January 25th 2011

Southern Peninsula

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Club fights to survive A YOUTH club that operates from a house at Rosebud has been given $2000 to buy or upgrade sports, fitness and safety equipment.

The extra equipment will be useful, but what the club really needs is new premises.

The money was given to The Fight4Life Youth Club by Mornington Peninsula Shire, which in the past has also given the club rent money and offered land on which it could build a new clubhouse.

Red tape and lack of money is tying up the use of the land while young people who benefit from the club are being urged to stay away.

“So many young lives are lost yearly, and something needs to be done to rectify and try to solve the issues that the youth are confronting on a daily basis,” club president Nick Burbounis said.

Story Page 3 Garage bound: Fight4Life’s Nick Burbounis with, from left, Patrick Capotorto, Jesse Ottobre, Michael Marmina, Vanessa Marmina and Lucas Capotorto.

Pool centre summit Dixon to seek DSE approval for foreshore site by Easter

By Mike Hast NEPEAN state MP Martin Dixon wants approval by Easter from the Department of Sustainability and Environment for the long-awaited pool on the Rosebud foreshore.

Mr Dixon, the Minister for Education in the new Baillieu government, told The News he had started the formal

process of fast-tracking the foreshore site permission process, a promise he made during the election campaign last November.

He said he had written to the Minister for Environment Ryan Smith inviting him to Rosebud to meet representatives of Mornington Peninsula Shire, review concept drawings for the Southern

Peninsula Aquatic Centre, also known as SPA, and inspect the two preferred foreshore sites.

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He said in the run-up to the election “I never thought I’d be going to the election with this as a policy, but it’s been going on for so long that the community needs some certainty”.

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Shire may urge state to charge for bore water

By David Harrison MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire might ask the state government to start charging the peninsula’s 5200 domestic and stock bore water users.

Green wedge action plans presented to council on 20 December included a plan to lobby water authorities to “restrict the level of ground water extraction to sustainable levels – including use for domestic and stock bores�.

If the move is successful, bores will be metered and the water from them rationed and paid for from next year.

The cost of a meter could be as high as $900 and a licence to commercially use groundwater in most areas is $295 plus $3.30 a megalitre (one million litres, enough to fill an Olympic pool).

The plan drawn up by shire officers specifically seeks a review of the area west of Rosebud, known as the Nepean groundwater management area (GMA), which includes Sorrento and Portsea. It comprises all the land west of a line drawn between Rosebud pier and the Cape Schanck lighthouse.

Most of it is above an aquifer containing good to high quality water.

The area contains at least 3900 of the peninsula’s 5200 domestic and stock bores, from which water is extracted free.

The action plans call for a “review of the criteria for issuing extraction licences and stabilisation and/or reduction of ground water extraction� from this area “at sustainable levels by

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Answering a question at the 20 December council meeting, sustainable infrastructure director Alex Atkins said the shire would gain no revenue from a proposed bore water tax, and conceded that the plan would require a change to the Victorian Water Act 1989.

The shire proposal, if adopted by the government, could be costly for tens of thousands of bore users across Victoria.

Mr Atkins said: “One of the reasons why we would be interested in measuring bore water use is that we can then gain a better picture of how water is being used on the peninsula. “We should have an integrated understanding of water use and that would go to both potable [drinking] water, bore water and storm water.�

A spokesman for Southern Rural Water, which administers and monitors underground water across the shire, said the authority did not regard the Nepean GMA or anywhere else on the peninsula as endangered.

SRW has about 30 monitoring bores in the Nepean GMA, which are checked regularly.

The authority’s acting general manager of groundwater and rivers, Chris Hughes, said in a statement: “We regularly review bore data from across

the whole of the peninsula, including within the [Nepean] GMA, to check on quantity and quality of groundwater in the area. “At the moment, there is no significant threat to either.�

An SRW spokeswoman said that until the drought broke several months ago, up to 30 applications to sink bores were being received each day “from the Rosebud area�, swamping the authority in paperwork.

Stock and domestic bore water can be used in the house, for a kitchen garden and for watering pets or stock. The volumes used are generally small and are limited by pump and pipe capacity.

Bore water is not regarded as “potable� until it has been treated to make it suitable for drinking.

Mr Hughes said coastal areas in the east and west of the peninsula were potentially at risk of seawater intrusion, but SRW had “no reason to believe the threat is currently significant�.

Bore owners would pay for the cost of a meter and installation if the shire was successful in having its plan approved, he said.

As for controlling water use, Mr Hughes said this can be done through groundwater bans, “but to date there has been no need for this sort of management intervention�.

Councillors voted to have the draft action plans exhibited as part of the draft Mornington Peninsula Green Wedge Management Plan.

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Hands across the water: Mark Brown, right, and some of the children in Myanmar helped by the New Peninsula Church.

Church team on annual trip to ‘adopted’ orphanages FOR the fourth January running, the New Peninsula Church has sent a team to help orphanages in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).

The 10-member team followed hot on the heels of another group from the Mt Martha and Rosebud-based church, which was in Myanmar two months ago investigating the feasibility of extending an existing nurse training centre.

Mark Brown of Mt Martha said extending the training centre “will hopefully create vocational training for orphans as they leave the protection of the orphanage and are forced to enter the workforce”.

Mr Brown and five of the 10 church members who set off this month have been to Myanmar before and will revisit orphanages “adopted” by the church to help rebuild two cyclone-

damaged dormitories.

“We will also follow up the community centre that was built last year and assess if any other assistance is needed,” he said.

“Some of the kinder teachers have requested another teaching seminar, which we did last year and was so successful.”

Mr Brown said ongoing problems faced by the people of Myanmar in-

cluded “extreme poverty and a need for urgent food and basic living requirements”.

“That will never change, but our long-term strategy is to help the local people to become self-sufficient and less reliant on handouts.

“After four years we have made some wonderful friends and they welcome us into their family every time we visit.

“Even the street children look for us in January and anticipate our arrival.

“It is always a humbling experience and for those coming for the first time, I can guarantee that it will be life changing.”

Mr Brown said the church’s efforts were helped by the “generosity of the people on the peninsula and local businesses”.

By Keith Platt A SMALL youth club in Rosebud is virtually fighting for its life.

The Fight4Life Youth Club has taken temporary shelter in a small single-car garage, which is totally inadequate for the 15 or so teenagers who want to attend on a daily basis.

The club’s main activities are based around boxing, but the benefits extend far beyond the ring, according to organiser Nick Burbounis, who also worries about it becoming known only “as a boxing gym”.

He uses the term “boxercise” to lessen the impact, soften the image and stresses it is not all about physical fighting.

“We keep their fitness levels up and teach them to eat right and live without cigarettes and drugs,” Mr Burbounis said, while standing in the driveway of his house, which leads to the garage.

“A lot of other youth centres send

difficult kids to us. In my mind, there’s no such thing as a bad kid.

“Parents call me in to sort things out. There’s a lot of youth suicide, too.

More young people die that way than through illness or on the roads. People would get a shock if they saw the figures.”

Crammed with a makeshift boxing ring and exercise equipment, the garage is cramped and Mr Burbounis is already doing something that goes against the grain – asking kids not to show up.

While he gets on well with the neighbours, he knows running a youth club from a suburban garage is far from ideal and good relations can quickly sour.

The benefits of Fight4Life are undisputed, according to Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor Antonella Celi, who this month handed over a $2000 community grant to buy new equipment.

Mr Burbounis, a trained youth worker, started Fight4Life about seven years ago to help teenagers stay out of trouble.

He estimates up to 4000 teenagers have attended the club: “Lots of kids, lots of stories.”

His special rapport comes from understanding their fears and needs: “I know who I was and how I grew up.”

He gives examples of troubled teenagers attending the club finding selfesteem and a place in the community.

Some are married with children; others have joined the armed forces; one is a police officer.

Fight4Life four months ago lost the use of a factory at the back of Rosebud and was forced to relocate to Mr Burbounis’s garage.

The loss was a blow and, to someone on the dole, left him nowhere to go except his own home.

“We had to keep going to stop the

club’s spirit from getting broken,” Mr Burbounis said.

The shire offered some industrial land it owns off Colchester Rd at a peppercorn rent, setting Fight4Life the challenge to find money for a new building.

However Fight4Life did not make it past the first round: the law requires an archaeological survey costing up to $30,000 to look for Aboriginal artefacts.

The club does not have the money and it is unlikely that any benefactor willing to pay for a building would want to also cough up for a survey.

The same rule did not apply to factories built on the adjoining land, but Cr Celi says they were constructed before the law required a heritage survey.

“They’ll have to do it if they ever want to replace them,” she said.

The inability to take up the shire’s offer also means the club has missed out

on an offer of an industrial-sized kitchen once a new clubhouse was built.

The kitchen would have been used to make meals for homeless youngsters.

“We would have brought them in by bus and cooked meals for them,” Mr Burbounis said.

In the meantime, the youngsters attending Fight4Life straggle up the drive to the garage and hang around in the driveway, benefitting from the mild weather.

When winter comes, their refuge will be too small, too cold.

Unless a more substantial, permanent home is found for Fight4Life, winter could also see the realisation of Mr Burbounis’s worst fear: losing contact with those youngsters who most need help.

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Loan advice could save your house LAWYER Victoria Mullins has issued a warning against taking out a loan to clear a credit card debt.

Consolidating several loans in a new loan that requires security could eventually lead to some people losing their homes.

Ms Mullins, a lawyer with Peninsula Community Legal Centre, said advertising for short-term loans targeted at “new year resolutions to reduce credit card debt” carried hidden dangers.

“There are many newspaper, television and radio advertisements that offer loans to people who are having trouble paying their debts. However, these loans may create a worse financial position, especially if your house is used as security for the loans.

“Often the loan is only for one or two years and you only pay the interest on the loan and therefore do not reduce the total amount of money you owe.

“If you have one of these loans, with your house as security, and you cannot repay the total amount when it is due, your house could be taken from you.”

Ms Mullings said many households faced credit card debt.

“When used responsibly, a credit card can help you manage your fi-

nances, but unpaid bills can cost you dearly. It can take months to pay off something that only took a few minutes to buy and the pressure to meet repayments can lead people to place themselves in more debt through refinancing or consolidating without seeking appropriate independent financial advice.

“If you are in financial difficulty it is worth knowing that you will have fewer options available if you consolidate all of your debts into one large debt,” she said.

“Options such as surrendering your car, or negotiating with a credit card company are not available once you have one large loan. Talk through your options with an independent adviser or financial counsellor before making a decision.

“If you are finding it difficult to meet your credit repayments, it is important to take immediate action. Don’t ignore the problem as it won’t go away.”

Ms Mullins said Peninsula Community Legal Centre was one agency that provided free advice.

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Revamp: Shire mayor and Kangerong Ward councillor Graham Pittock at the Dromana Pier precinct.

Pier project gets underway THE Dromana Pier area is set to be redeveloped, creating a significant public space at the town’s foreshore area.

The Pier Street car park will be developed into a civic space with a central timber boardwalk, paving and new street furniture. A key feature of the area will be the construction of an 18-metre squadron mast.

Shire mayor and councillor for

Kangerong Ward Cr Graham Pittock said the works would bring a focus for the centre of Dromana, and would delight both locals and visitors alike.

“The Dromana Streetscape Committee and the Dromana Foreshore Committee have really put in a lot of effort over the past eight years. They’ve championed this project and it’s a delight to see plans taking shape.”

Construction is expected to begin late January.

The project is the first, and most significant, stage of the implementation of the shire council’s landscape master plan for the Dromana foreshore area, which includes plans for reconstructing the car park opposite Dromana Newsagency and additional pathways in the future.

Easter deadline sought for Rosebud pool site High cost of pools

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Last week Mr Dixon reiterated his support for the foreshore site, opposite Rosebud shopping centre, the shire’s preferred location after it looked at 10 sites.

Rosebud Chamber of Commerce’s marketing coordinator, Alison Doherty, said more than 10,000 southern peninsula residents and visitors had signed a petition last year in support of the foreshore site.

“We still prefer the central site near the memorial hall,” she said.

But all is not rosy: environmentalists claim the aquatic centre should not be built anywhere on the foreshore.

Last year Alan Nelsen of the Mornington Peninsula Ratepayers and Residents Association said a coalition of concerned peninsula ratepayers and environment groups opposed building the pool on Crown [government] land on the foreshore.

“The groups are not opposed to an aquatic complex, but believe it should be located on one of the inland sites chosen from the 10 sites identified by the shire.”

He said approving the Rosebud foreshore site “could set a precedent for other non-coastal dependent facilities to be sited on foreshores around Port Phillip” and other Victorian coastal foreshores.

“The proposal is a massive overdevelopment of coastal land and does not comply with the Victorian Coastal Strategy 2008.”

The coalition is concerned about rising seas, removal of coastal vegetation, the demolition of public buildings and moving Rosebud Bowling Club and Rosebud Memorial Hall, “the second-most widely used community facility in the shire”.

The coalition asked the Brumby

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On a break: The entrance of Rosebud Memorial Hall and a section of its big car park, the shire’s preferred site for the aquatic centre.

government to reject the foreshore location.

Last week, Eunice Cain of the ratepayers’ association restated the group’s opposition and said it had written to environment minister Smith to put its case.

