January 10th 2013

Southern Peninsula

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Cross purposes YOUNG men scramble for position and dive from Rye pier in a bid to be the first to retrieve the cross thrown in the water by a Greek Orthodox priest in a ceremony to mark the baptism of Christ.

More Yanni pictures on Page 12

Wetlands stop work order

By Mike Hast TOOTGAROOK Wetlands activist Cameron Brown of Rosebud West has had a David and Goliath-type win in the state planning tribunal.

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found that a permit issued by Mornington Peninsula Shire for a housing development on the edge of the wetlands is invalid.

The win has been hailed by conserva-

tionists as a victory for “people power� and another step toward stopping commercial and residential development in the wetlands, large parts of which are privately owned.

The VCAT ruling has embarrassed Mornington Peninsula Shire.

If the development company is forced to remediate the block at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it might sue the shire for giving it the all-

clear to go ahead with the project.

On 20 December, VCAT member Dalia Cook ordered a stop to all work on the 41-house development at 85 Elizabeth Ave, Rosebud West.

She said subdivision works, including the dumping of thousands of tonnes of fill, had been done without a valid planning permit.

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Mr Brown, a member of Friends of Tootgarook Wetland Reserves, said he and his partner Jessica Durrant were pleased with the VCAT decision.

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She said if a valid planning permit was not issued by 30 June, the owner of the land, TJBP Pty Ltd, must remove the fill, roads, services such as sewage pipes, and reinstate the land to its original condition.

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NEWS DESK Art opening ROTARY Club of Sorrento’s annual art show opens Friday night at Sorrento Community Centre in David MacFarlan Reserve.

Tickets opening can be bought at Twiggy’s Shoes or at the door.

The show is being judged by John Duncan-Firth and feature artists are Rosemary Todman-Parrant, Ev Hales, Fiona Bilborough and John Bredl, who will give a demonstration at 2pm on Sunday 13 January.

The show is open 10am-4pm daily until Saturday 19 January. Details: George Segan 0432420336.

Family fun day Ready for opening: The roadside sculpture that greets motorists at the northern end of Peninsula Link, above, and roundabouts near the southern end at Mt Martha. Picture: Yanni

Australia Day tipped for opening of Pen Link

By Mike Hast PENINSULA Link builder Linking Melbourne Authority is remaining tight-lipped about the expected opening date of the 27-kilometre freeway between Carrum Downs and Mt Martha.

Rumours about the date have been circulating since before Christmas with one Melbourne radio station broadcasting Australia Day long weekend as a possible opening time.

On Sunday, a Melbourne newspapers stated “the freeway does not open for at least another week� when reporting that users of Apple Maps on the iPhone had been wrongly directed to the unfinished road.

Apple Maps users have been directed to the freeway for more than a month.

On Tuesday, Gemma Boucher of LMA said the freeway was “still on track for the scheduled early 2013 opening�. “As soon as construction is finished and we know when the road will open, we will let the community know,� she said. “Construction works are continuing, with asphalting along the [freeway] almost complete. There are also some finishing touches to be completed, including where the freeway ties

into the road network at either end. “Once these works are more progressed and the independent reviewer has done his final checks, we expect to be in a position to announce [opening details].�

Asked if the freeway would open on Australia Day weekend, Ms Boucher said: “Given how busy the peninsula is over summer, it’s unlikely that opening would happen on a weekend or a public holiday to avoid changes to the road network at peak times.�

However, just days before last Easter, freeway construction company Abigroup diverted southbound traffic off Moorooduc Highway and downhill through two new roundabouts, a radical change.

Asked if it would have been better to divert traffic after Easter, Carol Bartley of Southern Way, the consortium building the freeway that includes Abigroup, said: “There is a huge amount of work required to construct the major interchange between Peninsula Link, the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Moorooduc Highway so we’ve implemented traffic changes now so we can get on with building this complex connection.�

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contract, the government can reduce payments or reclaim money already paid.

Last July, Victoria’s Auditor-General Des Pearson said the promised economic benefits of Peninsula Link may have been overstated and its potential negative impacts ignored.

His report, Management of Major Roads Projects, was a scathing critique of the freeway, one of the state’s most expensive road projects.

Mr Pearson slammed VicRoads and Linking Melbourne Authority, saying the two authorities failed to take into account the concept that bigger and better roads encourage more traffic, so-called “induced demand�, when deciding whether to build new freeways. “They did not adequately assess the traffic induced by these improvements, communicate the risks, or estimate the impact of the economic benefits,� he said. “These shortcomings create a risk of over-estimating the benefits and giving decision-makers false confidence.�

The report said LMA also had weaknesses in the way it had made procurement decisions.

Peninsula Link was conceived during the global financial crisis by the Brumby Labor government.

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Collectors’ fair THE Peninsula Stamp Club is holding a Stamps, Coins and Card Fair on Saturday 19 January in Dromana Uniting Church hall, corner Point Nepean Rd and McCulloch St, Dromana.

The event is from 9am-3pm and admittance is free. Refreshments are available and children welcome. Details: 0418 322 315.

Online winner A MORNINGTON Peninsula man has become a multi-millionaire by buying an online lottery ticket.

Describing himself as a “battler� and being “gobsmacked� by his $26.3 million win, the man said he had been buying Powerball entries online for some years “but I didn’t ever think I would win�. The man bought a PowerHit entry, which as well as winning the $25 million division one prize also gave him $1.3 million in division two. His wins were in draw 868 on Thursday 3 January.

Burns’s birthday MCCRAE Homestead celebrates the birthday of Robbie Burns 7-9pm on Friday 25 January at the 1840s’ homestead, 11 Beverly Rd, McCrae.

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structure company Lend Lease, have consistently promised the freeway would be completed in early 2013.

Linking Melbourne Authority is a special purpose statutory authority responsible for managing complex road projects on behalf of the state government.

It built EastLink tollway between Ringwood and Frankston, and says it is “assisting the Department of Transport to develop a business case and undertake early planning work for a potential East West Link, a proposed 18-kilometre cross city road connection between the Eastern Freeway and Western Ring Rd�.

Peninsula Link will not be a toll road, but will be paid for by the state government out of general revenue, socalled “shadow tolls�.

The freeway has been built under a 25-year public private partnership (PPP) contract, also known as a DBFOM (design, build, finance, operate, maintain), where the government makes fixed quarterly payments to Southern Way regardless of actual traffic volume.

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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.

Dolphin challenge on the beach

By Jeff Weir THE 2013 “i sea, i care” Challenge will be the fifth year for the Dolphin Research Institute’s summer beach programs.

We call it the challenge because we want to challenge how people think about the incredible marine treasures that live in our bays.

Most of the species that live in our waters are not found anywhere else.

We have the world’s smallest sea star, sea spiders, and colourful sea slugs, corals and fish that most people think must live in the tropics.

Just outside Port Phillip Heads we have visits from giant blue whales and massive brown kelps that can grow a metre a day during the peak of summer.

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Our proven “Be a Dolphin Researcher for a Day” program will also run again at the institute’s centre at Hastings.

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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.

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New zones slow boats to protect swimmers NEW boating and swimming zones are being introduced in Port Phillip and Western Port.

The staged introduction will be made over the next few years, with the latest zones on the Mornington Peninsula applying to beaches between Safety Beach and Blairgowrie.

Zones proposed three years ago from Point Leo to Shoreham and Balnarring limit boat speeds to five knots within 200 metres of the beach.

They also include unrestricted areas for kiteboarding and sailing from the shoreline.

The staged implementation of the zones over the next few years will include Patterson River, and beaches from Seaford to Mt Martha.

New signs and aids to navigation have now been installed from Safety Beach to Blairgowrie, Werribee to Williamstown and the northern coastline of Phillip Island.

The changes followed a two-year review by Parks Victoria and Transport Safety Victoria of boating and swimming zones in Port Phillip and Western Port.

“The new zones will create a safe environment through improved separation of boating and swimming activities in high-density bathing areas, and ensure sport and recreational activities such as kiteboarding operate legally and safely,” Parks Victoria bays and maritime operations

manager Vin Wright said.

“The first stage of new zones was successfully introduced between St Kilda and Port Melbourne in December 2010 and as this second stage nears completion, the new zones will provide clearer distinction of zones and safer waters in three more sections of Port Phillip and Western Port.”

Mr Wright said zones were prioritised according to the “level of usage and the diversity of activities” within them.

Boating and swimming zones in both bays would be introduced in stages over the next few years.

Mr Wright said Parks Victoria had “consulted widely with the community”, including local government, business and boat operators, and lifesaving clubs when developing the new zones.

“Feedback provided valuable information about the diverse needs of bay users and was incorporated into the review, positively influencing many key changes,” he said.

“There’s more than 70 million visits by people enjoying the magnificent waters of Port Phillip and Western Port every year, so it’s important we ensure the boating and swimming zones provide a clear and balanced framework to maximise both safety and enjoyment on the water.

“Parks Victoria is committed to

Water rules: New regulations are designed to separate fast watercraft from swimmers. Picture: Yanni

ensuring our bays continue to handle the increasing numbers of bay users and variety of water activities.

“The new zones will also reduce any confusion over the marking and interpretation of the existing zones.”

In the water, piles or buoys would mark swimming and boating zones while onshore signs would show the new zones.

“The three principal zones are: ‘swimming only’ where no vessels

powered and unpowered boats and includes yachts, kiteboards, personal water craft (jet skis) and paddle craft.

Special provisions have been made for “shared wind sport” areas for kiteboarders and wind surfers, which allows them to exceed five knots within 200 metres of the shore.

Fore more information and maps go to www.parks.vic.gov.au or phone 13 1963.

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Warning for water hoons POLICE and water transport authorities are out to stop hoons on powerskis, also known as personal watercraft (PWC).

A summer safety campaign is aimed at strictly policing the five knot maximum speed limit for PWCs within 50 metres of swimmers, other vessel and the shore.

Over the past summer season police issued more than 500 infringement notices to PWC operators, mainly in Port Phillip.

“There are 15,000 registered personal watercraft owners in Victoria and the majority of PWC operators do the right thing and ride safely,” Transport Safety Victoria’s safety education manager Paul Corkill said.

“Unfortunately, the actions of a few give the rest of PWC operators a bad name and spoil the day for other water users.

“PWC operators are also the source of a high number of complaints from members of the general public about alleged dangerous and anti-social behaviour.

“Hoon behaviour, such as speeding near swimmers or close to shore, and performing high-speed manoeuvres, is highly dangerous and puts other waterway users at grave risk.”

Letters have been sent to registered PWC owners to remind them of safety obligations.

For details go to www.transportsafety.vic.gov.au

are permitted; ‘boating only’ where only boating activities are permitted but speeds are limited to five knots; and ‘shared zones’ where boating and swimming is allowable with vessel speeds limited to five knots usually within 200 metres of the shore.

