POLITICAL barbs continue to be exchanged over the Labor state government’s rate capping policy, dubbed the Fair Go Rates system by the government, for councils across Victoria. Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins announced last week that the Essential Services Commission will publish its annual rate cap recommendation, based on the cost of inflation, each year. The ESC recommended councils should not increase rates by any more than 2.8 per cent for the 2016-17 financial year, based on the Consumer Price Index and Wage Price Index. Ms Hutchins decided rate rises should be limited to 2.5 per cent based on CPI.…
Author: Bayside News
GLOBALLY renowned artist and peace activist William Kelly will speak at this month’s Kingston Interfaith Art of Peace Dinner. Born in New York City, William Kelly was the recipient of the prestigious Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abby in America and is the only visual artist to receive an Australian Violence Prevention Award from the Prime Minister. He will discuss his work, which has been exhibited in over 20 countries across the world, including the award winning Peace Project sparked by Melbourne’s 1987 Queen Street shootings. The Kingston Interfaith network aims to build connections and conversation between different…
IT was Patterson River Secondary College’s turn to host the annual Singfest that sees choirs from schools across the South Eastern Region meet, learn and perform choral music under the leadership of a guest conductor. Conductor Dr Kathleen McGuire, co-artistic director of the School of Hard Knocks, took up the baton in Carrum last Wednesday (16 March) to lead about 200 students from ten schools across the south east this year. Dr McGuire’s career as a conductor, composer and educator spans more than three decades and five countries. She has earned multiple degrees including the Doctor of Musical Arts from…
This iconic event, on Easter Saturday, March 26 from 8.30am to 5pm, is one for all the family! The Big Air BMX School will not only be thrilling us with their stunts but running four 45 minute workshops throughout the day. The cooking stage will be on fire with two special guests, Marlene Hoff from 100 mile foodie and Dani Venn, MasterChef All Star. Clydesdales & Gypsy Cobs are back at Red Hill after 14 years. Exhibits include Art, Craft, Photography, Flowers, Fruit & Vegetables, Alpacas, Cattle, Miniature Goats, Sheep, Poultry, Rats and Woodchop. See the mustering talents of the…
By DAVID HARRISON A MORNINGTON Peninsula councillor wants municipalities around Port Phillip to ban jet skis. Nepean ward councillor Hugh Fraser will try to drum up support for a jet ski ban from the 10-member Association of Bayside Municipalities. If they agree, the state government would then be asked to implement the ban. “This [ban] has been successfully accomplished on Sydney Harbour and I simply ask the question, as to whether that is a matter of interest to the association,” Cr Fraser said. He raised the jet ski ban at the 15 March council meeting, asking Cr Bev Colomb –…