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Yea ballot papers did not arrive

■ “Through some extraordinary bungling on the part of the printers, the ballot papers did not arrive in time this morning, and the election has to be postponed a week in consequence,” said the Alexandra & Yea Standard of the Yea Shire election in August 1878.

“The greatest disappointment and astonishment is felt, not only by the candidates, but by the ratepayers generally. I hardly think such a thing is possible to occur in any other township in the colony.”

J. Hammond wrote a letter to the editor in the following week’s issue: Red Lion Hotel, Kilmore 9th August 1878.

“I request to inform you that through the gross negligence of my son, who drives my cart, the ballot papers handed me by the Free Prees Office were not dispatched until Thursday 8th inst., although delivered to him from the Free Press Office on Thursday evening, the lat August.

“My son gave Mr Rose (of the Free Press Office) and myself to understand that they had been sent on Friday morning the 2nd inst., and if I had only known on Wednesday last that they had not been sent I should have immediately despatched him on horseback to Yea direct.

“I write this to show that no blame can possibly be attached to the Free Press Office in any way whatever, these papers being delivered one week before use.

“I should also feel obliged that if the shire be put to any expense, advertising or otherwise, to inform me of the amount, and I shall he only too glad to pay any sum so that in some measure I can feel that I have not atoned but done all in my power to make good as far as possible the very careless mistake of my son.

“You are at perfect liberty to publish this letter; in fact, out of justice to the printers I think it ought to be done.”

The subsequent edition saw the Yea correspondent report:

The election, which was held on Thursday last, passed off much better than was expected.

It was feared, owing to the disappointment caused on the 8th, through the non-arrival of the ballot papers, that very few of the ratepayers would turn up a second time, but on no former occnsion did so many come to the poll.

Each candidate felt confident of success, and their friends deserve the highest praise for the energetic manner in which they worked in their respective interests.

One enthusiatic gentleman rode a distance of twenty-two miles to bring up two voters for Mr R.F. Taylor, who was occupied the greater portion of the lay by his professional duties.

At Yea the numbers polled wereTaylor, 123; Ker, 113; Purcell, 92.

At Molesworth Taylor , 27; Purcell, 10; Ker, 3.

On the declaration of the poll by the returning officer, Mr Quinlan, J.P., the successful candidates were lustily cheered.

When the eheering had partially subsided Mr Taylor came forward and said, Gentleman - Believe me, I feel a grateful appreciation of the honor which you have conferred on me to-day, and I sincerely trust you shall never have cause to regret your kindness.

You have been told that I am not only a bird of passage, but a man of straw, and consequently unworthy of your support and confidence, and you replied in effect at the poll today that it matters little to you whether a man possesses a thousand acres or none so long as you believe him to be honest and firm in principle, so long as you regard him to be a man whom no considerations can sway other than what the straight path of duty dictates.

Gentlemen, I am resolved to carefully criticise and review every measure brought forward, no matter by whom, in a spirit of moderation and fiir play, conscientiously voting for that which I am persuaded will tend towards the well-being of the district generally, but against whatever I may deem unnecessary or inexpedient , and, gentleman, I shall on all occasions consider that the honor of serving you faithfullyis my highest privilege, and that in earning your approval and esteem is centred my highest reward.

All attempts to participate in the funds of the shire by any councillor for services rendered shall be strenuously opposed by me, and whenever a shilling is spent I shall use my earnest endeavours to secure you a shilling's worth.

I may tell those gentlemn who voted against me that they had a perfect right to exercise their judgement to the best of their ability, and the fact of their having done so will never as far as I am concerned make us worse friends than we have been heretofore.

I know a few of my well-wishers voted against me because I suppose they thought my professional duties would not harmonize with local polities; well, gentleman, I am of a different opinion.

I think it is the first duty of every right-tthinking tnan to make his own home as happy and comfortable as he possibly can, but I think it is no less his duty in a secondary sense to extend his influence for good towards those with whom his lot in life, at least for the time being, is cast, for the welfare of those with whom he is associated in daily intercourse.

And now let me tender my warmest and sincere thanks to those gentleman who voted for me and through whose influence and cordial support I have not only obtained a seat in the council, but I have been exalted to the honorable position of head of tlhe poll in face of the strongest opposition perhaps ever encountered by any previous candidate in

the Shire of Yea, for, gentlemen, Mr Ker is an hi ghly respected resident, and a wealthy squatter to boot, while Mr Purcell is a respectable leading storekeeper of 15 years standing.

Before concluding permit me to propose a vote of thanks to the officers who so ably and impartially conducted the business of the election to-day.

I am sure you will all agree with me that this slight recognition of their valuable services is well deserved. (Prolonged cheering).

Mr Ker said, Gentleman--I have much pleasure in seconding that vote of thanks. I have spoken so much all day that you cannot expect me to say a great deal now.

However, I quite agree with Mr Taylor that each measure brought before the council should be criticised, but, gentlemen, it is easy to criticise and not so easy to propose a remedy.

Young members cannot be expected to know much about roadmakltg. Now I shall not only criticise, but I shall propose a remedy.

I have a large stake in this district, and I concluded I should offer myself for a seat in your local parliament, and from the result of the poll to-day I am glad to say you thought I was entitled to one.

It is true I am not at the head of the poll, but I am satisfied with my position as it is one in which I can do some good, and onto for which I feel most thankfil, and whether as regards railway communication or any other local object I shall always try and do my best. (Loud cheers).

Mr Purcell, the unssecessful candidate, said, Gentlemen, I have to thank those intelligent ratepayers who voted for me to day.

My position at the poll was one which I did not expect, nor do I think deserved ; however, tile ratepayers have decided against me, and of course I must bow to that decision.

I have lived 15 years in Yea, and during that time I have always endeavoured, whether in the council or out of it, to do all the good I could, and should I be spared for 15 years years longer I should continue to do so, still I regret my defeat very much, but, as I said before, gentlemen, the decision of the rate payers is final.

Cheers were again given the successful candidatess, and the crew dispersed peacelably and in thie greatest good humour. The electiol of President is postponed until the ordinary .day of meeting, Councillor Quinlan is certain to be again elected President for the ensning year.

DOES COUNCIL RECORD ITS RESIDENTS?

Local Briefs

More flood help

■ Flood-impacted residents are set to receive additional support through a newly announced temporary accommodation program aimed at assisting displaced community members.

Mitchell Shire Council welcomed the announcement from Emergency Services Mini ster Jaclyn Symes of the Homes at Home program, offering temporary accommodation to residents whose properties were impacted by the October 2022 flood event.

The initiative, managed by Emergency Recovery Victoria, allows displaced property owners to stay on their property while undergoing essential home repairs.

