27 May 2015

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Quest for laughs on Grail trail THE cast will have as much fun as the audience when MLOC - formerly the Mordialloc Light Opera Company - presents Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Phoenix Theatre next month.

Edithvale resident Jane Court will direct the amateur theatre production, with musical direction by Ian Nisbet and choreography by Keir Jasper.

“The modern, riotous musical retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table in their search for the Holy Grail,” organiser Cheryl Threadgold said.

“It pokes fun at the Arthurian legend and musical theatre stereotypes, and, with lots of laughs and catchy musical numbers, promises to be a fun and entertaining show for all ages.”

Performances are at 8pm on 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 June; 2pm on 13 and 20 June and 5pm on 14 June at the Phoenix Theatre, 101 Glenhuntly Rd, Elwood.

Tickets are $35, $32 and $28. Book at mloc.org.au or call 9551 7514 or Ms Threadgold 9589 4912.

Light hearted: Lady of the Lake (Lisa Nightingale), King Arthur (Sam Marzden) and Patsy (Nick Rouse) will star in Spamalot. Picture: Trevor Lowther

Summer rescues fall Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au

LIFESAVERS patrolling Kingston and Frankston beaches rescued 26 people in strife at sea during the summer months.

Life Saving Victoria data shows lifeguards in the region gave first aid in 116 cases and “took 1592 preventative

actions” to make beachgoers safer.

Preventative actions taken by lifeguards include giving beach safety information to visitors, talking to beachgoers about hazards and conditions and letting people know about nearby rips in the water.

Frankston lifeguards saved the majority of people from drowning – 16 – and Carrum Surf Life Saving Club

lifesavers were the busiest on the rescue front in Kingston, carrying out four rescues.

Last summer 37 people were rescued off Kingston and Frankston beaches.

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Preventative actions taken by lifeguards include giving beach safety information to visitors, talking to beachgoers about hazards and conditions and letting people know about nearby rips in the water.

Frankston lifeguards saved the majority of people from drowning – 16 – and Carrum Surf Life Saving Club lifesavers were the busiest on the res-

cue front in Kingston, carrying out four rescues.

Carrum LSC president Ben Rooks said beaches were quieter this summer due to lower temperatures compared to the previous year’s heatwave.

“It was a lot quieter than usual but we’ve had more rescues this year than last year,” he said.

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On a mission: Artist Michelle Endersby hopes her works will delight New York’s art lovers. Picture: Gary Sissons

Artist takes bite out of the Big Apple FROM Bonbeach to Chelsea – New York’s Chelsea, that is – might seem a long way away.

But it’s indicative of the progress being made by Bonbeach painter Michelle Endersby, who is staging her In Reverie of Form exhibition in the Big Apple next month.

Her vivid flower portraits will grace the walls of the Agora Gallery, 12 June-2 July, with the opening night reception on 18 June.

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than a figurative representation of a flower – her works explore the varying personalities and forms of roses throughout each phase of their lifecycle.

“Any art lover who enjoys viewing thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend,” the gallery’s PR says. “Her masterful use of light and shadow help define the overall composition and add depth of meaning and an emotive element to the overall effect. Her round canvases symbolise wholeness, the cycle of life, and the mystery of eternity. They

invite the viewer to take a moment and contemplate the sacred.

“I hope my paintings will inspire an awakening in others, as I feel I have been entrusted with a mission to share a vision of beauty, hope, and inspiration with the world,” she said.

Agora is a contemporary fine art gallery in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, it specialises in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists.

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A look back in time A DISPLAY of archival materials will enhance the mood at Mentone Public Library’s 90th anniversary celebrations on Saturday 30 May. “It’s been fascinating going through all the old log books, insurance forms, and book lists,” volunteer Julia Reichstein said. “Everything was so beautifully written and the book work meticulously kept. It’s easy to see that the art of handwriting is definitely dying.

“At the risk of sounding overly sentimental, you can really feel the passion with which the past volunteers conducted their roles through these documents.”

Visitors to the library’s open day 11am-2pm - will no doubt appreciate the display. It’s at 36 Florence St, at the rear of Mentone CBA. Alternatively, they could pop in during opening hours in the week before the party when the display will be up and running.

THE Cove Hotel’s Cash for Calamari fund raising effort for the Carrum Coast Guard has raised $4557.

The money will be used to pay running costs at the coast guard – such as insurance fees - which are tipped to be a whopping $13,000 this year.

The hotel, in McLeod Rd, Patterson Lakes, donated $1 for every calamari sold over summer – that’s 4557 delicious dishes in three months.

The Cove’s general manager Ian Moore said the Cash for Calamari fundraiser was the hotel’s way of “giving something back to the community”.

“The calamari and parmigiana dishes are our biggest sellers,” he said.

“We’ve been developing a strong relationship with the coast guard over the years and are keen to help them out,” he said. “They do a great job.”

This isn’t the hotel’s first generous fundraising effort: last year it raised

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$7000 for Seaford, Carrum and Bonbeach lifesaving clubs. Before that, the Karma for Kegs promotion – in which patrons paid what they wanted for their beer – raised $800, also for the coast guard.

Carrum Coast Guard’s flotilla commander Matt Semmens praised the hotel’s generosity. “They’ve helped us out before and we really appreciate it,” he said. “Efforts like the Cash for Calamari event are vital in keeping us going.”

Each year the coast guard, in Launching Way, conducts barbecues, sausage sizzles, tin rattles at street corners and fun runs to raise funds.

Dishing it out: Carrum Coast Guard’s Dan McAlpine and The Cove general manager Ian Moore with a plate of calamari. Orders of the delicious dish are helping raise funds for the Carrum Coastguard. Picture: Gary Sissons

KINGSTON artists are invited to submit works for the annual Interfaith Network Art Exhibition in August.

It aims to help celebrate the many faiths and cultures in the community.

This year’s exhibition explores the theme ‘Reclaiming the heart of humanity’. It’s on at Mordialloc’s St Nicholas Gallery.

Mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill invites all artists to join in and show off their creative talents. “The exhibition aims to celebrate harmony in our community and recognise our shared humanity,” he said.

Entries close Friday 3 July. The Kingston Interfaith Network Art Exhibition will run 4-26 August. Call council 1300 653 356 for details.

Office moves for Labor MPs Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au IT has taken seven months but Carrum MP Sonya Kilkenny’s electorate office should be open for business in July.

