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Cooking oil fuels truck in Casey
■ The City of Casey’s waste management provider Cleanaway is trialling a new kerbside collection vehicle powered solely with converted cooking oil, rather than traditional diesel fuel. Showcased during a demonstration at Cleanaway’s depot this month, two garbage trucks were fuelled with a low carbon, circular fossil fuel replacement called ‘HVO100 – hydrotreated vegetable oil’. HVO100 is made from used cooking oils and fats collected from commercial kitchens, restaurants and shopping centres and then refined to produce the low carbon fuel alternative. The heavy vehicle industry is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and Cleanaway is pioneering this initiative to show how effective this fuel can be in reducing emissions. One truck has been added to the existing Cleanaway fleet that services Casey as the Council continues to explore innovative ways to improve energy efficiency.
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PENINSULA CHASE AT 160-KMH SPEED
■ A teenage motorcyclist has been arrested after allegedly clocking speeds of up to 160kmh while evading police on the Mornington Peninsula, before posting the vision to social media. Police were travelling on the Mornington Peninsula Freeway at Dromana about 1pm on Monday, January 28, when they observed a motorcycle with its licence plates concealed. It will be alleged the motorcycle was ridden only on its rear tyre before accelerating at high speeds. Police attempted to stop the rider in McCrae a short time later, however, he allegedly rode off at 160-kmh, and began weaving through heavy traffic. It will be further alleged vision of the offending was then uploaded to social media. Following enquiries, Rosebud Uniform Police executed a search warrant at a home on
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■ Eight candidates have nominated for the Dunkley by-election to be held on Saturday, March 2. A random draw for positions on the ballot paper was undertaken at a public event on Friday (Feb. 9): ■ CONROY, Nathan - Liberal ■ CURRIE, Bronwyn - Animal Justice Party ■ ABRAHAM, Chrysten - Libertarian ■ YUNIS, Reem - Victorian Socialists ■ BERGWERF, Darren - Independent ■ BRESKIN, Alex - The Greens ■ McKENZIE, Heath -Australian Democrats ■ BELYEA, Jodie - Australian Labor Party The Federal seat was held by the Labor Party’s Peta Murphy, who died on December 4. Early voting starts on Saturday, February 19. Postal vote applications close on Wednesday, February 28. The Dunkley seat includes areas such as Carrum Downs, Sandhurst, Skye, Seaford, Frankston, Frankston South, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South and Mount Eliza. At the close of rolls there were 113,517 electors entitled to vote, up 1950 on the 2022 Federal election and 308 on the Voice Referendum. ABC commentator Antony Green said: “Dunkley's Labor margin of 6.3 per cent may put it in the 'safe' seat category, but that's a categorisation more relevant to a general election than a by-election. “Few who know this part of Melbourne would view Dunkley as safe for Labor, especially at a by-election. “On its current boundaries, Dunkley's margin sits just above Labor's 2022 state-wide result in Victoria, the seat occupying a pivot point on the state's electoral ledger,” Mr Green said.
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$1m reward over Penny’s death
● Oktawia Szalc Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Oktawia Szalc. The 39-year-old is wanted on warrant in relation to bail, theft and weapons offences. Szalc is perceived as being Caucasian in appearance, about 165cm tall with a slim build, hazel eyes and dark coloured hair. She is known to frequent the Noble Park, St Albans and Ascot Vale areas.
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tional Netball Championships is held at Frankston’s newest sporting precinct. Netball Australia’s 17/U and 19/U pathway competitions will be contested across the week ofApril 9 - 14 at the newly opened Jubilee Park Stadium. The annual National Netball Championships provide an opportunity for developing athletes, coaches, umpires and officials from each state and territory to compete across six days, with one team from the 17/U and 19/U age groups crowned champions on the final day. The 39-year-old event has produced some of the best talent in Australian netball, including an array of past and present Origin Australian Diamonds.
■ Detectives from the Homicide Squad have announced a $1 million reward in relation to the suspicious death of Penny Galanopoulos in Mordialloc over a decade ago. Penny, who was 33 at the time, was found dead after a fire in her home on January 10, 2012. Emergency services were called to the property on Main St, near the intersection of George St, about 5.20am following a report of a fire. After extinguishing the fire, a body was located inside the property. Forensic testing subsequently identified the body to be Penny’s and revealed she had been killed before the fire was lit. In 2012, a handwritten letter was posted to the Mordialloc Police Station and contained information relating to the murder of Penny and the fire at her home. The information contained in the letter was believed to be credible and investigators at the time believed the author of this letter held the key to resolving the investigation. Despite numerous public appeals, the author of the letter never came forward or contacted police again. A reward of up to $1M will be paid at the discretion of the Chief Commissioner of Police.
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■ Greater Dandenong City Council and Cardinia Shire Council will be amongst the 10 Victorian councils to undergo undergo ward boundary reviews to make sure voters are represented equally at the next local council election. Public information sessions will be held at 12 Noon on Monday nd Tuesday, February 2627. Public submissions open 9am on Wednesday, February 28, and close at 5pm on Wednesday, March 20. Melissa Horne, Minister for Local Government, has has asked the Victorian Electoral Commission to carry out the reviews because each of these councils has one or more wards where the number of voters per councillor is forecast to be outside the legislated +/-10% tolerance at the next local council election.
Burglary at Hampton Park ● Reece Nutting. Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Reece Nutting. The 32-year-old is wanted on warrant in relation to several offences including theft, aggravated burglary and theft of a motor vehicle. Nutting is Caucasian in appearance, of heavy build and has brown hair with tattoo sleeves on both arms. He is known to the frequent Horsham, Maffra, Dandenong, Melbourne’s CBD and Hampton Park areas.
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■ A Police sergeant from eastern region has been charged following an investigation. The charges relate to an alleged assault in July last year in Clayton whilst the man was on duty. The 45-year-old has been charged with common law assault. He will appear before a court at a later date. ■ Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives charged a man following an alleged aggravated burglary in Frankston on Friday, February 2. Cars were stolen from a property in Gould St and a police car was rammed on Seaford Rd about 1.10am. The officers were not seriously injured. A 43-year-old man from Dromana was arrested by Police. He was charged with numerous offences including aggravated burglary, theft of motor vehicle and intentional exposure to police officer to risk by driving. He was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday, February 5.
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■ Casey Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating an aggravated burglary in Hampton Park, where offenders impersonated police. It is understood two men forced open the locked security door at the Highland Avenue residence, before they kicked in the front door just before 3am on Friday, February 2. The two occupants woke up and one occupant observed the men in the hallway of the home before they fled on foot. The footage from the doorbell camera which the men stole, captures them identifying themselves as police when inside the home. Detectives have released an image and CCTV footage of one of the men in the hope someone with information will come forward. The man in the CCTV footage is wearing a ‘GEEDUP’ brand hooded windcheater and the other man is described to have all dark clothing. Both men described to be aged in their 30s, one had an Australian accent and the other a New Zealand accent. Anyone who witnessed the incidents, has dashcam/CCTV footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or www.crimestoppersvic.com.au
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■ A publication commissioned by McClelland has won a major award at the prestigious Victorian Community History Awards. On Bunurong Country: Art and Design in Frankston, edited by University of Melbourne art historian Dr Jane Eckett with McClelland Director, Lisa Byrne.
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● Rocky Horror Show, starring Jason Donovan, has returned for a season at the Athenaeum.
SAD DEATH OF FRANK HOWSON Under The Clocks Simon to star in Wicked
● Harold Mitchell ■ Melbourne advertising man and philanthropist Harold Mitchell has died, aged 81. "He was a wonderful man who helped so many. He will be sadly missed," said a message at the Harold Mitchell Foundation website. Mr Mitchell was recuperating from knee replacement surgery when he died. He founded Mitchell and Partners in Melbourne in 1976 and grew it into Australia's largest media-buying agency before selling to British company Aegis in 2010. Mr Mitchell was made a companion of the Order of Australia for his leadership and philanthropy in the arts, health, education and humanitarian support for TimorLeste and Indigenous communities that same year. Harold Mitchell was born in Trafalgar, one of four children. His father was a sawmiller who had to go wherever the work was. His mother left the marriage when he was 15. By the time Harold was 16, the single-parent family was living in Stawell. He left school early and worked in the local sawmill for some months and then went to work for an advertising agency in Melbourne, a city he had only ever visited once. He studied part-time at RMIT. He was the chairman or board member of various organisations including the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the New York Philharmonic, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum Board of Victoria, and Opera Australia.
● Melbourne creative Frank Howson ■ Writer-director-performer-artist the 1987 Asian Popular Song contest Frank Howson died on Saturday night performed by Kate Ceberano to an (Feb. 10) after a battle with inoper- estimated TV audience of 500 milable bowel cancer. He was aged 72. lion. Frank Howson began his career The St Kilda-born creative Howson started in show business when he was as stage actor, singer and dancer, and appeared in 21 major productions (inseven. After leaving school, Christian cluding the Australian production of Brothers College, St. Kilda (1963– Oliver!) before turning 21. He ap1967), his first job was with pearing in the original Australian proMelbourne radio station 3UZ as of- duction of Jesus Christ Superstar. He directed Flynn (1996) on the fice boy. Eventually promoted to panel op- early life of Errol Flynn and Hunting erator, he worked on John (1991). Howson, with Peter Boyle, McMahon's popular weekly show helped establish Boulevard Films which produced 13n films from BouRadio Auditions. Whenever not enough acts showed levard of Broken Dreams (1988) to up, young Frank was summoned to Flynn. Howson's film Remembering Nigel perform under made up names. During this period Howson was tied with Penny by John King for nicknamed 'Magical Frank' when MUFF's 2006 Best Short Film award. Frank was ghost writer for asked to perform on a pilot for a TV talent show by 3UZ's Jimmy Hannan. Rhonda Burchmore’s biography. He His first single ‘Seventeen Ain't was instrumental in the writing of Young’was a Top 40 hit in Melbourne. Dream Lover, the story of Bobby Howson and Allan Zavod wrote Darin. Frank will be sadly missed. Time Can't Keep Us Apart which won
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■ Soon after being ‘let go’ from their KIIS radio program, to make way for Sydney pair Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, Lauren Phillips and Jase Hawkins have been picked up to host the breakfast radio program on rival station, Nova. ““I’m rapt to have a job again,” joked Hawkins in a press interview. ave a job again,” joked Hawkins. “I’m even more over the moon that we get to join Nova. “My whole career, I have always wanted to be a part of this network, it’s the perfect fit for Loz and I.”
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● Simon Burke as The Wizard ■ Fresh from his successes in Moulin Rouge, Simon Burke has been signed to star in Wicked, which officially opens at Mebourne’s Regent Theatre on Thursday, March 7. After nearly three years playing Harold Zidler, the owner and host of the Moulin Rouge cabaret club, Simon is moving to the Emerald City. The show returns to its original Australian home at the Regent from March 2. Simon Burke has appeared in over 130 stage productions in Australia, the UK and North America. In London he starred as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music opposite Dame Judi Dench and Georges in La Cage Aux Folles opposite John Barrowman. His Australian musical theatre highlights include Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, Marius in the original Australian cast of Les Misérables, Billy in Anything Goes and most recently Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge. At age 13, he made his acting debut in the 1976 classic feature film The Devil’s Playground, winning the Australian Film Institute Best Actor award, and has since appeared in countless films and television shows, including a long running stint on Play School.
■ Elmo and favourite Sesame Street favourites are now heading to Preston, South Morang and Narre Warren before heading to regional Victoria and South Australia with their theatre show, Elmo’s Circus Dream. Publicist Larissa Anderson says: “Elmo's Circus Dream is more than just a show – it's an immersive experience that ignites the imaginations of children, encourages self-expression and teaches valuable life lessons in a fun and engaging way. “Get ready to be dazzled as the magic of the circus unfolds before your eyes.”
■ Filmed in Melbourne, Kaazh is the latest film from Director Mohanraj VJ and provides an insight into the challenges faced by migrants. The film portrays the dreams and struggles of a Tamil couple (Yugendran Vasudevan, Mimi Leonard), and the adjustment issues faced by an international student (Siddarth Anbarasu) as they forge their lives in Australia. Hardworking and desperate to succeed, they each grind away at their jobs, striving to achieve their own version of the Australian Dream. The cast is led by Tamil actor and playback singer Yugendran Vasudevan and Kamal Krishna (Sergeant Sanjay from the recent series Shantaram). Melbourne actors Mark Robert Walters (John Sparks in Night Shift), Mimi Leonard, Siddarth Anbarasu, Anthony Fogas and Ashwin Viswanathan round out the rest of the cast. Kaazh’s official Australian premiere will be held at the Palace Dendy Brighton on Saturday, February 24. The Indian premiere took place on January 5 in Chennai. A general theatrical release throughout Australia is expected in April.
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Pride comes alive
■ Melbourne’s iconic Smith and Gertrude Streets came alive again on Sunday (Feb. 11) for a one-day Street Party in celebration of Victoria’s LGBTIQA+ communities with support from the State Government. Harriet Shiung, Minister for Equality, joined in festivities at the Victoria’s Pride Street Party in Collingwood and welcomed the show of support for the state’s diverse rainbow community. “Victoria’s Pride Street Party is an annual, free and inclusive one-day event with multiple music stages, community and food stalls and a dizzying array of immersive activities including comedy, circus, drag and art installations,” a Government representative said. - State Government Media Unit
40-YEAR MURDER CASE RE-ACTIVATED BY POLICE
Harry Potter re-think
STATEWIDE
4.3 earthquake
■ Thousands of Victorians have been woken by an early morning earthquake that shook large parts of the state. The 4.3 magnitude quake hit near Leongatha at 12.49am on Friday (Feb. 9). The tremors were felt as far north as Sunbury 38km northwest of Melbourne to Wilson’s Promontory National Park in the south, government agency Geoscience Australia said. - Berwick Star News
GISBORNE
Bus changes
■ The State Government is encouraging the Gisborne community to have their say to help improve its bus network, with consultation now underway. Gabrielle Williams, Minister for Public and Active Transport, announced the local community can now provide input on a proposal to improve public transport in the Gisborne area – which would see the bus network connecting to new estates, provide all day regular bus services and retain connections between train and bus services. Under the proposal, existing Route 474 would change from being a pre-booked ondemand service to a regular bus service with increased coverage in the new estates. This route would also be integrated with Route 473 Gisborne to Gisborne Station service – creating a new two-way bus loop service covering more of the town and offering flexibility to catch a bus in either direction. The Bullengrook to Gisborne Town Centre section of the current Route 474 – including Mulgutherie Way – would then be separated and become a new pre-booked fixed timetabled Route 77 Bullengrook to Gisborne Town Centre service that would only run when booked. Feedback is also being sought on bus travel to and from local schools. - State Government Media Unit
MADDINGLEY
Carjacking probe
■ Moorabool Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following a carjacking in Maddingle. It is understood the victim was standing next to his vehicle on Griffith St when an unknown man ran towards him and assaulted him from behind about 10.15pm on January 19. - Victoria Police
ECHUCA-MOAMA
Competitor dies
■ A man has died while competing in a major water skiing event on the Victoria-NSW border. Emergency services were called to the Murray River near Perricoota Rd, Moama, following reports a man had been seriously injured while skiing on the water at 10am on Sunday (Feb. 11). Victoria Ambulance paramedics found the man who had died at the scene. - Australian Community Media
ARARAT
Council signs out
MORNINGTON PENINSULA ■ “After weeks of pressure and protests at the selection of The Briars wildlife sanctuary for Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience, it appears the location is being reconsidered,” reported Cam McCullough. In a brief statement posted to the shire’s Facebook page, the shire wrote, attributable to CEO John Baker: “Together with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Themed Entertainment, Mornington Peninsula Shire is re-evaluating the current location of the Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience at The Briars in Mount Martha. We will have more information soon.” - Mornington News
Across Victoria
● Police want to solve the murder of Nan Elliis at Boronia in 1984. ■ On the 40th anniversary of her death, Homicide Squad detectives are appealing for information in relation to the murder of Boronia woman Nanette Ellis in the hope it Melbourne could provide a breakthrough in the case. The 41-year-old was attacked and killed in her Manuka Drive home on February 10, 1984. That day, Nanette had gone to her job as an advertising manager at a local newspaper as usual and had made plans to go out to dinner that evening with a organisation set up base in BAIRNSDALE number of her colleagues. Boort. About 5.15pm, she was Camp co-ordinator Peter seen by a passer-by pulling Ross said 20 farmers in the into the driveway of her Boort, Wedderburn and property in her yellow 1982 Korong Vale district had Toyota Corolla sedan. ■ After a chance meeting at already registered for the Dargo cemetery four years assistance. Sometime after entering ago, six of Michael and Marthe house, Nanette was He xepects volunteersw garet Hurley descendants de- will be in the Loddon for at attacked by an unknown cided it was time to have a fam- least a month. offender or offenders and ily reunion. stabbed a number of times. - Loddon Herald All six were the fifth Her body was subsegeneration of descendants of WARRNAMBOOL quently found at the rear of the family home shortly after Michael Hurley and Margaret Ryan who arrived in 6pm that night by her 16Australia in October 1856. year-old son Greg, who had They came from Ireland been at a neighbour’s house ■ Mark O’Brien has taken on a ship called the Startled watching TV. out the 2024 Powercor Fawn which sailed from the In the days leading up to Melbourne to Warrnambool Port of London on July 31, her death, Nanette’s vehicle Cycling Classic.. 1856. was the subject of a number Thirty-six year old They married in of rock throwing attacks on Wangaratta on June 9, 1858, O’Brien, a self-proclaimed her way to and from work. ‘journeyman’ finished the and started a family, while A number of other 267km race in six hours, 24 vehicles in the area were also working on the goldfields minutes – crossing the finish around Eldorado Flat, damaged in the same way line solo after breaking away Indigo and Growlers Creek. around the same time. from the pack six kilometres In mid-1860 they followed Following the rock earlier. the gold to Grant where throwing incidents, her car Now in its 108th year, Michael acquired a team of was also subject to a series of Australia’s oldest bike race pack horses and a bullock vandalism attacks in her — nicknamed ‘the Warrny’ team and changed from driveway where paint was — was once again proved a miner to supplying the tipped over the car, the tyres crowd pleaser, with hundreds miners. were slashed and the radio gathering along Raglan With a growing family of aerial and number plates to watch riders cross eight, he selected land on the Parade were removed. the line. Dargo Flat and built a fiveThe incidents were Connor Sens held on to room log home. investigated by local police, second place while last year’s Michael died tragically at winner, Tristan Saunders, however no suspects were the age of 47 after falling third. identified and no clear link from a horse on May 9, 1877. claimed Warrnambool Weekly was able to be established At the time of his death the between the rock throwing children – two boys and five HORSHAM incidents, vandalism or her girls – were aged five to 19. death. - Bairnsdale Advertiser To mark the 30th anniverBOORT sary of Nanette’s death, police announced a $500,000 ■ The Wimmera River reward for information Improvement Committee has leading to the identification unveiled a new boardwalk and conviction of those along the Wimmera River. responsible for her death. ■ Blazeaid volunteers have The new extension begins by That reward remains on of- started helping Loddon the existing boardwalk fer and the investigation re- farmers repair fences adjacent to Finlayson Court mains ongoing, however no damaged in the summer and continues all the way to one has ever been charged in storm floods. the river's edge. The emergency recovery relation to the fatal stabbing.