Fair and inclusive

■ Eltham College students were amongst a group of Victorian high schoolers came together to discuss the key areas they believe need to be addressed for a fair and inclusive society and present their ideas for overcoming prejudice in Australia directly to government, community and religious leaders.

The students of 15 schools from across Victoria's Government, Catholic and Independent sectors were united as part of the inaugural Together for Humanity Victorian Youth Summit held at the University of Melbourne on July 18.

Council buys land

■ The land at 13 Green St in Healesville will remain public open space forever, with Yarra Ranges Council signing an agreement with VicTrack to purchase the land.

The Council engaged with community members in 2017 and earlier this year, gauging interest in the potential purchase of the land, with resounding support for the proposal.

Ryrie Ward Councillor, Fiona McAllister, said the purchase will bring relief to the community, six years after VicTrack began the process of selling the space.

‘Water must flow’

■ Murrindindi Mayor Cr John Walsh says that he told Echuca’s Port Director, who complained about in-flows from the Goulburn River to the flood-affected town:

“Consequently the continuing high releases from Lake Eildon have stopped a lot of the recovery work on the infrastructure along the river,” Cr Walsh said.

“I was sympathetic to his situation but reminded him that the rate of release is essential if we are to avoid a repeat of last October.”

S’bogie Cr resigns

■ Cr Kristy Hourigan has resigned as the Seven Creeks Ward Councillor for Strathbogie Council.

In a statrement released last Thursday (July 27), Cr Hourigan said she had mixed emotions about her resignation.

“Being a Councillor can be a thankless task – both inside and outside the chamber –and more recently the in-house political bureaucracy has taken its toll.” She spoke ofr a gender bias at the Council.

■ The Local Paper posed this question to Council: “Do Murrindindi Shire officers or staff ever make audio recordings of conversations without the knowledge, and/or without the permission, of other parties in that conversation?

“If they have or do make these audio recordings, does the Council believe this to be an acceptable and/or reputable business practice?’

Anna Cullen, Manager Customer Experience for Murrindindi Shire Council, replied:

“In Victoria, the Surveillance Devices Act 1999 governs the rules and regulations regarding the recording of conversations.

“Participants must be notified, and therefore consent, before recording a private conversation. However, law enforcement agencies may be allowed to conduct covert recordings under specific circumstances and with appropriate authorisation.

“Murrindindi Shire Council does not make audio recordings of conversations without the knowledge of other parties in that conversation.

“When contacting the Council via phone, conversations may be recorded for customer service training and quality assurance purposes, in these instances citizens provide informed consent or can opt out of the recording.

“Council uses CCTV cameras in public places for public safety, crime prevention, or traffic management.

“In other jurisdictions, Council officers often use body-worn cameras during the course of their official duties to document interactions, meetings, or events related to council business. These increasingly common practices support public service enhancements.

“Council meetings, such as Community Engagement meetings, Scheduled Meetings of Council and Community Forums are recorded and can be livestreamed on our website and social media platforms, from time to time.

“Citizens, Council staff and Councillors are advised that these meetings will be recorded, which is another common practice in the public service.

“When conducting conversations with members of the public, Council officers routinely capture detailed notes in the course of their work to help ensure accurate record-keeping and maintain transparency and accountability in their work.

“Council policy and practice in relation to audio and video recordings align with the requirements of the Act to protect the privacy rights of individuals while fulfilling the intended public safety, security, and customer service objectives, in addition to adhering to the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) (PDP Act) which determines how Victorian government agencies are to handle the personal information they receive.

“Finally, the correct portfolio Director to pose this question to is Michael Chesworth, Director People and Performance, who I have included in this response,” Ms Cullen said.

Zahra away

■ Christian Zahra, Administrator of Whittlesea Council, was unable to be at its July 18 meeting.

Colleague Lydia Wilson said: ““On behalf of Council we offer our very sincere condolences to Administrator Zahra, who is unable to join us this evening as he deals with a matter of deep personal loss.

“Our thoughts and sympathies are with Christian and his family at this most difficult time,” Ms Wilson said.

Welcome to our new Aussies

● ● ● ● Murrindindi Council’s CEO Livia Bonazzi, Mayor Cr John Walsh, Raymond, Inderjit, Richard, Claire, Christel, Terence, Sirikarn, Narinpat, and Paul.

■ Murrindindi Shire Council welcomed nine new Australian Citizens on Tuesday last week (July 25) at an official Citizenship Ceremony held at the Alexandra Council Chambers.

During the ceremony, Raymond, Inderjit, Richard, Claire, Christel, Terence, Sirikarn, Narinpat and Paul pledged their loyalty to Australia, its people and its democratic beliefs and to uphold and obey the laws of Australia and respect the rights and liberties of its people.

Lighting audit

■ Mansfield Shire has commenced a collaborative project to undertake an audit of street and public lighting for conversion to LED lighting as a key initiative under the Climate Action Plan adopted in February.

The audit will review specific street and public lighting across Mansfield, Murrindindi and Strathbogie Shires in preparation for the introduction of new LED lights.

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Ash on Wednesday Local MP slams highways

■ Roads across the Eildon electorate are crumbling, with the Andrews Labor Government remaining silent on repairs needed.

$200K for Kinglake

■ The Foundation for Regional Rural Renewal has awarded $207,812 in grants to community groups across the Kinglake Ranges region, for 13 projects that will strengthen the social connectedness and continued recovery of Victorian communities impacted by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.

These grants mark the final round of FRRR’s Grants for Resilience & Wellness Kinglake Ranges program and closes out the Victorian Bushfire Appeal Fund.

In total, VBAF has funded 492 community-led projects, with an investment of $7,436,642, thanks to funds raised by the general public following the bushfires.

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Eildon MLA, Cindy McLeish, said road maintenance continues to fall short across the electorate, in particular on the Melba Highway, Maroondah Highway and Goulburn Valley Highway, which are in an appalling condition.

Despite the Melba Highway receiving repairs late last year, the road surface is already suffering.

“I have been contacted by many drivers who have hit deep potholes on the Melba Highway, blown tyres, busted rims and are now up for thousands of dollars in repairs,” Ms McLeish said.

“It is not uncommon to see cars pulled over on the side of the road, changing blown tyres or waiting for assistance.”

Speaking in Parliament prior to the King’s Birthday long weekend, Ms McLeish called on the Minister for Roads and Road Safety to fix the Melba Highway and to let the community know when they can expect repairs to occur.

The Minister failed to acknowledge or address the Melba Highway in her response, instead insisting roads are assessed on a regular basis and a Road Management Plan is followed to keep roads in good condition.

