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Healy must pay $7500 fine and $35,000 court costs

council and at a meeting of a local trader and tourism association to argue against a differential commercial rate of 125 per cent.

At the time, Mr Healy owned three commercial properties in Eildon.

The Inspectorate began its investigation in ■ The County Court this week upheld four March 2015 and charged Mr Healy inApril 2017 charges of misuse of position following an ap- with misuse of position under section 76D(1) of peal by former Murrindindi Shire councillor the Local Government Act 1989.

Chris Healy.

Judge Paul Higham heard the appeal in SepPERSONAL NOTICES tember in Melbourne’s County Court.

Mr Healy was found guilty with four charges DEATHS proven, with one charge being dismissed.

In sentencing on Monday (Oct. 21), Judge Higham ordered Mr Healy pay a $7500 fine WARNE - Raymond Leslie 7.4.1928 - 18. 10.2019 and contribute $35,000 towards the prosecution 91 years legal costs.

Judge Higham, in an exercise of discretion, Dearly loved husband of Lorna for 66 years, did not impose a conviction, noting Mr Healy’s loving father of Bill and Sue and Lesley and past good character.

Gary. Proud Pop of six grandsons - Josh, Jake, Judge Higham observed that in Victoria, lo- Thomas, Timothy, Toby and Jeremy and three cal government depends on the voluntary con- great grandchildren - Matilda, Pippa and Hank. tributions of councillors and the public must have Sadly Missed confidence in councillors as a democratic system.

FUNERALS Judge Higham made clear that the position WARNE - The Funeral Service celebrating the of a councillor must not be used for gain.

It was said that Mr Healy had attempted to life of Raymond Warne will be held on Wednesgain an advantage by making improper use of day October 23, 2019 at 2.00 pm in the information acquired while a councillor, regard- Murrindindi Chapel, 21 Johnston St, Alexandra, ing Murrindindi Shire’s proposed rating strat- followed by burial in the Alexandra Cemetery. egy.

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Local people enjoy Spring activities Photos: Ash Long

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● Dale Murphy, Kelvin Gaskell and Graham Roberts prepare the Heritage Pavilion at the Whittlesea Showgrounds.

Flowerdale ● Kelvin Day and Robert Huber at the Australian Motorcycle Trail Riders Association ride from Flowerdale to Mount Disappointment.

Alexandra

● Pat Coller and Bruce Wilson at the Yarck Country Market.

Kinglake ● Warren Maher (Cameron) and Bruce Stonehouse (Kinglake), cricket scorers.

Eildon ● Terry Dyke and Max Ewert at Eildon ‘Big Fish’.

● Bowlers Brian Gunton and Neil Rieschieck at Alexandra Bowls Club.

Eildon ● Bowlers Justin Branch (Yea) and Steve Hall (Eildon)

Yea ● Delilah Stathopoulos with ‘Nana’ Lisa Hanley of Yea, at Eildon ‘Big Fish’

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Greg is installed as Master at Alex.

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■ Stephen Baker, of the Seymour Railway Heritage Centr,e tells of the special North East Standard Gauge train tour to Albury on Saturday, November 23.

Travel in 1937 original Spirit of Progress carriages, including the famous roundended Parlour carriage where the bar will be open. There are optional tours on the way at Benalla and Wangaratta. Details at www.srhc.org.au or call 0477 707 411.

■ There are only eight more issues of this newspaper before Christmas. Book your advertising now by phoning Editor Ash Long on 1800 231 311 or 0450 399 932. He will personally look after your advertising requirements.

■ Professor Amanda Kelly will be guest speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the Yea and District Memorial Hospital to be held at Beaufort Manor at 5pm on Monday, November 25. Notices will appear in this newspaper in coming weeks.

Prof. Kelly will speak on ‘The Future of Small Rural Hospitals in Today’s Increasingly Complex Health System’.

■ Our every-week advertiser, Tilco Engineering, has signed for another year’s advertising in The Local Paper and the Melbourne Observer. They have been experiencing horrible problems with their Telstra phone lines. If you have difficulties getting through, please leave a message on (07) 4633 0624. Barry and his team will be quick to respond to you.

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■ Greg Thorneycroft was installed as ‘Worshipful Master’of the Albert Edward Lodge at the Alexandra Masonic Centre on Thursday (Oct. 17).

The ceremony was carried out by Freemasons Victoria Junior Grand Warden, Christopher Scott, on a night attended by a good number of members and ladies.

The investiture of officers was carried out by the Grand Lodge team of officers including Ian Goddard, Proclaiming Officer; Barry Minster, Senior Warden; Carl Donadio, Junior Warden; Charles Charalambous, Chaplain; Bill Sheahan, Andrew Buchanan, Deacons; Ron Evans, Inner Guard; John Rebnechi, Organist; and Warren Gilbert, Grand Herald.

Other Grand Lodge members involved in the investiture of officers included Wayne Millard, Elias Eracleous, David Foong and Andrew Buchanan.

Albert Edward Lodge members with posts in the 2019-20 year include: David Dimech, Senior Warden; Piers Jackson, Junior Warden; Norm Stace, Chaplain; Neil Moehr, Treasurer; Stuart Dale, Secretary; Bob Hocking, Director of Ceremonies; Paul Dundas, Assistant Director of Ceremonies; Ray Norris, Almoner; Stephen Wheatland, Senior Deacon; Richard McKernan, Junior Deacon; Andrew White, Inner Guard; Wes Anderson, Head Steward; Brendan Gidley, Glenn Lowtherm Stewards; and Mark Wheatland, Tyler.

● Greg Thorneycroft and Andrew White at the Alexandra Masonic Centre.

MP cheers Eagles ■ Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green last week told State Parliament about the success of the Eagles football and netball club.

“It is with great pleasure that I report to the house that the Whittlesea Football and Netball Club will be returning to division 1 in the Northern Football Netball League next year,” Ms Green told the Legislative Assembly.

“They are a great country club. They won the grand final against Banyule. Coach Blair Harvey did an outstanding job with a great young side.”

26). The Cox Plate Day meeting is a popular attraction in the country racing calendar.

Due to technical restrictions, there will be no EFTPOS services at Saturday’s meeting.

$50,000 for Rec.

■ A proposal to allocate $50,000 towards pipe renewal at the Yea Recreation Reserve will be considered by Murrindindi Councillors tonight (Wed.).

The allocation would be for ground water pipe renewal tothe reserve – connecting irrigation to main water supply project.

The project funding comes after Council saved $58,726 of its cycle safety sign projects.

Aunty Dot tribute

■ ‘Aunty Dot’ Peters was remembered by Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish in State Parliament last week.

“A large crowd gathered at the Healesville football ground on Tuesday, October 1, to celebrate and remember community stalwart and Aboriginal elder Aunty Dot Peters,” Ms McLeish told the Legislative Assembly.

“Dorothy Peters was born in Healesville and lived there most of her life. She loved the community, made many contributions and will be fondly remembered.

“Aunty Dot was grounded in common sense.

She was down to earth and approachable and firm in her belief that everybody was equal and everybody should be treated equally and with respect. She was, in herself, reconciliation.

“Aboriginal culture was very important to her, and for many years she worked at Healesville Primary School as an Aboriginal educator. This was something that she loved.

“Most significant, though, was perhaps her role in the creation of the Victorian Indigenous remembrance service held annually at the Shrine.

“Aunty Dot’s father was a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma railway. Him being Aboriginal, hisservice was not recognised. Aunty Dot knew this was not right and pushed for Indigenous men and women who served our country to be recognised and honoured. This was long overdue and a remarkable achievement.

“Her son Andrew gave a wonderful tribute to her, part roast, and picked up on her quirks - the correct pronunciation of Coranderrk, and the art of coiling, not basket weaving. He did a terrific job.

“My thoughts are with Andrew, Alissa, Jackson and Max,” Ms McLeish said.

Shire highlights ■ Murrindindi Shire Council is looking to adopt its latest annual report at tonight’s meeting to be held at Alexandra.

Highlights of the year are listed: ■ “We supported community groups and schools across the Shire with 62 projects to mark

Week in Tasmania

■ Members of the Probus Club of Yea have spent a week visiting the travel spots of Tasmania.

$50,000 grant ● Aunty Dot Peters the 10th anniversary of the 2009 Bushfires.

■ “We officially opened the Marysville Information and Regional Artspace (MiRA).

■ “We completed and officially opened the Yea and District Children’s Centre redevelopment.

■ “We developed and finalised the Community Planning Framework and began community planning trials in Yea, Toolangi and Marysville.

■ “We secured temporary access for residents of the Kinglake Ranges to mental health services in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

■ “We completed the review of Aged and Disability Services following extensive consultation and made the decision to transition direct service delivery of these services to other providers by the end of 2019.

■ “We secured funding to develop a volunteerbased community transport program ‘Moving Murrindindi’ to increase transport options for vulnerable residents in the Shire.

■ “We officially re-launched the refurbished Mobile and Customer Service Van bringing Council services directly to more communities across the Shire.

■ “We resolved to remove overdue library fines to encourage increased participation by the community in our library services.”

■ Murrindindi Shire Council provided a $50,000 grant to the organisers of this month’s Boating and Fishing Show at Eildon.

Racing at Alex.

● Andrew Embling and Ayden Embling were pictured ahead of this Saturday’s Open Day (Oct. 26) for Embling Rural in Grant St.

■ Alexandra Racing Club will hold its first picnic meeting for the season this Saturday (Oct.

Open Day at Embling Rural

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Ticks & Crosses

Local Briefs Bins for Koriella?

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Did a media outlet (not us) send an $80 invoice after publishing an editorial story and photo submitted by a local charitable community group?

Maroondah Hwy between Narbethong and Healesville is closed 7am-5pm TuesdayThursday (Oct. 22-24) for urgent tree works. Locals wonder if any consideration was given to the school students who travel daily from Narby to Healesville during these hours.

● Rebekha Sharkie, Cathy McGowan and Dr Helen Haines.

Former Indi MHR Cathy McGowan was last week presented with an Integrity Award for her contribution as a backbencher during two terms as an independent Member in the Australian Parliament. Ms McGowan received the Alan Missen award from the Accountability Round Table Ltd at Parliament House in Canberra.

Yea’s young Christmas tree, in the High St Plantation, is coming along nicely.

Crosses to the Yea teenagers accused of vandalism at the Railway Reserve.

Their activities are now under increased surveillance.

Odyssey House Victoria has marked the start of its 40th anniversary cel ebrations with the appointment of a new-look board that includes Jenny Macklin as chair. An international leader in drug and alcohol rehabilitation, training and support, Odyssey House is a major provider of treatment services in Victoria.

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● Allan Burnett, snakes expert.

The world's deadliest snakes will once again feature at this year's Whittlesea Show (Nov. 2-3). The Reptile Awareness Display will run demonstrations showcasing five of the top 10 most venomous snakes on the planet. Every year the snakes draw a crowd to see reptile specialist Allan Burnett.

No-one likes to see road accidents.

Grant St, Alexandra, was closed on Thursday (Oct. 17) after a vehicle collided with the Laundromat exterior wall.

SES used Jaws of Life to extract a passenger who suffered a leg injury.

Ticks to all who participated in the ELF Reading Day at Yea last week.

The youngsters had a ball ... so too did the adults.

Residents around Gordons Bridge Rd, Castella, have been so upset about Murrindindi Council’s lack of attention to fixing potholes, they have lodged a petition. Twenty people signed the petition led by Harry Braun, and said: "‘The road is also graded about once per year, usually in autumn before the rains and the road then becomes muddy, slippery and dangerous."

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Send your contribution to: editor@LocalMedia.com.au Contributions will be published at the sole discretion of the Editor.

Hats off to Rotary ● Standing, from left: Robert Chaffe, Debbie Skinner, John Sharwood. Back row: Lindsay Baker, David Strongman, Bob Flowers. Next row: John Cannon, Chris Jackson, Sharon Fox, Ian Davis, Anne Reid, Chris Barry. Next row: Melinda Jackson, Kerri Burge, Maurie Pawsey, Jon Monteath, Aju Thomas. Front row: David Dimech John Bassett , Debbie Rogers, Lorna Gilbert and Tom Farrell.

■ Alexandra Rotarians this month remem- Alexandra and they will be around till the end bered ‘World Mental Health Day’ by wearing a of October. hat to their regular meeting on Wednesday last Rotary extends special thanks to the comweek (Oct. 16). munity whhich hasmade a donation to support Each member made a gold coin contribution ‘Lift your Lid’. to the Rotary ‘Lift Your Lid Project’, that raises Mental health has been identified as the most funds for mental health research. significant issue facing the community now and The ‘Lift you Lid’ collection boxes have in the future. been placed in many business houses in - Robert Chaffe

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Cl. Director moves on ■ Stuart McConnell has moved on from one of the top jobs at Murrindindi Shire Council.

Mr McConnell last month left his position as Director of Assets and Development, after just under three years in the job.

He was commuting to work at the Alexandra offices each week, with his family based in Heidelberg.

Mr McConnell has gone on to become General Manager Place and Community at East Gippsland Shire Council at Bairnsdale.

Mr McConnell found controversy earlier this year when he issued what The Local Paper called a clumsy news release about roadside traders at Glenburn.

More than 500 people protested about the issue, and the Council was forced to make an embarrassing U-turn on Mr McConnell’s directive.

There had been some concern in senior Council circles that some paperwork had been circulating in Mr McConnell’s name after he had left its emply.

Mr McConnell had been on a salary in the $150,000$159,999 range at Murrindindi.

■ Murrindindi Shire Council will tonight (Wed.) hear about a petition relating to access to rubbish bin delivery collection on Brooks Cutting Rd, Alexandra/Koriella.

The 12 petitioners request for the rubbish truck to turn right at Brooks Cutting Rd and Swann Rd and continue along this road, where other homes could also put their bins outside their properties and end at 1.26 kilometres down the road. The petition was submitted

by Jim and Paula Inness.

There is concern over transporting the bins to the corner due to the age and health of the residents on Brooks Cutting Rd. There is a suitable turning circle area that cattle trucks use, for a Cleanaway truck to also use.

SDCA fixtures ■ Yea Tigers A-Grade host Broadford at The Rec. at 12.30pm this Saturday (Oct. 26).

In B-Grade, the Harley Hammond Reserve will host the Broadford v Yea match, and Leckie Park will be the location for the Alexandra vs Eastern Hill game (12.30pm). The earlier 12.30pm start time alos applies at Chittick Park for the Seymour vs Alexandra contest.

Open Gardens

■ Alexandra and District Open Gardens will be open this Saturday-Sunday (Oct. 2627) at these locations: ■ Marg and Les Ridd, 'Glen Doone' 1443 Whanrewarwen Rd, Molesworth ■ Pat Jane, 10 McKenzie Str, Alexandra ■ Ann Friedel, 11Albert St, Alexandra ■ Gillian and Richard Steward, 37 Albert St, Alexandra.

■ Carole Harrowfield, 31 Oswald Drive, Alexandra.

■ Linley and Andy Miller, 8 Toronga Rise, Alexandra.

■ Di Robb and Ken Deacon, 'Rosebank' 171 Rubicon Rd, Rubicon.

■ Sonya and David Evans, 'Attunga Farm' 82 Rollasons Rd, Thornton.

■ Caitlin and Andrew Williams, 'Shrublands' 426 Back Eildon Rd, Thornton ■ Karine and John Haslam, 'Morning Mist' 840 Back Eildon Rd, Eildon.

Vale Frank Wood

● Stuart McConnell has been replaced (on a temporary basis) by Vito Albicini.

He had previously held se- Albicini, who has worked in lonior positions with the Depart- cal government for 25 years, ment of Environment, Land, with experience working at Water and Planning, includ- both metro and rural councils.

“Vito has more than 30 ing Principal Advisor - Forest, Fire and Regions and Director years experience in civil engineering. He has a strong com- Ecological Policy.

Before that, Mr McConnell mitment to provide exceptional had been Director - Environ- customer service and deliver ment Protection Reform at the great outcomes for the commuDepartment of Sustainability nity,” says the Council website.

The Council had not issued and Environment, Victoria.

Acting in the Director’s role any statements about Mr Mcin a temporary position is Vito Connell’s departure.

Adventure park at Toolangi?

■ A high ropes adventure park with ziplines and elevated activities is planned for Spraggs Rd, Toolangi.

A plan will go to the Murrindindi Shire Council meeting tonight (Wed.), with an application

by M.P. Savage Pty Ltd. The application asks for permission to remove native vegetation, and display a business identification sign.

The property is in an area that is regarded as high quality agricultural land.

An officer's repoprt recommends that Councillors issue a notice of decision to grant a planning permit.

The application is being reported to Council because four objections have been received for this proposal.

It is suggested that hours of operation are between the hours of 9am until 5.30pm or 6pm,.

A proposed permit condition is that the kiosk/ café may only provide packaged food and beverages for visitors.

Officers propose that more than 150 patrons, plus 30 staff, may be permitted on the site at any one time.

Some 60 car parking spaces are proposed for the ‘Tree Surfing’ adventure park which expects 30,000 visitors annually.

■ A funeral service was held yesterday (Tues.) at the Yarra Glen Racecourse for Frank Wood, a former CFA captain. He had involvements with the local football club, and the Freemasons Lodge as a Director of Ceremonies. “He was a really good bloke and a great mate to many and all who new him. He will be sadly missed by all,” said friend Wayne Barry.

Retrospective app ■ A planning permit application - for a threebedroom dwelling that has already been built at 1274 Yarck Rd, Gobur - is to be put to tonight’s Murrindindi Council meeting. Officers are recommending that the permit be refused. Their report says that a shed was renovated to become a dwelling, and that an objection had been received.

At Fawcett Hall

■ Locally grown and potted plants will be amongst the bargains at the Fawcett Hall from 9am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 2627) as part of the Open Gardens weekend.

Cash giveaways ■ A $5000 cash grant to Life Saving Victoria is likely to be approved at tonight's Murrindindi Council meeting. A$2000 sponsorship to the Triangle Arts Group will be discussed, and $5000 looks set to be granted for Foggy Mountain Inc., comprising a a fee waiver of $750 and sponsorship of $4250.

Fee waiver ■ The Rotary Club of Kinglake Ranges has asked Murrindindi Council for a $256 fee waiver to rent the Community Centre.

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Who will be next Mayor?

■ Murrindindi Shire Council will hold a special meeting next week at which a vote will be held to decide the position of Mayor for the year ahead.

If Cr Sandice McAulay decides not to stand again for the top position, the Council’s practice in recent years has been to appoint the Deputy Mayor to the role.

Cr Leigh Dunscombe, of Kinglake Ward, is currently in the deputy role.

There are seven Councillors, of which Crs Charlie Bisset, Sandice McAulay and Margaret Rae have already held the post.

Other Councillors are Cr Jackie Ashe, who has a number of outside work commitments; Cr Eric Lording, who would like the Mayor’s position, but in the past has been unable to secure the numbers; and Cr Bec Bowles, who may be a surprise candidate.

Cr Dunscombe has come under fire in recent times from several Kinglake circles.

He was not successful in trying to explain that Councillors could no longer sign petitions, nor express pre-conceived views on local issues.

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■ Jaala Pulford, State Minister, has issued a statement about Maroondah Hwy road works at the Black Spur: “I know the community wants to improve safety on Black Spur Road – it’s a view I also share.

“And while we’re undertaking detailed road safety assessments, I’m pleased to

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announce a range of improvements we’ll be delivering over the next eight months.

“We’ll be undertaking an extensive retrofitting of the existing guard fence – adding rub rail and poly-buffers as part of a $2.3 million project to make all barriers more motorcycle friendly.

“New Curve Alignment Markers will also help riders and drivers know what bends are approaching and we will also improve signage along the length of the road – including additional slow turn out signs.

“We’ll also be repairing sections of road and undertake an extensive resurfacing of the Maroondah Highway from Fernshaw Picnic Ground to the Dom Dom Saddle RestArea – we’ll make sure we do this after the busy summer period to minimise the impact on local businesses and consider bushfire risks.

“And over the next fortnight we’ll be undertaking emergency works to remove 12 trees that are potentially hazardous.

“These trees are around 50 metres tall and we’ll need to close the road between Narbethong and Healesville from Tuesday October 22 – Thursday October 24 and again on Tuesday October 29.

“We’ll make sure a variable message board is placed at Buxton during this period.

“I want to thank the local community for your patience and your input on how we can best improve safety on this road,” Ms Pulford said.

Devlin family at ‘Fallsview’, Yea River

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K’lake air drama

■ Four people narrowly escaped death when their twin-engine aircraft crash-landed in a Kinglake potato paddock near Orchard Rd, owned by Deidre and Maurice Hawkins.

The Canberra-Lilydale flight suffered engine failure in stormy weather, dropping through 800 metres of cloud before the pilot could see the ground through heavy rain.

One person was freed from the aircraft

by SES volunteer, Cr Ray Hutchinson.

F’dale opening

■ Deputy Premier Joan Kirner was at Flowerdale Primary School to declare new buildings open. Also in attendance were Bruce and Jenny Kindred, and Whittlesea MLA Max McDonald.

Yea Court closes

■ More than a century of Yea and legal tradition came to an end with the closure of the Yea Magistrates’ Court. Officiating at the final day were Magistrate Tony Ellis, Clerk Terry Smalley, Prosecutor Sgt Brendan Scully.

Owen Jackson, who served Yea Court between 1946 and 1983 as solicitor and barrister, said it was a sad day: “It is a fundamental principle of British law that justice be readily and freely available.”

Mr Ellis described Mr Jackson as the ‘Galbally of the Goulburn’.

Retailer’s blast

■ Yea Development Committee chairman Ian Findley said local retailers were at fault for parking their cars in the High St shopping area

Stud’s awards

■ Flowerdale’sWoodlands Charolais team took out all but one of the inter-breed awards it contested at the Seymour and Shepparton Shows. Woodlands also won the coveted McEwen Cup for the inter-breed group.

$1 mil for 6 lots

■ Bids exceeding $1 million came for six Yea lots put to auction by the McGregor family at the Shire Hall. The properties had been held in the McGregor family for 60 years

Footy president

■ John Quinlan took over as President of the Yea Football Netball Club. Retiring President, Stephen West, did not contest the position.

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■ The Findon Harriers Hunt Club was preparing to appear at the 1989 Whittlesea Show. This was to be led by Joint Master, Noel Mason, 89, believed to be the oldest Hunt Master in Australasia.

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MP hits back at her critics ■ Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green has used State Parliament to hit back at critics of her being a tenant in her private life.

Ms Green said a real estate agent had leaked information to the press about the condition of the property that she rented.

Ms Green disputed the claims, and says she won back her bond, after fighting the matter at a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing.

“It is unruly to take up interjections, but the member for Euroa has just made a comment about me going before VCAT,” Ms Green told the Legislative Assembly.

“Well, yes, I did go to VCAT, and I got every cent of my bond back because it was a vicious attack on my credibility.

“It was a politically motivated attack, and those responsible for it are still making a whispering campaign, trying to make mischief about the fact that I am a tenant.

“I choose at this stage in my life to be a tenant. The member for Northcote earlier quoted many economists that actually say it is an economically rational position for many people to determine to be tenants.

“So that is why tenants rights are particularly important.

“I want to actually tell the house about one of the particularly odious attacks that were made on me and my credibility.

“One of the bases on which the landlord whose property I was living in until January of this year wanted to keep my bond, and all of my bond, was that I had a dog in the premises that they had not agreed to.

“My American staffy dog Bella had been very much accepted, and accepted in writing, when we had moved into the property some two years earlier.

“In August last year we, my staff and I, had the horror of witnessing a terrible altercation between my dog and a kangaroo.

“They fought for 40 minutes, and both animals had to be put down. It was one of the most horrific things I have seen.

“My husband and I were deeply traumatised by this, as were my staff. Three days later I had an opportunity.

“A local rescue drew to my attention another beautiful staffy cross dog in Bailey.

“He had lost his owner and had slept beside her body for three days until she was discovered by police—a beautiful, loyal dog, grieving as we were.

“So one of the bases of the politically motivated attack on me as a tenant was that I had a male staffy dog and in fact they had agreed that I could have a female staffy dog.

“That was one of the spurious and disgraceful attacks on me in addition to insisting that they could come into my prop-

Shire News 100 at meeting ■ About 100 people attended at the Murrindindi Community Hub on Wednesday last week (Oct. 16) for a public meeting about a proposed hotel at 707 Murrindindi Rd. Council CEO Craig Lloyd addressed the meeting, and offered information.

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● Danielle Green, MLA for Yan Yean erty whenever they liked and licly outed, and I thought, that I did not have to be there ‘Well, I’m on a hiding to nothfor inspections. They would ing here. I’m going to go to say they would be there be- VCAT’. tween 9 and 5.

