KINGSTON councillors have agreed to write to Premier Daniel Andrews asking for the October council elections to be delayed, and for local ward boundary changes to be held off. Earlier this year, the new Local Government Act was passed. The act mandated that Kingston Council’s structure change to eleven single member wards at the next election. Kingston Council currently consists of nine councillors split across three wards. Following the recent dismissal of local government minister Adem Somyurek, Kingston councillors have voted to direct the mayor to write to the Premier “seeking his intervention to suspend the recently announced changes to…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
THE 2020 MPNFL season has been cancelled. AFL South East announced the decision to call off their competitions on 27 June. All senior football and netball divisions will not go ahead this year. There were hopes that the league would be able to get up and running next month, with a plan to return already outlined. AFL South East had announced that they planned for the season to get underway by 25 July, with a shortened fixture and a zero salary cap. After a further meeting between AFL South East officials and MPNFL club representatives last weekend, plans to start…
A PATTERSON Lakes man has been arrested and charged after police seized 360 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from a shipping container which had arrived from Malaysia. On 8 June, Australian Border Force officers examined a shipping container of furniture which had landed in Melbourne from Malaysia. Inside the container alongside the cargo, they found 18 unidentified cardboard boxes. It is alleged that the boxes were filled with small packages, which when opened and tested returned a presumptive positive result for methamphetamine. Approximately 360 kilograms of drugs were seized, which police estimate had a street value of up to $180 million.…
A PLAN to electrify and duplicate the Frankston rail line to Langwarrin has been endorsed by a committee of MPs, council employees, and local business representatives. A business case looking into duplicating and electrifying the train line to Baxter was completed last year. The project has since been at a standstill, with $225 million in funding committed by the federal government but none committed by the state government (“Rail extension at a standstill”, The Times, 30/3/2020). Since the completion of the business case an advisory committee has been set up to explore the future of the project and make a…
THE Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League is set to return on 25 July, albeit with a shortened season and a zero salary cap. The league’s return is subject to the further lifting of COVID-19 restrictions which would allow up to 500 spectators to attend matches. The top two divisions of the senior football and netball leagues will return on 25 July, with Grand Finals to be played on the weekend beginning 17 October. Division one football will consist of nine rounds, with teams playing each other once. A top five finals series will begin on 25 September. Division two football…