March 10th 2015

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AN exhibition at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery brings together 12 Australian designers who have the potential to influence lifestyle, learning and culture, developing ideas that could change the way we inhabit the world. CUSP: Designing into the next decade is an exciting and interactive exhibition that runs until 3 May. The exhibition considers who is working “on the cusp” of thinking in their field and what is driving their work. But be warned: CUSP is not a traditional art exhibition. The items displayed invite and encourage visitors such as Lucy and Ryan Ritchie to interact with the exhibition. See story Page 8. Picture: Daryl Gordon

Tanti bid for more pokies Mike Hast mike@mpnews.com.au A MORNINGTON hotel wants to install another 17 poker machines to take its total number from 23 to 40. Mornington on Tanti Hotel, once known simply as Tanti Hotel, has applied to the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation for the extra pokies. Mornington Peninsula Shire Council

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intends to lodge a submission and is seeking comment from the public. The hotel – owned by Gianni Grollo’s PubCo Group – will have to provide the shire with a socio-economic impact assessment as well as a planning application as it is making changes to its premises. The shire’s consultative committee on gaming – which includes representatives of hotels, a church organisation, lottery products retailers and shire of-

ficers – also will have a say about the application. The application is the fourth for extra electronic gaming machines, or EGMs, to be considered by the commission and the shire in the past 15 months. The Peninsula Club in Dromana, formerly Dromana-Red Hill RSL, won approval for 15 pokies last year. It had wanted 18 machines but a compromise was reached that saw the club make a large cash payment to a community

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group. It now has 35 pokies. Baxter Tavern won approval for 15 pokies but hasn’t yet acted on its licence. Dromana Hotel has applied for more machines and the commission for gambling is expected to make a decision soon. If the Tanti is successful, it will bring to 267 the number of pokies in Mornington and Mt Martha. Steeples at Mornington Racecourse has 85, Grand Hotel 70, Kirkpatricks

Hotel 40, Dava Hotel 32 and Mornington on Tanti Hotel 32, a total of 250 EGMs. The shire generally opposes pokies applications, believing the municipality has sufficient. The most recent figures (2013-14) show $79 million was lost to pokies on the peninsula. In the 2012-13 financial year, total losses were $78.9 million, down slightly from the previous year. Continued Page 4


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