THE Registered Aboriginal Party overseeing the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas entered “special administration” last month. Registered Aboriginal Parties are appointed to provide advice and knowledge on Aboriginal places and Aboriginal objects in their region. Their responsibilities include evaluating cultural heritage management plans and cultural heritage permit applications. The Bunurong Land Council is the appointed RAP for an area covering Frankston, the Mornington Peninsula, Kingston, Casey, Cardinia, Wyndham, and Bass Coast. It was placed into special administration on 11 September – a special administrator has been appointed to overhaul the organisation’s governance. A Bunurong Land Council newsletter published last month…
Author: Brodie Cowburn
CRICKET PROVINCIAL A MASSIVE opening stand between Dale Elmi and Luke Long has helped Baden Powell score an impressive win over Pines. Baden Powell was sent in to bat first on Saturday at Pat Rollo Reserve. Elmi and Long were awesome, scoring 166 runs between them before the first wicket fell. Dale Elmi fell agonisingly short of a century – he was dismissed first for 97. Soon after, Long managed to pass his century. He scored 103 before being caught out off the bowling of Ricky Ramsdale. A tail order collapse prevented Baden Powell from scoring an enormous total. They…
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…
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…