“My political enemies “They would not even give made sure that there was a me a two-hour window, so I or photographer outside the VCAT my husband would have to take hearing, and there were nutime off work, or otherwise they merous leaks about that. said they would come in any“The member hearing the way. case could not believe what “And when they would they were hearing. come in they would take pho“One of the things that I had tographs. They took photo- supposedly done was that there graphs of our bed. They took were knife marks on a chopphotographs of many other per- ping board. Goodness me—a sonal things. chopping board used as a chop“I reported that our water ping board. had degraded, and it turned was one example of out—a plumber friend of ours the“That supposed terrible damage said—that the hot-water serthat my husband and I had done vice had blown up.

“I had had rust on the tiles to this property, which was tofor some weeks and had not tally untrue.

“We got our bond back, and realised. I thought it was a probI am glad that I went public lem with the water itself and around that. I hope that that is a had been scrubbing it down. “ I deliberately left it in that lesson to landlords and agents.

“With this sort of behaviour, situation to show the agents, and then they wrote us a recti- if they treated me in that way, fication request and said that what do they do to single-parwe had not kept the premises ent casual workers?

“So I am glad I stood up for in a clean condition.

“These matters were that. I am glad that there are leaked to the press and were proposals in this bill that will the subject of a Herald Sun ar- allow reasonable circumticle. stances for being able to have “I am a member of Parlia- your pet as a member of your ment, and I have been able to family and also provide greater push back. I was not going to protections to tenants. be bullied and have $3000 ex“I commend the bill to the tracted from me under threat house, and I thank members for of being publicly outed. listening to my personal expe“Unfortunately I was pub- rience,” Ms Green said.

Former Councillor must ust pay $42,500

■ Former Murrindindi Shire Councillor Chris Healy was on Monday (Oct. 21) ordered to pat $35,000 costs and a $7500 fine after four charges prosecuted by the Local Government Inspectorate were found proven.

Mr Healy appealed the Magistrates’ Court decision, and the penalties were today issued by Judge Higham. Mr Healy will not be convicted.

■ New videos are promoting Murrindindi Shire. Tourism, Events and Communications Portfolio Councillor, Jackie Ashe, said the video series promotes Murrindindi Shire’s nature-based tourism attractions and many of the wonderful things to see, do and experience around our Shire.

“Filmed in early-2019, the suite of 13 videos are part of Council’s ‘Discover Dindi’ work in promoting our region as a tourism destination,” Cr Ashe said.

“After launching the first of the videos in the lead-up to last week’s Lake Eildon Boating and Fishing Show, we will be rolling out more videos across our Discover Dindi Facebook and Instagram pages, as well as on the Discover Dindi website, over the coming months.

“Both our Discover Dindi Facebook and Instagram pages have large, Melbournebased audiences, which is a key tourism market for Murrindindi Shire.

“We’re really excited about these videos and we’re keen for local businesses to use the videos on their own websites andsocial media pages, so that we take a Shire-wide approach to showcasing our region to potential visitors.

“If you run a business and this idea is of interest to you, you’ll find the full suite of videos at www.discoverdindi.com.au/videos or get in touch with Council for more information,” Cr Ashe said www.discoverdindi.com.au/videos

3000 attend Show ■ There were more than 50 exhibitors and 3000 attendees dat the Lake Eildon Boating and Fishing Show – the Boating Industry Association of Victoria’s first regional event – held on October 11-13.

Murrindindi Shire Council’s Eildon Ward Councillor, Jackie Ashe, said Council was thrilled to support the Lake Eildon Boating and Fishing Show and would like to thank all the partners, sponsors and volunteers who helped bring the event to life.

“It was a sensational weekend in its own right, and what we can take away from it is that if we work together, we can showcase Murrindindi Shire as the home of recreational fishing, boating and water sports,” Cr Ashe said.

“Fingers crossed that we’ll be welcoming the Boating and Fishing Show back to Lake Eildon in the future,” Cr Ashe said.

Walk To School ■ The 'Walk to School' Program is happening around Murrindindi Shire.

Middle Kinglake Primary School students and families will walk to school and take part in a community breakfast at 8am on Friday (Oct. 25).

They will start at Frank Thomson Reserve, Kinglake and conclude at Middle Kinglake Primary School, Extons Rd, Kinglake Yea Primary School students are participating in a ninja-themed fun run at 1.30pm on Friday (Oct. 25) at Yea Primary School, 23 Station St, Yea. Buxton Primary School students and families walk to school and take part in a community breakfast at 8.10am on Friday, November 1, starting at Buxton Recreation Reserve and concluding at Buxton Primary School, 2208 Maroondah Highway, Buxton.

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What The Papers Say Stringybark time

■ Descendants and friends of the police officers killed at Stringybark Creek at the hands of the Kelly Gang 141 years ago are again gathering for a memorial organised by Blue Ribbon Foundation on October 26.

Last year, the three Victoria Police officers who were shot and killed in 1878 were commemorated at Stringybark Creek Historic Reserve near Mansfield with the unveiling of a vast new memorial.

The event marked the 140th anniversary of the deaths of Sergeant Michael Kennedy, Constables Thomas Lonigan and Michael Scanlan, who were killed on duty on October 26 while searching for Ned and Dan Kelly in the Wombat Ranges.

A fourth officer, Constable Thomas McIntyre, escaped on Sergeant Kennedy’s horse, retreating to Mansfield to report the crime.

- Mansfield Courier

End of an era

■ Euroa’s Annual Wool Week Spring Festival will not be taking place this year, as the event is being re-organised with an arts and agriculture theme, to take place in March 2020.

In a statement, the Wool Week committee said the move will be looking to improve the festival for the local community.

“The Wool Week Festival committee has made a conscious decision looking forward to the continued on-going improvement of the former Wool Week Festival and more recently The Euroa Wool Week Spring Festival in developing the Autumn Arts and Agri-Life event which will take place over the weekend of March 27, 28, 29 2020.”

- Euroa Gazette

CFA callout

■ Healesville Fire Brigade is calling out for community minded people who believe they have what it takes to help protect their town as a volunteer member of the CFA. The brigade is currently running a recruitment drive to attract new members to join the Healesville CFA or its satellite station situated in Chum Creek.

- Mountain Views Mail

Lancefield Show

■ Lancefield showcased the best of the Macedon Ranges on Sunday with the annual Lancefield Show.

The show expanded from past years and included gourmet food demonstrations among other attractions.

Macedon Ranges councillor and Lancefield resident Bill West, a journalist, officially opened the show.

- The Free Press

Bring your own

■ More eateries in the City of Whittlesea are being encouraged to accept reusable containers from customers picking up their takeaway meals, as part of a council program to reduce single-use plastic.

Whittlesea councillor Emilia Sterjova successfully moved a motion to reduce singleuse plastic in the City of Whittlesea at this month’s council meeting, with all attending councillors supporting a ‘bring your own container’ program.

- Whittlesea Review

Grand auction

■ One of the Yarra Valley’s largest and most historically important hotels is on the market at the gateway to wine country.

Healesville’s The Grand Hotel, which dates back to 1888, is going to auction on October 25 with an estimated price of $4 million.

It is one of the area’s largest hotels, designed by architect William Pitt whose other works include National Trust classified properties, the Rialto building on Collins St, the St Kilda Town Hall and Victoria Brewery.

- Lilydale and Yarra Valley Leader

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Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Kennett, Hayley.

Uni-Kilmore Thursday, October 31 Victoria Police - Carter, S (42829) v Lee, Shane. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Monti, Allyson. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Kamali, V (42448) v Holt, Timothy. UniKilmore SAC - Simpson, E v Curry, Aliicia Lavern. Services Australia Victoria Police - Keevil, A (43714) v Swan, Jarratt Keith.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Kliemt, R (44009) v Dowson, Hayley.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Biderman, S (38335) v Shingles, Leigh.

Uni-Broadford Victoria Police - Wright, A (31459) v Moustafa, Mahmoud. Highway PatrolSeymour Victoria Police - Carter, S (42829) v Harvey, Marc. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Akbas, Arzu. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Assaad, Peirre. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Biderman, S (38335) v Shingles, Leigh.

Uni-Broadford Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Sharp, Alan. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Page, Bernard. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Couacaud, C (38828) v Beel-Eaton, Gyspy. Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Houguet, B (40313) v Ryan, John.

Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Bridges, Peter. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Walton, A (40916) v Ramsay, Scott. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Smith, B (29408) v Swift, Jason Anthony. Uni-Alexandra Victoria Police - Voisey, M (27261) v Leveque, Ken Eric.

Uni-Yea Victoria Police - Houguet, B (40313) v Bult, Sofie Victoria Police - Turner, J (34532) v Edwards, Dylan.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Betson, M (44767) v Gazzara, Kane Michael. Pcet-Seymour Victoria Police - Walton, A (40916) v Monti, Allyson. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Ellis, J (40810) v Clark, Jarrod. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Barras, W (33870) v Monti, Allyson. State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Wills, S (38147) v Doyle, Danielle.

Operations Response Team One Victoria Police - Waterson, B (36969) v Briggs, Norman Wayne. Crime Command Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Slavin, Philip. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Porter, I (33403) v Crusius, Penny. CiuMitchell Victoria Police - Bortolotto,

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Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Willigenburg, Garth.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Warren, M (41378) v Patterson, Steven.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Warren, M (41378) v Nolan, Matthew.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Swan, Jarratt. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Beeby, Michael. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Barclay, S (36780) v Zander, Peter. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Barclay, S (36780) v Pearce, Nathan. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Barwick, Liam. UniPyalong Victoria Police - O'neill, J (40075) v Desira,Antony. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Nolan, Matthew.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Holcombe, S (39769) v Mitsakis, Theodore. Uni-Broadford Victoria Police - Oraha, Y (42872) v Stinson, Suzanne.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Dangal, A (42686) v Cleaver, Debbie.

Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Harrington, James.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Woolfe, R (34462) v Pearce, Nathan.

Socit-Fawkner Victoria Police Falkingham, K (43109) v Monti, Allyson. PcetWonthaggi Victoria Police - Jackson, A (41009) v Monti, Allyson Belinda. Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Hoare, John. UniKilmore Victoria Police - Derrett, R (33398) v Kilby, Shane. DtuSeymour Victoria Police - Castano, R (31789) v Monti, Allyson. State Hwy Patrol-West Victoria Police - Fidler, T (41595) v Bridges, Peter. DtuSeymour Victoria Police - Malhotra, S (36661) v Markham, Olivia.

Uni-Wallan Victoria Police - Chief Commissioner Of Police (00008) v Ruff, Arion. Office Of The Chief Commissioner Victoria Police - Robinson, S (43940) v Stacy, Myla. PcetCastlemaine Victoria Police - Tait, W (37033) v Taylor, Jessie. UniNagambie Victoria Police - Rossetti, T (42521) v Kilby, Shane. Uni-

Kilmore Victoria Police - Whiteside, M (43500) v Syme, Khloe. UniSeymour Victoria Police - Hagen, P (40204) v Tanner, James. DtuCroydon Victoria Police - Hagen, P (40204) v Tanner, James. DtuCroydon Victoria Police - Bryan, L (35203) v Mc Cardel, Samuel .Socit-Seymour Victoria Police - Bending, S (39833) v Walshaw-Plieger, Emily Ann. Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Thornton, A (41692) v Board, Michelle.

Uni-Seymour Victoria Police - Sowden, D (36568) v Dyson, Harley. UniPyalong Victoria Police - Flaws, S (41819) v Monti, Allyson. UniEndeavour Hills Community Corrections Centre - Macdougall, M v Nicolosi, Benjamin. Community Corrections Centre Friday, November 1 Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Johnston, Brendan.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Bova, L (31851) v Johnston, Brendan.

Uni-Kilmore Victoria Police - Cartledge, M (35878) v Hetherton, Justin.

Uni-Epping Victoria Police - Crossing, J (42422) v Wright, Joanne. UniSeymour Mansfield Wednesday, October 30 Victoria Police - Stevens, M (34763) v Walls, Damien Robert. Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Riedel, Aaron.

Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Barras, W (33870) v Gosling, Reuben.

State Hwy Patrol-North Victoria Police - Woodstock, S (39399) v Patras, Yani Constantine. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Swan, P (39871) v Santos, John Rafael.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Galway, J (29278) v Mohammadi, Nesar.

Mounted Branch Victoria Police Cunningham, B (37768) v Callaghan, Jackson Leigh. UniFawkner Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664) v Kelly, Monica.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Leach, N (38967) v Hudswell, Julie.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Cusack, S (28652) v Goulter, Bonnie Marie. Ciu-Alexandra Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Torney, Glenn.

Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Scannell, M (35182) v Torney, Glenn.

Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Magnay, E (42352) v Winkler, Callum.

Uni-Mansfield Victoria Police - Watkins, R (33441) v Scott, Clinton. Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Gloster, J (39214) v Goschnick, Dean.

Uni-Gisborne Victoria Police - Mcdonald, G (40664) v O'connor, Luke Anthony. Highway PatrolMansfield Victoria Police - Mclachlan, M (29272) v Slaveski, Nikolce.

Highway Patrol-Mansfield Victoria Police - Watkins, R (33441) v Peters, Christopher.

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From Our 1919 Files

Final meeting

■ The final meeting of the Yea Red Cross Society was held in 'the Shire hall on Friday afternoon last, when the final report and balance sheet was presented and adopted. The president (Mrs J. D. Hamilton) occupied the chair.

Motor gymkhana

■ On Wednesday, October 8, Alexandra witnessed a display that was certainly, unique in the annals of the town. It was. a proceslon of decorated cars with sights of a humorous nature prior to a sports display ia the show grounds. The idea was oiginated by Mrs Cumming, of the Ford Garage.

Ladies bowls

■ In respoase to the invitation given to the ladies of Yea and district to join the Yea Bowling Club, a very successful meeting was held on Thursday evening last, when a ladies branch of the bowling club was duly formed, The bowling season com mences this month, and on and after the official opening, which takes place at an early date, the green will be graced with the presence of lady players, some days of which will be set apart for them only.

It speaks for the interest taken in the fascinating sport that 15 ladies have given in their names as members of the club, and everything augurs well for an interesting and successful seasaon

Kinglake Hall

■ The Kinglake Hall anniversary will be celebrated by a concert and fancy dress ball on Friday evening, 4th November. .

Peace Ball

■ One of the most, if not the most, enjoyable danees that has taken place in Yea for many a day took place in the Shire hall on Tuesday night of last week the occasion being the Peace Ball, but there was one drawback, and that was the hall was too small, the floor being crowded with dancers, Many of the lady dancers were attired is bright and pretty plain and fancy cotaumes, which added additional color to the tasteful decorations of the ball, but there was an entire absence in this direction on the part of the gentlemen, who were in evening dress.

At Acheron

■ A welcome home was given in the Acheron Hall on October 2, when the residents met in honor of three of our returned soldiers, viz. Privates E Cumming, John Collery and E. Peters. Mr ADobson presided and welcomed the lads on behalf of the residents. He said all were glad to see the boys back. They were a fine type of men.

Alex. Brass Band

■ On Saturday night last the Alexandra FireBrigadeBrass Band played a programme of music in Grant-Street. This is only the second occasion on which the band has performed publicly since its reorganisation. Mr G. Ison, bandmaster, deserves special praise for the manner in which he has brought the band forward so quickly.

Everybody was agreeably surprised on Saturday night, the music given being first.class.

This body should receive the whole hearted support of the public.

Narb. v Alex.

■ These teamsx, met at Alexandra on Saturday, last. Narbethong was short of several players but some of the locals made up their team and an enjoyable game resulted. J Marchbank captained the Narbethong team and J Collery Alexandra. The game was not a good exhibition. of football by any means, neither team displaying much system.

Alexandra proved the stronger team, and won by 5 goals 10 behinds to 2 goals 7 behinds.

Very few of the Alexandra players were up tto their usual good form.

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Photos: Ash Long

Marysville Jazz and Blues Festival Photos: Ash Long

● Madison Taylor and Ellen Pogson at MIRA (Marsyville Information and Regional Artspace).

● Performances outside The Duck Inn attracted crowds over the weekend.

● Lorna Gelbert, Melinda Burgess, Wayne Briggs and Paul Denham of the Marysville and Triangle Community Foundation.

● Ben Allan and Claire Duke of Ambulance Victoria.

● Marysville Primary: Sarah Kaiser, Brooke Baker, Van Kaiser and Asher Kaiser.

● Ryder Hal;ett and Adam Barclay of Swiss Mate.

● Event organiser Bill Bate and entertainer Frank Sultana.

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McLeish talks on children’s services ■ Eildon MLA Cindy McLeish has spoken in State Parliament about her own time as a Yea kindergarten pupil, and her use of local creche services when raising her daughter.

“Families are increasingly reliant on childcare services. We have seen big changes over the last two or three decades particularly in and around this space,” Ms McLeish told the Legislative Assembly on wednesday (Oct. 16).

“Parents and families who rely on child care, for whatever reason that may be, really want it to reliable.

“They want to have standards and certainly knowledge that our children are safe when they are in those childcare arrangements and that they are actually doing something.

“The legislation before us now, the Children Services Amendment Bill 2019, is actually framed around improving and making sure that our childhood services are reliable and have increasingly high standards.

“I want to thank the minister’s office—and I note that the departmental officers are not here at the moment—and the quality assessment and regulation division of the Department of Education and Training for the briefing that they provided me on August 29.

“If you look around the house, there are a lot of people who are parents of young children and a lot of people who have worked for quite some time and would have been relying on different elements of early childhood services throughout that time.

“People would rely on it and send their kids off without really thinking about any of the regulatory framework that sits around it.

“We have two actual different regimes in place. We have a state regime and a federal regulatory regime. They are similar but not entirely consistent.

“When we think about early childhood services, kindergarten comes to mind, but there is also long day care.

“In many young families women who return to work actually utilise the long day care.

“We have two regimes in place: the state, which is under the Children Services Act 1996, which is what is been amended here today; and we also have the national law, and within that is the national quality framework, which a lot of people would be very familiar with.

“The national law was put in place to obviously try and get a consistent and national approach to regulation, assessment and quality improvement.

“We very much know how important the early years are for developing brains.

“We heard today earlier in the chamber that the first three years of a child’s brain development is really critical, and even the first five years.

“So it is really important that when people are handing their child over to somebody else to mind them, other than somebody that might be their niece, nephew or the person next door, and they are paying for these services that they would like to have the proper standards in place.

“The national law was developed cooperatively by the Australiangovernment and the states and territories through the process of national applied laws legislation.

“It is a bit of a mouthful. It is

● Cindy McLeish, MLA for Eildon, spoke in Parliament about children’s services. called the national law, but it is actu- lating 4500 early childhood services. turns 21 this week—in fact in two ally the Education and Care Services “I note that the departmental of- days. I used long day care for her, National Law Act 2010. ficers have now turned up and I thank and we just referred to it as creche.

“That was terrific because it also “It is commonly referred to as the them for their briefing. national law and everybody knows “Of those 4500 early childhood had a kindergarten program within it as the national law. services, most of them are what we it, which many of them do now, so it “It was passed by Victoria in the think about most readily: kindergar- fits that bill that kids can have their first instance and was then adopted tens, long day care, family day care kindergarten program within the long by other states and territories, as is and before and after school ser- day care.

“We have family day care, where the norm when there is that consis- vices—and that is the bulk. tent and national approach—nothing “Approximately 4200 of the ser- people go to someone’s home and unusual about that. vices fit within that—92 per cent— somebody looks after a certain num“What the national law does is it and all these are regulated within the ber of children before and after provides for a jointly governed, uni- National Quality Framework, which school hours, before care and after form, national approach to the regu- was established, as I said earlier, care.

“Again, as a working parent, they lation and quality assessment of edu- under the Education and Care Serwere services that I utilised when my cation and care services. vices National Law Act. “Because we have the national “So 92 per cent of the early child- daughter was at school.

“Those ones that I have just menlaw and we have state law, the Chil- hood services are catered for through dren Services Act, as much as pos- the NQF. We have 8 per cent that fit tioned are the ones that fit in an NQF. sible they need to be able to work outside what this bill is dealing with Outside of that we have occasional care services, which have limited together. today.

“We need to have this consistent “So that 8 per cent covers 350 dif- hours, and there are some mobile approach if we can develop that, and ferent service locations through 250 services within that three-year-old we need an approach in Victoria that providers. These 250 providers are activity group.

“What this bill does is it focuses is certainly reflective of modern owned and operated by independent practices and reflective of the ex- single service providers and they on the 8 per cent that fits in occapectations of parents. commonly take the form of care pro- sional care—the limited care hours.

“I will say at this point that the viders in neighbourhood houses— It gives effect to three areas of opposition will not be opposing this there are 100 neighbourhood houses; change: licensing and approvals, amendment, but we certainly do have municipal facilities; gymnasiums; compliance and enforcement, and operational requirements. quite a number of concerns and I will and leisure centres.

“I will touch on each one of those lead through to those concerns.

“When we think about putting our “Now, how did we get to this point children in some of those services, briefly before moving into some of where we have got the national law we want to make sure they have got my consultation and the concerns and we have got a state law as well, some degree of stimulation, because that I have about the bill before us.

“So for licensing and approvals the Children Services Act? we know that done well these can “COAG met as they do and the work on enhancing a child’s self-es- there is work around the first major review of the National teem, developing resilience, over- standardisation and terminology of Quality Framework (NQF) was haul healthy growth and the capacity licensing agreements.

“We need to think in the context completed in 2017. to learn.

“When the states looked at it col“There is also the capacity to be as well that there are a number of lectively they realised that there around other children, and to under- providers that operate in both spaces, were a lot of challenges to try and stand how at that level the broader so they are subject to the national law for this and to the Child Services bring the states’ varying acts in line society works. with this national law.

“If we start to think about child Act 1996 for that.

“For them having a consistency “They knew that all the early care over the decades, certainly from childhood services did not all oper- my day when I went to kinder— and of terminology will certainly make ate under the National Quality the Yea kindergarten is still operat- their understanding and operations a Framework. ing; it had a bit of a facelift and it little bit easier.

“There is a simplified assessment “So we had the situation of a lot looks quite schmick and is now beof different states with different re- side a long day care, which has only and approvals process for service gimes that did not easily and readily come to fruition in the last few approval, so a two-step process befit together under the national law years—what we have seen happen comes a one-step process.

“So you look at that and you say, and so it did not make sense to do particularly are changes within fam‘Well, that could get a little bit more that. ily structures.

“But the review from COAG “We have smaller families and efficient’. There is a single licence found that the state jurisdictions were more women heading to the requirement for multiservice operaquite different, specifically with re- workforce, so then the issue of tors.

“By bringing the act into conformgard to occasional care. childminding comes up.

“The differences were quite com“Years ago, when there were ance with the NQF only one operatplex and quite difficult to incorpo- loads of kids in families you had lots ing licence will be required even rate into theNational Quality Frame- of aunties and grandparents around when an operator conducts operawork. that could fill this space if you needed tions at multiple locations.

“So again you would look at that “As a result we have the amend- some time to go and do something, as making it easier for the operators. ments being made now to the Chil- while kinder did exist. dren Services Act. “Long day care started to come Also, licence transferability—current “The Department of Education into play, and that was something I licence-holders under the Children and Training is responsible for regu- certainly did with my daughter, who Services Act will automatically be

recognised as approved licensees under the changes. The day after this comes into play they will still have their licence approval.

“We now will see the introduction of perpetual licensing.

“Under the terms of the NQF a licence is perpetual unless cancelled or suspended, so that will stop the constant licensing renewal.

“Current licence-holders will be grandfathered across and supported by the department to implement the new system.

“When I asked for how long this sort of support would be given by the department through these transitional arrangements they were not clear, they were not able to say actually how long this support would be offered.

“I know that there are often difficulties that providers may have in actually getting up to speed with exactly what the changes mean.

“Let me touch now on compliance and enforcement. There is the ability now to issue enforceable undertakings.

“This is a process whereby the department enters a binding agreement with a service provider who has breached applicable law to the effect that that breach must be immediately and permanently remedied.

“There is the ability to issue a prohibition notice, which prevents persons deemed an unacceptable risk to children from working in this sector, and I would think that everybody would look at that and say that we need to make sure that we do not have people who are high risk, unacceptable risk, actually working in this sector.

“An offence under one regime is now an offence under both, and I think that is a good thing too.

“This prevents someone who is deregistered in one scheme from actually popping up and operating in another scheme.

“It actually alarms me to think that that has been able to happen up until now.

“The ease of compliance reporting—the Department of Education and Training has developed a central IT platform that can be used by all NQF operators for the purpose of lodging documents required by law.

“This is also about moving the providers that we are talking about— the 250 providers at those 350 locations—from a paper-based system.

So there will be various elements of how well that is done.