Ms McLeish csaid: “There has been a lot of rain and the road conditions, because it was not repaired properly, are just continu-

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A link can also be found on Ms McLeish’s Facebook and Instagram pages /CindyMcLeishMP. The e-petition will close August 30.

“The Andrews Labor Government has a lot of work to do in this area. They need to have a look at regional roads and support the regional electorates,” Ms McLeish said.

In this final round of GR&W Kinglake Ranges grants, locals continue to seek to strengthen community identity and a shared sense of place. Funded projects will create opportunities for people to come together and connect, such as The Foggy Mountain Music and Arts Festival 2023 bush dance, or through improvements made to the accessibility and function of shared spaces.

Recipients are:

■ Flowerdale Community House Inc., $25,810;

■ Flowerdale Sports Club, $24,000;

■ Foggy Mountain Inc., $3000;

■ Kinglake Creative Inc., $8800;

■ Kinglake Football Netball Club, $19,985;

■ Kinglake Landcare Group, $9543;

■ Kinglake Ranges Neighbourhood House, $10,736, $11,355 and $14,140;

■ Kinglake Trust Reserve Inc., $25,000;

■ Murrindindi Youth Foundation, $40,000;

■ Toolangi District Community House, $8579; and

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“For the cause that lacks assistance, ‘Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do”

ing to get worse and worse.”

Given the state of the roads and safety risk to drivers, Ms McLeish has started a Parliament e-petition to have the Melba Highway, Goulburn

Valley Highway and Maroondah Highway between Yarra Glen and Mansfield repaired.

To sign the e-petition, head to https:// www.parliament. vic.gov.au/view-sign-

The Andrews Labor Government has slashed the road asset management budget by 25 per cent in this year’s state budget and road maintenance funding from $702.2 million to just $441.6 million in the last year alone.

“This is despite a horror year on our roads and a 35 per cent increase in lives lost,” Ms McLeish said.

Div. 1

■ Northern Football League Division 1 matches this Saturday (Aug. 5) are: Hurstbridge v Heidelberg, Banyule v North Heidelberg, Macleod v Montmorency, Greensborough v Bundoora, West Preston Lakeside v Whittlesea.

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Robert, 15, asks

■ Kinglake teenager Robert Atkins addressed Whittlesea City Council at its latest meeting: “Can lights be put in at Mernda skate park. Skating there at night is a hazard, there is already power and spots on the trainlines where lights could be easily attached without further infrastructure that would provide light to the skate park and surrounding features.

“With the new shopping centre block, having lights will encourage more users to the skate park and show great growth to the area.

“This will make people come to Mernda more often and less crime will happen there at night. I made a petition to get lights and got 180 signatures but it didn’t follow the criteria for one.

“I am only 15 and started doing this when I was 14. You might recognise me from the plant a tree day posters around Whittlesea Even though I don’t live in the Whittlesea Shire, I attend Scouts there and my friends who I skate with live there. I would be very grateful if you were to help me out.”

Whittlesea City CEO Craig Lloyd said: “Thank you Robert for your question and we acknowledge the significant commitment you have made in organising the petition.

“The Mernda Skate Park was built by the Level Crossing Removal Authority and the land is owned by VicTrack but leased and maintained by the City of Whittlesea

“As is the case with other skate parks in the municipality, the Mernda Skate Park is designed to be used during daylight hours only.

“However, Council recognises the Mernda Skate Park is located in a town centre and many users would support evening use under lights.

“Currently, the City of Whittlesea does not install lighting in parks and recreation areas outside of our Major Community Parks. However, we will soon conduct a review into the provision of lighting in parks and open space facilities and the Mernda Skate Park will be included in this investigation.

“If Council decided to install lights at the park, it would then apply to VicTrack for permission to do so,” Mr Lloyd said.

Administrator Lydia Wilson said: “Can I also thank Robert for his question this evening and acknowledge his obvious leadership for someone so young. He is only 15.”

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Cindy McLeish MLA, beside the Melba Hwy at Glenburn

More than half the Murrindindi Shire ratepayers surveyed in the Local Government Community Satisfaction Survey are not happy with ‘Value For Money’ offered by the Council. Shire CEO Livia Bonazzi revealed at last Wednesday’s Council meeting that the Council was marked with a 46/100 rating by the survey group, which was a minimum of 400 residents.

Transparency, Murrindindi-style

■ Murrindindi Council has 30 different policies listed at its webnsite. A Public Transparency Policy, voted in by Councillors, is obligatory under the Local Government Act.

“Council commits to making information publicly available unless the information is confidential in nature or the information would be considered contrary to the public interest,” says the policy.

On three ocassions (July 18 and 21), The Local Paper requested Murrindindi Shire Council to provide a copy of the 2023 Community Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Anna Cullen, the Shire’s Manager Customer Experience, denied the request: “Council releases its Local Government Community Satisfaction Survey results as part of the publication of our Annual Report.”

In the Public Transparency Policy, members of the Executive Management Team are instructed to “champion behaviours that foster transparency and drive the principles through policy, process and leadership.”

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✖With the atrocious state of the Melba Hwy, Goulburn Valley Hwy and Maroondah Hwy, Murrindindi ratepayers might be hopeful that Mayor Cr John Walsh could use Labor Party connections to be more effective in advocacy to the State Government for urgent highway repairs. Cr Walsh is married to Robyn Walsh who has been an ALP candidate for Federal, State and Local Government.

?Cr Walsh told last Wednesday night’s meeting of Murrindindi Shire Council: “We are continuing advocacy for better roads funding; for the need to build back better after the October floods; for better management protocols for Lake Eildon water levels that provide greater emphasis on flood protection; for improved support for early childhood education and child minding service; and for the establishment of a Regional University and Training Hub to support post-secondary training in the Murrindindi Shire. Three recent interviews on radio and newspapers have assisted in getting our messages out.”

At last Wednesday’s Council meeting, Shire CEO Livia Bonazzi spoke of just four of the dozens of the results: overall performance is 55; overall Council direction score is 46; Value for Money score is 46, and Customer Service score is 69.

Makeover for Ryans Reserve

■ Ryans Reserve in Diamond Creek is set for a significant makeover after Nillumbik Council was successful in securing $1.19 million in funding via the Victorian Government Growing Suburbs Fund 2022

The Council is asking residents to provide their feedback on the designs.

The Ryans Reserve Rejuvenation Project aims to provide recreational space, leisure and sports opportunities for all ages and abilities.

Draft concept plans include landscaping, seating, exercise equipment, an accessible toilet, barbecue and shelter, playground equipment, a small stage suitable for community performances and accessible pathways.

Nillumbik Mayor, Cr Ben Ramcharan, said the upgrade will create a safe, accessible, and enjoyable community space.

