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Ever since someone from HeartKids knocked on her ward door 12 years ago, after her daughter, Hannah, had open heart surgery at 24 hours old, Emma Dwyer has wanted to give back to the charity. The Gisborne Teddy Bear Picnic, happening on June 26 at Gisborne Steam Park, is a fundraiser for the not-for-profit organisation which supports and advocates for people affected by childhood heart disease. Hannah is now about to turn 12, and Ms Dwyer said the family “wouldn’t be here without them”. Ms Dwyer has organised the picnic in partnership with Webb Events Group, and the event will include market stalls, food vans, carnival rides, sack races, face painting, a raffle, storytelling and live music. There’ll even be teddy bear biscuit making and a bear hunt. “We’re going with more of a traditional approach this time, just trying to bring back the hay bails and tea sets and Mr Teds. We’ll be doing some reading from some well-loved Australian books too,” she said.

Drivers dirty over roads By Elsie Lange Tracked dirt, mud spills and watery cleanups are making residents feel increasingly “unsafe” on Sunbury Road, as trucks carry spoil to the Hi-Quality waste processing facility in Bulla. Last month, 20-year-old enrolled nurse Caitlyn Kelly was driving from her home in Sunbury to her client in Craigieburn when she spun out of control at the roundabout at Bulla-Diggers Rest and Sunbury roads because of the wet. “It was dirty, but I didn’t know that they were washing the road, because there was no signage anywhere saying they were washing anything,” Ms Kelly said. Ms Kelly said cleaners had only washed

the road “up to a certain point” before the roundabout, where drivers break with wet tyres. She said she was travelling the speed limit or slower, as was the car behind her, before she spun 180 degrees and ended up side-by-side the following car, doing some minor damage to both vehicles. Ms Kelly’s dad Mark was furious when he heard, arriving at the scene 25 minutes later to take footage and later speaking on the phone with the other driver who said his daughter had done nothing wrong. A Hi-Quality Group spokesperson said the safety of local roads was their priority and acknowledged the operation of the spoil facility, currently receiving waste from the

West Gate Tunnel Project (WGTP), had impacted the road. “We have worked to upgrade our cleaning process to respond to community concerns,” the spokesperson said. The spokesperson said there was a “four-stage cleaning process” for trucks leaving the site, with street sweepers and water carts servicing internal roads and cleaning conducted on Sunbury Road “every second night”. Sherryn Walker said she and her husband were in his four-wheel-drive when they lost traction on the roundabout last weekend. “I also drove through there this morning on my way to work and found the whole roadway

leading to the roundabout very unsafe,” Ms Walker said. “I could feel that my little Mini did not have much traction. If for any reason I had had to brake hard or swerve on the road, it would have been quite nasty.” A spokesperson from the CPB John Holland Joint Venture (JV) – constructing the WGTP – said a “small number” of spills had occurred since waste haulage started, but JV was working with authorities and contractors to ensure “highest standard of truck movements”. “In the event of a spill, traffic management is put in place if required and the relevant road authority in conjunction with the JV undertakes the clean-up,” the spokesperson said.

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Humbled by ‘rare’ OAM honours Three locals have been recognised for their incredible service to their local Sunbury and Macedon Ranges communities and fields in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list as Elsie Lange reports.

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Christopher Hogan Associate professor and Sunbury resident Christopher Hogan said it was “just lovely” to find out he’d been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his service to medicine on Monday. “It’s a rare honour, it’s even rarer for it to be awarded for medicine,” he said. “Usually it’s for contribution to our specific medical discipline, like general practice or surgery … this is for contributions within and beyond my initial discipline.” The annual awards recognise outstanding and inspirational Australians, with 428 people made officers of the Order of Australia this year. Associate professor Hogan started his career in Sunbury in 1979 as the equivalent of a general and rural proceduralist, working in his practice, in the hospital delivering babies, and attending in emergency. In 1980, he started volunteering with Sunbury State Emergency Services, where he was for 13 years, attending over 100 road incidents.

He embedded himself at the University of Melbourne (UoM), and was an inaugural member of the Victorian Research Network at UoM’s department of general practice, where he was then awarded Honorary Clinical Associate Professorship in 2010. Associate Professor Hogan has dedicated his life to the “ongoing continual improvement of the quality of services delivered by GPs”. His list of achievements is extensive, from his work with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, to work with the Victorian Department of Human Services, to his community engagement as a medical co-ordinator for the Victorian State Disaster Plan and the Sunbury Chamber of Commerce. “I would like to thank my friends, families and colleagues, for all the love and support I have received over the years and all the colleagues in all the teams I have worked,” he said. “Most especially I thank my patients who taught me so much, and let me be a part of their lives.”

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When asked how she felt about being awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on Monday, Margaret Dearricott laughed and said she was “delighted” for Kyneton to have another OAM in the bag. Ms Dearricott was recognised for service to the community of Kyneton, where she has lived for 40 years. The list of her services is hefty too. Since 2004, she’s been secretary of the gorgeous Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival and a Kyneton Connect committee member, editing their newsletter since 2006. Ms Dearricott became a life member of the Australian Labor Party in 2016, working as an electorate officer in Burke (1984-1996) and Ballarat (2003-2015), as well as secretary of the Kyneton branch. She’s been in the Kyneton Zonta Club for 28 years, serving as president, treasurer, newsletter editor and charter member through the years. “That’s been a great organisation working for women and families over that time,” she said. Mr Dearricott was a founding member for the Friends of Kyneton Botanic Garden and served as publicity officer until 2019, and was former secretary of the Kyneton District Business and Tourism Association. She volunteered for Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health from 1996 to 2003 and was former president of the Kyneton Primary Parents Club.

In 2011, Ms Dearricott was award a Macedon Ranges Shire Community Achievement Award and in 2001, a Centenary Medal for “community service including Skillshare, emergency housing, Cobaw Community Health and ‘Zonta’”. “If you can join together with other people – you don’t do things by yourself – everyone helps each other, which I think that’s a great thing in Kyneton,” Ms Dearricott said.

Malcolm Clive Grant said being awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the annual Queen’s Birthday honours list on Monday was more a “recognition for [his] wife and family” than for himself. “They’ve been there to help me all my life, as the saying goes. Without them I would be nowhere,” Mr Grant said. He said in his 52 years living in Gisborne, what he was most proud of achieving was obtaining an ambulance service in the town. “The nearest ambulance we had was at Woodend, and if he wasn’t available, we went to Kyneton. After that, Bendigo,” Mr Grant explained. “We had a bad incident with a young boy, he was just lying on the side of the road for an hour. From memory it was January or February, really red hot, all I could do was brush flies away from him because he had

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serious head injuries.” This incident prompted him to galvanise a local ambulance committee, which eventually got them the ambulance they needed. “It triggered an absolute need,” he said. Mr Grant served as a peacekeeper in Cyprus in 1966, and as a member of the Victorian Police Force from 1957 to 1980. He was officer in charge at Gisborne police station in 1980. The 84 year old has authored numerous motoring publications, and was the inaugural president of the Gisborne Vintage Machinery Society in the 1970s. He helped to established local institutions like the Gisborne Olde Time Market and Gisborne Swap Day, was a former secretary of the Gisborne and Mount Macedon Districts Historical Society and was a researcher at the Victoria Police Museum.

