MAJOR party candidates for the Dunkley by-election have been locked in. The death of Peta Murphy in December left the seat of Dunkley vacant. On Thursday 11 January, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that Jodie Belyea would be Labor’s candidate. On Sunday the Liberal Party preselected incumbent Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy to be its candidate. Jodie Belyea is the founder of the Women’s Spirit Project. Her organisation offers a free 11-week program for women who have experienced family violence, mental health issues, poverty, and unemployment (“Women’s group celebrates success” The Times 21/6/22). The program has run on the Mornington Peninsula…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
CRICKET PROVINCIAL MPCA CRICKET returned after the Christmas break on Saturday. The first day of two-day matches were played across the peninsula. At Bruce Park, the travelling Red Hill are off to a good start against Heatherhill. Red Hill batted all day long on Saturday. An excellent middle order partnership between Will Cooper and Andy Restein helped them reach a final total of 9/177. Restein scored 50 from 79 deliveries. Cooper played an important supporting role, scoring 33 from 140 deliveries. Heatherhill’s Brett Maxwell was the pick of the bowlers. He took 4/35 from 19 overs, wiping out most of…
RISING sea levels will pose a huge risk to Frankston’s coastline this century, according to a state government-commissioned report released last week. The “Port Phillip Bay Coastal Hazard Assessment” report was published last week. The lengthy technical report assessed potential damage to Port Phillip coastlines if sea levels rise by 1.4 metres. Patterson Lakes is one of the areas most at risk on the eastern side of Port Phillip, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation report. “Coastal hazards in the Frankston City Council will occur along the bay coastline and inside Patterson Lakes,” the report read. “The…
AN inquest into the death of Mordialloc-raised woman Elly Warren has failed to return a conclusive finding. Warren went to Mozambique for a six-week trip in 2016. Days before she was scheduled to come home, her body was found face-down near a bathroom in Tofo. She died aged just 20. For more than seven years, Warren’s family has been fighting to have her death thoroughly investigated. The application for an inquest into her death was accepted at the end of 2020. The inquest took place in August 2023, and the coroner published his findings last month. The coroner wrote that…
MAJOR party candidates for the Dunkley by-election are expected to be confirmed imminently. Incumbent Dunkley MP Peta Murphy died from metastatic breast cancer in December. She won the seat for Labor in 2019, and retained it at the 2022 federal election. A by-election will be held to install a new federal MP. A date for the Dunkley by-election will be locked in soon. Speaker Milton Dick has been tasked with deciding a date for the by-election, but has yet to make an announcement. The by-election is not expected to take place until February at the earliest. Labor hasn’t announced a…