautiful as ever in short shorts, soft dresses, even bikinis. It reminds me of the Easter parade they apparently had 100 years ago where everyone strolled to be noticed, in fully covered bodies.

All ages now, even in my age group (30 to 59), some finding their way to my RSL drinking spot. I’d never seen thighs until I was past 50. You may be

By Gary Turner nick, engineer and co-producer of the album; and others associated with The Doors.

The show includes archival footage of the band performing live and in the studio, classic photographs and new musical demonstrations from The Doors.

Bonus features include additional interviews not featured in the broadcast version.

There is also a previously unreleased track, She Smells So Nice. The DVD also features excerpts from The Changeling, Love Her Madly, LA Woman, Hyacinth House, Crawling King Snake, The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) and the classic Riders on the Storm.

The authorised story of the album was made with the full involvement and approval of The Doors and was filmed in high definition. www.shock.com.au

A Grain of Salt YEAH, yeah. Happy new year; I know the drill. Thirty thousand visitors and we’re all in holiday mode, particularly Woolworths, Coles, petrol stations and the coffee shops.

This is the issue where I can write nonsense (again?) because the holiday crowds grab every free newspaper to fill in the days when it’s pouring with rain (hopefully); so desperate they even get to the last three pages of this newspaper where the editor hides my meanderings. Are you on the peninsula for a holiday? Be very careful because I’m watching every misdemeanour. Lock up your jet skis, ditto those flash utes. We even have cameras on our blue bins. Be clean, be responsible. Yes, I know, I’m fantasising. *** I WONDER about respect. In a population of 22.8 million it’s reasonable to assume we have some 100,000 ratbags living among us. OK, we cope, but why is it they all converge on the Mornington Peninsula on new year’s eve? It’s one thing to be an idiot but it’s another thing altogether to wear it as a badge of honour. Young teens strutting their stuff with nary a thought for anyone other than themselves.

Why the aggro for the police, who

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

By Cliff Ellen thinking I’m a DOM but you would be wrong. In fact I’m a normal (is there such a thing?) male who appreciates this month of frivolity, apart from the ratbags and mostly free of politicians.

So there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher: “Trust your instincts to the end, though you can render no reason.”

It can work sometimes. I attended a dance in my late teens and three of us bet good money on who would get the most refusals. I won in a canter with 32. I simply concentrated on all the shapely blonde dolly birds.

“The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they possess their wealth” Pliny.

Byeee. cliffie9@bigpond.com

Joke!!!

RIddle Solution

A WOMAN brings a duck into the veterinary clinic and says “I think my duck is unwell”. The vet takes a look at the duck, examines its heart, checks from head to tail and says “Lady, your duck is dead”. The women says: “No, I am not so sure, can you check into it a little bit further.” So the vet whistles and in comes his golden labrador dog. The dog puts his paws up on the table and sniffs the duck from front to back, shakes his head and leaves the room.

The vet says “Lady, your duck is dead”. The woman says: “No, no, no, I am not so sure that my duck is dead. Can you please check again?” The vet whistles again and in comes his cat. The cat jumps up on the table, sniffs the duck from head to tail, shakes his head and leaves the room. “I’m sorry, lady, but your duck is dead!” The woman says: “Okay, I’ll accept that the duck is dead. Now how much do I owe you?”

Well, the vet says, that will be $285. The woman says: “$285 – for what?” The vet says: “The diagnosis was free, but the lab costs were $135 and the cat scan was $150.”

ANSWER: The one that doesn’t work is best as it will always be correct twice a day, but the one that loses a minute a day will not be correct again for 720 days (losing 720 minutes or 12 hours).

Sudoku Solution

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Artists’ messages in many mediums ENTRIES for the 40th annual Mornington Art Exhibition have come from a range of exceptional artists in a variety of mediums.

Their exhibited works will be on sale, with a percentage of profits going to various causes backed by the Rotary Club of Mornington, organiser of the exhibition.

Participating artists include painters Fiona Bilbrough and Eric Shephard.

Bilbrough has been teaching painting and drawing since 1988, and in 2000 and 2002 was a demonstration artist at the Camberwell Art Show.

