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Taking to the stage for When the Birds Come In are Jemma Cuff-Jones, Jane Bayly, Brian Garnot, Anthea Mackenzie, Finley Stapleton-Hamleton, Octavia Stapleton, Pixie Jones, Carole Patullo. Picture: Yanni
WHEN the Birds Come In is a multimedia retrospective of stories shared by women living on the Mornington Peninsula. Curated and crafted by Carole Patullo, Jane Bayly and Melanie Beddie, audiences will travel through several created environments and spaces. Performers from three generations, including young actors from Dreamhouse Theatre Company, Rosebud Secondary College, SPARK Productions and The Music Industry will work alongside professional actors to reimagine stories and songs collected through the festival, A Woman’s Place. “There is something very special about storytelling; and when those stories come from lived experiences and transformed into theatre, the response from communities is profound,” co-producer Anthea Mackenzie said. Members of the audience will be invited to share their stories. “The magic that happens in storytelling isn’t with the storyteller, and it isn’t with the audience. The magic is in the ‘something’ that happens between the two,” Ms Mackenzie said. When the Birds Come In will be performed at the Southern Peninsula Arts Centre, Rosebud, 16 and 17 March. Bookings: www.trybooking. com/BAPJE Details: awomansplace2019. squarespace.com/
Water supply a poll issue Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au
Fluid alliance: Calling on politicians to make better use of treated wastewater being pumped into the sea near Gunnamatta are, from left, Main Ridge avocado grower Steve Marshall, Russell Joseph, Chris Brayne and David Gill. Picture: Supplied
POLITICIANS are being asked to forget their differences and adopt a bipartisan approach to provide the Mornington Peninsula’s “hinterland” with secure water supplies for agriculture and fire fighting. The authors of the Hinterland Environmental Water Scheme (HEWS), Steve Marshall and Russell Joseph, say political posturing should be replaced with election promises to finance feasibility studies and design of a system to use treated wastewater now being
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class treated water from the Eastern Treatment Plant in Carrum instead of pumping it into the sea. Mr Joseph says a draft report into using the water “showed we can preserve our farming hinterland for generations to come with a genuine a green wedge compatible agricultural industry built on a sustainable water supply”. Low rainfall summer across the peninsula had reinforced the need for “developing a drought and climate change resistant water supply to guarantee our ongoing local horticultural production and provide a secure water supply for fire fighting”. Continued Page 11
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discharged into Bass Strait, near Gunnamatta. Some steps towards taking the politics out of the equation have already been taken with the newly-elected Labor MP for Nepean, Chris Brayne, saying he hopes “my government can work with both the shire and federal government to fund the much needed feasibility study as quickly as possible”. Mr Joseph, the Liberal Party’s candidate for Nepean, was defeated by Mr Brayne at the 24 November state election. The former political foes are now united in their efforts to at least investigate using the 350 million litres of
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