DOGS Victoria will open the entirety of its 74-acre dog park in Skye to the public for the first time since it was bought in the early 1980s, as part of a $12 million upgrade to be delivered over the next decade. Only about half the property has been used since the purchase, with access previously restricted to Dogs Victoria members, under conditions tied to the organisation’s planning permit with Frankston City Council. A new ‘Community Member category will open the site to the wider public for the first time, though members of the public will still be required to…
Author: Sarah Halfpenny
THE Frankston Blues Under 14 Boys will fly to Perth in September to compete at the 2026 Australian Under-14 Club Championships, after finishing the 2026 National Junior Classic Championship undefeated and winning the Eltham Dandenong Basketball Tournament this season. The Australian Under-14 Club Championships, co-hosted by Basketball Australia and the Willetton Basketball Association, runs from 25 September to 3 October in Willetton, Western Australia. The Frankston Blues team’s National Junior Classic Championship win, at the State Basketball Centre in Knox, marked its second straight undefeated title after also winning in 2024. Head coach Lucas Barker, in his first season in…
MEMBERS of the Committee for Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula joined Reverend Tim Costello AO and Wayne Holdsworth at Sages Cottage in Baxter on 23 July for a forum focused on sports gambling reform and the under-16 social media ban. Costello and Holdsworth spoke about their personal journeys on the two issues before taking questions from Committee members. Both social causes link back to Frankston, including the parliamentary inquiry into sports gambling harm chaired by the late Peta Murphy MP. Costello’s advocacy on gambling reform continues at a national level, more than two years after the Murphy Report was tabled.…
FRANKSTON City Council’s Positive Ageing team will partner with Frankston Library to launch The Letterbox Project, an anonymous letter exchange, on 4 August. The project will run every Tuesday from 10.30am at the library until late October, coinciding with Loneliness Awareness Week (3–9 August), this year themed ‘Make Room for Connection’. People can register at the library at any point during the project and will be anonymously matched with a pen pal, using a chosen code name instead of their real identity. Once matched, pairs write letters and drop them at the library, which holds each one until the other…
HUNDREDS of allied health professionals – including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, radiographers, sonographers, social workers and podiatrists – walked off the job for three hours at Peninsula University Hospital on Thursday 23 July, escalating a pay dispute with the Allan Government. Members of the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (VAHPA) rallied on the street outside the Peninsula University Hospital from 2.15pm. VAHPA has lodged a wages claim of 36%, well above the government’s latest offer of between 19 and 21%. VAHPA executive officer, Andrew Hewat, said the union had to balance the need for industrial action against its members’…