After graduating from university in 2000, Bilbrough was awarded an Alec Bale scholarship enabling her to study classical portraiture and still life in Europe.

Using oils, watercolours or pastels, she has had many solo exhibitions, appeared in several art publications and won art awards.

Earlier this year Bilbrough won the Dromana Rotary art exhibition prize with her painting ‘A tribute to Abraham Louis Buvelot’.

Depicting the view from Arthurs Seat, the painting is a mix between European and plein air styles.

The painting will this year be displayed throughout Mornington Peninsula Shire.

Bilbrough continues to skillfully paint landscape, still life and live model subjects.

In contrast to Fiona Bilbrough, Eric Shephard is seen as a world class wildlife artist whose passion started at an

early age, seeking out birds’ nests and the beauty of nature in the forests of Derbyshire, England.

Shephard began work in Australia as a signwriter but soon decided to focus on Australian flora and fauna.

He is a member of the Wildlife Society of Australia and has won many of its annual art show awards.

He was commissioned by Maxwell and Williams to produce two series of paintings, ‘Birds of Australia’ and ‘Birds of the World’, which have been reproduced on their bone china and tableware.

Shephard teaches art from his Mt Martha studio with a focus on bone china painting.

The works of Fiona Bilbrough, Eric Shephard and many other artists will be on show at the Mornington Art Exhibition, 20-28 January, Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Wilsons Rd and Nepean Highway, Mornington.

Opening night tickets, which include food and refreshments, are available from Cameron’s Menswear or Farrell’s bookstore in Main St, Mornington.

China art: Eric Shephard with some of his Maxwell and Williams folio work (top) and his ‘Sacred Kingfishers’ (far right) is one of this year’s featured artists at the Mornington Art Exhibition, along with Fiona Bilbrough (right).

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Mt Martha Retirement Village. 42 Acacia Street, Mt Martha 3934 Tel 5976 8990 any time. Displays open Wed-Sun noon-4pm

AFTER just 24 months, the Àrst Àve stages at this outstanding retirement village are all sold out. Stage 6 units are under construction and moving fast too, with 30% already sold for May/June 2012 occupation.

With just 59 independent living units, this residential retirement haven stands alone in terms of facilities.

The village has a 90-bed high care nursing home and 34-bed hostel. The amenities are designed to cater to the future needs of village residents, most of whom are active retirees enjoying living in luxurious, independent living units, who also have the added comfort of knowing 24/7 emergency medical care is available, on site if it’s ever needed.

All units are beautifully decorated and comprehensively appointed. They are spaciously light and bright, with two bedrooms and a study. All units have huge garages with electric doors and direct internal access.

There are four different Áoor plans to choose from, offering wide choices. Each unit has living room access to its own private, fenced, paved and landscaped rear courtyard.

No extras policy: High-quality brand split-system heating and cooling, air-conditioners, modern chaindriven roller blinds, eco lighting, stainless-steel appliances including dishwashers, wall ovens and ceramic cook tops, and quality cabinetry and Àttings are all standard inclusions. Locking windows have Áy screens and there are front and rear door security screens. Water tank and Colorbond garden shed are all included.

Quiet location: Situated in a quiet residential area, away from main roads and trafÀc noise, this small complex offers a high-quality residential address and a strong community environment. Mount Martha Retirement Village combines the best aspects of life in retirement – freedom and friendship, without the rules and regulations imposed by many bigger villages.

Clubhouse amenities: All residents have their own keys to the spacious clubhouse facilities. These include kitchen and dining areas, billiards table, indoor and outdoor bowls and croquet, library, big screen HD Foxtel TV and Blu-Ray DVD, computer centre and BBQ facilities.

Social, Àtness and recreational activities in the clubhouse and outings in the community bus are all part of village life.

Pet friendly: Unlike most other villages, Mount Martha Village allows much-loved pets. Recognising that pets are valued companions, subject to sensible conditions, they are welcome and ‘lost’ pets may always be replaced. The village adjoins Dunns Road Park, where there’s a leash-free area for dogs. Access to the park is via our private gateways.