The Labor MP, who narrowly won the seat of Carrum from former Liberal MP Donna Bauer at last November’s state election, has been fielding constituents’ questions at regular meetings around the electorate but is set to call 622 Nepean Hwy, Carrum home.

A spokeswoman for Ms Kilkenny said Parliamentary officials had leased the office space on behalf of Ms Kilkenny following a search for suitable digs.

MPs often move into the premises

of their predecessor but this did not happen this time around.

“Post the election, due to the redistribution of the boundaries a new office was required for the Carrum electorate,” the spokeswoman said.

The new office will be open “in mid-July”.

Ms Kilkenny coincidentally attended the official opening of another Labor MP’s office last week. Federal Member for Isaacs Mark Dreyfus welcomed Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to Mordialloc for the event.

“I am very pleased to have opened shop in Mordialloc,” Mr Dreyfus said.

“The opening of my new electorate office in Mordialloc provides the opportunity for me to work from a more central location for the Isaacs electorate and also saves taxpayer funds

by moving to a shopfront with far cheaper rent.

“This move is also more convenient for the majority of Isaacs’ residents who live along the coastal strip.

“I invite all local residents to come by and say hello. I’d love to have a chat,” said Mr Dreyfus.

About 150 people attended the opening of the new Isaacs Electorate Office at 566 Main Street, Mordialloc.

Labor comrades: Carrum MP Sonya Kilkenny, Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at the opening of the Isaac MP’s new office.

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LETTERS Consultation slam Does anyone involved in the council’s consultation process for the future use of the Mentone depot site believe that consultation really happened?

Despite 2400 signatures on a petition supporting using the depot site for desperately need open space, and despite 150 submissions received urging the same, council ploughed ahead with their long-held decision to sell the land to developer.

Hopefully this will turn out to be an aged care developer, as promised.

I can see no suggestion that alternatives to the sale were considered, and strangely the Nursing Home President and secretary spoke in favour of the new site after years of promoting the development of the existing Remo St site.

This council’s agenda does not seem to include the wishes of its residents.

Peter Ratcliff, Parkdale

Central largesse?

The current crop of 5 councillors who have the majority vote on Kingston Council are on a spending spree for the Centre Ward.

They voted for $5 million to be spent to build a new Mordialloc Life Saving Club and now $1.6 million for a new building for the Mentone & Mordialloc Art Group on the Mentone Reserve, while the existing former Council building sits half empty and under-utilised nearby in Brindisi street (‘Hubbub over hub rebuild’, The News 1/4/15).

Councillors Ron Brownlees and Geoff Gledhill appear to have no problems raiding the council coffers for the Central Ward. I recall in 2011 Cr Brownlees voted against council providing a modest $800,000 towards the rebuilding of the Carrum Lifesav-

ing Club, saying the expenditure could not be justified.

One South Ward councillor David Eden voted to use council’s Brindisi Street building for the Art Group, along with other community groups that will need to be rehoused when the Mentone Structure Plan developments get underway.

The other South Ward councillors, Tamsin Bearsley and John Ronke the invisible (who shows up to vote only when needed for controversial issues) had no problem letting the pursestrings loose for the new Central Ward facility.

The vote was tied but no worries, the mayor just used his casting vote.

The convention is for the mayor to use his casting vote only to maintain the status quo, but clearly that is not happening at Kingston.

Trevor Shewan, Former South Ward councillor, Carrum

S-l-o-w internet Your story about local connection to the new NBN internet mentioned fibre to the node, this being fibre optical cable to a nearby local node connection, then using the existing underground copper cable system (‘Slow internet costing business’, The News 29/4/15).

Sadly the copper wire system isn’t always in good repair. In our part of south Seaford there is bad static and eventual failure everytime we get heavy rain.

The repairmen are becoming friends.

Many locals have to rely on mobile phones. We had our home phone converted to the optus cable as its much more reliable.

Our area was only opened up and developed in the early 1970s but the copper wire system has just been patched up and never properly main-

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Aged care ‘sell off ’ Does anyone care what Kingston Council does with the aged care homes earlier generations worked hard to provide?

They are about to sell them off, in a Request for Proposal process.

Three years ago council voted behind closed doors to get out of aged care. Residents of our four aged care centres have been told they will be moved into a new 120 bed three-storey nursing home on the former council depot site next to the railway line in Collins St, Mentone (a site desperately needed for parkland by residents of the rapidly growing new apartment blocks nearby).

Council has not consulted the community on any of this, and when they were required by law to hear submissions before they voted 5:4 to sell the Collins St site, they took no notice of the 150 (93 per cent of submitters) who opposed the sale, many saying the Remo St site, next to parkland, would be better for aged care residents.

Since then a ten-year analysis of

aged care in Australia found better care is provided by not-for-profits in smaller homes than by commercial operators in large institutions such as our council plans for Collins St. What do we want for future older generations? No-one wants to move out of our homes, but some will have to. Would we prefer a two-storey human-scale home run by a not-for-profit provider on Remo St in conjunction with Corben House or a three-storey institution providing profits for a commercial operator?

Do we want to sacrifice our aged care to economies of scale?

Kingston Residents Association would like to invite aged care providers who are submitting proposals for Collins St to submit an additional proposal for a Remo St-Corben House option, to give the councillors a choice when they come to make this momentous choice about our lives.

Maureen Lim, president, Kingston Residents Association

Saints return at cost To clarify my position on St Kilda Football Club, I would not oppose their return if the cost to Moorabbin residents and Kingston ratepayers

were minimised.

I voted against Council spending $5 million of ratepayers’ money on a new sports/admin complex for St Kilda, no doubt also to accommodate their pokies. As St Kilda lost $3.91 million last year and is in debt to the tune of $895,000, we are unlikely to see the $5 million the club is supposed to put in. I remember how St Kilda left Moorabbin when Frankston offered them $4 million, and then falsely blamed our Council, which bent over backwards to please them.

I cannot see why anyone would think it will help St Kilda to improve their football or their finances to return to Moorabbin, but if the AFL thinks it would, let them pay for it.

Amendments I proposed at last month’s council meeting including the possible removal of pokies at Moorabbin Reserve were disallowed by mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill in an “arbitrary, authoritarian way”.

I also wanted Kingston residents to be surveyed to ask whether they are willing to pay $5 million to have St Kilda return. This is roughly equivalent to a 5 per cent rate rise in one year, and may be used as an excuse to avoid capping council rates to inflation, as promised by state government.