“If we have to have a pool – and many of our members are worried about the cost, which could go as high as $30 million for a shire already $42 million in debt – it should go in front of the shire offices in Besgrove St, Rosebud.”

She said the aquatic centre would

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face Boneo Rd and be on bus route 787, be within walking distant of three schools, and was close to the shire offices, police station and fire station.

She said in 2006 when the shire first started talking about a pool for Rosebud, less than 25 per cent of people surveyed wanted a pool.

Mrs Cain also queried the process of compiling 10,000 signatures on the petition, which was in many Rosebud shops, claiming some shoppers had been pushed to sign up.

Cr David Gibb, who represents Rosebud on the shire council, said limited

THE shire’s only aquatic centre, Pelican Park in Hastings, which includes a recreation centre and cafe, lost $1 million in the 200910 financial year.

The aquatic centre red ink was $730,000 and the cafe $286,000.

The loss for the 2009-10 financial year did not include an allowance for depreciation or interest on loans.

The centre has been losing money since it opened in 2004 when it showed a loss of $457,000.

Annual losses have been increasing at about 20 per cent a year since and totalled $3.7 million by June 2010.

Between 2004-05 and June 2010, the aquatic centre lost almost $3 million and the cafe $747,000.

Shire CEO Michael Kennedy has defended the losses, saying aquatic centres – like libraries, art galleries, sports grounds and community halls – are provided at a cost to the community on the basis of the benefit the community derives.

Dr Kennedy said no council-run aquatic centres made money.

“Pelican Park is considered by the council to have contributed significantly to a lift in Hastings generally, and has certainly impacted positively on the wide range of users of the facility,” Dr Kennedy said.

“One of the many positives at Pelican Park is its extensive list of programs for people with disabilities, including mental disabilities.”

He said Pelican Pantry had provided accredited training to almost 400 trainees.

money had been spent on plans as the shire wanted approval to build on the foreshore from DSE before taking the next step.

“We’re considering incorporating the memorial hall into the aquatic centre,” he said last week.

Cr Gibb said three theatre groups and a ballet school used the hall, but changing facilities were non-existent.

“The ballet people get changed in the hall’s kitchen. I’m not sure where the theatre people change.

“An aquatic centre that included the hall would be a great facility for the

whole southern peninsula and would enhance Rosebud,” he said.

He said the Besgrove St site was not as well serviced by buses as the foreshore site on Pt Nepean Rd, which was also on school bus routes.

“The more commercially viable the aquatic centre is, the less drain it would be on the council’s budget” so it was important to select the most central site, he said.

Cr Gibb said he would accept DSE approving the old pool site opposite Boneo Rd instead of the memorial hall site.

m anyung Slain drug couriers were found at Rye

By Mike Hast THE release on New Year’s Day of Australian government cabinet documents from 1980 revived memories of when the bodies of two murdered drug couriers were discovered in a shallow grave near Rye back beach on the Mornington Peninsula.

The grisly find marked a loss of innocence on the peninsula and proved the holiday destination had been used by a ruthless crime ring that saw as many as 24 murders – many years before tales of Underbelly and the most recent spate of murders among Melbourne’s underworld.

Douglas and Isabel Wilson had moved to Australia from New Zealand to be heroin couriers for the notorious drug lord Terrence John Clark, also a New Zealander.

Clark rose from being a petty criminal in Auckland in 1969 to heading an international heroin smuggling empire worth $85 million 10 years later, hundreds of millions of dollars in today’s money.

Along the way, “Mr Asia”, as he became known, left a trial of bodies and broken lives, including the Wilsons. He is said to have personally killed at least three people and enjoyed it.

Clark was the main character in the 2009 Nine Network series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities. In this “prequel” to the original series, Clark was played by Matthew Newton.

The Malcolm Fraser-led Cabinet’s interest in drug smuggling had been sparked by the discovery of the Wilsons and the findings of Justice Philip Woodward’s NSW Royal Commission into Drug Trafficking, which also investigated the murder of Griffith businessman and anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay.

The bodies of Douglas and Isabel Wilson were discovered on 18 May 1979 in a shallow grave among the tea-tree by a Rye man walking his dog. Police later said they had been murdered on or about 13 April 1979.

Retired Victoria Police homicide squad chief Paul Delianis – who was a consultant to the Underbelly scriptwriters – told a Melbourne newspaper last year the Wilson murders were the first major investigation in which he was involved.

Mr Delianis said the man used to walk his dog through the area every day, passing a hole in the sandy soil where kids used to play. One day he saw the hole had been deepened.

The next day he saw the hole had been filled in and someone had thrown tea tree branches on top. He told the local police, who pushed a probe into the ground and were repulsed by the smell that emanated from the other end.

The homicide squad was called and Mr Delianis went down with his crew. It did not take them long to find the bodies of a man and woman.

Mr Delianis said they didn’t have a clue who they were. Not long after he took a phone call from a woman in New Zealand, Charmaine Hawira, who thought it might be her brother.

Her brother had been working for a drug syndicate and she feared he had been

murdered, which was later proved right.

Ms Hawira rang the first alarm bells for Mr Delianis about corruption, warning him that Sydney police could not be trusted. She said a drug kingpin called Terry Clark was paying off police, judges and politicians.

During the inquest into the Wilsons’ death, coroner Kevin Mason found they died from gunshot wounds “inflicted by an unknown person together with Clark”. One witness told the inquest Clark had paid $250,000 to have them killed.

Clark left Australia and returned to New Zealand before police could find him. He reappeared in the United Kingdom and on 31 October 1979 was arrested and charged with the murder of Christopher Martin Johnstone, who had also been dubbed “Mr Asia” as he was based in South-East Asia as a member of the Clark syndicate.

Johnstone dudded Clark, who called himself Terrence John Sinclair in the UK, of $1.5 million in a drug deal.

Johnstone was shot dead on a motorway in the UK in October 1979. His hands were cut off and his face smashed by Clark and an accomplice in a crude attempt to destroy his teeth to hamper identification. His mutilated body, loaded down with weights, was dumped in a deep, flooded quarry in Lancashire, but had landed on a ledge far above the bottom of the quarry.

British police later said they would never have discovered Johnstone if Clark had managed to throw him one metre further into the water.

At Clark’s trial at the historic Lancaster Castle, evidence was given that he decided who lived and who died.

During his trial, Clark flicked through Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, joked with police and lawyers, took part in his own defence, now and then calling out “liar” to police giving evidence, and passed humorous notes to journalists.

He was found guilty of Johnstone’s murder on 14 July 1981 and sentenced to life in prison.

On 12 August 1983, Mr Asia died of a massive heart attack while mowing a lawn at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight.

He was 38.

In his report on the painters and dockers, Frank Costigan stated that the Clark gang was responsible for about eight per cent of the heroin smuggled into Australia.

Clark was also called “Mr Big” but he was just one of many “Mr Bigs” to be revealed in following years.

The deaths of the Wilsons were linked to the 1977 murder of Donald Mackay, a popular local figure and Liberal Party candidate who had spoken out against the blatant commercial growing of marijuana around the town of Griffith.

His death was ordered by the Griffith leaders of the so-called “Honoured Society”, a criminal group from Calabria in Italy that was involved in the notorious Victoria Market murders of the 1960s.

The society’s “sales director” was Robert “Aussie Bob” Trimbole, a man of Calabrian ancestry with a penchant for pork-pie hats. Trimbole organised Mackay’s death,

allegedly issuing the contract to James Bazley.

Trimbole – horse race fixer, drug boss, Mafia powerbroker, murder contractor and arms dealer – fled Australia for the United States in 1981 before he could be arrested for conspiracy to murder Mackay. He turned up in France and then Ireland where he was arrested and held in custody awaiting extradition, but a group of high-priced lawyers helped him avoid extradition and he was released.

Trimbole travelled to Spain, where he died in a Spanish hospital on 12 May 1987, at the age of 56. His body was returned to Australia and at his funeral, mourners and reporters brawled and made headlines around the world.

Bazley was allegedly hired by Terry Clark to kill the Wilsons, who had turned informers when arrested in Queensland with Clark at a wild party at a Brisbane hotel in 1978.

Under intense questioning over six days, they told all they knew about Clark’s operation, but the transcript of their interview was sent to the Federal Narcotics Bureau and someone leaked it to Clark, who ordered they be silenced – permanently.

In 1980, Malcolm Fraser’s cabinet also looked at:  The final report of the Royal Commission into Drugs, which showed Sydney as the centre of a $59 million heroin trade and also revealed "gaps" in coastal surveillance and in the Australian Customs Service.  The death of Frank Nugan, a lawyer and merchant banker facing stock fraud charges, who was found dead in his Mercedes-Benz in January 1980 with a suicide note beside him. His business partner, Michael Hand, a former US Green Beret soldier with links to the CIA, gave evidence that their Nugan Hand Bank was broke, and left the country.

Hand has not been seen since.  Reports in The Bulletin magazine by veteran crime reporter Bob Bottom about alleged fraud, standover tactics, violence and intimidation by painters and dockers.

Bottom is the author of a series of books that started with his seminal The Godfather in Australia and covered crime and corruption in NSW, Queensland and Victoria including at the highest levels of government, business, unions, police and other institutions.

Bottom reported that the union was ripping off the navy and the then government-owned Australian National Line shipping company.

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Frank Costigan, QC, was picked to head a joint federal-Victorian royal commission, which started hearings at Williamstown Court on October 1, 1980.

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Rare goshawks seen on peninsula

By Mike Hast GOSHAWKS were spotted on the peninsula at Mt Martha last winter and at Flinders in spring.

The medium-sized raptors were the white morph form of the goshawk, which also has a grey form.

They are infrequent visitors to the peninsula, living mostly in the Otway Ranges as well as Strzelecki Ranges, Gippsland Plains, Glenelg Plain and Otway Plains The Mt Martha bird was spotted by an amateur bird photographer, Helan Reid, who was housesitting for friends in May and June.

Ms Reid saw the goshawk in Ferrero Reserve near Balcombe Creek: “It flew along the lane near the end of Hilton Court and ... settled in a tree about 15 metres beyond the easternmost property. It stayed for about five minutes, flying off when I attempted to photograph it.”

PENBOC News, the quarterly newsletter of the Mornington Peninsula branch of Bird Observation and Conservation Australia, reported this sighting as well as one by Sally Cleary.

Ms Cleary said she saw a goshawk on a property on Musk Creek Rd in Flinders.

“I saw what I thought was a sulphurcrested cockatoo on a post overlooking a chook yard,” she reported.

“On closer inspection I realised it wasn’t a cockatoo as it looked like a hawk. I looked up my bird book, but couldn’t find any white hawks so got on the internet looking for a birdwatching club.

Rare birds: A grey goshawk (grey morph form) and a “white goshawk” like the ones spotted on the peninsula.

“I then sent an email to the Bird Observers Club of Australia thinking I may have spotted some rare and exotic bird or maybe an albino one. I got a very prompt reply from Bill Ramsay advising me that I had most likely spotted a white morph grey goshawk, which of course it was.”

Ms Cleary said a few hours later she saw a flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos with one being constantly bombarded by some of the squawking birds. “By its flight I realised this was my goshawk. I later learned they often fly with sulphur-crested cockatoos as a means of camouflage.”

A few days later she was talking to a

neighbour who said she, too, had seen the white goshawk – on the edge of Musk Creek Rd. “As she got closer my neighbour noticed it was trying to lift something from the roadway and fly off but it was too heavy,” Ms Cleary said.

Later inspection showed the bird was trying to lift a dead young possum. It soon returned when the humans had departed and dragged its find into bushes and was not seen again.

The grey goshawk exists in two distinct and readily recognisable forms – grey morph and white morph (often referred to as “white goshawk”).

Most birds in Victoria are the white

morph, with just a few greys being seen and no known resident populations.

The grey morph predominates in jungle and subtropical rainforest while the white morph mainly lives in eucalypt forests.

It grows to 40-55cm with a wing span of 70-110cm.

Females can be almost twice as heavy as males.

Only females and immature birds hunt in urban and agricultural areas.

The goshawk is an opportunistic hunter preying mostly on mammals such as rabbits, possums and bats.

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Some scientists have speculated that a dominant grey population is gradually replacing the white form.

In 2003, scientists said the grey goshawk is in a demonstrable state of decline, which is likely to result in extinction, and very rare in terms of abundance and distribution.

Their decline is caused by deliberate shooting, direct poisoning during dog and fox control programs, secondary poisoning during rabbit control programs, bioaccumulation of pollutants and eggshell thinning due to the past use of DDT.

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2010 news roundup: action aplenty

By Mike Hast Part 2: JULY Marina tussle: It was back to the beach in early July, this time in coats and hats, for 175 vocal opponents of the proposed marina in Mornington harbour, the so-called safe harbour project that boaties have been agitating for since at least 1983 when a big blow devastated the precinct, and repeated in April 2008. The $18 million project, which includes almost 200 berths and a wave wall running at an angle off the historic pier to stop northerlies belting the harbour and its boats, is being pushed by a company associated with Mornington Yacht Club. The state government will have to change planning laws to rezone public waters as private, a move that has angered many locals and seen community leaders ducking for cover.

The matter will be decided in 2011.

