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Artists go where the wild things are NATURAL history is a feature of the three exhibitions now running at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. The Art of Science is a Museum Victoria touring exhibition showing the art produced during 300 years of exacting scientific observation and illustration. The exhibition shows the development of scientific art from the museum’s seldom seen collection of artworks and rare books as well as images produced with microscopes, macrolenses and computers. Vision Splendid: Landscapes of Phillip Island and Western Port features works by Eugene von GuÊrard, Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Walter Withers and Rick Amor, and is the first exhibition to consider artistic representations of this unique and varied stretch of coast and land. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Phillip Island and Western Port became a favourite destination for artists as they searched for views and vistas beyond the familiar confines of Melbourne and Port Phillip. Along with the treks of singular artists, Phillip Island and the shores of Western Port also played host to artists’ camps where drawings and paintings were made, and ideas formed and exchanged. The Call of the Coast shows work by Australian watercolourist Robert Wade who has travelled and painted across the globe, from the markets of Morocco to the canals of Venice. However, in this exhibition it is an outcrop of rock on the Mornington Peninsula that continues to capture his imagination. The exhibition has 15 studies of Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck, which Wade donated to the gallery in 2007. Painted over many years, the works range from 1983 to 2007. Strange creatures: Peta Collings of MPRG with Albertus Seba’s 1734 book. Picture: Yanni
A load of rubbish By Mike Hast THE Mornington Park precinct was marred by rubbish after the hot weekend and looked like a Third World country, says resident Paul Smith. Mr Smith and former chamber of commerce president Scott Crowe are “citizen cleaners� who pick up rubbish in the precinct during regular morning and evening walks.
The pair has been calling for improved rubbish collection for several years. “At 8pm on Sunday I visited the precinct while walking my dog. The whole area was absolutely disgusting, littered with rubbish and picnic waste everywhere,� Mr Smith said. “Rubbish bins where overflowing in Mornington Park, the Mothers Beach picnic area, and the boat hire picnic area.�
Mr Smith complained to Briars Ward councillors Anne Shaw and Andrew Dixon in an email sent on Sunday. “Councillors, it is clearly obvious that the shire staff responsible for overseeing the placement of sufficient bins for the summers season have failed miserably (yet again), leaving our iconic tourist area to be destroyed visually by all those who visited the area on
Sunday in particularly and other days over the past two weeks,� he wrote. “The users of the area cannot be blamed if there is insufficient ‘waste capacity’. “Rubbish piled up against full bins obviously is a poor scenario at the best of times and with the stronger winds that prevailed during Sunday, this caused a particularly negative result.�
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Fire warnings ‘overblown’ By Mike Hast BUSHFIRE scientist David Packham says fire warning messages from the state government and fire authorities before last Friday’s scorcher were overblown. “There is a danger that if authorities make too much of high fire danger days, people will not listen when we get a really bad, bad day,” he said. A scientist with the CSIRO for 18 years and now a fire management consultant who is an honorary senior research fellow at Monash University’s school of geography and environmental science, Mr Packham on Friday afternoon told The News it was a difficult day “but nowhere near as bad as Black Saturday”. He said authorities evoking Black Saturday was “hype” and risked people tuning out when future fire danger messages were given. “We were bombarded with saturation fire messages including the usual ‘worst since Black Saturday’. “For example, the fire danger forecast for Tullamarine Airport (a good bad case indicator location for the state) was 72, which was about half of Black Saturday. “The upper air wind speed was also well down (less than half) of Black Saturday. The air was dry, but not anywhere as dry as Black Saturday. “The forecast gustiness decreased a little from the preceding forecasts.” He said Gippsland just made it into the Total Fire Ban criteria and its forests were still in low ratings of the
Keetch-Byram Drought Indices. “Typical forecast rates of spread for forests were 2.2km/h and 3.5km/h for grass at Tullamarine, about one-third of Black Saturday.” Mr Packham’s warning that people should “keep eyes open, listen and feel the weather, sniff the air for smoke, and don’t totally rely on the warning systems” proved to be prescient when the CFA’s website malfunctioned during Friday’s heatwave. It was reported that the CFA’s website and smartphone app received more than 12 million hits during a 12-hour period on Friday, causing it to slow down and freeze. On Sunday, Mr Packham said the fire weather for the next four days was most unusual. “The highs are travelling well south, which is why Tasmania is having a bad time, and it looks like we are having Central Australian and subtropical dry air fire weather,” he said. “We can expect serious but not extreme or catastrophic fire weather but with the winds forecast to be from the southwest to the southeast, rather than the usual north to northwest means fire could come from the opposite direction to what we normally expect. “There will be nuisance fires that will keep volunteers busy but they should be effective at these fire danger levels.” Mr Packham said every Victorian had a responsibility to find out the extent of fire risk where they lived or were staying.
