HUNDREDS of students at the Chisholm TAFE campus in Frankston have received parking fines from Frankston Council while attending their classes. The Chisholm Student Union was formed earlier this year to call for changes to parking arrangements outside the Building C facility. CSU founder Quinney Brownfield estimates that “between February 2024 and May 2025, 1,177 fines totalling to $140,063 were issued for ‘Stopped without a permit’ in the singular parking lot outside of Chisholm Frankston’s Building C, almost the same amount as what the entire City of Greater Geelong issued in 2023 for the same offence.” “At Chisholm Frankston’s Building…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
HAWTHORN Football Club’s new homebase in Dingley Village has been officially opened. The $113 million project has received money from all three levels of government, the AFL, and Hawthorn Football Club. The federal government has confirmed it spent $15 million on stage one works, which triggered the release of $5 million in ratepayer money from Kingston Council towards the project. The state government also put in $15 million. The finished Kennedy Community Centre project features a new community oval and pavilion, which is expected to be used for Hawthorn FC’s AFLW team. Kingston Council and Hawthorn FC have agreed to…
FRANKSTON mayor Kris Bolam has declared his ratepayer-funded overseas trip “highly successful”, and says it will deliver a big financial boost to Frankston. Cr Bolam was overseas from 23 September to 11 October. The mayor visited Shanghai and Wuxi in China; Lincoln, Wichita, and Washington DC in the USA; Suva in Fiji; and Susono and Tokyo in Japan during the trip. The final cost of the trip to ratepayers was a little over $8000, falling short of the initially budgeted $11,500. Cr Bolam said he personally paid for his airfares and incidental expenses to minimise costs. A final report on…
THE federal government has greenlit a project to protect Frankston’s coastline from the risk of natural disaster. The Frankston City Coastal Resilience 2100 project will cost $288,305 – the federal government has confirmed it will contribute $143,380 of that total through its Disaster Ready Fund grant stream. The money is expected to be used to develop a “Coastal Hazard Adaptation and Resilience Plan”. The Frankston project will also include a landslide risk assessment, establishment of a survey grade drone-enabled monitoring program, and work on local coastal hazard modelling and risk assessments. The funding announcement comes weeks after two people died…
PROVINCIAL A FANTASTIC century from Harley Peace-Stirling has put Pines in the box seat for its sixth consecutive victory. Pines hit the road to take on Red Hill in a two-day match on Saturday. Day one belonged to visitors; Pines finished the day at 6/327. Opener Nick Christides set up Pines well with a knock of 86 from 104 deliveries. Peace-Stirling and Matthew Wilson then came in and combined for a huge partnership – Peace-Stirling ended up scoring an unbeaten 104 from 155, and Wilson smashed 73 from 107 deliveries. Red Hill faces an enormous mountain to climb on day…