Local community amenities: Mount Martha Retirement Village is only 1.1 km from Bentons Square supermarket, pharmacy, optician, cafes, post ofÀce, newsagent, video rentals and service station. Or closer to 800 metres, via the park, making it an easy walking distance. Mornington and Mt Martha, with their many

boutique shops, cafes, restaurants and hotels, are 5-10 minutes’ by car. And, of course, there are the peninsula’s many beaches, golf courses and wineries – great getaways for the day – between Àve and 30 minutes’ drive away.

Fitness centre: Also accessible is a well-established, professional Àtness centre. Featuring a large, heated, indoor swimming pool, The Orbit Fitness Centre abuts the village. Here, Àtness instructors can assist with health and Àtness activities including water aerobics, Pilates, yoga or just having fun. An extensive gymnasium, spa and sauna cater for more physical workouts. The village’s north-west gate allows access to the gym.

Ageing in place: Retirees whose future considerations include any possible health concerns will Ànd it difÀcult to beat this village as a home where ‘ageing in place’ requirements are to be met, says marketing manager Steve Wood. “For example, should any resident’s health deteriorate, there would be no need to move away from the village or be separated from their partner or village friends. From day one, experienced nursing staff on the premises are available to take care of them in their own unit.”

Emergency call systems Each unit has an emergency call system, linked to the nursing home through the resident’s telephone. This system ensures immediate attendance from the medical staff, who are just minutes away, if ever required. Obviously, this is a potentially lifesaving amenity.

Outstanding value for money: At this village, based on research, both initial prices and ongoing costs remain below other villages, representing genuinely better value for money. Retirees looking for a village that ‘ticks all the boxes’ will Ànd a comprehensive solution at Mount Martha Retirement Village.

Most equitable Ànance structure and secure ownership: Mount Martha Retirement Village ownership is by long, 45-year lease/loan agreement, a common enough method for retirement villages, but when exiting Mount Martha Retirement Village, the Ànancial returns are far more equitable than at many other villages. The reason for this is that on exiting, Ànancial returns are calculated as a percentage of the RESALE price, not the price paid at entry.

This method means residents beneÀt from any capital growth accrued during their residency. This could amount to a substantially greater return than the amounts returned by villages where the returns are calculated as only a percentage of the original purchase price, a very different proposition and a most important aspect to consider.

Units are available from $400,000 to $545,000 currently (January 2012). Weekly service fees are just $56.

Display units are open for inspection Wed to Sun from noon till 4pm. Situated at 42 Acacia Street, Mt Martha.

For enquiries, call Steve Wood on 5976 8990. Web address: www.mtmartharetirement.com.au

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ONE of two gazebos that have been built by proceeds from past Mornington Art Exhibitions.

Art show’s 40 years Continued from Page 5

Showtime: Lyn Mellady is the “featured artist” at the 40th Mornington Art Exhibition, sponsored by Mornington News.

Artist has a preference for pastel LYN Mellady is the feature artist at the Mornington Art Exhibition.

Born in Quirindi, NSW, Mellady trained as a primary school teacher and has also taught ballet.

In 1981 she became a full-time artist and travelled around eastern Australia painting what she describes as “the untamed, but fragile beauty of our rivers , beaches and forests”.

While Mellady’s preferred medium is pastel, since 1984 she has received awards for both pastel and oil. She was a finalist in the International Pastel Landscape Excellence Awards 2001 and appears in several art reference books.

She has been selected for inclusion in a publication of “The World’s Best Charcoal/Pastel

Artists” and has also been listed online as one of the world’s best 13 seascape artists.

Her paintings are in corporate and private collections around the world, one hangs in Parliament House in Canberra and in galleries in Victoria and NSW. Mellady is a past-president and fellow of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, an art teacher and an art show judge.

Mellady and her husband Brian own and run the Brialyn Boathouse Gallery in Frankston.

Next January’s show is The News Rotary Club of Mornington Art Exhibition, recognising Mornington Peninsula News Group as a major sponsor.

Almost 1000 paintings from local, Victorian

and interstate artists have been exhibited in the past four years. In 40 years Mornington Rotary has raised more than $650,000 for local, national and some international projects.

The 40th Mornington Art Exhibition opens on Friday 20 January and runs until Saturday 28 January at the Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Nepean Hwy and Wilsons Rd, Mornington.