Short and sharp: Fire scientist David Packham says fires on the Mornington Peninsula like this one at McCrae in early December 2010 are generally brought under control quickly and are unlikely to spread more than 4-5 kilometres.
“It would be good if the authorities give people credit and allowed them to have access to fire weather services, which currently does not occur,” he said. He said the Mornington Peninsula was safer than many people thought.
“The majority of fires on the peninsula are short and sharp, rarely covering more than 4-5 kilometres,” he said. “You have a strong CFA presence; nearly every town has its own brigade.” Mr Packham, who made submissions to the 2009 Victorian Bushfires
Royal Commission, has consistently been critical of fuel management in Australia. “Fuels build up year after year at an approximate rate of one tonne a hectare a year, up to a maximum of about 30 tonnes a hectare,” he said. “If the fuels exceed about eight tonnes a hectare, disastrous fires can and will occur. Every objective analysis of the dynamics of fuel and fire concludes that unless the fuels are maintained at near the levels that our indigenous stewards of the land achieved, then we will have unhealthy and unsafe forests that from time to time will generate disasters such as Black Saturday. “The political decision has been to do nothing that will change the extreme threat to which our forests and rural lands are exposed.” He said “some shocking pseudo-science from a few academics” had seen the claim that high intensity fires are good for the environment. “The purpose of this failed policy is to secure uninformed city votes. “Only a few expert retired fire managers, experienced bushies and some courageous politicians are prepared to buck the decision to lock up our bush and leave it to burn.”
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Gulls take flight from island home SCIENTISTS and bird observers are trying to explain the mysterious disappearance of tends of thousands of silver gulls from their protected island breeding ground. Commonly known as seagulls and no stranger on bayside beaches or inland rubbish tips, up to 50,000 pairs have been known to breed in one season at Mud Islands in the middle of southern Port Phillip. While numbers were down to 30,000 pairs last season, few flew in this time around. Crested terns also seem to have moved off, although at least 1800 have moved to the South Channel Fort, which was made a bit more hospitable when cleared of boxthorn. “Silver gulls are successful and reliable breeders on Mud Islands but for some reason they aren’t nesting there this year,” the Department of Sustainability and Environment’s Arthur Rylah Institute’s Peter Menkhorst said. “It could be because the recent wet years have made other sites more attractive to them, but inquiries with interstate colleagues have failed to find evidence of increased breeding elsewhere.” Mr Menkhorst has been monitoring the birds breeding on Mud Islands since 1983 and has found silver gulls nesting there every year. The islands, part of Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, are one of Victoria’s most important breeding sites for colonies of waterbirds. Although known to breed on rooftops and land behind businesses in Playne St, Frankston, Mr Menkhorst
Birds that call Mud Islands home Straw-necked ibis (56,000 pairs) White ibis (7000) Silver gull (30,000) White-faced storm-petrel (1000) Australian pelican (700-800) Pied cormorant (50-100) Little egret (3) Royal spoonbill (30) Caspian tern (30) does not believe the city’s gulls account for the missing thousands. “The number of silver gulls nesting on Mud Islands grew from a few pairs in 1959 to an estimated 50,000 pairs by the mid-1990s,” he said. “In the mid- to late-1990s, large breeding colonies of ibis moved in, taking over much of the area, forcing the silver gulls to the periphery and causing a decline in their numbers to an estimated 30,000 breeding pairs.” But this season’s number of gull nests is inexplicably low. “Mud Islands have grown in importance as a waterbird breeding site over the past 20 years with an estimated 95,000 pairs from 10 species nesting on the islands in recent years. It was quiet out there this year with two species absent and numbers of breeding straw-necked ibis well down on the 56,000 pairs that nested there in 2008 and 2009.” Mr Menkhorst said about 1800 crested terns had found better breeding sites on the South Channel Fort after Parks Victoria cleared it of boxthorn.