Sylvan standoff: Anti-freeway protestors set up a pre-dawn picket at the heritage-listed Frankston South property Westerfield as rumours spread of the imminent arrival of Abigroup bulldozers to clear precious bushland for the Peninsula Link freeway. This was despite the matter still being before the Heritage Council of Victoria. Angry picketers were joined by Frankston mayor Christine Richards, who led negotiations with Abigroup, and Liberal politicians Geoff Shaw (who defeated Labor’s Alistair Harkness at the state election in November), Neale Burgess (Hastings MP) and David Morris (Mornington MP). Little did the objectors know that they would have to mind the barricades for 13 weeks.

Ferry expensive: It is revealed that infrastructure for the proposed tourism “missing link”, the car ferry between the Mornington Peninsula at Stony Point and Cowes on Phillip Island, could cost at least $50 million and the state government could be forced to subsidise trips to the tune of $2 million a year. Ferry critics say the service would be economically unviable, but supporters, including Mornington Peninsula and Bass Coast shires, and four state government departments including Parks Victoria, continue to push the project.

Tide and time: State Greens MP Sue Pennecuik releases analysis of Port of Melbourne Corporation tide data done

by Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake that shows higher tides in southern Port Phillip since dredging of The Heads in September 2008. The biggest increase is at Point Lonsdale, just inside the western side of the entrance, where average daily tides were 100mm above the 10-year average.

Others readings: Queenscliff 40mm above average, Rosebud 51mm, St Leonards 48mm, Williamstown 2mm.

Government spokesman Don Hough, the dredging watchdog, refutes the claim, saying the bay’s high tides “have increased by an average of about 10mm”, which was in line with channel deepening project predictions.

Meanwhile, complaints about disappearing Portsea beach continue to dog the government.

Op shop blot: Red Hill residents arc up over shire council rules threatening the town’s 25-year-old opportunity shop, with planners refusing to let the service stay in the house next to the Church of Christ after the two properties were sold to a family intent on converting and living in the old church.

Take a gander: Shire council approves a 400-square, single-storey, 99-metre long house on the foreshore at Point Leo for the Gandel family of shopping centre fame. It will be made of rammed earth, terracotta tiles, copper cladding and have big windows facing Western Port and

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Bass Strait, of course.

Levy fury: Rebel Mornington traders challenge the shire council and chamber of commerce’s marketing levy in VCAT. Objectors to the annual levy of $350 for five years say the scheme is too expensive, short on detail and promoting the town to weekend shoppers from the city will not benefit many traders.

Antonella’s way: McCrae physical therapist Antonella Celi wins the byelection for the council seat of Truemans Ward, centered around Rosebud West, triggered by the resignation of Susan Beveridge who replaced the late Ian Johnston in 2007.

Firebug jailed: A 57-year-old female personal care worker is jailed for five years for seven arson attacks on bathing boxes on the Rosebud foreshore between April and May 2008. Meanwhile, a 48-year-old woman is charged after driving for up to 10km on the wrong side of Mornington Peninsula Freeway and being intercepted by police near the end of the freeway at McCrae. She blew 0.17, more than three times the legal alcohol limit.

Point of it all: Parks Victoria releases the long-awaited management plan for Point Nepean National Park and its historic quarantine station precinct, listing a range of tourism-, education-, arts-, science- and recreation-based activities as features. The plans also allow for a boutique hotel, backpacker hostel, camping area, respite centre, restaurants, cafes, museum and meeting rooms, but no swimming off the park’s beaches, where fastmoving tides make it too dangerous.

Critics of the plan, including members of the disbanded community trust, appointed by the Howard government, and Flinders federal Liberal MP Greg Hunt, strongly question the luxury hotel plan, with one trust member saying Melbourne hoteliers had looked at the site and decided it was not economically viable.

On his sword: The ALP candidate for Flinders, Adrian Schonfelder, resigns from the federal election campaign blaming injuries from a car accident after revealing to The News that Opposition leader Tony Abbott had “an influence on suicide” because of his strong religious views on abortion and sex before marriage.

Schonfelder’s controversial interview with MP News Group editor Keith Platt goes viral on the internet and mainstream media, and he stands down, to be replaced by 21-year-old human rights activist Francis Francis Gagliano-Ventura of Southbank.

Budget for this: The shire council approves its 2010-11 budget with a rate rise of 6.2 per cent with revenue from rates to yield $104 million.

Peninsula property values go up an average of 10.3 per cent after compulsory valuations in January.

Frankston Council ups its rates by 6.5 per cent to raise $56 million from rates.

Gavin a good time: State environment minister Gavin Jennings digs out his Melway and heads south of the river to Frankston to inspect historic Westerfield and meet its owners Simon and Joyce Welsh as well as Peninsula Link freeway protestors who have manned a picket against bulldozers clearing the property for more than seven weeks.

Jennings also visits the Frankston Reservoir reserve, but is confronted by conservationists demanding he lock up the reserve to protect precious flora and fauna.

It’s raining, again: The peninsula’s (and Australia’s) wet year continued when heavy downpours over the last weekend in July swamped low-lying parts of Baxter while SES units at Frankston, Hastings and Sorrento

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answered calls from property owners with damaged roofs and downed trees.

AUGUST Bold gamble: Hotel Sorrento becomes the first pub in Victoria to hand back its poker machines with owners Anne and Rob Pitt saying they were always uncomfortable running a gambling venue and would concentrate on accommodation, conferences, wining and dining at the 1871 limestone hotel on the hill.

Vote for me: The phony election war is over as candidates in Flinders and Dunkley for the 21 August federal poll confirm their candidacy: Greg Hunt (sitting MP, Liberal), Francis Gagliano-Ventura (ALP), shire councillor Reade Smith (Family First) and Robert Brown (Greens) contest Flinders, while Bruce Billson (sitting MP, Liberal), Helen Constas (ALP), Simon Tiller (Greens) and Yasmin De Zilwa (Family First) go in Dunkley.

Big stink: Peninsula water utility South East Water escapes court and a heavy fine after more than 40,000 litres of sewage from one of its sewer mains leaked into Balcombe Creek in September 2008. SEW and the EPA agree on what is known as an “enforceable undertaking”, a Victorian first, that will see SEW complete nine tasks costing about $330,000.

They include installing early warning systems for leaks, better inspection of its pipes, better plans for dealing with leaking pipes and sharing knowledge gained with the water industry and community. SEW has until the end of 2012 to implement the undertaking.

Vale vans: Flinders Caravan Park is bought by a developer for $6.21 million, $700,000 more than expected for the two-hectare property that will farewell vans in June 2011 and be subdivided for housing. It is just another in a long list of caravan parks in Victoria being snapped up for development, including sites in Portsea, Rosebud and Hastings.

Beer-a-clock: Another boutique micro-brewery opens on the peninsula with co-owner Matt Bebe of Mt Eliza and head brewer Andrew Gow taking delivery of eight tanks from China worth $300,000 at their new premises in Mornington. The beer started flowing in September.

Confidence eroding: Worldrenowned coastal scientist Gerry Byrne of Sorrento calls on the state government and Port of Melbourne Corporation to fund a detailed mathematical modelling of wave movements in Port Phillip as government authorities continue to deny dredging of The Heads is causing the devastation of Portsea front beach. His call is ignored as contractors truck in 50,000 tonnes of Gippsland sand for the beach before erecting a temporary rock wall to stop more erosion.

Road collapse: VicRoads closes the Esplanade above Safety Beach after heavy rains erode earth under the road, causing it to collapse. Repairs take eight weeks.

Chinese golf: Chinese investors buy St Andrews Beach golf course for about $7 million, after it was passed in at auction in May, and plan a new clubhouse, hotel, day spa, condominiums and a second course.

Winner, worrier: Flinders Liberal MP Greg Hunt celebrates retaining his seat at the 21 August federal election while his colleague, Dunkley’s Bruce Billson, is in the fight of his political life with ALP candidate Helen Constas. Billson prevails many days later, winning by just 1750 votes two-party preferred, but incurring a three per cent swing against him and making his seat one of the most marginal in the state.

Dava Lodge down: About 75 elderly people are forced to leave Dava Lodge

nursing home in Mornington after it is closed by owner Caulfield Drive Pty Ltd. The closure also affects 90 nurses and other staff.

SEPTEMBER Chair-left: Parks Victoria fails to find an operator for the ill-fated Arthurs Seat chairlift, closed since May 2006, and announces a second tendering process. Owner Richard Hudson of Dromana continues litigation against Parks and WorkSafe over the forced closure. In November, the government announces that a consortium led by Macquarie Group senior executive and yachtsman Simon McKeon, also chairman of the CSIRO and former head of the Point Nepean Community Trust, will rebuild the chairlift at a cost of $5 million and be granted a 50-year lease.

No smoke: Peninsula Health bans smoking at all of its centres including Frankston and Rosebud hospitals and their grounds after what it claims was a successful trial at Hastings Community Health service.

Coast shaved: A huge section of cliff six metres high and 30 metres long near the end of Daveys Bay Rd, Mt Eliza, collapses onto the beach, with two earth tremors in March, the long drought and then above-average rains being blamed. It follows landslips at two other Mt Eliza beaches in August, one caused by heavy rain and one by sea erosion, and massive erosion at Mt Martha.

Players sacked: Pearcedale Football Club sacks four of its best players after an end-of-season party at Baxter Tavern. The club had been put on a $10,000 good behaviour bond by the local footy league the year before after incidents in Warrnambool.

Weather? Storms, of course: SES volunteers endure more sleepless nights fixing roofs and removing fallen trees as yet another big storm belts the peninsula, on the first weekend of the month. Sorrento SES received 300 callouts, almost double its 2003 record, and Hastings a similar number. Winds top 130km/h, some homes and shops lose power for 48 hours and SES units from as far afield as Footscray, Essendon and Northcote come to help. Worst affected were Mornington, Mt Martha, Somerville, Balnarring, Red Hill, Main Ridge, McCrae, Rye, Blairgowrie and Sorrento with the shire council saying it would take six weeks to clean up.

Shipping steel: Striking BlueScope Steel maintenance workers return to the plant at Hastings after a five-week strike over conditions.

Fake rape: Police hunt for male sex attacker after a 21-year-old Mt Martha woman claims she was assaulted while jogging on a track beside the Esplanade at Mt Martha. Hundreds of fearful local women change their routines, but a week later police announce the report was false and move to charge the woman over false claims. The incident generates a blizzard of negative publicity nationwide.

Big wet: Melbourne Water rainfall figures for winter confirm what we already knew: the peninsula received rain well above the 10-year average and more than 50 per cent more than last winter.

Playing pool: Frankston councillors approve a $31 million aquatic centre for Samuel Sherlock Reserve, with the state government promising $12.5 million, the largest amount ever given to a council for a pool. The decision is not supported by all councillors with some calling for money to be spent on other projects.

Heritage screens: Sorrento’s Moderne-style Athenaeum Theatre and Dromana’s three-screen drive-in are added to the Victorian Heritage Register, although drive-in owner Paul

Whitaker is unimpressed, saying it will restrict his future options for the business, established by his parents in 1961.

Bulldozed: Peninsula Link freeway builders, police and conservationists face off at the heritage-listed Westerfield property on Tuesday 28 September after the Heritage Council of Victoria removes the final legal barrier for bushland clearing work to start. Some of the 50 conservationists who had maintained a 13-week picket scale or stand beside trees and jump on earthmoving equipment as police from a squad of 70 officers make five arrests.

Fish fight: Department of Primary Industries contractors secretly release trout fingerlings into Devilbend Reservoir to howls of protest from members of the Devilbend Foundation and other conservationists who for more than 10 years have been trying to dissuade the government from allowing recreational fishing in the 1000-hectare reserve.

OCTOBER Going greener: The Mornington shire council announces its garden waste collection service for urban properties will start in March 2011 after years of agitation by residents. A 240-litre bin, the same size as the blue-lidded recycling bin, will cost $130 a year for the fortnightly pickup and can contain grass clippings, prunings, small branches and leaves. Some councils on Melbourne’s urban fringe started green waste collections up to eight years ago.

Bagged out: Department of Sustainability and Environment contractors finish sandbagging Portsea beach after spending more than $2 million and tipping thousands of tonnes of sand onto the fast-eroding beach, which locals claim was caused by swells coming in from Bass Strait through the entrance to Port Phillip, deepened as part of the dredging of shipping channels.

Garden win: Mornington’s acclaimed community garden, established 10 years ago on an old croquet green on Mitchell St, wins a $50,000 state government grant for solar panels, a sprinkler system and water tanks.

Bus-ted: Public transport advocates slam the state government for failing to introduce recommendations of its own bus review of the peninsula.

Just two of 12 suggestions have been introduced: a new bus route between Rye and St Andrews Beach to connect with the Portsea-Frankston route and a new route to service Rosebud TAFE. Clean air: State government approves Woolworths’ plans for one of its Oxygen home goods centres on the site of the now-demolished Mornington Antique Centre on Mornington-Tyabb Rd near Dunns Rd. Race not run: Mornington Racing Club is forced to cancel its premier spring racing day, the Peninsula Cup, in late October after more, you guessed it, heavy rain. 80mm in fact.

It was to be the first meeting on the new, $1.4 million upgraded track. The cup was run on 20 November when almost 10,000 people flocked to the track to see the first meeting since January.

Market rules: The value of blocks at the controversial Martha Cove marina-based estate at Safety Beach continue to languish after CP1, part of the Gold Coast-based City Pacific group, hit the wall in August 2009 and was forced to sell off large parts of the development to other developers.

