THE Australian Conservation Foundation (Mornington Community Group) is calling on the state government and the Environmental Protection Authority to immediately implement sustainable procedures to ensure roadside cleanliness in Victoria on an ongoing basis.The organisation believes roadside litter has significantly increased since Covid, and is creating traffic hazards, drain blockage issues, and various environmental issues. “The current situation is not acceptable,” said ACF Mornington Community Group member Maria Remova. “The level of the roadside contamination in the area is very high. Not only is it disheartening and ugly to residents and our millions of visitors each year, but it is also…
Author: Cameron McCullough
THE nomination period for candidates in the 2024 Kingston City Council election has now closed with a huge 65 candidates contesting the 11 wards.Of the candidates, six current councillors (Crs Davey-Burns, Davies, Hill Saab, Oxley and Eden) have thrown their hats in the ring to serve another four-year term. Four current councillors (Crs Howe, Hua, Cochrane and Bearsley) have decided not to stand again.In Banksia Ward, four candidates are seeking election: Rosemary Parrant, Kalina Murday, Heather Smith and Chris Howe.In Bunjil Ward, two candidates are seeking election: Tony Athanasopoulos and Nikki Kaur.In Caruana Ward, nine candidates are seeking election: Caroline…
THE nomination period for candidates in the 2024 Frankston City Council election has closed, and 42 candidates have nominated to contest the city’s nine wards.Of the candidates, seven current councillors (Crs Bolam, Baker, Taylor, Asker, Hill, Hughes and Aitken) have thrown their hats in the ring to serve another four-year term. Two current councillors (Crs Nathan Conroy and Claire Harvey) have decided not to stand again. This election will see the move away from a three-ward system with three councillors in each ward to a nine-ward system with only one councillor to be elected from each ward.A late withdrawal from…
ST Bede’s College in Mentone entered lockdown earlier today, 4 September, while police investigated a “threatening” social media post. The school entered lockdown at 8.25am on police advice. At 9.40am the lockdown was lifted and students returned to class. In a statement, Victoria Police said there is no ongoing threat at the Mentone school. “Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating a threatening social media post in relation to St Bede’s College. There is currently no threat to St Bede’s College in Mentone but investigations to determine who created the post are underway,” a Victoria Police statement read. “The post,…
IT is with deep gratitude, and a sense of sadness, that we say goodbye to our friend and colleague, Keith Platt, who is retiring this week.Life can feel like a strung-together series of wins and losses, randomly thrust upon us by an ambivalent universe.One of our great wins was that Keith came to work for us at Mornington Peninsula News Group in 2012 as our group editor.Keith has spent his entire career working in journalism across newspapers, magazines, television and documentary making. When he came to MPNG he was already well-known in the community for his long years at the…