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Caring for the sea: Dolphin Research Institute volunteers spread the message about the marine environment during the “i sea, i care” beach program.
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at Rye, Dromana, Frankston and Mordialloc. Programs also will be run for passengers on the Sorrento-Queenscliff car ferry on 17 January. Our proven “Be a Dolphin Researcher for a Day” program will also run again at the institute’s centre at Hastings. This 90-minute program is a fun introduction into the world of a dolphin researcher. It is a crash course
on dolphins and how we identify individual animals. Participants, with the help of researchers, then trial their new skills on actual research photos of dolphin fins. Parents and older siblings can help the younger ones, so it is great for all ages. The program costs $9.90 a person. Call the institute or look on the website for dates and times. The institute is a not-for-profit organisation relying on community support of the Adopt-A-Dolphin program to maintain its work. Become an Adopt-A-Dolphin supporter or find out about the programs at www.dolphinresearch.org.au or call 1300 130 949. Jeff Weir is executive director of the Hastings-based Dolphin Research Institute.
Rock delay to Esplanade opening By Keith Platt ROADWORKS to repair a landslide on the Esplanade between Mt Martha and Safety Beach are unlikely to be finished until February. VicRoads originally announced the road would reopen in time for Christmas, but now says the contractor “struck rock” leading to a “minor change in the scope of work”. The landslide occurred in July last year, but repairs were delayed for some months because the affected area required preparation of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan to protect Aboriginal artefacts. Two other landslides on the Esplanade in recent years were fixed without the need for a CHMP, despite the entire coast being seen as an area of “cultural heritage sensitivity” under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006. The tops of cliffs at Mt Martha Beach North were “shaved” by the Department of Sustainability and Environment in 2011, although the remains of Aboriginal middens can be clearly seen in the dark earth. A DSE spokesman last week said cliff overhangs behind beach boxes were trimmed “to reduce risks to public safety, and also to ensure the site was safe for construction of the revetment [embankment wall] at the base of the cliff”. “Under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 – and as advised in the Coastal Management Act consent given for these works – a CHMP was not required. Investigations conducted by DSE showed there were no AAV-registered midden sites at the location of the cliff works,” the spokesman said. He said sand transported to Mt Martha
North from Mt Martha South “has now stabilised to a more regular seasonal pattern of sand erosion and accretion … [and] should be effective for five to 10 years”. “Investigations conducted by DSE showed there were no AAV-registered midden sites at the location of the cliff works,” the spokesman said. Mornington Peninsula Shire was also given the all clear by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria to construct new beach access stairs from the Esplanade near Alice St, Mt Martha. The shire was told the work was seen as “low impact activities” and no CHMP was needed. Meanwhile, shell middens affected by the latest landslip near Ian Rd are being removed by hand or an excavator and being monitored by a cultural heritage adviser. AAV communications manager Carol Nichols said the middens would be relocated to a nearby site. “Within the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 there are provisions to enable emergency works in the aftermath of an emergency that allow works to be undertaken without the requirement for a Cultural Heritage Management Plan to be developed, approved and implemented,” Ms Nichols said. “A Cultural Heritage Management Plan is required if a high impact activity, as defined in the Aboriginal Heritage Regulations 2007, is being undertaken within 200 metres of the coast, or in a situation where there is potential impact on known Aboriginal cultural heritage.” Ms Nichols said AAV did not know about the earlier landslips on the Esplanade or the works at Mt Martha North beach.