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✔Artists to appear at the Marysville Music Weekend (Nov. 24-26) will include Kate Ceberano, William Creighton, Frank Sultana and Cass Eager. Cr Sandice McAulay told last week’s Murrindindi Shire meeting that the Council will be be a sponsor of this multi day event through the Grants and Sponsorships Program. “Multi day events such as this one encourages extended overnight and weekend stays which are great for our local economy,” Cr McAulay said.

Part of a program to plant 1000 trees, a National Tree Day event was held last Saturday (July 30) at Tambo Conservation Reserve in Whittlesea. The event included tree and shrub planting as well as interactive activities, marshmallow toasting and informabout the local biodiversity and waterways. Chair Administrator Lydia Wilson said that the City of Whittlesea’s National Tree Day event was a wonderful opportunity for locals to get out in nature and help plant some extra greenery in our conservation reserve. “Together with Whittlesea Scouts and Whittlesea Landcare, this event is part of the Planting Trees for the Queen’s Jubilee project and will enhance the biodiversity within the reserve through which Bruce’s Creek and Plenty River run,” Ms Wilson said.

■ More than 50,000 people in Warrandyte District are expected to vote in the upcoming byelection on Saturday August 26 after the roll closed on Thursday, July 20, with a final enrolment number of 50,986 electors.

Early voting begins on Monday, August 14, with early voting centres open until 6 pm on Fridaym August 25.

Voters unable to vote early or on election day can apply for a postal vote. Postal vote applications are available:

■ online at vec.vic.gov.au

■ at any post office in Warrandyte District

■ at the election office at G.01, 908 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster East

■ by calling 9678 1466.

Applications for postal votes close at 6 pm on Wednesday, August 23. Completed ballot papers must be in the mail or hand-delivered to a voting centre before 6 pm on election day, Saturday, August 26.

Voting is compulsory for all voters on the roll in Warrandyte District at the close of roll (8 pm on Thursday, July 20).

Nominations for registered political party candidates close at 12 noon on Wednesday, August 9. Independents have an extra day.

Livia Bonazzi, Murrindindi CEO

● ● ● ● John Walsh, Murrindindi Mayor

● ● ● ● Cr Sandice McAulay

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■ ■ FLOWERDALE. Flowerdale Community House. 36 Silver Creek Rd.

■ ■ ■ ■ FLOWERDALE. Flowerdale Hotel. 3325 Whittlesea-Yea Rd.

■ ■ FLOWERDALE. Hazeldene General Store. 6 Curlings Rd.

■ ■ ■ ■ GLENBURN. Glenburn Roadhouse. 3883 Melba Hwy.

■ ■ HURSTBRIDGE. Hurstbridge Newsagency. 900 Main Hustbridge Rd.

■ ■ ■ ■ KANGAROO GROUND. Kangaroo Ground General Store. 280 Eltham-Yarra Glen Rd.

■ ■ KINGLAKE. Cafe. WhittleseaKinglake Rd.

■ ■ ■ ■ KINGLAKE. Foodworks. 12 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd.

■ ■ KINGLAKE. Kinglake Pub. 28 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd.

■ ■ ■ ■ KINGLAKE. United Service Station. 2 Glenburn-Kinglake Rd.

■ ■ LAURIMAR. Laurimar Newsagency. 95 Hazel Glen Dr.

■ ■ ■ ■ ■ MANSFIELD. Foodworks. 119 High St. ■ ■ MARYSVILLE. Foodworks. 40A Darwin St.

■ ■ ■ ■ MERNDA. Mernda Villages

Post Office. 50 Mernda Village Dr.

■ ■ MOLESWORTH. Molesworth Store. 4353 Goulburn Valley Hwy.

■ ■ ■ ■ NARBETHONG. Black Spur Inn. 436 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ NARBETHONG. Black Spur Roadhouse. 264 Maroondah Hwy.

PANTON HILL. Panton Hill General Store. 586 Kangaroo

Ground-St Andrews Rd.

PANTON HILL. Panton Hill Hotel. 633 Kangaroo Ground-St Andrews Rd. ■

■ PHEASANT CREEK. Flying Tarts Cafe. 888 WhittleseaKinglake Rd.

PHEASANT CREEK. Pheasant Creek Store. 884

Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd.

RESEARCH. Research Post Office. 1546 Main Rd.

SMITHS GULLY. Smiths Gully

General Store. 914 Kangaroo

Ground-St Andrews Rd.

SOUTH MORANG. Milk Bar. 15 Gorge Rd.

ST ANDREWS. St Andrews General Store. 10 Caledonia St.

ST ANDREWS. St Andrews Hotel. 79 Burns St.

STRATH CREEK. Strath Creek Post Office. 8 Glover Rd.

TAGGERTY. Taggerty General Store. 26 Taggerty-Thornton Rd.

THORNTON. 4 Ways Diner. 1369 Taggerty-Thornton Rd.

■ ■ THORNTON. Rubicon Hotel. 1362 Taggerty-Thornton Rd.

■ ■ THORNTON. Thornton General Store. 1365 TaggertyThornton Rd.

■ ■ ■ ■ ■ WATTLE GLEN. Peppers Paddock General Store. 13 Kangaroo Ground-Wattle Glen Rd.

■ ■ WHITTLESEA. Champions IGA Supermarket. 2/16 Church St.

■ ■ WHITTLESEA. El Azar Milk Bar. 13 Church St.

■ ■ ■ ■ WHITTLESEA. Royal Mail Hotel. 29 Beech St.

■ ■ ■ ■ WHITTLESEA. Whittlesea Bowls Club. 101 Church St.

■ ■ WHITTLESEA. Whittlesea Court House. 74 Church St.

■ ■ WHITTLESEA. Whittlesea NewsXpress. 45 Church St.

■ ■ ■ ■ WOLLERT. Wollert General Store. 491 Epping Rd.

■ ■ YARCK. Buck’s Country Bakehouse. 6585 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ YARCK. Giddy Goat Cafe. 6606 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ ■ ■ YARCK. Yarck Hotel. Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ YEA. Amble Inn Cafe. 24 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Country Club Hotel. 18 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Endeavour Petroleum (BP). 31 High St.

■ ■ ■ ■ YEA. Foodworks. 10 High St.

■ ■ ■ ■ YEA. Giddy Coat Cafe. 94 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Grand Central Hotel. 64 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Marmalades. 20 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Mint and Jam. 46 High St.

■ ■ ■ ■ YEA. Nutrien Harcourts. 52 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Peppercorn Hotel. 21 Station St.

■ ■ YEA. Provender Bakery. 56 High St.

■ ■ ■ ■ YEA. Rendezvous In Yea. 10 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Royal Mail Hotel. 88 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Yea Bakery. 44 High St.

■ ■ YEA. Yea Newsagency. 74 High St.

