Western Port
Western Port
realestate 12 November
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Getting serious: John Clarke on the foreshore at Hastings wearing his Western Port Seagrass Partnership “hat�. On looking after Western Port: “We need the right heads at the planning table to balance the interests of the environment and business.� Picture: Yanni
Funnyman on a mission By Mike Hast SEEING satirist, comedian and actor John Clarke standing in the mangroves of Western Port at Hastings, you naturally enough expect a sardonic comment. Perhaps something about the odour of the mud at low tide. Eau de salt-
marsh, anyone? A crack about the seagrass? This would look good in the fish pond. But, no, Clarke is on a mission; something completely different, as the Pythons once said. He is a founding board member of Western Port Seagrass Partnership, an
independent trust formed in 2001 to lobby for the protection and restoration of Western Port and its catchment. Why does a 65-year-old New Zealander who came to Australia in the 1979 and became a fixture in comedy and satire on television, in films and on stage – including being inducted into
the Logies Hall of Fame in 2008 – care about Western Port? “I’ve owned a holiday house on Phillip Island for years,� he told The News, flashing a look southeast from the Hastings foreshore and stepping off the track as a woman with two white dogs jogged past. . ry s: va ail es det Tim re 53 g o 1 in m 3 en for 81 Op ne 97 o 3 Ph 0
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