The five-knot zone is 500m between Safety Beach and Blairgowrie due to the low water depths and the number of swimmers in the area.

The term “vessel” refers to all

Wake up: Powerskis leave their marks at Safety Beach.

KITESURFERS are checking early weather forecasts in the hope of strong winds to help them raise money for breast cancer research.

On the Australia Day weekend 25 kitesurfers plan to race 75 kilometres up Port Phillip from Sorrento to Port Melbourne.

The attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records will start at Sorrento with the kiteboarders staying closer to the shore from Frankston to the finish.

“Being an obsessed and experienced kitesurfer, I wanted to use my passion to raise money to contribute to cancer research and to hopefully, one day, make this disease disappear,” said Cesar Aldea, who last year lost his mother to cancer. “We are hoping to raise $30,000.”

The record attempt will be made on 26, 27 or 28 January, depending on the wind.

The Australian Volunteer Coast Guard is providing a rescue vessel and crew to travel with the kitesurfers.

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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.

Gulls away: There was no shortage of silver gulls breeding at Mud Islands in 2008, but this year they have almost deserted the colony that once housed 50,000 breeding pairs.

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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.

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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

Strange creatures: Peta Collings of MPRG with Albertus Seba’s 1734 book. Picture: Yanni

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.

Artists go where 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 Guérard, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 18 January and runs until Sunday 28 January.

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Swamp fracas: Contractors in early November spread fill at 85 Elizabeth Ave, Rosebud West, on the edge of Tootgarook Wetlands. The state planning tribunal ordered a halt to work in December, saying the planning permit issued by the shire was invalid.

‘Stop work’ for wetlands Continued from Page 1

“We will have to return to VCAT for a decision on costs and how the remediation of the land will be done,” he told The News on Wednesday morning.

“The developer is now required to apply for a new permit for a subdivision and if the permit is not granted by 30 June, remedial works must be carried out, including removal of all fill, services and reinstatement of the land to its original contours and hydrological regime, including the rehabilitation planting of wetland species,” Mr Brown said.

“This is a tremendous milestone for the community because it goes some way to returning the community’s rights to have a say on the development and exposes some of the many questionable planning practices that have been applied to the Tootgarook Wetlands precinct.”

In early November, the shire through its senior planning officer Sotirios Katakouzinos attempted to have Mr Brown’s legal challenge struck out (“Council fails to stop VCAT hearing”, The News, 15/11/12).

VCAT refused the shire’s request and ordered the hearing go ahead later that month.

Mr Brown was represented by “suburban solicitor” Ashley Galvin of Moreheads Lawyers of Portsea.

They were up against two solicitors, a compliance officer and a town planner representing the shire council and developer TJBP Pty Ltd. In late August, Mr Galvin served documents on the owners of the land and Mornington Peninsula Shire calling for the development to be stopped (“Legal move to stop landfill”, The News, 6/9/12).

Contractors had trucked in about 70,000 tonnes

of fill to bring the land surface above flood height.

Soon after the papers were served, contractors increased the speed of filling, adding B-double trucks to single tippers, which carried fill from a property off Boneo Rd in Boneo.

At the November hearing, Moreheads alleged the original 2007 permit had lapsed and the shire did not have the authority to extend and amend it.

The Elizabeth Ave property and its development permit was sold last January for $3.1 million to TJBP Pty Ltd. On 27 August, shire councillors voted to push for Tootgarook Wetlands to be listed as a Ramsar site in accordance with the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. After the December VCAT decision, a spokesman for Southern Peninsula Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association, which has supported Mr Brown, said the next logical step was to “find out how this happened and which officer was responsible for such a developer-friendly administration howler” and “why it was then up to private citizens to proceed with enforcement order applications despite breaches of the permit the developers thought they had”.

In a recent development, an internal fence is being erected on the land seemingly in breach of the VCAT order. Mr Brown said he would be asking the shire to order the fence be removed.  The shire is seeking people for a Tootgarook Wetlands stakeholder advisory committee that will contribute to a new wetlands strategy. Expressions of interest can be sent by Friday 1 February to Sotirios Katakouzinos at Mornington Peninsula Shire (for details, call 5950 1932). The committee will hold its first meeting on 13 February.

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Wetlands gone: An egret on the Rosebud West development site, one of 130 species known to inhabit or visit the Tootgarook Wetlands.

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Divers seek blessing RYE pier and the waters around it were crowded on Sunday as young men and boys lined up to retrieve a cross thrown by a priest.

The Greek Orthodox church’s annual blessing of the water ceremony to celebrate the Epiphany, or baptism of Christ, drew an estimated 2000 people to the pier.

First to the cross was 16-year-old Marcus La Greca of McKinnon.

He was rewarded with a blessing from the Reverend Father Eleftherios Tatsis of the Greek Orthodox Church Panagia Kamriani at Red Hill.

Following church services in parishes near Port Phillip, the priest, followed by a procession of the faithful, carries a cross to the sea.

On piers at Rye, Frankston and South Melbourne, the cross is thrown into the water in a ritual representing physical and spiritual cleansing.

Only men are allowed to participate in the retrieval of the cross.

It is also customary after Epiphany celebrations for the priest to visit parishioners’ homes and bless them with holy water.

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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 self-indulgence 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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The view for 2013: a bit of deja vu, again EMU always makes a new year resolution and it’s always the same. To keep his blood pressure under control he resolves annually not to take this time of the year too seriously. Anyone who knows Mrs Emu will understand how sensible he is.

His Blushing Bride makes a different resolution each January, usually to do with which U3A course she is going to inflict herself on and how much weight she will insist Emu must lose by the end of the financial year. How much thinner an emu can get before the Reaper comes knocking he may soon find out.

“I want you to be the man I married again,” she warbles flirtatiously while steaming another kilo of brown rice. Emu is unable to persuade her it is medically impossible to restore testosterone levels and, even if it was possible, her stick-thin paramour would probably snap in two trying to reproduce the caperings of which he was capable as a newly-wed.

Which turns his thoughts to the resolutions others might be making, such as giving up tobacco, alcohol and the various other deadly pleasures of life.

Emus as a species don’t smoke. In fact they dread fire – Emu’s cousin Bert, who lived with the cattle in the big paddock in Boundary Rd, Dromana, was never seen again after a decent blaze there a few years ago.

Mrs Emu made several unprintable suggestions about councillors and staff, including that some should resolve to retire immediately. Unkind remarks followed about weight loss and a more rigid approach to facts, and a particularly cruel comment about her Aunt Flora’s crow’s feet. Can an emu have crow’s feet, Emu inquired feebly?

Perhaps, he suggested, adroitly deflecting the conversation away from this negative downward conversational spiral, our local politicians need to review their goals via a well-crafted resolution or two.

Mrs Emu agreed. “That nice Greg Hunt should

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try to look a little less like the Archangel Gabriel and exhibit a bit more Tony Abbott Cape hunting dog when attacking the government,” she said.

“There’s such a thing as being too nice – politicians need to display a bit of rat from time to time. Greg has too much polite public school mouse about him.”

Emu suggests to his bride that David Morris and Neale Burgess, state MPs for Mornington and Hastings respectively, have semi-subterranean profiles inside and outside their electorates, so they should resolve to raise their recognition factor above the long grass.

“But no kissing every baby they see in the street,” the BB says firmly. “How traumatic must that be for the poor waif – nightmares for years about approaching puckered lips and bad breath.

“They’d better do something, and fast,” she continues. “Ted Wotizname – you know, the big, tall Premier chap – is a chance to lose Hastings if he’s not careful, with the port and its jobs going west and way behind in the polls.

“That would mean no more government and no more Minister Martin Dixon. How can Martin protect the peninsula from the Opposition benches, and be nice to teachers? And still no pool on the Rosebud foreshore. He promised us that.”

She glared at Emu, who she knows thinks the foreshore location is a fool of an idea.

Emu decides not to introduce the fate of Frankston MP Geoff Shaw into the conversation.

He already knows his spouse’s explosive views on his peccadilloes and resolves to keep his blood pressure – and hers – within safe limits.

Alcohol, fatigue led to trawler sinking THE master of the fishing trawler Lady Cheryl, which hit Corsair Rock near Port Phillip Heads last March, was affected by alcohol and fatigue at the time of the incident, says a report by the chief investigator of Transport Safety.

The 27-metre trawler sank off Point Nepean at 1.20am on 24 March (pictured), spilling about 30,000 litres of diesel fue.

The master and four crew members recorded blood alcohol readings in excess of 0.05 in breach the trawler owner’s zero tolerance policy. All crew were rescued by Port Phillip Sea Pilots.

“The master was fatigued and had consumed a significant amount of alcohol, both factors contributing to his loss of situational awareness,” the report said.

It found the master had mistakenly altered the ship’s course believing the vessel had cleared The Heads. The master had been awake for about 18 hours at the time of the incident.

The report said the master did not make effective use of available shore-based navigation aids and equipment aboard the ship.

Ports Minister Denis Napthine said the report clearly showed that “human error caused by a severe lapse in judgement resulted in the sinking of Lady Cheryl”.

“Despite having a seaworthy vessel and an upto-date safety management system in place, the crew ignored the vessel company’s zero alcohol policy and placed themselves and the environment at risk,” he said.

“The incident resulted in a resource-intensive response from various government agencies that worked around the clock over an extended period

of time to ensure risks to the environment and to public safety were managed.

“We were extremely lucky this incident did not result in loss of life or major environmental damage to [Port Phillip].

“The government takes marine safety seriously and since this incident we have introduced a zero alcohol limit for commercial vessel operators and any operators under the age of 21.”

Dr Napthine said the report made recommendations on the management for the control of alcohol consumption and fatigue, and recommendations to the waterway manager to consider opportunities for expanding vessel traffic services to smaller vessels.

“This was an avoidable incident and one that we are diligent about not repeating in the future.

We are focusing on improving marine safety and are actively on the water enforcing marine drug and alcohol laws,” he said.

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Government help for ‘wrinklies’

By Keith Platt ALTHOUGH not conventionally beautiful even in a doggy type of way, shar peis are too often seen as a musthave pet.

The wrinkly-skinned dog with a blue-black tongue is an eye-catcher.

Unfortunately, for far too many shar peis the initial attraction wears out and puppy love turns to disdain, disrespect and abandonment.

Shar peis may not be the most common dog, but an uncommon number of them are unwanted once they begin to grow and the novelty of ownership wears off.

As with the underlying causes of many broken relationships, shar peis sometimes come with a lot of baggage: they are prone to fevers (including swollen ankles), skin infections, the painful eye condition entropion that can cause blindness, chronic yeast infections in the ears and a B12 deficiency.

Luckily for these wrinkly, sad-eyed dogs their virtues far outweigh the negatives for a small legion of shar pei lovers.

Amanda Booth runs Shar Pei Rescue at Tyabb, headquarters of an animal welfare organisation that has branches in Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

The organisation “rescues and rehomes� up to 200 shar peis a year.