Blocks that previously cost up to $500,000 were being offered at a substantial discount, but optimists said land values would come good in the longer term.

NOVEMBER Three’s a crowd: Osborne Primary

Happier days: Premier John Brumby was all smiles when he turned the first sod for the controversial Peninsula Link freeway project at Carrum Downs but months later was defeated at the November state election and resigned before Christmas. Flightless: Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad sold its Bell Longranger helicopter, ending 34 years of the community-supported air rescue service. It will return to being a sea-based rescue squad.

School principal Liz Klein sparks a statewide debate when she bans groups of three or more pupils from wandering around the school grounds at breaks “harassing others”, a first for Victorian state schools. While group games are encouraged, pupils engaging in “annoying and silly behaviour at the expense of others” will be separated.

Mud map: Melbourne Water starts work on a map to show which houses on the peninsula would be subject to flooding by predicted rising seas and more frequent storms and rains.

Poll push: Victorians returned to voting centres, this time for the state election, at the end of the month with the peninsula’s three Liberal MPs, Martin Dixon in Nepean electorate, Neale Burgess in Hastings and David Morris in Mornington, all recording resounding victories as the Ted Baillieu-led Liberal National coalition pushed John Brumby’s Labor government from office. Dixon was later appointed education minister and Morris parliamentary secretary

for local government, assisting the minister Jeanette Powell.

In Frankston, the ALP’s Alistair Harkness was a surprise loser, well beaten by the Liberal’s Geoff Shaw, a Frankston accountant, and further up the line Labor lost Carrum, Mordialloc and Bentleigh, with the former Bentleigh MP Rob Hudson blaming problems on the Frankston rail line for voters deserting the ALP and political analyst Nick Economou of Monash University saying the Peninsula Link freeway, north-south pipeline and Wonthaggi desal plant debacles cost Labor dearly.

Perhaps surprisingly, the Greens were disappointed with their vote compared to numbers gained at the federal election in August.

Landmark on market: Frankston’s tallest building, the 12-storey Peninsula Centre once described by comedian Barry Humphries as Melbourne’s ugliest building, goes back on the market after owner Asian Pacific Building Corporation scraps plans to turn it into a 140-room

luxury hotel. The firm bought it three years earlier for $11.25 million. It comes with concept plans for 90 apartments and ground floor shops.

Butt out: Frankston Council starts its smoke-free trial in Shannon St Mall, Station St Mall, parts of Young St and two smaller streets.

Cop shop: The $8.4 million Carrum Downs police station opens with the state government promising 35 officers, some of whom will no doubt improve their fitness for chasing miscreants by using the station’s gymnasium.

Firsts among equals: Frankston councillors vote Defence Department recruitment officer Kris Bolam as their new and youngest-ever mayor at 24, while the Mornington shire councillors hand the robes and chain to Dromana pest controller Graham Pittock.

Chopper off: Sorrento-based Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad sells its rescue helicopter for $900,000, marking the end of a 34year era for the community supported service that had the only rescue

aircraft in the region. Citing reduced need due to government agencies having seven helicopters as well as rising running costs, the squad put its Bell Longranger on the international market in May for $1.8 million. It will revert to a sea-based service.

DECEMBER Hot seat: Main Ridge winery T’Gallant, owned by brewing giant Fosters Group, submits a new plan to the shire council seeking a 150seat restaurant and cellar door area for 40 after failing to win approval for a 274-seat eatery earlier in the year. Opponents claim the winery has consistently exceeded its 60seat capacity and chide the shire for failing to issue fines. Councillors will consider the new application in February.

Enough already: Shire council CEO Michael Kennedy rejects a pay rise as part of his 2009-10 performance review. Cynics point out that Dr Kennedy, who is on an annual package of $319,000, received a rise of $19,000 in April backdated to July

2009 and probably reckoned he had enough to scrape by.

Bay blitz: Fisheries Victoria officers blitz Port Phillip and Western Port boat ramps, handing out 57 fines to anglers with too many or undersized fish, and continue to target abalone poachers with two men from the southern peninsula caught red-handed with abalone and diving gear in the car park of a Chinese restaurant in distant Sunshine.

Where do they all sleep?: The peninsula prepares for its annual influx of holidaymakers as the Christmas and New Year break looms. Its permanent population of about 145,000 soars to more than 250,000 with caravan parks bulging at the seams and the area’s 25,000 holiday homes filling with owners and their guests. Locals not involved in tourism grit their teeth and plan survival tactics like early morning trips to the shops to avoid traffic congestion, while tourism operators rub their hands and hope for a bumper season. Happy holidays!

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Artistic surge after wave hero’s death

By Keith Platt RESPONDING to his initial emotions, Robbie Warden jumped on a plane and flew to Hawaii to join the thousands mourning the 2 November 2010 death of champion surfer Andy Irons.

“I just felt the need to go over and see my friends and family over there.

I didn’t realise how much of an impact Andy had until I arrived,” Warden said.

“There were shrines and memorials on every street and the feeling was pretty down; it just showed how much Andy meant to everyone.”

One week after the memorial, Warden dislocated a rib while surfing, virtually ripping the muscle off the bone.

“I had to go to hospital and spend three weeks out of the water, which meant no surfing, just swimming, photography and getting to know the locals.”

After spending a month in Kauai, Warden headed to the north shore of Oahu for the Pipe Masters competition. The first day of the event also heralded the birth of Andy Irons’s son, Andy Axel Irons.

“I spent the rest of the trip documenting the event and free surfing on the north shore before returning home before Christmas.”

The loss of a hero, the sudden trip overseas, injury and inspired artistry with his camera was the beginning of

a creative summer for Warden who is about to publish his Hawaiian experiences in a journal, with online and print editions.

His photographs will feature in an exhibition at the new Surface Pop gallery shop in St Kilda starting on 4 February.

Like many artists he constantly seeks inspiration, following a surf at favourite beach Gunnamatta with a trip to Arthurs Seat to watch the setting sun break through a brewing storm across Port Phillip.

“Like waking up early on Christmas morning to open presents as a child, full of excitement and surprise, I exited the highway home from the surf to climb to higher ground,” he writes.

“The sun was bright, hitting every puff of cloud it could, making an explosion of colour and patterns not even the most psychedelic of drugs could create.

“Thanks to mother nature the environment put on an almighty show that lasted well over an hour after the sun had disappeared.”

Days later Warden is at Rosebud carnival where coloured lights illuminate youngsters braving the bumps and sudden turns of machinery and slides.

Robbie Warden credits his grandfather Edwin R Warden with “the passion that has always been running through my veins … he was a photog-

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Inspiring moments: Photographer Robbie Warden (top right) is making a career of mixing business with pleasure. Watching the sun break through an evening sunset at Arthurs Seat (top left) followed a trip to Hawaii to pay homage to the late great Andy Irons which put him on the spot to take this shot of champion Kelly Slater, one of a sequence used by the Swellnet website. A glass piece (above) by Mt Martha artist Sarah Dingwall is carried by Warden “to shoot in exotic locations ... Her work is amazing and has been an inspiration to help me focus on my passion - photography”. The lack of consistent summer weather may have kept the numbers down at the Rosebud carnival (left) but its operators remain optimistic and plan to extend their season by a day to raise money for flood victims.

rapher, adventure pioneer and event organiser who lived to be 92”.

“He ran his business shooting footy teams, weddings and portraits, including the Footscray VFL team in the 1950s and was a successful working class photographer with an office at the front of the house and a studio and darkroom in the backyard.”

After a marketing stint with the surf label Volcom and inheriting his grandfather’s equipment, journals and inspiration, Robbie Warden decided on a more artistic course.

“Growing up I never knew what to do. I just knew I loved the outdoors – surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, skimboarding, sailing – they were my passions and I wanted to pursue them.”

His business, marketing and international business studies at Monash University were fitted in with travelling, surfing and working for Surfing

Victoria as a judge and with Volcom part time.

After three years of studies, Warden lived for a time at Huntington Beach, California, and then the north shore of Hawaii where his photography career began, shooting tourists learning to surf on Waikiki Beach.

This was followed back in Australia with full-time work for Volcom as the Australian and New Zealand event manager, running surf, skate and snow events and travelling to the US each year for the international finals.

“When the recession hit, so did the marketing budget and I was cut, which was nice, because the pressure of events is quite intense.”

Unemployed, Warden qualified for government help, which he used to start a photography business.

“After almost two years of operating a small business, my outlook has

changed dramatically. From going from surf photography that is highly competitive and has limited resources I have decided to work toward the more viable wedding and real estate markets that enable me to pay the bills, travel and surf.”

In the mix with his work and search for clients Warden this year plans to be at the Quiksilver Pro on the Gold Coast, the Alley Fish Fry in Currumbin and the Noosa Festival of surfing from February to March.

There is also a chance Warden will be covering the Baja 500 race in Mexico in July and later in the year his own Side Slippin Event at Shoreham.

“So many more ideas I’d love to put to action, but I never seem to have enough time or resources. There’s a whole world going on out there.”

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Clouds theme for peninsula artist PENINSULA printmaker Fran Henke has chosen a favourite subject – clouds – for her first solo exhibition.

An active member of the international Cloud Appreciation Society, Mrs Henke gave herself a dual challenge of theme and media.

“Carving transient cloud images onto lino plates was ambitious,” she said.

“After the first half dozen efforts I realised that capturing the elusive could be more entertaining. I saw a painting by Los Angeles artist John Baldessari called Falling Clouds, which added to an old fear, suggested a quirky path.

“I turned around the idea of scary road signs in alpine areas that say ‘Beware of falling rocks’ with a series of linocuts called Beware of Falling Clouds.”

Mrs Henke was introduced to and majored in printmaking at Chisholm Frankston and with a group of former students is forming Peninsula Printmakers to promote the art of the print.

“Printmaking is absorbing,” Mrs Henke said. “That moment of easing the print away from the plate on the press offers a mix of thrill and trepidation. You’re bringing into play technique, ideas and imagery in a totally different discipline.

“But I love the work of Australian women artists of the 1930s – Dorrit Black, Violet Teague and especially Jessie Traill, who had a studio at Harkaway near where we lived in my teens.

Their courage and style, even to printing on brown paper, has inspired me.

“Jessie Traill was told that etching wasn’t a suitable occupation for a woman. It was seen as too physical and toxic, but the focus of printmaking today is on working in a safe environment.”

Mrs Henke’s exhibition, ‘Carving Clouds’, is at Libran Dogma Gallery, A’Beckett Rd, Narre Warren North, from 5-27 February. The small gallery owned by Di Lockwood is dedicated to showing the work of emerging women artists.

Mrs Henke said Wickham Glass of Hastings sponsored framing, which in turn helped her increase the amount donated from her print sales to children with polio in India.

Printing clouds: Fran Henke works on one of her ‘clouds’for the February exhibition.

LETTERS Change pay policy YOUR story ‘Calls for shire to explain executive salary secrets’ (The News, 11/1/11) is revealing in what it says about Mornington Peninsula Shire.

It is outrageous that ratepayers are unable to access openly and freely details of the seat-warmers’ overpaid salaries.

I have written to Nepean MP Martin Dixon requesting action by the state government to repeal the secrecy provisions passed by the former Labor government in October last year.

Max Sayers, Rye

Surprised by bonuses I WRITE with reference to the lead story by Keith Platt regarding bonuses for top Mornington Peninsula Shire

staff. Thank you for airing this situation regarding pay, which you have published in an informative way. Also, I had no idea that the ratepayers’ association even existed.

Robert Jones, Balnarring

Pool policy IT is interesting that even though I keep being told that Nepean MP Martin Dixon has been misquoted, I can’t get anyone to tell me just what it is he is saying. Also interesting that he has never clarified his comments in the newspaper by demanding that it publish his correct position on this issue.

I would like to know exactly what the government’s position is on Mr Dixon’s public statement to fast-track

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coastal consent for a pool to be built on the foreshore in Rosebud. The inference is that due process will be circumvented, which would bring us back to the days of [former Labor planning minister] Justin Madden. Mr Dixon has not dispelled this inference in the papers and specifically stated that he would do it when he discussed it with me.

I want clarification as to what is and what is not and what procedures will be followed. Just what must happen to obtain costal consent?

I believe that the Department of Sustainability and Environment has been quite clear to Mornington Peninsula Shire as to what is required.

Is anything going to change?

Is the government going to fast-track coastal consent or are we going to

work the system as designed?

I am just a simple, uncomplicated guy looking for a simple and uncomplicated answer as to what Mr Dixon’s position is.

Joe Lenzo, Safety Beach Editor: The News stands by its November report quoting Mr Dixon as saying: “If elected, we’ll give immediate consent for it [the Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre] to go on the foreshore [at Rosebud].” See Page 1.

History search I AM currently researching the life of Ewart Melbourne Brindle, a renowned US artist and illustrator who did his early schooling at Dromana Primary School 184 in the early 1900s.

The Brindle family lived at “Sun-

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nyside” on Boundary Rd, their driveway being where Scott St is now.

As a schoolboy, Mel (as he was later known) would sketch the full-rigged sailing ships traversing Port Phillip to Melbourne.

As an adult he produced illustrations for magazines such as Saturday Evening Post and Women’s Home Companion as well as posters for America’s war effort in the 1940s, postage stamps and so on.

