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Bingo! THE Kingston Seniors Festival is 30 years old. Established in 1982, the festival celebrates the accomplishments and value of older people within the community. The festival, which runs throughout October, includes about 200 free or low-cost events and activities to encourage community involvement by seniors. The festival is a partnership between council and a range of community groups and businesses. Pictured from left are Parkdale Mordialloc Combined Pensioners members Norma Rundell, Pat Thorne and Julie Martin at a bingo afternoon at Walter Galt Reserve in Parkdale. Contact Mordialloc Combined Pensioners president Julie Martin on 0428 561 6940 for details of future bingo afternoons. Kingston Seniors Festival Program booklets are available at Kingston Customer Service Centres and libraries and online at www.kingston.vic.gov. au/seniors Picture: Yanni
Election ‘bully’ ruckus By Jo Winterbottom A LIBERAL state upper house MP again faces accusations of attempting to interfere in local government after using parliamentary privilege to air allegations of bullying at Kingston Council. South Eastern Metropolitan MP Inga Peulich named three Kingston councillors currently the subject of a confidential investigation into allegations of bullying made by a senior officer at
the council. Her comments have been used in election material distributed by council candidates including Justin Scott, a Liberal Party member who is running in South Ward, in the lead up to council elections later this month. Retiring Kingston councillor Arthur Athanasopoulos, said Mrs Peulich’s comments were the latest salvo in the “the schemes of the Peulich family” to disrupt the council. “This is the most cynical attack on
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council I have ever seen,” he said. “I have served four terms as both a councillor and mayor and not until this term have I ever seen such blatant attacks on individuals. “The timing of this attack in parliament could not have been more malicious or cunning. “It’s obvious to Blind Freddy that they are behind all the innuendo, schemes and disruptions to council getting on with the business of govern-
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The timing of Mrs Peulich’s comments was also questioned by John Lenders, the leader of the Opposition in the Legistlative Council. “Mrs Peulich’s son is running for election to Kingston City Council and she is using this opportunity in cowards’ castle to read on the record criticisms that undermine the people her son is running against,” Mr Lenders said. Continued Page 3
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ing their citizens.” The bullying allegations were raised in a question to CEO John Nevins at the last Kingston Council meeting on 24 September. The question, which called for councillors to “declare he or she is not the subject of the allegation”, was from Geoff Gledhill, a candidate in Central Ward. Mr Gledhill is a Liberal Party member and chairman of Liberal Party fundraising arm Business First.
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