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Before: The Mentone Lifesaving Club building, which is due to receive a major face lift. Picture: Gary Sissons
Lifesaving club upgrades greenlit A $14.5 MILLION upgrade of the Mentone Lifesaving Club has been given a final tick of approval. Community consultation has closed on the project, which is set to add a rooftop viewing deck as well as new toilet and change facilities to the club. Works will also include the addition of a separate pedestrian ramp, landscaping works, and stormwater improvements. The redevelopment is a joint
project by Kingston Council and the state government. The mayor Georgina Oxley said “our lifesaving clubs are crucial community facilities that provide a range of beach safety services for our residents, and visitors, coming to our beautiful foreshore areas as well as essential training in swimming and surf safety.” “We have received a lot of feedback about what the local community would like to see for the future of
the Mentone Lifesaving Club and we are excited to announce this major investment that will see a new state of the art facility built in its place and the opening up of the foreshore area for all members of the community to access and enjoy,” she said. “The club has served the community for half a decade and replacing the current aged building will ensure the club’s future for decades to come.”
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Secret stories of health professionals AS patients, we want our doctors and nurses to be perfect. We want them to be invincible; to manage all of our anxieties and fears in the face of illness. Health professionals are with us when we’re born, and they’re with us when we die. They devote their lives to caring for us, but how do we care for them? How do they cope with the pressure? And when and how is there grace and compassion in the enacting of care? Based on hours of in-depth interviews with health professionals about their experiences of working in hospitals, Grace Under Pressure is a deeply moving theatre experience revealing the hidden stories of doctors and nurses in their own words. This play was inspired by tragedy. In early 2015 there were a spate of suicides by junior doctors – four within a month. Whilst such events are distressingly common within the profession, four deaths in such quick succession rocked the health sector. Something was clearly wrong with the workplace culture of hospitals, and something had to change. At the University of Sydney, a group of medical
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and nursing academics began an open and frank conversation – as people directly responsible for the training of health professionals, what might they do to try to shift these toxic cultures? For many, these issues were deeply personal – they had all worked in clinical environments, and the pressures were viscerally familiar. They formed the Sydney Arts & Health Collective, and began to share stories with theatre academic Paul Dwyer, himself the youngest son of an orthopaedic surgeon. Dismayed by the stories he heard, Paul approached critically acclaimed verbatim theatre maker David Williams to create a play that might offer a space to shed light on these issues. Vividly brought to life by a cast of four extraordinary actors, the play takes the audience on an unforgettable journey. There will be laughter, there will be shock, and there will be tears. The stories within Grace Under Pressure will leave no audience member unaffected. Alternative Facts presents Grace Under Pressure at Frankston Arts Centre on Thursday 30 April. Tickets: $27-$35 Bookings: 03 9784 1060 or thefac.com.au