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Traffic pain mounting in Sunbury By Elsie Lange Motorists are feeling the traffic pain in Sunbury, with regular routes closed due to the Gap Road level crossing removal. Residents have taken to social media to vent their frustrations, with one poster describing the their commute as “murder”. “[I] forgot about it. Made the mistake of running to Woolies at school time. Ten minute round trip took 45 minutes,” another said. Goonawarra resident Charles Robertson was incredulous as he waited in his car at temporary traffic lights installed at Macedon and Barkly

streets, noticing they weren’t synchronised and causing unnecessary delays. “You have lights stopping the traffic in both directions on Macedon Street … at one stage all traffic in both directions in Macedon Street and in Barkly Street sat there for about 40 seconds facing a red light,” he said. “Why is it working late at night, when there’s virtually no one on the road?” It is understood the temporary traffic lights detect vehicles waiting at the end of Barkly Street and in the right-turn lane on Macedon Street, so when a car is detected, lights automatically activate a sequence to enable

traffic to flow. Responding in an email to questions from Mr Robertson, the Department of Transport said because traffic signals were temporary, “they cannot do complex signal programming”. “The disruption will only last as long as Station Street-Gap Road is closed. Sorry for the inconvenience,” the department said. In response to questions from Star Weekly, a spokesperson from Rail Projects Victoria – the authority responsible for traffic concerns during the level crossing removal – said they thanked motorists and the community for their patience.

“The removal of the level crossing will ensure the area is safer, less congested and better connected when the new road underpass opens in October,” the spokesperson said. Mr Robertson was disappointed the department’s only response was that he wait until the project was finished. “I’m not complaining about the fact the lights are there … but surely you put it in there, you can make it work properly … why disrupt people in the early hours of the morning or late at night when there’s no traffic around at all,” he said. “Turn it off altogether.”

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Centre goes pink for breast cancer Early childhood educator Rebekah Matthews says almost everyone has had breast cancer touch their life in some way. For Gumboots Early Learning in Jacksons Hill, it was their director Eloise Edmonds’ diagnosis which prompted the centre to ‘go pink’ in June, to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. “We’ve asked the educators to wear pink, and we’ve put on some different events throughout

the month to show our support not only to Eloise, but to so many families that have been affected by breast cancer,” Ms Matthews said. As well as wearing pink, events will be happening throughout the month, including a ‘wear pink Wednesday’ for the kids, an educator bake sale, and a silent auction and raffle. The centre has spoken to local families and businesses for raffle and silent auction donations, which have been generous.

Already surpassing their fundraising goal of $1000, Ms Matthews said the tally was already at $1500 and counting, with other centres making hefty donations to the cause too. “A lot of the parents and families here absolutely adore Eloise, she’s just absolutely amazing, she makes this centre a family, we miss her so much … and the families love her so much as well,” she said. Elsie Lange RADIOLOGY

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A motion to rescind last month’s council decision to sell Hanging Rock’s east paddock to the state government was defeated, allowing negotiations to continue. The rescission motion put forward by councillor Rob Guthrie was heard at an unscheduled meeting on Tuesday, June 7, in which councillors heatedly debated the necessity of the motion given “nothing new” was presented. “I’m not saying we don’t sell the east paddock, I’m saying we need to have all the information before us before making a decision,” he said. At a meeting on May 25, council voted to proceed with sale negotiations, but according to its own terms. Mayor Jennifer Anderson said it was important for the chamber to remember they were debating whether to rescind the original motion, not debating a foreshadowed motion. “The decision as to why we should rescind has been clearly outlined by Cr Guthrie in his argument, but to me, he hasn’t made a clear argument,” Cr Anderson said. “He’s made the same arguments he made two weeks ago as to why he didn’t support the motion that got up.” Cr Anderson said councillors who spoke in favour of Cr Guthrie’s motion had brought “nothing new to the table today”. “This is why rescission motions are there – if you feel that debate that occurred previously had incorrect information,” Cr Anderson said. “The only incorrect information I can think of is that one of the councillor’s misquoted as a 50-50 split in submissions, when actually it was 60 [per cent] in favour and 40 [per cent] against the sale.” She reiterated that the previous decision to sell was a “very difficult one”.

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Judy Small performs in Macedon Folk singer Judy Small will be performing this Friday, June 17 at Mountview Theatre in Macedon as part of the Birds of a Feather LGBTIQA+ social gatherings. In celebration of Pride Month, Judy will be joined by Kyneton’s proudly LGBTIQA+ and allies Rainbow Voices Communtiy Choir. The performer will sing songs from her ‘Let the Rainbow Shine’ album, documenting the lives and loves of lesbian and gay people. Entry is free and doors open at 1pm with a 1.30pm start, with afternoon tea to follow. To RSVP contact Nathan Allwood on 5421 1666 or email nathan.allwood@scchc. org.au.

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In local pies we crust Locals are lucky as pie to live near the pastry connoisseurs that are Country Cob Bakery in Kyneton. At this year’s Baking Association of Australia’s Best Pie and Pastie Competition, the bakery took home a bag of awards, including best meat pie – for the fifth year running – as well as for best gourmet pie and best vegetarian/ vegan pie. Ryan Khun, who owns the business alongside his brother Chan, and is so happy to have taken home the trophies again. “I’m pretty excited, we were pretty surprised that we won three of the classes there,” he said. Their pockets of delight were chosen out of 2500 pies and pasties from bakeries across Australia. The winning gourmet pie was a Char-Siu pork and apple sauce creation, a combination

of a Hong Kong dish and an Australian apple sauce. “We turned it into a pie filling, which is very unique … the judge gave us the highest score for this one because they said it is different, it is delicious,” Mr Khun said. It’s been a big six years for the business – just last month appearing on Masterchef to reveal some of the tricks of the pie-making trade. “During lockdown we were pretty quiet, we were struggling because not many people were travelling to Kyneton because of the distance limit,” Mr Khun said. “We took lots of time to practice again and again our pies, to create new flavours – because we knew when the lockdown ended, people would be able to travel again.”

In recognition of World Elder Abuse Day, Kyneton Town Hall will be illuminated in purple light from Monday, June 13 until Sunday, June 19. The day is celebrated on June 15 each year to highlight the importance of elders’ rights. Macedon Ranges council director of community Maria Weiss said elder abuse is “everybody’s business”. If you are experiencing elder abuse, or concerned about an older person, you can get help by calling Seniors Rights Victoria on 1300 368 821 Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 5 pm, or by visiting www.seniorsrights. org.au. FOR BREAKING NEWS, VISIT Web: starweekly.com.au Sunbury & Macedon Ranges Star Weekly @starweeklynews @star_weekly

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By Elsie Lange In mid-March, many Gisborne locals watched in horror as the 148-year-old bluestone Bunjil Creek Bridge was demolished, a month before it would be found to meet heritage standards protecting its destruction. The bridge was removed by Regional Roads Victoria contractors to install a roundabout at the intersection of Melbourne and Kilmore roads in a $12.5 million upgrade, despite loud opposition from Macedon Ranges council and the community. The government-appointed planning panel considering council’s heritage overlay application concluded in April it was “appropriate and justified to apply the Heritage Overlay (HO351) to the Bunjil Creek bridge and channel” – but it was too late, Bunjil Creek Bridge was gone. Council also sought protection for two oaks and one elm tree aligned with the heritage avenue in Howey Reserve, Gisborne, which the planning panel deemed “strategically justified”, according to council documents. At a planning meeting on Wednesday, June 8, council voted to adopt the heritage overlay for the remaining trees, but with an amendment to exclude the bridge, considering it no longer existed. Councillor Anne Moore expressed her sadness over the destruction of the bridge, saying she was “bitterly disappointed and

Bunjil Creek Bridge was removed to install a roundabout at the intersection of Melbourne and Kilmore roads in Gisborne. (Damjan Janevski)

disturbed” the town had lost a part of “probably gold field history”. “I’m disappointed with the amount of history we have lost, the heritage that we have lost, the character that we have lost to the gateway of Gisborne after the exit off Melbourne Road,” she said. Cr Mark Ridgeway echoed Cr Moore’s anger, but said it was important to make sure the trees would be protected going into the future. “In particular the loss of the channel is an absolute disgrace and the fact that we can’t actually preserve what’s left of it just makes life very, very difficult,” Cr Ridgeway said. “But at least with this motion, we do provide some protection for Howey Reserve – the trees and some other aspects in the area, I think that’s what we need to focus on now.”