I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone local able to provide any information that could help with this research, which we hope to feature at the school’s 150th celebrations in March.

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OBITUARIES

Nagasaki A-bomb survivor dies aged 93 Vivian ‘Vic’ Leigh Eustace War veteran, health inspector, service clubs member, golfer 2-12-1917 – 25-12-2010

By Mike Hast ONE of the best-known southern peninsula identities, Vivian ‘Vic’ Eustace, died on Christmas Day at 10.30pm aged 93.

Mr Eustace was a tireless worker for service clubs including a founding member of Lions clubs at Dromana and Rosebud, and a member of the Ex Prisoner of War and Relatives Association.

He was a Legacy member for 29 years including president in 1979, and Rosebud RSL member for 40 years.

Mr Eustace was also a member of Rosebud Park Golf Club; Rosebud Combined Carnival Committee, Rosebud Foreshore Committee; Rosebud Lawn Bowls Club; and Rosebud Men’s Probus Club.

His extraordinary life was celebrated on 4 January where many mourners heard about his Second World War experiences.

His nephew Leigh Eustace of Mt Eliza, a Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor, said his uncle had led a fascinating life.

He grew up in a large family in inner city Richmond during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

He joined the Australian Army soon after the outbreak of war and boarded a ship to Singapore with his unit, 2/10 Ordnance Field Workshop (armament engineers), on New Year’s Day 1942.

The Japanese invaded the island state

Long life: Vic Eustace at McCrae beach.

in early February and by 15 February the British commander in Singapore, General Edgar Percival, was forced to surrender.

By this time Mr Eustace had been assigned to the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion and was with a group that had evaded capture by the Japanese and was heading to the coast to be picked up by HMAS Perth and USS Houston.

These and other Allied ships were sunk by the Japanese in the Battle of Sunda Strait, which runs between Java and Sumatra, south of Singapore.

As Vic Eustace told his nephew years later, “this was our last chance of escape and we were forced to surrender on the beach”.

Mr Eustace now joined more than 100,000 Allied troops as prisoners of war, initially at Bicycle Camp prison

in what was then called Batavia, now Indonesia, and soon after at the Moulamein prison in Burma.

He spent the rest of the war as a POW and was put to work in Singapore, on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, in Saigon, Vietnam, and finally in Japan.

Of the 13,000 Australians sent to work on the railway, 2700 would never return.

In Japan, he was forced to work in an underground coal mine near the city of Nagasaki.

On 9 August 1945, working deep in the bowels of the earth, Mr Eustace and his mates heard a massive explosion.

The Americans had been dropping conventional bombs on Nagasaki and other Japanese cities for some time, but this was something they had never heard before.

They thought it must have been a massive fuel or ammo dump hit by an American bomb. It was an American bomb all right – a 21-kiloton atomic bomb that killed 70,000 people.

Three days before the Americans had dropped on Hiroshima the world’s first A-bomb weapon, an enriched uranium bomb yielding 13-18 kilotons that instantly killed 80,000 people.

Japan surrendered on 14 August, but the war was not over for Mr Eustace and his Aussie coal miner mates.

A Japanese officer addressed the POWs when they came to the surface and told them about the surrender.

The men were told there would be air drops of supplies and they cleverly constructed a huge sign with rocks painted white: US POWs. Within days, the US Air Force started

dropping food and other supplies including American military uniforms.

“We got more than we needed,” Mr Eustace said many years later, “much of it went to waste as our stomaches could not cope.”

“It took us a while to get used to wearing the uniforms and we commandeered a local Japanese fire truck and made forays into the countryside picking up food parcels.”

“His wartime notes are an interesting record of human brutality and survival,” Cr Eustace said.

Many Japanese guards were executed for war atrocities after war’s end.

Back on civvy street in Australia, Mr Eustace made a remarkable recovery.

But when he arrived in Sydney on a ship from Japan, the mother of his future wife Norma Watson had a stroke from the shock of seeing a man who was just skin and bones as he shuffled off the ship.

His own mother had been told three times that he was missing in action, virtually code for dead.

A good-looking woman, her hair had turned white during the three years he had been away. She was also worried about her other son Ray (Cr Eustace’s father) who was still in Borneo. He served with “M Force” as an engineer and sapper attached to the AIF in support of the renowned “Z Force”.

Back in Melbourne, Mr Eustace returned to his job at Mignon Hosiery, but soon tired of this and took advantage of a government program for returned servicemen to gain a better education. In 1959 he moved to McCrae after landing a job with the

Shire of Flinders. He rose through the ranks and was appointed chief health inspector, a position he held until his retirement in 1982.

Cr Eustace said his uncle had a huge impact on the Mornington Peninsula over five decades when working for the shire and in the community.

“Two of his initiatives were a waste hopper system where residents take their rubbish to a central depot, a system that remains much the same today, and protocols for recycled water usage that were adopted by the state government’s health department with little change from his initial proposal.”

Norma Eustace, who died in 1995, was a tireless worker for the Liberal Party on the southern peninsula over many years and a great supporter of her husband’s community involvement.

The couple did not have children.

In recent years, until her death two years ago, Mr Eustace enjoyed the company of Eileen McFadyen, also a Rosebud RSL member.

Mr Eustace lived at home until just five months before his death when he moved to Mount Martha Valley Lodge.

His nephew said he was able to remain in his own home “with the tremendous support of his many friends and family”.

“His mind was sharp as a tack right until the end. His memory of shire activities on the southern peninsula over the last 50 years was amazing.

He has played a major role in my life since becoming a councillor as I lost my father Ray, who was four years younger than Vic, almost 23 years ago.

He will be greatly missed.”

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QUALITY AUSTRALIAN MADE MATTRESSES

By Elaine Bertotto THE Captain’s Table restaurant in Blairgowrie of the 1960s and before that the Arcade Cafe in Rosebud in the 1950s were the creation of a couple that enjoyed a long and happy partnership and life together.

Cath Bertotto was the surviving member of a team that was Joe and Cath Bertotto. Cath died in December aged 93.

Moving from Sandringham to Portsea with a new baby in 1945, Cath and Joe began their peninsula adventure in a tiny cottage that overlooked the sea and the large weekender property that Joe was to maintain.

He also took the owners fishing.

Joe managed the property and quickly established a large vegetable garden and a considerable poultry run. Cath would comment later in life how she often would long for a “bit of steak” in those early days as she grew so tired of eating chicken and fish.

The family’s only transport was the irregular Portsea bus service and a fishing boat “The Heather”, which took the family as it grew on expeditions to various parts of Port Phillip.

Indeed it took Joe and the family to Rosebud to inspect a small restaurant, the Arcade Cafe, opposite the Rosebud carnival in 1956.

They bought the business and settled in Rosebud and so began a new venture into the restaurant business where many

Connection with the sea: Cath and Joe Bertotto aboard Joe’s pride and joy “Catarina” as they fish in Port Phillip.

friendships were made and plans for the family’s future emerged.

It was not long before the couple built the Captain’s Table in Blairgowrie, which was to become a landmark for many years.

Early retirement from the restaurant business in the 1970s brought Joe and Cath the time that they had yearned for to build a home with a garden.

Gardening was their passion and both become founding members of the Southern Peninsula Garden Club and were

made life members. Competitive in the sailing world in their Compass Careel, Cath and Joe spent much of their time racing or fishing in Port Phillip.

They were founding members of the Careel Association and were later awarded life membership.

Cath is survived by her children Dennis and Carol, six grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

Cath and Joe’s youngest daughter Rosemary died in 1977.

The writer is the daughter-inlaw of Cath Bertotto.

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vanity, mirrored robes to all 3 bedrooms, all new floor coverings including carpets, tiles and polished boards. Two new top quality split system, high capacity heating / air conditioners have been installed for year round comfort. The windows have all been professionally tinted. A fresh coat of paint both inside and out add to the sparkle. This is a property that you can further enhance without any chance of over capitalisation.

Simply move in and enjoy.

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Rye, 2271 Pt Nepean Rd. Phone (03) 5985 6555 Agents: Glenn Key 0402 445 208

PROPERTIES URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR PERMANENT RENTAL BLAIRGOWRIE 4 Law Street

SORRENTO 544 Melbourne Rd

Set in a quiet locale amongst the Ti-Trees of leafy Blairgowrie is this fully landscaped and renovated home featuring brand new polished hardwood floors and a lively open feel. Four bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

Located walking distance to Cameron’s Bight, Koonya Back Beach & Koonya General store and positioned mid-way between the narrowest point of the Southern Peninsula is this well presented 3 bedroom residence.

For Sale Inspect Land Melway

$749,500 Sat 2 - 2:30pm 628sqm approx 167 G5

Contact Joshua Callaghan 0418 595 719 Office 136 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento 5984 2600

For Sale Inspect Land Melway

Contact Larry Callaghan 0414 593 804 Office 136 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento 5984 2600

$665,000 Sat 1 - 1:30pm 839sqm approx 157 E12

We deliver peace of mind and greater financial returns on your investment by providing the very best in property management service. Your property will be in safe and experienced hands.

At Fletchers we are committed to meeting your needs by: > Achieving the highest rental and minimising vacancy periods > Sourcing reliable and suitable tenants > Ensuring the rent is paid promptly > Maintaining communication with our landlords at all times > Acting promptly on all property owner and tenant requests > Providing expert administration and documentation

ROSEBUD SOUTH

PORTSEA 11 Stonecutters Road

Located in sought after locale within walking distance to local shops and Peninsula Manor is this vacant land (approx 774sqm) with approved council plans & permit for 2 separate dwellings.

Located in coveted Portsea location is this classic modern coastal residence with flowing open spaces both inside and out. With 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 2 living areas and huge garage. Instantly impressive.

For Sale $257,500 Inspect By arrangement Land 774sqm approx

Contact Joshua Callaghan 0418 595 719 Office 136 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento 5984 2600

For Sale Inspect Land Melway

$2.45m - $2.55m Sat 12:30 - 1pm 2800sqm approx 156 H6

Contact Joshua Callaghan 0418 595 719 Greg Garby 0418 591 185 Office 136 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento 5984 2600

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$448,000 21 Staughton Avenue, Rosebud West 5RVHEXG 2IÀFH

5986 8600

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Land, Glorious Land Rye

St Andrews Beach

Back beach Park like 1/3 ac.

Ocean Beach- Rare ½ ac

Price: Address: Inspect: Agent:

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One of the best blocks available in this unique, private location. The block measures 1254 sqmt approx and has the bonus of carefully planned and planted shrubs and trees. An idyllic location to build your dream.

$320,000- $350,000 13 Alwyn Street, Rye

By Appointment Contact Phil Key 0418 516 470 or Diane Key 0419 324 515

A magic picturesque double home site of approx 2208 sqmts. Beautifully sheltered and in a location 2nd to none. Hear the roar of the waves and experience the joy of the ocean from this once in a lifetime offering. Owners have priced to sell quickly.

$440,000- $480,000 86-88 Iona Street, St Andrews Beach

By Appointment Contact Diane Key 0419 324 515

Rye

Tootgarook

Great Block- Super Affordable

Court Block- Bay Views

Price: Address: Inspect: Agent:

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$220,000 - $240,000 6 Wyena Street, Rye

By Appointment Contact Phil Key 0418 516 470 or Alana Balog 0412 536 624

In the bowl of a prestige court this block affords great bay views for your future creation. The privacy of the location and convenience with regard to the beach, shops and facilities make this an ideal purchase.

$270,000 12 Cowrie Court, Tootgarook

By Appointment Contact Glenn Key 0402 445 208

Rye

Blairgowrie

The Block

Affordable in Blairgowrie- Wow

This really is a great opportunity. Brilliant location amongst good quality neighbours this pleasantly elevated block will showcase your new home to perfection. The lightly treed location offers a haven from the hustle and bustle yet is oh so close to everything.

Price: Address: Inspect: Agent:

$279,000 13 Nalong Street, Rye

By Appointment Contact Phil Key on 0418 516 470 or Glenn Key 0402 445 208

There’s no denying this is the very best buy for vacant land anywhere on the Peninsula. Whilst the block is quite elevated it is also surprisingly level creating a brilliant outlook and ease of build. Close to both front and back beaches and all the magic facilities on offer.

Price: Address: Inspect: Agent:

$320,000 - $350,000 6 Egerton Street, Blairgowrie

By Appointment Contact Diane Key 0419 324 515

Rye

Moonah Links

Ocean Beach Area

Choice of 2

Price: Address: Inspect: Agent:

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Quite deceptive and very well sheltered this great block boasts many fruit trees and is on a 1st class corner location. It is a lovely big block, quite level and ready to go. Entry via service road ensures privacy.Vendor of many years, priced to sell.

$280,000 399 Browns Road, Rye

By Appointment Contact Glenn Key 0402 445 208

Both magic, super affordable blocks in quite different locations. 32 Turnberry Grove and 15 Arthurs View. Both offer stunning out looks, both are ready to go and each offers a unique opportunity to enter this stunning individual lifestyle including golf, dining etc.