Puppy love: Amanda Booth with one of the shar peis that has been “rescued� by her not-for-profit Shar Pei Rescue group.

It costs about $1500 to prepare each dog for its new owners. “This high cost of care is generally due to expensive eye surgery, which we find is required in nine out of 10 of our rescues,� Ms Booth said. “Each dog leaves Shar Pei Rescue desexed, vaccinated and microchipped [as well as having] any other corrective surgeries necessary. “Adoption fees vary from $250-$900 depending on age and cost of care of the particular dog. “We are always in need of foster carers, transporters, donations and dog walkers. “Foster dogs are provided with food, lead, collar, bowls, bed, ongoing medication; whatever they need. “We ask that our foster carers love them as their own while in their care.�

The rescue service has been given $10,000 from the state’s $1.6 million Animal Welfare Fund.

Hastings MP Neale Burgess said the money would “help Shar Pei Rescue upgrade its website technology, more closely integrating social media and vastly improving its ability to communicate details of available dogs to interested community groups and individuals�. “It is important that we ensure local animals are protected from neglect and abuse,� Mr Burgess said.

The rescue group’s website says pounds and animal shelters from throughout Australia “recognise the shar pei has specific needs and send them on to us, rather than try to correctly rehome them themselves�.

The not-for-profit group is “dedicat-

ed to saving the lives of abandoned and neglected shar pei dogs�.

In 1978, the Guinness Book of Records listed shar peis as the world’s rarest dog.

They were first brought to Australia in the early 1980s, becoming “an instant hitâ€? after appearing in a television commercial. “Sadly, however, once the puppy cuteness disappears many shar pei are abandoned or surrendered to pounds and shelters where they inevitably face euthanasia,â€? the website states. “Shar pei grow into strong, dominant adults, and like all dominant breeds of dogs, they require training and socialisation. Relegated to the backyard, ignored or mistreated, shar pei can become withdrawn and aggressive. “Sadly, because of ‌ health issues, shar pei rarely make it out of pounds alive. “Approximately one in three Australian homes has a pet dog and our culture is based on a fair go for all.

With over 200,000 dogs and cats euthanised every year we can work collectively towards solving this problem. “Rescue dogs are not broken or faulty; they are simply orphans, looking for a good home and, in many cases, make a better choice of family pet than purchasing from a breeder or pet shop.�

The rescue service asks for donations or volunteers to foster shar peis awaiting adoption.

For more information on the Animal Welfare Fund, visit www.dpi.vic.gov. au/pets/animal-welfare or to help shar peis go to www.sharpeirescue.com.au

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Window to the soul DESIGNED for living life to the full with those who mean the most to you, this charming beachside property is sure to impress. The home is unashamedly luxurious, yet does not overwhelm. Here is a home you know you can live in and be proud of, but it’s not a museum. It is warm and inviting. Being set close to the yacht club and beaches, the coastal atmosphere pervades the home and adds to the relaxing environment. A modern kitchen has stone waterfall benchtops, stainless-steel appliances and a large butler’s pantry, which is a great inclusion. Celestory windows flood the open-plan living area with natural light and you can’t help but smile when you look out through the sliding glass doors to the sensational outdoor room with its lap pool and water feature as the centerpiece.

Timber-lined and with a subtle nautical theme, the entertainment area seamlessly merges with the pool and has all the necessary amenities for full enjoyment. The area has kitchen facilities including a stainless-steel rangehood and a servery window leads from the kitchen. After a swim you can use the outdoor powder room and shower. When the lights go down and another day has ended, there are three bedrooms for the family to retire to.

The main bedroom, with an ensuite and walk-in robe, has access to the deck and pool, and two more bedrooms share a second bathroom. The sensational property has style and grace that seems effortless. For the ultimate in seachange properties, this one will be hard to pass up.

Address: 7a William Street, McCRAE Price: $829,000 Agency: Hocking Stuart, 1/991 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud, 5986 5777 Agent: Adam Alexander, 0416 236 393

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A league of its own A SUPERB design with quality appointments to match has created a lifestyle package without peer. An easy drive to some of the peninsula’s finest golf courses, this striking home has incorporated a clever use of silvertop ash timber cladding as well as West Australian limestone to create a natural look that blends in perfectly with the coastal environment. There are multiple living zones, including a spacious home theatre room, rumpus room, gymnasium and a grand, central open-plan zone. All have access to the spectacular outdoor entertainment area. The inviting tiled mosaic pool and spa are part of a larger alfresco living area with wonderful facilities including a bar fridge, barbecue, wood fire and preparation area with sink. The home has four double bedrooms – each with its own ensuite bathroom – and a home office. The modern kitchen has Miele appliances and smooth Caesar stone benchtops with a handy island bench that serves as a breakfast bar.

Beyond compare, this is the complete lifestyle package that will leave you breathless.

Address: 434 Browns Road, RYE Price: On application Agency: Prentice Real Estate, 2395 Point Nepean Road, Rye, 5985 2351 Agent: Michael Prentice, 0417 369 235

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Treetop rural & water views are a real feature of this property. Elevated construction on a large 925 sqm (approx) allotment with the upper level comprising of wrap around timber deck area & 2 spacious bedrooms, both with BIR’s. A stylish cedar clad bathroom has a shower & bath. The living area features an open plan design with timber lined FDWKHGUDO FHLOLQJV DQG D FRV\ JDV ORJ ÀUH 7KH NLWFKHQ has wide benches gas rangehood, dishwasher plus an adjoining meals area and separate tiled laundry and toilet. Downstairs has another bedroom, 2nd lounge area, kitchenette and another shower & toilet.

Whether you are just wanting a relaxing getaway or a very special permanent home this property is for you. Chlorinated IG pool with glass balustrades, solar heating, large outdoor sundeck & garage with workshop.

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With the new Peninsula Link freeway coming soon, this keenly sought after position is less than 1 hour from Melbourne.

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Neat established home set on a level 809m2, fully fenced block, in highly sought after position behind the Blairgowrie village shops and beach. Comprises of three bedrooms, two living areas, kitchen with butlers pantry, undercover entertaining patio; single garage and carport.

2 Austin Street, RYE Auction: Sun 13th Jan at 12 noon Price Guide: Above $900,000 EXPANSIVE BAY VIEWS

This established home has excellent water views from a large open-plan living area and north facing deck. The main bedroom & study area, on the second level, also KDYH PDJQLÀFHQW ED\ YLHZV DQG LWV RZQ private deck area. The 2nd bedroom has shower, toilet and kitchenette. The home has solar hot water & gas, 2 x water tanks, ducted heating & vacuum system, 2 car garage plus another separate sleeping accommodation under deck area.

Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

24 Strathmore Street, RYE $560,000 - $590,000 ENTERTAINERS DELIGHT

Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

10 Leah Close, RYE $990,000 ROOM TO MOVE

This quality property - over an acre in size - is ideal for a large family. There are four double bedrooms, including main with spa ensuite plus sauna! Three living zones and study, full bathroom, separate toilet and vanity. Large laundry, chefs kitchen with 900mm gas cooking, huge undercover entertainment area with swim spa. Double garage, and to top this off, the acre is fully landscaped and has a 12m x 8m x 4m high workshop. This is a must to inspect.

Contact: Leah Pancic 0421 700 749

25 Flinders Street RYE $379,000

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Exceptionally well-presented home within a short walk to shops and beach.

Comprises: three double bedrooms, large study/4th bedroom, plus rear bungalow/ studio. Huge living area with both gas & wood heating leading out to large undercover outdoor entertaining area.

Modern kitchen with stone bench tops, bathroom plus FES. Double garage plus workshop. Room for boat & caravan and all just a 5 minute walk to Rye pier.

Contact: Rob Steele 0418 154 024

47 Keith Street, TOOTGAROOK $400,000 COUNTRY STYLE Charming cottage situated just a short walk to Bay Beach and public transport.

Recently renovated inside, this home is set on a large corner block measuring 827–square metres. Currently tenanted to quality occupants on a month to month basis.

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2 Currumbin Court, TOOTGAROOK $340,000 A LITTLE BEAUTY!

Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

6 Robin Parade, RYE $475,000

This very neat 2 bedroom holiday home is awaiting new owners. In very good condition throughout with large lounge/ dinning room, separate meals area off kitchen together with bathroom and laundry combined. Roof top deck and timber deck at ground level make for great outdoor entertaining.

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Very neat 3 bedroom home in this great location. Ensuite & WIR to main bedroom, large kitchen with meals area, L shaped lounge/dinning, family bathroom, separate 2nd toilet. Fully fenced back yard with paved patio area.

Owners moving interstate.

Contact: Rob Steele 0418 154 024

Contact: Rob Steele 0418 154 024

2327 PT NEPEAN RD RYE

03 5985 8800 www.johnkennedyrealestate.com.au

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BE at one with nature with this surprisingly large three-bedroom home only 350 metres from the beach. The home is surrounded by a forest of palms, ferns and birch trees that privately shade the front of the property in lush greenery. The home extends from a single level through to an impressive double storey as you move toward the rear. There is parking for two vehicles under the upstairs verandah. There are two delightful undercover entertaining areas at the front and back of the home. The pine-lined interior is comfortable and polished floorboards are a nice touch. The main bedroom has an ensuite and two other bedrooms share an upstairs bathroom. The lounge room has gas heating. Although simple in appearance, the kitchen has a nice rustic feel with exposed beams. There is plenty of shelving and underbench cupboards.

THIS character weatherboard defines the peninsula sea change lifestyle to perfection.

Positioned within easy reach of a variety of exciting ocean beaches and the tranquil national park, you can stroll along the beach in a world of your own and coastal towns are only a short drive away. The block measures about 920 square metres with a gentle rise from street level. Extensive landscaping is elegant and low maintenance. There is a host of outbuildings including a large tradesmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garage, cubby house and garden shed.

Across two levels, the ground floor is open-plan living at its best. The lounge is filled with natural light courtesy of a porthole feature window and the well-appointed kitchen has a butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pantry. There are two bedrooms, which share one bathroom, and the laundry also is on this level. Upstairs encompasses the master bedroom suite with a lovely Juliette balcony and the ensuite with spa bath. This home is overflowing with character and charm and the enviable St Andrews location is sure to please.

Address: 8 Clarendon Street, DROMANA Price: $619,950 Agency: Roger McMillan Real Estate, 211b Point Nepean Road, Dromana, 5981 8181 Agent: Roger McMillan, 0410 583 213

Address: 3 Tiberius Road, ST ANDREWS BEACH Price: $550,000 Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Real Estate, 2397 Point Nepean Road, Rye, 5985 6555 Agents: Diane and Phil Key, 0419 324 515

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HAPPY NEW YEAR From the team at Stockdale & Leggo Rye 2013 has started with idyllic weather conditions offering holiday makers the opportunity to enjoy the magnificent Mornington Peninsula in all its glory AND best of all - buyers are returning to the Peninsula seeking permanent homes and holiday retreats for their families to enjoy.