“Some people who have been doing things a long time can be quite resistant to change, and some people are not as IT savvy, but I think that probably most people should be able to manage that.

“The third element was change to the operational requirements. The Minister for Education currently has a non-delegable power of exemption.

“Powers will be able to be delegated to approved senior officers to waive prescribed requirements.

“There will be a flexible registration of centre managements and alignment with the NQF service providers, who will need only to lodge the details of one single nominated supervisor, not every daily service manager.

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Obituary: Mr Arthur Bruce Kindred ■ A tribute to the life of Mr Arthur Bruce Kindred (May 22, 1937 - October 11, 2019) was delivered at a funeral service held last Friday (Oct. 18): “I know those pews are hard but make yourselves comfortable. This will be rather long. But I am the only speaker today and I give this eulogy on behalf of the family; “I will begin by asking Emily to place on the back credenza the complete version of the photo that is on the front of your leaflet.

“Dad loved this photo for two reasons. No one in their right mind would ever call Dad a sartorial dresser, but he felt that in this photo, he came close.

“The photo was taken by Russell Fairweather, a long time photographer for the Deb Balls who took a lovely series of photos of Mum and Dad. “The second reason Dad liked this photo was because Russell airbrushed away his moles and Mum's wrinkles and turned them into a good looking couple.

“Arthur Bruce Kindred was the first child born to Edna and Arthur Henry Kindred in Manangatang in 1937.

“Three years later his sister, Evelynne, arrived but by the time she was born, Arthur was away on war service.

“Arthur survived the war but did not return to his family when he came back to Australia, and so Edna began the daunting task of not only raising two children as a single Mother, but at that time, bearing the heavy social stigma of a divorcee.

“Dad always acknowledged that his chance in life was due to his Mother's determination to see he was given every opportunity, despite these setbacks.

“The family remained a close knit little group and Dad and Aunty Evelynne were always very grateful for the upbringing Edna gave them as she was both mother and father to them.

“They both grew up in Manangatang surrounded by the many cousins, aunts and uncles in the Plant clan.

“They attended Manangatang Consolidated School, played sport in the town and were brought up in a fairly strict Methodist tradition.

“The family struggled financially and Dad took on the job before and after school of the town milkman, delivering milk on his bike, and this became the basis of a strong work ethic he continued to uphold for the rest of his life.

“Dad's best buddy growing up was Austie Walsh who came from a large and hospitable Catholic family, and they remained friends all their lives and it was this connection to Church values and his mother Edna,who fostered in Dad a steadfast religious faith, a love of singing, and the belief that if you really tried you could achieve what you wanted.

“On the back credenza is a framed frontice piece from the first gift Dad ever gave Mum. It encompasses two of Dad's great loves- his faith and singing. It reads "Sing unto God for he alone is King" and I encourage you to have a look at this on your way out today.

“When Dad reached the end of year 11 the school informed Edna that he was so far ahead of all the other students academically it was not funny and he needed to forget

● Bruce Kindred about being a farmer and go into after knocking out her front teeth at teaching. Dad's reply was that he the age of 19. couldn't bear teaching little snotty “For six months of their courtship, nosed kids, but he'd love to teach Mum broke off the relationship as them by the time they'd developed a she wasn't sure she could live with mind in their teenage years. the grumpiness.

“The snag was that a prerequi“Eventually, at the age of 19, she site at that time for an Arts degree, decided that she didn't want to live needed to enter education, was Ma- her life apart from him and she would triculation French. just have to manage the grumpiness.

“Part way through his year 11 a “She has very successfully manyoung teacher called Joan Duncan aged him ever since. Mum has told volunteered to teach him after school me that Dad was an SFFS man. His and he passed his Year 11 French at happiness lay in Sport, Food, Famthe end of the year. Bruce has vis- ily and Sex. ited that teacher regularly, the last “It was only later in life that she visit being earlier this year. realised that what she had done was “Edna, a very gutsy lady for her hitch her wagon to a meteor. time, uprooted the family and took “Mum soon found that there were them to Melbourne where she found some key phrases that she used all a job, and rented a house in Albert her life to “Manage" Dad. "It might Park, where she enrolled Aunty be good for the family if we did such Evelynne at MacRoberson Girls’ and such." "Is this really the right High School while Dad attended thing for the family?" Or the ultiMelbourne Boys' High School, go- mate one when all else failed …"I'd ing from a class of 5 at Manang- be happier if we did this". She usuatang to a class of 210. ally managed to get her way.

“He thrived under the challenge, “They were married on January and won a studentship to Melbourne 9, 1960, a scorching summer day, at University at the end of year 12.

Nathalia Methodist Church. And so “At the first university tutorial Mum began a 60-year partnership which Mr Bruce Kindred attended with the Boy from the Bush. with a mate who became a life time “They trundled off in a little Stanfriend, Mr Dave Marchesi, was a dard 8 on a month's camping holivery young 16 year old girl called day along the Victorian and South Miss Jennifer Smith, as they were Australian coastline. formally known in those days.

“They returned stony broke with “At the end of the first tutorial he a lovely Golden Cocker Spaniel, said to Dave, "I'm going to marry that called Buster, a month's rent paid on girl", and it took him three years of the flat, and some food in the pantry, hard work to get an engagement ring to start teaching in Ballarat. on her finger.

“Dad was always involved in “Somewhere in this three-year sport himself, cricket, tennis, football, period Dad took Mum to the football volley ball, table tennis; but he was to see Collingwood, (Dad's team) also coach of Ballarat High School's play Melbourne (Mum's team.)

Cricket team, and the school's girls' “At a high point in the game Dad hockey team and a leader in the leapt to his feet to cheer a spectacu- school Cadet Unit. lar Collingwood goal, and his elbow “Dad's nickname at Ballarat High accidentally collided with Mum's was ‘Clarrie’ but we never did dismouth and he knocked out five teeth. cover its origin.

“Since that day Mum, and all the “Dad coaxed Mum along to family, have barracked for Colling- watch him play cricket. After an afwood. ternoon of seeing him dismissed twice “To this day any grandchild who for a duck on a sticky wicket he was wants to opt out rings Grandpa for somewhat grumpy to see his new permission. Us kids always felt that wife rolling around in mirth on the Dad had no option but to marry Mum sidelines.

“Mum went off to play A-Grade Tennis and Netball which was far more interesting for her.

“With Mum he was involved in singing in the church choir, joined the Ballarat Choral Society, and the Ballarat Light Opera Company.

“He also sang in a Barbers' Quartet Group from the teaching staff at the school. They were keen attenders at the South Street Competitions.

“Dad attended church every Sunday of his life, except for the odd lapse later in life when golf won out.

“He also completed studying for his Bachelor of Education while he was in Ballarat.

“He had done his National Service and for the four years in Ballarat he joined the Citizens Military Forces and sat for his Captain exams.

“Not having enough to do he trained as a football umpire which helped to keep him fit.

“Four years later Andrew Neil, the Brigadoon kid arrived, and Mum sang the lead role when she was five months pregnant.

But there were complications and Mum said tears rolled down Dad's face when she told him that several specialists had said there would be no more babies.

“Dad was a sucker for babies. It was at this stage that our friendship with the then School Captains of Ballarat High School, Jenny Albiston (later to become McKinnon) and Ian McKinnon began, as Jenny became Andrew's babysitter. It is a friendship that has thrived for 56 years.

“When Andrew was one-yearold Dad made a two-bob bet with a teacher mate that he could not possibly get promotion as early as then and he put in an application to the Education Department that read "Anywhere outside the metropolitan area".

“January saw them shifting to Timboon High School and at first they wondered why they couldn't find it in Gippsland.

“The only house in the town available for rent was painted a bright purple, with yellow and black trim.

Every plant and flower in the garden was purple or yellow. The rooms were painted dark midnight blue and the kitchen bright green. Mum said living in it permanently damaged her psyche.

“The family quickly settled in to life in Timboon and Dad was given the nickname ‘Yogi Bear’.

“He was soon playing football and cricket and Mum played tennis. Fortunately a few months later an Education Department house became available and when they asked Mum what colours she wanted it repainted she said off white throughout as has been every house the family has lived in since - no purple to be seen.

“Now that the family were settled Mum went back to teaching and Andrew had a Nanny, a lovely lady, Fran Evans, who like Bruce, loved babies.

“The topic of babies quickly came again to the fore and Dad said it was no use being a steward and warden in the Methodist Church if you didn't make use of it and soon we were fast tracked to adopt a baby boy from the Methodist Babies Home, and Timothy Bruce joined the family.

“Sixteen months later Jenny walked into the Principal's Office and

said, "I'm resigning. I'm having a baby, tomorrow" and back they went to the Babies Home and brought home Robyn Susan.

“Bruce was now much happier on the baby front, with three under five. He became a very hands on father and once Robyn was six months old Mum again returned to teaching and Fran now had 3 babies to look after.

“It became clear that Timboon now needed a Kindergarten so a major fund raising effort was soon under way and Dad sometimes washed up dishes for catering events of 400 people.

“He gave up umpiring football but became Secretary of the local football league.

“Over the next few years he gained promotions within the school and before he knew it was involved in Junior Football, Ballet Classes, Little Athletics, Brownies and Cubs.

While the kids were little he changed sports from Cricket to tennis so that he and Mum could play sport together.

“In 1971 Dad took long service leave and got his little family all geared up to take a trip around Australia in a camping trailer.

But Mum was very unwell, so unwell that eight-year-old Andrew started bringing her a cup of tea in the mornings with a teddy bear biscuit.

“Our local GP said, "Tell Yogi to cancel the long service leave as there is another little bear on the way in spite of what all your specialists have told you."

On June 30, Joanne Elizabeth when was added to the family, the other three were at school, Fran had a new charge to look after, and Yogi was all smiles as he gazed at the new cub.

“Andrew's cup of morning tea and a teddy bear biscuit started a tradition and Dad has ever since kick started Mum's day with that custom.

Mind you the time could vary from 4am to 8am. Mum claims she was able to do half a day's work before school on that cup of tea and a teddy bear.

“Dad celebrated over the next few years by completing all the VCE classes he needed to have the necessary prerequisites for a Science degree.

“At the same time he encouraged Mum to upgrade her Diploma of Education to an Education Degree.

This meant that once a month he was left with four children for three straight days while Mum headed off to Gippsland Institute, the only one offering a part time degree in Education at this time.

“It was on one of these weekends away that Dad tried to feed all the kids some stewed quinces that mum had left behind for dessert.

“Ask Andrew how that panned out. Needless to say the quinces ended up being tipped over the back fence before Mum returned.

“When I was nearly three we set off around Australia in a camper van, with Dad's mother on board as far as Perth, and Mum's parents who tented all the way around with us for four months. It was a great family time.

“Mum and Dad taught the older three and I celebrated my third birthday by sharing a jam roll with a group of Aboriginal kids at Marble Bar, the hottest place in Australia. ● Corntinued on Next Page

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Local People ● From FromPrevious previous Page page ● “They had 14 happy years at Timboon as it was a great place to raise a young family but as the family grew older it became clear that University Education was going to be needed and if Dad was ever going to see his family, he had to shift.

“This time the application was very carefully planned, and he applied for positions as Principal in 25 country schools.

“Yea was number 12. He went on to live 41 years of his 82-year life span here in Yea. “Soon Dad was given the nick name at school of Freddie Flintstone, and to this day visiting golfers do not know whether to call him Bruce or Freddie.

“The years flew. Andrew and Tim went off to do engineering at Melbourne University, staying at Trinity College, and then on to work.

Andrew in tunnelling in Tasmania, and Tim to a job in Chemical Engineering in Western Australia.

“Robyn went to do Child Care and then roamed around Australia for a while. Suddenly I was like an only child. The family was looking sadly depleted.

“When I was in Year 10 I announced that I wanted to go as an exchange student for a year in Denmark. Not well received.

“So big brother Andrew arrived home to read the riot act saying that they had to let me go as they had always encouraged their students to look to life beyond Yea, and if Dad wouldn't pay for me he would.

“Suddenly the family nest was empty. To Dad's horror there would be a spell of eight years before all the kids were in Australia at the same time.

“Into this mix we had Mum and Dad's very active encouragement of producing High School Musicals 15 in all.

“They joined the Alexandra Singers. He taught 20 sets of debutantes old time dances for their presentations.

“They built a granny flat in the back yard and moved Mum's parents in, Grandpa and Grandma Smith.

“He played morning tennis with Gary Pollard, John Handsaker, Martin Lowe and others.

“Edna died and Dad kept up as close a contact as he could with Evelynne.

“He tried his hand at Bowls. They hosted a Danish student for 12 months.

“They joined Probus where they have really enjoyed the speakers and the excursions.

“And to fill in his spare time he did a 9000-piece jigsaw of the Tower of Babel and when someone put a photo of it up on Yea.com, he was tickled pink when over 80 people came to see it. This love of jigsaws has been passed onto me and, having completed an 18,000-piece puzzle, I have embarked on a 51,300- piece puzzle, the biggest in the world.

“Kosta is going to place a jigsaw on the credenza. There were always jigsaws on the go, in the lounge and under every bed in the house, many of them missing a piece or two as Dad would often drop a piece on the floor only to have it snapped up and swallowed by the dog who thought it was food.

“Dad had by now discovered the world of Local Government. He did two stints as Shire President in the old Shire of Yea and one as mayor of the new Shire of Murrindindi.

“This still didn't keep him fully occupied so he started and completed his Science degree with

● Bruce Kindred pictured 30 years ago (Oct. 1989).

Latrobe University. He always at- tirement as Mum was still at school tended wider family reunions, Cous- and for over 30 years they had ins' Dinners, and the annual Back to worked together.

“When the financial adviser rang Manangatang gathering in the Fitzroy Gardens in February each and said the Education Department were offering packages, he conyear.

“When he turned 55 he decided vinced Mum that if she took one they to retire early. His main reason would be financially ahead. Dad had seemed to be that he couldn't stand Mum home with him in a week.

“Mum soon enrolled in night having to have five meetings to decide something whose solution he school and became computer literknew within 30 seconds of looking ate and then began an online diploma in Theology. at the problem.

“When Andrew returned from “Recently, Mum overheard Andrew and Dad talking. Andrew said, London after several years working " I've got to go back to Melbourne. on the Chunnel and the London UnBig meetings all day tomorrow to derground, he came home via Afdecide what material will be used to rica and went overland by truck from line the metro tunnels under the Cairo to Capetown.

“His first words on arriving home CBD." "I thought it was already decided were, "Mum and Dad, you have to that it had to be concrete," said Dad. go to Africa." That was the begin" Yes, it has," said Andrew, " by me. ning of a life long fascination with Nothing else is feasible But I have wild life. Makeely is placing an osto have four meetings tomorrow in- trich egg decorated with the Big Five" volving politicians, transport people, on the credenza.

“When first Grandpa, and then and engineers, to let them come to the obvious decision which I made Grandma died, she left a letter to long ago." Talk about history repeat- say that the money she had left them was not to be used on the family, but ing itself.

“In retirement Dad was going to was for them to travel.

“Somewhere into this busy take up gardening, paint the house, and help Mum more, but instead he lifestyle Dad and Mum squeezed really discovered the realm of golf. seven trips to Africa.

“In lots of a month or three at a “Soon he had a trailer, golf cart and an old ute to pull them around. time, they have spent over 11 months He was a life member of Yea Golf in Europe. Cruises on the Rhine and Club. He joined Veterans Golf and the Mekong, trips on the Ghan and served in Administration in the the Indian Pacific, time share resorts Dalhousie Golf Association, an in- all over Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Africa. volvement of over 25 years.

“Train trips to see polar bears in “He was also active in the move to set up the Bendigo Bank in town. Churchill in Canada. Trips across He did a course as a Peer Support the Rockies. Whale watching in GlaPerson for the Fire Brigade and dur- cier Bay, Alaska. Just to name a few.

“Dad was a dinosaur. He never ing the Black Saturday Fires he worked tirelessly for three weeks in entered the computer age. He never behind the fire lines supporting fire even entered the mobile phone age.

And no way was he ever going to get fighters.

“But Dad was still lonely in re- money out of a hole in the wall.

“Let's face it he didn't really enter the mechanical age. Just ask Jeff Aurisch who kept the golf cart maintained for him. If he saw a spot of water on a pipe he yelled for Greg Clements.

“Many times he visited Jenny and Ian McKinnon in Ballarat, admired the garden, the lawns, and the vegetables. It did inspire him to make a veggie garden but when he came home from golf one afternoon to find the cockies had demolished his entire corn crop we didn't see any more development in the veggie patch.

“And he hated cutting lawns. But he readily cut the church lawns, and lawns for little old ladies, and only after much nagging would finally mow our lawns. He painted the church and the Parish Hall and then paid to have our house painted.

“Only Robyn has had some success in dragging Dad into the modern age. She has managed to teach him that Australia is a multi-cultural society.

“Robyn returned home expecting Cassie, saying what will Dad say?

“Mum said, "Don't worry. He's a sucker for babies." Soon proud grandpa was walking his first grandchild down the street in Yea. “He came home and said, "You know that horrible kid ‘John Smith’ stopped me in the street, said "Hello Sir", peered into the pram and said."Where did you get your Chinese baby.?" Very indignantly Dad said, ", Any idiot can see she's Indonesian." And so we had our beautiful Cassie and Dad became Papa.

“Timothy and Catherine were married in a private ceremony without the family present. It was several months before they came to Yea. “A little apprehensively they asked how Dad was taking things.

Mum took one look at Catherine and said, " It will be fine. Dad's a sucker for babies."

“Elizabeth was born in 1993. She grew up to be forever known as Dr. Liz by Dad. “Next to arrive was Callum in 1994. Dad rubbed his hands with glee - a grandson.

“In 1996 their third child, Andrew Bruce was born. As many of you know we lost Young Andrew recently.

“One skill that Bruce lost after his stroke was the ability to tie his tie in a Windsor knot. Each time he went to a funeral John Handsaker would have to come around and do the honours.

“A few weeks ago Mum was awoken at 4.30am by the sight of Dad standing in his pyjamas in front of the mirror sporting a tie with a perfectly tied Windsor knot.

“He said, "It came to me in the night. I'll make a cup of tea now and get a teddy bear biscuit." He practised tying that knot every day so he could do it himself for Young Andrew's Celebration of Life.

“Over these years they clocked up quite a few miles going to Tullamarine to collect UM's - Unaccompanied Minors - as they flew in and out to Nana and Papa for holidays. Callum was our most frequent UM and Dad really looked forward to his visits.

“Then I got into the act. I asked Mum how Dad would go with the fact that my children would be IVF children by donor sperm. Mum said.

"Don't worry. Dad is a sucker for babies." Emily arrived in 2003 followed by Makeely in 2005. And it has been the joy of Dad's life watching these girls grow up.

“Cassie continued his multi-cultural education and said that she was having a baby and did not wish to marry the father.

“So Mum said, "Don't worry, Papa is a sucker for babies." In 2006 Kosta Kardoulias brought his dashing Greek heritage into the family, as the first great grand child and Dad became Papa Bruce.

“In 2008 Cassie had her second child- and Krystal Lopez brought her beautiful Chilean heritage to the family. Once again Mum's advice was "Don't worry. Papa Bruce is a sucker for babies”.

“Now Dad had a nice big family collected again but it was far flung.

Dad would suggest that as they hadn't seen Andrew for a while could they have a couple of nights in Kew East with him -"He might take me to see Collingwood play."

“Or, he would say we haven't seen Jo and the girls for a while, can't we organise a week's time share away with them next school holidays.

“Or, we haven't seen the Sydney clan for a while. I need to see those great grand children. And off they went to Sydney, by car, or bus, or train, or plane.

“Timothy and Catherine offered more of a challenge, but when Dad said I'd like to see them off Mum and Dad went went to Kalgoorlie, New Zealand, Noumea, and Newfoundland, although Mum drew the line at Sulawesi and Madagascar.

“When Dad said "we" what he really meant was Mum you organise all this.

“Mum by this time was more experienced than most travel agents.

Recently Dad was smiling as Tim and Catherine are currently safely tucked up in Balwyn, just around from Andrew for the time being.

“Dr. Liz is in Brunswick and Callum comes to Melbourne at the end of the month.

“Family for Dad had a very broad meaning. Ex husbands, partners, exchange students, and grand nieces Jessica and Nicole, long time friends were all absorbed into the family.

“They are all here today. For many years this wider family has gathered in Mum and Dad's home on Boxing Day. “Of course having your children live overseas has some benefits. You get to look after their pets. Rex was Tim and Catherine's dog. Because of Tim's work commitments overseas he became Bruce's dog. They were inseparable.

“At Christmas I would arrive home with my cat called Monk, named after ex-Collingwood ruckman Damien Monkhurst, and Rex hated Monk with a passion.

“Krystal will now put on the credenza a photo of Rex. It shows Rex in his Christmas hat with his Christmas letter: "Dear Santa, Leave presents. Take the cat."

“Dad's other pet was Mother Magpie. In Snodgrass St Dad rescued Mother Magpie who had a broken leg and nursed her back to health in the well of his golfing trailer spare tyre.

“By the time we moved from there he was feeding her extended family of 15. They sat on his knee, or on the arms of his chair and he fed them minced steak.

“After his stroke and subsequent short term memory loss, he often forgot that he had already fed the magpies and would fed them again.

“The magpies soon learned that if they tapped on the window, Dad would come out and feed them, sometimes up to four times a day.

“They became the fattest and sleekest looking magpies you have ever seen.

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Local Theatre Madwoman Monologues ■ Independent theatre company Baggage Productions is back for a ninth year hosting its very own two week festival opening November 11 at The Butterfly Club.

The festival celebrates and promotes new work by emerging female playwrights and has become an annual drawcard at since its inception in 2011.

Baggage, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has a long history of producing original scripts and nurturing female writing talent. Baggage producer and cofounder Bridgette Burton described the company’s origins: “When we started out, the vast majority of scripts being produced – on the main stages as well as independent theatre – were written by men and directed by men.

“We were struggling actors who decided to take some control of our destiny by creating our own work.

“Over the years, that focus shifted from ourselves to wanting to encourage and support other women artists - especially writers to put their work out there and that’s how the Madwomen Monologues was born.”

“Madwomen has been a fantastic showcase for some of the best writing we’ve encountered. Every year we get these amazing scripts which is thrilling and humbling. We’re just so pleased to be able to shine a light on this work and give these writers an audience.”

The 2019 season features the work of 12 writers, 12 directors and 12 actors.

The monologues are a mix of comedy and drama, telling stories of love, loss, new beginnings, death, sex, betrayal, revenge, innocence, space travel, religious extremism, political commentary and faeces.

Bookings recommended.

Season details: 8.30pm Mon.-Sat., November 11 - 23 Venue: The Butterfly Club, Carson Place (off Little Collins St), Melbourne Bookings and more details: https:// thebutterflyclub.com/show/the-madwomenmonologues-2019 - Cheryl Threadgold

Do Not Collect $200

■ A different theatre experience, do not pass go, Do not collect $200.

Monash Uni Student Theatre always produces work of interest.

With various and many members of this company there are varying talents and abilities, and Do Not Collect $200 allows these performers to work to their strengths.

This show is an event, produced as a game rather than a play, giving the audience the opportunity to experience many diverse scenes and experiences. It has been designed to be ‘hyper’ and it is.

Underlying the frenzy of activity is a message about capitalism.

This ensemble piece takes participation to the next level.

There are some experiences that are quite intense. One on one actor and participant, even one experience I did with only myself and two actors.

Many of the experiences require the participant to immerse themselves in singing, dancing improvising, which can be confronting.

One younger person at my table felt intimidated and opted out of many of the experiences – probably a show for 16 plus and those who like to get involved.

You can play to try to win the game or to experience as much as possible, moving around to the various locations and activities, trying to gain money or clout.

The audience are the show for much of it on and off the ‘stage’.

Well done MUST on a fun night of entertainment particularly for fans of board games, karaoke, interactive theatre, even gamblingthough the ‘cent’ is not your own, so get involved there is nothing to lose.

- Review by Elizabeth Semmel

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● Local Paper and Melbourne Observer columnist Kevin Trask met behindstage with Barry Humphries and Philip Brady last week at Geelong. Humphries presents his latest show, Dame Edna: My Gorgeous Life, at the Arts Centre Melbourne, opening tonight (Wed., Oct. 23).

Coming Through ■ A one woman poetry and dance fusion show written and choreographed by Irina Kuzminsky (aka Irinushka) to her own original musical settings of her poetry, is classical performance art, integrating dance movement and sung and spoken word.

Coming Through opened on October 21 at The Butterfly Club.

Coming Through builds on her first one woman show, Dancing with Dark Goddesses, itself triggered by the publication of Irina’s first poetry collection by Awen in the UK, and seen in the UK, NY, Germany and here in Melbourne.

Drawing on all her skills and training Irina is continuing in a very real way the work begun in her doctoral thesis at Oxford on the ‘language of women’, as she embodies the space opened by poetry and allows the words to dance.

The ‘language of women’ has increasingly become her life’s work – from rediscovering the women of the past and giving them a new voice, to writing and creating her own art as a woman seeking her voice.

Irinushka's work with performing her poetry has led to the release of three albums of her poems set to music, with Roads Travelled attracting favourable reviews and reaching number 46 on the Zone Music Reporter charts for New Age music.

The journey of Irina’s work has become her own journey. Her hope is to weave darkness and light together, as she weaves words, song, dance and music into one to lead both performer and audience through, and into – the light.

Performance Dates: October 23, 24, 25 and 26 Time: 7pm Cost: $25-32 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com

What’s On Jane Austen

■ 24 Carrot Productions celebrates Jane Austen at the Mission to Seafarers in Docklands from November 12-16.

This includes a unique theatre production of Pride and Prejudice and Five Years.

The event focuses on how relevant Austen is to individuals today, and promotes mashups and modern takes on her messages. No matter how little or how much audiences know about Jane Austen - all are welcome.

“This is the second year we have run Austen Con and we are truly excited to be offering more fantastic Austen and Regencyinspired activities” said Sharmini Kumar, Artistic Director, “in addition to a performance of Pride andPrejudice and Five Years, our sequel to the classic novel.”

The performance of Pride and Prejudice and 5 Years will launch the festival, with performances of the play running through the week.

On the final day a host of activities will be available including sewing and etiquette workshops, dancing, arts and craft classes as well as presentations and discussions about Regency life and Austen’s novels.

Academics, writers, industry professionals and fan fiction writers will lead discussions and readings whilst an escape room installation will be an addition.

An end of day fashion parade will showcase those who have come along in their most fabulous Jane Austen attire.

Lovers of historical fiction will be able to enjoy presentations by Kelly Gardiner (author of Goddess and the Firewatcher Chronicles), Alison Goodman (author of The Dark Days Deceit, the third and final book in the Lady Helen trilogy of supernatural Regency adventures) and Jennifer Kloester, (author of the new novel Jane Austen’s Ghost).

The location of Mission to Seafarers ties into Jane Austen’s recurring fascination with the sea.

Her brothers were successful officers in the Royal Navy, bringing the family into a series of well-connected maritime social circles.

Event Details: November 12 – 16 Venue: Mission to Seafarers, 717 Flinders St., Docklands Bookings: Trybooking Tickets range between $30 and $35 for the show and $30 and $40 forAusten Con. - Cheryl Threadgold

Savoy Company Oh Bliss, Oh Rapture Gilbert & Sullivan Favourites Saturday, October 26 at 2pm. Venue: Bunyip Hall Bunyip.

Sunday, October 27 at 2pm. Venue: HawthornArts Centre, Hawthorn.

Saturday, November 2 at 2pm and 8pm.

Venue: Phoenix Theatre Elwood. booking: www.trybooking.com - Peter Kemp

Morn. Peninsula ● Irina Kuzminsky (aka Irinushka) presents Coming Through.

Village Festival weekend ■ The Village Festival will take over Melbourne’s Edinburgh Gardens for one last time, from October 25 – 27.

Since its inception in 2005, travelling community arts festival The Village Festival has delighted 55 communities across Australia, programming over 5000 artists and acts, and involving over 150 community groups.

More than 450,000 people across Australia have experienced the unique, welcoming, community space that The Village Festival provides, where creativity rules and vibrant colour, wonder and up-close-and-personal encounters flourish.

With a diverse music line up featuring everything from stomping world music to rock, soaring jazz and surreal electronica, queer delights, the ever popular World Kitchen, theatre

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and installation art, explorations in alternate reality, a dedicated children’s program, Circus Oz Fanatics, and a new Sunset Ritual featuring Melbourne’s best acrobats and flow artists, this year’s festival is not to be missed. Tickets are available via thevillagefestival.com.au/tickets/ “This year is bittersweet. It’s cause for great celebration as we commemorate our 15th year Australia wide, while it’s also the last year The Village Festival will be held at Edinburgh Gardens – where we have made so many treasured memories.

Event Dates October 25 – 27 Venue: Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy North www.thevillagefestival.com.au/ edinburgh-gardens/ - Cheryl Threadgold

Living Treasures: Ceramist Prue Venables is the ninth artist in the Australian Design Centre series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, which celebrates the achievements of Australia's most iconic crafts and practitioners.

The series of solo exhibitions honours eminent and highly respected craftspeople, celebrating their mastery of skill, their achievements, their contribution to Australia craft, and the unique place they occupy in the national design culture.

Exhibition opened October 18 and closes December 1.

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Adam Lang leaves

■ Macquarie Radio CEO Adam Lang leaves the network this Friday (Oct. 25).

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Briefs Blue Black Beatz

■ Afro Hub and Immigration Museum present Blue Black Beatz, a one-day music festival bringing the best of what Melbourne has to offer in the best of African and First Nation communities’ music to the heart of the city.

The music pays respect to the sonic lineage that informs the Melbourne's contemporary music community.

Afro Hub has curated a line up that weaves together the amazing sounds that embody soul, hip-hop, afro beats, reggae and gwarra gwarra.

Event Date: Saturday November 30 from 3pm – 10.pm, with a dope after party lined up for those who have the dancing bug.

Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne Tickets: $34.20 – on sale now - Cheryl Threadgold

People Suck

■ People Suck is being presented from November 20-30 at Theatre works, St Kilda as part of the Theatre Works Chapter Three program.

Written by award-winning Canadian team Megan Phillips and Peter Cavell, People Suck, this musical airing of grievances is an irreverent and all-too-relatable musical comedy exploring the many ways in which people are just the worst, and is intended as a not-sogentle reminder to on the trek to becoming a better human being.

“Part of our company ethos is to bring independent musical works to Australian audiences that they’ve never seen before,” explains Salty Theatre Co-Artistic Director Ashley Taylor.

“Admittedly, my being from Toronto and this show originating out of there made me doubly excited to have a taste of home here in Oz. “Canadians and Australians have a similar taste in humour; dry, tongue in cheek, willing and able to take the joke. “ Audiences can expect a lot of laughs and some tears.

“People Suck offers a beautiful little cringe factor too that makes the show that much more fabulous.

“While being incredibly entertaining, it also asks people to face the mirror and take a long hard look at themselves.”

A recent addition to our arts landscape, female lead Melbourne-based Salty Theatre was co-founded by theatre, dance and cabaret veteran Sarahlouise Younger and Canadian theatre and screen vet Ashley Taylor.

They deal directly with new writers, directors, producers and performers to form connections with creatives across the globe.

Directed by Sarahlouise Younger, music supervision is by David Youings and musical direction is by Geoffrey Scarlett. Set design by Sarahlouise Younger and Ashley Taylor Performance Dates: November 20-30 Tues - Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5pm. Preview Wed November 20, 7:30pm; Pay What You Can performance Sun., November 24, 5pm Tickets: $45 Full, $37 Concession, $30 Student and Under 30s and Preview Bookings: 9534 3388 or online at www.theatreworks.org.au/program/peoplesuck/ Venue: Theatre Works - 14 Acland St, St Kilda www.theatreworks.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold

FT Gully Arts November Exhibitions: Tree of Life The member's interpretations depicted in their artworks.

Foyer Exhibition: Kids After School Class A display of the children's artwork.

Weekends from Sunday, November 3, to Sunday, December 8.

The Ferntree Gully Arts Society The Hut Gallery 157 Underwood Rd. Ferntree Gully.

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Electric Dreams ■ Music Theatre Melbourne presents the new musical, Electric Dreams, from November 2024 at Gasworks, Albert Park, written by Melbourne songwriter and musician, Drew Lane.

Originally from Victoria’s south-western town of Hamilton, Drew says music has always been part of his life, learning piano at the age of four, then teaching himself guitar and drums.

Drew was fortunate to have two great drama teachers at high school, as well as music teachers.

“But it was Ms Mandy Calderwood who saw the potential in my very first musical, Backstreets, and even did a workshop production of it with some Year 11 students from Monivae College, where I went to school”.

Hamilton’s Dramus Theatre Company also staged one of Drew’s early shows, Utopia 2516.

“I was lucky to find the right people at the right time, especially when it was sometimes hard to find opportunities”.

Studying a Performing Arts Degree at the University Ballarat, Drew recalls, “I was a naïve, green, country boy, and being there taught me a lot about performing, the industry and life in general”.

Drew combines creativity with job security as a school Performing Arts teacher. “You have to be able to support yourself and your family – that’s absolutely vital”, says Drew, “but you can also pursue your dreams. It’s a delicate balancing act. Thankfully I have my beautiful wife, Jenni, and three sons who keep me wellgrounded”.

Several of Drew’s youth musicals have been recorded on iTunes and he records music for schools with the Butterfly Music label.

“But for me, the biggest success so far has been one of my songs being chosen for the 16 Stories recording project in conjunction with the Australian Discovery Orchestra, being released through Broadway Records”.

The song is called You Were There from Drew’s musical Electric Dreams, and will be sung by Claire DeJean, a singer/songwriter and actor based in Dallas, Texas who was featured on Season 15 of The Voice. “I can’t wait for it all to be released”.

Electric Dreams is based on the cult-classic film of the same name, originally written by Rusty Lemorande.

The story tells of Miles, an architect, struggling to stay in touch with the times and keep on top of his job.

His friend Frank encourages Miles to buy the latest computer system. On the same day, a new neighbour moves in, the beautiful and musically talented Madeline. There’s instant attrac-

The Parlour: Stunning opera ensemble The Parlour will take to the Hawthorn Arts Centre stage.

Led by Boroondara's own Karen Van Spall and Adam Miller, The Spring Opera Gala will be a memorial night of stunning opera highlights performed by some of Melbourne's finest artists.

The Parlour will treat audiences to an evening filled with soaring melodies from celebrated operas including Carmen, La Boheme, The Barber of Seville and Tosca.

Audiences are invited to celebrate the coming of spring in grand style with friends and family at a concert guaranteed to delight.

The line-up will feature Theresa Borg (soprano) Karen Van Spall (mezzo soprano) Michael Long (tenor), Adam Miller (baritone) and Dean Sky-Lucas (piano) When: Friday, November 15 at 8pm.

Hawthorn Arts Centre 360 Burwood Rd. Hawthorn - Peter Kemp

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● Melbourne songwriter and musician Drew Lane. ion, but after a freak accident, Miles’s computer becomes ‘alive’ and discovers its own feelings for Madeline.

Drew says he always loved the film Electric Dreams: ”A beautiful piece of history, romance, technology and MTV all bundled together”.

After eight years’ work and development sessions, Drew says the stage production keeps with the true spirit of the original film.

“Now it’s in the hands of Music Theatre Melbourne (MTM) and our wonderful director, Roman Berry.”

The cast includes Tom Green, Angela Scundi, Madeleine Featherby, Stephen Mahy, Anthony Scundi, Owen James, Zak Brown, Sopie Loughran, Courtney Smyth and Aidan Niarros.

“And it's just a joy to work with them all”, says Drew.

Drew would love to see Electric Dreams take off internationally, but most importantly hopes it finds a place “in the canon of musical theatre shows that have become staples in the theatre circuit”.

Performance Details: November 20 – 24 Venue: Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham St., Albert Park Bookings: www.gasworks.org.au or 8606 4200 - Cheryl Threadgold

Melbourne Symphony Mahler 8 Symphony of a Thousand The MSO will perform Gustav Mahler's epic Eight Symphony in October.2020.

With a stage filled with 1000 musicians and singers led by Sir Andrew Davis, this will be an international; musical event on a grand scale, and a once-in-a-generation experience for Melbourne audiences.

Margaret Court Arena is the perfect venue to stage this epic production. The MSO will work with world-class producers and technical experts to provide a brilliant acoustic and visual experience.

Season: October 24. 2020. Venue: Margaret Court Arena All sales are via Ticketek call 13 38 49 ( Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm. Saturday 10am 2pm).

Brahm's Requiem One of the greatest choral works ever written, Brahm's Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) is a message of hope.

Consolation and compassion. The MSO Chorus - appearing without orchestra for the first

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hands - will bring this most beautiful piece to life.

October 26 at Melbourne Recital Centre.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and MSO Chorus.

Experience a spectacle of light and sound this January when the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performs the score of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 ground-breaking masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Connected by Benjamin Northey and featuring the MSO Chorus, this powerful screen and sound concert event will showcase the film's bold use of classical concert music, which was revolutionary at the time of the film's creation.

The film brought worldwide acclaim to the music of Richard Strauss and Gyorgy Ligeti, as well as creating one of the most memorable scenes in cinema when a spaceship floats serenely through space to Johann Strauss' waltz The Blue Danube.

Saturday January 25 at 7pm. Venue: Primary Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

- Peter Kemp

A Special Preview With the new works now on display please feel free to visit and preview some of the latest works that will be on exhibition from 11am on Saturday November 2.

Fruit, flowers, trees, insects and the animals that inhabit their garden are depicted in painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics.

A display of work that reflects the artists vision f their natural or cultivated garden will be launched with music by the Maryborough Big Band.

Dalwhinnie and Amherst wine tasting and feature beautiful flower design by Alan Randell Smith.

The plants compliment the garden sculpture. Wander amongst the greenery or sit awhile in a cool spot and admire the works.

The exhibition will open at 11am on Saturday November 2 and will remain open during Melbourne Cup weekend until Tuesday November 5 and each weekend between 10am and 4pm until December 1.

Possum Gully Fine Arts Gallery 428 Possum Galley Rd,Adelaide Lead.

Directions: Travel 4km from Mary borough towards Avoca on the Pyrenees Hwy, turn left at Possum Gallery sign and follow the bitumen for 4.5km - Peter Kemp

In St Kilda Rd Barkindji Blue Sky A series of photographs taken within a fiveminute window as Morris watched Corella playfully interacting with an artificial tree - a communications tower on Kurnu Barkindji county in Bourke, New South Wales.

Exhibition closes November 9.

Vivien Anderson Gallery 284 - 290 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda - Peter Kemp

National Gallery October Exhibitions: Hugh Ramsay Delve into the paintings, portraits and notebooks of seminal Australian artist Hugh Ramsay, whose brilliant career was cut short at just 28.

The young artist shot to fame when four works were selected for the New Salon in Paris in 1902, a feat unheard of in expatriate circles.

Exhibition closes March 2020.

Venue: Level 1 National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place Parkes. A.C.T. - Peter Kemp

At Collingwood Familiar Paintings God in the basement 2019 oil on Masonite The Imposter 2018-19 Oil on Masonite.

Portal 2018 Oil on Masonite.

Exhibition closes November 3.

Nicholas Thompson 155 Langridge St., Collingwood - Peter Kemp

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Local Theatre Shows

■ Essendon Theatre Company: Jack the Ripper: The Musical November 21 - 30 at the Bradshaw St. Community Hall, Essendon West. Director: Robert Harsley. Bookings: www.essendontheatrecompany.com.au ■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: Crimes of the Heart: Two One Act Plays. Contractions by Mike Bartlett, Director David Tynan; Elegy for a Lady by Arthur Miller, Director Adrian Rice at Warrandyte Mechanics' Institute, Yarra St., Warrandyte. Bookings: www.trybooking ■ Eighteenth Year National Playwright Competition: Three Finalist One Act Plays, December 5, 6, 7 at 7.30pm and December 7 at 3pm at Rentoul Theatre, 16 Livingstone Close (off Elgar Rd.) Burwood. Family Happens written and directed by Jonne Finemore; The Deal by Elizabeth Long; After Isobel by Carmen Saarelaht, directed by Julie Cunningham. Tickets all $26. Bookings: trybooking or www.playhouseplayers.org.au - Cheryl Threadgold

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Out Of Order

Auditions

■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Gaslight (by Patrick Hamilton adapted by David Jacklin) October 27, 28 at 7.30pm at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Catherine Christensen. Information: 0403 818 872.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Knickers - a Brief Comedy October 27 at 2.30pm and October 29 at 7.00pm at Guide Hall, Glebe Ave., Cheltenham. Director: Barbara Crawford.

Enquiries: barbaracrawford@gmail.com ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Crown Matrimonial (by Royce Ryton) November 10, 11 at 7.30pm at 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Nick Opolski. Information: 0400 507 788.

■ Williamstown Little Theatre: The Last Romance (by Joe DiPietro) November 17 at 2.00pm and November 18 at 7.30pm at Williamstown Little Theatre, 2-4 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Keith Hutton. Information: 0430 032 332.

- Cheryl Threadgold

A Thousand Thoughts

■ Music is ineffable. It has the ability to inspire, to bring communities together and to challenge our thinking.

To that end, the documentary, A Thousand Thoughts, is ‘live’ where the subjects of the film perform the soundtrack.

This accentuates the moment and the unique rapport between performer and audience – a discourse that is unique on each occasion.

Filmmakers, Sam Green and Joe Bini’s subject matter is the avant-garde Kronos Quartet that was founded in 1973 and has influenced this music genre through original compositions from some of the world’s leading composers.

The affinity between the ensemble (David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Sunny Yang) seems timeless as they accompany the pictures of their former selves through five decades of music.

We not only see the changing fashions of the past but the music takes on an even greater resonance as we are made aware of the historical backdrop over that time; the social issues, wars and celebrations. Their music takes on a timeless echo as a voice that underscores humanity.

Green and Bini’s canvas is epic. The Quartet’s archives are the prime source of curious detail and amusement but they become linked through history to sounds made over the ages.

Harrington’s violin dates to the 1800s. But the very notion of recorded sound is evoked with reference to Edison’s wax cylinder. The lives of the ensemble are also intertwined; love and loss and heartache. What unites it all is the power of music to create a connection that transcends, that inspires and that motivates.

This unique presentation needs to be witnessed for the boundaries of concert and documentary have been intertwined. Genres coalesce creating a ferment of ideas and a unique audience experience.

- Review by David McLean

● Travis Handcock, Cherylyn De Vries, Louise Gracey, Andrew McIver and Michelle Perera in Out of Order opening in Parkdale on November 8.

Photo: Michael Kakogiannis. secretary, a conniving waiter, a suspicious hotel ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company presents Ray Cooney’s comedy Out of Order from Novem- manager, an angry wife, a furious husband, a ber 8-23 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale. confused nurse and a body, nothing is going to Directed by Keith Hutton, Out of Order tells go as planned.

Performance Season: November 8 – 23 of chaos reigning as Conservative Government Venue: Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd, MP Richard Willey is attempting to have an affair with one of the secretaries of the Leader of Parkdale Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/book/ the Opposition in a top London hotel.

- Cheryl Threadgold However, with a timid parliamentary private event?eid=449602&

Review: Coriolanus ■ Hartwell Player’s latest production was an innovative version of Coriolanus, directed by Tam Dahmen-O’Neill.

Coriolanus is the name given to the brilliant general, Caius Martius after his military victories against Roman enemies. We follow his embittered revenge against Rome after the masses refuse to support his ambition for political leadership.

The set was futuristic. The bleakness of mesh screens and detritus represented carnage and chaos - contrasting with a white couch centre stage, depicting domesticity. The colour scheme of red, white and black were matched effectively by the Romans’ costumes.

Simon Patrick Brennan, as Coriolanus imbued the role with swaggering virility. His mother, Volumnia (Natasha Broadstock) was a furious and passionate “tiger mother”.

Broadstock’s terrifying portrayal contrasted nicely with Sienna Strauss’s dignified, and loving wife Virgilia.

Valeria, (Sophie McDowell), friend of Virgilia, sported a blond wig and red polka-dotted dress. The startling costume is presumably a rather heavy-handed reference to her shallow frivolity, compared to Virgilia’s virtuosity.

Aufidius was portrayed spendidly by Joanna Bakker. Brutus and Sicinius were played by Gabrielle Volpe and April Dawson respectively and though both gave convincing performances, Dawson’s high pitch was somewhat distracting.

By contrast, Chris Dahmen-O’Neill’s Menenius, was exemplary, his diction strong and clear.

In the second half, a broken Coriolanus sets out to join forces with Aufidius. But the stubborn soldier is no match for his mother as she pleads with him not to betray Rome.

This scene was over-long and overwrought.

The near descent into melodrama was saved by the drama of Coriolanus’ final, fatal fight with Aufidius .

In summary, the Director and cast are to be congratulated on an original and brave production. Lighting and sound designers and operators were excellent, the choreography brilliant and the music marvellously appropriate.

Cole Porter told us to Brush up your Shakespeare (Kiss Me Kate). Hartwell made the complex Coriolanus so readily understood that I’d consider my Shakespeare well and truly brushed.

- Review by Juliet Charles

Savannah Bay ■ An old woman, Madeleine, played by Brenda Palmer, sits in a chair staring into space, lost in thought. Edith Piaf’s Les mots d'amour - the words of love—plays.

A young woman played by Annie Thorold enters. ‘What will you be when I’m dead?’ the old woman asks. ‘Gone. Changed forever.

Worldly.’ The young woman helps Madeleine to change out of her drab clothes. Coquettishly, Madeleine reveals herself, “I was an actress— a stage actress, nothing less.”

Marguerite Duras’s Savannah Bay is a ghost story; an interrogation of a long-lost past. This is a play centred around the elusiveness of memory.

The young woman is obsessed with understanding the past and urges Madeleine to repeat a much-heard story. Madeleine falters, omitting details. “I don’t remember,” The young woman

scolds her, “You’re lying! You’re not sure of anything anymore.’

There is mystery here. Is Madeleine unable to remember the past or is she acting? “I can’t remember what I remember when I remember—but it’s there.” The audience is left to interpret meaning from the ambiguity of the lines.

It becomes clear that the young woman craving the details of the story is the drowned girl’s daughter.

Directed by Laurence Strangio, Palmer and Thorold are both excellent and it is heartening to see a play with two female leads.

A seamless set change means that, although this is a fundamentally static play, somehow the action flows. Performance details: Until October 27. Venue: La Mama Courthouse, Drummond St., Carlton. www.lamama.com.au - Review by Kathryn Keeble

What’s On Shows

■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Mamma Mia! Until October 26 at the National Theatre, 20 Carlisle St., St Kilda. Director/Choreographer: Craig Wiltshire; Musical Director: Tony Toppi. Bookings: www.cloc.org.au or 1300 362 547 ■ Encore Theatre: Almost, Maine Until October 26 at the Clayton Community Theatre, Cooke St., Clayton. Director: Laura Bradley.

Bookings: 1300 739 099.

■ The 1812 Theatre: Ghosts (by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Eamon Flack) Until October 26 at 3-5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully.

Bookings: 9758 3964.

■ OSMaD: Miss Saigon Until October 26 at the Geoffrey McComas Theatre, Scotch College, Hawthorn.

Bookings: www.osmad.com.au/tickets ■ NOVA Music Theatre: The Wizard of Oz October 26 - November 10 at the Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading.

Bookings: www.novamusictheatre.com.au or 1300 304 433.

■ PEP Productions: The Breakfast Club (by John Hughes) October 24 - November 3 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Jennifer Pacey. Bookings: 0418 549 187.

■ The Mount Players: The Graduate November 1 - 23 at the Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon. Director: Robert Wallace. Bookings: 0419 348 347.

■ Strathmore Theatre Arts Group: Death

by Eating (by Cenarth Fox) November 7 - 16 at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Cnr. Loeman and Napier Sts., Strathmore. Bookings: www.stagtheatre.org ■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: Ladies in Black November 7 - 23 at Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre, 39 - 41 Castella St., Lilydale.

Director:Alan Burrows. Bookings: 9745 1777.

■ Brighton Theatre Company: Dinner With Friends (by Donald Margulies) November 8 - 23 at the Brighton Arts and Cultural Centre. brightontheatre.com.au ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Out of Order (by Ray Cooney) November 8 - 23 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Keith Hutton. Bookings: mordialloctheatre.com ■ Beaumaris Theatre: Buddy - the Buddy Holly Story (by Alan Janes) November 8 - 12 at Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd., Beaumaris. Director: Debbie Keyt: Musical Director: Rhonda Vaughan: Choreographer: Camilla Klesman.

Bookings: beaumaristheatre.com.au ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Blithe Spirit (by Noel Coward) November 8 - 30 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr Doongalla and Simpsons Rds., The Basin. Director: Neroli Wesley.

Bookings: www.thebasintheatre.org.au ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Double Bill: Black Comedy (by Peter Shaffer) and The Real Inspector Hound (by Tom Stoppard) November 13 - 30 at 2-4 Albert St., Williamstown. Bookings: www.wlt.org.au ■ Eltham Little Theatre: A Knight to Remember (by Jane Rothnie) November 14 30 at the Eltham PerformingArts Centre, 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Julie Cunningham. Bookings: 0411 713 095.

■ The 1812 Theatre: Leading Ladies (by Ken Ludwig) November 14 - December 7 at 3-5 Rose St., Upper Ferntree gully. Director: Pip Le Blond. Bookings: 9758 3964.

■ Peridot Theatre: Stage Kiss (by Sarah Ruhl) November 15 - 30 at the Unicorn Theatre, Lechte Rd., Mt Waverley. Director: George Werther. Bookings: 0429 115 334.

■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: One Man Two Guvnors (by Richard Bean) November 15 - 30 at 15 Coronation St., Geelong West. Director: Derek Ingles. Bookings: GPAC 5225 1200 ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Tartuffe (by Moliere, adapted by Christopher Hampton) November 15 - 30 at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Joan Moriarty. Bookings: www.htc.org.au ■ Tangled Web Productions: A Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams) November 19 - 24 at the Northcote Town Hall, Studio 2. Director: Paul Wanis. Bookings: tangledweb.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

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Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Grumpy Christmas

■ Eric Bogle and Claymore will present A Grumpy Celtic Christmas at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, on Fri., Dec 20.

Considered two of Australia's top artists, and along with the incredible Glenbrae Celtic Dancers, the event will showcase the best of Celtic entertainment. Because Eric and Willy are often considered Bah Humbug when it comes to Christmas festivities, the Grumpy Celtic Christmas title is appropriate, says their media release. Tickets at the Memo.eal.

Gladys in Melb.

■ The empress of soul, Gladys Knight, returns to Australia and New Zealand in February for her first shows in over 20 years.

Along with her nine-piece band, Gladys will be performing all her iconic hits that have contributed to her winning seven Grammy Awards. With more than 50 years of experience on stage and in song writing, film and television, Gladys continues to deliver showstopping performances around the globe.

Riverboats fest

■ Aussie country star Troy Cassar-Daley will join an A-list of the country’ss finest artists at the Echuca-Moama based event next year. Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning and Australian Eurovision representative Kate Miller-Heidke are also listed to perform. RocKwiz's Brian Nankervis will MC the weekend-long event from February 14-16.

- Rob Foenander

■ John Rozentals fills his passion for sparkling wines with a high red-grape content and also notes the loss of one of the wine industry's great ones.

News can take a while to get through to Molong, so I have only just learnt of the death a few months or so ago of Dr Tony Jordan, my first wine-science supervisor at college, a senior staffer for Moet Hennessy, and largely responsible for the creation of that French giant's Domaine Chandon winery in Victoria's Yarra Valley.

My first experience with Tony was at a college lab class when he responded to an innocent, if ill-conceived, question with an acerbic "Are you stupid, or what?"

The asker shrank into their labcoat, which should have carried a previously absent brown stain.

Here, I thought, was someone on my plane, someone who told it as is was, and, above all, someone with a very low tolerance threshold to anyone he thought a fool.

The Australian wine industry nay, the world's wine industry - has lost a truly great one.

I won't say I became friends with Tony, but I had plenty to do with him over the years, and it's appropriate that I had this article on Chandon's great Australian bubblies in the pipeline when I heard news of his death from mesothelioma.

Tony obviously had a fair influence on Dan Buckle, who has been

Senior Winemaker at Chandon since 2012.

Dan's father has a vineyard on the nearby Mornington Peninsula, so Dan should have been aware of the wine industry's reputation for demanding blood, sweat and tears, but he obviously didn't read the chapter on the essential requirement for hard, largely unrequited, work.

Anyway, enough verbal gushing.

I have a passion for sparkling wines made with a high red-grape component, which gives them strength of body and provides a certain steeliness to their structure.

That's why I often prefer the NV rosés in a line-up of French Champagnes, despite a look that some suggest is "girly-ish".

Well, I found plenty to like in the line-up of Buckle's recent releases from Chandon.

WINE REVIEWS Chandon NV Rosé ($25): Made from a traditional Champagne blend of chardonnay, pinot meuniere and pinot noir, the dominance of the red grape, pinot noir, is the highlight.

The bouquet starts with red berries but finishes with fresh bread and yeast. The wine is good on its own as an aperitif but, as Buckle points out in his winemaker's notes, will also go well with a plate of sashimi.

Chandon 2015 Whitlands Plateau Blanc de Blancs ($42): Okay, this is pure chardonnay without even a skerrick of red grapes, but its origins in the cold Victorian high

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THE T OP 5 SHO WS TOP SHOW IN HEA VEN HEAVEN THIS WEEK. 5. "The Masked Apostle".

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2. "The Saint".

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Two Aussie directors back in WeHo ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.

Out and About

Global movie business

■ Welcome back to Hollywood 'Tinsel Town', which is the biggest stage in the world, to two Aussie directors David Connell and Rod Hardy.

Movies now take us all around the world and it's great to see lots of Aussies working in the movies in Hollywood.

David Connell is a director of cinematography, and Rod Hardy is a global movie director.

They are here to scope out possibilities for future projects. It's always a beautiful thing when you can create on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Young Australian actors are guided by these two men to give the best performance in front of the movie camera.

Alan Johnson, Managing Director of the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites in West Hollywood, also helps with support to the young actors arriving here for the first time to try and fulfill their Hollywood dreams.

Megan Fox and son, 6

● Pictured at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard are cinematographer David Connell, Ramada Managing Director Alan Johnson and international movie director Rod Hardy.

Protect yourself ■ Data leaks and security breaches are everyday occurrences and becoming increasingly more common, with events like the Equifax breach which resulted in the leak of 56,200 drivers' licenses, passports, and other forms of ID. Capital One was also hit with a data breach, affecting an estimated 100 million US individuals and approximately six million in Canada.

It's natural to wonder if your data is truly safe when opening or using a credit card.

Despite the headlines, a credit card generally comes with protections that can help limit damage.

But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't consider opening or using a credit card.

The personal-finance and data-security expert Adam Levin said credit cards could actually help protect your accounts from damage if your information is stolen.

His advice? "Lie like a superhero" when setting up account-login security questions to shield personal information.

Paying attention to transactions is your best defence.

Identity theft and fraud cost Americans $1.48 billion last year.

Breaches have become the third certainty of life behind death and taxes.

So, it's not a matter of if your information will be compromised, but rather how easy it could be for someone to use it against you.

And using or applying for credit cards generally won't exacerbate the damage.

In fact, credit cards could help protect you, thanks to fraud detection, zero-liability policies, and other safeguards.

Like it or not, we consumers are responsible for managing our credit and our identity because no one knows better than we what we're doing.

Legalisation of marijuana ■ The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug TraffickingArea report on the impact of legalisation in Colorado is devastating for those pushing legalization.

The report found: ■ Traffic deaths where drivers tested positive for marijuana increased 109 percent.

■ Traffic deaths involving drivers who tested positive for marijuana more than doubled between 2013 and 2018.

■ The percentage of all Colorado traffic deaths that were marijuana-related increased from 15 percent in 2013 to 23 per cent in 2018.

■ Marijuana use in the past month for children ages 12 and up increased 58 per cent, and is 78 per cent higher than the national average.

■ Adult marijuana use increased 94 per cent, and is 96 per cent higher than the national average.

■ The yearly number of emergency room visits related to marijuana increased 54 per cent after legalisation.

■ Marijuana-related hospitalisations increased 101 pe rcent after legalisation.

■ Suicides where toxicology results were positive for marijuana increased from 14 per cent in 2013 to 23 per cent in 2017.

■ After revealing her appreciation for motherhood last week, Transformers actress Megan Fox then defended her decision to let her 6-year-old son Noah wear dresses to school.

Speaking with The Talk, Megan Fox said that her son sometimes wants to wear dresses to his "liberal, hippy" school, and she allows him to pick the outfit he desires despite the ridicule he faces from other boys.

"Sometimes, he'll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes," Fox said, "And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there here in California - he still has little boys going, 'Boys don't wear dresses,' or 'Boys don't wear pink.'"

"So we're going through that now, where I'm trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says," she continued.

Fox went on to say that her son stopped wearing dresses for a while before resuming the practice again.

She claims it stems from his profound love of fashion.

"He had stopped wearing dresses for a while. He just wore one two days ago to school, and he came home and I was like, 'How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?'" Fox said.

"And he was like, 'Well, all the boys laughed when I came in, but I don't care, I love dresses too much.'"

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From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

More tax for Americans ■ Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2018 than they did on the basic necessities of food, clothing and health care combined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey.

The survey's recently published Table R-1 for 2018 lists the average "detailed expenditures" of what the BLS calls "consumer units."

"Consumer units," says BLS, "include families, single persons living alone or sharing a household with others but who are financially independent, or two or more persons living together who share major expenses."

In 2018, according to Table R-1, American consumer units spent an average of $9031.93 on federal income taxes; $5023.73 on Social Security taxes (which the table calls "deductions"); $2284.62 on state and local income taxes; $2199.80 on property taxes; and $77.85 on what BLS calls "other taxes."

The combined payments the average American consumer unit made for these five categories of taxes was $18,617.93.

At the same time the average American consumer unit was paying these taxes, it was spending $7923.19 on food; $4968.44 on health care; and $1866.48 on "apparel and services”.

These combined expenditures equaled $14,758.11. So, the $14,758.11 that the average American consumer unit paid for food, clothing and health care was $3859.82 less than the $18,617.93 it paid in federal, state and local income taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes and "other taxes."

Ameiicans on average paid more in taxes last year than they paid for food, clothing, health care, electricity and telephone services combined.

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■ This years Primetime Emmys Awards show posted the worst initial ratings in the program's 71-year history.

Airing on Fox, television ratings for the Emmys continued their downward spiral, "TV's biggest night had its worst night ever.

The 5.7/10 in metered market results that the Emmys snared is the lowest rating the annual ceremony has achieved in early metrics coming off successive years of new lows in an age of endangered awards shows.

“The host free Emmys is down 23 per cent from last year's ceremony."

Ratings were also down 34.5 per cen t from 2015, the last time the show aired on Fox.

7 million displaced ■ This year's weather is set to be one of the most disastrous on record after new figures showed that weather events displaced a record seven million people from their homes in the first six months of 2019.

That's more people than during the same period in any other year in history.

The number comes from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, which compiled data from governments, the United Nations, and media reports.

"In today's changing climate, mass displacement triggered by extreme-weather events is becoming the norm," the group said in its report.

The New York Times reports the numbers show two main developments that extreme-weather events are becoming even more extreme, and that governments are becoming better at preparing for them with evacuations.

The numbers don't include Hurricane Dorian's devastation of the Bahamas.

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■ My first memory of Eve Arden was as the school teacher in the 1950s television series Our Miss Brooks - although I must have seen her prior to that in lots of films as a supporting actress.

Eunice M. Quedens was born in 1908 in Mill Valley, California. She made her stage debut at an early age and it was a small comedy sketch in a stage version of Ziegfeld Follies that attracted attention and led to small film roles.

By 1937 Eunice was working as Eve Arden and landed a good role in the film Oh Doctor playing opposite Edward Everett Horton and William Demarest.

In her next film Stage Door for RKO Pictures her role was expanded to a wise cracking fast talking character and Eve found herself working with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.

In 1939 she married Ned Bergen and in the same year appeared in the MGM film At The Circus with The Marx Brothers.

Her big break came when she landed the role of Ida in Mildred Pierce playing opposite Joan Crawford.

Eve Arden was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. In 1946 she worked in a radio series with Danny Kaye and that led to the radio series of Our Miss Brooks which was a situation comedy set in a typical American High School.

Jeff Chandler played her fellow teacher Philip Boynton in the radio series.

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Eve Arden

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

The show was very popular and when it went to television the only cast member not to go into the series was Jeff Chandler as he was now playing lead roles in films.

Eve Arden became very popular as Miss Brooks and the television series ran from 1952 to 1956.

When television began in Australia we loved to watch Our Miss Brooks.

Eve had divorced Ned Bergen in 1947 and married actor and producer Brooks West in 1952 - they had four children.

Eve Arden played herself in an I Love Lucy episode set in the famous Brown Derby Restaurant.

Some of her films included - The Kid From

● Eve Arden

Brooklyn, Tea For Two, Anatomy Of AMurder and The Dark At The Top of the Stairs.

In 1974 Eve Arden came to Sydney to star in the Australian premiere of the ill-fated stage musical Applause.

Her later film roles included the school principal of Rydell High in both of the film musicals Grease 1 and Grease 2.

Brooks West, who also had a role in Anatomy Of A Murder, passed away in 1984.

There is a classic story about Eve when she was appearing in a play and her leading man had arranged for the telephone to ring in the middle of one of Eve's monologues as a practical joke.

Eve went over to the phone, picked it up, adlibbed some lines then calmly turned to her smirking fellow actor and said quite loudly, "It's for you!" Which left him struggling to invent lines to get out of it. When he hung up the phone, Eve continued the play as if nothing had happened. Eve Arden passed away at her home in Los Angeles in 1990 at the age of 82. A great character actress.

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

Photos from the past: Yarra Glen OK. With John O’Keefe Beliebers tie the knot

● Rustic bridge at the Yarra Flats. Circa 1880. Photo: Fred Kruger

● Justin and Hailey Beiber ■ Justin Bieber and his bride Hailey signed on the dotted line to become man and wife. To say the least their official wedding pic was that of a very lovely couple, Hailey in traditional white and Justin in wedding suit. Hailey wore a full length white bridal dress with the longest train ever.

Lettered onto the end of train was the message ‘ Till Death Do UsPart!’

The message was a bit of an eyesore as it resembled a AFL banner that players run through on Grand Finals.

Almost over and out

■ The 23 rd season of South Park with its insane storylines has returned to the small screen. Those in the know are saying this will be the final season, so make sure you catch the the latest episodes of this Emmy Award winning animated series – SBS Viceland, check guides .

Honour for Sam Neill

■ Many of us claim Sam Neill as an Aussie. Wrong , he is a New Zealander and has just been awarded the prestigious 2019 Equity NZ Lifetine Achievement Award. Well done Sam, your name goes on the roll call of some of the greatest entertainers in Australasia.

Sounds of Africa

■ The vibrant sounds of Africa come alive December7 at Ceres Park for another non-stop performance of Sounds of Africa. Have an awesome day packed with the best Africa has to offer – sounds, dance and scrumptious food. Check gig guides.

Offer off the table

● ‘Flooding in Healesville, 1934’. Photo: State Rivers Commission

■ The rumour is that Gerard Whateley of Fox Footy thought he had landed the dream job to switch to Seven and join the commentary team to cover the forthcoming cricket team ,plus the Tokyo Games.

Apparently,. then along came a directive to slash budgets and Seven’s incoming CEO James Warbuton was given the dubious task of scotching the plans and Gerard Whateley was back to where he was.

- John O’Keefe

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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: BOOKSMART: Genre: Comedy.

Cast: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Billie Lourd.

Year: 2019.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 102 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Review: On the eve of their high school graduation, two academics and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more, so determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.

Actress Olivia Wilde, whose credits include "Tron: Legacy" with Jeff Bridges, (2010), "Cowboys & Aliens" with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford (2011) and "Rush" with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl (2013) makes her feature directorial debut here with "Booksmart," and even though it overstretches it mark at moments, only briefly, the results are a riotous, animated, laugh-out-loud, madcap, hyperfresh and unapologetic coming of age teen comedy overflowing with delightful chuckles and big laughs, and is without doubt a worthy edition to the growing list of most memorable and best loved of the teen-school comedy classics over the decades.

Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein hit the ball right out of the part as the immediately likeable and highly infectious girlfriends who decide to play up to their peers and end up on a one night adventure to remember, along with Jason Sudekis as the school principle, Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow as the parents, and a goofy sidesplitting stellar performance from Billie Lourd (Star Wars: The Force Awakens/Star Wars: The Last Jedi, American Horror Story) as the quirky, drug crazed and lovable, Gigi.

Clever, briskly paced, radical, poignant, unpredictable and raunchy, this MA15+ teen comedy is a rapid-fire and rollicking rollercoaster ride of insanely offbeat fun with two wild a crazy girls, and like so many in the genre before it, to enjoy over and over again, all supremely driven by a startling feature directorial debut from actress Olivia Wilde, the results of which could catapult her to the label or mantle of this generation' s John Hughes or Penny Marshall .... but whatever she decides to do, she's now a talent behind the camera to be reckoned with, and it'll be a highly anticipated effort.

FILM: YESTERDAY: Genre: Comedy/Fantasy/Music.

Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Sophia Di Martino.

Year: 2019.

Rating: M. Length: 116 Minutes.

Stars: *** Review: A dreams of a struggling singer-songwriter are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, then, after a freak accident during a mysterious global blackout, he awakes in an alternate timeline to find out that The Beatles never existed (among other things), and soon rises to global fame by performing classic songs by the band.

Whimsical British "Twilight Zone-esque" romantic-musical-fantasy is an all encompassing tribute to the legendary fab-four and their music, with a respectfully old fashioned light-hearted formula, though at times stretched, especially when the premise goes over the pond to the US, it works passably well for the most part thanks to the direction by Oscar winner Danny Boyle from the pen of Oscar nominated and multi-award winning screenwriter, Richard Curtis.

Big screen newcomer Himesh Patel only pulls off the difficult task as the struggling singer-songwriter, Jack, suddenly thrown into the global spotlight, along with Lily James as his childhood sweetheart who has always believed in him, and Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar as Jack's parents, however, in a nice comic casting coup is singersongwriter Ed Sheerin as himself, who discovers Jack and his body of Beatles hits, along the way trying to convince Jack to change the title of "Hey Jude" to "Hey Dude."

Ultimately, by suspending all disbelief and logic, there's lots here for both fans of The Beatles and rom-com's to enjoy, most notably a moment of overwhelming poignancy that is sure to shake Beatles fans (I will say no more on that), and along with a solid soundtrack, it's a delight for us who lived it the first time around to relive it again, and a joy for new generations to discover and experience it for the first time, right down to the complete "Hey Jude" loud and clear over the end credits, through which most the audience never budged, and turned out to be very nearly the best part of the film.

Rourke’s Reviews Ready Or Not ■ (MA). 95 minutes. Opens in selected cinemas October 24.

Riffing on that age-old premise of The Most Dangerous Game, which seems to have been around almost as long as cinema itself, Ready Or Not is an energetic, blackly funny variation that also casts its eye on class inequality.

While it never reaches the provocative heights of Bong Joon-ho's superb Parasite, the film is definitely a cut above the crowd.

Margot Robbie lookalike Samara Weaving stars as Grace, who is about to marry into big, big money, being engaged to Alex Le Domas (Mark O'Brien), of the Le Domas family, renowned worldwide for their hugely successful board/card game business.

The wedding takes place on the expansive family estate, but before Grace can enjoy the evening with her new husband, she will have to complete a traditional ritual, one every newcomer has to participate in.

The patriarch, Tony (a terrific Henry Czerny), explains at first the history of the Le Domas family and how they achieved their success, before allowing the new bride to choose the 'game' they will play to fulfil the ritual.

When Grace picks 'Hide And Seek', an uncomfortable silence envelops the room, and soon Grace will experience a night she will never forget.

Nicely old-fashioned in its look and feel, directors Matt BettinelliOlpin and Tyler Gillett (who helmed segments of the mildly enjoyable Southbound) move between graphic gore and nasty laughs quite nicely, and make sure events move by at a decent clip.

The duo are lucky to have a cast who are ready to have fun with the material, and everyone plays their roles to the hilt (Andie McDowell, typically, is a little wooden).

Though its set-up isn't new, and elements could have lead to more stinging social commentary, Ready Or Not is great fun, crafted and performed with genuine affection.

RATING - ***½

Colour Out Of Space ■ (MA). 111 minutes. Monster Fest screening.

Whether the new film Colour Out Of Space proved to be any good or not, is almost secondary to the fact that audiences finally see the return of director Richard Stanley, an immensely gifted artist and filmmaker who is helming his first narrative feature film in 27 years.

Having had its Australian premiere at Monster Fest, to a sell-

out crowd, this latest adaptation of the 1927 H.P. Lovecraft short story (there were also film versions in 1987 and 2010) shows that Stanley has not lost any of his exquisite, unique visual brilliance, crafting a tale that is both gorgeous and grotesque. The story centres on the Gardner family, made up of father Nathan (Nicolas Cage), mother Theresa (Joely Richardson), eldest son Benny (Brendan Meyer), teenage daughter Lavinia (Madeleine Arthur), and young Jack (Julian Hilliard), who have moved from the big city to the country, living in the home Nathan inherited from his dad. Arriving on their property is Ward Phillips (Elliot Knight), a hydrologist who has been sent to investigate issues with the local water supply. Troubles begin when a meteorite crashes on the family's front lawn, mutating not only the surrounding environment, but time itself. An avowed Lovecraft fan, Stanley, and co-writer Scarlett Amaris (who worked with the director on The Theatre Bizarre (2011), The Otherworld (2013) and Replace (2017)), morph the author's original story elements with modern subject matter such as climate change and fragile, societal uncertainty, as well as Stanley's long-running interest in mystical rituals and the blurred connection between the tangible and the unknown, to wildly successful effect. Stanley also imbues the growingly hallucinatory material with an uninhibited sense of humour, which also helps keep the audience off-balance. Stunningly shot by Steve Annis (who lensed the recent Aussie sci-fi film I Am Mother), Colour Out Of Space is a feast for the eyes, and combined with outstanding sound design, and an enveloping music score by Colin Stetson (though Stanley's regular composer Simon Boswell is missed), ensures that the film is a complete, sensory experience. The special effects are a convincing mix of practical and CGI. Stanley fills the widescreen images with meticulous, painterly detail, and thankfully shies away from modern techniques such as shakycam, whip-pans, ultra close-ups and headache-inducing editing, favouring instead an immersive, slow-burn atmosphere. Performances are generally decent, particularly from Arthur, and a surprisingly well-cast Tommy Chong (of Cheech & Chong fame). Cage scores pretty well, but sometimes falls into self-knowing parody, making you aware you are watching a Nicolas Cage performance. Colour Out Of Space will bemuse and frustrate some viewers, but for those who click into its surreal wavelength, will see one of the most imaginative and entertaining films of the year.

RATING - ****

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Bleak House - by Charles Dickens If I did think of it at odd moments now and then, I had only to be busy and forget it. I felt it more than I had hoped I should once when a child said, “Mother, why is the lady not a pretty lady now like she used to be?” But when I found the child was not less fond of me, and drew its soft hand over my face with a kind of pitying protection in its touch, that soon set me up again. There were many little occurrences which suggested to me, with great consolation, how natural it is to gentle hearts to be considerate and delicate towards any inferiority. One of these particularly touched me. I happened to stroll into the little church when a marriage was just concluded, and the young couple had to sign the register.

The bridegroom, to whom the pen was handed first, made a rude cross for his mark; the bride, who came next, did the same. Now, I had known the bride when I was last there, not only as the prettiest girl in the place, but as having quite distinguished herself in the school, and I could not help looking at her with some surprise. She came aside and whispered to me, while tears of honest love and admiration stood in her bright eyes, “He’s a dear good fellow, miss; but he can’t write yet — he’s going to learn of me — and I wouldn’t shame him for the world!” Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man’s daughter!

The air blew as freshly and revivingly upon me as it had ever blown, and the healthy colour came into my new face as it had come into my old one. Charley was wonderful to see, she was so radiant and so rosy; and we both enjoyed the whole day and slept soundly the whole night.

There was a favourite spot of mine in the parkwoods of Chesney Wold where a seat had been erected commanding a lovely view. The wood had been cleared and opened to improve this point of sight, and the bright sunny landscape beyond was so beautiful that I rested there at least once every day. A picturesque part of the Hall, called the Ghost’s Walk, was seen to advantage from this higher ground; and the startling name, and the old legend in the Dedlock family which I had heard from Mr. Boythorn accounting for it, mingled with the view and gave it something of a mysterious interest in addition to its real charms. There was a bank here, too, which was a famous one for violets; and as it was a daily delight of Charley’s to gather wild flowers, she took as much to the spot as I did.

It would be idle to inquire now why I never went close to the house or never went inside it. The family were not there, I had heard on my arrival, and were not expected. I was far from being incurious or uninterested about the building; on the contrary, I often sat in this place wondering how the rooms ranged and whether any echo like a footstep really did resound at times, as the story said, upon the lonely Ghost’s Walk.

The indefinable feeling with which Lady Dedlock had impressed me may have had some influence in keeping me from the house even when she was absent. I am not sure. Her face and figure were associated with it, naturally; but I cannot say that they repelled me from it, though something did. For whatever reason or no reason, I had never once gone near it, down to the day at which my story now arrives.

I was resting at my favourite point after a long ramble, and Charley was gathering violets at a little distance from me. I had been looking at the Ghost’s Walk lying in a deep shade of masonry afar off and picturing to myself the female shape that was said to haunt it when I became aware of a figure approaching through the wood. The perspective was so long and so darkened by leaves, and the shadows of the branches on the ground made it so much more intricate to the eye, that at first I could not discern what figure it was. By little and little it revealed itself to be a woman’s — a lady’s — Lady Dedlock’s. She was alone and coming to where I sat with a much quicker step, I observed to my surprise, than was usual with her.

I was fluttered by her being unexpectedly so near (she was almost within speaking distance before I knew her) and would have risen to continue my walk. But I could not. I was rendered

in the silence of the summer day there seemed to be nothing but our two troubled minds that was not at peace.

“To bless and receive me,” groaned my mother, “it is far too late. I must travel my dark road alone, and it will lead me where it will. From day to day, sometimes from hour to hour, I do not see the way before my guilty feet. This is the earthly punishment I have brought upon myself. I bear it, and I hide it.”

Even in the thinking of her endurance, she drew her habitual air of proud indifference about her like a veil, though she soon cast it off again.

“I must keep this secret, if by any means it can be kept, not wholly for myself. I have a husband, wretched and dishonouring creature that I am!”

These words she uttered with a suppressed cry of despair, more terrible in its sound than any shriek. Covering her face with her hands, she shrank down in my embrace as if she were unwilling that I should touch her; nor could I, by my utmost persuasions or by any endearments I could use, prevail upon her to rise. She said, no, no, no, she could only speak to me so; she must be proud and disdainful everywhere else; she would be humbled and ashamed there, in the only natural moments of her life.

My unhappy mother told me that in my illness she had been nearly frantic. She had but then known that her child was living. She could not have suspected me to be that child before. She had followed me down here to speak to me but once in all her life. We never could associate, never could communicate, never probably from that time forth could interchange another word on earth. She put into my hands a letter she had written for my reading only and said when I had read it and destroyed it — but not so much for her sake, since she asked nothing, as for her husband’s and my own — I must evermore consider her as dead. If I could believe that she loved me, in this agony in which I saw her, with a mother’s love, she asked me to do that, for then I might think of her with a greater pity, imagining what she suffered. She had put herself beyond all hope and beyond all help. Whether she preserved her secret until death or it came to be discovered and she brought dishonour and disgrace upon the name she had taken, it was her solitary struggle always; and no affection could come near her, and no human creature could render her any aid.

Charles Dickens “But is the secret safe so far?” I asked. “Is it motionless. Not so much by her hurried ges- I cannot tell in any words what the state of my safe now, dearest mother?” ture of entreaty, not so much by her quick ad- mind was when I saw in her hand my handker- “No,” replied my mother. “It has been very near vance and outstretched hands, not so much by chief with which I had covered the dead baby. discovery. It was saved by an accident. It may the great change in her manner and the absence I looked at her, but I could not see her, I could be lost by another accident — to-morrow, any of her haughty self-restraint, as by a something not hear her, I could not draw my breath. The day.” in her face that I had pined for and dreamed of beating of my heart was so violent and wild that “Do you dread a particular person?” when I was a little child, something I had never I felt as if my life were breaking from me. But “Hush! Do not tremble and cry so much for me. seen in any face, something I had never seen in when she caught me to her breast, kissed me, I am not worthy of these tears,” said my mother, wept over me, compassionated me, and called kissing my hands. “I dread one person very hers before.

A dread and faintness fell upon me, and I called me back to myself; when she fell down on her much.” to Charley. Lady Dedlock stopped upon the in- knees and cried to me, “Oh, my child, my child, “An enemy?” stant and changed back almost to what I had I am your wicked and unhappy mother! Oh, try “Not a friend. One who is too passionless to be to forgive me!” — when I saw her at my feet on either. He is Sir Leicester Dedlock’s lawyer, known her.

“Miss Summerson, I am afraid I have startled the bare earth in her great agony of mind, I felt, mechanically faithful without attachment, and you,” she said, now advancing slowly. “You through all my tumult of emotion, a burst of grati- very jealous of the profit, privilege, and reputacan scarcely be strong yet. You have been very tude to the providence of God that I was so tion of being master of the mysteries of great ill, I know. I have been much concerned to hear changed as that I never could disgrace her by houses.” any trace of likeness, as that nobody could ever “Has he any suspicions?” it.”

I could no more have removed my eyes from now look at me and look at her and remotely “Many.” her pale face than I could have stirred from the think of any near tie between us.

“Not of you?” I said alarmed. bench on which I sat. She gave me her hand, I raised my mother up, praying and beseeching “Yes! He is always vigilant and always near and its deadly coldness, so at variance with the her not to stoop before me in such affliction and me. I may keep him at a standstill, but I can enforced composure of her features, deepened humiliation. I did so in broken, incoherent words, never shake him off.” the fascination that overpowered me. I cannot for besides the trouble I was in, it frightened me “Has he so little pity or compunction?” to see her at MY feet. I told her — or I tried to “He has none, and no anger. He is indifferent to say what was in my whirling thoughts.

“You are recovering again?” she asked kindly. tell her — that if it were for me, her child, under everything but his calling. His calling is the ac“I was quite well but a moment ago, Lady any circumstances to take upon me to forgive quisition of secrets and the holding possession her, I did it, and had done it, many, many years. of such power as they give him, with no sharer Dedlock.”

I told her that my heart overflowed with love for or opponent in it.”

“Is this your young attendant?” her, that it was natural love which nothing in the “Could you trust in him?”

“Yes.” “Will you send her on before and walk towards past had changed or could change. That it was “I shall never try. The dark road I have trodden not for me, then resting for the first time on my for so many years will end where it will. I follow your house with me?”

“Charley,” said I, “take your flowers home, and mother’s bosom, to take her to account for hav- it alone to the end, whatever the end be. It may ing given me life, but that my duty was to bless be near, it may be distant; while the road lasts, I will follow you directly.”

Charley, with her best curtsy, blushingly tied on her and receive her, though the whole world nothing turns me.” her bonnet and went her way. When she was turned from her, and that I only asked her leave “Dear mother, are you so resolved?” gone, Lady Dedlock sat down on the seat be- to do it. I held my mother in my embrace, and To Be Continued Next Week she held me in hers, and among the still woods

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Local People From Page 22 ●● From previous page “When he raked leaves and bark around the course they sat at his feet to grab the tasty morsels lying underneath.

“Clearly, they knew a true oneeyed supporter when they met one.

“Dad's philosophy for both his family and his students was the same.

Yea is a great place to live and have as a base. But there is life beyond Yea. The world is an oyster. Go and look for your pearl. If it doesn't work you just come home to Yea and regroup.

“He kept track of ex-students who had success in their chosen fields, and loved it when they went to places beyond Australia's shores to international success.

“He was very pleased when I followed in his footsteps and went teaching, and though I have always said in the past that I didn't want to be a Principal, Dad smirked when I told him I had accepted a position as an Assistant Principal.

“No doubt is laughing out loud to know I have just been appointed as Acting Principal for 2020 and beyond.

“On Valentines Day in February 2012 Bruce suffered two cardiac arrests and a stroke to both sides of the brain.

“The family were all called home and Father Peter Tinney came to Monash to anoint him as Bruce had not communicated with anyone for four days, apart from his little special nurse whose name was Heidi.

“In his coma he had registered the name and each time Heidi attended him he would break into song, "Heidi Heido Ho, the great big elephant is so slow."

Then Peter yelled at him to wake up the family were there. He opened his eyes and said, "How many were at church this morning?" And he turned to Mum and said, "You weren't there, you were here."

“The recovery was long and slow.

And he hated rehab with a passion.

They made him attend a lecture along with five other old codgers by a little slip of a girl about diet - and how they must read labels about salt content, sugar content, fat content etc.

“After an hour of this instruction she asked were there any questions.

“In true schoolie fashion Dad puts up his hand and and said there was a much simpler way of doing it, and proceeded to destroy her class with one sentence. "If it looks nice and tastes good you can't eat it." The old codgers all applauded.

“Andrew and I finally purchased Dad an Ipad so he could do his daily Sudoku.

“Soon it had to be completed over breakfast, whether that took 10 minutes or two hours. And that two hours could be punctuated by several cries of, "The bloody thing's gone! " or "Who is Suri and why does she want me to rate things all the time?" Only golf took place before it was complete.

“We went on to have Dad for almost another eight years.

“Mum has asked me to pass on her thanks to the people of Yea who have helped her give Dad a reasonable quality of life during that time.

“The awesome intellect and quick wit were gone although all mathematical and financial skills, and knowledge of spelling remained.

“He grumped because Mum wouldn't let him drive at night or in the city.

“Doc Martin has been marvellous, juggling the medications from four different specialists to keep the kidneys going. If he had a medical appointment and Mum had to go out

Life and times of Bruce Kindred

he sheet of foolscap stuck to the electric jug saying INR at 2pm in large red texta was ignored until the surgery rang with a reminder, Mum thinks he just liked talking to his exstudent Vicki. Clements.

“The Golf Club men have kept his score, found his golf balls, filled out his score card, and even moved two special tees across the creek for the 80-year-old to hit off from.

“A special thanks to Alan Pell who after Dad went to sleep on the way home from Veterans Golf whilst driving and wrote off the golf buggy, has driven Dad to Veterans Golf ever since.

“If Dad came home all smiles he would say, "I wasn't last." If he came home grumpy he said, "I won Johnny Tanner’s bloody awful booby prize again." In two minutes he was asleep in his chair.

“Soon after Dad returned home after rehab, I offered to take him down the street to do the banking.

Two hours later we returned home with me saying next time you can do it Mum. “Every man in the street shook his hand and every lady gave him a cuddle and a kiss. The weekly banking and bill paying became a ritual.

“Banks were places where you went in, had a bit of a chat, and came out with cash.

“He walked around the street, paid some bills and had a chat with ex-student Anthony Callender at the post office. Sat on the seat outside the newsagents and chatted to whoever came and sat with him.

“When he needed Physio, ex-student Kim Slavin did the honours.

“And it absolutely made his day when he came home and said , "I had to go into the butcher's shop and tell the Tainton boys they had another bloody spelling mistake on their board."

“At first he drove down the street.

He came home one day quite late and said I can't find the ute. Mum said that's because you went in the car. Go back and find it. After that he walked to the street.

Mum would also like to thank the weekly Wednesday night soup and cards group - made up of the Kindreds, the Moores, the Handsakers, and the Hoggs.

“Dad loved playing 500. John,

● Bruce Kindred Barry and Russell had a lot to put up with with their fourth partner. Dad would bid, pick up and discard the kitty, then look at his hand and say, "What have I gone?" Patiently they would reply "Seven Clubs. Check you haven't thrown out any Clubs in the Kitty." And then infuriatingly nine times out of 10 he would win.

“Dad did not like change. He was going to go out from this life to the next from Snodgrass St. Mum took him to stay with the Freckletons, long time friends from Timboon.

“They had just moved into their own little home in a retirement village. Coming home on the train from Bairnsdale Dad remarked that he could live in a little home like that.

“Later that week Mum went to Melbourne for a night with Andrew and when she returned she was greeted with the words"I've found a block of land and I've got a builder.

It will be much better for you when I've gone." Eighteen weeks later on Christmas Eve we moved into Recreation Rd. “Dad didn't embrace change. He didn't even like to change his slippers. He wore his moccasins to bare skin, declaring he didn't need any new ones. Mum bought new ones three weeks ago, and without saying a word, put them in his dressing room and threw out the old ones. He lived in them from that moment on. He wore them on his last trip to hospital.

“His last coherent words to Mum when she arrived at Accident and Emergency in Maroondah were.

"Where are my slippers? They've taken my slippers".

“The staff explained that he didn't have them on when he came. Mum told him that they would be at Yea Hospital and she'd pick them up tomorrow. One of the nurses very unhelpfully suggested they could have been left in the ambulance.

Great anxiety. “ Mum's reply to Dad was that if that was the case, as Rob Gill had driven him in the ambulance down the slippers would be on the front door step when she got home. The slippers are back.

“The family would especially like to thank Lynne Burnett, a friend for all our years in Yea. She has become one of the family and the first port of call for Mum until we could

arrive. She would breeze in at home, give Mum a kiss, and Dad a cuddle with the greeting, "Hello Grumpy Bum. I'm taking Jenny out for lunch, and you're not invited."

“And Dad would reply, "What's that word I can never remember?"

"Palliative," they would tell him. "I see, it's time for my palliative carer to have some respite."

“And Lynne would tell him to take Rexie and go and rake up sticks on his golf course. Last week when everything went pear shaped, Mum rang Lynne is the early morning, said one word, "Come" and hung up and Lynne arrived five minutes later.

“The specialist in Intensive Care at Maroondah asked if Dad had made any choices in regards to serious illness. Mum asked if he would like her to write down exactly what he had written on the sheet. No resuscitation. No intubation. No dialysis. And in large capital letters NO REHAB. Many smiles in Accident and Emergency.

“Mum and Dad sat down a fortnight ago to plan their 60th Wedding Anniversary on January 9. Their decision was all the family at church and then open house at the Golf Course for wider family and friends, just as they had for their 50th.

“Dad looked at the photo of the four of us taken on that day and said: "You know, I think the family will be OK with Big Brother Andrew and not so small Little Sister Jo as bookends to keep them together."

“Dad was a grumpy dinosaur.

He loved living in Yea. He loved seeing past students succeed. He loved his family with passion, protectiveness and pride.

“He hated Mum being out of his sight. The Boy from the Bush was a one off and we will never see his like again. After the graveside service we ask you all to come to the Golf Club who are very generously hosting and supplying the food and drinks for us all.

“Make yourself known to the younger members of the family, telling them about your connection to Dad. Today is the celebration of his life. It is Boxing Day and January 9 rolled into one. But you need to keep in mind that Dad was a lifelong teetotaller and if you're looking for a beer or a wine, you can FORGET IT!

■ Born May 22, 1937.

■ Raised in Manangatang.

■ Brought up by his mother Edna, alongside sister Evelynne.

■ Attended Manangatang Consolidated School.

■ Worked as a milkman, making deliveries on his bike.

■ Raised in a fairly strict Methodist tradition.

■ Finished his secondary schooling at Melbourne Boys’ High School.

■ Won studentship to the University of Melbourne.

■ Met Jennifer Smith, converted her football allegiances to Collingwood.

■ National Service.

■ Married on January 9, 1960, at Nathalia Methodist Church.

■ Started teaching at Ballarat High School.

■ Participated in cricket, tennis, football, volleyball, tabl;e tennis.

■ Coached girls’ hockey team.

■ Joined Ballarat Choral Society, and Ballarat Light Opera Company.

■ Studied for Bachelor of Education.

■ Trained as football umpire.

■ Moved to Timboon High School.

■ Nicknames included ‘Yogi Bear’ and ‘Freddie Flintstone’.

■ Family grew to include Andrew, Timothy, Robyn and Joanne.

■ Parent’s involvement in junior football, ballet, little athletics, Brownies and Cubs.

■ Enjoyed travelling, around Australia, and overseas.

■ Moved to Yea. ■ Joined the Lions Club, and became a Melvin James Awardee.

■ Became Warden at St Luke’s Anglican Church.

■ Coached junior football and junior hockey.

■ Encouraged young people of Yea with their achievements.

■ Member of Probus.

■ Shire President of Shire of Yea. Mayor of Murrindindi Shire Council.

■ Completed Science Degree with La Trobe University.

■ Retired at age 55.

■ Life Member of Yea Golf Club.

■ An administrator at the Dalhousie Golf Association.

■ Active in move to set up Bendigo Bank Community Branch in Yea. ■ Love of travel to Africa, Europe, New Zealand and Canada.

■ Passionate about his family.

Married for almost 60 years to Jenny.

■ Bravely fought serious illnesses.

■ Loved living in Yea. ■ Enjoyed his community service to the region.

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Alexandra Freemasons and partners at

● Christopher Scott, Installing Master, with Greg Thorneycroft, new Master.

● Dorothy Scott and Kerry Goddard.

● Bob Hocking, Director of Ceremonies, with John Rebbechi, organist.

● Wes Anderson and David Dimech, Albert Edward (Alexandra) members.

● Father-and-son (and brothers) Chris Jackson and Piers Jackson.

● Linda Dickinson (Marysville) with Dorothy Evans.

● Paul Dundas, Albert Edward Lodge’s Assistant Director of Ceremonies.

● Grand Lodge officers Warren Gilbert and Barry Minster.

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Installation and Investiture of Officers

● Emily Thorneycroft, Samantha Thorneycroft, Greg Thorneycroft (new Master of Albert Edward Lodge, Alexandra) and Colleen Thoneycroft.

● Stuart Dale, Albert Edward Lodge Secretary, with Bob Gale.

● Richard McKernan (originally an Eildon Lodge member) and Neil Moehr.

● Andrew White.

● Sue Sheahan welcomed by Alexandra member Ray Norris.

● Carl Donadio and Bill Sheahan, Grand Lodge officers.

● Stephen Wheatland and Peter Dickinson.

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Racing dilemma for Cox Plate

■ With a couple of indifferent runs by a couple of the top fancies in the Cox Plate to be run this Saturday, punters have been left in a quandary of which way to go.

At the time of going to press, punters have settled for the brilliant multiple Group One winner, the star mare, Lys Gracieux, trained in Japan.

Listed as one of the best chances ever to take out the world's richest Weight-for Age race, is another mare trying to emulate the great Winx, who is now retired.

In our life time; I am pretty sure that there won't be another horse to win four consecutive Cox Plates like Winx.

Similar to Makybe Diva winning three consecutive Melbourne Cups.

My worry is whether the top international, who hasn't raced at Moonee Valley or even Australia, will race on one of the trickiest courses with its saucer track.

However as seen by her record she is firstclass. At present on the second line is my early pick for the big one, but although coming from a ● Cape of Good Hope. Racing Photos long way back to run fourth in the Ladbrokes Stakes at Caulfield.

Van Winkle. He always puts in, and there in I thought he was a bit disappointing. plenty of talent in the tank and I feel he will run However his trainer, James Cummings, was a big race in the Plate. quietly satisfied with the run, and feels he can Another you can't leave out is the, Liam make amends in the big one at the Valley.

Howley trained, and owned by Lloyd Williams, On the next line is the early favourite for, the Homesman, who has been a model of consisCox Plate, Tasmanian star Mystic Journey. tency, and missed a place in the Ladbrokes, but A number of good judges are still out ponderwas a bit unlucky not to have been placed. ing over the thought of whether she can run a He won the Feehan Stakes at Moonee Valley strong 2000 metres. and was second to Black Heart Bart in the In the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington she Underwood Stakes this year after winning it last was relegated to fifth spot behind Kings Will year.

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Don't forget he was just beaten in the After the race her trainer Adam Trinder said Caulfield Cup last year. that she was troubled most of the journey of the He will give you a good run for your money, Turnbull, by Mr. Quickie, rolling out on her for despite the opposition. most of the journey.

An interesting runner could be the three-year Also there is the fact, that she is not a big old filly, Flit, who narrowly won the One Thoumare. As far as I am concerned, I feel the jury is sand Guineas over 1600 metres at Caulfield. out on her.

On the next line is the smart international galloper, Cape of Good Hope, who is now in the powerful Hayes-Dabernig camp, and was most impressive in winning the Ladbrokes Stakes over 2000 at Caulfield.

Having his first run for the stable he proved too good for Black Heat Bart, and stablemate, Harlem, with Avilius a close fourth.

Prior to arriving at the Euroa stables of the combination, the son of the immortal, Galileo, has certainly travelled around a bit.

At his last three starts before coming to Australia, he raced at Ascot in England and his last two starts tackled American opposition at Belmont and at his last start at Saratoga, he ran third in the Saratoga Derby over 1900 metres, being a three-year old Northern Hemisphere horse Cape of Good Hope had raced across four countries in his last 10 starts, which included Gallen, could be a big chance here after a good winning an Epsom Derby trial back in April.

So there is plenty of talent there, including second in the Epsom narrowly beaten by Kolding earlier this month. the stable.

From his only nine starts he has won five The top New Zealander, Te Akau Shark, part-owned by former Rugby League great, Paul with three minors, and is by the Irish sire, Rip

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The Cummings camp is toying with the idea of running her with the weight advantage, but it is a big ask.

A late entry for the Caulfield Cup, Danceteria, suffered a setback and missed the Ladbrokes Stakes, a big blow for the stable.

In Germany before heading to Australia he won an Epsom Derby Trial, so the ability is there, but missing the run at Caulfield on Guineas Day has set him back badly.

One that interests me is the good mare, Verry Elleegant, who came back to a bit of form last start for new trainer, Chris Waller, winning the Group Two stakes at Randwick with a whirlwind finish to win narrowly, but well, beating Samadoubt.

When with Weir she showed plenty of ability, and Waller has come to like her attitude after a few niggles.

He feels that is she approaching her best, and at the odds of around 15-1, is good value.

She could be right in it, maybe in something like a banker, trifecta, big four etc.

The Lloyd Williams-owned Latrobe is an interesting acceptor, if he goes around, having just been beaten last year in the McKinnon Stakes at Flemington, and on his day, is smart.

Overall it's tough, the best horse is Lys Gracieux, but can it handle the tricky Moonee Valley circuit? Avilius, you have to give him another chance,; Cape of Good Hope, you have got to put in, Homesman and Verry Elleegantat odds.

Ready to rumble

■ The Sale and Bendigo Race Clubs are gearing up for their big days over the next couple of weeks.

Sale gets the action underway with their Cup on Sunday October 27, the day after the Cox Plate.

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Danny Zavitsanos in the black

■ Prolific owner Danny Zavitsanos tasted success at Maryborough on Sunday October 20, when much travelled 7Y0 Bettors Delight-Christian Watch gelding Code Black at start number 71, snared the $35,000 Avoca Maryborough Community Bank Branches Maryborough Gold Cup over 2690 metres.

Starting a warm favourite following a close second to San Carlo in the Kilmore Cup and a most unlucky ninth to Bling It On in the Victoria Cup, Code Black driven by regular reinsman Greg Sugars from gate three on the second line settled four back in the moving line as the early speed was a cracker set by Cant Refuse from gate four.

Easing three wide racing for the bell, Code Black was accommodated by Shelby Bromac (one/one) coming out ahead of him, with stablemates Tell Me Tales and Maraetai latching to the back of the favourite.

Although very wide on the final bend, Code Black raced clear in the straight, with a wall of horses giving chase.

Looking likely to score halfway up the running, Code Black just lasted to gain the day by a nose in a finish which tricked many, with Maraetai 5.2 metres away in third place, Somebeachshadow came from near last to be fourth ahead of Phoenix Prince (three back the markers).

The race was a triumph for leading trainer Emma Stewart who trained the trifecta which paid a dividend of $54.90.

In quarters of 29.3, 30.8, 28 and 28.7 for the final mile, Code Black returned a mile rate of 156.3.

Dusty Martin

■ The AFL Grand Final has been and gone, but memories of the big day were rekindled at Yarra Valley trots on Monday October 14 when a horse by the name of Dusty Martin scored in the Ashmores Automotive Smash Repairs Pace over 2150 metres.

Trained at Toolern Vale by Adam Kelly, Dusty Martin taking a concession for Jack Laugher settled mid-field in the moving line after starting solo on the second line, as Cantbetold led from the pole.

Trailing Penny Robbins ahead of him three wide approaching the final bend, Dusty Martin (four wide home turn) finished full of running to record a half neck victory over Rock On Playboy which followed him all the way, with Will And Andy coming from the rear to be third 2.4 metres away.

A 4Y0 gelded son of Betterthancheddar and Smiling Angel raced by Marc Panton, Dusty Martin returned a mile rate 2-00.6.

Wide turn

■ Ex Adelaide trainer Scott Ewen presently stabled at the Cranbourne Training Complex, landed the St Ronans Pace over 2150 metres with well credentialed 5Y0 Art Official-My Riviera Girl gelding Bulletproof Boy in a mile rate of 1-57.2.

Taking a concession for Kima Frenning, Bulletproof Boy starting solo on the second line appeared beautifully placed , settling three back in the moving line with Popnduke (gate five) crossing polemarker Western Debt to lead shortly after the start.

Going forward three wide in the last lap, Bulletproof Boy was pushed four wide running into the home turn, but class prevailed on straightening as he raced clear to register an easy nine metre margin over Jean Luc which made the turn very wide from the tail. Popnduke held down third a neck away.

Slugging finish

■ Rockbank's William and Julian Attard combined to capture the IGA Liquor Trotters Handicap over 2150 metres with 6Y0 Rocknroll Hanover-Midnight Lover gelding Rock To Midnight.

Bred and raced by William, Rock To Midnight (barrier two) settled on the back of the poleline leader Shadow Dancing, before being relegated to three back the markers mid-race as Armchair Drive sprinted from three back the

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last lap, Hickstead joined the leader on the final bend and raced clear shortly after to score by 2.5 metres from Rupert Of Lincoln which got clear all too late, with Repeat After Me ((four back the markers) a half neck away third after extricating wide approaching the home turn. The mile rate 1-55.9.

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with Len Baker markers to assume control. When Shadow Dancing came away from the back of the leader on the home turn, Rock To Midnight immediately followed him and when taken wide on straightening, did best in a slugging finish to prevail by 1.9 metres over Armchair Drive in a rate of 2-06. Shadow Dancing was third a half head away.

Raced exposed

■ Drouin co-trainers Gary and Debbie Quinlan were successful with handy Art Major-Glenferrie Alexis colt Leosabi in the 1650 metre Hargreaves Hill Brewery 3Y0 Pace.

Driven by Jason Lee, Leosabi was given every opportunity from gate four after being poised one/one racing for the bell. Easing three wide on the final bend, Leosabi ran home stylishly to record a 1.2 metre victory, defeating Writers Reign which raced exposed for the final circuit. Call Me Henry ran home late from the tail for third 3.5 metres back. The rate 1-59.6.

Sweet trip[

■ Bendigo raced on Tuesday and Jess Tubbs brought up two wins in succession with ex-Kiwi 4Y0 Master Glide-Brylin Belle gelding Doug, taking the Yabby Dam Racing Trotters Handicap over 2150 metres.

With husband Greg Sugars in the sulky, Doug began safely from 10 metres, going forward to park outside surprise leader Celtic Rose which took over from Zarem which flew the tapes from 10 metres.

Taking over on turning, Doug defied all challengers to defeat Celtic Rose which fought on gamely by 5.5 metres in a mile rate of 2-04.2.

Majestic Devil after a sweet one/one trip was third a half head away.

Head by a head

■ Melton brothers Joe (trainer) and Charlie (Driver) Borg were elated after their 6Y0 Grinfromeartoear-Perfectly Smooth mare Make Me Happy scored in the Petstock Maiden Pace over 1650 metres at Bendigo.

Settling mid-field from gate three on the second line, Make Me Happy was inconvenienced at the bell as Dino Bellino one/one dropped out sharply at the bell requiring her to go wide to avoid him.

Dropping to be three back for the last lap, Make Me Happy was taken four wide on the final bend and finished best to prevail from the leader Classic Ark which was brave after being kept honest by third placegetter Im Jollygood.

The margins being a head by a head in a thrilling finish. The mile rate 1-56.5.

Race surprise

■ Seven year old Mach Three-Informed gelding Hickstead returned to the winners list when victorious in the TLC Carpentry Pace over 2150 metres at Bendigo.

Trained by Lance Justice and driven by Michael Bellman, Hickstead settled three back in the moving line from gate two on the second line as Franks Very Much surprisingly headed off polemarker Rupert Of Lincoln.

Going forward three wide uncovered in the

■ Bathurst trainer Gemma Rue wife of competent reinsman Matt and daughter of group winning trainer/driver Bernie Hewitt, made a successful raid on Wednesday's Shepparton meeting by winning a double on the program 4Y0 Changeover-Laughing Lilly gelding Kash Us Back taking the Hunter Rural Pace and 9Y0 Art Major-Platinum Sign gelding Izzy Watt the JDC Contracting Pace, both over 2190 metres.

Kash Us Back driven by Zac Phillips settled a long way off the leader Tourockanna before gaining a three wide double trail in the final circuit on the back of both Shark Port and Giant Jackson. Making the home turn very wide, Kash Us Back ran home strongly to register a 4.5 metre margin over Giant Jackson, with Shark Port a game third 7.8 metres away after leading up the three wide train from the bell. T he mile rate 1-57.8. Izzy Watt, a multiple 16 race winner going into the race appeared very well placed and driven by Darby McGuigan possied three back the markers after starting outside the second line.

Angling away from the inside in the final circuit to go forward three wide, McGuigan switched Izzy Watt back down to trail the leaders Boncel Benjamin and Revolt which had cleared away from their rivals.

Using the sprint lane, Izzy Watt raced clear over the concluding stages to score by 8.4 metres over Boncel Benjamin, with Revolt a nose away in third place. The mile rate 1-59.

Usual zest

■ Seven year old Framework-Riegle Anne mare Scottish Sardius produced a career best performance to land the Shepparton Presentation Night Trotters Handicap over 2190 metres at Shepparton.

Trained and driven by Inglewood's Peter Sanderson for himself and wife Jenny, along with breeders Rod and Anne Pollock, began with her usual zest from 20 metres, going forward to park in the open outside polemarker Starlight Red. With no cover coming, Scottish Sardius raced the entire trip uncovered before surging past the pacemaker in the straight to register a 2.8 metre victory, accounting for Valley Ess Jay from midfield and Black Cat Claw along the sprint lane from three back the markers who was 5.5 metres in arrears of the runner up. The mile rate 2-05.9.

8-trot card

■ Youthful Heathcote reinswoman Tayla French shared the driving honours with Kima Frenning at last Thursday night's eight event trot card held in wintery conditions, both chalking up a double.

Tayla was first to arrive aboard 6Y0 Auckland Reactor-Nickle Miss mare Nuclear Nicky trained by father Terry which landed the Triple Treat Harness @ Trackside Pace over 1690 metres.

Starting from the extreme draw, Tayla wasted no time with Nuclear Nicky sending him forward to park outside the well supported pacemaker Island Rocknroll (gate four).

When Island Rocknroll kicked clear on straightening, she looked all over a winner, but showing great tenacity, Nuclear Nicky wore her down to prevail by a half neck in a mile rate of 1-58.9.

Sportifico (one/three - three wide home turn) was third a head away. Local Whittlesea trainer Charlie Farrugia's 7Y0 Blissful Hall-Mind Dancer gelding Blissful Mind gave Tayla her double by winning the McIvor Estate Heathcote Pace also over 1609 metres.

Spearing away from gate five to lead, Blissful Mind was eased at the bell to allow the oddson favourite My Celebrity which galloped away to assume control.

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Shepparton, Thursday Hamilton/Swan Hill, Friday - Swan Hill (Cup), Saturday - Melton, Monday - Charlton. Tuesday - Bendigo.

Horses to follow

■ Im Jollygood, Bopper Jet, Leeanne Leeanne, Giant Jackson, Save The Game, Prettylilangus, Jean Luke.

Easing away from the markers on the final bend, Blissful Mind gathered in the leader easily in the straight to register a comfortable 7.8 metre margin, with Diamonf Grace (three back the markers) third 6.9 metres back. The mile rate 1-58.1.

Kima steered Avenel trainer David Aiken's ex-Tasmanian 7Y0Art Major-Aldatglittersisgold gelding Blingittothemax to victory in The Bendigo Club Pace over 1690 metres, returning a mile rate of 1-56.7.

Despite starting outside the front line, Blingittothemax showed sparkling speed to lead and was never headed, coasting to the wire 12.5 metres in advance of Nostra Villa (one/one) which moved outside him on the final bend making no impression in the straight. Majadore was third 5 metres away after trailing the winner.

Driving almost unbackable favourite Go In Style ($1.10) for Emma Stewart in the 2180 metre Jet Roofing Pace, Kima gave punters a heart flutter after settling near last from gate six as Save The Game led from gate five.

Going forward three wide in the final circuit, Go In Style looked under pressure on straightening as Save The Game held a handy margin.

Driven hard all the way up the running, Go In Style was too strong at the finish, scoring by 3.6 metres in a rate of 2-01.1.

Bellissima was third 5.3 metres away after trailing the front runner.

Opened gap

■ Avenel trainer/driver Juanita Breen snared the J.L. King & CO. Trotters Mobile over 1690 metres at Kilmore with Golden Spurs, a 6Y0 daughter of Pegasus Spur and Golden Wahine.

Despite racing exposed from gate four, Golden Spurs surged past the leader Illawong Sunny on turning to open a gap on her rivals.

Getting tired approaching the post, Golden Spurs scored by a neck from the favourite Flash Kyvalley (one/one - three wide home turn) which had every opportunity, with Gus An Maori coming from the tail to finish third 4.3 metres back.

The mile rate 2-01.5.

Final circuit break

■ The most delighted person on course at Geelong on Friday had to be popular Cranbourne based part-owner/trainer Terry Howard following the victory of his Bacardi LindyCruzinthepacific 6Y0 mare Rosanna Lindy in the Garth Allen Trotters Handicap over 2570 metres.

Driven a treat by an in-form Darby McGuigan, Rosanna Lindy (barrier two) trailed the front runner Lucky Pats Son (barrier four) all of the way to receive the run of the race.

Using the sprint lane on turning Rosanna Lindy dahed to the front in the shadows of the post to defeat a most unlucky favourite Monaro Miss which missed away, then broke in the final circuit before flashing home to go down by 2.3 metres in a mile rate of 2-06.8.

Lucky Pats Son held down third 1.4 metres back.

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McLeish speaks on child care ● From Page 20 “In this space that we are talking about, whilst the operators are not required to have a curriculum, they need to have some sort of educational program based on an approved learning framework, as is the case in the NQF,” Ms McLeish said.

“They do not need to actually have one of those but they need to have the requirement around that.

“Looking in Victoria we have got the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework and Belonging, Being and Becoming—the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.

“Another one is My Time, Our Place— Framework for School Age Care in Australia.

“There are several frameworks out there that they can base their program around. The changes here are to be implemented in 2020.

“The consultation process is quite interesting, because the briefing note prepared by the department for this sector talks about the extent of their consultation.

“The department outlined this extensive consultation process, mentioning that there were sessions in May and June.

Rebels report ■ The Alexandra Football-Netball Club met last Wednesday (Oct. 16) for the Annual General Meeting.

After presentation of the Club's 2019 Financial Report and President's Report all Executive positions were declared vacant with the following appointments subsequently made: President - Ray Steyger, Senior VicePresident - Darren Ritchie, Junior Vice President - Peter McKenzie, Treasurer - Ray Steyger and Secretary - Kylie Cairns.

A number of enthusiastic people have pledged to assist the Club on the Committee and if anyone is interested in joining the Club in any capacity, please don't hesitate in contacting Ray Steyger on 5772 2627, everyone is welcome.

The Club's ongoing Reserve development has seen completion of stage one being two netball courts, lighting and infrastructure together with stage two construction of a building providing change rooms, toilets, showers and storage adjacent to the new netball courts at a total cost of $600,000.

Grants totalling $200,000 with the Club supplying the $400,000 balance saw these two stages completed as we now work toward construction of the multi-purpose building, power upgrade and new lighting of the reserve.

Meetings with DELWP managers are progressing well to organise funding agreements, tendering procedures and project committee structures and it is anticipated that, all going well, the project will commence in 2020.

Support around the Club has been great this year as seen by over 200 people in attendance at the Junior Presentation function at the Club rooms and then 160 tickets sold for the Senior Presentation function at Marysville Vibe Hotel.

The Club was also pleased to have a number of coaching applications which were discussed and the following appointments made for the 2020 season: Football under 10 Daniel Crane, under 12 TBA, under 14 Brad Miljkovic, under 16 John Tossol, under 18 Scott Ferrier and reserves Scott Whitehead, senior coach Sam Kidd already re-appointed.

Netball coaches appointed were under 11 pending with two applications, Under 13 Penny Van Lierop, Under 15 Mandy Gesler, Under 17 pending, D-Grade Karen Richards, C-Grade Michelle Jack with A and B grades Lucy Wallis.

The Rebels' growth into the future is dependent on everyone getting involved as we intend to make a positive impact on and off the field with juniors and seniors' football and netball in 2020.

- Ray Steyger

Some of these are group information sessions, some individual meetings with peak bodies and major providers and advisory group forums.

“The participants indicated broad support for aligning the Children’s Services Act 1996 with the national law.

“I went out and tested this and I found something quite different. I found that people had very little understanding of what the changes meant for them, and this is a concern.

“I got the sense that it was something that was raised and ticked off quickly without them actually going through some of the detail.

“The more people I asked, the more I found that they really did not understand the changes.

“Complicating this, I suppose, is that there are changes to the regulations that also sit around this, so some people are a little bit confused about what is in the bill and what is part of the regulations.

“When spoke to councils, for example, they said, ‘Oh, yes, if we’ve operated in both sectors, it’s very easy and we agree with it’. Councils have a lot more resources at their disposal, way more resources than perhaps a neighbourhood house or a community hub that operates these sorts of services and may not have that level of resources to actually make and work through some of the changes.

“I am hoping that the department will support everybody greatly where this is needed.

“As I spoke to a number of neighbourhood houses, I found that the people on the ground did not have a clue about the changes.

“I became very cynical about the degree of consultation that has been conducted on this. I do know that with the review of regulations there have now been a number of sessions organised in October and November.

In fact, during the briefing I was told that there would be sessions coming up in October and November. Certainly we have got them from Blackburn to Ballarat, and at Wallan, Kingsville, Benalla, Narre Warren and Wyndham Vale, so they have covered off a number of areas.

“But again I think it will be dependent on the number of people that are going to turn up. If there are not enough people registering, I do not know that the department is going to go ahead if there are six people rather than 10 people at the sessions.

“I hope they do, because the people who are there will be quite keen to understand what is happening.

“As I said, councils that operate in both spaces have more at their disposal, but it is the small operators that I am concerned about and how they will be supported during the transitional arrangements.

“If we think about the occasional care services, they are for limited hours. People might pop their children in because they have got a job interview or a doctor’s appointment or they need a break, and these sessions might be 3 hours or 5 hours. They vary greatly in cost as well.

“I know of one neighbourhood house that charges $11 an hour. Another would have a 4hour session for $20. Acting Speaker, I know as a parent of young children you will be very interested in how much some of these services cost and what is being done in this space.

“If you look at gymnasiums, it is quite interesting because the nature of use is that someone pops in for a work-out. They might be doing an aerobics session, which might be 45 or 50 minutes, and they might have a coffee afterwards so they may only use the services at a gymnasium for an hour or so. Maybe some will use it for a couple of hours.

“It will be challenging for gymnasiums to make sure that they can meet and follow these requirements, although the owners of the gymnasiums we have spoken to have indicated that they are on board and can actually make this happen.

“With regard to the neighbourhood houses which offer occasional care, I have got a number of neighbourhood houses in my electorate which do not offer occasional care.

“The Panton Hill playhouse does, but when I was the member for Seymour we certainly had Seymour, Kilmore, Wallan and I think there was one in Benalla as well. So there are a number of these occasional care services around.

“One of my big concerns is child care and the risk to ongoing child care for regional and rural families.

“The minister, and I am going to quote from the second-reading speech, says: Quality early childhood education is important for early childhood development, educational outcomes, and whole-of-life achievement.

“Occasional care services play an important role in providing access to flexible and affordable care, particularly for regional and rural families.

“Already child care is difficult to access in rural areas. One of the issues is having appropriately qualified staff available in country areas.

“I received information today from somebody who is in Wycheproof about their great concern for early childhood services in that area.

She was disgusted because this is the third morning this year that rural families have turned up to their local kinder and day care to find there is no service. As I said, this is in Wycheproof. Families there are relying on those services and are very angry and devastated about the future of their kids.

“They are even more concerned to think that their provider does not want to run the services in 2020. It is two months away from 2020 and so they are absolutely concerned. I would hate to think through these changes that the requirements for these small operators, particularly in rural and regional areas, are so challenging that they will look at exiting this space rather than staying. This is of deep concern.

“One of the reasons why it is a particular concern for me is that recently changes were made to the childcare subsidy and a project was initiated to support care providers to transition to the childcare subsidy system. This includes neighbourhood houses and other care providers.

“They are supported by the Department of Education and Training, which has funded a project officer, and I believe and understand that this will run through Neighbourhood Houses Victoria. ‘ “What alarms me is that through this process 17 operators have ceased or are planning to cease to exist. The challenges and issues around the changes included the time that it was taking, it was understanding and there were the communications around the changes that they were very concerned about.

“Some of the processes took a while for them to prepare, and the resources available within organisations to help the transition were not always there.

“I would hope that the department takes note, because as I have said, the department funded this position to look into the transition to childcare subsidy. I know that of those 17 operators that are ceasing operation, or planning to cease operation, half of those appear to be in country Victoria.

“We already have challenges in country Victoria in and around this. There will be challenges with rolling out the three-year-old kinder program in country Victoria because there are workforce issues. This government does not have a population plan and it does not have a plan for decentralisation, and some of these country areas are shrinking a little bit.

“If we have more regional cities, rather than Victoria being a city-state but instead a state of cities, we could help grow the country areas. I remain very concerned that this might impact on them.

“I know that there are some people on the government benches who cannot grasp what rural Victoria is. Rural Victoria is more than just the cities that want to flourish. Wangaratta, Shepparton, Bendigo and Warrnambool— these are places that want to flourish. We have got a lot of growth in Geelong and Ballarat, but it is more than that.

“Rather than trying to fit 70 per cent of the new population into that inner middle ring of Victoria, we need to make sure that there are services, such as the fast rail connections, which are in jeopardy with the government’s airport link. Yesterday the minister refused to outline whether or not they were going to have dedicated airport rail lines—new lines just dedicated to that—which could work with fast rail to some of our bigger regional cities.cated to that— which could work with fast rail to some of our bigger regional cities,” Ms McLeish said.

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Yea Golf Club ■ With the weather looking gloomy and forecasted drizzle, it was quite surprising to see 20 men at golf on Wednesday. For the most part it was fine but the closing four holes tested the resolve of many. Winner in a four way CB was Bill Dredge (22) from Rob O’Halloran (18) second from Jeff Aurisch (17) and David Ngo (24) all on 36 points. Bill was also NTP on the 14th and new member Michael Sheather took out the Club Award. ★ Saturday saw the final round of three completed of the Men’s 2019 Championships at Royal Yea Golf Course.

All grades finished with close scores especially C-Grade where a play-off was needed. Final Results of this year’s competition were: A-Grade – Winner Rick Wills 254, Runners-Up Michael Spagnolo 257, Gary Pollard 258.

B-Grade – Winner Jeff Aurisch 265, Runners-Up Peter Johnston 267, Martin Lowe 270.

C-Grade – Winner Sam Wright 297, Runners-Up Carl Maffei 297, Malcom Bett 304, Bill Dredge. 305.

C-Grade was decided by a sudden-death playoff with Sam Wright paring the 10th Hole. Winner of the Clarke Trophy for the best handicap score over the three rounds was Jeff Aurisch with 212. Ivor Brayley had 222, then Peter Johnston and Gary Pollard 225, followed by Rick Wills with 227.

The day’s results saw A-Grade won by Gary Pollard 75 from Michael Spagnolo 79.

B-Grade was won by Peter Johnston 73(best score of the day) from Jeff Aurisch 74.

C-Grade was won by Ivor Brayley 74 on CB from Carl Maffei. Jeff Aurisch won the putting with 26 putts and Peter Keast won the Club Award. ★ It was great to see so many members on Friday at the funeral service of our long time member Bruce Kindred. The Royal Yea Golf Club would not be in the condition that we enjoy today without the hard work and dedication of Bruce Kindred. Bruce spent many hours driving back and forth from Murray Goulburn Water securing the water rights from the purification water plant across the highway and I have no doubt that we would not have the fairways and greens that we have today without that water. Bruce also worked many hours helping around the course to make golf better for all of us. Bruce loved his golf. He was Treasurer in 1994, President from 1995 to 1997, Captain from 1999 to 2002, a Life Member in early 2004 plus numerous club awards including two hole in ones: 1993 and 2003 (both on the 18th) as well as Club Champion – C Grade in 2008 and 2009. He also played in five winning pennant teams and was heavily involved in Dalhousie Veterans golf for over 25 years.

He will be fondly remembered.

A reminder to everyone that the reduced membership of $150 is still available for the rest of this month. Also this Friday is the Club’s major fundraising event, the Annual Corporate Ambrose Day – teams of 3. We have decided to hit off at 8.30am instead of 9 am on the Corporate Day on Friday. Please be at the course at 7.45am to register. Please let your your team members know.

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Local Sport ECDRA ■ Andy Friedel, representing the Hunters, with 78 points was on top of the world when he took out the top shot from Garry Thomas, representing the target shooters, 75 points both well ahead of the rest of the other 29 shooters who had gathered to contest the Spring Dragon Diesel Challenge.

Not only did Andy take out theAggregate individual winner he also won the 240 yard stage was second at the !00 yard stage and he won the Joe Balls Canvas $100 voucher prize.

Andy was very pleased to win the trophies and he said that Joe Melbourne’s voucher will be put to very good use and he thanked both Dragon Diesel and Joe Balls Canvas Products of Avenel for their generous sponsorship of the Challenge.

The expression most commonly heard around the range on Saturday was “Four Seasons in one day”. After a good few showers overnight the shoot at 240 yards, to be shot from any safe position, got underway in cool but bright conditions. Yes that Violet Town Wind was there to really test the shooters and it was not very long before the threat of showers returned along with a brisk and fickle cold wind.

The second stage, an off-hand or standing position at 100 yards, got underway late due to the delays caused by the rain. With the wet conditions, cold and the wind it was not easy and after two squads had shot the rain set in and the shooters retreated to shelter and a hot lunch.

Rosco Davis, Doug Moser and Roger King were ready for them with hot burgers straight of the barbecue combined with fresh salad it was a most welcome and delicious lunch.

Regrettably the interruption to the shoot delayed the second stage of the Challenge as well as the afternoon’s traditional down the line fun shoot put on by the Euroa Clay Target Club. The result was a late finish, at the presentations special thanks was directed to Graeme Kerr and David Wallace for their organisation of the rifle Dragon Diesel Challenge and to Iain Towers with his crew for the clay target shoot.

The results from the Dragon Diesel Challenge are: The competition when to the East Central District Rifle Association Target Shooters with 49.3 points from the Australian Deer Association Hunters 45.6 points.

Top shot at 240 yards was Andy Friedel (hunters) 42 points and second was Patrick (38 points) at the 100 yard stage Garry Thomas won with 37 points and Andy Friedel in second place with 36 points, yes it was a very close match.

The top lady shooter went to Cass with 28 points on a count back from Taylah 28 points.

Top Junior was Daniel Renfrey with 35 points.

Congratulation to all the winners and already the shooters are looking forward to the Dragon Diesel Autumn Challenge that includes the Billy Sing 303 memorial match.

Due to the late finish the results from the clay target shoot will have to wait until next week.

The midweek shoot this week was on Wednesday and the conditions could have not been more different with the shooters enjoying a near perfect spring day, yes there is always that wind and Randell Underwood showed he was getting to know its fickle ways with the top range score of 58.3.

Other scores were: F-Std Ted Plastow 50, 49.2 = 99.2, Robert Irving 48.1, F-Open: Randell Underwood 58.3, 56.2, 56.2 = 170.8, Mark Thompson 45 and Ted Plastow 17. TRifle Ted Thompson 33.

Next week the ECDRA's focus will be on the Victorian State Teams championships to be shot on the Wellsford range at Bendigo, the ECDRA will send a team and Captain Neal Hambridge is committed to doing the very best we can, if the team is at their best the ECDRA will be hard to toss.

As always shooters please monitor the web site calendar at www.ecdra.com.au for details of all shoots and that they should be aware that start times may vary from time to time.

New shooters are most welcome and they too can check the details or contact the ECDRA via the links on the website.

- Robert Chaffe

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Diamond Valley cricket scores ■ The first day of a two-day round was played in Barclay Shield competition in the Diamond Valley Cricket Association last Saturday (Oct. 19).

BARCLAYSHIELD Riverside 8/201 N Chrimes 59 S Money 55 S Villani 34 D Fernando 5/27 L Burgoyne 2/49 v Lower Eltham.

Plenty 263 G Zull 151* D Cocking 28 B Rodda 4/63 T Wise 4/83 v Macleod 0/0 Rosanna v Bundoora 6/124 LR Smart 42* J Kaminski 33* O Toussaint 4/19 S Shelton 2/19 Heidelberg 8/185 L Biggs 64 B Nihill 36 L Turner 27* J Henkel 4/41 v Epping North Eltham Wanderers v Diamond Creek 5/156 TN McLean 40 JA Ramsey 35 T Ranasinghe Muduyanselage 2/21.

