TWO high-profile politicians may face off for Liberal Party preselection as candidate for the Dunkley electorate in this year’s federal election. Donna Bauer, the former Liberal state MP for Carrum, and Cr Paul Peulich, a former mayor of Kingston, could be set to contest the party nomination for the seat of Dunkley which includes the suburbs Frankston, Langwarrin, Mt Eliza, Mornington, Seaford and Skye. Labor’s Sonya Kilkenny narrowly won the Carrum contest in late 2014’s state election by a margin of just over 500 votes ahead of Ms Bauer. An electorate boundaries shift in 2013 after an Electoral Boundaries Commission…
Author: Neil Walker
GROUPS and individuals will still be able to apply to Kingston Council for money quickly needed for projects providing benefit to the community. Councillors at a public council meeting in November backed a new Quick Response Grants method of making “time sensitive” funds available to community organisations or people who need money urgently for small projects of up to $2000 per year. The new grants will replace the council ward grants system that allowed councillors to hand out ratepayers’ money to groups, sports clubs and individuals. The Labor state government axed council ward grants last year (‘Ward grants finally axed’,…
A FRANKSTON real estate agent has been fined for failing to have trust accounts audited in accordance with state laws. Glenn Michael Ryan, 69, of Glenn Ryan Real Estate was fined $2000 and ordered to pay $1100 in costs after a hearing at Frankston Magistrates’ Court last week. The audit infringement is the second time in five years that Mr Ryan has failed to comply with audit requirements on trust accounts. In 2011 the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) ordered Mr Ryan “to establish better trust account procedures” due to a failure to correctly balance trust accounts for 13…
A CHILDREN’S play area at a Langwarrin pub is being used as a bargaining chip in a push for more pokies machines. The Langwarrin Hotel wants to install 10 more electronic gaming machines and has written to the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation to advise a planned kids’ play area at the venue “will be significantly reduced in scope if approval for these additional gaming machines is not obtained”. The hotel holds a licence for the 52 pokies machines at its Cranbourne-Frankston Rd premises. An application by the Langwarrin Hotel for the extra 10 machines was debated by…
PLANS to remove level crossings along the Frankston line using elevated rail are still up in the air according to the state government. Plans for a so-called ‘suburban sky-rail’, with rail lines raised two storeys above street level, have been submitted to the government during the tender process for the Dandenong rail corridor upgrade. There are suggestions elevated rail could be built at southern sections of the Frankston line including Carrum and Bonbeach. Underground water close to Port Phillip Bay and Patterson River may mean tunnelling is not a viable option at some level crossing intersections. Labor Public Transport Minister…