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After the storm: one year on By Elsie Lange

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“A year on, every time I hear that wind, I get nervous, I can’t sleep, because I feel like it’s going to happen again.” Kylie Swain from Woodend echoes the thoughts many across the Macedon Ranges still have after last year’s terrible storm, tearing through the region over June 9 and 10. The extreme weather event caused damage to a 1000 homes, uprooted trees, brought down power lines leading to outages – it was community and volunteer efforts which allowed people to get out of their properties and streets. Ms Swain’s street was the last in Woodend to be reconnected to power, and she said while the area has been mostly cleaned up, she still feels “sick” thinking about that night. “What you heard is still inside of you. When you hear winds, you think, ‘Oh my god, I don’t want a branch to break, I don’t want a tree to come down’. It just comes rushing back,” she said. While many Victorians heard about the devastating impact of the June storms in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, residents in Macedon Ranges feel they were largely left out of the coverage. Woodend resident Peta McDaniel owns Hunter’s Motors & Mowers in Kyneton – while trees tore themselves from the ground on her property, the shop had to remain open so locals could get the gear they needed to begin their own clean ups. “In the days after, when we could get news and see the television, there was nothing

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The Romsey recycled timber facility has repurposed many of the storm-felled trees. Right: Images of Peta McDaniel’s Woodend property in the aftermath of the storm.

“They were sawing, stacking and burning off while we were tending to sharpening chains and repairing generators,” Ms McDaniel said. “I’ll never be able to thank them enough for the work they did.” The noise was the worst, she said, and even last week’s high winds made her heart race. “I can’t describe the sound. It was like a train, or a jet, or something coming past – the sound was so loud,” she said of what she heard last year. Gisborne SES media officer Ross Evans said it was about 6pm on June 9 when everything “really started to ramp up”.

“All of a sudden, it was on,” Mr Evans said. “There were jobs going everywhere, there were people out and about on trucks and utes, all running around doing a bit of sandbagging here and there for buildings that had started to flood and trees were coming down everywhere. “People were starting to get really scared.” He was in Ms Swain’s Woodend street in the days after the storm. He said the damage was “quite intense”, but was heartened by the efforts of the community in the area, working together to clean up and recover. Macedon Ranges council chief executive

Bernie O’Sullivan said the organisation knew how the community had gone above and beyond to support each other. However, recovery is still ongoing for many. “Some residents have completed their cleanup but others still have large trees down on their properties, some are working on repairing fences and getting business back to normal, and we know some people are working on repairing and rebuilding homes,” Mr O’Sullivan said. The council has worked hard to support the community to recover from the crisis. This included financial and mental wellbeing

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support, the recycling of felled timber into firewood at their Romsey facility and working with community groups to support local biodiversity. For example, storm-felled timber was used to create nesting boxes for native wildlife, and a free mental health storm recovery event is taking place at Woodend Community Centre on June 15. Ms McDaniel said even now, the landscape is changed, canopies gone and landscapes sparse. “You can see the sky, whereas you never used to be able to see the sky because there was just so many trees,” she said.

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Open space strategy progresses Deliberations and feedback on future priorities for the Macedon Ranges Open Space Strategy have been completed by the specially-formed community assembly. The assembly, made up of 27 community members, met on May 21 and 28 in Macedon to develop their understanding of the strategy process and to set goals for the future of the region’s playgrounds, parks, sporting facilities and conservation areas. Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung elder Uncle Ringo Terrick welcomed the assembly to Country, speaking of the importance of natural open

space as places of connection and community, as well as the inclusion of traditional owner values in open space. Macedon Ranges council environment and planning director Rebecca Stockfeld said council planners and project consultants told the assembly about the issues and opportunities of the strategy, and how their views would be considered. “Assembly members were briefed on the challenges council faces in managing open space,” Ms Stockfeld said. “This includes the pressures of growth,

increasing demand and competition for open space, and our changing climate.” Facilitator Todd Beavis from deliberative engagement specialists i.e. community – appointers of the assembly – said the process of choosing members delivered a diverse group who represented the community. “The group worked really well together, with some great energy and collaboration,” Mr Beavis said. In a statement, council said reports on the outcomes from the open space community assembly will be presented to

councillors in late June. “Assembly recommendations, along with all other public feedback and survey responses, will be used to inform the draft Open Space Strategy being developed by consultants and the project team,” council said. Ms Stockfeld said council was “very appreciative” of the assembly’s efforts, providing clear recommendations to the project team. “This draft strategy is due to be considered by council later this year,” Ms Stockfeld said.

The power of women They say you can’t be what you can’t see. So last month, when more women than ever before were appointed to cabinet positions in the new Labor government, it presented an exciting moment to women and girls everywhere. Macedon Ranges council celebrates its many women in local government, at a staff and councillor level. Four of council’s nine positions are occupied by women, including mayor Jennifer Anderson and councillors Janet Pearce, Annette Death and Anne Moore. Three of council’s five-person executive team are women too – including governance director Adele Drago-Stevens, planning and environment director Rebecca Stockfeld and assets and operations director Maria Weiss. Cr Anderson said the biggest change in her 10 years on council is the capacity to stand up and be vocal about what is right. “I would never have done that in my first four

years, I did not have the courage,” she said. “I am loving that these young women, particularly, that are coming along actually are invigorating me and exciting me and saying, ‘No, we’re not going to do it that way, we’re going to do it this way’.” “I wish I had that 10 years ago, but I think society has progressed as well.” Cr Janet Pearce said because women make up half the population, their equal participation in decision-making and democracy is vital. “If we are going to continue to increase our representation, then women need to hear the stories and experiences of others, and know that it is possible to successfully enter politics and government – that there are truly equal opportunities,” Cr Pearce said. “It is important that it is not only women’s representation but diversity in all areas that are reflective of our people and communities.” Elsie Lange

Macedon Ranges councillors: Cr Geoff Neill, Cr Mark Ridgeway, Cr Dominic Bonanno, Cr Janet Pearce, Cr Rob Guthrie, Mayor Cr Jennifer Anderson, Cr Anne Moore, Cr Annette Death and Cr Bill West. (Supplied)

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Hunt for research farm history When you think of the origins of spreadable butter, turf, packet pancake mix and IVF, do you think of Werribee? The products are some of the every day items we might use that had their genesis at the Werribee State Research Farm. But that’s not all. Jan Goates knows this because her father worked on the farm in the dairy institute. “There was a lot of research into cereals and grains, fruit flavoured yoghurt, then you’ve got your fruit cheeses, another thing would be powdered milk,” she said.