Shore work: Top, further delays have been announced in works at the Esplanade, Mt Martha. Left, sand being taken from Mt Martha Beach South to the north. Below, shells clearly visible at the top of cliffs “shaved” at Mt Martha Beach North.
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Time for extra buses as 788 tops a million COMMENT By Ian Hundley THE route 788 bus service between Frankston and Portsea hit one million passengers for the first time in the year ending 30 June 2012. Recent figures from Public Transport Victoria show the 788, which runs seven days a week between Frankston station and Point Nepean National Park, is one of the most heavily utilised routes in metropolitan Melbourne. This will come as a surprise to many peninsula residents who are accustomed to years of poor service and long ago gave up on public transport. On average the 788 runs about every 45 minute services on weekdays and every 75 minutes on weekends, and is often overcrowded and running late, especially during the summer holiday period. Regular users of the service are familiar with increasing overcrowding and will be less surprised that more than one million people use the service. An estimated 1,045,109 passengers travelled on 788 in 2011-12, which was more than a 50 per cent increase on the 695,400 passengers who used it in 2010-11. This is the continuation of a growth trend
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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire and Victoria Police are running a joint operation to combat what the shire says is persistent theft and other crimes in foreshore camping areas. Operation CampAware includes police foot and bicycle patrols as well as the peninsula CREST team (Community Response Engagement and Social Tasking strategy). Rosebud crime prevention officer Leading Senior Constable Julie Simpson said thieves target bicycles, drink coolers, phones and other small personal items. “Campers should be vigilant about keeping belongings safe, and look after each other in the camp ground. “Secure outside camping equipment, gas bottles, barbecues, trailers, spare tyres and bikes with good chains and locks. Keep refrigerators and coolers inside the tent or lock them at night.” The mayor Cr Lynn Bowden said the operation would help foreshore campers feel safer. “The CREST team and CampAware are great examples of the partnership approach to safety on the peninsula,” she said.
Cash for coast THREE southern peninsula foreshore groups have scored Coastcare grants. Dromana Foreshore committee of management received $13,728 for coastal woodland links to reconnect remnant native vegetation in Latrobe Reserve.
since at least 2006-07 when the service carried an estimated 550,000 passengers. The 788 bus now ranks as the 19th most-used bus in Melbourne out of 353 services. The most frequently used bus service in Melbourne is the 903 SmartBus that runs between Mordialloc and Altona, and catered for more than six million passengers in 2011-12. The 907 SmartBus between Mitcham railway station and Melbourne CBD carries about the same number of passengers as the 788 bus, 1,048,001 in 2011-12. The big difference is the 907 SmartBus runs between 5am and midnight, and has 15-minute services on weekdays with buses every six to eight minutes during morning and evening peaks. In 2011-12, overall bus patronage in Melbourne increased by about 15 per cent. Most of the increase occurred on higher-frequency bus services, such as the 903 and 907 SmartBuses. It should now be clear to the state government that significant increases in service frequency are required on the 788 and other bus services on the Mornington Peninsula to provide enough buses to satisfy demand. Ian Hundley is a public transport campaigner who has been advocating for improved transport in outer Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula for five years. Friends of Flinders Coastline has $14,432 for protection and restoration of the coastline. McCrae Homestead Coastal Group won $5500 for coast banksia woodland restoration and revegetation. Nepean MP Martin Dixon said $388,000 in grants was awarded to 31 volunteer and community groups for conservation and management works along Victoria’s coastline. “Coastcare Victoria is dedicated to enabling coastal volunteers to continue their work and improve our coast for the benefit of all Victorians,” he said. “Since 2009, more than 100 projects have been supported through Coastcare Victoria. Projects address important coastal issues including the protection of Ramsar wetlands, conservation of threatened species and the protection and restoration of threatened ecological communities.”