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TOOTGAROOK

$730,000 to $780,000

39 Kuringai Road

KING OF THE CASTLE This magnificent 4BR rendered home has to be seen to be believed with no expense spared with this property. Downstairs are 3 bedrooms, bathroom, open plan living with sliding doors onto a large covered timber deck. Gas log fire, polished floors and the superb kitchen has quality appliances throughout including s/steel wall oven, 5 burner stove top, dishwasher, a nook for the microwave and a marble top breakfast bar. The timber staircase takes you up to the expansive entertaining area with its stunning rural views. Features include: wet bar, storage room, large built-in flat screen TV, gas log fire and r/cycle heating & cooling. Beautiful, polished timber floors, spacious king size master bedroom with WIR & FES. Outside you will find undercover parking for 6 cars, a double lock up garage and security front gates which open via remote control. To top this one off there is a covered BBQ area up the back for warm summer nights, established gardens and sealed circular drive way which makes this home complete. Inspection by appointment only.

Roy Thompson 0419 304 650

TOOTGAROOK

Offers in excess of $730,000

TOOTGAROOK

Offers in excess of $300,000

ROSEBUD

Offers in excess of $310,000

12 Curumbin Court

3/31 Keith Street

73 First Avenue

MAGNIFICENT BAY VIEWS Enjoy extensive views of the bay from this relaxing & spacious 4BR, 3 bathroom home designed for the large or extended family.

Downstairs has a 1BR, fully self contained unit with gas cooking.

Upstairs are 3 bedrooms, separate lounge, & dining, timber kitchen with gas cooking, FES & WIR to main bedroom.

300 METRES TO THE BAY Well-presented 2BR unit just walking distance to the beach. In a block of only 3, features include lounge with gas heating, air-con, open plan kitchen with meals area, main bathroom with bath & shower, separate toilet, laundry and undercover entertaining area.

Single garage with remote access completes the package.

CLOSE TO EVERYTHING ROSEBUD HAS TO OFFER Currently let at $250.00pw Feb 2013, this partly renovated 2 BR beach house is within an easy stroll to the shops and the beach.

Featuring a separate lounge with gas heating, renovated kitchen with d/w and s/steel appliances, meals and 2nd living area, dual entry bathroom, new carpets and timber floors throughout.

Paul Basso 5981 1200

Paul Basso 5981 1200

Paul Basso 5981 1200

ROSEBUD WEST

$900,000 - $990,000

ROSEBUD WEST

Offers in excess of $350,000

RYE

Offers in excess of $340,000

1601-1607 Point Nepean Road

4/1635 Point Nepean Road

144 Melbourne Road

DEVELOPERS, BUILDERS AND DIY SUPERFUND BUYERS Absolutely fantastic opportunity to purchase this outstanding flat block of business zoned land with both main road and rear lane access which has Town Planning Approval for a 3 lot subdivision.

Located in the heart of the Rosebud West shopping village and right across the road from the popular Capel Sound Foreshore.

UNIT WITH ROOFTOP ENTERTAINING Close to the beach and shops, this unit comprises of open plan lounge, dining & kitchen with quality floor tiles, s/steel cook top and dishwasher. There are 2 bedrooms with BIR’s, main with FES. S/system air-conditioning in lounge and there is one car space.

Rooftop entertaining deck with 360 degree views of Pt Phillip Bay.

AFFORDABLE RYE Western Red Cedar home with projected rental return of $280 - $310pw. Close to the beach, shops, wineries & golf courses, there are 3 bedrooms all with BIR’s, lounge with exposed beams, polished floor boards, gas heater, kitchen & dining areas , laundry, bathroom with seperate toilet.

Paul Basso 5981 1200

Paul Basso 5981 1200

Paul Basso 5981 1200

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Smooth operator

All sewn up

WITH a prime position on the corner of Shannon Street Mall and Station Street in Frankston, this business receives maximum exposure from the large amount of foot traffic that passes daily. The juice bar can be easily run with a small number of staff and there are no franchise fees to eat into profits. The fit-out is still in excellent condition and there is a secure lease in place.

STANDING the test of time, with a solid retail history spanning more than 20 years, Bargain Box is one of the landmark businesses in Mornington. Recently moved to larger premises to expand and meet the retail demand, Bargain Box offers specialised sewing classes in addition to sewing machine retail sales and repairs. The business shows strong takings with good profits and the owners are prepared to assist with the changeover period if required.

Juice bar, FRANKSTON Price: $98,000 plus SAV Agency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 72 Main Street, Mornington, 5977 2255 Agent: Tanya Scagliarini, 0438 289 859

Sewing sales and repairs, MORNINGTON Price: $110,000 plus SAV Agency: Kevin Wright Real Estate, 72 Main Street, Mornington, 5977 2255 Agent: Tanya Scagliarini, 0438 289 859

At your convenience WITH no immediate competition in the area, this milk bar has enjoyed solid and consistent trade for many years. There is ample parking in front and seating for indoor and outdoor dining. Other income earners are swap over gas bottles, ice, bait, tennis court hire and meal deliveries to the retirement village adjacent to the shop. Equipment has been upgraded to cater for new takeaway lines and includes new fryers, grill, coffee machine, exhaust canopies, pizza ovens and stainless-steel splashbacks. Well established, the business requires new owners to take it to the next level.

Milk bar, ROSEBUD Price: $199,000 + SAV Agency: Basso Real Estate, 1641 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud West, 5981 1200 Agent: Paul Basso, 5981 1200

Corner development site SITUATED on the corner of Cool Store Road and Glendale Avenue, in the heart of the Hastings commercial area, this prime site measures 1782 square metres. The site consists of several factories. Some are leased and others that can be sold with vacant possession. The Industrial 3 zoned block is on three separate titles and will be a great future development site (STCA) as the region expands.

Industrial site, HASTINGS Price: $1.5 million Agency: Tallon First National Real Estate, 35 High Street, Hastings, 5979 3000 Agent: Dominic Tallon, 0408 528 857

To advertise in the commercial real estate section of Southern Peninsula News, contact Jason Richardson on 0421 190 318 or jason@mpnews.com.au > SOUTHERN PENINSULA NEWS realestate 10 January 2013

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Sale Price: $350,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

Freehold & Business

Live The Dream

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Sale Price: $130,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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For Sale – Frankston

For Sale – McCrae

DŽƵŶƚ DĂƌƚŚĂ ŽīĞĞ /ĐŽŶ

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Sale Price: $290,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

Restaurant & Bar

Findlays Fresh

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This extremely successful butcher in the heart of the Bayside ĨŽŽĚ ŚĂůů ŚĂƐ ďĞĞŶ ƉƌŽǀŝŶŐ ƌĞĐŽƌĚ ƐĂůĞƐ LJĞĂƌ ĂŌĞƌ LJĞĂƌ͘ &ĂŵŝůLJ ŽƉĞƌĂƚĞĚ͕ ƚŚŝƐ ďƵƐŝŶĞƐƐ ǁŝůů ĐŽŶƟŶƵĞ ƚŽ ŐƌŽǁ͘ ^ĞĐƵƌĞ ůĞĂƐĞ͕ ĞdžĐĞůůĞŶƚ ůŽĐĂƟŽŶ ĂŶĚ ƚƵƌŶŽǀĞƌ ŝŶ ĞdžĐĞƐƐ ŽĨ Ψϭ͘ϮŵŝůůŝŽŶ ƉĂ͘ DĂŬĞ ƚŚŝƐ Ă ĚĞĐŝƐŝŽŶ LJŽƵ ǁŽŶ͛ƚ ƌĞŐƌĞƚ͘

Sale Price: $550,000 Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184 or Kevin Wright 0417 564 454

Sale Price: $275,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

For Sale – Rosebud

For Sale – Mount Eliza

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Sale Price: $110,000 + SAV Contact: Tanya Scagliarini 0438 289 859

For Sale– Frankston

ƌŝůůŝĂŶƚ WŽƐŝƟŽŶ /Ŷ dŚĞ DĂůů

WŽƐŝƟŽŶ͕ WŽƐŝƟŽŶ

Shop With The Lot

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Sale Price: $69,000 Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

Sale Price: $495,000 + SAV Contact: Russell Murphy 0407 839 184

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Rosebud Flowers

For Lease – Mornington

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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.

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Now showing: Clockwise from top left, Ian Wilkinson, Eron Cripps, Jenni Macauley, Lynne and Paul Tucker at Oak Hill Gallery’s Footsteps exhibition; artists Pam Tregear (left) and Adriana Mahne with Belinda Brown; Frank South, creator of the Artists Trail (left) accepts a painting from artist Hans Werner after he officially opened the “Footsteps” exhibition; Peninsula Plein Air Painters secretary Maxine Wild (right) with Jeanette Grover of Rye; Ngaire Johansen and Tinie; Rudi Fuchs (centre) with Maureen and Ron Marshall.

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By Lauren Ostrowski-Fenton As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

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People who focus systematically on feeling grateful also tend to be less depressed, less stressed and more satisfied with their lives and social relationships.

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“Display homes are open to inspect, the weather is amazing and the location is incredible.

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Performance SONY Pictures is thrilled to announce that Academy Award winner Quentin Tarantino will visit Sydney to attend the premiere of his critically acclaimed new film Django Unchained. The premiere will be held on Monday 21 January at the State Theatre in Sydney.

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained is set in America’s South two years before the 1861-1865 Civil War. Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx is Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

With an all-star cast including Jamie

Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonard DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, John Jarratt, Don Johnson, Walton Goggins and Jonah Hill, Django Unchained will be released in Australian cinemas on 24 January.

Director and screenwriter Tarantino uses criminals as main characters in his movies. His films are often marked by graphic violence, offbeat dialogue

and philosophical concerns. He often writes and acts in the films he directs.

He made his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs (1992) and followed up with Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award for best original screenplay, and Jackie Brown (1997).

The official Django Unchained film soundtrack is available digitally online and on CD in stores from 18 January, via Universal Music Australia. www.DjangoUnchained.com.au *** THE international award-winning hit Legally Blonde The Musical is coming to the Princess Theatre, Melbourne in May for a strictly limited season (tickets on sale now).

It was a smash hit musical in New York for two years and for three years in London where it won the coveted Best New Musical Olivier Award.

Legally Blonde The Musical is bubbling over with fun and has had audiences across the globe, shimmying in their seats, weeping with laughter and swooning over the UPS delivery guy since the first Broadway production in 2007.

Packed with an all-star Australian cast including Lucy Durack (Wicked) as Elle Woods, Rob Mills (Wicked, Young Talent Time) as Warner, David Harris (Miss Saigon, Boy from Oz) as Emmett, Helen Dallimore (Into the Woods) as Paulette and Erika Heynatz (Next Top Model) as Brooke Wyndham.

