NEWS DESK
Attention Schools, sporting clubs & community groups
Free advertising listings Each month the Frankston Times will run a Community Events page, where your school or organisation can promote upcoming events, fund raisers, social events, etc. at no charge.
Former party comrades: Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder, left, and Frankston MP Geoff Shaw at Frankston Train Station this month. Picture: Yanni
This page is sponsored by the Carrum Downs Community Bank and listings are completely free. Listing should include event name, date, time & address.
Send your listing to:
Community Events PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or email your listing to communityevents@mpnews.com.au
Free travel for seniors plan Continued from Page 1 Mr Shaw’s push for free public transport travel for seniors comes at the start of the official campaign period ahead of the state election on 29 November. Voters’ dissatisfaction with public transport, especially on the Frankston line, is regarded as one of the main reasons Mr Shaw won the Frankston seat for the Liberals from then Labor MP Alastair Harkness at 2010’s poll. Mr Shaw subsequently resigned from the Liberal Party’s parliamentary branch in early 2013, unhappy the party had not backed him over allegations he misused his parliamentary car and fuel card. He severed all ties with the Liberals in March this year, quitting as a party member just before the party was due to hold a meeting to decide whether to expel him.
BURDETT’S
Victoria’s Office of Public Prosecutions dropped all dishonesty charges against Mr Shaw in December last year but that did not stop the Victorian Parliament’s Privileges Committee in June this year finding Mr Shaw allowed his parliamentary car and fuel card to be used by employees of his hardware business. Mr Shaw faces a tough political battle to remain Frankston’s MP, holding a slim margin of just 0.4 per cent after electorate boundaries redistribution. Liberal Party candidate Sean Armistead and Labor candidate Paul Edbrooke hope to win the seat for their respective parties. The Times sought comment from opposition spokeswoman for public transport Jill Hennessy as to whether Labor would back Mr Shaw’s free seniors public transport proposal but did not hear back before publication.
THE LARGEST LANDCAPE PRODUCT RANGE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
•CONCRETE MIX •EXPOSED AGGREGATES •SANDS & SOILS •CRUSHED ROCK/ SCORIA
SERVICING FRANKSTON & THE PENINSULA SINCE 1974
Burdetts HOUSE & GARDEN SUPPLIES
PAGE 8
Frankston Times 3 November 2014
•ROCKS & PEBBLES
...AND MORE COME SEE OUR RANGE OF POLISHED CONCRETE ON DISPLAY 615 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin Ph 9789 8266 Fax 9789 8810
www.burdetts.com.au
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK