A WOMAN allegedly assaulted a police officer outside Bayside Shopping Centre last week after being asked to put on a mask. The maskless woman was confronted by police and asked to wear a face covering before a physical altercation occurred. The woman allegedly smashed the head of the 26-year-old policewoman into the concrete and pulled out clumps of her hair. The alleged offender, a 38-year-old, was taken to the nearby police station and charged. She was bailed out. The alleged incident took place on the evening of 3 August. Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton shared the story the next…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
THE construction of more social housing is the key to addressing the “crisis” of local homelessness, Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says. Data released last week by Homelessness Australia and housing campaign Everybody’s Home revealed that around 600 people from the Dunkley area are currently homeless. Ms Murphy said that “our community has a significant problem with homelessness, and the Morrison government needs to do more to address this crisis.” “The solution to homelessness is a no brainer. For months Labor has been calling on the Morrison government to fund the construction of more social housing. This would help put a…
A BREAKDOWN of local active COVID-19 cases by postcode has been released. Coronavirus statistics provided by the Department of Health and Human Services had previously only sorted active cases by local government municipality. New data released last week separated those cases into postcodes. As of 31 July, the postcode 3196 is the largest COVID-19 hotspot in the Kingston municipality. There were 18 active cases. Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Edithvale, and Bonbeach fall under the 3196 postcode. There were 11 active cases in the postcode 3195, which encompasses Mordialloc, Parkdale, Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, and Waterways. Cheltenham had 10 active cases and Mentone…
FRANKSTON Council wants to play a bigger part in the regulation of local rooming houses. The state government’s Department of Health and Human Services currently works with Consumer Affairs Victoria to regulate the private rooming house market. Rooming houses must be registered with council. At their most recent meeting, Frankston councillors agreed to write to the Premier and other state MPs appealing for legislation changes to “empower local government”. Those proposed changes included mandating that private building surveyors notify council and neighbours of a property whose owner has plans for a rooming house development, and making private building surveyors advise…
CENTRELINK’S Mornington office is set to remain open until March 2021. The centre had been scheduled to close for good in September, with local Centrelink services switching to a single desk at the post office. The new service was only set to be manned for 15 hours a week. Flinders MP Greg Hunt announced last week that operations would continue at Centrelink’s Mornington office for an extra six months. “Many Australians are doing it tough right now, and locals on the Mornington Peninsula are no different,” he said. “I know that so many families are deeply distressed by the return…