I moved the amendments because I thought it would reduce the financial and amenity costs to the citizens of Kingston.

Rosemary West, Central Ward councillor Letters to the editor can be sent to The News, PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or emailed to: team@ baysidenews.com.au Name, address and a daytime phone number are required for verification purposes.

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FUNDING for State Emergency Service units will not be pared back in Kingston if the state government’s planned rate capping policy comes into force next financial year.

Some Victorian councils, such as Cardinia Shire Council, have reportedly threatened to cut SES funding if Labor goes ahead with its plan to limit future rate rises to inflation costs.

When asked by The News, Kingston Council CEO John Nevins said council will continue to support the Chelsea SES and Moorabbin SES units.

“Council greatly values the work of the local SES units and has no intention to cut back this funding.”

Council provides the Chelsea SES with a base at council’s Bonbeach depot facility free of charge and pays the rental costs for the Moorabbin SES. The rental charges and the free space provided are valued at a combined $100,000 annually.

A $43,348 grant was also provided to Chelsea SES last year and Moorabbin SES, which also covers part of the City of Bayside, received $20,907 from Kingston Council.

Chelsea SES spokesman Phil Wall welcomed Kingston Council’s ongoing support.

“We’ve always had a great working relation-

ship with the City of Kingston and it’s very reassuring that nothing will change.”

Victorian councils fear some frontline services may have to be slashed when the Andrews government’s rate capping policy is introduced in the 2016-17 financial year.

Kingston Council has made its submission to an Essential Services Commission review of the state government’s proposed rate capping plan, a pre-election pledge by Labor.

Mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill said council has a “strong focus on sound financial management”.

“We’re certainly open to the Victorian government’s rate capping policy but question whether CPI [consumer price index] is the right basis,” Cr Gledhill said.

“CPI includes items that make up only 3 per cent of council spending such as fuel, food for meals on wheels services, utilities and insurance fees. But our main costs are labour, goods and services such as waste collection and home care services, plus construction costs for roads, drains, community buildings and sports pavilions.”

Kingston Council’s submission argues any rates cap should not apply to waste service charges “which are generally outside council’s control”.

Council notes landfill levies are set by the state government and the EPA and have risen 45 per cent in the past decade.

Kingston Council is due to pay $1.9 million in state landfill levies in 2015-16.

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Summer beach rescues down Continued from Page 1 “One of them [the rescues] was a canoeist who’d been involved in an endurance race earlier that day and was so exhausted he’s fallen from his canoe and was unable to get back up on his canoe.”

Another incident involved a mother and two children adrift on an inflatable raft.

“There was a wind change and it started drifting out to sea. She wasn’t able to get it back to the beach so we ran out to them.”

Bonbeach and Mordialloc lifesaving clubs logged one rescue each between July and the end of March.

Central Port Phillip Bay rescue watercraft lifeguards were scrambled to make rescues on four occasions.

LSV lifesaving operations manager Greg Scott said proactive work by Kingston lifeguards had ensured beachgoers were safe despite a dip in visitor numbers.

“Our volunteer lifesavers and paid lifeguards have again done a fantastic job in ensuring the safety of people at

Victorian beaches and I thank them for their dedication in looking out for beachgoers throughout the season.”

Mr Scott urged beach visitors to be aware of dangers at sea now the red and yellow flags have been packed up for the winter months.

“Take responsibility for your own safety by ensuring you understand the conditions, and have adequate safety equipment and the necessary skills for your activity. Most importantly, whatever you activity around or on the water, never head out alone.”

Mr Rooks has some advice for swimmers during the summer months.

“Swim between the flags even on days when conditions are pretty calm – we can’t save you if we can’t see you. It’s best to be where we are so we can get to you quickly.”

See beachsafe.org.au to download a Beachsafe app for smartphones with regularly updated beach conditions and safety information.

Lifesaving patrols will begin again in mid-November this year.

Oh so quiet: A female seal pup needs to be left alone to thrive. Picture: Gary Sissons

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Rescue central: Carrum Surf Life Saving Club lifeguards performed the most rescues off Kingston beaches during the summer months. Picture: Gary Sissons

BEACHGOERS are being asked not to approach or feed a seal pup underneath Frankston pier.

The female seal has made Frankston beach its temporary home after coming ashore early last week. Wildlife volunteers are keeping a daily watch on the seal’s behaviour and wellbeing.

Australian Wildlife Assistance Rescue and Education president Jackie Brown said people are welcome to take photographs from behind orange mesh barriers erected by Frankston Council.

“We’re asking people not to approach and not to feed or stress her,” Ms Brown said.

“If we’re going to give her that chance to get out there and survive and do well then she needs to not be fed or handled in any way, shape or form.”

Ms Brown said the seal pup is “doing well”, is active and has been feeding.

Suspected fish hooks in the seal’s back turned out to be superficial barnacle injuries after an assessment by Melbourne Zoo officials.

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AWARE Wildlife Rescue is always keen to hear from volunteers who have time to “seal watch”. See awarewildlife.org.au for details.

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Crushing blow against ‘waste hub’ Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au ANY imminent threat of additional concrete crushers in Kingston’s Green Wedge has receded but a longer-term battle over materials recycling plants in the area looms.

The News can reveal Planning Minister Richard Wynne has extended interim protection against materials recycling in the Green Wedge.

Council asked the Planning Minister in February to extend the protection for an additional 18 months until land north of Kingston and Heatherton Roads can be rezoned from a Special Use Zone that facilitates waste-related activities to a Green Wedge A Zone.

The mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill told The News on Tuesday that a 12-month extension had been granted by the Planning Minister.

The protection clause was granted

by Mr Wynne’s predecessor as planning minister, Coalition opposition leader Matthew Guy. This is the second time the interim protection has been extended.

Councillors voted at Monday evening’s council meeting to proceed with the formal request – known as the C143 Amendment – to state government to rezone the land.

Clarinda residents have made it clear to council they do not want existing licences for landfill and waste recycling operations renewed in Kingston’s Green Wedge due to odours and dust.

The Alex Fraser group lodged an application late last year to extend a permit for its concrete crushing opera-

Opposition: Mayor Geoff Gledhill says council will fight any moves to make Kingston’s Green Wedge a waste hub.

tions in Clarinda until 2038 (‘Concrete path blocked’, The News 24/12/14).

Lantrak applied for a permit to set up a materials recycling and transfer station operation at their landfill site at Kingston Road, Heatherton.