Season commences Thursday 9 May at the Princess Theatre, Spring Street, Melbourne. Tickets 1300 111 011.

Performance Times: Tuesday - Saturday 7.30pm, Matinees Wednesday 1pm, Saturday 2pm and Sunday 3pm. facebook.com/legallyblondemusical www.legallyblonde.com.au *** DR James Oswald Little AO, Jimmy Little, rose out of the absolute depths of Aboriginal poverty to become one of the most loved and respected musicians of his generation. A proud Yorta Yorta man born on the banks of the Murray River in south eastern Australia in 1937, he received many awards

and citations in his long career including entry to the ARIA Hall of Fame, the APRA Ted Albert Award, the Order of Australia, honorary doctorates from QUT, Sydney University and The Australian Catholic University and in 2004 he was named one of Australia’s 100 National Living Treasures.

On the occasion of his death in 2012 he was given a state memorial service at The Sydney Opera House and flags flew at half-mast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, condolence motions were passed in the national and state parliaments and many members rose to speak fondly of their personal encounters with this remarkable Australian and his gentle journey from obscurity to national icon.

Warner Music Australia and Festival Records are proud to present the release of two new titles by the late, great Australian singer Jimmy Little. Available now is the single disc collection entitled Treasure: The Very Best of Jimmy Little 1956-2011 and out 18 January is the three-disc collection Songman.

The two titles are the first new Jimmy Little releases since his passing in April 2012.

Treasure spans Little’s work from the 1950s through to the 21st century and features 15 perennial tracks including Yorta Yorta Man, Randwick Bells, Winterwood, Mysteries of Life and Royal Telephone.

Songman is an ambitious 3-disc set that brings together freshly-remastered versions of Jimmy’s landmark comeback album Messenger and its followup Life’s What You Make It as well as some wonderful material from the archives.

In 2006 he founded the Jimmy Little Foundation to raise money and promote on a permanent basis the message of healthy nutrition and lifestyle for indigenous Australians.

Jimmy died in his sleep at the family home in Dubbo, NSW on 2 April 2012, aged 75.

The valuable work of the Jimmy Little Foundation continues. For more information visit www.jlf.org.au and www.warnermusic.com.au ***

THE Seekers - Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley - have reunited for ‘The Golden Jubilee Tour’.

Together, they will take fans down memory lane with stories, memorabilia, messages of congratulations from music industry contemporaries, and video clips on the big screen.

As the centrepiece of their two-hour performances, the legendary group who put Australia on the global pop music map, will raise the roof with their chart-topping hits I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, The Carnival Is Over, Morningtown Ride, Georgy Girl, I Am Australian, and other unforgettable crowd favourites.

For the first time in concert The Seekers will perform The Beatles’ emotional In My Life and the countryfolk classic Silver Threads and Golden Needles, just recorded for The Golden Jubilee Album – 50 Tracks For 50 Years. All those fabulous melodies and timeless lyrics will create magic in Australia’s magnificent concert venues.

January 2013 marks 50 years since The Seekers first sang together in a little coffee shop in Melbourne in 1962.

Little did they know that they would go on to conquer the international music world, and become Australian na-

perature around the 21 to 25 mark. No heating or cooling required accompanied by the subconscious feeling that we are saving money which can be a relief at this time of year.

It’s then you realise the truth that these power companies are privately owned and even if the government bleeds them they still have to answer to their shareholders so management can get their bonuses. What they appear to lose on the swings they adjust on the roundabouts. Service charges, whatever. Usage down, adjusted as per required profit ratio.

Remember when the water bill would arrive at the exorbitant fee of $15 a year? My water bill arrives now informing me my usage is equal to a normal three-person household and I live in a mini unit with a micro garden and go very easy on the showers. Nil problemo. Add the necessary margin onto the sewerage, or parks, gardens and potholes.

The proposed South East Water eight-story head office building at Kananook Creek Boulevard in Frankston has to be paid for somehow. “A place to come together, with a wide public verandah for everyone to enjoy...Having a company of water experts in our city (700 staff) can only help with revitalising our creek,” says

Frankston City Council CEO Dennis Hovenden. Like cows, we can be lead upstairs, but never down. *** Sometimes the obvious has to be repeated in a vain attempt to get it through thick skulls. The death of a young male around 2am on New Year’s Eve, highlighted by television and newspapers, carried with it the inference that Rye represents some type of risk area above the norm. This is far from the truth.

I ask myself “Why did they ban the carnival on New Year’s Eve?”. Because it attracts troublemakers from various areas of the peninsula after 10pm. Rye is no better or worse than any other beach spot from Port Melbourne to Frankston, other than after 10pm when the carnival is running between Christmas Eve and Australia Day. For the other 99.9 of the time it’s heaven on a stick, unless you’re an unemployed single mother.

Why not ban this carnival altogether? Some parents and kiddies enjoy the experience between 5pm and 8pm but then it descends into a seedy hot spot for various types of weirdoes. Get rid of it, or at the very least pay for much wider CCTV coverage. *** I FEEL the need to “hark” back to

the Carols by Candlelight event in Melbourne on Christmas Eve. We all loved Bryan Naylor, an institution was Bryan. Channel Nine then brought in Ray Martin from Sydney. Eventually, we decided he was a nice bloke so we graciously accepted him. And now?

No Ray and Channel 9 transport another couple in from Sydney. Haven’t we got anyone? I understand the bloke won a gold Logie for reasons unknown to me, also that he’s a pleasant fellow.

Good for him. Send them both back.

No wonder Nine went broke.

And while you’re finding a Melbourne compere give Denis Walter a rest next time, and in 2014. Yes I know, Denis is also a nice bloke and from Melbourne, or Geelong. OK. 2013 only as a rest for Denis, ditto with young Delta G. We thank God for tenor David Hobson and his wonderful Holy City to conclude the evening. *** Good friends Gina Rinehart and Johnny Singleton are sniffing at The Age newspaper. Is it an ill wind that blows nobody, except them, any good?...

Yeah, yeah I know: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.

Give me Mary Astor, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Durante and Humphrey Bogart any day... “There will be a single,

By Gary Turner tional treasures.

The Seekers will appear at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre, Tuesday May 14.

Bookings 1300 182 183 or 132 849. www.theseekers50th.com www.abpresents.com.au *** Top 10 albums 1. Treasure: The Very Best of Jimmy Little 1956-2011 (Warner) 2. Take the Crown – Robbie Williams (EMI) 3. 101 Number Ones 5CD – Various (EMI) 4. Down Under Nuggets 1965-1965 – Various (Festival) 5. Merry Christmas Baby – Rod Stewart (Verve) 6. Grrr! – The Rolling Stones (Polydor) 7. More Housework Songs 5CD – Various (EMI) 8. Celebration Day 2CD/DVD – Led Zeppelin (Atlantic) 9. At the BBC – Amy Winehouse (Universal) 10. Three’s a Crowd – Band o’ Gold Below, Jimmy Little and Gary Turner.

A Grain of Salt WE look forward to 2013 with an appetite: a Collingwood grand final and two political parties at one another’s necks. One leader will win, one lose but, eventually, as always, we shall feed on the remains.

Tony is on a hiding to nothing. He must win. His hopes may rest on News Limited, sensible policies, swinging voters, muckraking and the Julia haters.

Julia’s hopes rest on big education and disabilities spending, the female clique, the May budget goodies, unemployment figures and forgetting the loss of the budget surplus fantasy.

Five years of Labor government and we still have a healthy middle class welfare system and a pathetic lower income system far from being a “fairer Australia”. Will Tony be any different? Populist philistines with sadly, little difference between the two.

Greens darling Sarah Hanson-Young will pop her head in occasionally, suggesting we plant a tree.

I’d back Collingwood before Julia but whatever, fascinating. Happy 2013. Don’t lose the two Ms when contemplating stress: music and mirth.

And try to be nice...to waitresses. *** IT can be a pleasant feeling when we get a run of a few days with the tem-

By Cliff Ellen simple definition of discrimination as “unfavourable treatment” and a simple defence of justification.” Double Dutch Nicola...Peter Slipper cleared.

Who would have guessed?...Cliff Richard is booked for a fourth concert in Melbourne. I can’t wait...A RAAF digger blamed fatty foods for prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction and succeeded in getting a pension. I’ve long been suspicious of those five months I “served” as a navy nasho...I like the eHarmony dating commercials. It’s all about “getting yourself out there” which is tempting but they don’t explain where “there” is?...Peninsula Health’s Older Wiser Lifestyles program says “No one is saying don’t drink. Alcohol is a natural social lubricant, it improves the food experience.

It’s a colourful spread in Australian society”. Nice... A man can know every mystery in the Universe, but he can never know the mystery of his wife”...

Hooroo...cliffie9@bigpond.com

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FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

By Stuart McCullough THOSE lousy Mayans got it all wrong.

As it turns out, the world did not come to a shuddering halt on the evening of 21 December 2012. For a range of reasons, this was a huge disappointment.

For starters, it means my decision to not return my overnight rentals to the video store has backfired spectacularly. Worse still, having elected to not start my Christmas shopping on the off chance that human civilisation as we know it might end, it put me severely behind the eight, nine and ten ball.

My chances of getting a parking space at any of our major shopping centres at that late hour were, frankly, beyond slim. Not since the year 2000 and the whole ‘Y2K’ debacle have I been so let down. To be fair, the Mayans weren’t too far off the mark. Given that this year saw ‘Gangnam Style’ become a worldwide phenomenon, the claim of an imminent apocalypse seemed credible. There were other signs, too. For starters, I’ve noticed that many of my fellow road users have given up indicating when changing lanes. Perversely enough, this is an unambiguous indicator that these people have ceased to care and no longer fear the consequences of their actions.

Also, in the past fortnight the downstairs cat had started to look at me in quite a quizzical manner. This I readily mistook for further evidence of

the fast approaching doomsday rather than, instead, a cat with too much time on its hands. I swear that every time I stepped into the car park, the creature stared at me from under the lemon tree with its right eyebrow raised. Previously, I didn’t know cats even had eyebrows, much less that they could arch them at will. According to superstition, animals can sense impending disaster well before anyone else. On this basis, I thought the cat was trying to issue me with some kind of warning. Instead, I now believe the only message it was trying to send was ‘I think my eyebrow

is stuck, please get help.’

I guess one of the reasons I’m so disappointed at the failure of the planet to turn into a cinder is that I was much better prepared for the apocalypse this time than on previous occasions.

Frankly, my efforts ahead of the ‘Y2K’ thing were half-hearted at best. Like most people, I bought all the canned goods I could get my hands on before putting my laptop in a metal box and burying it in the back yard. But after human kind unkindly refused to unravel, I find that I’m still working my way through the canned food whilst inter-

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cheer in what has been a tough year for families, especially those coping on low and single incomes.

This is the first year of the giving tree for a business that has been open for two years.

