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Shire looks to Frankston for help with homeless Liz Bell liz@baysidenews.com.au
All hands on deck: Australia II, skippered by John Bertrand AO, made sporting history when it won the 1983 America’s Cup. Picture: Supplied
Winning cup skipper open to questions ONE of Australia’s favourite sporting heroes, John Bertrand AO, who skippered Australia II to victory in the 1983 America's Cup, will be guest speaker at the Mornington Yacht Club’s foundation business lunch on Friday 5 April. The win etched Bertrand’s name into sporting history, ending 132 years of American supremacy in the prestigious sailing race, and giving Australia its only win in the event’s history. The now 77-year-old went on to represent Australia in five America's Cups, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1983 and 1995, and two Olympic Games, Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976, winning bronze in Montreal in the
Finn class. Bertrand's name hit the global headlines again in 1995 when the yacht he was skippering in the America’s Cup race against Team New Zealand was battered by strong winds, heavy seas and rain, and sank in 152 metres of water. It was the first boat lost in the 144 years of the contest and the most destructive day. As recently as January 2023, sailing with George Richardson and Lewis Brake, Bertrand won the 2023 Australian Etchells Championship at the Cruising Yacht Club of South Australia. The nine-race event was held over six days. These days the sailing legend men-
tors young aspiring Olympians and, as a keynote speaker, inspires corporates, students and community groups to achieve performance goals. He is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist, having built companies in the marine industry, property development and media industries. As chair and president of Swimming Australia from 2013 until October 2020, he led with the simple vision of encouraging his charges to become world’s best in everything they undertook. Bertrand will be taking questions at the Mornington Yacht Club lunch. Bookings at trybooking.com/events/ landing/1185428
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council will investigate partnering with Frankston to help tackle homelessness on the peninsula, amid increasing concerns about its social impacts. At last Tuesday’s council meeting Cr Sarah Race said she knew of cases where children were attending schools while living in tents. “Schools are feeding these children, putting their arms around them and feeding them,” she said. Race said she was also aware of service widows being forced to live in cars, and cancers sufferers sleeping rough on the foreshore. She said “outcomes” were good in Frankston, which uses the “by-name list” model through its Frankston City Strategic Housing and Homelessness Alliance led by Frankston Council and Launch Housing. “I believe in collaborative partnerships (…) we don’t need to reinvent the wheel,” she said. The by-name list model involved agencies creating lists of names of people who were rough sleeping or homeless and recording and maintaining real-time data to measure progress. “If you know who people are, they don’t have to bounce around
services,” Race said. She said the shire council needed to commit to “doing something”. Race’s unanimously adopted motion called for $70,000 a year to be referred to the budget to implement a model of homelessness, and for more money to be given to community support centres at Hastings, Mornington and Rosebud. Council will also lobby the state and federal governments for money to implement the model and increase emergency relief on the peninsula. CEO at Southern Peninsula Community Support Jeremy Maxwell said January – which was usually quieter in terms of the number of clients needing support – had been the busiest in the service’s six-year history. “We saw a 30 per cent increase just over January, so that doesn’t look good for coming months,” he said. Maxwell said the by-name list model was a good way to maximise resources and get accurate data on homelessness to improve advocacy. Getting correct and current data about clients required a structure like the by-name list model because of privacy laws. “It’s something I’ve been pushing for,” he said. A report on the model of homelessness will be prepared by April.
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Frankston Times
27 February 2024