MONEY SHIELD Lower Plenty v Mernda 8/197 M Harris 88* D Stevens 40 S Wright 29 A Peters 3/39 LM Sirianni 2/20 Montmorency 4/177 R Shaman 74 M O'Brien 45* L Gioskos 2/17 v Lalor Stars Banyule 6/160 JE Smith 71* NP Murray 32 D Polius 2/45 v Mill Park Bundoora United v Eltham 7/243 A Lamont 155 S Sceney 28 R Singh 2/36 SC Barnett 2/62 R Lee 2/68 Old Paradians 170 JD Berthet 73 M Harding 27* J Sassella 3/21 J Fitzpatrick 3/26 SJ Malone 3/38 v Research Eltham Collegians MASH SHIELD Diamond Creek v Bundoora Park 8/254(cc) B Healy 46 R Miller 42 KJ Doddato 40 J Culph 28* AA Elward 2/48 J Elzink 2/52 NJ FarrenPrice 2/71 Laurimar 0/84 J Zerella 58* DA Roberts 25* v Greensborough 158 T Vilchez 91 N Woods 5/70 S Mitchell 3/31 Thomastown United v Panton Hill 9/258(cc) G Motschall 56 M Stamkovski 52 J Barton 39 S Tung 30* J Sandford 4/44 KD Premakumara 2/ 41 Whittlesea v Hurstbridge 7/231 D Earp 42 S Wijesiri 40 M Berry 31* J McCarthy 30 K Edussooriya 26 YA De Silva 3/43 BAAvola 2/ 53 Thomastown 238 K Nawagamuwa 62 L Andrews 37* D Francis 35 N Fellows 31 D Kay 3/27 B Riley 3/44 C Jayaweera 3/62 v South Morang 3/23 SS Kethbevilage 2/13 B-GRADE Epping v Heidelberg 9/133(cc) C Kostakis 33* A Edwards 30 E Kunelius 3/21 MJ Fitzpatrick 2/14 Lalor Stars 155 A Jordanidis 53 J Abbas 37 C MacDonald 26 FJ Pendlebury 5/54 JH Andrew 2/22 AC Scanlon 2/29 v Montmorency 2/68 AC Scanlon 47* Bundoora v Rosanna 7/308(cc) PE Bourke 121* M Macaulay 87 V Siwas 4/80 M Fullelove 3/97 Macleod v Riverside 9/479(cc) BC Money 231 E Smale 100 S Edward 42 T Hewett 27 K White 6/140 C-GRADE Eltham 0/4 v Bundoora United 206 C Sharkey 56 C Meredith 27 LJ Capicchiano 26 M Reeves 4/70 B McEntee 2/59 Banyule v Old Paradians 9/94 OA McGillion 4/25 TD Elmer 2/10 SJ Veal 2/15 Mernda v Lower Plenty 219 D Arrowsmith 59 MJ Carlyon 40 JP Carlyon 29 A Caldera 25 J Delaney 4/46 R Corrigan 2/20 J Marshall 2/50 Mill Park v North Eltham Wanderers 8/ 320(cc) R O'Donnell 153* D Abbey 92 A Curl 27 B Van Driel 4/96 S Ravikrishnan 2/31 D-GRADE Lower Eltham v Plenty 7/186 J King 48* J Gavin 36 A Coles 27 D Tobias 26 J Scully 4/72 Research Eltham Collegians v Laurimar 213 H Foster 67 JD Hodgskiss 52 J Brown 6/30 Greensborough 90 JN Wilson 5/23 JA Neilson 2/5 v Banyule 2/76 JD Bowler 29* North Eltham Wanderers v Riverside 6/ 271(cc) N Ellks 83 KJ Mahony 73 R Russell 56* D Hooper 2/36 Aj Lyall 2/51 E-GRADE Hurstbridge 7/346(cc) JR Lovett 115 D Salvatico 101 G Websdale 60* S O'Brien 4/85 RJ Cotterill 2/74 v Montmorency Mernda 170 G Greenough 55 S Lewin 29 A Meek 27 S John 4/59 R Johar 3/15 S Bhatnager 2/33 v Thomastown 0/0

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Panton Hill 1/34v Thomastown United 292 RG Patterson 104* N James 76 n basanisi 37 G Patterson 27 G Shankar 3/52 R Hobbs 3/100 Bundoora Park 0/51 S Miller 32* v Eltham 131 J Pearsell 52* D Knight 26 C Dowdell 5/36 D Doddato 3/36 F1-GRADE Riverside 8/197 L Jurkovic 49* A Merrifield 47 J Devine 27 R Manu 4/33 C Wills 2/58 v Bundoora South Morang vDiamond Creek 7/250(cc) JT Ireland 65* JM Stephen 51 A Taylor 39 M MacDonald 34 A Jarram 30 V Nain 3/32 P Philp 3/47 Macleod 8/189(cc) R Jones 50* L Grech 47 MP Cocks 4/41 LP Gough 3/23 v Old Paradians Mill Park 1/1 v Rosanna 235 H Smith 72 J Potenza 47 S Sharma 41 D Spokes 26 A Mangrolia 6/38 F2-GRADE Lower Plenty v Riverside 9/192(cc) S Bowler 40 S Merrifield 35 D Dash 2/0 C James 2/19 Lower Eltham 9/169(cc) C Brown 41 K Whitcher 36 LN Delaney 2/11 BA Oliver 2/39 v Banyule Rosanna 195 T Bourke 98* C York 29 N Perkins 6/27 v Whittlesea 1/60 Heidelberg 124 A Stone 41 M Ryan 27 P Silva 3/29 JA Griffin 3/36 S Hayse 2/16 v Lalor Stars 0/17 F3-GRADE Diamond Creek 165 S Farrar 90 BJ Giarrusso 5/39 C Webb 3/40 v Bundoora United 0/3 Epping def North Eltham Wanderers Research Eltham Collegians 5/251 C Cunningham 72 W Jessop 48 J Gallo 46* D Castellano 26 J Keratianos 2/37 v Thomastown United Old Paradians vPlenty 9/240(cc) P Tino 76 E Weir 39 D Taylor 33 C Alexopoulos 27* CO Fernando 4/21 CW Rathnayake 3/69 G1-GRADE Diamond Creek 2 /68 v South Morang 159 JN Ramalingam 42 T Buckwell 3/33 KS Mangin 2/19 Laurimar Black 1/29 v Montmorency 137 C Snelson 36 D Jenkins 4/25 D Palladino 2/9 DS Crain 2/28 Laurimar Teal v Mernda 7/231 KS Mahal 55* J Dhaliwal 47 GG Summers 35 D Fien 3/ 18 AVervoort 2/53 Thomastown 182 J Tuapa 58* D Baillon 28 LTVersteegen 3/46 C MacGibbon 2/16 C Boland 2/45 v Diamond Creek 1 0/47 R Pearce 32* UNDER 18 Three-Day Round Lower Plenty 104 ZJ Davies 3/17 L Taylor 3/19 v Mernda 0/29 Riverside 8/152(cc) M Brennan 39 J Harrison 3/22 DA Noons 2/15 v Montmorency White Montmorency Black 6/163(cc) A Crick 55 M Whiteman 31 v Diamond Creek Epping v Heidelberg/Banyule 155 E Kunelius 3/19 S Dhiman 3/30 TA Mane 2/32 Lower Eltham 86 W Brennan 2/9 v Bundoora United 1/121 J Drohan 72* JD Turner 37* Bundoora Park 7/237(cc) S Miller 76 J Barrett 49 B Healy 42 v Panton Hill/Hurstbridge Dennis 31 A Turner 3/7 D McCarthy 2/2 v Research Eltham Collegians 5/76 UNDER 16 BLUE Diamond Creek 4/152 H Downes 58* B Neilson 49 v Montmorency Research Eltham Collegians 3/203(cc) M Kumar 2/28 v Epping

Bundoora United v Rosanna 5/165(cc) N Ball

UNDER 16 TEAL Banyule 8/124(cc) LC Sier 50 J Atkinson 2/ 1 A D'Amico 2/4 v Riverside Macleod 6/207 L Grech 46 CJ Dawson 35 H Preiss 35 R Jones 28* J Mills 2/26 v Bundoora Park Mernda 3/294(cc) G Khatra 100* KA Turner 53 RT De Alwis 45* v Laurimar Whittlesea v Plenty 1/169(cc) L Mallia 69* O Pisani 63* UNDER 14 BLUE Montmorency vNorth Eltham Wanderers 158 H Kofoed 62 D Rigg 2/14 O Scott 2/23 Banyule v Epping 196 WD Waters 2/22 Hurstbridge v Diamond Creek 9/149(cc) S Colebatch 25 Z Knight 2/10 F Davis 2/13 T Pascoe 2/14 UNDER 12 BLUE Montmorency 7/68 v Plenty 1/109 Epping 4/41 v Banyule 3/59 Research Eltham Collegians 3/79 PWard 2/ 5 v Hurstbridge 4/65 AF Bloomfield 27* T Thorne 2/6 Bundoora United 3/51 v Laurimar Cricket Club 4/95 D Mclaughlan 26* J Laing 3/21

Local Scores Northern Metro JIKA SHIELD Heidelberg West 116 S Singh 5/28 E Smith 3/24 v Cameron 4/139 D Bhinder 66 Cobras 5/181 F Tomaras 69 A Dharmasena 46 KR Paterson 34 v Rivergum Holy Trinity v Preston Baseballers 6/262 D Farrell 70 S Ayres 69 G Courts 67* Rosebank v Preston YCW District 6/184 R Singh-Dhillon 99 H Pal 31 J Thompson 2/ 19 GE Eyre 2/44 JACK QUICK SHIELD Heidelberg West 116 S Singh 5/28 E Smith 3/24 v Cameron 4/139 D Bhinder 66 Cobras 5/181 F Tomaras 69 A Dharmasena 46 KR Paterson 34 v Rivergum Holy Trinity v Preston Baseballers 6/262 D Farrell 70 S Ayres 69 G Courts 67* Rosebank v Preston YCW District 6/184 R Singh-Dhillon 99 H Pal 31 J Thompson 2/ 19 GE Eyre 2/44 JACK KELLYSHIELD West Ivanhoe United 253 L Gholam 68 M Woolley 62 G Williams 40 J Pfeiffer 34 v Strathewen. Darebin Northern Riders 5/64 V Mann 38* v Ivanhoe Mavericks 112 A Sama 5/21 M Ali 2/14 J Sharma 2/19.

Sagarmatha 104 v Fiji Victorian 5/104 K Tuladhar 2/9 N Shrestha 2/23. West Preston v Preston Footballers 8/206(cc) M Soufi 3/ 38 P Sundarrajan 2/29 M Chellamuthu 2/35 B-GRADE West Ivanhoe United 253 L Gholam 68 M Woolley 62 G Williams 40 J Pfeiffer 34 v Strathewen. Darebin Northern Riders 5/64 V Mann 38* v Ivanhoe Mavericks 112 A Sama 5/21 M Ali 2/14 J Sharma 2/19.

Sagarmatha 104 v Fiji Victorian 5/104 K Tuladhar 2/9 N Shrestha 2/23. West Preston v Preston Footballers 8/206(cc) M Soufi 3/ 38 P Sundarrajan 2/29 M Chellamuthu 2/35 C-GRADE Cameron 2nd XI def Heidelberg West 2nd XI. Fairfield 2nd XI v Holy Trinity 2nd XI 155. Strathewen 2nd XI v Dennis 2nd XI 6/ 210(cc) R D'Rozario 101 A Green 32 DD Mahanayake 4/48 A Fernando 2/4. Donath 2nd XI 0/50 T Hopkins 32* v Camrea 2nd XI 177 A Mummery 70 L Berardinelli 36 GC Sebeh 32 S Haren 4/15 T Sedgwick 3/42 D-GRADE Preston Footballers 2nd XI v West Preston 2nd XI 7/381(cc)A Balasubramaniam 142 G Devaraju 93* E Davis 46 A Ramaswamy Babu 26. Ivanhoe Mavericks 2nd XI v Northern Socials 2nd XI 288 JX Nicholas 94 RW Taylor 69 NS Silva 35 S Watson 33*. Olympic Colts 2nd XI 109 M Correnti 4/19 N Ross 4/64 v West Ivanhoe United 2nd XI. Old Ivanhoe 2nd XI v Keon Park 2nd XI 8/189(cc) L Bolt 62 P Senthil 48*

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SEYMOUR DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION SCORES AT A GLANCE A-GRADE

■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 19.

Eastern Hill 124 J Sutherland 35 JP Bradshaw 3/19 J Connell 3/28v Broadford 5/220(cc) L Collier 86 EW Mills 70 BG Bryant 2/25 D Bergowicz 2/48.

Kilmore 8/113(cc) M Rose 29 C Armstrong 6/17 v Yea Tigers 4/121 C Armstrong 47 DL Malcolm 30* D Pell 25 B Buttler 2/25.

Seymour 68 M Itter 4/22 L Irving 3/15 def

by Tallarook 172 J Smith-Williams 82 L Watts 62 D McLarty 4/23 J Frankel 3/22 D Fountain 2/45.

B-GRADE

■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 19.

Royals 9/83(cc) D Kerrigan 4/9 P Singh 2/9 EA Frendo 2/12 def by Kilmore 5/84(cc) M Singh 25 D Heather 25.

Broadford 4/149(cc) B Thomas 41* C Stute 38 A Wood 36 C Tippett 4/16 def Puckapunyal 7/101(cc) AD Withers 3/16 J Jones 2/22 Pyalong 3/130 PJ Campbell 40 D Sowden 38* C Wittig 30* def Avenel 8/129(cc) dj zoch 3/23 J Ruddick 2/8.

Tallarook 9/58 L Mitchell 40 S Graham 3/ 4 W Ellis 2/4 J Reynolds 2/7 9/58 L Mitchell 40 S Graham 3/4 W Ellis 2/4 J Reynolds 2/7 def by Alexandra 6/104 J Reynolds 33 K Minter 2/20 6/104 J Reynolds 33 K Minter 2/ 20.

Yea Tigers 6/108(cc) S Tang 2/12 H Szczykulski 2/26 def by Eastern Hill 5/ 113(cc) O Bryant 40 D O'Dwyer 2/10.

C-GRADE

■ Results. Round 3. Saturday, October 19.

Kilmore 5/92(cc) D Meek 2/3 def Broadford Red 57 Puckapunyal Nomads 52 A Allen 33 D France 4/4 def by Seymour 0/56 C Kirby 33* Avenel 70 P Brooks 3/25 B Richards 2/9 def by Puckapunyal Wanderers 5/113(cc) S Mott 27 Broadford Black 8/110(cc) C Ball 31 M Mirabella 26* C Lubeck 3/17 T Davey 2/10 M Brown 2/21 def Eastern Hill 29 HR Austin 5/6 (inc hat-trick) H Zanko 2/6 Pyalong: Bye Alexandra 1/71 T Orgill 37 def Royals 9/ 69(cc) T Ward 3/10 J Southam 3/13

UNDER 16

■ Results. Round 2. Sunday, October 20.

Eastern Hill 5/158(cc) def Broadford 115 Kilmore 7/106(cc) def by Alexandra/Yea 4/109

UNDER 14

■ Results. Round 1. Saturday, October 19.

Kilmore Blue v Tallarook Broadford 6/144(cc) D Meek 40 J Nolan 30* R Nolan 28 def by Eastern Hill 8/155(cc) D Meek 3/18 R Nolan 2/19 R Pollock 2/27 Alexandra 6/71 def by Kilmore White 5/ 102 C Howell 2/13

Grandstander Mum’s the word ■ Kids love seeing their name in print, especially with sports results. Howver, there is a new trend to anonymise names in sports reports. The Alexandra/Yea Under 16 cricket team had seven out of the 11 players’ names ‘censored’ at the Seymour District Cricket Association website. Three names are missing from the Alexandra Under 14 results.

People, particular juniors, are certainly entitled to claim privacy, but it makes it difficult to promote the sport if we do not know who is playing.

Now Bowls results ■ This newspaper tries hard to gather as many sports results as possible. however the Central Bowls Division results still elude us.

Bowls Victoria have taken charge of receiving results, but are yet to release CBD results in a timely way.

Empire grows ■ AFL Outer East and AFL Gippsland are combining to employ a n Umpiring Operations Manager.

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Kinglake starts cricket season ■ Kinglake, all out for 78 in 33 overs, was defeated by Cameron 0/82 (dec) across 12 overs, at Kinglake Memorial Reserveon Saturday (Oct. 19).

This was the first round in the designated one-day competition of the Northern Metro CricketAssociation.

Other matches: Dennis OD 151 drew Fairfield OD 4/74. Northern Socials OD: Bye. Preston Footballers OD 5/169 T Stoneham 37 TI Barwise 30 M McMaster 27 M Corbett 25* def Strathewen OD 7/167(cc) M Corbett 3/37 TI Barwise 2/31. Camrea OD 123 def by Sagarmatha OD 3/12.

Round 2 matches this Saturday (Oct. 26), starting at 1.30pm, are: Kinglake OD v Sagar matha OD, at Kinglake Memorial Reserve.

Northern Socials OD v Cameron OD, at C.T. Barling Reserve North. Preston Footballers OD: Bye. Dennis OD v Strathewen OD, at McDonnell Park West. Camrea OD v Fairfield OD, at C.H. Sullivan Park West.

KINGLAKE V CAMERON

Venue: Kinglake Memorial Reserve Kinglake lost First Innings Toss won by: Cameron Batted first: Kinglake 1st Innings- Kinglake J. Edwards, c ? b L. Smith .............................. 0 A. Hybinett, b L. Smith ................................. 12 D. Maloney, c M. Mickelson, b S.L. Moore .. 25 B.J. Hall, b L. Smith ........................................ 0 J,. Gibbs, b N., Zanella ................................... 1 *N. Stella, c ? b N. Zanella ............................ 3 E. O’Hara, b N. Taleb ................................... 16 M. Lynch, b S.L. Moore ................................. 6 H. Maloney, b N. Taleb ................................... 7 J. Green, b M.C. Ondarchie ............................ 0 L. Martin, not out ............................................ 0 Extras (nb 1, w 2, b 5, lb 2) ............................ 10 Total .............................................................. 78 Overs .......................................................... 33.0 FOW: 3 (J. Edwards), 18 (A. Hybinett), 26 (B.J. Hall), 42 (D. Maloney), 56 (N. Stella), 65 (M. Lynch), 75 (E. O’Hara), 78 (J. Green), 78 (H. Maloney).

Bowling (O-M-W-R): M. Mickelson 7.0-2-024, L. Smith 7.0-2-3-11, N. Zanella 6.0-2-2-14, S.L. Moore 6.0-2-212, M.C. Ondarchie 3.0-01-0-9, N. Taleb 3.1-0-2-3.

1st Innings - Cameron B.R. Cornford, not out .................................... 41 M.C. Ondarchie, not out ................................ 25 Z. Taleb, dnb M. Mickelson, dnb *+W. Maher, dnb J. Rogers, dnb N. Zanella, dnb S.L. Moore, dnb N. Taleb, dnb L. Smith, dnb Extras (nb 5, w 10, b 0, lb 1) ........................ 16 Total ........................................................... 0/82 Overs ......................................................... 12.0 Bowling (O-M-W-R): J. Gibbs 5.0-0-0-27, H. Maloney 3.0-1-0-12, B.J. Hall 2.0-0-0-19, M. Lynch 1.0-0-0-9, L. Martin 1.0-0-0-14. ★ Yea bettered Kilmore’s score in the A-Grade match played at Kilmore Cricket Ground, in Round 3 SDCA competition.

A-GRADE KILMORE V YEA TIGERS

Venue: Kilmore Cricket Ground Umpirea: Robert Burke Toss won by: Yea Tigers Batted first: Kilmore 1st Innings - Kilmore *+M. Rose, c & b W. Dalton ......................... 29 J. Buttler, c D. Pell, b A. Chisholm ................ 5 A.R. Lovick, b C. Armstrong ........................ 14 J. Walton, c D. Pell, b C. Armstrong ............... 6 B.J. Donnelly, lbw b C.Armstrong ................. 0 M. Davern, c M. Steiner, b C. Armstrong ...... 2 K. Craddock, st R. Akers, b C. Armstrong ...... 6 B.D. Trezise, not out ...................................... 13 B. Dawson, c A. Chisholm, b C.Armstrong .. 13 C. McLeod, not out ........................................ 18 B. Buttler, dnb Extras (nb 0, w 2, b 0, lb 5) ............................ 7 Total ................................................... 8/113 (cc) Overs ......................................................... 45.0 FOW: 21 (J. Buttlker), 48 (M. Rose), 59 (A.R. Lovick), 59 (B.J. Dennehy), 60 (J. Walton), 65

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● Kinglake's James Gibbs bowls against Cameron on Saturday afternoon.

(M. Davern), 68 (K. Craddock), 88 (B. Dawson). Bowling (O-M-W-R): A. McSpeein 3.0-0-1-25, Bowling (O-M-W-R): M. Steiner 5.0-2-0-0, C.A. D. O’Dwyer 4.0-1-2-10, P. Evans 2.0-0-1-11, Malcolm 7.0-2-0-16, A. Chisholm 9.0-3-1-27, H. Witton 1.0-0-0-12, R. Aldous 3.0-0-0-30, J. W. Dalton 6.0-0-1-21, D. Evans 9.0-2-0-19, C. Johnson 4.0-0-0-12, J. Carroll 3.0-0-1-12.

1st Innings - Yea Tigers Armstrong 9.0-1-6-17.

B. Broadway, c ? b P. Speechley .................... 7 1st Innings - Yea Tigers +D.L. Malcolm, not out ................................. 30 J. Carroll, c ? b H. Szczykulksi ..................... 17 A. Butterworth, c J. Walton, b B. Dawson ..... 0 D. O’Dywer, c ? b R. Gardner ..................... 13 C. Armstrong, c B.D. Trtezise, b J. Buttler ... 47 P. Evans, c ? b M. Hall ................................. 23 D. Pell, c. J. Buttler, b B. Buttler ................... 25 L. Young, b S. Tang ....................................... 0 M. Waghorn, b B. Buttler ................................ 4 *A. McSpeerin, b S. Tang .............................. 2 D. Evans, not out ............................................. 6 X. O’Dwyer, not out ...................................... 18 R. Aldous, not out .......................................... 15 +R. Akers, dnb T. McMahon, dnb *M. Steiner, dnb H. Wilson, dnb W. Dalton, dnb J. Johnson, dnb A. Chisholm, dnb Extras (nb 0, w 12, b 1, lb 0) C.A. Malcolm, dnb’ Extras (nb 0, w8, b 0, lb 1) ............................. 9 Total .................................................. 6/108 (cc) Total .......................................................... 4/121 Overs ......................................................... 20.0 Overs ......................................................... 30.6 Bowling (O-M-W-R): P. Speechley 4.0-0-12FOW: 0 (A. Butterworth), 63 (C. Arnmstrong), 18, R. Gardner 4.0-0-0-13, R. Grant 3.0-0-0-18, H. Szczykulski 4.0-0-2-26, M. Hall 2.0-0-1-10, 98 (D. Pell), 107 (M. Waghorn).

Bowling: J. Buttler 8.1-3-1-29, B. Dawson 4.0- S. Tanmg 2.0-0-2-12, J. Speechley 1.0-0-0-10.

1-1-26, C. McLeod 5.0-0-0-24, B. Buttler 7.0-22-25, A.R. Lovick 6.0-2-0-10, B.J. Dennehy 0.80-0-6.

B-GRADE YEA TIGERS V EASTERN HILL

Venue: Yea Recreation Reserve Result: Yea Tigers lost First Innings Toss won by: Eastern Hill Batted first: Eastern Hill 1st Innings - Eastern Hill H. Szczykulski, b D. O’Dwyer ...................... 4 R. Grant, b A. McSpeerin .............................. 17 P. Speechley, c J. Johnson, b D. O’Dwyer ..... 5 O. Bryant, st B. Broadway, b P. Evans ......... 40 L. Wyatt, c D. O’Dwyer, b P. Evans .............. 2 K.J. Grant, not out .......................................... 15 Z. Wyatt, not out ............................................ 20 M. Hall, dnb R. Gardner, dnb S. Tang, dnb J, Speechley, dnb Extras (nb 0, w 9, b 1, lb 0) ........................... 10 Total .................................................. 5/113 (cc) Overs ......................................................... 20.0 FOW: 20 (R. Green), 29 (H. Szczykulski), 29 (P. Speechley), 42 (L. Wyatt), 95 (O. Bryant).

Sports Briefs Netball search

■ Healesville are looking for some fresh faces to join their AFLOuter East Division One netball coaching panel.

Powelly signature

■ Powelltown Senior Coach James Iacono has signed on for 2020 as the Towners look to go a couple of steps further in AFLOuter East Division Two.

Yea FNC AGM

■ The Yea Football Netball Club will hold its Aannual General Meeting at 7pm on Friday, November 15November at 7 pm at the Netball Rooms. All executive and committee positions will become vacant.

Mixed netball

■ The Yea Summer Mixed Netball is back Possible starting date: Fri., November 15.

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