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Following brushstrokes of great outdoor artists THE work of peninsula plein air painters is the focus of the latest exhibition at Mornington’s Oak Hill Gallery. “Footsteps” features works of the Mornington Peninsula Plein Air Painters group, whose members meet weekly to paint landscapes and seascapes, and have been following in the footsteps of the artists along the SorrentoPortsea Artists Trail. Started in 2005, the trail follows the paths taken by such artists as Sir Arthur Streeton and Arthur Boyd to the sites where they created some of their best-known works.
Photographs of their originals are on display along with those paintings of the plein air group with their impressions of the sites today. The exhibition was officially opened by the trail’s creator, Frank South, on 6 January. The exhibition is open until 30 January. All paintings are for sale. The gallery is at 100 Mornington-Tyabb Rd, Mornington, next to Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. For more information, call Maxine Wild on 5985 5770. Fred Wild
It’s top of the range for our councillors By Keith Platt CONTINUING the tradition, Mornington Peninsula councillors have voted to allocate the highest possible annual allowances to themselves and the mayor. The Minister for Local Government Jeanette Powell sets allowance ranges under the Local Government Act 1989 and leaves it up to individual councils to decide how much should be paid. In the shire’s case, councillors have set the allowance for the mayor Cr Lynn Bowden at $85,741 and $26,843 for themselves. In a letter to CEO Michael Kennedy on 26 October, the acting director of Local Government Victoria, Kendrea Pope, said the allowance range for councillors was $11,204-$26,843 and mayors could be paid up to $85,741. Nine per cent superannuation is paid on these allowances and councillors can also claim travelling (96.87 cents a kilometre for six-cylinder vehicles and 79.7 cents a kilometre for fourcylinder vehicles), child care and out-of-pocket expenses. Cr Bowden has the use of a mayoral car and councillors are supplied with mobile phones and computers. The adopted allowances will be paid for the next four years and adjusted annually in accordance with directions from the minister. “The maximum allowance is considered appropriate when relating to the diversity of the shire, the size and scope of activities and the number of voters each councillor represents, which remains one of the highest in the state,” governance and corporate support manager Noel Buck stated in a report to council’s Monday 10 December meeting.
Under the Local Government Act the shire must invite public comment on the allowances through newspaper advertisements and on its website.
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Pointers from the Mayans and Sam Goldwyn By David Chalke BOLON Yokte K’uh – the ninefooted Mayan god of war, conflict and general nastiness – having failed to materialise on 21 December left those hoping to avoid 2013 seriously in the lurch. Promises of global Armageddon on the winter solstice held out the illusion of a consequence-free orgy of selfindulgence for those who “believed”. This was the time to take up smoking again, polish off the carefully hoarded Grange and put real butter on the Vegemite toast soldiers. Sadly, for the more sybaritically inclined, the interpreters of the Mayan calendar were wrong and so it is necessary to take a look forward beyond the remorse and the detox diets toward what trends will impact in 2013. Social trends fall into six broad categories: political, technical, economic, demographic, environmental and cultural. Politically, 2013 will bring relief from the rancorous Punch and Judy show that federal politics has become. One way or another the uncertainty, compromises and expediency of minority government will be consigned
to history; as will be one or other of the leaders, whoever loses. The lasting effect of the past few years, however, will be a growing public disconnection from the conventional political process as traditional media loses its relevance and importance and is replaced by the self-selected, self-reinforcing opinions of the blogosphere. Technologically the major trend for 2013 will be the explosion of mobile computing via tablets and smartphones fuelled by the life and death struggle as Google (Android) overtakes Apple, while the ageing champions Microsoft (Windows 8) and Nokia try to regain their lost supremacy. Whichever way the battle goes the consumer will benefit from a slather of low-cost, high-powered portable devices – the power of the web at your fingertips, wherever and whenever you want. Economically, whichever party wins the federal election, government spending will have to be constrained. The US and European economies will remain fragile as Democrats and Republicans squabble, as do the Calvinist northern Europeans and their more profligate southern cousins.
