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Family night out: Sophie, 8, and Charlotte, 4, with mum Kate Wills, a teacher at Sorrento Primary School, were among the many people who raised money for the homeless by sleeping in their cars on Saturday night at Mornington Park. Picture: Supplied
Cold snap unites park sleepers SATURDAY night’s Sleep in Your Car event at Mornington Park raised $22,100 and “still counting”, organisers said yesterday (Monday). “Event’s like that truly take a community effort and, just as Dorothy didn’t journey alone in the Wizard of Oz, we couldn’t have done it without the community,” Fusion’s Emma Woodcock said. “The synergy of the event was great, and the community spirit was high despite the wet weather. But the bad weather drove us to truly appreciate the point of what we were raising money for - the vulnerable young people experiencing homelessness. “They don’t get to hide out from the bad weather or return home if it gets too cold. The weather actually served to unite us in passion and purpose in building community and offering hope in our neighbourhoods.”
Public may decide ulcer study’s future Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE future course of a Mornington Peninsula-based study into the causes of the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer could depend on the outcome of a public meeting next Saturday. Organisers are hoping for “a reasonably civilised event” to fully explain the Buruli study so “concerned groups and individuals can decide where to
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take it from there”. In a letter to the mayor Cr David Gill last week, Flinders MP and Health Minister Greg Hunt said Mornington Peninsula Shire had “total control” over “mosquito control activities” and “a broader public health responsibility to its residents to ensure that all necessary actions are being taken to address the occurrence of Buruli ulcer”. Cr Gill on Sunday expressed surprise that the shire had control over the study – which he has criticised as
in Rye have already been sprayed with chemicals to kill mosquitoes (“Ulcer study ‘now a trial’ – mayor” The News 31/7/19). News that the spraying had taken place in March surprised shire councillors and angered members of the public who were already voicing their concerns over the environmental effects of the proposed spraying. More than 15,000 signatures have been added to an online petition opposed to the use of chemicals. Continued Page 9
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Saturday’s forum at Rye civic hall has been organised by Paul Saunders, Kelvin Stingle and Roslyn Browning, all members of the peninsula branch of The Greens. Mr Saunders said the forum was not a “Greens event” but was being held because many residents were concerned about the spread of the ulcer and the methods proposed to research and control it. The forum comes in the wake of revelations that properties in three streets
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being a trial because of the chemical sprayings – noting that just one shire officer was involved, mainly attending meetings with the research scientists. In his letter (which The News has seen) Mr Hunt also describes the shire as a “cornerstone partner” in the study being conducted by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, the Doherty Institute, Barwon Health, Austin Health, the CSIRO, Agriculture Victoria and the University of Melbourne.
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