MONEY problems are seeing an increasing number of people asking the RSPCA to find new homes for their pets.The Mornington Peninsula and Frankston have been identified as areas where people are struggling with the high cost of living, according to Stuart Marchesani, the RSPCA’s inspectorate team leader in Victoria’s south-east.“Heartbreakingly, every month RSPCA Victoria receives between 400 and 600 calls from people wanting to surrender their pets for a variety of reasons, including financial difficulties,” he said.“Many of the cruelty cases we see aren’t necessarily malicious cruelty but rather neglect due to people’s circumstances changing beyond their control, such as…
Author: Keith Platt
THE Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula has launched a strategic plan based on the region’s population reaching 350,000 over the next 15 years.While the state government is pushing for 67,000 new dwellings to be built in that time in Frankston and on the peninsula, the committee’s plan calls for “diverse housing options … for home buyers, renters, work force, crisis accommodation and visitors”.The committee also wants “meaningful bus services”, trains every half hour between Hastings and Frankston, and express trains for a 40-minute service from Frankston to Melbourne.Other projects being pushed in the strategic plan include redeveloping Rosebud Hospital,…
THE short film Dreamweavers – Gidja Walker OAM, by award winning filmmakers Heather Forbes-McKeon and Yanni Dellaportas, will be screened as part of the 2024 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.The 21-minute short by the Mornington Peninsula-based filmmaking duo was one of 50 chosen from 160 entries.Forbes-McKeon, co-director, creator and producer of the Dreamweavers series, says that she and Dellaportas were privileged to make film about Walker who is “known as an icon for her work and knowledge as an ecologist, ethnobotanist and Mornington Peninsula Indigenous advocate”.“Gidja combines her immense environmental knowledge alongside traditional owner’s relationships with her local environment,” she said.…
MORNINGTON Peninsula residents are being urged to join Reconciliation Week activities to learn about the shared history with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples “and explore how you can take meaningful actions to help achieve reconciliation in Australia”.Reconciliation Week started on Monday 27 May. “Whatever your background or upbringing, we all have a responsibility to learn about Australia’s history and to acknowledge and value the past, present, and continuing contributions of our First Nations peoples – the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth,” the mayor Cr Simon Brooks said.“Mornington Peninsula Shire Council has an important role to play in promoting…
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council is today expected to back down on its insistence that the Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience event could not be moved from The Briars wildlife sanctuary. The move follows last Thursday’s announcement that Warner Bros and Fever were “re-evaluating the current location” of the event at the shire-owned Mount Martha property. Two days before Peter van Roden, senior vice president, Global Themed Entertainment Warner Bros. Discovery contacted the Save Briars Sanctuary group, the shire was continuing to defend the choice of the wildlife sanctuary for the nightly sound and light spectacular. Shire CEO John Baker…