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A series of intimate, vibrant portraits by award-winning artist Atong Atem is lighting up CS Gallery in Caroline Springs. Real Local, opening this Thursday, delves into how people construct images to understand themselves and their history. Drawing together work recently exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and internationally in New York and Milan, the exhibition is a chance to see internationally recognised work right here in the west. The exhibition will also display works from a collaborative project undertaken with students from Staughton College and Melton Secondary College, featuring self-portraits created during a four-week mentoring program with Atem. Melton library meanwhile features Animal Kingdom, an exhibition by local artists Allyson Watts, Jacqueline Le Souef and Glenys Nicholls. Melton mayor Kathy Majdlik said the school holidays offers a great opportunity for people to view the exhibitions. Real Local will be at CS Gallery until July 25. Animal Kingdom will be at Melton Library and Learning Hub until September 9. Benjamin Millar
Soil legal fight ‘not over’ By Benjamin Millar Moorabool council and a local environment group have vowed to push on with legal challenges to the dumping of toxic soil in Bacchus Marsh, despite an announcement the soil will be heading to Bulla. The Hi-Quality site in Bulla was last week announced as the preferred site for the dumping and treatment of about three million tonnes of PFAS and asbestos-riddled soil from the West Gate Tunnel project, chosen over sites at Bacchus Marsh and Ravenhall. The Moorabool Environment Group (MEG),
which has been waging a battle against the soil being trucked to Maddingley Brown Coal (MBC), welcomed the news it wouldn’t be dumped in Bacchus Marsh but criticised the choice of Hi-Quality, arguing a special purpose facility should be built away from existing communities. MEG will proceed with legal proceedings challenging the planning minister’s intervention in the local planning scheme and a second case against Environment Protection Authority (EPA) approval of MBC’s environment management plan. Moorabool mayor Tom Sullivan said the
council was relieved Transurban and its builders CPB John Holland have decided against Maddingley Brown Coal being the preferred site for the processing of spoil. “Our community will be very relieved to learn that the spoil will not be coming to Bacchus Marsh,” he said. “Council will nonetheless continue its case in the Supreme Court against the minster for planning’s decision to amend the planning scheme, until either the amendment is removed, or the project is over, to ensure MBC is not a back-up plan in the future.” Melton mayor Cr Kathy Majdlik said more
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than 2000 people supported the council’s campaign to prevent contaminated soil from the project being processed at Ravenhall. “Dumping contaminated soil close to where people live and work should never be an option under any circumstance,” she said. Melton MP Steve McGhie and Ballarat MP Michaela Settle issued a joint statement indicating Transurban has no plans to activate any other sites at this stage, making it unlikely MBC would receive soil from the project. An EPA spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment as the matter is before the courts.
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