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Harriet finds a new home Staff at a Lancefield animal sanctuary have had their hearts captured by a seven-week-old goat they received under dire circumstances. The baby goat named Harriet, arrived at Edgar’s Mission a couple of weeks ago after being given to a pound. The sanctuary’s founder, Pam Ahern, said Harriet was rehomed at the mission due to her health issues. “Harriett was born with a congenital condition that afflicts the ligaments in her front legs, causing them to over-flex,” she said. “Harriet would not have survived if kindness had not found her.” Ms Ahern said two colourful splints were put on Harriet’s front legs and time is now the remedy for her recovery. “We must now wait to see if surgery is required to help the little lass fully be the author of her own life,” she said. “She’s having a ripper life now.” Ms Ahern said Harriet likes to follow her around the sanctuary and has made friends with the other animals. “She goes around and says hello to all the different animals, and [they] are so curious of her,” she said. “She is magical.”
Harriet makes a new friend at Edgar’s Mission. (Supplied)
Nazi stickers labelled ‘sick’ By Zoe Moffatt A recent spate of neo-Nazi stickers and graffiti placed on council buildings across Sunbury has been referred to police. A member of the public questioned Hume council about the stickers during the March 27 council meeting, asking what action council was taking. The resident said the neo-Nazi graffiti and stickers were “targeting LGBT youth groups by being placed on council buildings”. Speaking at the council meeting, city services and living director Hector Gaston said council had referred the matter to police.
He said the stickers and graffiti had been placed on council buildings, including the Sunbury Youth Centre. “Council actively removes any such graffiti or stickers from council facilities when and if it occurs,” Mr Gaston said. A council spokesperson said council became aware of stickers on the Sunbury Youth Centre on January 22. Sunbury Police confirmed no arrests had been made and that the investigation was ongoing. The issue was addressed by Jackson’s Creek Ward councillor Jarrod Bell in a TikTok on January 24.
Cr Bell said the video was a call out to the people who thought it was appropriate to put the stickers on buildings in Sunbury. “These messages are simply not acceptable in modern Australia, and they’re not acceptable in Sunbury,” Cr Bell said. “This sick … and unacceptable bigotry and racism and hate is something that I do not accept and I know … the majority of our community do not accept.” Cr Bell said there were more stickers on the Centerlink building up the road and he would rip them all down. “If you think this, you do not represent modern Sunbury, modern Hume, modern
Victoria, or modern Australia, you are irrelevant,” he said. Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich said putting the stickers on a council building was a “hate crime”. “The voices of evil are out in force, and we should be deeply concerned that white supremacist groups with an agenda of violence and murder, are actively operating in Sunbury,” he said. “These are not just stickers — it is a frontal assault on our values, and when this type of cruel vandalism comes into full view, it reminds us that there are hardcore bigots in our midst.”
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