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“They may not have directly come from the farm straight to the supermarket shelf, but they certainly had that initial research and trialing.” The research on the farm was predominantly around improving agriculture and animal welfare. “They were researching improvement in food products, later on it was food processing,

so that you can go to your supermarket and get your long life things,” Ms Goates said. “There was a village on the farm, in those days they provided housing for the workers, I grew up there until I was about 16-years or so.” Ms Goates said many of the people who originally worked on the farm, including her father, would have “gone to god”. “We’re trying to capture people now before it’s lost forever to record their memories, and it’ll be the memories of the science that was done, the research that was done, the social life and the way the lived life back in the day,” she said.

The project, which consists of finding people who once lived or worked on the farm, is spearheaded by Dr Monika Schott who recently also completed a PhD and novel about Werribee’s Metropolitan Sewerage Farm. “Those people who worked and lived on the farm are now spread far and wide. The wealth of knowledge they possess about this remarkable institution is a heritage treasure yet to be seriously recorded in any fashion, even anecdotally,” Dr Schott said. Details: https://www.facebook.com/ StateResearchFarmProject.

Emerging writers star A pair of performance-based writers will wow audiences at the Melbourne Planetarium as part of the Emerging Writers Festival. In partnership with Scienceworks, the Writing the Stars event will be held on Thursday, June 23, with sessions at 7.30pm and 9pm. Thabani Tshuma and Bella Waru will be performing special pieces following a feature film screening in the Planetarium dome. Mr Tshuma said he is fostering an infatuation with stars to prepare for the event, including watching episodes of Star Trek and other science fiction media. “My latest obsession has been with the stars,” he said. Mr Tshuma said he is working in performance and slam poetry, but his work is always evolving. “I’m very jazz about it,” he said. Mr Tshuma said he was looking forward to being involved in the festival for a third time.

“It’s always been such a wholesome place to get involved with,” Mr Tshuma said. A group of three writers will also share their thoughts about what attracts them to write about the west. Jinghua Qian, Harry Reid and Khalid Warsame will present as part of the Writing the West workshop at the Footscray library on Tuesday, June 21 from 6pm until 7pm. The festival will also include the launch of a multi-disciplinary exhibition named Same River Twice. Same River Twice is an outcome of Footscray Community Arts West Writers program and is presented in partnership with Footscray Community Arts. The exhibition is running from Wednesday, June 15 to Sunday, July 3 at 45 Moreland Street in Footscray, while the launch will be held on Tuesday, June 21 from 7.30pm.

Thabani Tshuma is presenting in the Writing the Stars event. (Supplied)

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Rhinos go wild for new scents Peculiar scents are wafting over Werribee Open Range Zoo’s 45-hectare Savannah habitat, causing a stir among the zoo’s crash of Southern white rhinoceros. Zookeepers are piling up smelly mounds of popcorn, gorilla bedding and rhino poo to stimulate natural behaviours among the giant mammals. Some of the interesting behaviours include scouting, sparring, vocalising and flehmen response – a physical response that certain mammals use to investigate scents, hormones and pheromones by curling up their top lips and inhaling. Savannah keeper Alison Edwards said the three rhinoceros perceive the piles of scents as a precious commodity. “This type of enrichment is a really valuable resource and something that the rhinos love,” Ms Edwards said. “We sometimes see our female rhino, Make, pushing male rhino, Kifaru, off a scent pile using her horn. She then follows with a big open-mouth roar, which emulates the way that rhinos communicate with each other in the wild. “The clashing of horns is something we call sparring. It’s a really important tool for rhinos to work out who’s the boss and what the pecking order is amongst the group, without doing any damage.” The fresh scents also encourage Kifaru to patrol the zoo’s savannah, while looking out for competing males.

Rhino Scent Enrichment at Werribee Open Range Zoo. (Zoos Victoria)

“We add poo from other male rhinos from a different exhibit,” Ms Edwards said. “In the wild, male rhinos mark a territory with their scat and urine and will defend their territory and female herd members. Suddenly these smells appear and Kifaru senses other rhinos that might pose a threat to his territory or come in to steal his girls.”

Visitors to the zoo can see the crash of rhinoceroses while on one of the savannah bus tours, which run throughoutthe day and are included in entry. There are fewer than 20,000 Southern White Rhinoceros remaining in the wild with populations under serious threat from illegal and habitat destruction.

The rhinos at Werribee Open Range Zoo form part of a regional breeding program to maintain an insurance population in the fight against extinction. Zoos Victoria members and Werribee Open Range Zoo visitors are reminded that all tickets must be pre-booked online at zoo. org.au

Three key elements to ensure project success

I believe there are three key elements for success: 1. Understand what the project really requires. 2. Take the time to plan properly. 3. Manage change requests.

The first seems obvious, but it is frequently not well done. This part of the project is termed ‘feasibility analysis’ an is about ensuring that the four key elements of a project (scope, cost, schedule and quality) are in balance before anything starts. Assuming that quality is mandatory, then stakeholders can dictate any two of the three remaining elements, but the Project Manager must have control over the final one, e.g. if scope and budget are fixed, then the PM must be able to derive the schedule and if scope and schedule are fixed, then the PM must

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS IAN ASH calculate the cost. The graphic below shows what happens when feasibility analysis is not done properly; the project becomes a voyage of discovery and ends up costing (perhaps >36 per cent) more with massive effort at the end (the “hockey stick effect”). Assuming feasibility analysis has been properly conducted, then the next key element is accurate project planning. There are a number of tools and techniques to ensure this but the most important thing is to ensure that everything has been considered and included. Things that are often overlooked include documentation, training, testing and allowing for rework since things will always go wrong to some degree. The activities should be estimated in terms of the effort required and then staff availability applied to work out a reasonable duration, i.e. if a task is estimated at four days and someone is 80 per cent available, then required timeframe for the task should be planned at five days (four days / 80 per cent). Finally, one of the most common reasons for project failure is lack of proper change management. Changes for any project are pretty well inevitable since even the customer may not know exactly what they want at the start and even if they do, it is far from certain that the supplier interprets this 100 per cent correctly. Any change to a project (even apparently simple ones) should be analysed and the impact on cost and schedule calculated and then referred back to the customer for approval.

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What makes projects succeed or fail? Is there a common underlying set of things that must be done to make a project succeed or is it purely a function of complexity or luck? Back in the 1980s and 1990s, software development projects were renowned for not meeting expectations, coming in late, over budget or even getting cancelled completely. The Standish Group (formed in 1985 to improve the success of software development projects) produces “CHAOS” reports annually and in 1995 found that only 16.2 per cent of software projects were completed on-time and on-budget and for larger companies which was just 9 per cent of all projects (projectsmart. co.uk/white-papers/chaos-report.pdf). Unfortunately, there are still plenty of examples around today of projects failing to achieve their objectives, on-time and within budget, so what can be done to improve things? As it turns out, success tends to be less a function of the expertise in the team(s) and much more about how they are defined, planned and managed.