■ ■ ■ ■ YEA. Yea Take-Away. 68 High St.

Lilydale and Yarra Valley Express Edition

■ ■ ■ ■ COLDSTREAM. Coldstream Post Office/Newsagency. The Lodge Shopping Centre. 670-672 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ CROYDON NORTH. Croydon North Newsagency. 5 Exeter Rd.

■ ■ HEALESVILLE. BP. 66 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ HEALESVILLE. Coles Express. 123 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ ■ ■ HEALESVILLE. Grand Hotel. 270 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ ■ ■ HEALESVILLE. Healesville Newsagency. 195 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ HEALESVILLE. Tobacco Station/Tatts. Shop 11, Healesville Walk.

■ ■ LAUNCHING PLACE. Launching Place General Store. 2200 Warburton Hwy.

■ ■ LAUNCHING PLACE. Home Hotel. 2170 Warburton Hwy.

■ ■ LILYDALE. Lilydale Newsagency. 237 Main St.

■ ■ MILLGROVE. Licensed Grocery. 3043 Warburton Hwy.

■ ■ MOUNT EVELYN. Mount Evelyn Newsagency. 1A Wray

Cres.

■ ■ RINGWOOD. Burnt Bridge Newsagency. 434 Maroondah Hwy.

■ ■ SEVILLE. Wooworths Seville. 568 Warburton Hwy.

■ ■ WANDIN. Wandin Newsagency. 18/2 Union Rd.

■ ■ WARBURTON. Bakery. 3415 Warburton Hwy.

■ ■ WARRANDYTE. Grand Hotel. 140 Yarra St.

■ ■ ■ ■ WARRANDYTE. Quinton’s Supa IGA Supermarket. 1/402 Warrandyte Rd.

■ WARRANDYTE. Warrandyte Newsagency/Post Office. 100 Melbourne Hill Rd.

■ ■ ■ WESBURN. Hotel. 2882 Warburton Hwy.

■ WONGA PARK. IGA Xpress. 70 Jumping Creek Rd.

■ WOORI YALLOCK. Hillcrest Little Store. 1745 Warburton Hwy.

■ WOORI YALLOCK. Woori Yallock Newsagency. Shop

4,1585 Warburton Hwy.

■ ■ YARRA GLEN. IGA Supermarket. 1/38 Bell St.

■ YARRA GLEN. Yarra Glen Newsagency. 32 Bell St.

■ YARRA JUNCTION. Yarra Junction Newsagency. 2454 Warburton Hwy.

Mitchell

Shire Edition

■ ■ ■ BEVERIDGE. Beveridge Post Office. Lot 1 Old Hume Hwy.

■ BROADFORD. Broadford Corner Store. 89 High St.

■ BROADFORD. Broadford Hotel. 100 High St.

■ BROADFORD. Broadford Newsagency. 67 High St.

■ ■ BROADFORD. Broadford Post Office. 123 High St.

■ BROADFORD. Broadford Service Station. 165 High St.

■ BROADFORD. Commercial Hotel. 31 High St.

■ ■ BROADFORD. High Street Bakery. 67A High St.

■ ■ BROADFORD. IGA Supermarket. 65 High St.

■ BROADFORD. Stuty’s Bakehouse. 91-93 High St.

■ DONNYBROOK. Donnybrook Hotel. 825 Donnybrook Rd.

■ ■ DONNYBROOK. Donnybrook Post Office. 810 Donnybrook Rd.

■ KILMORE. BP. 102 Sydney St.

■ KILMORE. Kemp’s Bakery.

65 Sydney St.

■ KILMORE. Kilmore Bakery.

54 Sydney St.

■ ■ ■ KILMORE. Kilmore Newsagency. 41 Sydney St.

■ KILMORE. Red Lion Hotel.

29-31 Sydney St.

■ KILMORE. Royal Oak Hotel.

29-31 Sydney St.

■ KILMORE. United Service Station. 127-145 Powlett St.

■ ■ SEYMOUR. IGA O’Keefe’s.

10/115 Anzac Ave.

■ SEYMOUR. Liberty Seymour.

37-39 Emily St.

■ SEYMOUR. Seymour NewsXpress. 66 Station St.

■ ■ SEYMOUR. Seymour South Post and Lotto. 75 Anzac Ave.

■ ■ SEYMOUR. Prince of Wales Hotel. 48 Emily St.

■ SEYMOUR. Royal Hotel. 26 Emily St.

■ SEYMOUR. Terminus Hotel.

26 Station St.

■ ■ SEYMOUR. Top Shop. Cnr Anzac Ave and Delatite Rd.

■ TALLAROOK. Tallarook General Store. 36 Main Rd.

■ TALLAROOK. Tallarook Hotel.

15 Main Rd.

■ TRAWOOL. Trawool Estate/ Hotel. 8150 Goulburn Valley Hwy.

■ ■ WALLAN. United Service Station. 11-14 High St.

■ WALLAN. Wallan News and Lotto. Shop 6, 55 High St.

■ WALLAN EAST. New Rattlers Inn. Station St.

■ WANDONG. Caltex Star Mart.

3272 Epping-Kilmore Rd.

■ ■ ■ WANDONG. Dundee’s Fish and Cips. 3272 Epping-Kilmore Rd.

■ WANDONG. IGA Supermarket. 3272 Epping-Kilmore Rd.

■ WANDONG. Wandong Post News and Tatts. 3272 EppingKilmore Rd.

■ ■ WANDONG. Kemp’s Wandong Bakery. 372 EppingKilmore Rd.

■ WANDONG. Magpie and Stump Hotel. 3313 EppingKilmore Rd.

News Tree debris worry

■ Debris from trees near Wingspan Ave and Plenty Rd at South Morang concerned local residents so much that 25 of them forwarded a petition to Whittlesea Council.

Administrators agreed at their latest meeting that an independent arboricultural report has been completed on all trees concerned and that none of the trees posed any safety risks that required their removal. Minor canopy pruning will be carried out to 11 trees in the next 12 months and all trees will continue to be monitored.

Court Lists

Seymour Magistrates’ Court Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division. Criminal Case Listings

Thursday, August 3

Baker, Ricky Jason

Ballard, Coen

Bausch, Patrick Albert

Bond, Jason

Burton, Patricia

Cathie, Jacob

Dean, James

Glazebrook, Corey

Goodwin, Andrew

Grant, Aaron Robert

Ion, Naomi

Jensen-Solyom, Zaya Louise

Johnson, David

Johnson, Kim Leach, Daniel

Lian, Cung Hu

Lianching, Ceu Cin

Lister, Jordan

Lovelace, Tamara

Macdonald, Reile Manton, Michael Charles

Mckenzie, Tneil-Summer Mcqueen, Courtney

Monaghan, Rhyss

Sherwood, Jeremy

Simeone, Michael

Sleddon, Alison

Smith, Timothy John Smith, Troy

Thompson, Aaron David

Treble, John William

Tuner, Craig

Wadley, Darcy

Wallace, Denis

Walters, Graham

Wilson, Brian Jeffrey

Yee, Tiffany

Local Briefs

Hoser listed

■ Raymond Hoser of Park Orchards is an independent candidate for the Warrandyte by-election on Saturday, August 26.