The Green Wedge had been vulnerable to waste recycling business applications while council awaited the interim protection clause extension from the Planning Minister.

Cr Gledhill said council’s decision to seek formal rezoning of the Green Wedge land in Kingston’s north is “a major milestone”.

A state government panel hearing held in March considered submissions from concerned residents. Businesses keen to continue waste recycling in the area also made submissions.

“For too long Kingston’s northern

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residents and businesses have had to live with offensive odours, seagulls in plague proportions and dust in their neighbourhoods all related to landfill in the area,” Cr Gledhill said.

“The last few remaining landfills in Kingston’s Green Wedge are set to close soon and we are just one final step away from closing the door on any new facilities opening up.

“We’re now seeking the Minister’s support to make this vital change for the Kingston community.”

Despite the latest moves to protect the Green Wedge, there remains a possibility that waste operations could be established in areas earmarked by council for a ‘chain of parks’ for public use.

State government agency Sustainability Victoria has named the Clayton-Dingley area as one of several possible locations for a waste hub for Melbourne due to its “access to transport networks”.

While the state government panel recommended the C143 Amendment be approved, it also said several areas of land should be exempted from materials recycling protection “as in the future they might be required to perform a waste role”.

“Kingston has been absolute that our Green Wedge will not be a waste hub for Melbourne,” Cr Gledhill said.

“The Green Wedge is simply no place for a waste hub especially given our desire to make it ‘green again’ through our Chain of Parks project.

“Kingston is willing to play its part in hosting modern state-of-the-art waste recovery facilities but these should be directed towards industrial areas and away from parklands.”

Cars burgled, items stolen

Equipment, cash stolen

THEFTS from motor vehicles are becoming an all-too-common problem in the Patterson Lakes, Chelsea, and Bonbeach areas. Police are searching for offenders who ransacked a utility in Palm Beach Dr, Patterson Lakes overnight on Wednesday and stole an iPhone 5.

There was no sign of forced entry to the vehicle which was in the driveway.

In a car break-in the same street next evening, thieves broke into a vehicle and stole a wallet containing $1100 cash and credit cards, Makita screw gun $700, and MP3 player $200. Another vehicle, this time in Long Island Pt, Patterson Lakes, had its number plate stolen on Sunday. One-way screws are available from most police stations.

Overnight on Thursday, thieves broke into a car in the carport of a house in Scotch Pde, Bonbeach, and stole an MP3 player valued at $200, front gate remote control $100, sunglasses $150 and hat $20.

Police said the offenders scaled a 183cm fence to get at the car and then left the door open when leaving.

Thieves stole a $1000 camera from a car parked in the driveway of a house in Laraine Ct, Bonbeach, overnight on Thursday.

They gained entry via the passenger door and dropped the camera cover in the driveway.

A peaked cap was the only item stolen from the back seat of a car in Carpenter Crt, Chelsea, overnight on Thursday, although police said the thieves “went through” the glove box and centre console.

THIEVES forced open the roller door to a steel fabrication warehouse in Wyman Pl, Braeside, over the weekend and stole drills, welders, grinders and cash to the value of $20,000.

Kingston police said the offenders used an overhead crane to load the items onto a vehicle and trailer.

Bike theft A U-type bike lock was cut through by thieves who stole a $900 bike from Mordialloc station overnight on Tuesday last week.

The victim was planning to keep an eye out for the bike at nearby secondhand dealers.

Police said it was part of a spate of bike thefts from stations, and asked cyclists to be vigilant.

Man charged after de facto injured A MORDIALLOC man has been arrested and charged with a variety of assault counts after his de facto wife was admitted to Frankston Hospital with serious injuries late on Sunday night.

Detective Senior Sergeant Wade Matthews, of Moorabbin CIU, said the man had gone from the White St house with the couple’s four-monthold baby before police arrived.

He was later apprehended and the baby taken into care by the Department of Human Services.

A man, in his late 30s, has been remanded in custody to appear at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court at a date to be fixed.

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Hastings port planner slashes jobs Keith Platt keith@baysidenews.com.au STAFF numbers have been cut to 14 at the Port of Hastings Development Authority.

The latest cuts are in line with the Labor government’s aim of hearing from Infrastructure Victoria before deciding on a site for the state’s second container port.

While falling short of formally abandoning Hastings, this latest move is likely to leave a significant vacuum in the forward planning policies of the Mornington Peninsula and Frankston.

The Port of Hastings Development Authority has all but been left out of the latest state budget and must rely on ever decreasing revenues from port operator, Patricks Stevedores.

In the lead up to last November’s election Labor stated that its preferred location for a new container port was in Port Phillip, at Bay West near Geelong.

The previous Coalition government had favoured Western Port and planned to spend $110 million over four years to plan for the container port at Hastings. Municipalities climbed aboard, with seven councils in south east Melbourne commissioning a study that put the total cost of the port at $16 billion.

Frankston, which has promoted itself as being ideally suited to be the commercial hub of the proposed port, is this week likely to contact the Premier Daniel Andrews condemning the government’s lack of interest in developing a container port at Hastings.

Mornington Peninsula mayor Cr Bev Colomb was not available for comment on Monday but, if the feelings of former mayor Cr Antonell Celi are anything to go by, relations between the shire and the Labor government may be strained.

Cr Celi, when mayor, dubbed Labor’s plan for a new container port near Geelong “fundamentally flawed".

Her decision last August to enter the battle over the site for Melbourne’s next container port came a month after Victoria University researchers issued a warning that Western Port may not be the best option for a new container port.

The Build it – but will they come? report cast doubts on the need for a port to accommodate the world’s largest ships.

Undeterred, real estate agents at Hastings continued spruiking a coming boom and predicted an expanded port would bring jobs and prosperity.

Last week the boom balloon fell flat as the development authority slashed staff to 14, from 32 at the start of the week and a high of nearly 100 a year ago.

Ports Minister Luke Donnellan gave assurance that the port – with an expected 50 ship visits this year – “will continue to operate as a port for the export of oil products and LPG, and the import of unleaded fuels”.

He said the development authority would continue to manage day-to-day operations of the port “and to chase further investment opportunities”.

Environmentalists will be watching to ensure that exporting coal will not

Boom times: Less than one year ago the expanding team of staff at the Port of Hastings Development Authority was celebrating the leasing of new offices in High St, Hastings. They were joined by Hastings MP Neale Burgess (who unveiled a plaque inside the offices), standing third from right with the authority’s CEO Mike Lean. This week staff numbers are down to 14 and most of the office space will go unused. Picture: Gary Sissons

be on that list of opportunities.