$215,000 and $180,000- $199,000

By Appointment Contact Glenn Key 0402 445 208 or Diane Key 0419 324 515

2397 Point Nepean Road, Rye

5985 6555

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24 Yootha Court, Rye

$420,000 - $450,000 “DUAL INCOME�

7/30 Weir Street, Rye

$379,000

“CENTRAL AND SPACIOUS TOWNHOUSE�

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Contact: Sam Crowder 0403 893 724

24 St Andrews Drive, Rye $480,000 - $520,000 “NEVER TO BE BUILT OUT�

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22 Sara Street, Rye

$519,000

Large level block 15 minutes walk to the beach comprising of two dwellings.

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Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

10 Greenhill Road, Rosebud $499,000 “CONTEMPORARY HOME WITH BEAUTIFUL OUTLOOK�

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Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

175 Eighth Avenue, Rosebud

$345,000

“ENTRY LEVEL INVESTORS/RETIREES�

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Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

35 Dunlane Court, Rye

$519,000

Contact: Sam Crowder 0403 893 724

3/1889 Point Nepean Rd, Tootgarook

$580,000 - $620,000 “BEACHSIDE VIEW APARTMENTS�

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Contact: Sam Crowder 0403 893 724

Contact: John Kennedy 0401 984 842

2327 PT NEPEAN RD RYE

03 5985 8800 www.johnkennedyrealestate.com.au

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Rye

$430,000

Classic Beach Feel in Tyrone Located only a 5 minute walk to the popular Tyrone and White Cliffs Beaches and surrounded by local native vegetation, this classic beach house could be just what you’ve been looking for.

Offering 4 bedrooms master with built in robe, separate bathroom and laundry, open kitchen and meals area, separate lounge/family room this home has the

“beachy feel” that is so often desired in this most sought after pocket of Rye. Other features include an outdoor undercover BBQ area, outdoor shower and toilet, all on a private great sized block of approx 784sqm this one has the potential to become the ideal holiday getaway or private residence.

Agency: Jacobs & Lowe-Bennetts. 2115 Point Nepean Road, RYE. Phone: 5987 9000 Agent: Brendan Adams 0419 566 944

Tootgarook

$420,000

Better Than The Rest This 3 bedroom home is located central to all the amenities of Rosebud and only a short stroll to the Rosebud foreshore and beach.

Complete with two living areas and full ensuite and second bathroom, this solid well built home has everything to offer the astute purchaser.

Other features include outdoor entertaining area, lock up garage, a/c and gas heating, fully landscaped on a low maintenance block.

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Rosebud. 1089 Pt Nepean Road, Rosebud. Ph (03) 5986 8600 Agent: Mark Morssinkhof 0400 533 245 or Amanda Kaye 0408 888 607

$449,000

Timeless Wonder With Modern Appeal This timeless 4 bedroom home has been built with recycled bricks. Upon entering the property is a huge open plan living area incorporating lounge, dining and central kitchen with ample bench space for informal gatherings. The property has been well designed with bedrooms at each end of the house and two completely separate bathrooms. The more you explore the property you will see the way modern and

Rosebud

bygone years blend beautifully with some stunning leadlight features and all of today’s essential mod cons, making it a perfect family home. Set on a beautiful block of 742m2 with immaculate gardens, plenty of space for cars boats etc. and only a short drive to beach, golf courses and shopping strip. Full of character and charm, you need to inspect too fully appreciate this property.

Agency: Basso Real Estate. 1807 Point Nepean Road, Tootgarook. Ph 03 5985 9000.

Agent: Nicky Hunt 0402 982 583

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Blairgowrie

$595,000

Walk to Bridgewater Bay Only moments from ruggedly beautiful Bridgewater Bay and miles of walking trails along the ocean coast, this light-filled home is the ideal weekend base to enjoy relaxed beachside living. Set behind private front gates with a big front deck that becomes another living area in summer, the three-

bedroom home has been extensively renovated with taste and style and includes high ceilings, polished timber floors, a huge master bedroom, well-appointed kitchen, split-system airconditioning, low maintenance gardens and a garage to store all the beach toys.

Agency: Hocking Stuart. 2361 Point Nepean Road, Rye. Ph: 03 5985 9333 Agent: Hendrik Boer 0410 415 515

Sorrento

$739,000

Position Perfect In one of the most sought after areas in Rye and a lazy 250mtrs to the exclusive shores of Tyrone Beach you will find this light-filled, 18 month old home. Consisting of three generous bedrooms, the main with ensuite and walk in robe, two north facing living zones, double remote garage,

ducted heating and stylish kitchen with s/s appliances and stone benchtops. Great access for large boats and caravans or extra visitors on an easy care 780m2 of land. Put your own finishing touches to the exterior, to create a truly irreplaceable destination.

Agency: John Kennedy Real Estate - RYE. Phone: (03) 5985 8800 Agent: Sam Crowder 0403 893 724

POA

Villa Pres De La Mer Without doubt Villa pres de la mer is one of Sorrento’s most admired homes, in one of Sorrento’s most coveted positions, only one block to the Village and just 600 m to the bay beach.

Offering a superb level of accommodation; 4 bedrooms, 3 living areas, a magnificent entertainer’s kitchen that opens to north facing covered and open decking with a clever shutter system. There’s beautiful wide Baltic pine flooring and high vaulted crisp white timber line ceilings, plantation shutters on every window allowing tempting vistas of the surrounding gardens from all rooms.

The stunning kitchen flows to a large informal family room and blends to a grand formal

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dining/entertaining zone that in turn opens to a central deck, whilst the huge separate lounge area provides another sanctuary.

A beautifully private master suite with an ensuite and robe befitting of a home of this standard opens through double doors onto decking and provides wonderful separation from other guests and family.

Meticulously built and maintained, Villa pres de la mer offers position and investment potential cloaked in the timeless appeal of true Portsea - Sorrento classic architecture.

This is a home to be savored and admired... all with a touch of Provencal.

Go on, spoil yourself Villa pres de la mer awaits.....

Agency: J.P. Dixon Sorrento. Phone (03) 5984 4388 Agent: Troy Daly 0418 397 771

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Sorrento 70 Ocean Beach Road

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Sorrento VACANT LAND in SORRENTO!

Located on a ridge overlooking the valley, this block of approx 871sqm could be the ideal site to build your home or holiday getaway by taking advantage of the elevated position when you build to maximise the view.

Situated on an elevated block of 590sqm giving fantastic tree top views, this home is only 6 years young and currently providing a great rental return. Split level design, polished ƀQQTDQCTFU CPF PGY ECTRGV KP VJG DGFTQQOU

Located only a 5 minute walk to the popular Tyrone and White Cliffs Beaches and surrounded by local native vegetation. Offering 4 bedrooms master with built in robe, separate bathroom and laundry, open kitchen and meals area, separate lounge/family room.

Seize the opportunity to purchase one of the last available building sites in the exclusive Peninsula Village of Sorrento.

A short walk to the pristine front beach and the popular Sorrento Sailing and Couta Boat Club.

$295,000-$320,000 19 Peter Street

$530,000 35 Inala Street

$430,000 3 Molloy Street

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Secure one of the very few vacant blocks left in Blairgowrie.

Positioned only 300m from the front beach and just a short walk to the shops. Block 580sqm approx. Ideal site for permanent home or holiday get away.

A short walk to the centre of town and safe family beaches, shops and more in the rapidly growing peninsula suburb of Rye. Brick home on an elevated block approx 625.5sqm and would make an ideal family home or holiday destination.

Located away from the busy summer rush of holiday makers yet close enough to still enjoy the atmosphere, this 2 storey home would make the ideal holiday get-away or permanent home.

Situated at the end of a quiet street this 2 storey, 4 bedroom home presents an excellent opportunity for investment buyers with a good rental return and long term quality tenants already in place under our management.

$500,000 - $550,000 44 William Road

$450,000 - $495,000 10 Coombes Court

$390,000 - $430,000 22 Wargundy Ave

$390,000 - $430,000 1 Thomson Terrace

Contact Brendan Adams 0419 566 944

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St. Andrews Beach 2 1 St Andrews Beach 3/4 of an Acre!

Rosebud West Beachside Unit.

Located in a quiet and private street in Rye this elevated allotment of approx 628.2sqm would make a fantastic site for [QWT JQNKFC[ JQOG QT RTKXCVG TGUKFGPEG 9KVJ C ƀCV HTQPVCIG giving plenty of room for car parking and boat storage.

An opportunity to own your very own piece of St Andrews right now. St Andrews is one of the fastest growing areas on the whole Peninsula with huge land holdings and multi-million dollar investments already built here.

A fantastic opportunity to purchase a low maintenance beachside unit, perfect for summer or weekend get-a-ways.

Whether you use it yourself or rent out for summer or permanently this would make a great investment.

Located close to local shops and directly opposite the clean family Bay Beaches. This 3 year old as new town home makes for a great investment for holiday or year round rental or cosy getaway for your family on the Peninsula.

$290,000 29 Milton Road

$600,000 - $660,000 12 Tiberius Road

$345,000 4/1769 Pt Nepean Rd

$345,000 6/1591 Pt Nepean Rd

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

Mixed expectations

Port in waiting: The Liberal state government wants to “fast-track” port development north of Hastings.

Digital picture: Michael Abicare (www.winningimages.com.au)

By Keith Platt STATE government promises to fasttrack development of a container port at Hastings are being made amid warnings that the town “will be more congested that Port Melbourne”.

“A 24-hour port will mean thousands of truck trips, not just a benign little port. Hastings people are in for a big shock,” Jenny Warfe of the Blue Wedges Coalition said.

Transport minister Denis Napthine said the government would legislate this year to create a Port of Hastings corporation or authority, ending a short-lived management of the port by the Port of Melbourne Corporation.

While not wanting to be “held to any specific 10 years”, Mr Napthine told The News that Hastings would become a “moderate sized working container port as soon as possible”.

He expected Hastings to be handling up to two million containers by 2030, about 20 to 30 per cent of the state’s total.

Mr Napthine ruled out a container port at Geelong, which has been proposed by stevedoring company Asciano.

He said the government’s proposals for Hastings neatly fitted with the federal government’s latest national port strategy.

Although past estimates for developing Hastings have been as high as $11 billion, Mr Napthine said there were “lots of figures” and financial input would come from state and federal governments and the private sector.

Melbourne would become too congested if the Port of Melbourne handled all incoming containers, while the relatively undeveloped Hastings port could be serviced by “dedicated rail or truck shuttles” taking cargoes to inland ports.

“We will make sure this doesn’t interfere with existing traffic routes,” Mr Napthine said.

The creation of a new body to manage the Port of Hastings will come just as new PoMC-appointed CEO Jeff Bazelmans takes over from Ralph Kenyon.

Mr Bazelmans was previously general manager environment of the controversial Port Phillip channel deepening project.

The PoMC’s CEO Stephen Bradford told The News he “can’t comment” on the government’s plans to take the Port

Predictions of prosperity and congestion for port

of Hastings away from his control.

“We never sought Hastings; it was a decision of the previous government,” Mr Bradford said.

Mr Bradford said he had “no issues” with the latest decision “and will facilitate the handover when it happens”.

“We deliberately excluded Hastings [from consideration when planning for predicted increases in container traffic] because the pace of getting it up and running would be too slow.”

Mr Napthine in December told parliament that Labor’s abolishment of the Port of Hastings Corporation had stymied opportunity for development of the port of Hastings.

“It fundamentally thumbed its nose at the opportunity to develop this beautiful, natural deepwater port.”

Mr Napthine said the PoMC was facing “massive challenges as it is expected that it will increase its container throughput from about two million TEUs [20-foot equivalent units] at the moment to eight million TEUs within the next 25 to 30 years”.

“Under Labor the port of Hastings has suffered a litany of broken promises, ill-conceived plans and poor decisions.”

He said Hastings could be Victoria’s “competitive second container port”.

“We are committed to undertaking cost-benefit, environmental and social impact studies up-front, independently to guide the sensible and environmentally responsible development of the port of Hastings.

“There are great opportunities for job growth and economic development of the region both locally and across the state.

“We want the economic benefits that come from a strong, independent, competitive port of Hastings, and that is what we will deliver.”

Although the Liberal government accused the former government of going at a “snail’s pace” in Hastings, Blue Wedges says Labor planned to build three additional berths for cars and general cargo within 10 years.

In a call to arms against development of the port, the group’s website says: “After that, (2020-2035), major container facilities for international trade would cater for 3.8 million containers per annum and 640,000 cars with 3500 truck trips and 16 goods trains per day.

By 2035 Hastings would be pumping out twice the current throughput of the Port of Melbourne, which already works 24/7.”

Hastings MP Neale Burgess issued a news release saying he supported “careful development of our port for a range of reasons; not least of which is the jobs it will bring for our families”.

“Of equal importance to the people of our community, however, is the high quality infrastructure and services a leading edge port will bring.”

Mr Burgess said it was “critical that our community has the ability to choose what businesses come to Hastings and therefore, ultimately, the type and quality of jobs”.

Brody’s green-thumb produces huge results WHILE other children spend their spare time playing computer games or watching the television, six-year-old Brody busily pursues his favourite pastime – gardening.

The Hastings youngster, who attends Tyabb Primary School, has been gardening for a couple of years after convincing his Pop to make him a garden. Brody quickly filled that one and was back to Pop to make him another.

Brody has been growing tomatoes, celery, parsley and carrots this season, but his standout crop has been his giant zucchinis.

The largest zucchini is a staggering 57 centimetres in length, 36.5cm radius and weighs four kilograms. It’s nearly as long as Brody’s leg.

