ONGOING tensions within the Liberal Party over the legalisation of same-sex marriage have been downplayed by federal MP for Flinders Greg Hunt. A passionate Mr Hunt told The Times last Friday he believed media claims of internal party divisions in the aftermath of a Liberal party room meeting earlier this month to discuss same-sex marriage legalisation have been overblown. Workplace Minister Eric Abetz slammed cabinet leakers as “gutless” as differences of opinion on same-sex marriage emerged publicly after the meeting held behind closed doors in the Liberal party room on Tuesday 11 August. Mr Hunt revealed he spoke in favour…
Author: Neil Walker
FRAUDSTERS have been targeting Frankston residents by calling and claiming fictitious tax bills are overdue and must be immediately paid. Frankston councillor Glenn Aitken is one of many who received a phone message from a man claiming to represent “the federal office of taxation” last week. The caller falsely claimed Cr Aitken had an affidavit against his name for tax evasion. “It was very unpleasant. He claimed my property was under surveillance and I had to contact them urgently or else state enforcement agencies would be visiting me and I’d be in dire trouble.” Cr Aitken called the number left…
SOMEONE has done their dough and puzzled Aspendale Gardens residents are rising to the challenge of trying to solve the case of the mystery bread dumper. Earlier this month, sometime during the weekend of 8-9 August, a substantial amount of bread was dumped across several locations at Aspendale Gardens reserves. The Aspendale Gardens Residents Association posted photos of the mysterious incident on Facebook causing residents to ‘knead’ to know who had loafed around the reserve and why. Budding Sherlock Holmes, without the Baker St address, quickly deduced the bread was not from the Aspendale Gardens bakery and so the mystery…
THE close proximity of a supermarket loading bay to a pedestrian crossing behind the Chelsea shopping strip could cause a serious accident, according to a local business owner. Bob Halsall says he fears it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured at the crossing near the Safeway supermarket in Chelsea. Mr Halsall has noted supermarket delivery trucks back up onto the pedestrian crossing as they await their turn to drop off deliveries to the Safeway store. “They park over or very close to the pedestrian crossing while they wait to get in there and when they…
THE long-term goal of ridding Kingston’s Green Wedge of landfills and waste transfer stations scored a significant victory with the final rejection of an application to operate a transfer station at Boundary Rd in Dingley Village. VCAT backed a Kingston Council decision not to approve a retrospective application by the Froggi Group for a transfer station containing “crushed road profilings, mulch/woodchips, soil and garden clippings”. The planning tribunal backed council’s decision after hearing objections to the transfer station at 468-492 Boundary Rd from the Defenders of the South East Green Wedge and Dingley Village Community Association. Defenders secretary Barry Ross…