Revenue for the authority from Patricks Stevedores has been in steady decline, with annual ship visits dropping from a peak of 600 20 years ago to less than 50 this year.

“Port management requires a smaller workforce and budget consistent with its revised work program. The authority will reduce from its current size of 30 staff to 14 staff,” Mr Donnellan said.

Before the establishment of the development authority its predecessor had a staff of four.

Mr Donnellan said the contractual obligations of staff made redundant had been met. As previously reported staff have several times been kept busy helping community groups plant

mangroves on Western Port’s tidal mud flats (‘Budget’s $80m blow to port’, The News 20/5/15.

“The government’s port policy is clear. The government will obtain advice from Infrastructure Victoria on the preferred location for Victoria’s second container port, including an assessment of both Hastings and Bay West,” Mr Donnellan said.

This week Frankston Council will most likely start a campaign “to highlight that the council will not accept the Bay West port as a viable option and the possible environmental and economic impacts to the Frankston City Council from significant and unnecessary dredging of the bay”.

Cr Darrel Taylor wants the council to write to Mr Donnellan, the Premier

Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy stressing its concerns if the Port of Hastings is not developed as the state’s second port.

The report commissioned in 2014 by the councils – Mornington Peninsula, Frankston, Kingston, Casey, Greater Dandenong, Cardinia and Bass Coast - saw the port as a bonanza for jobs and manufacturing.

The report says the port would have a beneficial economic impact of an average of $60 million a year in gross regional product over 30 years; providing an average 400 jobs a year over that same time frame.

It says the expanded port would lead to an extra 5700 jobs by the mid-2030s and 15,200 jobs by the early 2050s.

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100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK...

Horse breaker found not guilty of negligence Compiled by Melissa Walsh THE Emu Plains and Bittern Race Club will hold their postponed race meeting on Tuesday next (weather permitting). *** S. S. PRICE, dentist, of Melbourne, will be at Garrood’s Prince of Wales Hotel this weekend, for the convenience of those who may wish to consult him. *** MR Allan W. Taylor, of the Frankston Motor Garage, has been appointed agent at Frankston for the Dunlop Tyre Co., and has in hand a good stock of all their motor accessories. *** THE secretary of the Frankston Football Club acknowledges with thanks the following donations to wards the club’s funds: Messrs C. Grant, W. J. Oates and Jacobs, 10s 6d each. *** SERGEANT Walter Fisher, who is reported wounded at the Dardanelles, previous to enlisting, lived at Frankston for some years, where his wife and family now reside. He is one of six brothers, all of whom are in the service of the King. Four of them are at the front, one is at Broadmeadows, and another is with the Heavy Artillery at the Heads. Mrs Fisher, the mother of the boys, resides at Footscray. *** MUNICAPILITIES which do not contribute directly to the funds of the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Fairfield will not in future be entitled to have patients treated free of charge at

the institution. A regulation has been made under the Infectious Diseases Hospital Act, 1914, by the Governor in Council, fixing 1s per patient per day as the sum which the Fairfield Hospital authorities may recover from a non-contributing municipality in respect of each patient from its district received at the institution. *** A MEETING of the committee of the Frankston Football Club was held in the Mechanics’ Hall on Wednesday evening. Present - Cr Oates (vice- president), Messrs Kinnimont, Jackson, Young and C. Twining (hon. sec). The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed.

Routine correspondence was read and received, and accounts amounting to £5 5s 4d were passed for payment.

Mr Scoble was elected a member of the committee, and took his seat, on the motion of Mr Young, seconded

by Mr Jackson. The secretary was instructed to write to Langwarrin club re payment of umpire’s fee for next Saturday, and the meeting closed. *** THE Consulting Engineer of the Frankston Gas Company, Mr V. U. Crowley, A.A.I.E.E., visited Somerville and Hastings on Friday and Saturday of last week in connection with the Frankston and District Electric Supply. Under the guidance of Messrs Watt and Keast, local councilors, he interviewed nearly the whole of the residents of these towns, and met with a good reception everywhere.

Undertakings to take current as soon as available were given by household-

ers to a most satisfactory extent. The other districts in the shire, where it is proposed to take supply lines, will be canvassed at an early date. *** MR F. W. Roper, of Somerville, has been nominated to act as Lay Representative of the parochial district of Westernport in the Synod of the Diocese of Melbourne. Failing the receipt of any further nominations Mr Roper will be duly elected.

Nominations close on the 31st May, 1915. The Rev. F. E. Watts will be away from the district on Sundays, 30th May, 6th and 15th June, when he will exchange with Rev. G. A. M. Ceruthy, Rev. A. R. Mace and Rev. M. Griffeth, and will return on Friday, June 18th. During the absence of the Vicar the district will be in charge of Rev. A. J. Thompson, whose postal address is Somerville. *** FREDERICK Knox, of Pearcedale, was charged at the Melbourne County Court on the 19th inst; with the loss of a horse valued at £20, and alleged trespass and negligence. It appears that Knox, who is a horse breaker, residing in the same locality, proceeded to Jas. Burton’s paddock (the owner of the horse) in company with his brother and another man, and tried to catch the horse for the purpose of breaking it in, and while doing so the animal ran into a ti-tree pole in the fence and impaled himself. The judge said he could not see any evidence of negligence. No doubt Burton wanted the horse broken in and Knox came to get it. He seems to have done nothing

improper or unusual, and there was no negligence on his part. A verdict was given for defendant, with costs, to be taxed. *** A GREAT game was witnessed by a fair crowd at Langwarrin on Saturday last, when Langwarrin and Mornington met. A good solid game was played which ended in anything but a sports manlike manner on the part of the visitors. When our goal umpires came to tally up (to our amazement) our goal umpire being closely interested, had forgotten to put down two points which Langwarrin had scored in the last few moments, and the visitors’ goal umpire seeing this turned away and was seen deliberately to turn away and destroy his official score card and then came forward and said he had it snatched from him.

Well this is not clean sport, but in all confidence we uphold ourselves the winners by 2 points, being backed up by a majority of Mornington’s supporters, by male and female. The game was fast and full of hard knocks from start to finish, and the work of the umpire was made very hard through the bad state of the ground in general. *** EMPIRE Day was celebrated at Frankston on Monday, 24th May, very quietly. If it had not been that several of the townspeople displayed their flags, the day would hardly have been remembered. No doubt this can be accounted for by the war taking a paramount place in the minds of the people at present, and it being

brought more forcibly before their minds as each day fresh lists of dead and wounded are published in the press.