“My staff and I would like to see the giving tree grow even bigger this year to bring the magic of Christmas to all children in our community,” Mr Bennie said.

Rotary’s Santa delivered the presents to families as well as passing some to the Salvation Army.

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Estate agent Craig Bennie set up a giving tree in the office and his staff sought donated gifts from neighbouring business along the strip. Mr Bennie then contacted Rotary to distribute the presents to families needing a little Christmas

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ment. Apparently, some folks in Russia paid a thousand bucks to take shelter in Josef Stalin’s personal bunker. What made the Generalissimo’s joint such an appealing option was not clear (High quality canapés? Plenty of seating? The box set of ‘Sea Change’?). These people are, apparently, entitled to a fifty percent refund.

Others steered clear of bunkers belonging to former Soviet dictators and headed for France. In the village of Bugarach, people gathered in hope of seeing aliens fleeing a local mountain.

Nestled at the foot of Pic de Bugarach, it has long been claimed by locals that the mountain is inhabited by extra terrestrials. These same locals may be the very reason that E.T. decided to set up shop in the hillside rather than the town itself. It was expected that these creatures would hotfoot it back to outer space just before the earth disappeared forever. Alas.

Given that the world has stubbornly continued to turn, I had only hours to do my shopping. It was time to get cracking. Although I had plenty of canned food, you can’t really give a relative a tin of stewed apricots. Perhaps an overseas holiday. I hear that Bugarach is lovely this time of year. As for myself, there’s no prize for guessing what’s on my list.

What I really need this year is a new Mayan calendar to hang in the kitchen.

Here’s hoping. www.stuartmccullough.com

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mittently digging up another spot in the lawn in the hope of finding my computer.

It left a bitter taste in my mouth, although that could well be the tinned liverwurst.

While I was busy nailing planks across the doorway to my flat, I convinced myself that this was a sensible precaution to keep zombies at bay. Sadly, the zombies never arrived and a hefty amount was deducted from my rental bond. And whilst it’s better to be safe than a member of the undead, it took a lot to convince me again that the world was about to go belly up.

It’s not easy preparing for the end of the world either. Let me simply say that when you live on the first floor, an underground bunker is really just your down stairs neighbour’s apartment. Granted, they expressed some level of surprise when I tunnelled through. Despite their misgivings, I thought their concerns would count for little when crunch time came. It’s something of an irony that had the world come to an end, they would have forgiven the fact that I turned their breakfast nook into an all-purpose shelter. But it is beyond awkward to be discovered crouching underneath the kitchen bench of your neighbour’s apartment in the middle of the night only to have the world continue merrily along.

I guess I should be grateful. There were others who went a lot further than simply carving an escape hatch in the kitchen floor and lowering a rope ladder into their shelter / neighbour’s apart-

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Picture: Dan Burke

Coastal visions MORE than 1600 people visited two coastal gardens near Sorrento’s Koonya back beach on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 January.

The gardens – “Karkalla”, owned by Fiona Brockhoff and David Swann, and “Offshore”, owned by Jane and Dan Burke – are examples of how specially selected local plants can be used to create elegant, structured gardens in exposed situations.

Set among a tangle of tea-tree on rolling calcareous dunes next to the Mornington Peninsula National Park and exposed to the relentless onshore winds from Bass Strait, the gardens are exposed to the harsh conditions of strong, salt-laden winds and free-draining alkaline soils.

The gardens’ construction was intentionally low key so as to not disturb the gentle topography of the area and to improve the ecological fit with the adjoining park.

The plants in the gardens are not fertilised or watered. No supplementary food is provided for wildlife with the exception of water in ponds and birdbaths.

Fiona Brockhoff and David Swann’s property has a shiplapped weatherboard Arizona-style house buttressed with gravel terraces featuring dune plants, exotic succulents and flax to provide variation in form, foliage, texture and colour.

The garden is arty, quirky and humorous, with strong design elements and superb views of Bass Strait and Port Phillip.

Next door, Offshore is an Australian verandah house set among wallaby grass lawns, a gravel garden and shady trees.

Being on a lower, less-exposed site, there is an opportunity to grow a wider range of indigenous plants. Local water plants grow in small frog ponds; correas and an eclectic collection of salt-tolerant Australian plants are selected to attract wildlife.

Offshore and Karkalla share a chookhouse, which is between two vegetable gardens and orchards to confine the nutrient-rich areas of the sites.

A portion of the entry fees on the weekend was donated to peninsula charities including Sorrento Life Saving Club and Foundation 59.

Nepean Historical Society members served cakes, sandwiches, cool drinks, tea and coffee.

The gardens cover more than 1.6 hectares (four acres).

Karkalla and Offshore were open to the public as part of Open Gardens Australia. To find out more about Open Gardens Australia or to find a garden open near you, go to www.opengarden. org.au Pictures: Cameron McCullough

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Club contacts: Rosebud-Rye 5981 2733. Dromana 5982 1649. Sorrento 5905 7140.

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0DQVÂżHOG %LOO ZDV D ORQJ WLPH YROXQWHHU with Fitted for Work and also the Rotary From the Community Service Committee Opportunity Warehouse. of the club it I has been resolved that we Donations and or pledges to this vital ZLOO GRQDWH WKH SURÂżWV IURP WKH 5RWDU\ upgrade to the emergency department of our Warehouse, Rotary Foreshore market and local hospital can made through the Rotary the Rotary Op Shop over a nominated Club of Rosebud-Ryeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Upgrade period to local charities and Rotary projects. fund. Contact Doug Helleren 5986 6505 These include: Sister Carmelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cancer (business hours).

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Rosebud-Rye Rotary Club To date the club has received a number of Australia Day Celebrations, Rye pledges toward making this project a reality Foreshore they include: Flag Raising Ceremony 11am $10,000 donation from the volunteers at All Free Community Sausage Sizzle 12pm Saints Op-shop in Rosebud.

Music and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainment, 11am $500 donation in memory of the late Bill till 9.30pm.

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HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS

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THE annual Twilight Jazz Picnic fundraiser at Cruden Farm will feature jazz from The Jazz Doctors and the Dukes of Debonaire next month.

Bring a picnic basket, rug, table and chairs and sit back and enjoy the surrounds of the beautiful garden. Wines, soft drinks, tea, coffee and gourmet sausages available for purchase.

Cruden Farm is on the corner of Cranbourne-Frankston and Cranhaven roads, Langwarrin (Melway map 103 G6).

Details: Twilight Jazz Picnic, Saturday 16 February, 4-8pm. $15 pre-booked (includes $3 booking fee per ticket non-refundable in ticket price) or $20 on the day.

Peninsula skyscapes and land sing on canvas

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Tickets: $15 pre purchased (includes $3 non-refundable booking fee) Or $20 on the day at the gate. Children under 12 free.

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A FEW weeks ago, sea fog enveloped Red Hill, Main Ridge, Merricks, Flinders and the southern peninsula for much of the day.

It is on such days that artist Jenny Riddle (pictured) hears, feels and delights in the song of our land and skyscapes.

In her forthcoming Manyung at Sorrento “Cloud Ballads” exhibition, Riddle attempts to imbue the canvas with not only the clouds, rain, mist and majestic trees of the Mornington Peninsula coast and hinterland, but also the music she hears from these landscapes.

“Sometimes there’s a place that sings to you, it holds your stare and for a moment, it can fill your heart with its song,” Riddle said.

“It is in this exhibition that I explore the places and the moments that have sung to me.”

Riddle has a “deep emotional connection” with areas of the peninsula and says “it is in this relationship with the land that I have found great inspiration to paint this body of work”.

“I have followed the clouds, the rain, and mist.

I have stood before the stoic trees that stand majestically before me. I have revisited my favourite twin trees in Flinders and found beauty in its changing grace. I have heard their song, their ballad and play tribute to its hold on me.

“It is from this inspiration that I endeavour to create what I see and, most importantly, what I feel.

“My intention for the viewer is to take a moment and breathe in the space between the land and the sky and perhaps even become part of its sensory place.”

Back in her Red Hill studio, stirring classical music provides constant accompaniment to Riddle’s work, the pieces chosen to marry with the settings and moods she is recreating.

“This interaction with the painting is of a personal nature. In essence, my aim is to heighten one’s love and emotion for the natural world and maybe even ignite the eternal relationship that lays deep within our ancestral blood.”

Cloud Ballads follows Riddle’s recent successful solo exhibition in Perth’s Gadfly Gallery which saw a sellout of 34 landscapes, some of which went to major art collectors including the former head of the Western Australian Art Gallery. Manyung at Sorrento is at 113A Ocean Beach Rd, Sorrento, and is open seven days a week during January. Cloud Ballads opens 12 January.

Go to www.manyunggallery.com.au or call 9787 2953 for details.

Strong support for Blairgowrie Sailability SOUTHERN peninsula businesses and charitable groups are supporting Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron’s Sailability program.

A new yacht has been purchased and named in honour of the late Geoffrey Watson and his wife Eily, the founders of this community access to sailing program, which helps people of all ages and all abilities.

Named Fingal Bay, the Access 303 yacht cost $7000, funded by $4000 from Bendigo Bank as well as donations from squadron members.

The yacht’s storage pontoon in the Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron marina was funded by $4000 from RACV Foundation.

The Sailability program has received recent donations from JackanAndy’s Op Shop, Uniting Church and All Saints opportunity shops and Camerons Bight Boat Club.

The specially designed yachts, staffed by volunteers, are used by peninsula disability support groups and are made available to the community.

New participants and volunteers are welcome. A donation is the only charge.

For more information, call the squadron on 5988 8453 Sailability can be seen on YouTube by searching “Access Sailing Blairgowrie”.

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TAROT/ CLAIRVOYANT READINGS $50. Ph Julie 9702-2504.

CLOCKS & RESTORATION ANTIQUE, clocks repaired.

Old clocks, watches and parts wanted, good prices paid. 5981-4172.

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PETS & SERVICES

DINING SUITE, 7 piece, pedistool, extendable table, 6 highback padded chairs, EC. $295ono. 5940-9194.

DOG GROOMING & TRAINING

DRAPES, professionally made, pinch pleated, rubber lined, EC, latte/coffee with black swirls, 2100L x 1450W. 2100L x 2200W. $375.

0402 584 414. Berwick.

DRESSING TABLE, 7 drawers, white, new, lovely design mirror, still in box, cost $850, sell $450.

5941-1223. Pakenham.

BEDROOM SUITE, QS, 3 years old, EC, solid timber, 2 side tables, dressing table, mirror, tall boy, $1,500 ono. 0434 057 590. Cranbourne North.

BEDS, single, x2, with mattresses and some bedding, $200 the lot.

5981-4009. Dromana.

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ELECTRIC SCOOTER, yellow, as new, suit 10-13 year old, great present, $150. 0416 134 041.