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O’Brien victory
Rescue team arrives
Broadwalk extension
■ The Ararat Rural City Council voted to not renew its membership of the Western Bulldogs Youth Leadership Program in 2024. The program offers unique opportunities for young people between the ages of 14 and 16 to build confidence, make new friends and develop skills that will enable them to become leaders in their community. - Ararat Advertiser
EAST GIPPSLAND
Chester in 2025
■ Federal Member for Gippsland, Darren Chester, has been pre-selected unopoosed as The Nationals candidate for the next election, due to be held in 2025. The experienced MP says he has “unfinished business” and is looking forward to the challenge of getting a fairer deal for all regional communities, particularly Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley. - Great Eastern Mail
HAMILTON
Meter concern
■ Southern Grampians Shire councillor, Katrina Rainsford, has expressed concerns about the new parking meters and said she intended to move a motion at the next Council meeting on Wednesday (Feb. 14). - Hamilton Spectator
PHILLIP ISLAND
Risk preparation
■ Victorian tourism business owners can now better prepare themselves ahead of fire seasons, thanks to CFA’s new Bushfire Planning for Tourism Businesses free online module. The 30-minute interactive tool that went live in mid-January has been created to help businesses better understand their respective bushfire risk and guide them through producing their own Bushfire Survival Plan. Businesses can learn how to best communicate the information to their visitors, particularly surrounding fire ratings and warnings, and are encouraged to download marketing materials to display and distribute around their communities. - Phillip Island Advertiser
MARYBOROUGH
Go Goldfields axe?
■ Plagued by funding uncertainty, the region’s one-of-a-kind Go Goldfields initiative may be forced to discontinue its services by June this year — with the closure likely to impact more than 1400 families. In the past nine years, the scheme has received close to $6 million. - Maryborough Advertiser
LAKES ENTRANCE
Diabetes action
■ East Gippslanders living with type 2 diabetes will soon be able to take advantage of a fresh approach to managing their condition. DESMOND (Diabetes Education and SelfManagement for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) is an evidence-based education program designed to support people living with type 2 diabetes by helping them learn practical skills for managing the chronic illness. It is delivered by Gippsland Lakes Complete Health professionals. - Lakes Post
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ABOUT US Incorporating the traditions of the Cranbourne Sun (Est. 1893), Frankston Post (Est. 1913), Dandenong Advertiser (Est. 1874), Peninsula Post (Est. 1913), Southern Peninsula Gazette (Est. 1953), Hastings Sun (Est. 1977) The Local Paper is published weekly online and printed fortnightly and comprises local areas: • Casey-Cardinia Edition • Frankston Edition • Greater Dandenong Edition • Mornington Peninsula Edition • Southern Peninsula Edition • Western Port Edition
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Honouring Peta Murphy ■ The State and Federal Governments have honoured the legacy of former Dunkley MHR Peta Murphy, officially opening the brandnew Peta Murphy Breast Imaging Suite at Frankston Hospital. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan joined Peta’s family to pay tribute to the cherished member of the Labor Party, beloved daughter, sister, partner and colleague at the hospital where she was treated for cancer. Like Peta’s seat of Dunkley, named for trailblazing trade unionist Louisa Margaret Dunkley, the leaders said it is fitting to have another trade unionist formally commemorated for her profound legacy to the people of her electorate and beyond. Funded by the State Government, the new $4.5 million suite will be the first comprehensive public diagnostic breast imaging service at Peninsula Health - encompassing mammography, ultrasound, biopsy, and localisation services for the Frankston and broader Mornington Peninsula communities The dedicated staff at the suite will deliver approximately 2400 mammograms annually, supporting the estimated 6.3 per cent of Victorians diagnosed with breast cancer each year who live in the region – and will offer both internal and community-based referrals, eliminating the need for day-of-surgery transfers. It will also help to address the increasing
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with Ash Long, Editor Celebrating 55 years in local media Winner, Best Local Reporting Award Victoria-wide Westpac Award Direct: 0450 399 932 E: editor@LocalPaper.com.au Web: www.LocalPaper.com.au Personal: www.AshLong.com.au “For the cause that lacks assistance, ‘Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do”
demand for breast imaging services and to reduce the current waitlist at Monash Health in Clayton – giving patients the option to receive these critical services closer to home, rather needing to travel or resort to paying for private local providers. Across Frankston Hospital, major works are underway on the largest ever health infrastructure investment in Melbourne’s south-east – with the State Government delivering a $1.1 billion redevelopment of the health service to give the Peninsula’s communities access to world-class healthcare, closer to home. Set for completion in late 2025, the new facility will be able to treat around 35,000 more patients each year – cutting wait times with a new clinical services tower, 130 extra beds, new mental health and oncology spaces, expanded women’s and children’s areas and 15 new operating theatres. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “Peta took great pride in the Labor Party’s role in the story of Australia’s public health system. It is so fitting that this wonderful addition bears her name. Premier Jacinta Allan said: “Peta Murphy was a passionate, fearless and fabulous woman who advocated tirelessly for the people of Dunkley – naming this vital public health service after someone who did so much for her community is the perfect tribute.”
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■ The Cardinia community is being encouraged to sign on for this year’s Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday, March 3. Business Clean Up Day is on Tuesday, February 27 and Schools Clean Up Day is on Friday, March 1. Clean Up Australia Day is the nation’s largest community-based event for collecting litter to reduce its impact on our environment. Community members, schools and businesses can participate by simply registering their own local park, reserve or walking track as a ‘clean up’ site or participating in a preregistered clean-up site on Clean Up Australia website. Once volunteers register, they will receive a free clean-up kit through Clean Up Australia including bags and gloves.
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CASEY-CARDINIA Incorporating the traditions of the Cranbourne Sun (Est. 1893). The Casey-Cardinia Edition readership area comprises part of the City of Casey including Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne South, Cranbourne West, Devon Meadows, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Eumemmerring, Hallam, Hampton Park, Harkaway, Junction Village, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst (part), Pearcedale (part). The entire City of Casey is home to more than 340,419 people, living in approximately 102,790 homes. The Shire of Cardinia readership area includes Cardinia Shire includes the suburbs and localities of Beaconsfield (part), Beaconsfield Upper, Officer, Officer South, Pakenham, Pakenham South and Pakenham Upper. The entire Shire of Casey is home to more than 118,675 people, living in approximately 35,098 homes.
FRANKSTON Incorporating the traditions of the Frankston Post (Est. 1913). Frankston comprises Carrum Downs, Frankston, Frankston North, Frankston South, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South, Sandhurst, Seaford and Skye. Frankston is home to more than 134,143 people, living in approximately 56,935 homes.
GREATER DANDENONG Incorporating the traditions of the Dandenong Advertiser (Est. 1874). Greater Dandenong comprises Bangholme, Dandenong, Dandenong North, Dandenong South, Keysborough, Noble Park, Noble Park North, Springvale and Springvale South plus parts of Lyndhurst. Greater Dandenong is home to more than 152,050 people, living in approximately 54,694 homes.
PENINSULA MORNINGTON PENINSULA Incorporating the traditions of the Peninsula Post (Est. 1913). Mornington Peninsula comprises Moorooduc, Mornington, Mount Eliza and Mount Martha. Mornington Peninsula Shire is home to more than 154,999 people, living in approximately 89,155 homes.
SOUTHERN PENINSULA Incorporating the traditions of the Southern Peninsula Gazette (Est. 1953). Southern Peninsula comprises Blairgowrie, Boneo, Cape Schanck, Capel Sound, Dromana, Fingal, McCrae, Portsea, Rosebud, Rye, Safety Beach, Sorrento, St Andrews Beach and Tootgarook.
WESTERN PORT Incorporating the traditions of the Hastings Sun (Est. 1977) Western Port comprises Balnarring, Balnarring Beach, Bittern, Crib Point, Dromana, Flinders, Hastings, HMAS Cerberus, Main Ridge, Merricks, Merricks Beach, Merricks North, Point Leo, Portsea, Red Hill, Red Hill South, Shoreham, Somers, Somerville and Tyabb.
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Local Theatre Date and Time
■ Having written a poem every day since February 15, 2017, Albert Lin has an extraordinary documentary record of not just his own life but of events and occasions that, strangely, resonate with others. This becomes the conceit of his new show, Date and Time, where audience members provide a date, discover the corresponding poem and confide to Lin their own experience. There are some uncanny correlations most of which deal with the challenge of relationships, though this may change each night of the performance. Lin’s poetry seems to have evolved over time with some of the imagery being quite striking. Much more needs to be done when it comes to dramaturgy and Lin’s presentation skills. The set is a table on which there is a printer and a simple sign – 'the poet is in'. Unfortunately, the chair is for the audience member who volunteers to mask Lin. And we only see the back of that volunteer. While there has been an evolution in Lin’s poetry, we can hopefully look forward to a similar development when it comes to his performance ability. Lin’s piano playing and singing opens the show, the choice of ballad appropriate and he has a pleasant singing voice. Lin then reads his opening outline about the show’s purpose. This would be better as a performance monologue allowing his eye line to connect with the audience rather than the screen. Bringing members of the audience up for what is almost counselling is also fraught with challenges. They can be an unknown quantity that, for the sake of the show, needs to be contained. This requires an ability to read the house. Given that the poems are the feature, a balance needs to be struck between what the volunteer offers and what Lin can provide. though his gift of the poem for the day requested is an appropriate reward for the volunteer. Lin is an eccentric. He has looked for and found unique ways to express himself and this can touch an audience. As with the poetry, his performance skills may develop. A dramaturg's input would be useful in this regard. He may also like to look at publication of his works as another possibility. Date and Time was performed at The Butterfly Club. - Review by David McLean
Assange film
■ A new Australian documentary film, The Trust Fall: Julian Assange will have its Belgrave premiere on Sunday (Feb. 18)) at Cameo Cinemas. “The film reveals the meaning and significance of the continued detainment and persecution of the most famous political prisoner of our times - Julian Assange,” says promoter Kym Station. “The film tells the story of Julian Assange - the most famous political prisoner and internationally-awarded journalist of our time – who exposed US war crimes and government corruption on his whistleblower WikiLeaks website. “Charged under the antiquated US Espionage Act 1917with the threat of a 175-year prison sentence, Julian is facing his final UK appeal against imminent extradition to the United States, all for revealing the truth. “Filmed over two years on three continents and in ten cities, The Trust Fall: Julian Assange features high-profile Assange supporters and global experts; Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, activists John Pilger and Tariq Ali, journalists Mary Kostakidis, Chris Hedges, Dean Yates and Stefania Maurizi, Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson, government leaders Jill Stein, Sen. Peter Whish-Wilson and Sen. David Shoebridge and former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer among others. It also includes heart wrenching conversations with Julian’s own family; Stella Assange, John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton.” The Trust Fall: Julian Assange is narrated by Susan Sarandon, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, rapper M.I.A and Rage Against The Machine’s guitarist Tom Morello.
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Melbourne
Confidential Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless
ROCKY HORROR RETURNS ■ The Rocky Horror Show has returned to Melbourne and is playing at The Athenaeum Theatre, Collins St., Melbourne until March 23. Written and created by Richard O'Brien, the 2024 version of the iconic rock 'n' roll musical stars Jason Donovan as Frank N Furter, with Joel Creasey as The Narrator. With its 2023 show billed as “the highest grossing show ever at the Athenaeum Theatre”, follow squeaky-clean sweethearts Brad and Janet on an adventure they'll never forget. Timeless classic tunes include the Time Warp. Performance Season: Until March 23 Venue: The Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins St., Melbourne Bookings: Ticketmaster.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Wit Incorporated
■ Wit Incorporated is celebrating their 10th anniversary of being a part of Melbourne's theatre scene on Friday, March 8 at 7pm at the Bluestone Church Arts Space in Footscray. The company celebrates 10 years of storytelling, working with hundreds of artists, offering local discounted kids' drama classes, and managing festivals and workshops for artists Enjoy a night of cabaret, with music, dance, comedy, refreshments and generously donated raffle prizes. Entry is by donation only. Event details: Friday, March 8 at 7pm Venue: Bluestone Church Arts Space, 8A Hyde St, Footscray Bookings: Free entry but limited seating. Please book a ticket in advance: witinc.com.au The show contains occasional coarse language. For audiences aged 15+. Duration: Approximately 2 hours with one interval. - Cheryl Threadgold
Cuddle
■ Cuddle will be presented from February 20 - 25 at Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall. Two rising stars, Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Michaela Tancheff, weave contemporary dance with elements from martial arts, figure skating, rodeo barnyard dance and a host of more abstract inspirations. Filled with sonic and visual treats, Cuddle surprised and delighted a small one-off showing at Chunky Move in March. Following further development and exploration, Cuddle will kick off this year's Arts House’s Season One. Choreographer and performer, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, explains that Cuddle uses humour and absurdity mixed with hard core technique to strike a balance of not knowing when to laugh, feel scared or be moved. “During our development of Cuddle, Michaela and I mastered various forms of partner work. We would wear heavy duty ice hockey gear and balaclavas, usually practising in car parks and public spaces,” says Ritchie-Jones. “As we prepared to fight out the dance of our lives, we would do early morning runs pumping out Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger to build ourselves up like warriors mentally and physically. We cannot wait to share this energy with audiences at Arts House in February,” said RitchieJones. Arts House Acting Artistic Director, Olivia Anderson, highlighted that the excitement and word-of-mouth surrounding Cuddle has been 'palpable' since its intimate, one-off showing a year ago. “Cuddle is a witty, wild and wonderful work of dance from one of Australia’s most bright and daring talents. We are privileged and thrilled to be presenting it at Arts House,” said Anderson. Performance Season: February 20 – 25, 7.30pm Tue. – Sat., 5pm Sun. Wed. Feb. 21 – Post-show artist talk Thu. Feb. 22 – Tactile tour and audio described performance
● Joel Creasey (The Narrator) in The Rocky Horror Show. Photo Eugene Hyland Venue: Arts House – North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Tickets: $35 Standard ticket + transaction fee; $20 Reduced ticket + transaction fee; $10 BLAKTIX + transaction fee Bookings: artshouse.com.au or 9322 3720 - Cheryl Threadgold
Illusion, Fantasy
■ From mid-February, the creative forces of Saluhan Collective and Liquid Architecture are set to heat up Arts House, North Melbourne, with Mainit Illusion and Mainit Fantasy. Mainit is a Filipino word meaning 'hot or humid' – it describes the intensity of summer heat felt across the archipelago. Mainit Illusion is a month-long exhibition informed by voyeurism and the post-paradise palate of the Philippines. The exhibition features a range of newly commissioned works across sound, installation and video created by Filipinx artists from the Kulin and Eora Nations, including Catherine OrtegaSandow, Del Lumanta, Kenneth Suico, Mariam Ella Arcilla (Magenta House), MJ Flamiano, Neil Cabatingan (Kuya Neil), Ranima Montes, and Raquel Solier (Various Asses). Alongside the exhibition, Mainit Fantasy – a one-night curated spectacle of sweet and salty art, sound and performance – will take over Arts House. Mainit Fantasy will start with an aperitif by Mariam Ella Arcilla – a new video installation and reading entitled A mango is shaped like a heart, but its own heart is a stone. Mainit Illusion – Saluhan Collective x Liquid Architecture. February 19 - March 23. Mon .– Fril, 10am – 4.30pm and Satl., 11am – 4pm. Free public exhibition – no tickets required Mainit Fantasy – Saluhan Collective x Liquid Architecture. Saturday, February 24. 9pm – 11pm (doors 8.30pm) Venue: Arts House – North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Tickets: Mainit Fantasy $35 Standard ticket + transaction fee $20 Reduced ticket + transaction fee $10 BLAKTIX + transaction fee Bookings: artshouse.com.au or 9322 3720 - Cheryl Threadgold
What’s On Indian Film Festival
■ The Indian Film Festival Melbourne 2024 will open on August 15 and will feature all the festival favourites including the Indian Independence Day Celebrations (flag hoisting), IFFM Awards night, IFFM Dance Competition and IFFM Closing Night. This event will celebrate its 15th anniversary and there will also be a new festival initiative called IFFM Baari, which means “House” in Bengali. IFFM Baari will be an inclusive space for founders and leaders from diverse creative industries to engage with emerging creative voices especially from the south Asian communities. The IFFM Baari will be a hub to support, empower and grow exciting and diverse creative narratives, with a variety of events, including a keynote speaker, panel discussions, networking events and comedy. The 2024 festival will premiere My Melbourne. Set in Melbourne with a local cast and crew, mentored by four of the world’s best film makers – Rima Das, Kabir Khan, Imtiaz and Onir, My Melbourne is a groundbreaking format with four relevant and timely stories celebrates diversity with new films celebrating the LGBTQAI+ community, disability, race and gender. Working with the motto "A film with you, about you, and for you” the film series aims to authentically reflect the lived experiences and heartfelt stories of the community, drawing inspiration directly from their unique narratives. My Melbourne is a collaboration with Vic Screen and Screen Australia. IFFM is the Southern Hemisphere's largest annual celebration of Indian cinema; a ten-day extravaganza of Indian film and culture, featuring some of India’s biggest sporting and screen superstars. This year, IFFM will present over 120 films in more than 20 languages, including Australian premieres, braiding together South Asian stories from across the globe. Established in 2010 by director Mitu Bhowmick Lange (Mind Blowing Films), the festival consistently strives to program films that provide a robust forum for conversation and that enhance not only India’s rich storytelling tradition, but also looks to challenge people’s notions of India. Celebrating the rich and diverse universe of Indian film culture, IFFM hosts celebrities, trailblazers, and disruptors. From the high glamour of the Awards night with the red carpet and visiting stars, to the new My Melbourne feature film, IFFM aims to speak to a wide audience of moviegoers. www.iffm.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Palestinian Fest.