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Hesket Estate owners Alex Stevenson and Elisabeth Hudspeth. (Damjan Janevski) 281876_01

Climate a corker for cool wines Even Australia’s coolest wine region, the Macedon Ranges, is experiencing the effects of climate change on the grapes grown. Winemakers across the region spoke to Elsie Lange about adaptation, change and mitigation.

hen the Ellis family bought the property which would become Hanging Rock Winery in 1982, the climate was too cool to produce the drop that just won them a National Wine Show Trophy last month. But 40 years later, ‘The Jim Jim Three’ Pinot Gris Gewürztraminer Riesling has won the gong for best blended white, and general manager Ruth Ellis said part of it’s down to the changing climate. “We only planted these varieties in the early noughties, because we could see … that varieties like that would be able to ripen,” Ruth said. “Whereas when we bought the place in the ’80s, there was no way you’d get riesling or pinot gris right, there just wouldn’t be enough sunshine hours with enough hours with enough heat to make it happen. “Here we are, 40 years later, and the wine’s obviously looking fantastic.” The Macedon Ranges is Australia’s coolest mainland viticultural region, which means wineries produce finer, more acidic, lighter-bodied wines, such as pinot noir, chardonnay, sparkling and sauvignon blanc. While warmer climate regions have more consistent temperatures throughout the season giving grapes the opportunity to fully ripen to create the big-bodied varietals Australia is famous for, cooler regions get just as hot, but drop temperature quickly, creating acidity in the wines. Despite grape growers being familiar with changing seasons, climate change is something the wine industry is having to grapple with: what’s going to happen to cooler climate wines when the earth gets too hot? It’s important to remember that winemakers are some of the first to deal with the effects of climate change – droughts, floods and fires can ruin a crop and therefore, a vintage – and

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Hanging Rock Winery chief winemaker Rob Ellis. (Damjan Janevski) 282342_01

they’ve been adapting for some time. In early 2022, an article published by the industry’s statutory authority, Wine Australia, said viticulture had already been dealing with the effects of climate change in vineyards and wineries “for a good couple of decades”. “In some ways, this means we are ahead of other agricultural sectors in adapting to the changes,” Wine Australia said. The Jim Jim Three was produced by Ruth’s brother, Rob, who last year celebrated his 10th vintage as chief winemaker at Hanging Rock. It’s now about 10 years since the vineyard switched from producing very cool climate sparkling wine to chardonnay and pinot gris table wine. “You can only do that because the world has warmed a little bit more,” Ruth explained, and

said if hotter weather in the rest of the country forced Australians to turn to the region for their cooler climate varietals, she’d welcome the attention. “There’s other parts of Victoria that would have always been considered cool climate that are [becoming] less and less cool climate by the year,” she said. “It’s going to get to the point where if you’re looking for those amazing cool climate wines, the Macedon Ranges is going to be where you want to come.” Just down the road is Hesket Estate, owned by Elizabeth Hudspeth and Alex Stevenson, producing pinot noir, chardonnay and riesling. Elizabeth explained it’s the “long, slow hang time” which produces their drops, the gentle ripening allowing for the fruit to develop delicate, complex flavours. To mitigate the effects of climate change on the winery’s grapes, the estate took part in a mulch trial, which according to Sustainable Winegrowing Australia (SWA) can increase soil moisture thus lowering ambient temperatures, as well as allowing for evaporative cooling. “Mulching also increases soil organic matter and may increase soil carbon sequestration,” SWA said. Further south is Mount Charlie Winery, a micro-boutique with a microclimate in contrast to its cold-climate neighbours: red grapes fully ripen, but because of its altitude

and cold nights, maintain high acidity with rich fruit. Alongside chardonnay and sauvignon blanc, Mount Charlie produces shiraz, merlot, malbec and tempranillo – famously fuller-bodied wines suited to warmer areas – and owner Trefor Morgan said if the region gets hotter he would move away from the whites and focus on the reds. “Ours is different to shiraz from Rutherglen or McLaren Vale – it’s a cool climate shiraz. It’s not a big wine, but it’s got a spicy, peppery characteristic,” Trefor said. When regions are warmer, the sugar levels in the grapes are higher, and too much heat can produce wines lacking structure – the cool climate, big reds produced by Trefor are more subtle and complex. Trefor predicted climate change would make it difficult for other areas in Australia to continue making top-quality cool climate chardonnay, even in the ranges, eventually. “The Macedon Ranges won’t be affected as much as many of the other areas, but certain places that at the moment produce good chardonnays and sauvignon blancs will become too warm to produce really good wines,” he said. The Ellis family are celebrating their win right now though, because adaptation is what viticulturalists do, and that’s why they are where they are today. “The last time our family won a trophy at the National Wine Show was when dad won it in 1984 with the very first ever cabernet merlot in Australia, when he was working for someone else,” Ruth said. “It’s been 40 years since we won… [now] it is my brother, Rob, John’s son, who’s collected this trophy. “It’s a real big boon for him with dad watching, being very proud, which is a lovely moment.”

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Paul Muller working on one of the nesting boxes made from recycled timber by the Woodend Men’s Shed.

At the old sawmi ll on the Woodend Men’s Blackforest Drive, making tiny woode Shed members are n wildlife left homel homes for native ess by recent storms . Microbats, mini-g liders, ringtail possums and hollow -nesting birds are just some of the species who have been gifted new real estate trees they once inhabi – made from the ted. Woodend Men’s Shed president Kevin Davis said the organi sation has been providing nesting boxes species in the Maced to vulnerable some time, but have on Ranges for the recycled timber only recently used provid “We were using purcha ed by council. sed timber, but now the Maced on Ranges Shire is supplying us with planks that have been cut from storm-felled using those to manuf trees, and we’re acture the nesting boxes,” Mr Davis said. “In a sense, it’s a the timber is being win-win. Because recycled back out into the environment these nesting spaces and it’s providing which have been removed from the environment by the storms.”

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Judy Small in Macedon Catch Judy Small singing at this week’s Bird of a Feather gathering, performing songs from her ‘Let the Rainbow Shine’ album in celebration of Pride Month. Also performing will be Kyneton’s Rainbow Voices Community Choir. Happening Friday, June 17, at the Mountview Theatre, Smith Street, Medon. Doors at 1pm. Coffee and cake to follow. RSVP essential. ■ nathan.allwood@scchc.org.au

Savoy Singers Come and enjoy some lovely music at Gisborne Uniting Church at 2pm on Sunday, June 19, brought to you by the Savoy Singers. For 45 years, the singers have been providing entertainment to a variety of community and fundraising groups. Tickets $25 for adults and $20 for concessions or students. Buy tickets on the door or from Maree. ■ Maree, 5428 3852

Chill Out Sunbury Are you between 12 and 18 years old and want to engage with other young people, participate in activities such as trivia, games, art, music, competitions, personal development and more? Chill Out Sunbury is for you. It’s free and happens every Wednesday, 3.30-5.30pm at the Sunbury Youth Centre, 51-53 Evans Street. ■ https://bit.ly/3lmVgVh

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Sunbury Ladies Badminton Club Get involved with a welcoming, fun, social group of women who have spread the word of ladies badminton since 1999. Social games are on Mondays, 9.30am-noon, and team competitions are on Thursdays, 9.30am-12.30pm at Eric Boardman Reserve, Wilsons Lane. ■ sunburylbc@gmail.com

Come have a chat Delve into deeper topics and enjoy intriguing conversations by joining the Table 8 Discussion Group. The key theme for the coming months will be kindness. The chats take place every Tuesday from 10.30-11.30am at Macedon Lounge, 40 Victoria Street, Macedon. ■ Carol, 0431 186 575

Sunbury badminton fun The Sunbury Badminton Club has a new extra playing time on Wednesdays, 10am-noon. All are welcome to attend at Clarke Oval Stadium, 49 Riddell Road, with equipment provided and coaching available. Playing for the first time is free. ■ sunburybc@gmail.com

Family History and Heritage Society If you’ve got a hankering to learn more about Sunbury and even your own family history, why not check out the Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society, meeting at 1.30pm on the third Thursday of each month at the Sunbury Senior Citizens Centre, 8 O’Shanassy Street, Sunbury. ■ https://bit.ly/3jvM6oJ

Ladies probus The Woodlands Ladies Probus Club of Sunbury meets on the fourth Monday of each month at the Sunbury Bowling Club at 9.45 am. The club is based on fun, friendship and fellowship and enjoys monthly outings, an annual trip away and a lot of fun meetings. ■ Leonie, 0401 764 182

Sunbury Ladies Probus Club The Sunbury Ladies Probus Club meets at 9.30am on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the Sunbury Football Social Club rooms. The friendly group of women enjoy outings, film mornings, speakers and presenters, as well as special events like holidays and bus trips. New members are warmly welcomed. ■ Pat, 0433 789 754 or Sylvia, 0417 170 142

Sunbury Combined Probus Club The Sunbury Combined Probus Club meets every fourth Thursday of the month at the Sunbury Football Social Club at 10am. Visitors and new members welcome. ■ Carmel, 0416 477 271

Toastmasters Sunbury & Macedon Ranges Toastmasters helps its members develop their public speaking, communication and leadership skills. The group meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month, from 7.20-9.30pm, at the Sunbury Senior Citizens Hall. ■ vpm-4185@toastmastersclubs.org

Lancefield park run relaunch Lace up your runners and join the relaunch of Lancefield’s 5km park run, happening every Saturday at 8am at Lancefield Park. No need to be speedy – participants can go at any pace. Make your way to 62 Chauncey Street, Lancefield, and remember to register. ■ https://bit.ly/3IEDB4L

lunches or just a cup of coffee and a chat. If you’re 55 or older and would like to make some new friends. ■ 0493 408 890

Sunshine Community Brass Sunshine Community Brass is looking for new members to join its vibrant band of musicians. With over 90 years of history, the band is looking to grow for the future. Sunshine Community Brass is currently looking for trumpet and percussion players. It rehearses Tuesdays from 7.30pm, at 45 Furlong Road, North Sunshine. ■ Andrew, 0419 444 620

Community wills day The Salvation Army in Sunshine will host a community wills day on Tuesday, July 19. For $100 you can make an appointment to have your will arranged or updated by a volunteer solicitor (simple wills only). All proceeds will support the Salvos’ work in the Sunshine community. Bookings essential. ■ Peter Nankervis, 0417 155 691

Seniors citizens meets The St Albans Senior Citizens group is welcoming new members. The group meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 am-1.30pm at The St Albans Senior Citizens Centre, corner of Alfrieda and William streets, St Albans. Cost of membership is $10 annually and $1 entry on the days you attend. ■ Mary, 0408 396 691

CWA Keilor Downs Garden club The Sunbury Garden Club meets on the first Tuesday of every month. There is a guest speaker at each meeting, which starts at 7.30pm at the Sunbury Football Club. ■ Cheryl, 9744 1663

CWA Keilor Downs meets at 10am on the first Monday of the month at Keilor Downs Community Centre, 90 Taylors Road, Keilor Downs. An organisation based on friendship who welcome all women who would like to do their little bit to make a big difference for women, children and families. ■ Dorothy, 0428 874 488

Sunbury Seniors Rotary club The Sunbury Rotary Club meets every Tuesday at the Sunbury Bowling Club from 7pm. ■ sunburyrotary@gmail.com

Sunbury Seniors meet on Mondays and Fridays at 8 O’Shanassy Street, Sunbury from 10am-3pm. A variety of activities are offered – indoor bowls, cards, snooker, guest speakers, day excursions, subsidised

Lunchtime concert Enjoy a lunchtime library concert with celebrated Bansuri player Vinod Prasanna followed by a coffee and chat afterwards. The Bansuri is a traditional

Indian woodwind instrument constructed from bamboo, known for its hauntingly beautiful sound. At Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, on Friday, June 17, noon-12.45pm. ■ library@brimbank.vic.gov.au

Recycle household items Donate your unwanted household items (in good condition) for reuse at Brimbank council’s Reusable Goods Drop-off Day on Saturday, June 18, Stadium Drive, Keilor Park, 9am-2pm. Items will be donated to local charities West Welcome Wagon and Australian Red Cross. Textile Recycler Blocktexx will take clean linen not suitable for donation and turn it into new products. ■ https://reusable-goods-drop-off-day. eventbrite.com.au/

Sports day Join in a range of family-friendly activities including soccer, sports competitions, blender bikes, kite making and flying, cultural dancing, balloon artistry and a variety of food options to enjoy at the Brimbank Sports Activity Day on Saturday, June 18, noon-2pm, at 33 Princess Street, St Albans. All food and activities at the event will be free of charge and will include a variety of prizes, gifts and vouchers. ■ https://creativebrimbank.com.au/impactbrimbank-sports-activity-day

Bark lantern workshop Join Indian artist Manan Walia to make individual bark ‘tree’ lanterns to light up your home. Manan is a local artist who uses mixed media to create artwork. At Deer Park Library, 4 Neale Road, Deer Park, Saturday, June 18, 2-4pm. ■ library@brimbank.vic.gov.au

DIY manicure class Discover the satisfaction of doing your own SNS-style manicure at Melton South Community Centre’s Dip Powder Nails workshop, scheduled for Saturday, June 25, 10am-4pm. Everything is supplied, and students receive a participation certificate. Cost: $150.00/$145.00 concession. ■ 9747 8576

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Polestar 2 offers a touch of Thor By Ewan Kennedy, Marque Motoring I must admit to having a soft spot for anything Swedish. I’ve had several business trips there with Volvo and Saab and on a couple of occasions have stayed on at my own expense to have a holiday after the official part of the event was over. Sweden is in the forefront of thinking when it comes to global warming and is working hard on reducing emissions from its vehicles. Polestar is a sub brand of Volvo and shares some components with the Volvo XC40 Recharge that we tested recently. The Swedish Polestar 2 is a pure EV, running on batteries without any internal combustion engine to back it up. Three variants are offered: Standard Range single motor, Long Range single motor, and Long Range dual motor (our test car). Polestar quotes expected range of 474 km, 542 km and 482 km respectively

The Polestar 2 has ‘Hammer of Thor’ shaped lights as used in Volvos.

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There’s a real look and feel of upmarket luxury inside, the soft-touch fabrics and other materials around the cabin are that well-mated and blend of high-quality minimalism.

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It’s a five-door hatchback and, in the Swedish style, is neat without being ostentatious, when we road tested the Polestar 2 in our home area on the Gold Coast those who we asked to comment on it liked the shape thought it was stylish, with a semi-sporty look. The front has a sort of radiator grille, perhaps to suit potential buyers who aren’t keen on a car that looks different from the norm. At each side of the grille are the famed ‘Hammer of Thor’ shaped lights as used in all Volvos.

