AFTER eight years on public display, the infamous Reflective Lullaby sculpture is set to return to McClelland Gallery. Gregor Kregar’s Reflective Lullaby, a giant chrome gnome, was installed at Peninsula Link’s Cranbourne Road exit eight years ago. Four years later the gnome was moved to the corner of Moorooduc Highway and Hastings Road in Frankston. Last week, Reflective Lullaby was removed from its site and taken to McClelland Gallery in Langwarrin. The ten metre tall artwork will be permanently installed in the gallery’s sculpture park. As revealed earlier this month, the Love Flower sculpture which replaced the chrome gnome near…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
MORE work must be done for the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians in the wake of the Voice to Parliament referendum, Dunkley MP Peta Murphy says. At last weekend’s referendum, the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was emphatically rejected by voters. With a little more than 78 percent of the vote counted; 60.6 percent of people voted “No”. Frankston has a large population of Indigenous people compared to other local government areas. Murphy says the Indigenous community in her electorate will be “hurting” from the outcome of the vote. “Frankston has the second highest proportion of First Nations people across all metropolitan…
CHELSEA Heights Primary School has been included in the scope of an investigation into alleged historical child sexual abuse at government schools. In June this year, an inquiry to allegations of historical sexual abuse committed at Beaumaris Primary School and other government schools was set up. The inquiry was formed at the request of the state government. The board of inquiry is investigating claims of sexual abuse involving multiple staff members at Beaumaris Primary School during the 1960s and 1970s. Last week the board of inquiry announced it had expanded its investigation from 18 schools to 24 – Chelsea Heights…
A PROPOSAL to consider scrapping the prayer read at the beginning of Frankston Council meetings has failed at the first hurdle. Public Frankston Council meetings are preceded by the reading of a prayer, addressed to “Almighty God”. Councillor Sue Baker raised a motion at council’s 2 October meeting asking for a report into the “appropriateness of a single faith prayer”. She called the motion a “response to the changing landscape of councils and community.” “2021 census data reveals that our community is changing, and religious affiliations are changing,” Baker said. “The use of a Christian prayer or a single-faith prayer…
CRICKET PROVINCIAL MPCA cricket returned last weekend with one-day action. Reigning Provincial division champions Old Peninsula got their 2023/2024 campaign off to a good start at home against Peninsula division premiers Heatherhill. The Pirates chose to bat first. Their best performers were Dylan O’Malley and captain Justin Grant – O’Malley scored 53 from the opening position and Grant scored 51 runs batting at number five. Old Peninsula finished their innings after 40 overs with 175 runs on the board. Heatherhill skipper Kristian Miller led from the front, but he didn’t get enough help from his teammates for a successful run…