“This isn’t the first time Brody has turned out giant vegetables; last year he grew huge cauliflowers,” Brody’s

mum Penny said.

Brody does nearly all of the gardening himself, with just a little help from mum.

Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Brody is quick to reply: “A market gardener.”

This is a long way off though, and Brody has some more immediate things to deal with, such as trying to find the ideal recipe for zucchini soup.

Pick of the crop: The largest zucchini is nearly as long as Brody’s leg.

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Flood Fundraising Event Wittingslow’s Rye & Rosebud Carnivals SUNDAY 30th JANUARY All takings donated to flood relief for northern Victorian towns in Shire of Campaspe.

12 noon - 4:00 p.m Wittingslow’s Carnivals: Rye Foreshore & Rosebud Foreshore We are also looking for support from our local community groups and businesses.

If you can help call the Shire on: 5950 1428 or Wittingslow Amusements on: 0415 728 274 (Rosebud) or 0404 480 866 (Rye).

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FLOOD RELIEF

Together we can help the victims of floods AS news of the devastation left by the Queensland floods unfolds and as more Victorian country towns are enveloped by swirling muddy waters, the southern Mornington Peninsula community asked: What can we do? How can we help our fellow Australians?

In February 2009, following the Black Saturday bushfires, the community responded with a bushfire benefit concert at the Sorrento football oval on the March Labor Day weekend and more than $70,000 was raised.

The community has once again risen to the challenge and plans are now underway for a Nepean flood benefit concert, which will again be held at the Sorrento football ground. Once again it will be held on Labor Day weekend, Sunday 13 March.

The volunteer support has been outstanding and almost all parties involved in the bushfire concert have again joined forces to raise much-needed funds. Volunteer groups include the Portsea Camp, Sorrento-Portsea RSL, Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Football Club, Sorrento Golf Club and Sorrento Rotary. Many other local groups will join in coming weeks.

Event planning is in its early stages but already Molly Meldrum has taken on the role of MC and well-known artists such as Russell Morris, Wendy Stapleton, Paul Norton, Tony Byrne, Lisa Bade, Mae Parker and Ron Martini and Band have volunteered their time.

Popular peninsula band Munster Terrace will make an appearance.

Early planning suggest at least 10 bands will be playing non-stop from 2pm to early evening.

Sorrento football oval is in the David MacFarlan Reserve, Hotham Road, Sorrento. Ground opens

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at 1pm. Show starts at 2pm and ends at 7pm.

Bring your own picnic rugs, chairs and food, but no BYO alcohol. Alcohol, soft drinks and food will be available at the oval.

Tickets can be purchased at Hotel Sorrento or Rye Newsagency. Other ticket outlets will be advised. Donations will be gratefully accepted.

General enquiries to Hotel Sorrento, phone 5984 8000.

What a hit: Russell Morris plays at the Black Saturday bushfires benefit concert in March 2009.

The Somers / Balnarring community will hold a Trash n’ Treasure Auction in response to the devastating Queensland floods.

When Sunday 30 January 2010

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Rodney’s one man show “Music Memories and Madness” is just that full of fun, laughter and song.

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LIFE & LEISURE

The Secret Order of the Blue Chicken

By Stuart McCullough AS adult contemporary soft rock titans Asia so deftly put it, the purchase was made in ‘the heat of the moment’. The urge to buy something whilst trawling through an antique shop in Campbelltown Tasmania was simply too great to resist. Like mermaids luring sailors to their demise, so too am I a sucker for a house of antiquities. This attraction can be boiled down to a single word: potential. What keeps me going is the possibility that in some dusty, wonky corner I’ll find something amazing, beautiful and precious for a price that is one step removed from shoplifting.

However, as much as I choose to seek permanent residency in ‘hope’, I had never actually succeeded in finding such a bargain. This matters not. It is the possibility that inspires me, no matter how illusory it may be. But as I peeled away the cobwebs, I thought my luck had finally changed.

In a lonely, neglected corner of the store sat a display cabinet. It had a chipped oak veneer and the wobbly legs of a drunk who’s just siphoned the petrol out of a motor mower, but I was entranced. So far as I was concerned, it was an item of abject splendor. And even though the glass shelves had more chips than Las Vegas, I did not allow this to deter me. In an instant, I had determined to buy it.

The owner was more than helpful.

He even went so far as to offer to deliver it to the apartment the next time he travelled to Melbourne by ferry. It all seemed so easy. In the weeks that followed, I dreamed of my antique display case and how it would surely change my life for the better. Only when it arrived did the problem become apparent. That problem being that I have absolutely nothing I want to display.

The whole point of such an item is that it allows you to show off. Such brazen acts of braggadocio are as foreign to me as the ‘world movies’ section at the Video Ezy. But it’s not solely a matter of modesty; I am simply not a collector. It wasn’t always this way.

As a kid, I had a stamp album.

Children today, I suspect, do not engage in philately and may not be aware that stamps, in fact, exist at all. But whilst our sink was often littered with envelope corners ready to soak off the affixed stamp, it was never my passion. Hours spent over the stamp album always seemed like time I could be better spending doing something more enjoyable such as watching Diff’rent Strokes or organizing my sock drawer.

I needed something to collect and, almost at random, chose rocks.

Upon reflection, it is no small irony. Whilst I sought samples of as many igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic stones as I could lay

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my hands on, perhaps what I was really drawn to was ‘rock music’ but simply lacked the necessary courage to ask my parents for a Stratocaster.

In the end, I abandoned my efforts and my collection was wrapped up in newspaper and stored away forever. There were other, more mediocre attempts to collect: a single season of football cards (incomplete), the occasional yo-yo and a few random smurfs, none of which I’m now comfortable putting on display. There were four whole shelves to fill, but nothing to occupy them. But just as I was about to scream off down the street in search of every porcelain cat figurine I could get my hands on, something caught my eye on the mantelpiece.

There was, indeed, one object in our house that was worthy of ‘display status’. The blue chicken.

The origins of the blue chicken are a mystery. Whilst the truth has been somewhat obscured by the mists of time, it took pride of place in the middle of the table at every major family gathering during my childhood that I can remember.

It belonged to my grandmother.

Whether she had brought it out with her from Ireland as a family heirloom or obtained it free with a packet of custard powder at the local milkbar, I really couldn’t say. I do know, however, that the Blue Hen is the state bird of Delaware and I’d like to think that our glass blue

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A man died and went to The Judgment. St. Peter met him at the Gates of Heaven and said, “Before you meet with God, I thought I should tell you -- we’ve looked at your life, and your really didn’t do anything particularly good or bad. We’re not at all sure what to do with you. Can you tell us anything you did that can help us make a decision?”

The newly arrived soul thought for a moment and replied, “Yeah, once I was driving along and came upon a woman who was being harassed by a group of bikers. So I pulled over, got out my tire iron, and went up to the leader of the bikers. He was a big, muscular, hairy guy with tattoos all over his body and a ring pierced through his nose. Well, I tore the nose ring out of his nose, and told him he and his gang had better stop bothering the woman or they would have to deal with me!”

chicken is Delaware’s equivalent of the Ark of the Covenant or Dead Sea Scrolls. That, even as I write and you read, teams of archeologists are combing the Americas, never realizing that the prize they seek lies on the other side of the earth with a payload of Maltesers inside it.

Regardless of its exalted status in The First State, at our family table it would be filled with confectionery.

Better than that, it was one of those items that with the simplest of decorations could complement any occasion. Just as any hamburger becomes ‘Hawaiian’ through the simple addition of a slice of pineapple, so too could the blue chicken be transformed. A single

red heart for Valentine’s Day, eggs for Easter and a pocket calculator for the end of financial year. Yes sir-ee, ours is a working chicken.

So whilst the blue chicken is worthy of the display cabinet, its time is not yet up. There is, I feel, still one more thing to do. On Christmas Day, it took pride of place on the table. I, naturally, added a piece of plastic mistletoe. Some like lights, others a star. For me, a blue chicken is all I need. And if you want to know what to get me next Christmas, perhaps something decorative I can put on display. After all, I have a cabinet to fill. www.stuartmccullough.com

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“Being a resident of Rosebud is a positive for new clients who want someone with local knowledge and are willing to assist in creating an effective itinerary for their wedding day,” he said.

His years of experience are important when it comes to finding good photo opportunities at the various gardens, beaches and lookouts.

“The role of a photographer should be to assist in the planning of any wedding day. Pho-

tographers see more in a day than any other service, so fundamentally, allowing them to offer ideas and options is valuable. I always offer my experience and ideas when I meet a new client, even if they choose another photographer.”

David also has a page of great hints and tips on his website.

He makes a point of making sure his clients understand the necessity for enough time after their ceremony for the possibility of a group photo, followed by family shots and eventually at least an hour with the bridal party, although he would like an hour or two for the best photo opportunities.

“You only have one opportunity to get photos that capture the essence of your day, so don’t rush it. Take the time to discuss

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David is self-employed, also specialising in real estate and underwater photography (also known as Seapics). He has won several Australian awards for his images and has been published in diving and travel magazines. His passion for the local environment is evident if you get the chance to see his marine pictures.

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Sorrento Autumn Music THE historic Sorrento Masonic Centre this year will again be the stage for a series of concerts to raise money for its restoration. The concerts, in their fourth year, will feature piano solos, chamber music and excerpts from operas and musicals.

Leading Victorian artists will present the series of musical events that have proved extremely popular over the past three years.

The musical treats begin on Saturday 19 February when outstanding young pianist Stefan Cassomenos presents a program of Beethoven, Mozart and Liszt.

On Saturday 12 March the popular Eddie Mulianumasceali’l returns with friends for an entertaining mix of music ,opera and musicals.

A new face this year is the highly regarded Caroline Amonte who, on Saturday 11 June, is joined by the young Emerald String Quartet for an arrangement of Mozart’s piano concerto No 21, better known as “Elivira Madigan� and Schuman’s evergreen piano quintet.

The Mozart will be played from an old score owned by Anthony Ransome, artistic director of the series, who says he is delighted that the arrangement is to receive an airing in Sorrento.

The non-for-profit concerts will help pay for the necessary restoration and improvements of the iconic limestone Masonic Centre, with work scheduled to start this year.

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Entertainment I WAS recently intrigued by a conversation l had with 17-year-old Toorak College photography student Brittany Anwender at a Mt Eliza restaurant.

Brittany has a passion for still life, portraiture and landscape photography.

I caught up with the Mt Eliza student this week as she told me of her journey.

“I only took up photography because I had a spare slot in my timetable and thought doing an art subject would be fun. After taking a few shots I was really happy with what I saw and thought I may be good at photography. My teacher has been a great inspiration to me and I quickly saw a huge improvement in my work from that,” she said.

It’s handy Brittany’s parents owned a photo lab, so they passed down some knowledge of photographic chemical process and gave Brittany her first SLR camera, which is now one of her film cameras of choice.

“My parents fully support me and are happy that I have found something that I enjoy a lot. I hope to go and study photography at RMIT or fine art photography at Melbourne University.

From there I will try and make a decision of what sort of career I want in photography.”

Brittany also enjoys playing music a lot and is currently doing a project where she draws or paints a picture each day for a year.

“I also like to create collages with

magazine cuttings and collect antique cameras as well.

“I am also interested in fashion and design, running my blog, travelling, reading, art history and writing.”

Can Brittany recommend a camera for all of us?

“For a beginner who wants to take up film photography, automatic film SLRs are not too expensive these days and will give you a good insight to how cameras work, such as the shutter speed, aperture and the light sensitivity of film. For anyone who has trouble finding places to process their film, digital is a better option, and digital SLRs are becoming a lot more reasonable than they were for a basic model. I prefer to use the Nikon

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Bright future: Brittany Anwender.

system. You don’t need the most expensive camera to take fantastic

A Grain Of Salt WE all feel sorry for the Queensland flood victims. That’s a given. Even Prince Charles “How wonderfully resilient you Australians are.” Fair enough. Give a donation if you can.

Ditto the Victorian flood victims. But this feeding frenzy by the television stations and newspapers is too much.

Then there’s the complaints, similar to our bushfire victims a year ago, blaming the government, the insurers and eventually the organisers-anything but nature. Lastly the politicians, taking lessons in how to show remorse.

The more they show the more we judge? How ridiculous. Who dresses Julia? I’m surprised Shane Jacobson hasn’t somehow got into the act.

“Dishonest, dishonourable and deceptive” says our man Greggy Hunt in response to the Wikileaks disclosure of Kevvy Rudd on whaling. These politicians eh. Talk about tongue in cheek. The real fascination is how the Yanks keep a record of everything and anything about every country in the world. So they don’t just spy on their enemies-they spy on everyone. Ditto England, Russia, China, Australia et al. Who are they spying for? Us? No-

photos; it all depends on how you use it really,” she said.

On Brittany’s advice I purchased a Nikon SLR camera and my photography has improved, although l have a long way to go.

One of Brittany’s images was recently displayed at Peninsula Community Theatre in Mornington: a black and white time lapse photograph of her sister holding a sparkler.

Brittany was representing Toorak College.

I am sure we will see a lot more of her work in years to come and some lucky newspaper may have her in their team.

with Cliff Ellen we don’t give it a second thought. So, they play their games for themselves.

A world coterie of international wanking.

