COVID-19 has been detected in wastewater in local suburbs. The Victorian Department of Health issued a warning to people in Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bonbeach, Carrum, Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Edithvale, Mordialloc, Patterson Lakes, and Seaford last week. COVID-19 was detected in the wastewater of those suburbs between 23 and 26 August. An Edithvale cafe was named a tier two COVID-19 exposure site this week. Anyone who attended The Crowded Hour at 264 Nepean Highway, Edithvale between 7.15am and 8am on 25 August must get tested immediately and isolate until a negative result comes back. The exposure site is related to a…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
THE proposed hub for improved bus services at Frankston Station is not feasible, an advocacy group for the Mornington Peninsula says. A 30-year strategy released by Infrastructure Victoria earlier this month recommended improving bus services in Frankston rather than moving forward with the planned rail extension to Baxter. It suggested that the Frankston Station Precinct should become a hub for better bus connections to the Frankston metropolitan activity centre, railway station, Chisholm TAFE, and Frankston Hospital (“Better buses suggested rather than rail extension” The Times 24/8/21). Committee for Mornington Peninsula executive officer Briony Hutton says that the existing congestion at…
A DAMNING report released by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this month has caught the attention of local councils in Victoria. Frankston, Kingston, Mornington Peninsula, Bass Coast, Bayside, Cardinia, Casey, Greater Dandenong, and Port Phillip councils make up the South East Councils Climate Change Alliance. The group has called on the government to act quickly to quell the growing danger of climate change. Cr Michael Whelan, chair of the SECCCA’s councillor advisory group, said “the IPCC’s recent sixth assessment report presents an absolutely frightening picture of what the future holds for us, for our children and…
FRANKSTON councillor Steven Hughes has been suspended for a month. The suspension was handed down last week after the conclusion of a drawn out arbitration process between the newly elected councillor and Frankston Council itself. Council applied to start arbitration in March in response to Facebook posts made by Cr Hughes about council policy and spending. The suspension will run for one month beginning on 31 August. Cr Steven Hughes had landed himself in trouble because of Facebook posts likening council’s local laws to those in the Soviet Union and North Korea. On 1 March, Cr Hughes wrote on his…
A PLAN to reduce the impact of gambling on the local community has been put out to consultation. Kingston Council’s draft gambling action plan was approved by councillors at a meeting this week. The measures council are likely to advocate for include reducing the hours local gaming venues operate to 10am to midnight, reducing the local electronic gaming machine cap down to 945, calling on the state government to remove designs from machines that contribute to gambling harm like linked jackpots, and the introduction of a $1 bet limit per button push on pokies. The reduction of the cap would…