As usual, China will act as the locomotive of our economy. However, the tensions of the euphemistically named “patchwork economy” (or, more accurately, mining versus non-mining economy) will continue to cause problems. Cost of living pressures will build as the price of essentials such as utilities, food and housing rise ahead of CPI, while inessential luxuries such as electronics and fashion drop in price. As a result, concern about the shortand long-term future of the economy will continue to dominate Australians’ priorities and so feed the mood of prudence and thrift that has dampened consumer spending in the past year. Demographics, or the structure of the population, will start to have a long-lasting and accelerating influence in 2013. The four million baby boomers (a quarter of all adult Australians) will be facing retirement. For many, this will be a matter of great uncertainty: well over half are concerned that they will not have sufficient funds for retirement. Furthermore, rather than having paid off their own homes as retirement approaches, more then a third of Baby Boomers
are still saddled with a mortgage. Turbulent times ahead for many so, rather than retirement, many will try to remain in the workforce, blocking the ascension of the perpetually frustrated Gen Xers. The environment will certainly affect life in Australia in 2013 as it always has. Whether El Nino or La Nina prevails, the droughts or flooding rains of our climate are a constant force in our “sunburnt country”. Politically, the environment will not be the force it was in 2007. Across-the-board threats to the environment are seen to be less serious and immediate than they once were and the climate change gospel has fewer adherents, down to about one in five from a peak of three in four in 2007. Culturally the most significant trend will be the growth of “self-reliance” in the community. The confluence of disconnection from the political process, unfettered access to self-selected news and information sources, and the regaining of control over personal finances will create a newfound sense of liberation and self-empowerment. Regardless of an individual’s world
David Chalke, of Tyabb, is a social scientist who each year conducts the AustraliaSCAN survey of 2000 randomly chosen residents.
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“The reputation of Mornington is at stake – people are talking about how unkempt and dirty the place is, locals and visitors alike.” Mayor Cr Lynn Bowden said the shire had hired extra staff, part of “High Visibility Clean Teams”. “The teams are providing cleaning services over and above the shire’s usual practices,” Cr Bowden said. This included “increased street and footpath sweeping, bin emptying and cleaning, toilet cleaning and litter collection”. The additional services would ensure that busier locations across the shire were well maintained especially during the holiday season, she said. Clean teams had been deployed in Sorrento, Rye, Mornington, Rosebud, Dromana and Hastings on weekends, and services would increase to daily from 20 December. “Daily services in Blairgowrie, Portsea, Mt Martha, Rosebud West and McCrae starts from 20 December.” Mr Smith said the clean teams “have been doing a good job in the retail area, but seemingly are failing in the Mornington Park precinct. Manpower verses volume of waste cannot compete”. He said a national anti-litter education program was needed. “A generation of people have grown up not caring about littering,” he said. To report cleaning or maintenance problems, contact the shire on 1300 850 600. Keep Australia Beautiful (Victoria) was formed in Melbourne in 1969 by Dame Phyllis Frost.
view there will be a website, blog, Facebook page or whatever populated with like-minded (“right thinking”) people to reinforce their opinions, beliefs and prejudices. The consequence will be greater fragmentation and individuality of thought and behaviour. So in one sense the Mayans were right. The so-called American Century, which was a world of global movements, mass markets, mass production and mass media, is coming to an end. It is being replaced by a more fragmented and anarchic world of personal, local, selective, bespoke connections and ideas. A high-speed world that will demand greater agility from governments, businesses and not-for-profits as they attempt to keep up with, let alone manage, the unpredictability of a self-reliant world. As Sam Goldwyn, of MetroGoldwyn-Mayer fame, said: “Never prophesy; especially about the future.”