The children at the State school at Frankston were given interesting addresses in the morning by Rev. R. Jackson, Mr Adams and Mr W. W. Richardson. Mr E. M. McComb (member of the school board) was also present. The afternoon was devoted to games and amusements in the school grounds.

In the evening a picture show by Mr Alex Gunn (of Melbourne) was given in the Mechanics’ Hall, which was well attended. A small charge was made for admittance, and the surplus over expenses will be given to the Belgian fund. *** THE local branch of the Red Cross Society is proving themselves to be a live and enthusiastic body. The secretary, Mrs E. P. Mair, has just purchased £3 worth of flannel from the Lady Mayoress, and has distributed it among the ladies to be worked up into garments for the soldiers. As the result of the canvas, a large number of residents have become members of the society, and are paying their subscriptions by monthly installments. On Wednesday next a social will be held in the hall in aid of the fund, when a thoroughly enjoyable evening is guaranteed. The committee of management is making excellent arrangements as regards music and refreshments, and a bumper house should result.

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Dog day afternoon tea

By Stuart McCullough MORNINGTON Peninsula’s grunge overlords, The Fauves, were absolutely right: dogs really are the best people. It was a sentiment that, until recently, I treated with considerable suspicion. In our house, the push is on for a dog. Initially, I sought to broker a compromise by suggesting a robot vacuum with a wig stuck on, but it seems there is no room for compromise. Having conceded that there will be a canine addition to our family, we must now decide what kind of dog we want. This is no easy matter.

The considerations are endless.

First there’s size. Smaller dogs may not take up much room, but they can be yappy. Large dogs are generally require less exercise but, in a certain light, can resemble a horizontal Wookie. My needs, as always, are simple: just give me a dog that’s good with kids and can reverse park a station wagon and I’m happy.

When faced with big decision, we like to do a lot of research. This meant attending ‘The Dog Lovers Show’. It would be my first such event. I’d been to the Royal Show a bunch of times and attended several Big Days Out, but never anything quite so canine focussed. I had many questions. Would there be showbags? Crowd-surfing?

Would The Fauves make an appearance? And what role will the Ford Precision Driving Team play? As a novice, it was clear that I was going to need some help. Preferably, from someone who was all over the entire

puppy caper.

My niece, Matilda, is such a person.

She is nine years old and besides being a top quality fudge chef and netball enthusiast, knows a lot about puppies. Generously, she offered to be my guide as I navigated my way through a canine minefield. Unlike me, Matilda wasn’t facing the impending puppy maelstrom with any kind of trepidation. In fact, she was totally pumped.

The Exhibition Buildings in the Carlton Gardens are amazing. They were not only the location for John Farnham’s ‘That’s Freedom’ music video, but Australia’s very first Parliament also. Presumably they are plaques commemorating both these momentous events somewhere, although I’m disappointed that there’s not a statue of John and his magnificent mid-eighties crowning glory of a

mullet in the forecourt. Perhaps it too has retired. Temporarily, of course.

We arrive early and experience an immediate sensory overload.

Without any explanation, we are given a copy of the Herald Sun. I’m not sure if we’re meant to lay down sheets as a precaution or roll it up as some kind of training tool if an overexcited mutt piddles on the Parliamentary floor. I ask the guy at the front and he tells me that I’m meant to read it. This would never have occurred to me. As we enter, there are people everywhere. In broad terms, the dogs are organised much like street gangs with the Bloods, Crips, Sharks and Jets all kept a healthy distance apart.

The first stall belongs to Bernese Mountain Dogs. These are so gargantuan that a small child could ride one to the shops. If you gave it a hat and bow tie, it’d look a lot like Fozzie Bear. There are English Sheepdogs who seem always to be hiding behind their fringes and an Irish Wolfhound that ought to be called a ‘Werewolfhound’. In the middle on the ground floor is a small racetrack. Later, a group called ‘the Wonderdogs’ run up and down and perform tricks. I can only say that it’s a lot like the Ford Precision Driving Team, but hairier.

But not all the fun was hairy. If you were so inclined, you could have your face painted. Matilda opted for ‘Chihuahua’. I, in turn, asked for Ace Frehley, which caused no end of confusion. Having had our faces transformed, we continued our search for

the perfect dog. This being the twenty first century there was, of course, a technological option. By feeding details into a computer and through the miracle of science, I would be matched to the dog breed most suited to me. Although tempted, I ultimately declined for fear that if I hit the wrong button I would instead be matched to someone on ‘Married at First Sight’.

We patted every kind of mutt imaginable. We even met a Chow Chow. I don’t like anything named twice. For this you can blame Duran Duran and Mr. Mister. My niece and the dog were exactly the same height and each stared into the eyes of the other. Clearly something special was happening.

And then the Chow Chow screwed up its Chow Chow face and let fly with an almighty sneeze, spraying a bucket of Chow Chow saliva all over my niece.

Both looked a little shocked. I would probably have looked embarrassed were it not for my Ace Frehley make up. The owner prepared to apologise but, instead, my niece tipped back her head and laughed so uproariously that the Chow Chow hid behind its owner.

And there it was – I’ve gone this long without a dog, I’ll admit I’m a little anxious. Something could go wrong.

But what’s the point in worrying? I should be more like my niece. Even if I do end up with a face full of saliva, the best response is to laugh. stuart@stuartmccullough.com

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Music n Arts n Food BRITISH INDIA: THE LAST GANG IN TOWNS

By Neil Walker QUIETLY, just quietly, British India have become one of Australia’s best bands. While they haven’t fully crossed over into the mainstream yet, relentless touring in far-flung cities and towns and the subsequent good word of mouth has earned British India a well-deserved decade-long career and counting.

Many bands may pay lip service about working hard to win fans but even a quick glance at British India’s full-on tour schedule shows they mean it, man.

They’ll play venues anywhere, even if it’s “not a big college town” as Polymer Records promoter extraordinaire Artie Fufkin once put it.

More often than not, the four-piece from Mentone – singer and guitarist Declan Melia, guitarist Nic Wilson, bassist Will Drummond and drummer Matt O’Gorman - is out there playing live somewhere because they genuinely love it.