The Polestar uses a Google-sourced Android Automotive infotainment software. It works very well around town. The Hey Google voice assistant and control some of the car’s functions as well as the infotainment and navigation features. If you log in with your Google account, you can search for things on your phone and have them available in the car seamlessly.

Polestar 2 Long Range single motor: $68,400

Interior The seats are large and comfortable. However, the foot space in the front isn’t as wide as we expected, probably due to the fact that it’s based on the similar platform as the smaller Volvo XC40. The panoramic roof is huge, there’s even an illuminated Polestar logo reflection, but you can only see it from the back seat. The roof is tinted, but there’s no blind or electro-chromatic setting to lessen the amount of light and heat that can be come through on a sunny day. This wasn’t a problem as we tested the Polestar 2 in winter here on the Gold Coast. We will try to get another one in summer and see how it feels.

Powertrain Polestar 2 is offered with in three models; single motor and standard range, single motor with long-range and dual-motor with a long-range battery pack.The Polestar 2 we tested is the “big gun model” had dual electric motors and long-range batteries. Its official range is 480 kilometres, but see the notes in the Driving section of this review.

Safety Polestar is closely related to Volvo and that company has had safety built into it’s vehicles for many decades. It has a five-star safety rating . Dual frontal, side chest-protecting and side head-protecting (curtain) airbags are standard. A centre airbag which provides added protection to front seat occupants in side impact crashes is standard on all variants. Autonomous emergency braking (Car-to-Car,

MODEL RANGE Polestar 2 Standard Range single motor: $63,900 Polestar 2 Long Range dual motor: $73,400 SPECIFICATIONS Polestar 2 Long Range dual motor

Note: These prices do not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Polestar / Volvo dealer for drive-away prices.

Vulnerable Road User and Junction Assist) as well as a lane support system with lane keep assist (LKA), lane departure warning (LDW) and emergency lane keeping (ELK), and an advanced speed assistance system (SAS) are standard on all variants.

Driving When we got into the car we looked in vain for a Start-Stop button. Only to find it doesn’t have one. Put your foot on the brake pedal and select either Drive or Reverse and the Polestar is ready to go. It’s a bit spooky at first because there’s no noise, but you soon adapt the brain to it. Handling is generally neutral as the centre of gravity is lower than in a petrol- or diesel-powered vehicle. It’s a fairly heavy vehicle because batteries have a lot of mass and it weighs in at 1.9 tonnes. This does give it a

slight reluctant to change direction. Country running on twisty roads is good but you wouldn’t put it in the sports coupe category. The excellent instant acceleration that we love in all pure electric vehicles is a major feature. It will beat anything off the line that’s powered by a V8 or hot six-cylinder petrol engine. Around town and in the suburbs there’s little noise inside the Polestar 2. On the motorway section of our road testing the noise did penetrate more and disturbed the serenity. There’s some tyre bump thump when crossing bridges. Energy consumption is officially rated at 19.4 kWh per 100 kilometres. We averaged 16.8 kWh during our road testing of the Polestar 2 as we did a fair bit of suburban running and the vehicle charges itself when slowing down. Indeed, on our run over the high Gateway Bridge it’s indicated range increased when we freewheeled in on the down slope. I do drive economically and have a Guinness Book of Records entry for the greatest distance travelled on a single fuel fill. Perhaps I should try for an electric vehicle Guinness Record, let me think about it and get back to you…

Summing up Polestar 2 gives us a strong insight as to what motoring will be like in the future. It’s low running costs and strong performance are impressive. Will we replace our Volvo XC40 with a Polestar 2? Not at this stage, we will wait until prices come down and charging times are shorter.

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Calder Cannons showing plenty of positive signs The Calder Cannons have shown some positive signs in the NAB League boys season. With a competition wide bye due to the long weekend and representative football, the Cannons will regroup ahead of the back half of the season. Cannons coach Ross Smith said they had seen some signs of improvement. After seven rounds, the Cannons sit in ninth with three wins. “We were going alright before last weekend,” Smith said. “We’re on the improve, but sometimes with teams it can be a couple of steps forward and then a couple of steps backwards. “We had a pretty tough start against some of the powerhouses. We then had two good weeks on the road against the [Northern] Knights and the [Bendigo] Pioneers. “We were easily beaten by Oakleigh on the weekend. We have played them four times this year including in practice matches.” Smith said they had given plenty of opportunities to the young talent coming through, with a real mix of 17, 18 and 19-year-olds. A few younger ones who have been part of

Calder Cannons players named in the Vic Metro under-16 squad.

the under-16 side, will start training with the older age and get their chance to play. Smith said Paul Pascu had been the standout so far for the side, playing predominantly midfield. He said Rye Penny were both in the Vic Metro squad to face Vic Country on the weekends in a trial game. “They started with 16 and now up to 30,”

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Smith said early last week. “They will increase to 50 to 52 so they have enough to fill two sides. “We could see another one or two added. It’s an opportunity to potentially see how they go at that level.” There’s a number of players across different ages that have impressed Smith. Jamieson Jarvis, a top age player, has had a good season, while Declan Willmore has played

Sunbury Jets on a roll By Tara Murray The bye has come at the wrong time for the Sunbury Jets in the Big V women’s state championship division. After a slow start to the season, the Jets finally had their full complement of players available for their most recent match against the McKinnon Cougars. But with the long weekend, the Jets and the rest of the competition had the weekend off. Jets coach Ben Draper said they had mixed feelings about whether the break was a good thing or not for his side. “We were starting to get on a roll,” he said. “It’s good to have a week off but it would have been nice to run with the flow. “We had our first game with a full roster which was nice and we were able to get a good win.” The match against McKinnon would prove to be a good one for the Jets as they showed the gap between them and the top three sides had closed. The win for the Jets would be a convincing one, 81-54, with Draper saying there were a lot of good signs in the performance. “We played with a lot of poise which we hadn’t done for a while,” he said. “We were a lot more confidence and we had a really good spread. “Ida [Andersson] and Maria [Jespersen} have a lot of attention put into them and they did a really good job definitely. “Ida though was able to distribute the ball and facilitate and still play a big role. Nicole Cameron had 22 points and no one would have predicted that on the scouting report.” Draper said while the performance was pleasing, they still had plenty of room for improvement. He said the whole squad was yet to train together as a group, which once they could would help build on their connections. The side was given the week off due to the break, before a massive run of matches in the next month. The fourth placed Jets face the Bulleen Boomers [second], Wyndham [first], Hume [fifth] in their next three matches. Draper said they would get a good idea of where they sit after their period of matches. “Hopefully we should have everyone together, touchwood, for the second half of the season and we can come home well,“ he said. “Bulleen the first game back will be really interesting test to see whether we can put it together again.

a different role pushing up onto the wing. Dane Whitnall has really improved in the last few weeks, while 17-year-olds Kade Mueller and Mahmour Thaha are showing good signs. Jordan Croft is another who has impressed Smith. In good signs for the Cannons, six players have also been named in the under-16 Vic Metro side. Patrick Said, Nash King, Harry O’Farrell, Isaac Kako, Jayden Nguyen and Damon Hollow were named in the squad that was to play on the weekend, after deadline. Smith said after not having much football the last couple of years, that age group had started behind the eight ball. He said some would likely play in the under-19 team before the season is out. “It’s exciting,” he said. “We’ve already got six to eight kids training with the under-19 squad. I reckon we’ll have at least five players in the game on Saturday.” Smith said the break gave the opportunity to reset after a front ended start to the season. “Then we’ll be back in it for another seven to eight weeks before the wildcard round.”

