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Spain calls basketballers FRANKSTON basketballers David Andersen and Ryan Broekhoff are off to Spain as members of the 12man Australian team competing at the FIBA World Cup. The players were farewelled last Monday before heading off on the Boomers’ pretournament tour of Europe. See story page 13 Picture: Gary Sissons
Councils bank on expanded port Keith Platt keith@baysidenews.com.au FRANKSTON Council is banking on the $12 billion development of a container port at Hasting to achieve one of its main aims: jobs. Frankston mayor Cr Darrel Taylor said an “impact analysis” of the expanded port by consultants GHD estimated an average 400 jobs being created each year over the next 30 years. “Frankston is strategically position-
ing itself as the government and commerce hub for the Port of Hastings given our proximity, lifestyle attributes and metropolitan activity centre status,” Cr Taylor said. His statement was issued in the same week that Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor criticised a Labor Party proposal to abandon Hastings in favour of building a new port near Geelong. The statements of the two mayors will put Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula councils on a collision course with Labor if it wins the No-
vember state election. However, not all municipalities in the Western Port region are as welcoming of the proposed port with Bass Coast Council sponsoring a five-day workshop looking at alternative scenarios for the future. (‘Workshop maps future without bigger port’, Page 14) The current government has committed $110 million over four for the Port of Hastings Development Authority to plan for an expanded port by the mid2020s. The GHD report relied on by Cr Tay-
lor comes a month after the release of a study by Victoria University researchers Dr Hermione Parsons and Peter Van Duyn. Their paper, Build it – but will they come?, questions the economic viability of a container port at Hastings, suggesting that there is no need for Victoria to have a port capable of receiving the world’s largest container vessels and claiming that their cargoes either originate or are destined for businesses west of Melbourne. Dr Parsons and Mr Van Duyn say the
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decision about the location of Victoria’s next major port is too important to be made by politicians. Support for the Port of Hastings by the two mayors was reinforced last week by Ports Minister David Hodgett who said the Build it – but will they come? report contained “many inaccuracies”. “To stick one’s head in the sand and mount arguments based the false belief that larger ships will not come here will have huge implications on Victoria’s economic prospects,” he said. Continued Page 13