Almost all of us come up against the legendary “Brick Wall” at one or sometimes more stages of our life. We either walk away from it, generally causing some psychological damage varying in degrees (of regret), or we climb over it after much stress, with occasionally handsome rewards to your state of mind. I went within an inch of walking away from two careers (?) but fortunately fell over just sufficient to maintain a shred of dignity. Ahh, but I never quite got there with the lovely Avril Brown. Madly in love for 3 years but never the courage to make my feelings known, she being the school captain and me a minnow.

And now, almost 60 years later, I’m still regretting it. It’s a certainty she would have peremptorily dismissed me, but that’s not the point. That fear of refusal stayed for life. On the other hand as I’ve never asked a female out I’ve never had a refusal.

“Tourism leaders on the Mornington Peninsula are looking outside the

region for ideas to boost us into the future.” Wow! We are all aware of the bottleneck along Point Nepean Road which will become total gridlock after the Peninsula Link is opened, so where to fit the extra tourists?

Somers?Hastings? How about a giant mermaid in Collingwood colours this side of Frankston with ginormous physical attributes? A large “sqeeze in” sign on the left and “hurry out” on the right?

I read somewhere that all opinions, in the philosophical sense, reach the same conclusion, that pleasure is our target. It may be a good job, a car, an obedient wife or husband, a grand final win or tattslotto but it appears to always equate to pleasure, or meaning. My problem is that in my twilight years I find it difficult to decide what “pleasure” really means, apart from a good feed of crayfish. I’ve bought lots of toys lately; a new flashy mobile phone with lots of Apps (?) and other useless items. Why? This twilight period has strong similarities to my very early childhood. Is that it then? We begin as babies, live a life to a certain age, and drift back to child-

hood? Apparently. So it boils down to crayfish, cigarettes, beer, a grumpy bum attitude...and the increasingly rare fantasy?

A word of advice to all you oldies out there in MP land: I notice there’s two crowds heavily advertising how you will get what you’re entitled to from Centrelink-at a price. Disregard!

A simple appointment at the depressing Centrelink office will tell you the full story, for free.

This time next year there may be nowhere to have a smoke with a coffee or a beer, thanks to Teddy’s lot, not that the opposition is any different. And then? Why of course-reduce .05 to .02 or even zero. And then? A ban on fat people appearing in public?

Let’s all bring a thermos, a slab and ciggies, and meet at the Rye ocean beach (I refuse to call it St Andrews) every February 29. An old world celebration devoid of the “we know what’s best for everyone” mob. All welcome, apart from psychiatrists, politicians, psychologists, financial advisers and doctors. “It’s not the same anymore; it’s not the same when you walked

right out that door”...Lah de dah. [PS: I’m advised by my son (son’s know everything) that I’m also a “we know best” type, but with opposite views.

Fair point, but I’m opposed by nature to what George Orwell described as “groupthink”] “I am monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.” [Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy] “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live” [Mark Twain] Brevity is the soul of wit, said Shakespeare (or was it Polonius?) so I’ll shut up. Cheers...cliffie9@bigpond.com

Mornington Peninsula Camera Club The Mornington Peninsula Camera Club is one of the oldest, established photographic clubs on the peninsula, with it’s beginnings at Red Hill many years ago. At our club we endeavor to cater for all levels of competence, from real beginners to the more experienced members, encouraging them to challenge themselves and try new ideas.

If you would like to join our club, we meet on the 1st Thursday of the month at the Benton’s Square Community Centre, Benton’s Road, Mornington, starting at 7:30pm.

New Members are always welcome – for further information, please call either Graeme on 5975-1260 or Maree on 5975-0454.

Clockwise from left: Best Large Print in ‘B’ Grade, ‘Georgianna McHaffie’ by Judith Meier Best large print in ‘A’ Grade, ‘The Cob’

by David Pycroft Best Small Print ‘A’ Grade, ‘Greengrocer Cicada’ by David Pycroft Best Monochrome for 2010, ‘Bearded Dragon’ by Jackie Jones

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WHAT’S ON The Southern Peninsula 50+ Club is a Peninsula based friendship club who meet regularly for outings such as dinners, lunches,walks, games,picnics, bbq,s, bus trips.

The club holds general meetings at the West Rosebud Community Hall the third Tuesday of each month. For more info, ring Val on 5985 3045.

Womens pre-loved Fashion Market Mornington Racecourse Loved it Market is a unique event with over 65 indoor stalls selling quality womens pre-loved fashion & accessories. Come along & pick up current fashion, a vintage piece, or a designer handbag. Sunday February 20th 2011 Mornington Racecourse Dining Room 9.30 – 1.30 pm $3 Entry & free parking.

Enquiries 0417 138 125 or email loveditmarket@yahoo.com.au Racecourse Road access from Bungower Rd Closed

Peninsula Diabetic Self Help Group is a friendly group who meet on the 3rd Monday of each month in the Uniting Church Hall, Murray Anderson Road, Rosebud at 1pm. Diabetics, careers and friends are most welcome. Details 59867795.

Club Open Day. Saturday February 12th 2011 from 10am to 3pm. Hastings Tennis Club, 54 Marine Parade, Hastings. Free open day, coaching, ball machine, and best of all free sausage sizzle.

Come along and have fun at our open day. For more information telephone vicki 59794920 or just turn up on the day.

Warhammer Kids Club. Play the game, make scenery, paint miniatures. Free attendance, fully supervised. Bentons Square Community Centre. Mondays 3.30-5.30pm 5977-2468

VIEW Mornington are holding their next meeting & luncheon at the Mornington Golf Club on the 28th January Friday 12noon.Bookings please by 24th January,ring Thea 9750 0400.

Birdwatching Peninsula Bird Observers be birdwatching during February on Wednesday 9th at Devilbend Reserve and Sunday 20th at MainRidge. Walks start at 9.00am. This is an opportunity to share your knowledge and learn about local birds. Bring lunch and binoculars if available. For further details ph Max 97890224

Cancer Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month. All welcome. Community Health. 185 High Street, Hastings, or ring 0419 020 543.

Western Port Equestrian Association Inc, for equestrian families, holds rallies on the 3rd Sunday and 2nd Wednesday of every month at Woolley’s Road Equestrian Reserve, Woolley’s Road, Crib Point. New members most welcome. Enquiries 0408 173 486 Youth Swing and String Music Extend your music skills and make new friends by joining the Peninsula Youth Askey Swing Band or the La Grutta Youth Orchestra. We welcome musicians who play either woodwind, Brass, percussion/drums, violin, viola, cello, double.bass to join one of these groups on Wednesday 9th Feb. at St Peters Church Hall, Albert St., Mornington at 5.45pm.

These rehearsals are held weekly throughout the school year. For details contact 9782 2450 or visit www.pyms.org.au Saturday Music Activity Come to Karingal Primary School on Saturday 12th Feb. if you are in Prep to grade and join in the fun of dancing, drama, singing and learning to play music. The morning activity starts at 9.30 and finishes at 11.45am. This fun filled music program is a developmental course that continues for the school year. Contact 9789 3686 or visit www.pyms.org.au

National Seniors Rosebud branch will hold its first meeting for 2011 on Wednesday 9th February at 1.30pm in the Rosebud Library Community room. Guest speaker will be Mark Bruechert from Rosebud CFA. Following the meeting a BBQ will be held at Tom Salt Park Rosebud. Visitors are most welcome. Margot: 59812974.

Mornington Peninsula Family History Society will meet on Saturday 5th February at 1.30pm in the Frankston South Recreation Centre Towerhill Road, Frankston.

Mel ref 102 D7 Mr Richard Cotter will speak about “No Place For A Colony” the story of the Bunwurung people and the First White Settlement in Victoria. Inquiries ph 9785 6814 or www.mpfhs.org

Bluegrass/Country Music Club If you like to sing, play banjo, guitar, concertina, fiddle, mandolin, spoons, harmonica, or just tap ya feet, we want to see you at Mahogany Bluegrass. Jack Verity Hall - Frankston. Cost is $5. Coffee and Tea Provided. 9-786,1445 Your event here? Email team@ mpnews.com.au to have your community group’s event listed in the ‘What’s On Around The Peninsula’ section’.

Southern Peninsula Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association (SPIFFA) The next meeting will be held at 7.30 pm on Monday 7th February at Parks Victoria Hinton St. Rosebud. Speaker Luke Hynes, Ecologist, will talk on Japanese Kelp in Apollo Bay.

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scoreboard Rosebud Football Club report SOUTHERN PENINSULA

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At the Bendigo it starts with U.

By Mark “Hussy” Hustwaite HAPPY New Year to everyone who follows local football and supports the club.

We hope 2011 is as prosperous for our supporters as it is at the club.

The pre-Christmas training sessions were reasonably well attended and showed some players were in good physical condition while others had some work to do. But that’s what preseason is all about.

If the players get their “social” season out of the way and then get stuck into training, we’ll have plenty of time to get them into playing shape.

Pre-season training starts again with the Australia Day 10km run and a recovery session the next night.

The first “real” football session is at 6pm on Tuesday 1 February at Olympic Park. The schedule for preseason this summer is Tuesdays at Olympic Park, Thursdays at Padua Rosebud and Saturday morning boot camps with Phil Catalucci at 8.30am at various venues.

Some good news just before Christmas was the recruiting and signing of two experienced players from Pines for 2011 – Cade Egan as

assistant coach and ruckman Paul Lewis.

They will be a big boost for the senior playing list. Cade is an onballer, a Pines’ best and fairest winner and club captain. Paul is a specialist ruckman who will share the duties with Chris Rogers and give our incredible onball division a good chance at centre bounces and stoppages.

February and early March are crucial. If our players make a real investment in their training and are super-fit for the practice matches, as individuals and as a team they are in for a strong season.

The under-18s are in for a good season if they can match the enthusiasm of new coach Jeff “Basil” Barry, who has enlisted the help of an experienced crew – Lincs, Lachie White, Goldy, Glen Mew and Col. Basil’s energy and the quality of the group means they should achieve some great results if they train very hard.

Our ship remains steady as our office bearers remain unchanged – Rob Nicholls as president, Pam Nicholls as treasurer and Anthony Matthews as secretary.

Our committee is up and about for another year of local footy and Kerri Gibson, our administrator, keeps the club ticking along.

The netballers will be looking for another great year – two seasons so far for one premiership and finals again in

2010. Tracey Snooks will get them all back into action for 2011.

They get great support from Dan Giarrusso Plumbing (DRG) and Novatech Controls. Building a court at Olympic Park is our immediate wish for the netballers. Let’s get community and shire council support for this project.

Want to be a part of the Rosebud Football Club? Want to make a difference in a community organisation that provides sport for young men and women? Then get on board – helpers around the club are always welcomed.

And don’t worry about being overburdened; we can give you a task or two that you are comfortable with.

Thanks again to everyone who supports the club. We have a wonderful group of sponsors and generally enjoy good support from the wider Rosebud community.

For training details, see the office window at the club or call Hussy on 0439 366 638.

For any young fellers thinking about coming back to local footy, don’t hesitate. We welcome back all local boys who might have drifted away for whatever reason.

Also, the club is seeking an experienced and energetic person to take on the role of head trainer. Call Hussy if you have any leads or are interested.

We can’t wait for the season’s start on Saturday 9 April.

Sporting a Smile

The World Cup

WHAT a year 2010 was for those addicted to the so-called beautiful game.

Those of us who have attempted to understand the curious off-side rule (only to realise that even the most ardent followers don’t understand it either) couldn’t help but get caught up in the pre-World Cup hysteria. Many of us rushed off to the MCG to see the Socceroos play a practice match against Iran. The fact that we couldn’t win this game should have warned us that the experts were conning us into believing that we were a real chance in South Africa. What happened? We were slaughtered by the Germans in the first game. The hysteria back here in Oz quickly subsided.

Another team to disappoint at the World Cup was Argentina. Before the first game, its coach, Diego Maradonna, promised to run naked through the streets of Buenos Aires if they won the cup. This thought was probably sufficient to discourage most Argentinian players. The year was not a good one for the colourful Argentine coach as prior to his World Cup promise, he had to visit a clinic in Buenos Aires for reconstructive surgery on his lip to repair damage sustained when one of his faithful pooches went for him. Apparently the Argentine coach was playing with his favourite shar pei at his home in the capital when he got a bit too friendly and leaned in for a kiss.

And the dog? She say no. The result,

of course, was very, very Messi (sorry about that).

Amid the gloom surrounding our performance in South Africa, there were plenty of suggestions as to how our Socceroos might improve. In a letter to The Australian, a reader, Ken Le Fevre, thought it necessary to show some imagination: “What we need is a federal immigration program to enrol 10- to 12-year-old Brazilians, two for every primary school in the country, to inspire the love of the beautiful game in every girl and boy. The Brazilians get a good life, with eventual citizenship and, of course, a fine education, and we get a generation of world beaters.”

As if our humiliation at the World Cup wasn’t enough, we then saw the media whip up a frenzy later in the year when the world governing body for soccer was about to meet in Switzerland to decide the locations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup. We were a monty for 2022. What happened? We were rolled by a small Middle Eastern country that many of us hadn’t heard of. Then there were all sorts of questions asked about the FIFA delegates. All we could do was make a bit of a joke of it. Are you ready?

When the curiously named president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, was asked who was his favourite Qatar player, he replied – Eric Clapton.

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