■ The Palestinian Film Festival Australia has announced its 2024 program featuring a mix of Australian premieres, award-winning features and ground-breaking documentaries. Navigating universal themes of people, place and politics, this year’s Festival delivers yet another enthralling program of the finest and newest Palestinian films to Australian audiences in Melbourne (March 14-17). “There’s never been a more important time to learn the stories of Palestine. The last few months in Gaza and in the West Bank have been, and continue to be, beyond devastating,” said Festival Director Naser Shakhtour. “People everywhere are asking brave questions and actively seeking independent and alternative perspectives,” “Our 12th Festival program pays tribute to the continued resistance and resilience of the Palestinian people.” Opening the Festival this year is the coming-of-age, socio-political drama Alam (Flag) directed by Firas Khoury. Alam is the story of Tamer, a Palestinian teen who undergoes a political awakening, sparked by an attractive outspoken new girl at his school. This year’s Palestinian Film Festival Australia program features favourites from some of the most prestigious festivals. A Gaza Weekend by Basil Khalil is a hilarious, action-packed parody that lampoons disaster movies.
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Local Theatre Shows
■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: Piece of Mind (by Emma Wood) Until February 24 at 39-41 Castella St., Lilydale. Director: Susan Rundle. Bookings: lilydaleatc.com 9735 1777 ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre: Farragut North (by Beau Willimon)Until February 17 at the Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., Geelong West. Director: Jules Hart. Bookings: Geelong Arts Centre 1300 251 200 geelongartscentre.org.au ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Photograph 51 (by Anna Ziegler) Until Februry 24 at Williamstown Little Theatre, 2-4 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Natasha Boyd. Bookings: www.wlt.org.au/book-tickets ■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company: Piece of Mind (by Emma Wood) Until February 24 at the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre, Castella St., Lilydale. Director: Susan Rundle. Bookings: lilydaleatc.com ■ Playhouse Players Inc: 21st Year National Playwright – Three Finalist One Act Plays: Behold the AI, Guilty and Seminal Chaos: Performances and Awards February 15-17 at Doncaster Playhouse. Bookings/ Information www.trybooking.com/CMBZP or playhouseplayersinc@gmail.com ■ Brighton Theatre Company: Love Song (by John Kolvenbach) February 16 – March 2 at the Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Carpenter St., Brighton. Director: Gaetano Santo and Jeff Saliba. Bookings: brightontheatre.com.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Rumors (by Neil Simon) February 16 – March 2) at Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Gayle Poor. Bookings: www.htc.org.au ■ Malvern Theatre Company: The Lifespan of a Fact (by Jeremy Karaken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell) February 16 to March 2 at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Deborah Fabbro. Bookings: malverntheatre.com.au ■ Eltham Little Theatre: Yes, Prime Minister (by Antony Jay and Jonathon Lynn) February 16 – March 2 at the Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Samuel Chappel. Bookings: elthamlittletheatre.org.au ■ Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria (GSOV): Lilac Time (by Franz Schubert) February 17 -March 3 at The Knowe, 4 Clarkmont Rd., Sassafras. Bookings: gsov.org.au ■ The 1812 Theatre: Mother and Son (original script by Geoffrey Atherden) February 22 – March 16 at The Lowe Auditorium, Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Pip Le Blonde. Bookings: 1812theatre.sales. ticketsearch.com ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Hatched, Matched and Dispatched (by Chris Hodson) February 22 – March 3 at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Laell Raiteri. Bookings: www.thebasintheatre. org.au ■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group (STAG): Madagascar (by J.T. Rogers) February 22 – March 2 at Strathmore Community Theatre, 50 Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: Luisa Romeo) Bookings: 0419591517. ■ PEP Productions: Eurovision Moldova (by Craig Christie) February 23 – March 1 at Doncaster Playhouse. Bookings: pepproductions.org.au ■ The Mount Players: Wild (by Mike Bartlett) February 23 – March 10 at The Mount View Theatre, 56 Smith St., Mt Macedon. Director: George Benca. Bookings: themountplayers.com ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: And Then There were None (by Agatha Christie) February 29 – March 8 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Travis Handcock. Bookings: 9556 4440 or kingstonarts.com.au/upcoming-events/allevents/mordialloc-theatre-company ■ CentreStage: The Music Man (by Merdith Willson) March 8 – March 23 at The Playhouse, 81 Ryrie St., Geelong. Bookings: geelongartscentre.org.au ■ Torquay Theatre Troupe: Sylvia (by A. R. Gurney) March 14 – 23 at Shoestring Playhouse @ The MAC, 77 Beach Rd., Torquay. Director: Paul Friend. Bookings: Trybooking.com.au
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Entertainment
MORRISON MEETS FOREMAN ■ What do you get when you cross a worldrenowned jazz quartet, a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist and a 60-piece symphony orchestra? James Morrison’s Jazz Quartet eets John Foreman’s Symphony Orchestra will be presented on Monday, February 26 at 7pm at Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall. The event will combine the fun and spontaneity of Morrison’s jazz improvisations with the gravitas and depth of Foreman’s symphony orchestra. James Morrison is one of the world’s most accomplished jazz musicians, having performed with many of the legends of jazz including Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck and B.B. King to name just a few. He has recorded with everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra to rock legends INXS. Although he is known primarily for his trumpet playing, James has also performed the trombone, tube, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar and piano on stage to much acclaim. His internationally-acclaimed Jazz Quartet for this one-off performance features James along with guitar, bass and a drums players as well as special guest artist multi award-winning vocalist Nina Ferro. “James Morrison is a genius”, said John Foreman. “His improvisations are truly incredible and his ability to switch between instruments is unbelievable. “I’ll never forget the day he played trumpet with one hand and piano with the other. He is absolutely one-of-a-kind and I can’t wait to hear his amazing jazz quartet together with the 60piece Aussie Pops Orchestra.” Led by John Foreman, the 60-piece Aussie Pops Orchestra presents a unique blend of popular classical and contemporary music to Australian audiences. ‘ They have performed alongside many of the world’s favourite singers including Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Peter Allen, Andrea Bocelli, Dame Joan Sutherland, Sir Cliff Richard, Ray Charles and many more. Event Details: Monday, February 26 at 7pm Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Tickets from $69. Tickets on sale now via www.artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300 182 183 and www.ticketek.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Sisters In Crime
■ Sisters in Crime presents Dark and Deadly Family Secrets from 7.30pm-10pm on Friday (Feb. 16) at the Rising Sun Hotel, South Melbourne. Families harbour all sorts of secrets, and as the novels by Jo Dixon, Kylie Orr and Glenna Thomson reveal, they can have cruel, twisted and sometimes deadly consequences. They will divulge all to fellow author (and podcasting queen) Vikki Petraitis.
● Vikki Petraitis.
● John Foreman Venue: The Rising Sun Hotel (upstairs - no lift), Cnr Raglan St and Eastern Rd., South Melbourne. Free on-street parking after 6pm. Date and Time: Friday, February 16 7.30pm - 10pm Entry: Entry and dinner combined charge: $60 non-members, $55 concession, $52 Sisters in Crime and Writers Victoria members, $50 under 19. Please book by 12 Noon, ebruary 15. Further information: Carmel Shute 0412 569 356 or email admin@sistersincrime.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold
Common Rooms
■ Nestled in the heart of New York's enchanting West Village is a basement piano bar so iconic, celebrities queue to get in. And for three nights only, Marie's Crisis and its top pianists are coming to Melbourne. This evening is unplugged and spontaneous it’s just the crowd, the piano and the showtunes. There’s no set list, no stage, no microphone and no shooshing. Everyone’s welcome to sing their heart out - or just stand and enjoy the musical mavens who know all the lyrics. It’s riotous and rambunctious and welcomes all ages, all sexual orientations, all backgrounds and all singing levels. Sip cocktails and enjoy the uplifting, magical feeling of being right there on Broadway. This communal sing along night features songs from musicals ranging from popular classics, such as Les Mis, Wicked, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and Grease, to the cult showtunes from the musicals of Stephen Sondheim - and everything in between. Kenney Green-Tilford is an actor/director/ singer and educator teaching Musical Theatre Performance at The American Musical & DramaticAcademy (NY) He recently finished a run playing Phil Davis in White Christmas: The Musical. Off-Broadway: Finks! (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Growing Up 70's starring Barry Williams (Luther). Adam Michael Tilford is a composer, performer and educator based in New York City. His new musical version of A Christmas Carol was nominated for Best New Musical at the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. Dates: February 23-25 Time: 7:30pm, 6:30pm (270 minutes) Venue: Fringe Common Rooms - Cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts, Carlton, Victoria Duration: 270 minutes Age Suitability: 18+ Tickets $50 per person. https:// melbournefringe.com.au/event/maries-crisispop-up/ - Helen Reizer
Observations The Other Bridget
■ What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than indulging in a new romance novel that touches on some serious issues? Rachael John’s latest novel, The Other Bridget Jones, introduces us to librarian Bridget Jones, who has the misfortune to be named after THAT Bridget Jones, of literary and film fame. Our Bridget has sworn off dating, after being ghosted, cheated and swindled on Tinder. But fate has other plans for her, as the local Italian barista Fabio has been designing delicate foam hearts in her coffee. But all is not well in paradise, as the grumpy but handsome new neighbour who has moved in next door seems to have a vendetta against her. But as the story unfolds Bridget realises that all is not what it seems with her potential suitors. While this is a light and frothy novel in style, it also explores issues of body image and eating disorders. And there is a background in truth, as author Johns has been a victim of scams in romantic relationship and friendships. She is also passionate about the importance of community as staving off loneliness as we grow older. And not surprisingly, it celebrates the importance of libraries and the power of a little escapism to help us through life when things are tough. Once an English teacher, Johns has achieved her dream, of becoming a full-time writer, with a few awards for her books to help her along the way. The Other Bridget Jones would make a great Valentine’s Day gift, or simply a good way to enjoy a few hours in someone else’s chaotic life. It is published by Penguin Random House and available online and in bookshops. - Julie Houghton
More Shows
■ Beaumaris Theatre: A Year With Frog and Toad (book and lyrics by Willie Reale, Music Robert Reale, Based on the Books by Arnold Lobel), March 1 – 16 at Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris. Director: Leah Osburn. Bookings: beaumaristheatre. com.au ■ Essendon Theatre Company: A Tomb with a View (by Norman Robbins) March 14 – 23 at 9 Bradshaw St. (enter from Buckley St.), Essendon. Bookings: 0406448368 or Trybooking.com.au
Auditions
■ The Mount Players: Looped (by Matthew Lombardo) February 18 from 2pm at the Mount View Theatre, 56 Smith St., Mt Macedon. Director: Peter Newling: Audition bookings: themountplayers.com ■ Wyndham Theatre Company: 2024 WOMPA Short Play Festival ‘Waiting for a Friend’, February 24 from 3pm at the Crossroads Theatre, Duncans Rd and Synott St., Werribee.. Audition bookings: wyndhamtheatrecompany.org.au/new-contact-us ■ Essendon Community Theatre: The Skin of Our Teeth (by Thornton Wilder) February 24 from 2pm, February 25 from 6pm. Private auditions; Callbacks March 1 from 7pm. All auditions at Bradshaw Street Community Hall, Bradshaw St., (off Buckley St.). West Essendon. Director: Kadey Mackintosh. Auditions by appointment only. Please apply to book an audition time and for further information including script and audition pages. Please take completed audition form (see the ETC Website at www.essendontheatre company.com.au) along with a non-returnable photograph. ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Veronica’s Room (by Ira Levin) February 25 at 2pm, February 26 at 7.30pm at Unit 8/417419 Warrigal Rd., Cheltenham. Director: Keith Hutton. More details from mordialloctheatre.com or call 0430 032 332. ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Lovesong (by Abi Morgan) March 17, 20 at 7pm at 29 Burke Rd., Malvern East. Director: George Werther. Audition bookings: werther110@gmail.com or call 04?02 222 090. - Cheryl Threadgold
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FROM TRAGEDY TO LEGACY
■ Dandenong-based South Sudanese independent artist Mike Wang launched his first tribute and movement to reconnect with his grieving community. ‘Wish You Were Here’ was originally designed as a tribute last June at the Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood. In recent years, Sudanese youth have been losing their lives “due to mental health, physical health, vio lence and more”. Wish You Were Here will continue as a movement in honour of “all those who are not here with us today”. “What drove me to make this happen is the fact that I knew all of these people on a personal level, I grew up with most of them and started this journey with them,” Wang said. Cranbourne artists YTS Gucciboi and Gs Phantom said this movement was needed to carry the legacy of young people. “This movement must be continued with love and peace, regardless of the circumstances we have faced in our community,” YTS Gucciboi said. “The image we are trying to create is to have a safe environment for the youth, as they are the future of us, when we pass on the torch to them with the right education through music and avoid destroying the dreams of the young ones. “No more wishing for our loved ones to be here with us, but to celebrate life and success with them is the goal from now on. “Moving forward, we have got to move as one, as a community. We got to do better and start thinking about our brothers and sisters' futures and how we can start educating and motivating each other towards greatness and longevity,” Gs Phantom said. Wish You Were Here also attracted many locals, families, and friends across Melbourne. “I truly believe this tribute came from the heart and experiencing it as a member of the audience and not a performer gave me such a different perspective on how amazing music truly is and how powerfully it could be used for good and to keep someone’s legacy alive is a blessing,” Yung Baddie said. “People came and celebrated their loved ones too and felt connected,” Wang said. Cranbourne artist Prez, featured in Wish You Were Here, said it was his first tribute performance and was worth experiencing. “This performance was more than showcasing talent and creativity within our space, it was about acknowledging the lives and the impacts made by the ones who aren't here with us anymore,” Prez said. “It was an amazing experience. Not only from the aspect of an artist being supported by their community but also as a dear friend to many of the people the tribute was dedicated to.