ENTERTAINMENT UNIT, black timber, containing Panasonic colour TV, 66 cms, Sharp, sterio unit, radio, CD and cassette, $250 ono. 0409 702 248.

Narre Warren.

ESPRESSO MACHINE, Breville 800ES, plus Breville coffee grinder, hardly used, as new. Cost almost $400, will sell $250ono.

5629-2868.

FISHING GEAR, deceased estate, rods, reels, boat accessories, taco’s, oil filters, Mercury throttle shift controllers, x3, brand new, box of lures, lots more. $2,000 the lot. 0434 057 590. Cranbourne North.

FLYWIRE DOOR, Colonial, varnished wood, with tough mesh, suit 822mm x 2060mm opening. $130.

0417 112 022.

FURNITURE, 1 X TV unit, 1 x coffee table, 1 x lamp table, dark chocolate, all EC. $600 the lot. 0409 789 322, Essendon.

GOLF CART, 2006 Yamaha, electric, white, new batteries, VGC. $3,500. 0408 371 486.

AB POWER, cardio twister workout system, as seen on TV, current model, with adjustable speed control, computer, DVD, diet plan etc. brand new in box. $95. 0419 668 981. Narre Warren North

• Clipping & grooming – dog & cat • Special care clients welcome (dogs) • Pet taxi • Animal communication • Canine massage • Pet sitting (area limited) • Dog training, behavioural & good manners training • In home service or you can come to me

GOLF CLUBS, full set of ladies, pro quality clubs, as new condition. Full set of mens clubs with bag and buggy, GC. $600.

9799-9569.

HOME GYM set, new, still in box, Hyperextension, 65.8kg, sell $350. 97026449. Berwick.

HOT WATER SERVICE, Dux, 12 Proflo, 250 litres, electric, GC, $150. 0405 031 187.

KITCHEN TABLE, round, four chairs, colour grey.

EC. $150. 9796-8058.

POOL TABLE, 8’x4’, Astra Monarch, slate base, had very little use, in perfect condition, cues, balls, accessories included. $1,500. 0418 338 899.

RANGEHOOD, 600X900, tempered copper. $300.

9796-8058.

BILLIARD TABLE, 9ft x 4ft 6” dismantled for easy transport, 6 turned legs, pool accessories and removable top. $1,200ono.

5989-0213. Flinders.

BLINDS, x5 Ecowood Venetian PVC slat blinds, cedar colour, 90cm x 150cm drop, brand new still in boxes, $150. 59775356. Somerville.

BODY SHAPER, vibration, massage and weight loss machine, as seen on TV, latest model with 3 computer programs, 50 speed options, brand new with warranty. $249 0419 668 981. Narre Warren North CAMPING GEAR, Wild Country 3 man tent, and double camp mattress, gas stove, gas light and bottle, VGC, $350 ono.

0438 384 823.

DINING SETTING, antique reproduction oval extension table, 6 blue stripped upholstery chairs, prefect condition. Cost $2,300, sell $700. 0458 713 439.

LASER, infrared therapy, 40mW, mme, Therapower.

Perfect working order. For acupuncture and physiotherapy applications, output power is switchable in 4 ranges, 10, 20, 30 and 40mW. $1,000 ono. 0402 121 355. Warragul/Pakenham.

LAWN BOWLS, brand new, Hunter bag and covers, Redline-SR, size 3, blue, $700. 0419 113 691.

0437 731 426

ELECTRIC KEYBOARD, Yamaha, model, PSR-640, stand and chair, EC. $999.

0416 053 855. Narre Warren.

GUITAR, Fender Squire Telecaster Custom, blonde colour with maple neck, black pick guard and duncan designed twin pick ups, classic guitar, like new. $200. 0448 434 211.

SEWING MACHINE, Janome Horizon, Memory Craft 7700QCP, 3 months old, with extra tables and all accessories, paid $2,999, receipt provided, sell $2,250. 0419 676 963.

DOG KENNEL, new, screwed and glued together, not nailed.

Painted with 4 coats of Solarguard for all weather conditions. Foam padded floor. Dimensions: 700mL x 600mW x 580mH. $95.

5940-2238. Pakenham.

SLASHER, Deutscher H26, 10.5Hp, GC. $1,150.

0422 102 149 or 0421 738 752.

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SPA, outdoor, cedar, portable, sandstone colour, hot/cold, seats 4 plus, VGC, new lockdown cover, economical, massages, heater/blower, $2,999 ono.

0409 747 918. Beaconsfield.

STEREO, Sansui, in cabinet, 2 tall speakers, $150, 0414 664 520.

Rosebud.

TV, Panasonic, rear projection, 130cm screen and Technics stereo surround sound sytem, EC. $1,500 ono. 0434 057 590.

Cranbourne North.

TV, x2, 7 years old, good working order, with remotes. $100 for both.

5998-5012, 0434 408 006.

Cranbourne East.

WATCH, Ripcurl, male. can email photos. $50 5941-8691. Pakenham.

WINDOW, sliding, aluminium, 1500mm x 1500mm, bronze olive colour. $150ono.

5998-7422.

Cannons Creek.

PRINTER, Lexmark C540n, professional colour printer, brand new, still in box. $300. 0412 071 419. Cannons Creek.

HOLDEN, Clubsport, VT, all features/options, lavish HSV style, stunning looker, immaculate in and out, good reg, RWC, VN668448. $11,850.

9796-8789. Narre Warren North.

HOLDEN, Colorado, crew cab, 2009, auto, 3.6 alloytech, tub liner, window tint, cruise, power windows, 59,000kms, service books, full Holden service history, EC body and interior, XBW-074. $20,990ono.

9703-1630, 0408 009 351.

HOLDEN, Cruze, 2010, CD, JG, automatic, sedan, YGE-746, 12 months reg, 7,000kms. $17,850ono.

Tina 0423 775 449, 97001423.

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JEEP, Cheroke,1994, dual fuel, 226,000kms, auto, GC, YJS-120. $7,500ono.

0409 219 017. Doveton.

CITROEN, Berlingo, 2005, van, manual, 190,000kms, 8 months reg. WPI-620. $7,500. 0402 232 628.

AUDI, A6, auto, grey, EC, sunroof, reg until 08/13, always garaged. UMC874. $18,000ono. 0411 322 476. Berwick.

MAZDA 3, SP23, 2005, black, 5 speed manual, sports interior, full electrics, cruise control, full curtain airbags, power steering, 17' alloy wheels, brand new Yokohama tyres, ABS brakes, AC, climate control, remote keyless entry, engine immobiliser, fog lights, EC, 4 door sedan, 6 stacker CD player, very reliable car, RWC. YAR-105. $15,000ono. 0402 700 340.

MAZDA, 626, 1998, 5 speed manual, 174,000kms, dual airbags, 6 stacker CD player, 12mths reg and RWC, VGC, PAB-605. $5,000ono.

0434 336 340.

MITSUBISHI, Triton, MK 2003, dual cab, 4x2 manual, V6 petrol, on LPG, AC, hi rise kit fitted, towbar, regularly serviced with history, 11 months reg, 225,000km, SMG042, $11,800 ono. 0427 988 867.

NISSAN, Patrol wagon, ST, 2001, blue, 4.5lt, dual fuel, 5 speed manual, seven seater, 280,000kms, (hwy kms), second owner, reg till 07/13, towbar, electric brakes, always serviced, RWC, VGC. TTV-981. $13,500. 0414 403 789.

Tynong.

SUBARU, Impreza, 2009, near new, 2.0 RS, auto, sedan, silver, leather interior, sunroof factory fitted, airbags, rear sensors, 41,755kms, reg 01/2013, WUD-265. $25,000 ono.

Regrettable sale. 0434 057 590. Cranbourne North.

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5629-2623 or 0419 096 999. Garfield.

AUTO PARTS /ACCESSORIES PRIVATE PLATES, slim line, “ON BALE” offers over $2,000. 0434 057 590. Cranbourne North.

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0401 373 863 7 DAYS A WEEK - SAME DAY SERVICE CARAVANS & TRAILERS MILLARD, Florida, 1989, reg 06/12, four wheels, new double bed, sleeps 4, 3 way fridge, stove, new tyres, new paint. $5,500 ono. 5996-2470, 0414 655 775. Cranbourne West.

CAMPER TRAILER, Australian, 6’x 4’, QS bed, annexe, sunraysias, large toolbox and storeage area, many extras. $3,500 ono. 9704-7642, 0409 007 807.

CAMPERVAN, 1987, Toyota Hiace, QTP-934.

90lt fresh water tank, double bed, 240-12 volts, microwave and fridge, diesel, free standing tent 6x6, 10 months reg. $8,000ono. 0419 707 828.

Koo Wee Rup.

TOYOTA, Hiace, 2006, UJD-995, duel fuel, EC, reg, RWC. $18,500 neg.

0411 750 624.

FORD, Cortina, Mark 2, 1968, 1600, bronze with white roof, chrome and white side stripes, reconditioned motor, gearbox and generator, mag wheels, new front end bushes, some rust but overall good condition, 779-JJU, reg 05/13. $9,500ono. Call Sarah: 0403 813 554, Pakenham.

FORD, Focus, Zetec 2.0ltr LV, 5 door hatch, 2009, manual, grey, leather seats, power windows, cruise control, 86,000kms, service books, full Ford service history, USB plug for iPod etc. XJJ-706. $16,000ono. 0410 044 165.

HOLDEN, SS, 1999, auto, VT11, 138,000kms, 2 owners from new, good genuine car, 9 months reg, full history, ZD1552. $10,000. 0402 232 628.

HOLDEN, ute, 2007, VZ , silver, 6 speed manual, towbar, heavy duty bars, 125,600km UVS-739 $14,000 with roadworthy.

Phone Ben 0419 341 789.

HOLDEN, VT Commodore, wagon, white, reg to 05/13, stereo, subs, amp, runs well, minor work for roadworthy, OXE-867. $2,700ono. 0438 526 313.

Pakenham.

RUNABOUT, Apollo, 17 foot, new Mercury OptiMax 90HP, new trailer, depth sounder / fish finder, marine radio, $15,500.

0422 114 221.

SAVAGE RANGER, 4.55metre aluminum, 75 HP, 2 stroke Mercury outboard, power trim/tilt SS propeller, all gauges, sounder, plus GPS safety equipment, life jackets, bimini/travel covers, easy tow galvanised trailer with walk out track for easy one man launching, new LED trailer lights, 60 litre under floor fuel tank, SS bow rail, anchor, cutting board, rod holders, bilge pump, deceased estate, boat and trailer registered. $18,500.

0419 895 893.

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COMPASS NAVIGATOR, 2006, 17’6”, independent suspension, shower/toilet combo, rear island dbl bed, 3-way fridge, 60L water tanks x2, EC, $42,900ono. 0419 566 823, 5986-3277. McCrae.

