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Snarls over luxury dog house
Judy Banks and Bob Phillips are among neighbours in Bungower Rd, Moorooduc, upset about plans for a dog boarding kennel complex. Picture: Yanni
TEN landowners in a section of Bungower Rd, Moorooduc, will share their rural idyll with more than 65 dogs if the shire council approves an application from a veterinarian. The vet is asking the council to approve plans for “Bark Avenue” boarding kennels at 281 Bungower Rd near Coolart Rd. Stage one will have 20 “luxury” kennels and runs for large dogs and eight for small dogs. Stage two will have six kennels and runs for large dogs and 32 for medium dogs. There also will be 14 exercise yards. Other elements of the complex include a cattery, geriatric dog area, offices, vet area, storerooms and grooming room. Continued Page 4
Labor dumps port By Mike Hast THE Victorian Labor Party has rejected more than six years of planning for an expanded Port of Hastings. Last week it released a jobs and investment strategy dumping its support of Hastings in favour of the socalled “Bay West” option, a new port
proposed for the western side of Port Phillip between Geelong and Werribee. The decision is a massive about-face as the ALP proposed building a threestage port at Hastings when it was in government. Hastings Liberal MP Neale Burgess said “Labor has abandoned more than
40 years of bipartisan support for the Port of Hastings, deserted the people of the Western Port community and managed a complete backflip on the position it argued in government for 11 years”. “The Western Port community and Victorians have been waiting for the
jobs that will flow from the development of the Port of Hastings for more than 40 years and Mr Pallas and his Labor mates would be prepared to again sell those hopes out for political gain,” he said. Since losing to the Liberal-National Coalition in late 2010, Labor had con-
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