“It inspired me, even at a low moment of my life, to continue the journey of life and growth, especially for those who didn't have the time to do it themselves.” Meanwhile, Wang's music career was hit by a death knock, causing challenges in the planning of Wish You Were Here. “It was tough, to be honest, some things didn’t go to plan because of the recent passing of Kose and Swank. Swank was meant to be the creative director and photographer for the show, and Kose was meant to open up. “I just tried my best to keep my head high regardless of what happened.” Particularly, the death of his late cousin and best friend, Swank, had a heavy toll on the Sudanese community. “He was a very big part of my life and the lives of others,” Wang said. “He one day took it upon himself to become one of the best photographers and videographers in the southeast to tell the stories and capture the greatness he would see in everyone he would come across. “He had plans to do great things for the community and was an example of being fearless and passionate towards anything he put his mind to.” - Afraa Kori
Exhibitions at TarraWarra
■ TarraWarra Museum of Art has announced three new exhibitions open to the public concurrently from March 23 to July 14. Featuring new work by Melbourne-based contemporary artists PeterAtkins and Dana Harris, the exhibition SUPERsystems is presented in conversation with The Industrial Design of Clement Meadmore: The Harris/Atkins Collection, a comprehensive survey of innovative modernist designs by the acclaimed sculptor and designer Clement Meadmore. Also on display is Systems and Structures, featuring a selection of works by leading Australian artists drawn from the Museum’s collection. TarraWarra Museum of Art Curator Anthony Fitzpatrick said: "These three new exhibitions provide an exciting opportunity to consider new and recent works by leading contemporary artists in conversation with paintings, sculptures and designs by significant figures of Australian modernism. “TarraWarra Museum of Art is fortunate to have worked closely with Dana Harris and PeterAtkins, not only to premiere their most recent bodies of abstract work, but also to share their outstanding collection of modernist designs and sculptures by Clement Meadmore.
Meadmore’s distinctive visual language was often informed by the modernist principles of the Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement—a source of inspiration shared by Harris and Atkins. The third exhibition of predominantly abstract painting and sculpture by Australian artists from the Museum’s own collection, deepens this sustained exploration of the formal and conceptual systems and principles that guide creative practices and artmaking." SUPERsystems: Peter Atkins and Dana Harris Melbourne-based contemporary artists Peter Atkins and Dana Harris will present major new works for their first joint exhibition SUPERsystems. While these new works each express a highly distinctive visual language and materiality, they are closely aligned in their shared conceptual and formal concerns. Indeed, both Atkins and Harris employ geometry, repetition and seriality as a means to reimagine the everyday world. For many years Peter Atkins’s practice has involved a process that he refers to as ‘readymade abstraction’. Distilling and reinventing familiar forms and patterns from the everyday environment—such as movie posters, product packaging, road signs and record covers—Atkins blurs the boundaries between ‘high art’ and popular culture. For SUPERsystems, Atkins has deconstructed American designer Maurice Binder’s opening title sequence for the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962). Presented across 92 individual paintings in four horizontal rows, each frame of the original animation is revealed as a unique, abstract composition, like a tangible, stop-motion version of the original. Dana Harris employs a variety of techniques and media in her ongoing investigation of the relationships within natural and urban landscapes. For SUPERsystems, Harris presents a new project titled fancywork, which emerged from her experience of walking the deserted streets of the Melbourne CBD during the COVID– 19 lockdowns. Inspired by the subtle shifts and spatial relationships in the built environment, the artist has created a series of 22 intricately hand-embroidered panels which use repetition and complex patterns to express the new rhythms and connections she observed while exploring the city at a standstill. Dana Harris, fancywork has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. - Isabel Wright
Rourke’s Reviews Bottoms
■ (MA). 90 minutes. Now available on select digital platforms. After garnering much-deserved attention with her feature length directorial debut, Shiva Baby, in 2020 (based on her 2018 short film), writer/director Emma Seligman follows up that critical success with a high school comedy that couldn’t be any more different in tone, although some similar themes run throughout. Rachel Sennott, who starred in Shiva Baby (and co-writes here with Seligman), is PJ, who along with her best friend Josie (Ayo Edebiri), are gay students who are at the bottom of the school hierarchy, humiliated on a daily basis by the popular crowd. Deciding to take matters into their own hands, the two start up a Fight Club style defence class, even if PJ and Josie’s sole reason to do it is to hopefully get the attention of two students they have crushes on, Brittany (Kaia Gerber) and Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) respectively. The class does get a number of applicants, including Hazel (Ruby Cruz), and as the group start to bond, it becomes apparent that these girls have had to suffer through horrific bullying and physical attacks. As the big football game approaches, things start to get out of hand. Segilman and Sennott (who also recently appeared in the much more uneven Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) are totally committed to their material, which is a deliberate tearing apart of all those 80s John Hughes high school movies we are so nostalgic about, and while some were genuine classics (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), they did only look at a particular sector of the community. The diversity of colour, beliefs and sexual identity is vigorously presented here, using profane humour to terrific effect, an approach that could have so easily fallen on its face. The cast are wonderful right across the board, and the chemistry between many of them is totally convincing. Even the actors’ ages and the choice of music is effectively skewed. Bottoms is hilarious, but also heartfelt, made by people who are passionate about the topics raised within the seemingly knockabout and raucous plot. This is high energy entertainment of the highest order, and would make a great double bill with Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart (2019). RATING - ****
The Royal Hotel
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● Aaron Rourke able on select digital platforms. Following up her excellent 2019 film The Assistant, Australian writer/director Kitty Green delivers another tense thriller with The Royal Hotel, again looking at genderbased threat and oppression. The story centres on Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick), two backpackers travelling around Australia, who need to find work after Liv goes through the pair’s savings too quickly. Requiring something fast, the two accept work bartending at the title pub located in the middle of nowhere, where they will be serving the local miners. Once there, Hanna and Liv meet the pub’s owner, Billy (Hugo Weaving), and the cook, Carol (Ursula Yovich), the latter more levelheaded in running the place. As each night plays out, Hanna sees that the two have found themselves in a growingly dangerous environment, with a drinking culture that sees many of the male patrons become more unstable and threatening. Green builds the tension brilliantly, keeping things unnervingly quiet a lot of the time (there is a sparse use of music), as the oppressive masculinity starts to surround the two main characters. Performances are strong, especially Garner (who starred in The Assistant), Weaving and Yovich. The film is also technically wellcrafted. Only the ending is somewhat of a disappointment, almost finishing like it is setting up a vigilante-like franchise, rather than it complimenting the utterly compelling and unsettling 85 minutes that has preceded it (although the film needed to end in an open-ended fashion, as it is a subject that sadly still needs to be tackled and kept in the public eye). The Royal Hotel was one of the best Australian films of 2023, and would make a great double bill with either Green’s The Assistant, or Ted Kotcheff’s classic 1971 thriller, Wake In Fright. RATING - **** - Aaron Rourke
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Magazine ■ The world loved Audrey Hepburn. She was a beautiful, elegant, stage and film actress who captured our hearts during her film career. In her later years she devoted her life to humanitarian work which will never be forgotten. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1953 and was nominated for an Academy Award on three other occasions. Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. Her parents, Joseph Ruston and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, had both been previously married and Audrey had two half-brothers. Her father was an English banker. Joseph and Ella broke up in 1935 and Audrey attended school in England as a British citizen. In 1939 her mother moved the family back to the Netherlands believing that they would be safe from German attack. Audrey and her family went through a horrific time during the war years. Audrey suffered from malnutrition, anemia and respiratory problems. It was during the liberation at the end of the war that she witnessed the relief work of the United Nations and later in her life this led to her outstanding work with UNICEF. Audrey studied ballet and reached a very high level before deciding to concentrate on being an actress. Audrey performed in many musical productions on London's West End and played small
Whatever Happened To ... Audrey Hepburn By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM roles in British films. She was very intelligent and fluent in five languages. Audrey won the leading role in the Broadway play Gigi which opened at the Fulton Theatre in 1951 and ran for 219 performances. When she auditioned for the role of the Princess in the film Roman Holiday director Billy Wyler cast her immediately. Her co-star Gregory Peck insisted that she be given equal billing because he knew that this young woman of 24 years of age was going to be a huge star in the future. Gregory was right and Audrey won not only the Academy Award for best actress in Roman Holiday but also the BAFTA and the Golden Globe awards.
● Audrey Hepburn She was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. During her career Audrey Hepburn starred in some wonderful films which included Sabrina, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Charade, The Nun's Story, Robin And Marian and Wait Until Dark. In 1954 she married Hollywood actor Mel Ferrer. Audrey was cast as Natasha Rostova in War And Peace and received a BAFTA and Golden Globe nomination for best actress. In 1957 she played opposite Fred Astaire in her first musical film, Funny Face.
Audrey was thrown from a horse during the filming of The Unforgiven and broke her back. Her first son Sean Ferrer was born in 1960. When Audrey was cast as Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady, Warner Brothers Studios decided to have her singing voice dubbed by Marnie Nixon. Audrey and Mel Ferrer were divorced in 1968 and she married Andrea Dotti in 1969. The second marriage ended in divorce in 1982. On January 20, 1993, Audrey Hepburn died in her sleep from cancer at her family home. Gregory Peck tearfully read her favourite poem Unending Love on television in tribute to his dear friend and the funeral was held in Switzerland. In 1994 the film My Fair Lady was restored with an amazing 70 mm print to mark the 30th anniversary. The original sound tapes of Audrey singing the songs were discovered and her voice was restored to the soundtrack. Sadly Audrey did not live to see it but I am sure she would have been pleased. Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - Remember When Sundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens. And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au
UNCONSCIOUS VOICE AT BURRINJA GALLERY, UPWEY An Unconscious Voice – Aimme McCallum Step into An Unconscious Voice, an unfolding narrative of the everchanging seasons. And decay, and the interconnected roots or our existence. Soft lines and geometry of nature converge in a poetic landscape that beckons you to explore the depths of Mother Nature’s emotional spectrum. The artist merges two mediums – paper and nature – forging a delicate alliance that transcends the boundaries f conventional art. Creating a montage of Mother Nature’s feelings, inviting you to meander through a cocooned environment, contemplating the everyday magic ‘She bestows on us’. As you gaze upon the intricate collaboration of paper and pressed nature, the lines of perspective blur, inviting a childlike innocence to take the wheel. Much like staring at clouds and rediscovering the world through whimsical eyes, this work seeks to capture the essence of navigating a mysterious and wonderous sea. Exhibition opens February 17 and closes March 28. ★ W.A.M. Where Artists Meet Here’s your chance to get out, have some fun and talk shop with other local artists and have a cheeky drink. These regular gatherings propose space for connecting and developing conversation between local creatives. WAM provides a fun and friendly environment to talk shop with other artists and share tips, discuss creative practice, projects and local arts and culture. With the Dandenong Ranges rich and abundant cultural landscape Burrinja’s WAM events are a great opportunity to develop new creative networks, find out about potential opportunities and connect with your local community Join on the last Thursday every month at 7pm at the Fat Goat, 2 Morris Rd, Upwey. Burrinja Gallery 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey
MAPh
■ MAPh is to launch its official exhibition in the biennial festival of photography, PHOTO 2024, which com-
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with Peter Kemp mences from March 1. Across two locations MAPh presents Australian and international artists exhibiting works that speak to the theme ‘The future is shaped by those who can see it.” Environmental Future – Edward Burtynsky - Extraction Over the last 40 years Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky has photographed landscapes all over the world, documenting how human systems and industry are reshaping our planet. Environmental Futures – Janet Laurence – Tears of Dust Janet Laurence’s immersive, multisensory installation Tears of Dust reflects on the fragility and power of the natural environment. Her interactive and yet haunting evocations of the natural environment create encounters with our changing planet. Environmental Futures – Corben Mudjandi – 009 This poetry and beauty of Corben Mudjandi works stand in contrast with the history concealed behind them. The images he offers address the dichotomy that exists between the impact of modern industries on the environment, and the resilience of the indigenous people in fostering values such as kinship, connection to Country and culture. Environmental Futures – Sonia Payes – Renaissance: A Journey of transition
In this site-specific installation across MAPh’s sculptural park, Sonia Payer’s embraces the sculptural possibilities of the photographic medium. Paye’s interpretation of [possible futures examines the impact of human intervention on the planet. Environmental Futures – Lingam K – Melting Ice/black landscapes is a response to the glacial melt due to climate change. Using the alternative photographic processes of salt printing, the project captures the impounding ecological collapse and encourages reflection on our relationship and impact on the landscape. It visually articulates the passing of time through the fading of the salt print and the effects on climate change on glacial landscapes. Exhibition opens March 1 and closes May 26. Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) 860 Ferntree Gully Rd. Wheelers Hill
Maroondah Epar Opar brings nine artists into dialogue as contemporary Bengali citizens the world who reflect on their post-colonial state of being, while living in their adopted country of Australia. Join the artists for a launch celebration on International Mother Language Day. Exhibition Launch: Wednesday February 21. 6pm – 8pm. Exhibition closes Friday March 15. Maroondah Gallery 32 Greenwood Ave, Ringwood - Peter Kemp
Signing off from ABC
■ Broadcaster, writer, and filmmaker, Phillip Adams, will step down from his role as Host of the ABC's Late Night Live after more than 33 years presenting the program. He began in 1991 and has interviewed thousands of politicians, historians, and conversationalists. Phillip’s final program will be in June.
OK. With John O’Keefe
● Lisa Wilkinson ■ Ten is in the news again with a never-ending string of 'heard this one' rumours. Most consistent is the one about Ten examining contracts with contracted artists. Ten is owned by Paramount and their only interest is profitability. One expense Ten could save is severing to pay salary of one-time 'The Project' personality, Lisa Wilkinson who with husband has been holidaying in France. Has she been breaking bread with Brittany Higgins who fled to make a new life in France. By our records Lisa was last seen on TV in 2021 and has been paid mega bucks ever since.
Family tree connections
■ We have it on good authority that Alexander Nimmo of the 3AW newsroom is a relative of upper crust UK actor Derek Nimmo. Derek had a love affair with Australia, and I, for one, enjoyed his annual visits to the Melbourne Cup posing as an upper class, silly ass. His acting and film credits include BBC TV series All Gas and Gaiters, the James Bond spoof Casino Royale, and he even played a cameo role in Neighbours as Lord Ledgerwood.
Walhalla turnaround
■ The Gippsland timber town of Walhalla has had its ups and downs over the years. Right now, Walhalla is having a giant resurgence as a film lot. The tiny township has been converted into a Nepalese village - even the iconic local pub, The Star has had a lick of vivid pea green paint with washing hanging outside, all for production of Netflix production Ice Road 2 - Road to the Sky. The film has employed 600 locals for all sorts of jobs from caterers to bit part actors, not to mention the daily influx of tourists searching for a squiz of star drawcard, actor Liam Neeson. Walhalla and Melbourne are the two main hubs of film activity.
Life-size Liam look-alike
■ Liam Neeson commands a crowd whenever he appears, and the same, star quality actor can be elusive, often avoiding autograph hunters . One enterprising cafe owner in downtown Walhalla has organized a cardboard cut-out, life size shot of Liam, so tourists and hangers-on can pose with the almost real Liam. Last reports, second cups of coffee are doing roaring business.
Tommy played with Cash
■ Tommy Emmanuel, the boy from Musselbrook, NSW, played guitar as a member of The Strings Revolution with their rendition of 'Folsom Prison Blues'. Johnny Cash son, John Carter Cash, was also a member of the winning group. Tommy Emmanuel and group used the personal recording studios of legendary Johnny Cash to lay the award-winning track. - John O’Keefe
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Acoustic Tony
■ Singer-songwriter Tony Bonnici will do a solo acoustic gig at the Cornerstone Port Melbourne on Friday (feb. 16) from 6.30pm. Special guest Dianne Ewens will be singing a few tunes as well. Tony says that you can expect some songs that he has written plus a few he wished he had. Maybe some Prairie Oyster tracks might be on the song list too, Tony?
RCH fundraiser
■ They’re back for another year. The annual Children's Hospital fundraiser at Flanagans Irish Bar, Traralgon, will be held on Sunday, March 10, commencing at 12 Noon with a great list of local acts giving their time and talent. Margaret and Linton, Evan Platschinda, Bill Rowley, Chris Newman, Bryce Wright, Karla Clancy, Helen and Wayne, Margaret Wilson and Brian Barker are all ready to make the afternoon another successful one. Plus raffles, prizes and more. The kitchen will be open for business. - Rob Foenander
Mardi Gras hosts
■ The ABC has confirmed its coverage of the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, to be led by hosts Courtney Act and ABCQueer’s Mon Schafter. They will be joined by a sweep of roving reporters including, comedian Mel Buttle, ABC Presenter Jeremy Fernandez, and TikTok creator Louis Hanson, and Triple J Drive’s Abby Butler and Tyrone Pynor.
‘Queer Photo’ at Footscray centre ■ Footscray Community Arts is presentsing the largest array of works from the inaugural Queer PHOTO exhibitions, featuring three world premieres and two Australian premieres with artists from Australia, UK and USA. Presented by Midsumma and PHOTO 2024, in partnership with Creative Victoria’s Go West program, Queer PHOTO is a first of its kind collaboration – comprising artist commissions of large-scale outdoor artworks, gallery exhibitions and an interactive public program by local and international artists taking place across Melbourne’s west. Queer PHOTO will transform iconic venues and the streets of the West into a gallery of accessible and highly visible visual artworks from LGBTQIA+ artists. “Indigenous, Black identity and People of Colour have always been at the heart of queer activism and culture,” says Daniel Santangeli, Artistic Director of Footscray Community Arts. “Queer Photo is an act of reenculturation – re-centering and celebrating visual artists who are continuing to shape LGBTQIA+ culture here and internationally.” Exquisite Corpse by internationally acclaimed Salote Tawale (world premiere) is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 and Queer PHOTO on display in the Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, as well as activated outdoors at Footscray Com-
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munity Arts until May 26. Tawale’s large-scale immersive installation is a site specific development and includes photographic images, sculptural elements and video work. It delves into Salote’s Australian-Fijian heritage and Indigenous knowledge, celebrating reinvented artistry and cultural intersections through a collage of layered narratives. Marungka Tjalatjunu/Dipped in Black is a collaborative film and photographic project made by filmmaker Matthew Thorne (Australia) and Yankunytjatjara artist/ dancer, Derik Lynch (Australia). Lynch escapes the oppressive white city life of Adelaide, taking a road trip back to Country (Aptula), his remote Anangu community where he seeks spiritual healing and performs on sacred Inma ground. The film has won multiple awards, including Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlinale, Germany (2023), and Best Short Documentary, MIFF (2023). Experience the exhibition as an immersive four-channel video installation. This exclusive and captivating addition to the full exhibition has a limited run. The installation features powerful imagery and costumes from the film, which follows Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch’s transformative journey back to Country for spiritual healing. - Contributed
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Sport
RIDICULOUS EASE TO WIN CUP AT CRANBOURNE
■ Queenslander Leap To Fame, a 5Y0 stallion by Bettors Delight from Lettucereason trained and driven by Grant Dixon for Kevin and Kay Seymour added another large prize to his purse by winning last Saturday’s $500,000 Decron Cranbourne Gold Cup over 2555 metres with ridiculous ease while at the same time registering a new track record mile rate of 1-55.6. Starting from gate three on the second line, Leap To Fame wcasn’t pushed at the start with Dixon content to settled with only one behind him, that being Max Delight which was taken back to the rear from gate six by Nathan Jack. As the start was effected, Greg Sugars shot the much improved Rakero Rebel to the front from gate two, before handing over to Sydneysider Petes Said So (gate three) with another NSW hope Cya Art going forward from gate five to race exposed, Bach one/one being followed by Bulletproof Boy, Max Delight and Leap To Fame. Kanena Provlima after starting outside the front line was trapped with Chris Alford having no option but to go forward and take over from his stablemate with two laps to travel. Rank outsiders Kosimo and Ideal Escape occupied the last two spots along the markers. Angling three wide in the last lap with Max Delight immediately following, Leap To Fame although three wide cruised up to join both Kanena Provlima and Cya Art on turning and raced clear shortly after with Max Delight switching down to the sprint lane and Rakero Rebel extricating from three pegs to give chase. Coasting to the wire, Leap To Fame scored by 9.4 metres from Max Delight who broke $1,000,000 in stakes, with Rakero Rebel running the race of his life for third 4.6 metres back. Kanena Provlima was a game fourth 2.6 metres away. In quarters of 29.2, 31.5, 26.7 and 28.6, Leap To Fame smashed Shadow Sax’s 1-56.1 set in 2018. Leap To Fame has now won the Brisbane Inter Dominion, A.G. Hunter Cup and the Cranbourne Cup, three $500,000 races amongst his 33 wins and 8 placings from 43 race appearances.
8000 career wins
■ It was only a matter of time before champion reinsman Chris Alford chalked up an amazing 8000 career winners (his first aboard Spring Vance at Wangaratta in 1984) and the achievement occurred at the Ballarat meeting on Wednesday February 7 after guiding the Luke Tabone (Ingliston) trained 4Y0 Rock N Roll Heaven-Whatahottie gelding Im Wesley to victory in the Hydrautech Ballarat Pace. Burning across the face of the field from outside the front line, Im Wesley rated a treat (as expected), ran out a 4 metre victor in advance of Barra Mac (one/one) and Auckland Red which trailed the winner. The mile rate 2-00.4.
For all classes
■ Charlton in Central Victoria commenced the week on Monday February 5 with an interesting program catering for all classes while also honouring some now departed former Life Members of the club. Stawell trainer/driver Jason Ainsworth was victorious with 5Y0 Racing Hill-Floweronthewall mare Alfnalma in the Vale Life Member Lindsay ‘Snow’ Hobbs 2 Lifetime Wins Pace over 1609 metres. Beginning fast from gate five, Alfnama was able to cross the raging hot favourite James Garner (gate two) who immediately came off her back to assume control. Enjoying a sweet passage, Alfnalma used the sprint lane to perfection to gain the day by 2.2 metres, with Kidd Altro coming from near last out wide on turning for third 1.2 metres away. The mile rate 1-58.4. ■ Little River trainer Carson Miller joined forces with in-form Long Forest based reinsman Jordan Leedham to land the GMG Financial Group Pace over 1609 metres with 7Y0 Mach Three-Blissful Night gelding Night Spirit. Headed off from the pole by noted speedster Sunstar (gate six), Night Spirit was another to receive a lovely trip and after using the sprint lane, finished best to account for a flying Maxi
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with Len Baker Wants To Play from mid-field by 1.4 metres returning a 1-56.9 mile rate. Sunstar battled on (as he usually does) for third a head away. Jordan only recently celebrated his 21st birthday. ■ On what appeared to be the pattern of the day, Aaron Dunn trained and reined family bred Downbytheseaside-Little Lyn filly Jazzy Melea to greet the judge in the 2100 metre Betavet Pace. Trailing the poleline leader Alcatraz Girl from inside the second line which capitulated badly, Jazzy Melea despite being shuffled back to three pegs after Rocknroll Opal (one/three) had dashed clear on the final bend, made full use of the sprint lane to register a 1.1 metre margin over Rocknroll Opal, with Riviera Rose (one/two) third 3.9 metres back. The mile rate 2-01.4. ■ Local on track trainer Mick Gadsden and driver Ryan Sanderson combined to snare the 2100 metre Vale Life Member Lyle Hunter Pace with Hungry Hogarth a 5Y0 Lincoln Royal-Iris Calaby gelding in a mile rate of 2-00.2. Trailing the leader Chedalayo (gate six) from gate two, Hungry Hogarth used the sprint lane to defeat a death-seating Senna Storm by 4.5 metres, with Chedalayo holding down third 1.6 metres away.
Double day
■ Wednesday was double day with Cobram racing in the afternoon and Ballarat at night. At Cobram, Wahring mother and son Rosie and Kevin Weidenbach enjoyed a great afternoon with a winning double – 4Y0 Father PatrickLeavemein mare The Vicars Girl taking the Its Party Time Jumping Castles Trotters Mobile over 2170 metres and 6Y0 Per Rock-Our Miss Vivienne mare Rolling Remona the 1670 metre Lloyd Sound Mares Pace. The Vicars Girl (four pegs) from gate five after coming away from the inside in the last lap switched down to the sprint lane on turning to run home strongly and blouse a death-seating Bullapark Beno by 1.2 metres, with Tiney third 3.7 metres back after trailing the weakening poleline leader Starlight Red. The mile rate 201.9. Rolling Remona led out from gate two before handing over to Tyabb Wonder (gate three) and used the sprint lane on turning to defeat Wagga visitor Good Time Nedra (one/one) from gate five by 1.3 metres in a rate of 1-57. Tyabb Wonder held third a half head away. ■ Merrigum trainer Brett Bunfield finally cracked for a win with 4Y0 American Ideal-Soho Socialize gelding Barny Bill after 22 outings, taking the Benstud 3Y0 & Older Maiden Pace over 2170 metres. Driven by Riverina reinsman Blake Jones, Barny Bill led throughout from the pole and after being nursed all the way, held on to score by 4.1 metres from the hot favourite Good Tobe Locksley (gate four) which raced outside him looking to have him covered most of the way, but raced very rough in the straight. Maginot Line which trailed the winner from gate two was third a half head back after using the sprint lane. The rate 2-00.3. ■ At Ballarat, Melton’s Charlie Mizzi would have been all smiles after landing a stable double – honest 7Y0 Tintin In America-Willow Rosenberg gelding Wotdidusaaay in the 2200 metre Ballarat Veterinary Practice Pace and 3Y0 Ultimate Machete-I Defy You gelding Cooper
Cleaver in the Inter Path 3 Lifetime Win Pace over the same trip, both horses driven by Michael Bellman. Wotdidusaaay led throughout from gate five, defeating a death-seating Hugo Rocks by 3.6 metres, with Layden third a half head back after trailing the winner and receiving no clear run. The mile rate 2-01.8, while Cooper Cleaver from the pole was able to ease away from three pegs and go forward to arrest the front running away from Island Caesar which scorched away from outside the front line. Given a sweet trip, Cooper Cleaver defied all challengers to record an easy 7.5 metre margin over Inexorable (one/one from gate three), with Abbie Lincoln (three pegs) third 3.4 metres back. The mile rate 2-00.2. ■ It was a terrific payday for Bellman who finished the night with three winners, the other being Curyo Gentleman for Horsham’s Rod Carberry which blitzed his rivals from five pegs – death seating last lap from gate six and dashing away on turning to prevail by 16.3 metres from Heavenly Brigade (four pegs) and polemarker Wichita Kansas which trailed the weakening leader El Boston (gate four) to be 3.5 metres back. The mile rate 1-55.7. ■ Merrigum trainer Luke Bryant combined with freelance reinswoman Annalise Scott aboard 6Y0 Caribbean Blaster-Ok Alright gelding Well That’s Alright in 2200 metre the Easy Waste Pace. Lobbing three back in the moving line from gate three on the second line as His Dream Lives On led from gate two, Well That’s Alright ran home stylishly to gain the day by 7.3 metres in advance of the pacemaker in a rate of 2-05.4. Silver Domino (one/one) was third 6.4 metres back.
At Bendigo
■ Bendigo raced on Thursday and what a big night it was for Sutton Grange owner/breeder Ivan Collison when his 7Y0 Bitobliss-Georgina Bow mare Final Bow registered her 19th success in 107 outings by taking The Edge Equine Bendigo Female Drivers Pace over 2150 metres. Driven by Ellen Tormey for trainer Ross Graham, Final Bow led all of the way from gate four, defying all challengers to account for Precious Belle (one/two) by 3.1 metres, with Epic Orion using the sprint lane from four pegs for third 5.4 metres away. The mile rate 1-59.5. ■ Ivan is an icon in the Bendigo area having bred and raced horses for many years, most of them with the word ‘Bow’ included in their name. To make the victory even more special, Ivan celebrated his 90th Birthday at a special function for him held at Lord’s Raceway Bendigo on Saturday night. ■ Heathcote part-owner trainer Michael Mannix’s 12Y0 Mr Aviator-Ramleighs Love gelding Ace Duigan returned to the winners list for the first time since December 2020 when victorious in the 2150 metre Garrards Horse & Hound Pace. Raced by the Mannix family, Ace Duigan driven by Ashley Manton worked hard to try and hold the lead from the pole, but was crossed by Dallas Nikolay (gate three) before easing off the markers to assume control. Allowed to run, Ace Duigan gave his rivals something to chase and couldn’t be caught, scoring by 1.4 metres from Tex Goes Bang which dropped to trail him on the home turn, with Dallas Nikolay (one/one – three pegs last lap) third 18.4 metres back after coming away from the markers to race exposed momentarily mid-race. The mile rate 1-59.3. ■ Cardigan trainer Anton Golino presently on a high, was successful with Egret, a 5Y0 daughter of Father Patrick and Moyabamba in the 1st Heat of the Lyn McPherson Breed For Speed Gold Trotters Series over 1650 metres. Driven by David Moran, Egret from the pole followed the leader Sleepee which flew the gate from outside the front line. Using the sprint lane, Egret ran home best to prevail by 1.4 metres from Sleepee which gave a sight, with Aldebaran Keepa (one/two – three wide last lap) third 1.3 metres back. Raced by Yabby Dam Farm Pty Ltd, Egret returned a mile rate of 1-58.1. ■ At Melton on Friday, popular Stawell partowner/trainer Ray Harvey landed the TAB
Sulky Snippets This Week
■ Meetings for the week : Monday – Maryborough, Tuesday – Ararat, WednesdayGeelong/Echuca, Thursday – Bendigo, Friday – Melton, Saturday – Terrang (Cup), Sunday – Gunbower. Download The App Trotters Mobile over 2240 metres with 5Y0 Lucky Chucky-Lady Million mare Lady Be Lucky. Driven by Michael Bellman, Lady Be Lucky after a comfortable passage one/two from inside the second line made ground swiftly in the last lap to join the pacemaker Azalea Mae running into the final bend, racing clear shortly after to record a strong 18.5 metre margin over Romantic Nina (one/three) and Flying Finn (three pegs) who was 10.4 metres away. The mile rate 2-02.8. ■ Melton duo Anthony Butt and Sonya Smith’s 5Y0 Skyvalley-My Account entire Highpoint bred and raced by Kevin Beer was impressive in winning the 2240 metre Goodform On Thetrots.Com.Au Trotters Mobile. Driven by Anthony, Highpoint (one/two) ran home strongly three wide on turning to gain the day by 1.1 metres from the raging hot favourite Hephaestus Phoenix which led in a mile rate of 2-00.7. Inmydreams after racing exposed from gate six was third a half neck back. - Len Baker
Theatre Extra Grandparents Club
■ A new, original Australian musical comedy celebrating the wonderful world of grandparenting, The Grandparents Club, will make its premiere in , before touring across metro and regional venues. Written by Australian comedy legend Wendy Harmer and featuring the music of multi-award-winning composer and music director John Field, this 90-minute revue is performed by a stellar cast led by Lynne McGranger (Home and Away) as Liz, Laurence Coy as Jimmy Bigelow, Meredith O’Reilly as Maria, and Andrew James as Jeff. The Grandparents Club is an all-youcan-eat buffet of stand-up, send-up and song in the Club’s famous bar, café and spa with Club president and host, Jimmy Bigelow and regulars Jeff, Liz and Maria. This new Australian comedy musical will bring generations together with lots of laughs (and a few tears) in an outing written especially for our often overlooked and underappreciated army of grandparents. Speaking to the inspiration behind the musical’s origins, The Grandparents Club writer Wendy Harmer said: “Grandparents aren’t what they used to be. It’s been such fun to upend the old stereotypes of grannies in aprons making scones and grandpas tinkering away in sheds. “Today’s grandparents are adventurous, engaged and no longer ‘invisible’. They play a vital role in modern family life. But one thing never changes … the deep, abiding bond between loving grandparents and their adored grandies.” Cast in the role of Liz, Lynne McGranger shared, “I am thrilled to be involved with the wonderful new Australian musical comedy The Grandparents Club which celebrates grandparents in all their glory. I am going back to my roots on stage with three extraordinarily talented theatrical actors. I am so excited to be working with the doyenne of Australian comedy Wendy Harmer, the much-heralded director Luke Joslin and the exceptionally talented MD John Field.”
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DYNAMIC DUO TO CELEBRATE BLUE DIAMOND ■ Sportsbet and the Melbourne Racing Club are getting together to deliver a diamond of a day on Saturday February 24 for the Sportsbet Caulfield Blue Diamond. To celebrate the first major day with racing’s newest partnership in play, Sportsbet is shouting all adult general admission tickets with punters able to witness sporting royalty with six-time NBA champion, Scottie Pippin, and his Chicago Bulls winning teammate Horace Grant, courtside at Caulfield in an immersive trackside appearance. Courtside at Caulfield is a world-class fusion of racing and basketball, with a full-sized court taking over the front lawn, fully equipped with a DJ booth, and bleachers with shaded seating for fans. The NBA greats will be blindfolded in a headto-head throw shoot out against some of racing’s greatest jockeys, who team up with a jockey each, in a game of H.O.R.S.E, and take part in an intimate Q and A session, offering exclusive insights into the lives and legacies of the players. There will also be a chance for a fan to win big by making a shot on court. On the track, there is triple Group One action headlined by the $2 million Sportsbet Blue Diamond Stakes.
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Cox Plate
■ With its history, honour roll, and consistency of rating performance, the Cox Plate is regarded as Australia’s best race. That title was reaffirmed with the unveiling of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities annual list of the top 100 Group One races. For a third straight year, the Cox Plate has been rated as Australia’s Top Group one, this year sharing the gong with the Champions Mile at Flemington. The 2023 World’s Top 100 Group One Races were unveiled at the Longines World Racing Awards in London, with the list compiled using the annual race ratings, and calculated based the first four finishers in each race. Hong Kong champion, Romantic Warrior, claimed a thrilling win in the Cox Plate last year narrowly winning from Victorian champion, Mr Brightside and Alligator Blood. Last year’s Cox Plate attracted an outstanding field with the likes of Gold Trip, Zaaki, Fan Girl and the exciting three-year-old Miliitarize finishing outside the top four. The race received a rating of 119.75 by the IFHA, placing it equal 24th on the list. Romantic Warrior followed up his win in the Cox Plate with victory in the Longines Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin in December Romantic Warrior enhanced his position as one of the world’s best racehorse rankings with a rating of 123 Mr Brightside ranked =37th with a rating of 120, with Alligator Blood =53rd, a rating of 119.
Two empty chairs
■ Australia’s two biggest racing jurisdictions,
Under scrutiny
■ Expressions of interest for the role closed earlier this month, with the make-up of the selection committee appointed to oversee the process set to draw plenty of scrutiny in itself, even before candidates are identified. It is an important moment for Racing NSW CEO Peter V’Landys, who enjoyed unfettered support from Balding throughout the past seven years. But it became clear through the messy Balding re-appointment that V’Landys agenda does not enjoy the universal support it once did across the broader thorough-bred industry.
Meanwhile at Racing Victoria, the permanent Chair spot has been sitting vacant since June, when Brian Kruger departed. Mile Hirst has been acting in the role. Racing Victoria has been waiting on Racing Minister Anthony Carbines to make his call on who comes on the board. One high-profile candidate, thought to be out of the running last year, is apparently back in the mix, and should he assume the Chairman’s role, then we can expect plenty of news out of Epsom Road in the next few months. Watch this space. Another space worth watching atop Australian trainer, Peter Moody, and his moment in New Zealand. Expectations of a big week of results at the NZB Yearling Sale at Karaka, powered by the Entain Wagering deal, have come to fruition with records broken at almost every turn. Top Victorian trainer, Peter Moody, paid a Karaka-record for a filly recently, handing over $1.6 million, and given his affinity with fillies and mares of late, it is not surprising to see him shopping at the top end of the market. His fillies-first strategy since his comeback in 2020 is the subject of Straight-up’s column this week. Te Akau’s Snitzel colt leads the way as the Karaka market stays hot. The New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale carried its record tempo through to the second day at Karaka, highlighted by a $825,000 Snitzel colt purchased by Te Akau Racing’s David Ellis. Another Group One winner who knows a thing or two about comebacks is Victorian jockey Nikita Beriman who after giving the riding away took up training for a while, but is now back riding winners. Back in 2007 Beriman’s Group One win on Tears I Cry, was also the first elite win for a young Ciaron Maher, who is back under his own name again, after losing his former partner David Eustace to overseas interests.
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Court Lists Dandenong Magistrates’ Court Criminal Case Listings Wednesday, February 14 Alexiou, Steven Alizada, Mohamadh Jalal Asani, Lirie Baguma, Blaise Ball, Joshua Banks, Dylan Bates, Rohan Becirevic, Amer Bedford, Peter Bluestar Tiling & Timber Flooring P/L Bond, Mani Botten, Sarah Bourke, Brendan Brady, Fawn Brown, Travis Ronald Bryan, Sean Bradley Cerone, Pasquale Chaffey, Mickaylah Chhina, Kanwar Cooper, Grayson Cornish, Harley Cruickshank, Jordan Cutts, James Dagiandas, Constantine Dickey, Bruce El Samad, Billal Elbasha, Khalid Enever-Simmonds, Aaron Eshaghi, Seyedeh Fares, Mikey Fenner, Josh Fernando, Kelum Ferriman, Joshua Mcconnachy Figueroa, Diego Paola Filtness, Bayden Fletcher, Diana Garevski, Svetan Grang, Deng Haidari, Iqbal Hasemi, Banu Hetet, Kero Hodgman, Samuel Hogbin, Kelly Hook, Nathan Jayawardena, Rayan Kashmeera Karim, Simon Keo, David Kolta, Atef Koposhilov, Tania Laakulu, Josiah Lafaele, Vencis Lako, Doki Liyanage, Anura Mactaggart, Thomas Philip Magri, Liam Marcello, Israel Martin-Wynn, Dylan Mcconnachy-Ferriman, Joshua Mcewan, Jake John Mehdi, Muhammad Middleton, Oscar Mikael, Hany Moli, Lincoln Mose, Tuaivi Myers, John Nous, George Pallas, Terence Pathmathasan, Noel Pel Kun, Rout Popovic, Kosta Poreo, Othniel Qorbani, Yusef Raby, David Rascovici, Liliana Rattigan, Sean Reed, Simon Richards, Tracee Richmond, Jason Robinson, Jake Robinson, Jordan Rokobose, Emori
Henwood Award
■ Cardinia community members are encouraged to submit a nomination to recognise a local legend who has dedicated their time and efforts to improving and enriching the Cardinia Shire community. Nominations can be submitted until Sunday, March 10, said Mayor Cr Jack Kowarzik .
Contents of Court Lists are intended for information purposes only. The lists are extracted from Court Lists, as supplied to the public, by the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, often one week prior to publication date; for current Court lists, please contact the Court. Further details of cases are available at www.magistratescourt.vic.gov.au The Local Paper shall in no event accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person.
Sandhu, Pamjosh Saw, Ross Selvaratsa, Kajendran Shand, Shannon Brooke Simic, Danny Slama, Ricky Smida, Akram Smith, Thunder So, Jack Stanley, Antony Stewart, Craig Thiwat, Wuok Thompson, Jarrod Thompson, Nathan Michael Town, Nicholas Wang, Wei Hao Withanage, Dimuthu Wittekind, Hayden Woolley, Damian Wynn, Dylan Zabihullah, Seyam Zahed, Tarek Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court Criminal Case Listings Wednesday, February 14 Anderson, Melanie Paulette Anderson, Melissa Baxter, Kimberley Booker, Jeffrey Buckley, Nathan Byrne, Ryan Campiglia, Fernando Cogger, Shelley Cortese, Josie Cosgrave, Mitchell Crosswell, Gemma Davis, Serena De Malezieu, Roch Denyer, Michael Charles Diamond, Nicole Louise Djukic, Jovica Dolphin, Samuel Douglas, Craig Edwards, Velda Ellis, Narjic Etiz, Selin Folino, Christian Fuller, Ashley Furlong, Monica Gauci, Charles Gilvear, Danielle Grindrod, Jessica Hakimzadah, Zabihullah Hartwig, Luke Heenan, Matthew Hundal, Kanwar Jones, John Leigh Joshi, Neeraj Kleiman, Gregory Kotliar, Vivienne Kyparissis, Simeon Lai, Quan Larsen, Erik Michael Leach, Benjamin Lee, Seowho Lloyd, Elizabeth Ann Lyons, Dean Ma, Laicheng Mathews, Gary Mccallum, Timothy Mcphie, William Ndebele, Jabulani Nelson, Garath Nicolazzo, Joe Noole, Shakabala Pallas, Steve Parker, Gemma Rice, Matthew William Rice-Alexander, Patrick Robertson, Allen Sciberras, Anthony Scott, Graham Searle, Michael Leslie Shiryar, Nazir Teiritapuatua, Arapari Ting, Louis Verdini, Anthony Patrick Vitkin, Edward Williamson, Andrew Wu, Lu Wen
Local Briefs Fatality charges
■ Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a fatal collision in Clayton South in December, where a woman later died. It is alleged a white Volkswagen Tiguan wagon collided with a red Nissan Micra at the intersection of Heatherton Rd about 5.15pm on Saturday, December 30. Police were told the collision pushed the Micra into a black BMW X5 wagon. A female passenger in the Micra, an 89year-old Patterson Lakes woman, was taken to hospital, where she died on January 8. The other occupants of the three vehicles involved were not injured and stopped at the scene. A 69-year-old Clarinda man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death, two counts of drink driving and fail to stop at a red light. He was bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday (Feb. 12).
Dandenong seizure
■ A Melbourne man has been charged after allegedly being linked to the attempted importation of 132 litres of liquid methamphetamine concealed in bottles of washing detergent. The British national, 28, was to face the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court last week, charged with the attempted possession and trafficking of a commercial quantity of methamphetamine. A joint AFP and Victoria Police Major Drug Squad investigation - Operation Rainier/Enfield - began in January after Australian Border Force members detected anomalies in a consignment of pallets containing bottles labelled as ‘ultra concentrate detergent’. Forensic testing on the consignment allegedly established that 21 of the 319 bottles contained liquid methamphetamine. The total volume of the methamphetamine was determined to be 132 litres, which has an estimated street value of $30 million. Further forensic examination is ongoing to determine the purity of the seized drugs. Police seized the bottles allegedly containing the illicit drugs and allowed the rest of the shipment to continue for delivery to a storage facility in Melbourne’s south east. It will be alleged that during the execution of search warrants in the suburbs of Brighton, Bentleigh East and Dandenong; phones, electronic devices and a small quantity of MDMA and methamphetamines were seized. The man was subsequently arrested and charged with: ■ Attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, namely methamphetamine, contrary to the Criminal Code 1995 (Cth); and ■ Trafficking a commercial quantity of methamphetamine contrary to the Drugs Poisons and Controlled SubstancesAct 1981 (VIC)
Search at Rye
■ Police conducted a search for a man missing in waters off a beach near Rye. Emergency services were called to the area off Browns Rd and Tasman Drive after reports two people were swimming when they got caught in a rip. One man, aged in his 20s made it to shore but the other, a 20-year-old Cranbourne man remained missing. A search of the area was initiated with the assistance of Air Wing, Water Police and SES units. High winds and strong swells made the search difficult for rescue crews.
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SATURDAY’S LOCAL CRICKET MATCH RESULTS Premier
■ Premier Cricket. Men’s Firsts. Round 17. Two-Day. Sat., Feb. 3 and Sat., Feb. 10. Melbourne 1st XI 8/296 v Richmond 1st XI 5-d/420. Carlton 1st XI 9-d/337 v Prahran 1st XI 7/248. Ringwood 1st XI 10/184 v Footscray 1st XI 10/73 & 5/90. Frankston Peninsula 1st XI 10/172 v St Kilda 1st XI 8-d/251. Camberwell Magpies 1st XI 8/340 v Northcote 1st XI 5/343. Essendon 1st XI 10/108 & 6-d/ 193 v Kingston Hawthorn 1st XI 10/122 & 2/ 85. Greenvale Kangaroos 1st XI 10/173 & 1/ 48 v Fitzroy Doncaster 1st XI 10/174. Geelong 1st XI 5/273 v Dandenong 1st XI 10/271. Melbourne University 1st XI 10/285 v Casey South Melbourne 1st XI 5-d/384. ■ Premier Cricket. Men’s Seconds. Richmond 2nd XI 5/175 v Melbourne 2nd XI 10/ 174. Prahran 2nd XI 10/263 v Carlton 2nd XI 10/137 & 2/94. Footscray 2nd XI 10/234 & 0/ 117 v Ringwood 2nd XI 10/127. St Kilda 2nd XI 7-d/307 v Frankston Peninsula 2nd XI 10/ 182. Northcote 2nd XI 10/284 & 0/18 v Camberwell Magpies 2nd XI 10/165. Kingston Hawthorn 2nd XI 8/312. Essendon 2nd XI 10/ 311. Fitzroy Doncaster 2nd XI 4-d/296 v Greenvale Kangaroos 2nd XI 10/243. Dandenong 2nd XI 10/250 v Geelong 2nd XI 10/106. Casey South Melbourne 2nd XI 8/248 v Melbourne University 2nd XI 9/393. ■ Premier Cricket. Men’s Thirds . Melbourne 3rd XI 6/337 v Richmond 3rd XI 8/333. Prahran 3rd XI 7/229 v Carlton 3rd XI 4/230. Ringwood 3rd XI 8-d/377 v Footscray 3rd XI 10/234. Frankston Peninsula 3rd XI 9/228 v St Kilda 3rd XI 10/223. Camberwell Magpies 3rd XI 10/126 & 2/59 v Northcote 3rd XI 10/ 285. Essendon 3rd XI 7/347 v Kingston Hawthorn 3rd XI 8-d/307. Greenvale Kangaroos 3rd XI 10/147 & 7/68. Fitzroy Doncaster 3rd XI 0d/148. Geelong 3rd XI 10/204 v Dandenong 3rd XI 4/208. Melbourne University 3rd XI 8-d/ 162 v Casey South Melbourne 3rd XI 10/129 & 3/120. ■ Premier Cricket. Men’s Fourths. Richmond 4th XI 10/164 v Melbourne 4th XI 9-d/ 228. Carlton 4th XI 10/141 & 3/101 v Prahran 4th XI 6-d/244. Footscray 4th XI 10/213 v Ringwood 4th XI 10/260. St Kilda 4th XI 5-d/ 305 v Frankston Peninsula 4th XI 10/104 & 4/ 112. Northcote 4th XI 10/239 v Camberwell Magpies 4th XI 10/321. Kingston Hawthorn 4th XI 10/208 & 4/69 v Essendon 4th XI 10/94 & 10/182. Fitzroy Doncaster 4th XI 10/325 v Greenvale Kangaroos 4th XI 10/83 & 8/140. Dandenong 4th XI 10/111 & 4/168 v Geelong 4th XI 10/148. Casey South Melbourne 4th XI 10/148 & 5/102 v Melbourne University 4th XI 7-d/231.
Sub-District
■ North West First XI. Round 13. One Day. Altona 1st XI 5/163 v Yarraville 1st XI 7/ 162. Ivanhoe 1st XI 10/160 v Kew 1st XI 6/ 207. Taylors Lakes 1st XI 10/164 v Preston 1st XI 9/163. Williamstown 1st XI 9/233 v Spotswood 1st XI 9/234. Melton 1st XI 10/34 v Werribee 1st XI 3/36. Brunswick 1st XI 10/ 170 v Hoppers Crossing 1st XI 5/174. St Bernard's OC 1st XI 3/263 v Plenty Valley 1st XI 10/105. Coburg 1st XI 5/208 v Strathmore 1st XI 6/209. ■ North West Second XI. Yarraville 2nd XI 9/191 v Altona 2nd XI 6/159. Kew 2nd XI 2/99 v Ivanhoe 2nd XI 3/54. Preston 2nd XI 10/141 v Taylors Lakes 2nd XI 10/150. Spotswood 2nd XI 10/83 v Williamstown 2nd XI 2/212. Werribee 2nd XI 6/194 v Melton 2nd XI 10/ 128. Hoppers Crossing 2nd XI 10/112 v Brunswick 2nd XI 4/115. Plenty Valley 2nd XI 10/186 v St Bernard's OC 2nd XI 6/191. Strathmore 2nd XI 10/132 v Coburg 2nd XI 9/ 191. ■ North West Third XI Division 1. Werribee 3rd XI 8/197 v Preston 3rd XI 10/111. Coburg 3rd XI 10/83 v Melton 3rd XI 5/85. Plenty Valley 3rd XI 10/85 v Kew 3rd XI 7/86. Brunswick 3rd XI v St Bernard's OC 3rd XI. ■ North West Third XI Division 2. Spotswood 3rd XI 10/163 v Altona 3rd XI 5/ 198. Taylors Lakes 3rd XI v Strathmore 3rd XI. Hoppers Crossing 3rd XI 10/136 v Williamstown
3rd XI 7/137. Ivanhoe 3rd XI 9/217 v Yarraville 3rd XI 9/215. ■ North West Fourth XI Division 1. Preston 4th XI 10/85 v Werribee 4th XI 10/ 165. Melton 4th XI 9/142 v Coburg 4th XI 10/ 110. Kew 4th XI v Plenty Valley 4th XI, St Bernard's OC 4th XI 9/151 v Brunswick 4th XI 4/152. ■ North West Fourth XI Division 2. Altona 4th XI 10/115 v Spotswood 4th XI 8/118. Strathmore 4th XI v Taylors Lakes 4th XI. Yarraville 4th XI 8/136 v Ivanhoe 4th XI 7/132. Williamstown 4th XI v Hoppers Crossing 4th XI. ■ South East First XI. Ormond 1st XI 10/ 129 v Brighton 1st XI 7/201. Box Hill 1st XI 6/ 226 v Malvern 1st XI 10/116. Caulfield 1st XI 9/187 v Elsternwick 1st XI 10/133. Endeavour Hills 1st XI 10/137 v Oakleigh 1st XI 9/231. Bayswater 1st XI 7/152 v Moorabbin 1st XI 8/ 153. Donvale 1st XI 4/178 v Croydon 1st XI 2/ 96. Mt Waverley 1st XI 10/211 v Noble Park 1st XI 10/170. Balwyn 1st XI 10/163 v Port Melbourne 1st XI 5/164. ■ South East Second XI. Brighton 2nd XI 10/182 v Ormond 2nd XI 9/210. Malvern 2nd XI 10/167 v Box Hill 2nd XI 9/222. Elsternwick 2nd XI 4/190 v Caulfield 2nd XI 3/188. Oakleigh 2nd XI 2/59 v Endeavour Hills 2nd XI 10/58. Moorabbin 2nd XI 8/202 v Bayswater 2nd XI 4/235. Croydon 2nd XI 4/90 v Donvale 2nd XI 10/89. Noble Park 2nd XI 9/143 v Mt Waverley 2nd XI 3/146. Port Melbourne 2nd XI 10/184 v Balwyn 2nd XI 9/187. ■ South East Third XI Division 1. Croydon 3rd XI 7/155 v Brighton 3rd XI 9/154. Caulfield 3rd XI 10/89 v Oakleigh 3rd XI 9/206. Endeavour Hills 3rd XI 9/142 v Bayswater 3rd XI 3/143. Balwyn 3rd XI 4/156 v Mt Waverley 3rd XI 7/120. ■ South East Third XI Division 2. Elsternwick 3rd XI v Moorabbin 3rd XI. Noble Park 3rd XI 10/139 v Ormond 3rd XI 10/177. Malvern 3rd XI 7/199 v Donvale 3rd XI 10/ 119. Port Melbourne 3rd XI v Box Hill 3rd XI. ■ South East Fourths XI Division 1. Brighton 4th XI 7/140 v Croydon 4th XI 10/ 138. Oakleigh 4th XI v Caulfield 4th XI. Bayswater 4th XI 7/116 v Endeavour Hills 4th XI 10/114. Mt Waverley 4th XI v Balwyn 4th XI. ■ South East Fourths XI Division 2. Moorabbin 4th XI 10/91 v Elsternwick 4th XI 7/211. Ormond 4th XI v Noble Park 4th XI. Donvale 4th XI 6/151 v Malvern 4th XI 5/155. Box Hill 4th XI v Port Melbourne 4th XI.
2nd XI 8/265 v Macleod 2nd XI 10/215. Plenty 2nd XI 5/250 v Riverside 3rd XI 5/247. ■ D-Grade. Montmorency 3rd XI 10/166 & 7/151 v Mill Park 2nd XI 3-d/187. Bundoora Park 2nd XI 5-d/299 v Thomastown 2nd XI 10/ 126. North Eltham Wanderers 3rd XI 9/234 v Greensborough 2nd XI 9/333. South Morang 2nd XI 10/189 v Rosebank 2nd XI 10/142. Diamond Creek 3rd XI 10/82 & 10/84 v Banyule 3rd XI 4-d/116 & 1/51. ■ E-Grade. Panton Hill 2nd XI 4/162 v Riverside 4th XI 10/161. Greensborough 3rd XI 9/180 v Mernda 3rd XI 7/276. Hurstbridge 2nd XI 1-d/73 & 3/146. Rosanna 3rd XI 9/62 & 10/ 155. Lower Plenty 3rd XI 3-d/153 v Bundoora 3rd XI 10/84. ■ F1-Grade. Riverside 5th XI 10/176 v Laurimar 3rd XI 10/237. Heidelberg 3rd XI 10/ 172 v Greensborough 4th XI 10/119. Research Eltham Collegians 3rd XI 10/134 v Banyule 4th XI 8/218. Epping 3rd XI 6/111 v Diamond Creek 4th XI 10/108. ■ F2-Grade. Riverside 6th XI 10/92 & 10/ 57 v Plenty 3rd XI 4-d/188. Eltham 3rd XI 10/ 102 v Greensborough 5th XI 10/164. Research Eltham Collegians 4th XI 10/156 v Banyule 5th XI 8/188. South Morang 3rd XI 3/161 v Mill Park 3rd XI 10/158. Lower Plenty 4th XI 6/186 v Macleod 3rd XI 8/428. ■ F3-Grade. Bundoora Park 3rd XI 3/207 v South Morang 4th XI 9/197. Laurimar 4th XI 10/165 v Plenty 4th XI 8/326. Research Eltham Collegians 5th XI 9/150 v Hurstbridge 3rd XI 10/201. Thomastown United 2nd XI 10/101 v North Eltham Wanderers 4th XI 3/40. ■ G1-Grade. Rosebank 3rd XI 2/133 v Montmorency 4th XI 10/131. Mernda 4th XI 5/96 v Thomastown United 3rd XI 5/211. Laurimar 5th XI 8/166 v Lalor Stars 3rd XI 4/167. Panton Hill 3rd XI 10/109 v Bundoora 4th XI 5/114. Lower Eltham 3rd XI v Bundoora Park 4th XI Forfeit. ■ G2-Grade. Laurimar 6th XI v Epping 4th XI Forfeit. Banyule 6th XI 4/161 v Eltham 4th XI. Diamond Creek 5th XI Forfeit v Mill Park 4th XI. North Eltham Wanderers 5th XI v South Morang 5th XI. Thomastown 3rd XI 5/72 v Bundoora United 3rd XI 10/70. ■ G3-Grade. Greensborough 6th XI 5/120 v Banyule 7th XI 3/122. Montmorency 5th XI 5/ 138 v Lower Plenty 5th XI 4/141. Bundoora United 4th XI v North Eltham Wanderers 6th XI Forfeit. Macleod 4th XI 7/202 v Rosanna 4th XI 10/8. Heidelberg 4th XI: Bye.
Diamond Valley
■ Dunstan Shield. Round 13. Two Day. Sat., Feb. 10 and Sat., Feb. 17. East Doncaster 1st XI 4-d/102 v Heathmont 1st XI 10/97 & 0/5. Glen Iris 1st XI 2/4 v North Balwyn Bulls 1st XI 10/211. Mont Albert 1st XI v Bulleen 1st XI 10/215. Canterbury 1st XI 10/168 v Old Carey 1st XI. ■ Wright Shield. Marcellin OC 1st XI 10/ 220 v Mulgrave 1st XI 1/12. Deepdene Bears 1st XI 4/89 v East Malvern Tooronga 1st XI 10/ 171. Hawthorn 1st XI v Edinburgh 1st XI 9/ 347. Sunday, February 11: Ashburton Willows 1st XI v Mazenod OC 1st XI. ■ A Turf. Surrey Hills 1st XI 0/14 v Richmond City 1st XI 10/329. Old Carey 2nd XI 0/ 12 v Canterbury 2nd XI 10/224. Burwood 1st XI 1/37 v Mont Albert 2nd XI 10/159. Boronia Hawks 1st XI: Bye. ■ B Turf. North Balwyn Bulls 2nd XI 2/14 v Deepdene Bears 2nd XI 10/140. Heathmont 2nd XI 5/292 v Marcellin OC 2nd XI. Richmond Union 1st XI 4/97 v St Kevins Old Boys 1st XI 10/234. Ashwood 1st XI 10/169 v Balwyn Saints 1st XI 1/20. ■ C Turf. East Malvern Tooronga 2nd XI v Glen Iris 2nd XI 9/165. Boronia Hawks 2nd XI 3/279 v East Doncaster 2nd XI. Mazenod OC 2nd XI 10/110 v Burwood 2nd XI 5/71. Bulleen 2nd XI 0/4 v Hawthorn 2nd XI 10/145. ■ D Turf. Richmond City 2nd XI 0/44 v Surrey Hills 2nd XI 10/94. Mulgrave 2nd XI 1-d/ 127 v La Trobe Uni 1st XI 10/124 & 1/8. Mont Albert 3rd XI v Ashwood 2nd XI. Edinburgh 2nd XI 7/88 v Old Carey 3rd XI 10/152. ■ E Turf. East Malvern Tooronga 3rd XI 3/ 109 v Hawthorn 3rd XI 10/78. Heathmont 3rd XI 10/186 v Deepdene Bears 3rd XI 2/20.
■ Barclay Shield. Round 12. Two Day. Sat., Feb. 3 and Sat., Feb. 10. Riverside 1st XI 9/196 v North Eltham Wanderers 1st XI 10/114. Diamond Creek 1st XI 10/159 v Bundoora 1st XI 10/230. Rosanna 1st XI 10/ 148 v Epping 1st XI 3/151. Macleod 1st XI 10/211 v Heidelberg 1st XI 3/260. Rosebank 1st XI 8/208 v Research Eltham Collegians 1st XI 10/160. ■ Money Shield. Eltham 1st XI 3-d/210 v Laurimar 1st XI 10/99 & 10/77. Bundoora United 1st XI 9-d/164 & 2/31. Greensborough 1st XI 10/54 & 10/215. Banyule 1st XI 9/221 v Bundoora Park 1st XI 8/222. Lalor Stars 1st XI 10/171 v Lower Eltham 1st XI 10/145. Montmorency 1st XI 10/175 v Plenty 1st XI 10/197. ■ Mash Shield. Mill Park 1st XI 10/150 v Panton Hill 1st XI 4/164. Lower Plenty 1st XI 9/203 v Mernda 1st XI 10/189. Thomastown United 1st XI 10/152 & 2/82. South Morang 1st XI 6-d/270. Hurstbridge 1st XI 6/158 v Thomastown 1st XI 10/153. ■ B-Grade. North Eltham Wanderers 2nd XI 10/126 v Riverside 2nd XI 10/251. Banyule 2nd XI 6-d/173 & 0/17. Diamond Creek 2nd XI 10/120 & 10/65. Epping 2nd XI 2/171 v Rosanna 2nd XI 10/167. Heidelberg 2nd XI 6/ 338 v Lalor Stars 2nd XI 9/140. Mernda 2nd XI 10/171 v Montmorency 2nd XI 5/172. ■ C-Grade. Laurimar 2nd XI 9/112 & 7/70 v Eltham 2nd XI 9-d/167 & 5-d/86. Research Eltham Collegians 2nd XI 5/410 v Bundoora United 2nd XI 10/282. Bundoora 2nd XI 10/ 107 v Lower Plenty 2nd XI 2/109. Lower Eltham
Eastern
Balwyn Saints 2nd XI 10/144 v Edinburgh 3rd XI 0/48. Surrey Hills 3rd XI v Richmond Union 2nd XI 10/212. ■ F Turf. Deepdene Bears 4th XI 10/126 v Heathmont 4th XI. Hawthorn 4th XI v Mazenod OC 3rd XI. Richmond City 3rd XI v Surrey Hills 4th XI Forfeit. St Kevins Old Boys 2nd XI 2/196 v East Malvern Tooronga 4th XI 10/126. Bulleen 3rd XI 9/283 v Mont Albert 4th XI. ■ MacGibbon Shield. Burwood Uniting Canterbury CC 1st XI 1/119 v Clifton Hill 1st XI 10/115. Glen Waverley CC 1st XI 10/216 v Trinity Willison CC 1st XI. Boroondara 1st X1. ■ Burt Shield. Trinity Willison CC 2nd XI 10/ 267 v Glen Waverley CC 2nd XI 2/22. Clifton Hill 2nd XI 1/70 v West Ivanhoe United 1st XI 10/118. Mount Waverley Uniting 1st X1 v Mt Waverley Catholics CC 1st XI 4/377. Monash ROADERS 1st XI v STC South Camberwell 1st XI 7/398. ■ Menzies and Mackay Shield. Trinity Willison CC 3rd XI 10/237 v Blackburn North United 1st XI 1/15. Boroondara 2nd X1 v Burwood Uniting Canterbury CC 2nd XI. Burwood 3rd XI 5/250 v STC South Camberwell 2XI. Toorak-Prahran 2nd XI 0/66 v North Alphington 10/147. ■ A Synthetic. AYC Harlequins 1st XI 0/106 v Boroondara 10/139. Glen Waverley 3rd XI 10/159 v Clifton Hill 3rd XI 2/87. Monash 2nd XI 2/62 v Mount Waverley Uniting 2nd XI 10/ 117. ■ B Synthetic. West Ivanhoe United 2nd XI v Glen Waverley CC 4th XI. Mazenod OC B Grade v Trinity Willison CC 4th XI 9/241. Burwood Uniting Canterbury CC 3rd XI 7/324 v Edinburgh 4th XI. ■ MacCarthy Shield. Melbourne Sixers 1st X1 6/164 v Eagles Cricket Club 1stXI 10/160. Northcote United 1st XI 2/115 v Malvern Valley Saints CC 1st XI. Knox Churches LOC 1 9/ 140 v Deepdene Uniting 2nd XI 7/259. St. Pauls CC 2nd XI: Bye. ■ LOC2. R.W. Laws Shield. Monash University 4 9/132 v Toorak-Prahran 3rd XI 9/112. Eagles Cricket Club 2ndXI 1/90 v Hartley Bull Terriers 2nd X1 9/89. Glen Iris 3rd XI 10/122 v Mulgrave 3rd XI 6/126. Mt Waverley Catholics CC 2nd XI LOC2 v Canterbury 3rd XI. Manningham 1st XI 9/210 v East Doncaster 4th XI 10/124. ■ LOC3. Lamborn Shield. Malvern Valley Saints 2nd XI 10/107 v St. Pauls CC 3rd XI 1/ 108. St Stephens Greythorn 1st XI LOC v North Balwyn Bulls 3rd XI 2/2. Hartley CC Bull Terriers v Manningham 2nd XI. Balwyn Saints 3rd XI 6/239 v Eagles Cricket Club 3rdXI 8/224. Mulgrave 4th XI 8/181 v Melbourne Sixers 2nd X1 5/182. ■ LOC4. Tobias Shield. Marcellin OC 3rd XI 10/92 v Salesian 1st XI 9/164. Ashburton Willows 2nd XI 6/244 v Burwood 4th XI 10/ 117. North Balwyn Bulls 4th XI 10/156 v St Andrews Gardiner 1st XI 4/159. STC South Camberwell 3XI (LOC4) 10/247 v Northcote United 2nd XI 10/201. Abbotsford Anglers 10/ 197 v AYC Harlequins 2nd XI 9/177. ■ LOC5. Minahan Shield. Mount Waverley Uniting 3rd X1 5/217 v Ashburton Willows 3rd XI 10/133. Blackburn North United 2nd XI 8/ 129 v Ashwood 3rd XI 10/226. Heathmont 6th XI 8/116 v Manningham 3rd XI 7/202. ToorakPrahran 4th XI 8/164 v Glen Iris 4th X1 10/98. ■ LOC6. Bingley Shield. Clifton Hill 4th XI 7/138 v Richmond Union 3rd XI 7/138. Deepdene Uniting 3rd XI 10/157 v Burwood Uniting Canterbury CC 4th XI 8/182. Edinburgh LOC6 7/149 v Ashwood 4th XI 7/152. STC South Camberwell 4th X1 (LOC6) 8/208 v St Andrews Gardiner 2nd XI 10/183. Salvation Army Waverley: Bye. ■ LOC7. Fitzwilliam Shield. East Doncaster 5th XI 3/168 v Mont Albert 5th XI 9/142. Mt Waverley Catholics CC 3rd XI LOC7 8/141 v Bulleen 4th XI 10/85. Boroondara LOC7 4/207 v STC South Camberwell 5th XI (LOC7) 8/168. Manningham 4th XI v Glen Waverley CC 6th XI - Sunday ■ LOC8. Carr Shield. Malvern Valley Saints CC 3rd XI 8/140 v Monash ROADERS 4th XI 3/ 143. Ashwood 5th XI 9/192 v Monash University 5 9/169. Salesian 2nd XI 10/151 v Knox Churches LOC8 7/156. Glen Waverley CC 7th XI - Sunday v Ashburton Willows 4th XI (Sunday).
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■ Provincial Firsts. Round 12. Two Day. Sat., Feb. 10 and Sat., Feb. 17. Langwarrin 1sts 6/237 v Baden Powell 1sts. Pines 1sts 10/185 v Red Hill 1sts. Long Island 1sts 9/ 272 v Sorrento 1sts. Heatherhill 1sts v Old Peninsula 1sts. ■ Peninsula Firsts. Seaford Tigers 1sts 10/ 78 v Mt Eliza 1sts 3/97. Baxter 1sts v Rosebud 1sts. Somerville 1sts 2/59 v Moorooduc 1sts 10/145. Dromana 1sts 1/74 v Mornington 1sts 10/144. ■ District Firsts. Carrum 1sts 10/212 v Carrum Downs 1sts. Flinders 1sts 10/192 v Balnarring 1sts 0/31. Delacombe Park 1sts 0/ 11 v Seaford 1sts 10/241. Crib Point 1sts v Main Ridge 1sts 9/194. ■ Sub-District Firsts. Pearcedale 1sts v Ballam Park 1sts. Hastings 1sts 10/115 v Tyabb 1sts 0/37. Skye 1sts v Rye 1sts. Tootgarook 1sts v Mt Martha 1sts 9/216. Boneo 1sts v Frankston YCW 1sts 5/255. ■ Provincial Seconds. Baden Powell 2nds v Langwarrin 2nds 10/186. Red Hill 2nds 10/ 173 v Pines 2nds 2/0. Sorrento 2nds v Long Island 2nds. Old Peninsula 2nds v Heatherhill 2nds. ■ Peninsula Seconds. Mt Eliza 2nds 9-d/ 116 v Seaford Tigers 2nds 10/50 & 2/32. Rosebud 2nds v Baxter 2nds. Moorooduc 2nds v Somerville 2nds. Mornington 2nds 1/11 v Dromana 2nds 10/147. ■ District Seconds. Carrum Downs 2nds 2/267 v Carrum 2nds 0/24. Balnarring 2nds 0/10 v Flinders 2nds 10/225. Seaford 2nds 10/159 v Delacombe Park 2nds 0/15. Main Ridge 2nds 10/203 v Crib Point 2nds 0/9. ■ Sub-District Seconds. Ballam Park 2nds v Pearcedale 2nds 3/114. Tyabb 2nds 5-d/ 108 v Hastings 2nds 7/99 & 1/5. Rye 2nds v Skye 2nds. Mt Martha 2nds 6/245 v Tootgarook 2nds. Frankston YCW 2nds 6/279 v Boneo 2nds. ■ A1-Grade. Old Peninsula 3rds 10/175 v Baden Powell 3rds. French Island 1sts v Heatherhill 3rds. Long Island 3rds v Somerville 3rds. Langwarrin 3rds 10/195 v Tyabb 3rds 0/ 1. ■ A2-Grade. Red Hill 3rds 6/265 v Delacombe Park 3rds. Carrum Downs 3rds v Ballam Park 3rds. Tyabb 4ths 8/172 v Mornington 3rds. Baden Powell 4ths 7/268 v Baxter 3rds. ■ A3-Grade. Balnarring 3rds v Skye 3rds. Mornington 4ths v Langwarrin 4ths. Mt Eliza 3rds 9/212 v Mt Martha 3rds. Pines 3rds v Long Island 4ths. ■ A4-Grade. Carrum Downs 4ths 10/108 v Boneo 3rds 0/98. Rosebud 3rds Forfeit v Tyabb 5ths. Crib Point 3rds v Sorrento 3rds. Heatherhill 4ths v Frankston YCW 3rds 7/251. ■ B1-Grade. Baden Powell 5ths v Baxter 4ths 9/218. Somerville 4ths 10/367 v Delacombe Park 4ths. Carrum Downs 5ths v Long Island 5ths. Mt Eliza 4ths 0/19 v Pines 4ths 10/113. ■ B2-Grade. Boneo 4ths v Red Hill 4ths 10/ 224. Baden Powell 6ths v Carrum Downs 6ths. Skye 4ths v Balnarring 4th XI. ■ C1-Grade. Mt Eliza 5ths 6/189 v Langwarrin Senior Men 6th XI 10/162. Somerville 5ths v Ballam Park 4ths. Seaford Tigers 3rds Forfeit v Old Peninsula 4ths. Seaford 3rds v Skye 5ths. Pearcedale 3rds v Frankston YCW 4ths. Carrum 3rds: Bye. ■ C2-Grade. Baxter 5ths v Somerville 6ths. Tyabb 7th XI 5/129 v Sorrento 4ths 6/127. Mt Martha 5ths 10/95 v Mt Eliza 6ths 3/233. Crib Point 4ths 1/191 v Moorooduc 3rds 8/190. ■ C3-Grade. Dromana 3rds 9/133 v Flinders 3rds 2/134. Main Ridge 3rds v Hastings 3rds. Langwarrin Senior Men 7th XI 8/156 v Sorrento 5ths 3/163. Crib Point 5ths 10/52 v Red Hill 5ths 5/55. Mt Eliza 7ths v Tootgarook 3rds. Mt Martha 6ths: Bye.
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■ Jika Shield. Round 13. Two-Day. Sat., Feb. 10 and Sat., Feb. 17. Rivergum CC 1st XI 8/252 v Preston Baseballers CC 1st XI. Old Ivanhoe Grammarians CC 1st XI 10/114 v Holy Trinity CC 1st XI 8/72. Reservoir Cobras
CC 1st XI 1/14 v Camrea CC 1st XI 10/275. Keon Park CC 1st XI: Bye. ■ Jack Quick Shield. Bellfield CC 1st XI 10/ 151 v Donath CC 1st XI 1/27. Holy Trinity CC 2nd XI v Strathewen CC 1st XI. Dennis CC 1st XI 2/98 v Cameron CC 1st XI 10/126. Fairfield CC 1st XI 9/143 v Fiji Victorian CC 1st XI 1/67 ■ Jack Kelly Shield. Northern Socials CC 1st XI 7/99 v Rivergum CC 2nd XI 10/129. West Preston CC 1st XI 10/106 v Olympic Colts CC 1st XI 10/86. Strathewen CC 2nd XI v Preston Himalayan CC 1st XI. Ivanhoe Mavericks CC 1st XI 7-d/266 v Old Ivanhoe Grammarians CC 2nd XI 0/92. ■ B-Grade. Preston YCW District CC 1st XI 10/140 v Dennis CC 2nd XI 2/50. Fiji Victorian CC 2nd XI 1/14 v Balmoral Redbacks CC 1st XI 7-d/294. Keon Park CC 2nd XI 6/321 v Preston Baseballers CC 2nd XI. Camrea CC 2nd XI: Bye. ■ C-Grade. Cameron CC 2nd XI v Holy Trinity CC 3rd XI 10/281. Fiji Victorian CC 3rd XI 1/31 v Rivergum CC 3rd XI 5-d/301. Royal Park Reds CC 1st XI 10/231 v Ivanhoe Mavericks CC 2nd XI 2/13. Reservoir Cobras CC 2nd XI v Fairfield CC 2nd X1. ■ D-Grade. Old Ivanhoe Grammarians CC 3rd XI 1/36 v West Preston CC 2nd XI 10/187. Donath CC 2nd XI 8/115 v Bellfield CC 2nd XI 10/111. Holy Trinity CC 4th XI v Dennis CC 3rd XI 6/418. ■ Robert Young DODC. Olympic Colts CC OD 8/200 v Dennis CC OD 10/63. Holy Trinity CC OD v Royal Park Reds CC OD. Northern Socials CC OD v Fiji Victorian CC OD. Fairfield CC OD 10/116 v Bellfield CC OD 3/122. Preston Baseballers CC OD: Bye. ■ Casey Radcliffe DODC. Rivergum CC OD 10/97 v Keon Park CC OD 5/98. West Preston CC OD 3/254 v Preston YCW District CC OD 6/143. Dennis CC OD (2) v Strathewen CC OD. Kinglake CC OD 10/99 v Ivanhoe Mavericks CC OD 10/211.
Ringwood District
■ Lindsay Trollope Shield. Round 13. Two-Day. Sat., Feb. 10 and Sat., Feb. 17. Norwood CC 1st XI v Kilsyth 1st XI 10/188. Ainslie Park 1st XI 10/136 v South Croydon 1st XI 1/7. East Ringwood 1XI v North Ringwood 1st XI 10/204. Lilydale 1st XI 10/ 186 v Montrose 1st XI 1/10. ■ Bill Wilkins Cup. Wantirna South 1st XI 10/226 v St Andrews 1st XI. Bayswater Park 1st X1 5/105 v Wonga Park CC 1st XI 9/107. Mooroolbark 1st XI Men's v Templeton 1st XI 7/227. Warrandyte 1st XI 10/129 v Croydon Ranges CC 1st XI 3/86. ■ Stuart Newey Plate. Chirnside Park 1st XI v South Warrandyte 1st XI 6/360. Heathwood CC 1st XI 10/151 v Warranwood 1XI 2/49. Montrose 2nd XI 10/322 v Mt Evelyn 1st XI. Croydon North 1st XI 10/142 v Seville Burras 1XI 0/18. ■ Steve Pascoe Shield. North Ringwood 2nd XI 9/260 v Yarra Junction 1stXI. Croydon Ranges CC 2nd XI 0/26 v Warrandyte 2nd XI 10/164. South Croydon 2nd XI 8/175 v Ainslie Park 2nd XI. Kilsyth 2nd XI v Wantirna South 2nd XI. ■ Pat Meehan Shield. Wonga Park CC 2nd XI 10/225 v Lusatia Park 1st XI. South Warrandyte 2nd XI 1/18 v Norwood CC 2nd XI 10/260. Eastfield 1st XI 3/64 v Lilydale 2nd XI 10/85. Healesville 1st XI 10/232 v East Ringwood 2XI. ■ Ian Spencer Shield. Warranwood 2XI 9/ 202 v Bayswater Park 2nd X1. St Andrews 2nd XI 10/180 v Chirnside Park 2nd XI 2/20. Montrose 3rd XI 10/280 v Coldstream 1stXI 0/ 7. Templeton 2nd XI 10/186 v Mooroolbark 2nd XI Men's ■ David Beatty Shield. Wandin CC 1st XI 10/190 v Warrandyte 3rd XI 4/70. East Ringwood 3XI 10/130 v Heathwood CC 2nd XI 4/136. Seville Burras 2XI 10/237 v North Ringwood 3rd XI 0/25. Mt Evelyn 2nd XI v Norwood CC 3rd XI 9/230. ■ Don Smith Shield. Croydon Ranges CC 3rd XI 0/11 v Yarra Glen Senior Men 1st XI 10/ 361. Hoddles Creek 1st XI 10/207 v Ainslie Park 3rd XI 0/16. Warranwood 3XI 10/184 v Montrose 4th XI 1/27. Yarra Junction 2ndXI
2/28 v Wonga Park CC 3rd XI 10/344. ■ John Springett Shield. Lusatia Park 2nd XI v Lilydale 3rd XI 10/258. Wandin CC 2nd XI v Wantirna South 3rd XI. Kilsyth 3rd XI 8/320 v Eastfield 2nd XI. St Andrews 3rd XI 10/242 v Healesville 2nd XI. ■ A-Grade. South Croydon 3rd XI 5/153 v St Andrews 4th XI 4/246. Powelltown 1st XI 0/ 64 v Croydon North 2nd XI 10/61. Norwood CC 4th XI 1/111 v Heathwood CC 3rd XI 10/ 109. Seville Burras 3XI 6/267 v Chirnside Park 3rd XI 9/164. ■ B-Grade. Mt Evelyn 3rd XI 10/150 v Mooroolbark 3rd XI Men's 4/15. Croydon Ranges CC 4th XI 6/231 v South Warrandyte 3rd XI 10/173. Templeton 3rd XI v Warrandyte 4th XI. Wonga Park CC 4th XI 3/133 v North Ringwood 4th XI 10/132. ■ C-Grade. Bayswater Park 3rd X1 9/149 v Boronia Hawks 4th XI 9/150. Montrose 5th XI 3/196 v Mt Evelyn 4th XI 10/195. Chirnside Park 4th XI 9/144 v Kilsyth 4th XI 7/148. Coldstream 2ndXI 9/209 v Healesville 3rd XI 10/151. ■ D-Grade. East Ringwood 4XI 5/189 v Warranwood 4XI 4/253. Warrandyte 5th XI 3/ 142 v Yarra Junction 3rdXI 9/132. Wonga Park CC 5th XI 8/198 v St Andrews 5th XI 6/201. Yarra Glen Senior Men 2nd XI 9/172 v Lilydale 4th XI 7/189. ■ E-Grade. Warrandyte 6th XI 5/223 v Ainslie Park 4th XI 5/327. Seville Burras 4XI 7/246 v Croydon Ranges CC 5th XI 8/161. Wantirna 1st XI 2/200 v Norwood CC 5th XI 9/197. Wantirna South 4th XI 7/128 v Mooroolbark 4th XI Men's 1/129. ■ F-Grade. St Andrews 6th XI v Templeton 4th XI. South Warrandyte 4th XI v Heathwood CC 4th XI. Mt Evelyn 5th XI 4/180 v South Croydon 4th XI 2/183. Lilydale 5th XI 4/162 v Kilsyth 5th XI 10/159. ■ G-Grade. Healesville 4th XI 2/192 v Wandin CC 3rd XI 9/189. Hoddles Creek 2nd XI 3/221 v Lusatia Park 3rd XI 7/99. Chirnside Park 5th XI 7/174 v Montrose 6th XI 9/170. Mooroolbark 5th XI Men's 8/198 v Kilsyth 6th XI 5/212. ■ H-Grade. North Ringwood 5th XI 7/159 v St Andrews 7th XI 8/158. Norwood CC 6th XI 6/193 v Wonga Park CC 6th XI 7/166. Warranwood 5XI 6/175 v Eastfield 3rd XI 10/169. East Ringwood 5XI: Bye. ■ I-Grade. Seville Burras 5XI 8/127 v Warrandyte 7th XI 5/222. Warranwood 6XI 4/ 94 v South Croydon 5th XI 9/82. Yarra Junction 4thXI 5/223. Yarra Glen Senior Men 3rd XI 9/66. Croydon Ranges CC 6th XI: Bye. ■ J-Grade. Ainslie Park 5th XI 2/169 v Templeton 5th XI 5/168. Wonga Park CC 7th XI 9/188 v Bayswater Park 4th X1 5/183. St Andrews 8th XI 7/169 v Wantirna 2nd XI 10/ 170.
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■ Longmuir Shield. Round 13. Two-Day. Sat., Feb. 10 and Sat., Feb. 17. Kingston Heath 1 10/90 v Bentleigh Uniting 1 9/91. Bentleigh ANA 1 9/223 v Brighton Union 1 4/ 226. Le Page Park 1 5/194 v East Sandringham 1 10/192. CHAG 1 10/152 v Elwood 1 10/137. ■ Woolnough Shield. Hampton United 1 9/ 192 v Cheltenham Park 1 4/193. Omega 1 8d/160 v Mackie 1 10/156. Cluden 1 10/212 v Hampton Central 1 10/353. Washington Park 1 9/183 v West Bentleigh 1 10/182. ■ Quiney Shield. Mackie 2 10/269 v Omega 2 7/272. Bentleigh Uniting 2 8/185 v Kingston Heath 2 9/183. Elwood 2 10/307 v Washington Park 2 10/273. Carnegie South 1 9/246 v Le Page Park 2 10/245. ■ Pullen Shield. Brighton Union 2 9/233 v Melbourne Wanderers 1 10/211. Cheltenham Park 2 7-d/195 & 10/66. Hampton United 2 10/134 & 10/168. West Bentleigh 2 10/299 v CUCC Kings 1 10/156. East Sandringham 2 8/269 v Cluden 2 10/201. ■ E-Grade. Melbourne Districts United 1 8/ 289 v Bentleigh ANA 2 10/127. Diamond 1 10/204 v Keysborough Park 1 10/173. Le Page Park 3 9/235 v CHAG 2 10/140. CUCC Kings 2 8/153 v Highett West 1 9/209.
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While engaging in social activities, individuals may come across people who will eventually become a permanent part of their lives. The year may also bring about significant personal changes, such as marriages, engagements, and the rekindling of past relationships. LIBRA: (September 24- October 23) Lucky Colour: Silver Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 5.6.2.3. Lotto Numbers: 5.12.26.36.30.22. In times like these, when the world is grappling with a pandemic and war, it is crucial to prioritize your health and well-being. You may also be considering ways to enhance your professional skills and excel in your career. It's the perfect time to focus on self-improvement and personal growth. SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22) Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 2.3.5.2. Lotto Numbers: 2.13.25.40.6.20. The present time is favourable for individuals who enjoy romance and have a youthful spirit. 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REGISTRATION PLATES. Personalised. MISUBI. B/W. Slimline. VGC. $1500 or offer. Frankston. 9789 9634. F-I ROOF TILES. Dark brown. Terra cotta. 150. GC. Free. Launching Place. 5967 4412. F-I STAGS ELKS FERNS. Loads of so many plants, indoor, outdoor. Ideal presents, rubber, bird of paradise. Hydrangeas, lillies, Bromelids, beautiful colours, ground covers. Why pay retail? Special Canna lillies, red from $15. New. Noble Park. 0407 325 030. F-I SPORTLINER VAN. With annex, microwave, double bed, sink, hot water, gas, hot plates, TV aerial, kitchen stuff, bedding. Seats 3. Electric brakes very tight, 690,000-km. Easy to tow. Year 209. GC. $13,000. Rosebud. 5986 6352. F-I TOYS, books, records, DVDs, plants, clothese (emn’s, women’s, mainly 10-16). Plastic plates, knives, forks, dog bowls, jackets, toilet training, bird seed. GC and EC. From $2. Noble Park. 0407 325 030. F-I
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PUBLIC NOTICES Land Acquisition and Compensation Regulations 2021 FORM 7 Regulation 16 Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 NOTICE OF ACQUISITION COMPULSORY ACQUISITION OF INTEREST IN LAND The Minister for the Crown administering the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Authority) declares that by this notice it acquires the following interest in part of the land described as Lot 4 on Plan of Subdivision 111799 contained in Certificate of Title Volume 09068 Folio 410, being that part of the land shown as Lot 1, R1 and R2 on the proposed Plan of Subdivision 835812C depicted below: Interests Acquired: That of Zdravko Jelic (registered proprietor) and all other interests. The acquisition is made pursuant to section 5.2.3 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 for the purpose of a new government school. A notice of intention to acquire the interest in the land was not required under section 7(1) of the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 because the Minister has certified that service of a notice of intention to acquire would be unnecessary, undesirable or contrary to the public interest. Published with the authority of the Authority.
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