O’Gorman told Mint Magazine it’s actually British India’s lack of mainstream success which has made the band determined to work harder than ever, even after ten years on the road.

“We still like getting out of the house and touring. Speaking to a lot of bands … they say it would be good to tour less but we’ve still got the desire and the hunger.

“We still feel like we’ve got a bit to prove, going out and playing. We’ve never really had that big hit. We’ve done really well and can’t complain about anything [but] we’re all still very ambitious and we’re always wanting to get to the next level.”

Latest album Nothing Touches Me, their fifth, builds on the momentum of 2013’s Controller which saw songs such as Summer Forgive Me and I Can Make You Love Me playlisted by Triple M. The ‘alternative nation’ at Triple J has always supported British India since their debut single Outside 109 way back in 2005 but Triple M’s backing is a new development.

Tracks on Nothing Touches Me such as the opening Spider Chords, Suddenly and Jay Walker show – music journalism cliché alert – ‘a newfound maturity’ in British India’s sound with a mellower tone in contrast to earlier thrashier punk-like efforts.

All four band members write the songs and O’Gorman doesn’t reckon the band deliberately set out to make a “mellower” album. He said British India have their own studio “which is an old milk bar” and had 70 to 80 songs to pick from for Nothing Touches Me and some that didn’t make the final cut “are punk and grunge”.

“When it came to picking the songs [for the album], I don’t think it was our intention to be mellower but we picked the best songs we think we had.”

As for the rise in the band’s public profile, evident in the crossing over from ‘The Js to The Ms’, O’Gorman gives credit to Mushroom Records and its staff’s promotional legwork.

British India released their first three albums independently on Shock Records but suffered a major blow when that label went into receivership owing the band money.

“We were kind of in limbo … we recorded some demos and sent them out. Mushroom heard them and was keen to get on board.

“Since we’ve been dealing with Mushroom, it’s been amazing for a band like us to have ‘the Mushroom machine’ on board for the last two albums and that’s definitely been a big reason [for more success].”

The band hasn’t suffered a ‘I prefer their early stuff’ backlash from the hardcore British India faithful, according to O’Gorman.

“The older fans have stuck by us which we’re

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quite lucky about and thankful for,” he says.

“It almost feels like we have two sets of fans.

We have the first three albums fans and then the Controller and Nothing Touches Me fans.

Sometimes we’ll play a couple of old songs and no-one will know them and then other times we’ll play Run The Red Light [from 2007’s Guillotine debut album] and people will go nuts.”

O’Gorman says British India are still committed to the album as a concept, even with the dawn of the music streaming era with listeners able to easily cherry pick individual songs to listen to.

“It’s weird how it’s all changing. We still feel pretty strongly about albums. It’s a lot different now even to when we started. You can put out a single rather than having to put out an EP. You can just literally write and record a song, send it off, get the OK from everybody and it’s out three weeks later.”

Royalties from music streaming services have become a bugbear for some major artists.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, for example, has heavily criticised the lack of money flowing into bands’ coffers.

How does a band at the level of British India feel about this?

“It’s not really about the royalties. The thing about Spotify is, it’s cheap and you can listen to whatever you want but it’s also great exposure to a lot of people that wouldn’t have heard your music. Bands like us, we don’t really make any money off CDs any more … live gigs are kind of our bread and butter.

“If someone can get on to us through Spotify

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and come to a show then that’s exposure we wouldn’t have had before. It’s kind of swings and roundabouts in that you really don’t make a lot of money off it but you get exposure from it.”

From royalties to rock royalty is quite a trip.

Last year, the band met The Rolling Stones when they supported The Stones at NSW’s Hunter Valley.

“We got there about 3pm and were sitting in our small dressing room which was a little portable and everything around us is huge – the stage is massive, their backstage area is massive. We heard them soundchecking and thought ‘how good would it be to get out there and watch them?’”.

They “snuck out” and watched The Stones up close from the front row.

“It was a surreal moment - ‘Oh my god, we’re watching The Rolling Stones soundcheck right now’.”

O’Morgan had heard previous bands who’d supported The Stones hadn’t had a chance to meet the legends so British India were “stoked” when The Stones stopped to say “hello” on their way to the stage on the night of the big gig.

It’s been a long road on tours over the past ten years to get to where British India are at now, Stones gigs and all, and many of their early Australia music scene peers including The Vines and Jet have either fractured or fallen by the wayside. O’Gorman puts the secret of their relative longevity down to being school mates before the band existed.

“The fact it’s been the same four guys really does have a lot to do with it. You hear about bands that as soon as they lose a member … things can often go a bit pear-shaped and I think our kind of dynamic works because we all write. Everything is split four ways.”

And if any of the four decided to quit?

“I think everyone would call it stumps … we’re all great friends. We’ve never really had an argument before so we’re quite lucky with that as well.”

UK music journalist David Hepworth has a theory that the drummer is in fact the most important member of any band and things are never as good for a group if the drummer leaves.

Departures can be voluntary – think Reni of The Stone Roses or Bill Berry of REM – or involuntary - The Who’s Keith Moon and Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham spring to mind – but somehow the magic that binds a group together is gone.

When this is put to O’Gorman he is reluctant to give his opinion but does declare “that’s what I’ve been saying for years”.

“It’s in your hands … when the band reads the article they may look at me and think ‘Yeah, he’s alright – we can’t lose this guy. We should give him a raise’.” *British India’s latest album Nothing Touches Me is available now. The band will play live at the Pelly Bar at the Pier Hotel, 508 Nepean Hwy, Frankston on Friday 5 June, doors open 8pm, tickets from $27. See pierlive.com.au or call 03 9783 9800.

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Champs vs champs: Peninsula Football League got up over Ovens & Murray Football League 11.14 (80) to 10.10 (70), a result that left Ovens & Murray player coach Brendan Fevola, above, dazed and confused. Pictures: Michael Kompa Photography

Champion team beats team of champions PENINSULA INTERLEAGUE

By Toe Punt PENINSULA Football League will get another crack at Geelong Football League for the top dog title after hanging on to beat Ovens & Murray Football League in Albury on Saturday.

The visitors beat their more fancied opponents for the third time in as many meetings after knocking them over at Frankston Park and Optus Oval in previous meetings.

Other than trailing by two points at quarter time, Peninsula FL controlled the game for most of the match.

There were some tense moments in the final quarter when Ovens & Murray made a charge in front of their home crowd.

