It’s hard to pin down exactly what kind of impact Tex Perkins has had on the Australian music industry, or on music more broadly. He’s not your typical front-man superstar, yet he’d be more widely recognised than the lead singers of most modern-day pop groups. He’s been making music since for more than 30 years, but is barely a smidge over 50 years old. Although he did find his feet and a degree of early success with the group Thug, how did he gain so much fame and notoriety without a prominent campaign vehicle like Jimmy Barnes’ Cold Chisel, INXS’…
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THREE members of the one family – a father and his two sons – were awarded life membership of the Carrum Cricket Club at its presentation night on Friday 1 April. It’s the first time three members of the one family have been honoured – especially on the one night! The trio – Greg, Cory and Shaun Foster – fulfilled the club’s life membership criteria of playing 100 senior games. “Over their time they have all contributed immensely to the culture and success of the club,” club secretary Dylan Steed said. Shaun and Cory play in Carrum’s firsts while father…
REDEVELOPMENT of the Moorabbin Reserve is another step closer after Kingston Council at its latest council meeting gave permission for the St Kilda Football Club to begin the formal planning application process. As Kingston Council owns Moorabbin Reserve, its formal permission was required before a planning application could be lodged by St Kilda Football Club. “This permission does not mean Kingston Council has approved the application but rather allows the planning process to continue,” Kingston mayor Cr Tamsin Bearsley said. “The application will now be subject to the normal planning process, which will include seeking public feedback on the plan…
KINGSTON Council has approved an expanded new pavilion at Mordialloc’s Ben Kavanagh Reserve to provide a base for St John’s Ambulance and offer improved facilities for local sports clubs. Council last night approved an extra $250,000 contribution to the $4.17million project, which is expected to be funded in the upcoming 2016/17 Budget. The project will transform Ben Kavanagh Reserve with an expanded community sports pavilion, improved fencing, playground make-over, extra landscaping and car park improvements. Original plans for a single storey pavilion were expanded following calls from the sporting clubs for expanded facilities and the opportunity to co-locate St Johns…
A WOMAN spoken to by police on a Parkdale street, 8.10am, Friday 8 April, was later found to have a handgun hidden in her bra as well as ammunition and an imitation handgun in her handbag. Police noticed the woman, 25, of Southbank, and a man who appeared drug affected as they walked along Como Pd. East. They said she “became irrational” when spoken to and they thought she might be drug affected. Searching her backpack they found the ammunition, large hunting knife, zip-lock bag containing a small quantity of ice, rifle telescope, and a black jacket. Police said the…