A person by the name of Raymond Terrence Hoser, is the defendant in a mention matter listed at Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court today (Aug. 2). The informant is listed on Court records as the Mernda SOCIT Unit.

A person by the name of Raymond Hoser is listed in a hearing matter at Sunshine Magistrates’ Court on October 17. The informant is listed as the Werribee Uniform unit.

The Local Paper does not suggest that Mr Hoser is guilty of any criminal offence.

Kilmore death

■ Police will prepare a report for the coroner following a fatal fire in Kilmore on Wednesday last week (Jul. 26).

Emergency Services were called to the Royal Parade retirement village following reports two residential units had become engulfed in flames just after 6am.

The occupants of one unit escaped before it was completely destroyed by fire.

The body of a 77-year-old man was located inside the second unit, which was also completely destroyed by fire.

Arson and Explosives Squad detectives and an arson chemist attended the scene.

The cause of the fire is yet to be determined but it is not being treated as suspicious at this stage.

Art commission

■ A new public artwork by prominent artist Simone Thomson has been commissioned for wonguim wilam in Warrandyte.

The new artwork is a composite of two parts that will include a:

■ Gathering Circle, and

■ Sculpture

Site preparation work will commence this month for the Gathering Circle, and then the sculpture installed this summer.

The commission highlights the significance of the area to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People, and provides a visual expression of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung culture, said a Manningham Council representative.

Aboriginal name

Friday, August 4

Anlezark, James

Fisher, Jordan

Iocco, Oscar

Robl, Khoner

Roughley, Cory Sheard, Jarrod

Thomson, Warren

Wallace, Dennis

Ray, Bradley Scott

Mansfield Magistrates' Court

Wednesday, August 16

Adams, Leslie

Archer, Blake William

Bullmore-Haase, Tyson Mark Cahoon, Craig Ashleigh

Clark, Zachary Joseph Cochrane, Jacqueline Collett, Joanne

Croswell, George

Currie, Mark Wayne

Davies, Robert Andrew Fan, Zhicheng

Flazon, Jayden

Grace, Jude

Heard, David Charles

Jackman, Hunter George Jessop, Glenn

Knight, Rhys Jackson

Leeds, Ryan

Line, Christopher

Mitchell, Matthew

Paulicki, Timothy

Pearson, Renee Louise Pollard, Steven

Rosli, Muhhamad Zaki Bin Saunders, Declan Gerald

Sellings, Luke

Treacey, Samuel

Tucknott, Robert Cornelius

Walker, Daniel James Ward, Aaron John Wilson, Kallagun

■ The State Government is using Aboriginal language names to be used for all 14 new government schools set to open their doors next year.

Yubup Primary School is to be used for Merrifield South Primary School, near Mickleham.

Building Blocks

■ Murrindindi Council has been successful in applying for a Building Blocks Planning Grant and will receive $148,586 funding from the Department of Education and Training

“We are one of the LGAs included the early roll-out of pre prep 30 hours of 4 year old kinder programs,” said Livia Bonazzi, Council CEO.

“Our recent Early Education Service study indicates that services in the towns of Alexandra and Yea have capacity issues into the future. Council is seeking to develop solutions in conjunction with community and stakeholders, through the funded ‘Planning to Meet Demand’ project,” Ms Bonazzi said.

Wrong way, go back

■ Visitors to the Dandenong Ranges will have better directions as they explore, with Google Maps and Uber re-routing maps away from a notorious four-wheel-drive only road. Olinda’s Hacketts Road is a steep road only suitable for four-wheel-drives. However, for many years, Google, Apple and Uber have directed drivers to use the road as a cutthrough for tourist destinations.

Despite having two sets of prominent signs, warning drivers to not continue unless in a four-wheel-drive, many drivers have tried to navigate the area unsuccessfully, said a Yarra Ranges Council representative.

SCORES FROM WEEKEND MATCHES

■ Victorian Amateur Football Association. Premier Men’s. Old Brighton 14.15 (99) d Old Melburnians 6.8 (44). St Kevin’s 26.17 (173) d Caulfield Grammarians 2.6 (18). Collegians 17.11 (113) d University Blacks 6.6 (42). Old Haileybury 6.8 (44) d University Blues 5.11 (41). Old Scotch 14.14 (98) d Old Xavierians 6.7 (43).

Premier Men’s Reserves. University v Old Haileybury, forfeit. Old Melburnians 11.15 (81) d Old brighton 4.5 (29). St Kevin’s 19.17 (251) d Caulfield Grammarians 4.3 (27). Coillegians v University Blacks. Old Xaverians 10.8 (68) d Old Scotch 6.7 (43).

Premier B Men’s. Monash Blues 16.7 (103) d AJAX 15.12 (102). Beaumaris 14.15 (99) d Fitzroy 10.12 (72). St Bernards 22.15 (147) d St Bedes/Mentone Tigers 16.14 (110). Old Geelong 12.11 (83) d De La Salle 9.11 (65). Old Trinity 12.11 (83) d Williamstown

CYMS 4.15 (39).

Premier B Men’s Reserves. AJAX 11.15 (81) d Monash Blues 9.7 (61). Beaumaris v Fitzroy. St Bernards 9.14 (68) d St Bedes/ Mentone Tigers 5.3 (33) d St Bernards 9.14 (68). Old Geelong 9.9 (63) d De La Salle 5.8 (38). Old Trinity 16.10 (106) d Williamstown

CYMS 5.6 (36).

Premier C Men’s. Marcellin OC 13.11 (89) d Hampton Rovers 12.13 (85). Old Ivanhoe Grammarians 9.9 (63) d Mazenod OC

8.10 (58). Ormond 17.12 (114) d Old Carey

8.12 (60). Parkdale Vultures 17.6 (108) d

PEGS 11.8 (74). Old Camberwell Grammarians: Bye.

Premier C Men’s Reserves. Marcellin

OC 17.14 (116) d Hampton Rovers 4.6 (30).

Old Ivanhoe Grammarians 10.9 (69) d Mazenod

OC 7.1 (43). Ormond 12.14 (86) d Old Carey

6.11 (47). PEGS 9.5 (59) d Parkdale Vul-

tures 7.14 (56). Old Camberwell Grammarians: Bye.

Division 1 Men’s. Prahran 14.7 (81) d

UHS-VU 7.8 (50). Therry Penola 18.13 (121)

d Ivanhoe 8.3 (51). Glen Eira 17.11 (113) d

West Brunswick 3.8 (26). Old Peninsula 15.10 (100) d Kew 10.15 (75). Oakleigh 10.15 (75)

d Preston Bullants 8.10 (58).

Division 1 Men’s Reserves. UHS-VU

11.15 (81) d Prahran 10.9 (69). Therry Penola

21.22 (208) d Ivanhoe 1.0 (6). Glen Eira

11.11 (77) d West Brunswick 8.5 (53). Kew

24.17 (161) d Old Peninsula 4.2 (26).

Oakleigh 7.17 (59) d Preston Bullants 4.6 (30).

Division 2 Men’s. St Mary’s Salesian 12.8 (80) d Aquinas 8.12 (60). Old Yarra Cobras

14.14 (98) d Brunswick 9.6 (60). South Mel-

bourne Districrs 7.13 (55) d MHSOB 7.7 (49).

Parkside 16.13 (109) d Bulleen-Templestowe

7.6 (48). Whitefriars 22.14 (147) d Old Paradians 3.9 (27).

Division 2 Men’s Reserves. St Mary’s Salesian 14.6 (90) d Aquinas 9.10 (64).

Brunswick 7.12 (54) d Old Yarra Cobras 5.4 (34). MHSOB 9.9 (63) d South Melbourne

Districts 8.9 (57). Parkside 20.13 (133) d Bullen Templestowe 4.0 (24). Whitefriars

14.22 (106) d Old Paradians 2.4 (16).

Division 3 Men’s. Elsternwick 13.19 (109) d Hawthorn 16.6 (102). Richmond Central 12.9 (81) d Power House 10.9 (69).

Wattle Park 22.14 (146) d Swinburne University 14.6 (90). Canterbury 12.12 (84) d

La Trobe University 7.6 (48).

Division 3 Men’s Reserves. Hawthorn

7.8 (50) d Elsternwick 3.9 (27). Richmond

Central 19.5 (119) d Power House 4.4 (28).

Wattle Park 17.10 (112) d Swinburne University 7.7 (49). Canterbury 15.11 (101) d La

Trobe University 5.9 (39).

Division 4 Men’s. North Brunswick 15.16 (106) d St Johns 1.2 (8). Box Hill North 12.13 (85) d Masala 9.8 (62). Albert Park 13.14 (92) d Eley Park 10.14 (74).

Division 4 Men’s Reserves. North Brunswick v St Johns, forfeit. Box Hill North 24.15 (159) d Masala 4.3 (27). Albert Park 27.16 (178) d Eley Park 5.9 (39).

■ Eastern Football Netball League. Premier Division Seniors. Rowqville 13.13 (91)

d South Croydon 13.8 (86). Balwyn 10.8 (68)

d Berwick 6.8 (44). Noble Park 13.12 (90) d Park Orchards 3.11 (29). Blackburn 13.9 (87)

d Doncaster 7.12 (54). Vermont 8.11 (59) d East Ringwood 7.7 (49). Norwood 11.15 (81)

d Doncaster East 11.9 (75).

Division 1 Seniors. North Ringwood

12.11 (83) d Bayswater 10.9 (69). South

Belgrave 9.16 (70) d Mooroolbark 6.7 (43).

Wantirna South 18.17 (125)d Lilydale 11.9

(75). Montrose 17.10 (112) d Beaconsfield

12.9 (81). Mitcham 17.14 (116) d Croydon

9.6 (60).

Division 2 Seniors. Heathmont 12.10

(82) d The Basin 6.11 (47). Boronia 13.9 (87)

d Ringwood 6.10 (46). Waverley Blues 18.8

(116) d Knox 12.7 (79). Mulgrave 22.16

(148) d Upper Ferntree Gully 12.4 (75). Templestowe 16.19 (115) d East Burwood 10.5

(65).

Your

Stars

with Kerry Kulkens

(92) d Watsonia 9.10 (64). Diamond Creek

21.12 (138) d Lower Plenty 3.12 (30).

Division 3 Seniors. Reservoir 13.13 (91)

d Lalor 4.12 (36). Laurimar 19.13 (127) d

Heidelberg West 8.16 (64). Mernda 11.9 (75)

d Kilmore 8.7 (55). Kinglake 11.13 (79) d

Old Eltham Collegians 10.11 (71). Fitzroy

Stars: Bye.

Division 3 Reserves. Lalor 13.10 (88) d

Reservoir 9.7 (61). Laurimar 13.9 (87) d

Heidelberg West 7.5 (47). Kilmore 10.13 (73)

d Mernda 2.9 (21). Old Eltham Collegians

12.7 (79) d Kinglake 10.7 (67). Fitzroy Stars:

Bye.

Division 3 Under 19.5. Kilmore v Hurstbridge: bye. Macleod 11.6 (72) d Mernda 8.6 (54). Banyule/Heidelberg West 4.9 (43) d

Panton Hill 6.5 (41). Thomastown 8.11 (59)

Division 3 Seniors. Coldstream 12.14

(86) d Warrandyte 3.6 (24). Donvale 15.19

(109) d Oakeligh District 6.10 (46). Fairpark

13.19 997) d Whitehorse Pioneers 11.10 (76).

Ferntree Gully 7.17 (59) d Silvan 7.3 (45).

Division 4 Seniors. Croydon North MLOC

14.16 (100) d Nunawading 11.15 (81). Kil-

syth 11.12 (78) d Scoresby 7.12 (54). Surrey Park 21.18 (144) d Forest Hill 2.9 (21).

Chirnside Park: Bye.

■ Essendon District Football League.

Premier Division. Keilor 27.23 (185) d

Maribyrnong Park 6.4 (40). Stratmore 15.19

(109) d East Keilor 13.8 (86).

Division 1. Bennetswood 11.17 (83) d

Craigieburn 8.10 (58). Hillside 15.11 (101) d

Moonee Valley 12.5 (77). Deer Park 30.24

(204) d Glenroy 6.7 (43). Roxburgh Park 7.10

(52) d Keilor Park 7.5 (47). St Albans 16.16

(112) d Tullamarine 8.14 (62). West Coburg

17.12 (114) d Westmeadows 10.6 (66).

Division 2. Taylors Lakes 17.10 (112) d Coburg Districts 13.9 (87).

■ Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. Division 1 Seniors. Bonbeach

v Mt Eliza. Dromana 12.14 (86) d Frankston Bombers 8.10 (58). Red Hill 9.7 (61) d

Frankston YCW 8.12 (60). Langwarrin v Sorrento. Pines 10.7 (67) d Rosebud 8.12

(60).

Division 1 Reserves. Mt Eliza 11.6 (72)

d Bonbeach 3.0 (18). Dromana 14.10 94) d

Frankston Bombers 1.8 914). Red Hill 8.6 (53)

d Frankston YCW 5.8 (38). Langwarrin v Sorrento. Pines 11.7 973) d Rosebud 4.4

(28).

Division 1 Under 19. Mt Eliza 14.8 (92)

d Bonbeach 3.2 (20). Dromama 12.14 (986)

d Frankston Bombers 4.8 (32). Pines 10.7

(67) d Rosebud 7.4 (46). Langwarrin, Red Hill:

Bye.

Division 2 Seniors. Devon Meadows

14.13 (97) d Chelsea 11.11 (77). Tyabb 14.11

(95) d Crib Point 10.9 (69). Edithvale-Aspen-

dale 26.13 (169) d Somerville 11.10 976).

Hastings 14.15 (99) d Rye 3.7 (25). Karingal

12.13 (85) d Pearcedale 11.4 (70). Morning-

ton 20.20 (140) d Seaford 11.6 (72).

Division 2 Reserves. Devon Meadows

8.15 (63) d Cheslea 4.7 (31). Crib Point 9.13

(67) d Tyabb 3.4 (22). Edithvale-Aspendale

11.9 (75) d Somerville 10.13 (73). Hastings

12.7 (79) d Rye 7.11 (53). Pearcedale 9.4

(58) d Karingal 6.6 (42). Mornington 22.14

(146) d Seaford 1.3 (9).

Division 2 Under 19. Somerville 7.7 (49)

d Edithvale-Aspendale 6.5 (41). Hastings

14.11 (95) d Rye 4.3 (27). Karingal 4.9 (33)

d Pearcedale 4.9 (33). Seaford 16.19 (115)

d Mornington 2.3 (15). Devon Meadows, Mt

Eliza: Bye.

■ Northern Football Netball League. Di-

vision 2 Seniors. St Mary’s 21.14 (140) d Panton Hill 14.14 (98). Northcote Park 15.4

(94) d Epping 7.10 (52). Watsonia 16.9 (105)

d South Morang 11.10 (76). Diamond Creek

9.6 (60) d Eltham 6.3 (39). Thomastown 13.17

d Lower Plenty

(77).

d Greensborough 2 5.10 (40).

■ Outer East. Premier Division Seniors. Upwey-Tecoma 15.13 (103) d Pakenham 12.8 (80). Olinda Ferny Creek 21.10 (136) d Mt

Evelyn 11.10 (76). Narre Warren 24.23 (167)

d Gembrook-Cockatoo 4.3 (27). Woori Yallock

v Wandin. Monbulk: Bye.

Premier Division Reserves. Upwey tecoma 7.8 (50) d Pakenham 4.4 (28). Mt

Evelyn 10.13 (73) d Olinda Feny Creek 3.3 (21). Narre Warren 28.12 (168) d GembrookCockatoo 2.3 (15). Wandin 8.13 (62). Monbulk: Bye.

Division 1 Seniors. Emerald 28.21 (177)

d Belgrave 4.4 (28). Seville 18.15 (123) d

Hallam 8.4 (52). Officer 11.11 (77) d

Healesville 5.12 (42). Berwick Springs: Bye.

Division 1 Reserves. Emerald 19.21 (135) d Belgtrave 2.3 (15). Seville 12.9 (81)

d Hallam 7.5 (47). Officer 30.14 (194) d

Healesville 2.3 (15). Berwick Springs: Bye.

Division 2 Seniors. Warburton Millgrove

16.7 (103) d Yarra Junction 7.10 (52). Alexandra 13.4 (82) d Powelltown 10.16 (76).

Yarra Glen 18.18 (126) d Broadford 15.9 (99).

Division 2 Reserves. Warburton Millgrove

14.11 (95) d Yarra Junction 1.3 (9). Powelltown 20.8 (128) d Alexandra 1.2 (8). Yarra

glen 7.6 (48) drew with Broadford 7.6 (48).

Under 19 Boys. Woori Yallock 8.6 (54) d

Wandin 6.8 (44). Upwey Tecoma 13.10 (88)

d Seville 11.5 (71). Narre Warren 12.6 (78) d Emerald 2.5 (17). Monbulk 9.5 (59) d Officer 1.7 (13).Mt Evelyn: Bye.

■ Southern Football Netball League. Division 1. Dingley 11.8 (74) d Mordialloc 9.7 (61). Cheltenham 19.19 (133) d Port Melbourne Colts 14.11 (95). St Paul’s McKinnon

10.7 (67) d Cranbourne Eagles 9.7 (62). Chelsea Heights 20.14 (134) d St Kilda City

3.4 (22). Springvale Districts 11.15 (81) d

Bentleigh 7.5 (47).

Division 2. East Malvern 18.10 (118) d Keysborough 9.10 (64). East Brighton21.13 (139) d Caulfield Bears 6.6 (47). Doveton

Doves 10.11 (71) d Skye 7.6 (48). Hampton Park 11.11 (27) d Highett 10.16 (76). Murrumbeena 13.18 (96) d Black Rock 8.5 (53).

Division 3. Ashwood 10.15 (75) d Clayton

10.7 (67). Narre South Saints 10.10 (70) d Heatherton 13.11 (89). Carrum Patterson Lakes 12.8 980) d Endeavour Hills 6.7 (43). Frankston Dolphins 14.14 (98) d Lyndhurst

11.8 (74).

Division 4. Hampton 14.12 (96) d Lyndale

6.9 (45). South Mornington 11.14 (80) d

Dandenong 8.5 (53). Moorabbin Kangaroos 25.14 (164) d Doveton Eagles 4.8 (32).

■ Western Region Football League. Division 2 Seniors. Braybrook 12.8 (80) d North Footscray 7.20 (62). Parkside 11.11 (77) d Wyndhamvale 3.7 (25). Sunshine 10.15 (75) d Albion 15.6 (96). Newport: Bye.

Division 2 Reserves. Braybrook v North Footscray. Wyndhamvale 6.7 (43) d Parkside

4.3 (27). Sunshine 15.9 (93) d Albion 5.4 (34). Newport: Bye.

Division 3 Seniors. Albanvale 32.17 (209) d North Sunshine 3.1 (19). Suns 18.12 (120) d West Footscray 8.13 (61). Tarneit

16.11 (107) d Laverton Magpies 5.12 (42).

Sunshine Heights: Bye.

Division 3 Reserves. Albanvale 15.15 (105) d North Sunshine 4.6 (30). