THE state government is working with Aboriginal communities to establish a new, Aboriginal-led service to support Aboriginal people affected by family violence on the Mornington Peninsula and in Frankston. The new service, Bayside Aboriginal Access Point, will be staffed by members of an Aboriginal workforce known as Journey Walkers who will provide culturally safe support for Aboriginal families. “This innovative new approach to walking alongside our people in their journey towards healing will mean those impacted by family violence get the support and response that is right for them when they need it most,” the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal…
Author: Keith Platt
SUE Black, of Langwarrin is one of 1500 participants in the Legacy Centenary Torch Relay that started in France in April and will end at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on Friday 13 October. The relay, which will see the torch being carried for more than 50,000 kilometres, through 100 stops, in a bid to raise more than $10 million for Legacy. King Charles gave the torch relay a royal welcome when it visited Buckingham Palace at the end of April, at the start of its journey though London before landing in Australia. The King was presented with a…
THE two business lobby groups Committee for Mornington Peninsula and Committee for Greater Frankston are set to merge next month. While members’ votes are yet to be cast, the CEO of the peninsula committee Josh Sinclair last Friday said he was certain of the outcome. “It’s happening,” Sinclair said. “It is expected that in August the Committee for Greater Frankston will wind up at their [annual general meeting]. Their members will be encouraged to join the new merged organisation, and we’ll be taking a handful of their board members across to ours. “We’ll be the Committee for Frankston & Mornington…
SOUTHERN right whales have returned to the bays and seas surrounding the Mornington Peninsula after spending summer feeding in sub-Antarctic waters. The southern rights, the only whales to calve in Victorian waters, arrive to give birth and raise their young from May to October. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action said cows and their calves had been spotted at Flinders, Cape Schanck, Rye, while unaccompanied adult whales had been reported in Port Phillip. The Dolphin Research Institute said over the past month there had been a “huge growth” in whale sightings reported through PodWatch (270 per cent) on…
ONE of a pair of willie wagtails nesting near the bird hide at Edithvale wetlands has rewritten the record books. Numbers on a metal band on the bird’s leg showed it had been wearing the band for nearly 11 years, making it the oldest recorded willie wagtails. Birdlife Australia’s Andrew Silcocks banded the bird 10 years, 10 months and eight days before it was photographed feeding chicks at the Edithvale nest. The previous record for a willie wagtail was held by a willie wagtail in NSW that was “resighted” after nine years and seven months. Friends of Edithvale and Seaford…