Tickets are being sold outside Farrells bookstore, corner Barkly and Main streets, Mornington, for the art show raffle, which has prizes of a $3000 gourmet barbecue, a $1000 travel voucher, a painting by a peninsula artist, and an eight-gigabyte iPod.

 Building two gazebos on the Mornington foreshore and another in Memorial Park.  Buying yachts for Mornington Yacht Club’s Sailability program.  Financing an Interplast team for cleft lip and palate surgery in the Philippines.  Financial and hands-on support for people affected by bushfires and floods.  Providing money to assist those affected by famine in Africa.  Supplying malaria nets for New Guinea villagers.  Sending an aluminium boat and outboard motor to East Timor.  Annually giving money to help eradicate polio.

Opening night for the 40th Mornington Art Show is Friday 20 January.

The News Mornington Art Exhibition runs until Saturday 28 January at Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Nepean Hwy and Wilsons Rd, Mornington.

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3pm – 6:15pm

Hillview Quarries Street Parade

Main St Mornington

Rye Event

FREE BlueScope Steel Community Brunch

Venue Hastings Foreshore

Time 10am – 11am

Vintage car display

Rye Foreshore

11am – 4pm

FREE Community Sausage Sizzle

Rye Foreshore

12noon

Afternoon Entertainment Childrens ‘Mushroom Show’, ‘The Vincents’, Max Rowe, ‘Kikki the Clown’, ‘The Calmer Miles’, ‘Legend’ ‘Creedence Clearwater Recycled’

Main stage Rye Foreshore

1pm – 9pm

‘The Peninsula Weekly’ Fireworks

Rye Foreshore

9pm – 9:30pm (subject to weather)

11am – 11.30am

FREE Live Music as well as Rides & Games for the kids

Hastings Foreshore

10am – 1pm

Western Port Historical Society Open Day

Marine Parade

11:30am – 3pm

Invitation Fours Competition

Hastings Bowls Club

from 10am

FREE Afternoon Melodies –°afternoon tea, live old time & sing-along music, Free courtesy bus

The Hastings Club 03 5979 1740

2pm – 4pm

Venue

Time

FREE Community Breakfast

Dromana Foreshore

8am – 10am

Live Music – Bands & local talent

Dromana Foreshore

8:30am – 1:30pm

FREE Children’s Activities & rides

Dromana Foreshore

9am – 1pm

Flag Raising –°National Anthem Singer, Dromana Foreshore address by Australia Day Ambassador Marcus Moore

10:30am – 11am

Sorrento Venue

Time

Sorrento-Portsea RSL Welcome, Flag Raising, National Anthem singer, address by Australia Day Ambassadors Wendy Stapleton and Paul Norton, bands ‘Munster Terrace’ and ‘Pete Miller and Band’ all day FREE Community BBQ

Hurley Street, Sorrento From 10:30am 03 5984 2886

Salute & Three Piers Regatta – Flag Raising, Canon & Musket Salute, address by Australia Day Ambassador Robert Walls

Sorrento Sailing & Couta Boat Club 03 5984 8200

Venue

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Balnarring Races www.balnarringraces.com

Coolart Rd Balnarring

10am

Australia Day Festival Regatta 03 5986 1361 or Steve 0418 350 162

McCrae Yacht Club

10am

Mornington Rotary Art Exhibition 20th – 28th January 2012 contact Peter 0418 361 001

Peninsula Community Theatre

Various times

Mt Martha Flag Raising 03 5986 2261

Mt Martha Village

8:45am

Mornington Historical Society Exhibition – Museum – including book stall, 5976 3203

789 Esplanade Mornington

11am – 5pm

Australia Day Luncheon Bookings 03 5985 2277

Rye Hotel

12:30pm –°2:30pm

MMAD Australia Day Swim 03 5974 4140 or Jenny 0407 598 934 www.mmlsc.com

Mt Martha Life Saving Club

11:30am For information on all Shire activities 1300 850 600 or www.mornpen.vic.gov.au Note – Program accurate at time of printing.

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Rye Foreshore

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Event

Venue

Flag Raising –°National Anthem Singer then address by Australia Day Ambassador David McLachlan AO

Hastings Event

Time

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