CARAVANS & TRAILERS

TANDEM TRAILER, 7’x5’, brand new, hydraulic brakes, steel floor, front and rear tail gates, registered, blue colour, 2 spare wheels and tyres. $4,000. 5941-1687.

PRATTLINE LOW TOW, single axle, 17’ 6”, hydraulic pop top caravan, reg August, full annexe, electric brakes, 3-4 berth, four burner cook top with grill, rangehood, microwave, three way fridge, good tyres and two mounted spares, water and fuel holders, two gas bottles, four seasons hatch. $9,000ono. Phone 0419 356 802.

SUPREME EXECUTIVE, 1800, 2011, all modern luxuries including full ensuite, washing machine, hot water system, split system AC, inner sprung twin beds, TV, large fridge/freezer, leather upholstery, all hitching accessories, perfect, as new condition. $47,500.

0418 335 512.

BOATS & MARINE DAIHATSU, Terios, 2002, 4WD, 93,000kms, RWC, reg until 03/13, RJF-472. $8,300ono. 0429 552 684.

HEALTH AND FITNESS PORTABLE TOILET, 20 litre capacity, fully self contained, no connections needed, great for boat or camping etc. brand new in box. $85. 0419 668 981.

Narre Warren North.

HOLDEN, Astra 2001 hatchback. 1 lady owner from new. Silver, manual, HBD body kit, mag wheels and build number, AC, only 124,000 kms, RWC, reg until September 2013, tinted windows, new tyres, CD player, 1.8 litre engine, great condition, RCF-543. $6,000. 0414 508 723 Pakenham

Wanted clean fill site, South eastern area.

Dams, gullies, paddocks.

Filled and levelled, no charge. Phone 0418 356 583.

TABLE, and 4 chairs with beige seats, $180 the lot.

8794-8864.

TREADMILL, electric, as new, 1.5HP, cost $1,299, sell $550. Can deliver. Call Elaine: 0408 050 354.

FORD, Ranger, supercab, ute, 2007, 4x4, manual, genuine 29,960kms, one owner, retired, service history, 4 airbags, ABS, tubliner, towbar, nudge bar, EC, WBK-717, $23,850. Phone 59890088. Flinders.

MOTOR VEHICLES

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WALL UNIT, baltic pine, 1.36mLx0.5mWx2mH, cost $1,000, sell: $250.

9705-2106, 0414 320 619.

POOL CLEANER, Kreepy Krauly style, fully automatic pool cleaning system, suits above or inground pools, includes 10 metres of hose, brand new in the box. $169. 0419 668 981. Narre Warren North

K9 BODY TALK CALL JANNELLE

SCHOOL UNIFORMS, Heritage College, EC, large spray jacket, large jumper, 2 grey pants, 3 ties and one blazer, PE track pant, polo top and shorts. $295 the lot. 0425 635 160. Berwick.

TRAMPOLINE, 12 ft, round, with enclosure and ladder, brand new, $320.

Phil 0408 916 492.

BIKE, Competition racing, cost over $3,000, with receipt, only ridden twice, still as new. $600. 0400 701 386. Pakenham.

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FORD, laser, 2001, GXLi, 1.8lt, auto, sedan, reg 9/8/13, EC, airbags, electric windows, AC, CD player, towbar, tinted windows, paint and upholstery protection, 4 new tyres, service records, RWC, 160,400kms, QZE465. $7,500. 0438 364 002, 5996-4697. Cranbourne.

MASERATI, Biturbo, 1986, red, automatic, 3 litre, V6, quad-cam, twin turbo charged, brown leather interior, condition ideal for enthusiast, no major issues, just TLC required, 70,000 kms, no reg, no RWC, EFS-966. $6,000 Phone 5942 7646.

STESSL, 6 metre, aluminium, Mako, 130hp, Yamaha, drive on trailer, GPS, sounder, marine radio, EPIRB, twin batteries, loads of fishing room and excellent for offshore. $32,000. 0429 793 099.

GOLDSTREAM, Storm, off roader, EC, always stored in shed, full size oven and grill and four burner stove, microwave and two burner stove outside, wardrobe, QS bed plus dbl, drop down table bed, sleeps six, full annexe, bed flys. $18,000.

0410 034 305.

JAYCO, sterling, 21ft, 2007, separate bathroom, 3 way fridge, reverse AC, solar panel, towbar, sway bars, electric awning. $39,990. 0429 401 940.

MOTOR HOME, Miranda Coachmen, for sale or swap house or land in Narre Warren, all luxuries, large slide out, ready to live in or enjoy, cash adjustment, XAP-695. $160,000. 0419 875 174.

OUTBACK, camper, Neapean, 2009, reg until 10/13, QS bed, soft floor, annexe, 3 way fridge, washing machine, stove, table, many extras, EC. $3,700ono. 5945-7564.

TRAVELLER STORM, poptop, 2006, 17'6" x 7', island dbl bed, innerspring mattress, centre kitchen, rangehood, microwave, 104L 3-way fridge, flatscreen TV, rollout awning, reverse cycle AC, battery pack, Winegard TV antenna, weight 1420kg, club seating, adjustable table, hotplate and griller, 2 x 9kg gas bottles, 2 x 80L water tanks, Anderson plug, radio/DVD/ CD/MP3 player, $24,990.

Phone 9772-3185 or 0407 056 150.

FARM VEHICLES /MACHINERY

JD 3520, compact tractor, 2006, 1850 hours, front end loader, E hydro 4WD, 2 set tyres; turf and ag, standard bucket and 4in1 bucket, canopy, WSQ-523. $27,500. Urgent sale. Call Garry: 0419 893 286.

TRACTOR, TEF 20 Grey Fergie, diesel with 6ft grader blade, very good condition. $3,500. 0408 541 298.

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At the Bendigo it starts with U.

Whiting the king of targets and taste ON THE LINE

By Paul “Tracker” Pingiaro WELCOME back summer. How wonderful it is to enjoy the life-giving rays of the summer sun again.

While the summer heat has set in, we have seen a change in the guard of fishing targets. There are still a few snapper about, but they will be quiet for the next few weeks before coming back on the bite in late February march. Now is the time of the whiting, King George whiting to be precise.

Considered by many as one of Australia’s premier table fish, the humble KG is not only a culinary delight, but

also a fantastic fish to target during a day on our two bays, Western Port and Port Phillip.

Appealing to kids, adults and everybody in between, King George whiting is not only a fantastic fighting fish but also a great one to target.

Being a schooling fish, whiting can provide anglers with wonderful fishing. The hard fighting whiting is an entertaining fish to catch on a light line.

It is best targeted on banks, reef edges and weed beds with baits of pippies, mussels, worms, nippers and squid.

The rigs that work best are a running sinker or paternoster fished with a size 6-2 wide gape, circle or long shank

hook (depending on the bait).

Hotspots in Western Port include Tyabb and Quail banks, Middle Spit and off Balnarring.

In Port Phillip, try weed banks and reef edges between Sorrento to Mt Eliza.

Anglers fishing off piers are seeing garfish, mullet and squid return. These are great species for families and kids to target.

Off peninsula beaches we are seeing some nice catches of King George whiting and the occasional large flathead.

From the surf beaches there are some nice salmon during the day and

a few gummy and seven-gill sharks at night.

The shallows of Port Phillip and Western Port are seeing anglers land flathead, whiting and squid with the occasional school of salmon providing some great light sport fishing action.

With the current warm temperatures we will also start seeing a few yellowtail kingfish being landed.

In the channels of Port Phillip and Western Port, there are some nice gummy sharks for those willing to overcome the stingrays and banjo sharks.

Offshore there are a few makos about as well as some nice gummy

sharks and flathead. For those fishing offshore, don’t look at the arrow squid as a pest but a good source of bait and food.

Tight lines and calm seas.  Paul “Tracker” Pingiaro has been fishing since he could hold a rod and stay in the boat. He has boat hire businesses in Mornington and Yaringa Boat Harbour in Somerville. He has been a fishing writer for magazines and brings his knowledge to MP News Group for season 2012-13. Details: www.fishingmornington.com or www. western portboathire.com.au Email spbh@bigpond.com or 5975 5479.

King of taste: Left, King George whiting are up and about in both Western Port and Port Phillip. Above, Mornington harbour offers fishing off the pier (top right) or from hire boats.

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Athletes tune up for Rye Gift

By Barry Irving THE Rye Gift is on 12 January at R J Rowley Reserve in Melbourne Rd, Rye. The event over the past 38 years has established an envious level of acceptance in the wider community.

It is one of the most prestigious professional running events on the Victorian athletics calendar.

The event will again have entertainment for children provided

by Wittingslow Amusements, which has been a major sponsor for 38 years.

There will be country music from 1-4pm, displays from service and rescue groups, and market stalls.

Music will be by the Peninsula

Country Music Club with guest artists.

There will be more than 600 professional runners entering through the Victorian Athletic League, the controlling body of professional athletes in Victoria.

In past years there have been athletes from interstate and overseas when calendar of events and training schedules enable them to compete.

The total prize pool will be more than $11,500 plus trophies.

Last year the Rye Gift purse was $5000 with one of the richest purses for professional female athletes of $2000.

Events start at 11am with the final race at about 5.45pm.

The Junior Rye Gift will be run by Southern Peninsula Little Athletics in conjunction with Victorian Little Athletics.

To enter, juniors must be members of Little Athletics.

Event profits go to sporting groups that make up Rye Sports and Social Club Inc, which have received about $55,000 each over 38 years.

Organisers are expecting up to 4000 people who can choose from a range of food stalls that will be staffed by clubs.

There will be a liquor booth and bookmakers fielding on all Melbourne and interstate race meetings being held on this day as well as running events.

Athletic action: Right, last year’s Rye Gift winner Cam Dunbar. Above, Daniel Lawler celebrates winning the Rye Hotel 400-metre Open.

Pure luxury afloat THE luxury cruise ship True North sailed in to Port Phillip on Wednesday morning and anchored off Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club.

Club members had the chance to inspect the 34-metre cruiser, which boasts five tender vessels and its own Bell 407 helicopter as well as computercontrolled motion stabilisers.

True North is operated by North Star Cruises and is sailing around the coast of Australia this summer with its 36 passengers and about 20 crew.

She has a sundeck, forward observation lounge, ship’s lounge, alfresco bar, plasma televisions, internet cafe – and a resident naturalist.

Purpose-built for exploring the rugged Kimberley coastline, the ship can explore the upper reaches of shallow river systems.

A company spokesman said the ship also tours the South Pacific.

“Extended periods at sea are specifically excluded and daily activities can include scenic walks, fishing, snorkelling, diving and cultural events.”

True North leaves Sorrento on Friday for Adelaide for a trip to Ceduna in the Great Australian Bight.

Good life afloat: True North anchored off Sorrento on Wednesday morning. The 34-metre cruise ship leaves for Adelaide on Friday.

Picture: Andrew Mackinnnon of aquamanships.com

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