Western Port
Western Port
realestate 15 July 2014
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Family fun with the odd ‘speccy’ GETTING together to celebrate Aboriginal Family Day at Willum Warrain last Thursday was an enjoyable part of the peninsula’s NAIDOC Week activities. A fun time was had by all. About 250 attended the day in Pound Rd with a main feature being the collaboration between Willum Warrain Medicare local and the 1st Mornington Peninsula Action Group. The theme of the day was general health and wellbeing – and a fun part of this was Speccy Dreaming, which identifies and develops children’s natural talents, self-worth and skills to encourage them to pursue and achieve their goals. Fitness is a big part of Speccy Dreaming, as is healthy living. Hip hop entertainment by Indiginous Hip Hop Projects had everyone in the mood with young Isaac, left, hopping to his own beat. A highlight was the presentation of a $5500 cheque from Mornington Peninsula police by inspector Karen Nyholm. The money – from the sale of an unused boat - will go towards the house’s youth program. “Even the rainy day didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of those attending and afterwards we had a barbecue put on by Native Oz Cuisine, of Frankston,” said Deb Mellett, a project officer in the shire’s Aboriginal Support and Development team.
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Call for port rethink Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au UNIVERSITY researchers have called for a reassessment of the state government’s plans to spend an estimated $12 billion developing a container port at Hastings. They say a fall-back position is vital in case the Port of Hastings project fails. The researchers say a “simplistic”
view is being taken by governments assuming larger ships will come if a deep water port is offered. However, shipping companies will not send the world’s largest ships because the Australian market is not large enough. Smaller ships with quicker turnaround times capable of entering Port Phillip make more economic sense for carrying Victoria’s agricultural and perishable food-related exports.
The government will also have difficulty fulfilling its obligations by building a port in an internationally recognised wetland area. The researchers say decisions made on how to cope with predicted levels of imports and exports over the next 40 years will affect everyone in Victoria and should not be based solely on political decisions. In a research paper titled Build it –
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