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Be a friend to our jetty HASTINGS author Fran Henke is asking residents and visitors to become “Friends of Hastings Jetty”. As a regular early morning swimmer at Pelican Park pool, Mrs Henke first walks down the jetty with her camera aimed at seascapes and birds. “This also often involves multiple trips backwards and forwards to the rubbish bins,” she said. “Careless users of the jetty leave behind drink cans, plastic bait bags, tangled fishing line and hooks. Not only are these dangerous to other users but also to sea critters and birds.” Some rubbish is dumped by the sea itself after particularly high tides. Mrs Henke wrote to Cerberus Ward councillor David Garnock and Hastings MP Neale Burgess asking for bins, including a “tangle bin” to be installed at the “fishing end” of the jetty. Cr Garnock’s response came back quickly: “While the solution you have recommended sounds easy enough, as the jetty is ‘owned’ by Parks Victoria and the yacht berths are ‘owned’ by DEPI [Department of Environment and Primary Industries, neither of them take responsibility for rubbish removal (this always falls back on the shire’s shoulders). Continued Page 16
Idyllic spot: Hastings Bight is a place of many moods, and one of its attractions is the jetty with moves afoot to have rubbish bins installed. Picture: Fran Henke
MP Burgess in ‘tough fight’ Mike Hast mike@mpnews.com.au HASTINGS Liberal MP Neale Burgess says he’s in a tough fight to retain his seat, claiming his nominal margin of 10 per cent is actually less than half as much. Mr Burgess easily defeated Labor’s Steve Hosking in 2010, winning almost 61 per cent of two-party preferred votes against the Labor candidate’s 39 per cent. Mr Hosking is standing again this month. The Liberal MP’s margin was 10.8 per cent although this slipped to 9.6 per
cent after electoral boundaries were changed throughout Victoria at the end of 2013. Hastings electorate lost Somers and Balnarring to Nepean, Moorooduc to Mornington, parts of Cranbourne South and Devon Meadows to Cranbourne, and parts of Clyde to Bass. Transferred into the electorate was the balance of Langwarrin. But Mr Burgess said he believed the margin was “well under five per cent”. “If the boundaries introduced last year had been used in 2006, I would have lost,” he said. The Liberal MP is ramping up his
campaign with significant promises and announcements expected in the next two weeks. He would not reveal anything specific but The News understands there will be money to complete the missing link shared path between Somerville and Baxter, and cash for the Western Port Oberon Association to help it bringing ashore the submarine Otama, which has been languishing on a mooring off Crib Point for more than a decade. An announcement about PSOs travelling on the Stony Point train is also expected in the lead-up to the 29 November election.
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The seat of Hastings was created to cope with rapid population growth on Melbourne’s southeast fringe and was first contested at the 2002 election. Nominally a safe Liberal seat when created, it was won by Labor’s Rosy Buchanan but with support for Labor slipping in 2006, it was narrowly won by Mr Burgess. He added 9.8 per cent to his margin at the 2010 election. Mr Burgess, 58, contested Hastings in 2002 but was one of the casualties of the Bracks landslide. He won the seat at his second attempt in 2006. Mr Burgess completing a Bachelor
of Laws from Queensland University of Technology in 1994. He worked as a criminal barrister for a number of years and before entering Parliament was a consultant to technology companies. The key elements of Mr Burgess’s campaign include a 12-page brochure and roadside signs throughout the electorate. The brochure outlines projects in the Hastings electorate and further afield for which Mr Burgess is claiming credit, including $81 million to upgrade Frankston Hospital. Continued Page 11
WHAT’S ON AT NEPTOURS
Hastings Tyre Service has joined a new independent tyre service group -
*CROWN CASINO – MONTHLY* Casino’s bus program with a great BUFFET lunch (all) $35. Only persons over the age of 18 permitted. LAST THURSDAY EACH MONTH
ONCE – THE MUSICAL Wed 04 Feb ’15 Adults $115 (p/s) $105
*PLEASE NOT CROWN CASINO TRIP IN DECEMBER WILL BE ON THURSDAY 18TH DECEMBER
THE LION KING Wed 11 March (matinee) (a) $120 (p/s) $110
QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET Tue 09 Dec ’14 - all $30. Shop for all the bargains we do not have down here. We even supply a couple of Eskys for some of your perishables.
DIRTY DANCING Wed 25 Mar Adults $115 (p/s) $105
STRICTLY BALLROOM Wed 25 March Adults $125 (p/s) $110
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ANYTHING GOES Wed 10 Jun (a) $130 (p/s) $120
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