High life: The Esplanade in Mornington in 1896 showing Holcomb House, left, the two-storey Kirkpatrick’s Hotel and Royal Hotel, far right. Picture: Mornington and District Historical Society
MORNINGTON’S history comes alive on Australia Day with the release of a new booklet, Mornington Heritage Walk – Esplanade, Park and Foreshore, and guided walks at 11am and 2pm from the Old Post Office Museum. The 24-page booklet published by Mornington and District Historical Society covers 34 sites of historical interest on the Esplanade and surrounds and can be divided into two walks. Derek Smith of the society said the walks would enable people to discover the history of “some of the wonderful heritage places including long gone guesthouses, holiday homes, shops and the Mornington Baths”. Saturday 26 January will also see the society’s Old Post Office Museum, corner of Main St and Esplanade, open 10am-4pm. The booklet, published with the assistance of Mornington Peninsula Shire, costs $10. Details and bookings: Vicky Sapkin, 5977 3192 or vsapkin@ internode.on.net
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Taxi company seeks a fare outcome By Keith Platt THE future viability of taxi services in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula could depend on the state government’s reaction to recommendations in the taxi industry inquiry report. The creation of an outer urban zone and certainty given to wheelchair taxi services provided by Frankston Radio Cabs has been welcomed by manager Kevin Dunn. However, Mr Dunn believes cheaper taxi licences proposed in the Customers First: Service, Safety. Choice report could lead to some operators “going broke”. “I’m not saying that would mean the world coming to an end, but we have a good rapport with the community and believe we are good corporate citizens,” Mr Dunn told The News. However, he said “the game has just started, to be quite honest” for taxi operators waiting for the government’s reaction to the report. Mr Dunn said the asking price of licences had dropped in anticipation of the government adopting recommendations in the report. Licences bought for $450,000 were on the market, but not selling, for $300,000 and it was estimated they would drop to $265,000. Mr Dunn said the proposed outer urban zone extended the area that could be covered by Frankston and peninsula taxis, although Peninsula Taxis and his firm had for many years cooperated over “reciprocal services on weekends”. He said under the report’s recommendations, solo taxi operators could take away business from taxi firms, eventually making them unprofitable. In August Mr Dunn told the taxi inquiry led by Professor Allan Fels that Frankston Taxi Cabs could be forced to close if it lost control of its
14 wheelchair-accessible taxis (WATs). He said areas such as Frankston differed greatly to Melbourne where most taxis were not pre-booked. Professor Fels described his report’s recommendations as “a win for outer urban areas including Dandenong, Frankston and the peninsula”. “Taxi drivers in outer urban areas will have to sit an independent exam in local knowledge, disability awareness and customer service if the final report of the taxi industry inquiry is adopted by the state government,” he said. Professor Fels said by issuing more affordable taxi licences and providing more flexibility where cabs could work, services would be more efficient and reliable. “We have listened to taxi operators and not gone ahead with proposed zone changes for Dandenong and Frankston, and also to the public and local hospitality and tourism businesses on the Mornington Peninsula [which] have been crying out for more cabs and better access to taxi services there,” Professor Fels said.
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THE Mornington Peninsula coast has an artistic and personal attraction for Jayne Henderson. Childhood holidays were spent at Mt Eliza, which was then seen as a remote beach area rather than the suburban enclave it has become. Henderson, right, this year’s “featured artist� at Mornington News Rotary Art Exhibition, frequently depicts the southern parts of the peninsula’s coast and bays where she spent many of her childhood holidays. Her works have appeared in numerous exhibitions in Melbourne and country Victoria. She says the time spent at Mt Eliza led to a love of Port Phillip, its beaches, swimmers, piers and boats which in turn prompted her first attempts at painting. After completing an art course at Prahran Technical College (now part of Swinburne Institute of Technology) Henderson taught at Echuca-Moama High School, the first of a succession of jobs in colleges in and around Melbourne. She is now a full-time painter. Henderson’s style has been described as “strong and vigorous, showing the influence of the Australian impressionists she so admires�. Collectors of her work appreciate and admire the exactness of her tonal values, an appreciation echoed by many art show judges. In style, her paintings strike a balance between broad brush and the smallest of details. Recent awards include Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Sorrento Art Show, Mornington Art Show, Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron Art Show, Seymour, Echuca and St Kevin’s College. Mornington News Rotary Art Exhibition opens at the Peninsula Community Theatre, Mornington, on Friday 20 January and runs until Sunday 28 January.