Despite the home ground advantage and AFL talent including interleague coach Brendan Fevola, Matt Prendergast and Dean Polo, Peninsula Football League was able to hang on to record an 11.14 (80) to 10.10 (70) victory.

Peninsula FL set up the win with an explosive second quarter which netted 5.4 to one straight goal. The visitors coughed up a number of opportunities

in the first half and could have iced the game in the opening hour.

The visitors maintained their work rate in the third quarter and were still in command at the final change 7.14 (56) to 5.5 (35).

Edithvale skipper Stevey Mannix was doing the job for Peninsula FL through the middle of the ground and Langwarrin skipper Scott Sienkiewicz, who was awarded the VCFL medal for being the best player on the ground, was in and under and doing the hard things.

Peninsula FL went into the match with only one ruckman, Bonbeach’s Dylan Jones. The move paid off, allowing the visitors to have some run in their legs when it mattered most late in the game.

Former Richmond player and Edithvale-Aspendale star Brett O’Hanlon booted three goals for the winners while Pines’ Aaron Edwards, YCW’s Anthony Bruhn and Seaford coach Ben Crowe finished with two goals each. Crowe was even used in the ruck at times to gives Jones a spell.

Warwick Miller was named vice captain of the side and he did a superb job down back, while Mornington’s

Adam Symes kept Fevola to just one goal.

Pines’ gun Luke Potts had a heap of the footy through the middle of the ground and the composed Sam Gill from Mt Eliza was cool in the crisis and provided plenty of drive from half back.

It was an impressive win for the Peninsula FL, who went into the game without the likes of Ash Eames, Anthony Barry, Michael Gay, Justin Van Unen, Rohan Heasley, Matthew Clark and Brent Guerra.

Ovens & Murray, however, were at full strength. Last year’s O&M medal winner couldn’t make the final squad of 25.

According to Ovens & Murray media man Rob McKinlay, his league picked a team that was experienced and hardened.

“Before the game we said that Peninsula FL was embarrassed last season against Geelong and would be looking to send a message,” McKinlay said.

“Our boys have taken a pretty relaxed approach to the match and don’t really know what to expect from the opposition,” McKinlay said before the game.

“We don’t want to lose though because that drops us back to a five/ six ranking, which means its three years before you get another chance to challenge for the number one title.”

After the game, McKinlay said the loss would “smash the ego of the group”.

“Fev (Brendan Fevola) said Ovens & Murray was the best league in Victoria in the lead up and now we drop back to the third tier.

“He was contracted for three years by the league to take us back to number one. It will be interesting to see what happens now,” McKinlay said.

Whilst Ovens & Murray players were playing golf on Friday, Peninsula FL was travelling five hours up the Hume Highway to make a statement.

Before the game, Peninsula FL coach Troy Shannon said his charges hadn’t travelled the distance to embarrass themselves.

“They (O&M) have picked 15 midfielders and generally a team full of talent,” Shannon said.

“We have picked a team. Back pocket players in the pockets, wingers on the wing and forwards in their spots.

We didn’t want a team of midfielders

playing in pockets.

“We had two Mornington and two YCW players in our back six and two YCW players and two Pines players in our forward six. They play together and know what to expect.

“Our preparation started in the preseason and this is the reward for effort.

Geelong FL did the same last year and look what they did to us.

“We were as prepared as we could be.

We picked a team we were confident would be good enough to get the job done and we knew as much as we possibility could about the opposition.

We knew who their good players were, their capabilities and what we needed to do to stop them.

“We knew they would come home strong because of the brand of footy we played for the first three quarters, however, I was always pretty confident we would hang on.

“Any win is great but against quality opposition on their own ground is always sweeter. They deserved the win. The league deserved the win,” Shannon said.

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Nepean blows its chances in big showdown NEPEAN INTERLEAGUE

By Toe Punt NEPEAN Football League dropped its Victoria Country Football League ranking from 13 to 12 on Saturday despite going down in a thriller to Riddell Football League at Mecedon.

Wasted opportunities were the difference between the sides, Nepean FL having 31 scoring shots to just 24 but going down by three points, 15.9 (99) to 13.18 (96).

The visitors dominated possession time in their forward half in the final quarter, however, could only manage 4.6 to Riddell Football League’s 3.3.

Trailing by 12 points at three quarter time, the visitors quickly went three goals down in the opening minutes of the last when Jack Mills kicked the first of his two crucial last quarter goals.

Nepean FL booted four of the next five goals though and hit the front through Sorrento’s Leigh Poholke at the 22-minute mark.

Poholke finished with five goals, adding to the eight interleague goals he kicked last year.

Sharks teammate James Hallahan, who was sensational throughout the match, had the chance to extend the

lead to a match winning eight points a short time later. Unfortunately the star midfielder sprayed the kick and it went through for a minor score.

Riddell took the ball up the other end of the ground and Mills took a strong contested mark at the 24-minute back.

He went back, drilled it and took back the lead for his side.

The home side stacked numbers at and behind the footy in a tense final four minutes, preventing Nepean FL to penetrate its attacking zone.

Rye’s Kris Bardon was awarded the VCFL medal for being the best player on the ground. Bardon kicked the opening goal of the match and added a second late in the quarter to give the visitors a four point break at the first change.

However, other than squandered opportunities, Nepean lost the game in the second quarter.

Riddell booted three unanswered goals in the first 14 minutes of the second quarter and finished with four of the five goals in the term. They led 8.5 (53) to 5.7 (37) at the main interval.

Luke Clark, who has been in superb form for Hastings this season, was well beaten by Brett Chambers, who won the battle for four quarters. Chambers,

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who has been in his side’s best in four of five matches this season, took five telling marks in the last quarter which went a long way in Riddell FL winning the game.

Nathan Henley and Ryan Mullett lifted in the third quarter and helped Nepean FL draw within two points at the 13 minute mark, however, Riddell again answered with three quick goals in six minutes and pushed the margin back out to 17 points. A late goal to Poholke deep into time-on in the third gave Nepean FL a sniff in the last.

Nepean FL booted 8.11 to 7.4 in the second half. It had its chances, many of them considered in footy terms as ‘sitters’.

Rye skipper Adam Kirkwood was a soldier all day for Nepean FL while Rosebud teammates Rob Forrest and Tom Baker were also outstanding over four quarters.

It was a game that got away for Nepean FL but - unlike regular leagues - there’s no game next week to rectify the situation.

Close encounter: Nepean Football League went down to Riddell Football League by just three points.

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