Sports shorts Bowls Sunbury’s Sophie Kurzman has been named in her first open age Victorian bowls team. Kurzman was named in the women’s team for a test match against Tasmania next month. The Victorian team was chosen following the second annual city versus country series, which pitted the best bowlers from across the state against each other. Matt Flapper, who is part of Club Sunbury’s Melbourne Extreme team, has also been named in the state team.

Pride Cup Kyneton will host a pride round this weekend across the Bendigo Football Netball League and Central Victoria Football League women’s competition. The Round celebrates diversity and inclusion in sport for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ). All the club’s senior sides will play on Saturday at home as part of the round , with the under-17 netballers starting at 10am and the senior women’s football team playing at 5.15pm. A free Pride Round Event is being held at the club rooms on the day from 11.45am.

Ballarat FL The Sunbury Lions were one of the rare sides in local football to take to the field on Saturday. The Lions were set to face Bacchus Marsh in a standalone Big Freeze game to raise money for motor neurone disease. The rest of the competition had a bye due to the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. For the result of the Lions game, which was after deadline, head to www.starweekly. com.au

VFLW Essendon’s finals campaign in the Victorian Football League Women’s competition was set to get underway on Saturday at Windy Hill. After a break between the season finishing and finals, the Bombers, who finished on top of the ladder, were set to host Hawthorn in a qualifying final. For the result, head to www.starweekly.com.au Nicole Cameron.

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“Wyndham hurt us really hard earlier in the season, when we didn’t have anyone. They’re a very disciplined side. “Those two matches will let us know where we’re at. Then we have a couple of really

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Sky Blues looking to bounce back after losses Gisborne is hoping to regroup quickly to keep its hopes of promotion alive in FV state league 4 west. After a good run of matches earlier in the seaon, the Sky Blues have managed to claim just one point from their last two matches. Heading into Saturday’s match with Laverton, which was after deadline, the Sky Blues were sitting in fourth spot. For the Sky Blues, the match was a chance to regroup after a disappointing couple of results. Coach Danny Moore said they were continuing to make chances, it was about converting them. “The last two weeks have been a little bit disappointing,” he said. “Our performances haven’t been where they need to be. “Greenvale United are a good side, but sitting in the middle of the table. We had so

much possession, and so much of the ball in good areas and chances to score as well, but we couldn’t capitalise on our chances. “We were confident that we would take something out of that game. They won a penalty and that was it. “Westside Strikers are a good side. A draw was probably a fair result, but we did have our chances.” Moore said despite the last couple of weeks, overall it had been a good first half to the season. “If someone had said to me this is where you will be at the halfway mark at the start of the season and in the mix for promotion, I would have been happy,” he said. Moore said the key for the group was to ensure that they held their heads up and continued to build. While Keilor Wolves have a stranglehold on

top spot and earning promotion at this stage, second spot which earns a chance in a play off promotion is still something the Sky Blues are aiming for. The Sky Blues sit five points behind second. “We can’t let those two matches define our season,” he said. “We’ve worked so hard to get to this point and we don’t want to let two disappointing results shape what happens next. “We play Laverton this week and they sit second. It’ll be a good test and a win will put us back in the mix again. “It’s such a fine margin. We need to dust ourselves off and go again.” Meanwhile, Sunbury United was due to face Sebastopol Vikings in state league 3 north-west on Saturday, after deadline. Tara Murray

Cats looking to regroup

Mixed season for the Hawks

By Tara Murray Macedon is hoping to put its worst performance in a number of years behind it in the Riddell District Football League. The Cats have been the pacesetters in the league this season and sit atop the table at the midway season. But their last match saw an uncharacteristic performance from what has been the norm in recent years. Cats coach Ciara Stewart said outside of their last match they had been happy with how the season had gone so far. “We’re accepting of dropping one game,” she said. “But we’re not taking anything for granted. “We’ve been trying to bring players through. This season we’ve got three new players mixed in to try and develop the A-grade side. “It’s been a really good season for us so far.” While many teams want to keep the momentum going, Stewart said the Queen’s birthday long weekend break had come at the perfect time for the group. She said it was a chance for the group to recover after illness hit hard the last few weeks. “We hadn’t been affected by COVID, flu or the cold and then it all hit in one go,” she said. “Hopefully it means we won’t get it again. In A-grade there’s only two players who haven’t had COVID. “Chloe [Williams] had COVID when we played Wallan. Katie [Clarke] just got back from it and Hayley [Birch] had the flu. She thought she was fine to play, but played just five minutes and that was it. “Janelle had COVID a couple of weeks ago and still isn’t well. She’s been playing on restricted court time.” As well as hitting the A-grade team hard, the B-grade team was down to six players and a fill-in for their match against Wallan. The B-grade team also sits on top of the ladder. Stewart said illness played a part in their performance against Wallan, in A-grade, which they lost. “It was our worst performance since I’ve been here,” she said. “We had 45 turnovers and just couldn’t get it into the circle. “The preparation for the game wasn’t great. We had cancelled training on the Thursday night as so many people were sick. “Hopefully we can go back to where we were before that game.” Stewart said there had been some really encouraging for the new girls they had been bringing into the team. Eliza Petherick is still eligible to play under-19s having come from a basketball background.

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Stewart said she was showing some good signs and were hoping to have her as their third goaler. Alex August-Leifi, who is in her early 20s, has made the wing defence her spot in the side. “All our new girls had a run against the likes

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of Woodend-Hesket and Diggers Rest as well. “It’s pleasing there is a lot of depth. We just need to keep them in the sport now.” The Cats will this week face Lancefield. In other matches, Diggers Rest will host Melton Centrals, Wallan will face Romsey and Woodend-Hesket and Riddell will face.

It has been a frustrating season for Woodend-Hesket in the Riddell District League. The Hawks have three wins and a draw at the halfway point of the season, but if things had gone their way, could have easily been undefeated. For Hawks coach Josh Pound there’s some mixed feelings about the season. “It’s a little bit frustrating,” he said. “I’m disappointed with some of the games we thought we should have won. “We’ve been in winnable positions and have not been able to finish off games, which is a bit of a shame. “It’s an interesting one as a lot of people internal and external are happy with the close losses after results in recent years. “We’re trying to hold big expectations of ourselves. That next opportunity when we’re in a winnable position we need to take it.” Pound said the statistics show they are winning more quarters than their losing, which indicates they are playing some good football and closing the gap with the top sides. He said they need to continue to develop the connection between the three lines. “We’ve still got a relatively new group of players and some of those games like Riddell, Diggers Rest and Wallan they’ve played together with a core group for a number of years,” he said. “We’re still understanding each other’s games. At times we have poor lapses in games.” Pound said while they have closed the gap with the top sides, they still think some people are underestimating them. He said they were hoping to prove a few people wrong in the back half of the season. Pound said the Queen’s birthday long weekend break came at the perfect time. “There’s a lot of clubs with players with injuries and illness,” he said. “It’s been difficult with continuity for us, with four or five changes each which. It’s not great when you’re trying to build those connection. “We should have six or seven guys available this week. Hopefully everything goes to plan and we can be as full strength as we can.” The Hawks face Riddell on Saturday. The Bombers won the round three clash by two points. Tara Murray

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