THIS year’s Mornington News Rotary Art show begins with a gala opening night on Friday 20 January. Food and a range of refreshments will be available from 7pm at what has become regarded as one of Mornington’s social events of the year. Held at Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Wilsons Rd and Nepean Highway, the event attracts residents and visitors of all ages. Opening night tickets are available from Farrell’s Bookshop, corner of Main and Barkly streets, Mornington, and from Ken Cameron’s Menswear, 185 Main St. Tickets also will be available at the door from 6.30 on opening night. Proceeds from the raffle and art show are used by Mornington Rotary for local, national and international projects.
Ticket to travel THE winner of this year’s Mornington News Rotary Art Show raffle will receive a $2000 travel voucher. The prize donated by Harvey World Travel must be used toward a Carnival Spirit cruise. Second prize in the raffle is a $1500 “garden hamper� from Bunnings with a bar fridge painted by artist Rose Knight third and a $600 voucher for clothing from Ken Cameron’s Menswear fourth. The raffle will be drawn Sunday 27 January. Tickets are available in Main St, Mornington, at Ken Cameron’s Menswear and outside Farrell’s Bookshop and also will be sold during the art show (20-27 January) in Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Rd, Mornington.
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Students exhibit talent THERE is no lack of artistic talent at the secondary school level, says Mornington Rotary Club member John Renowden. One of the organisers of the club’s annual art show, Mr Renowden said the quality of works submitted by students was attracting recognition and praise. “Artistic talent at our secondary schools is alive and well,” said Mr Renowden as he perused artwork students from senior secondary classes are submitting for the 41st Mornington Art Exhibition. “In the past few years quality art pieces in a variety of media have been submitted by students for public viewing at the exhibition. “Public comment has been most positive in relation to this work and last year the judge awarded a major prize to a student piece of art in competition with adult amateur and professional artists.” Schools submitting artwork at this year’s show include Toorak College, Mornington Secondary College, Padua College and, for the first tiume, Balcombe Grammar School. “Of particular note is the work submitted by Tessa Harrison of Padua. Tessa indicated that art is a great passion of hers,” Mr Renowden said. “She told me that ‘art can say a thousand things that words cannot express’, and her acrylic on canvas work Embrace is a beautiful, stylised expression of love and compassion. “From Toorak College, Bethany Walraven’s piece Viellissement shows the ageing process in three juxtaposed portraits. It is a brilliant sample of work. “Also from Toorak, Laine Saccuzzo uses three fractured faces to display a range of expressions reflecting life’s experiences.” Mr Renowden said Kaitlin Ridley of Mornington Secondary College had “presented a soulful portrait of a woman constrained by society from speaking out”. “A pensive reflective pose in self-portrait style, the painting has a haunting simplicity. “Last year’s impressive winner Jemma Cakebread continues to display her range of creative skills with a challenging, mixed-media, threepicture series depicting a woman distorting her face. “Also from Mornington Secondary College Lara Martin has used make-up materials to present a softly glamorous portrait of a woman in a pose suggesting shyness and reflective thought. “Visitors to the Mornington Art Exhibition at Peninsula Community Theatre on the corner of Nepean Highway and Wilsons Rd, Mornington, will be truly amazed at the quality the student art on display from these and other students.” The exhibition runs at the theatre 18-27 January.
Young at art: Secondary college students have become valuable contributors to the annual Mornington Rotary Art Show. Among this year’s exhibitors are Kaitlin Ridley of Mornington Secondary College, above, with her self-portrait and Tessa Harrison of Padua College with her painting Embrace.
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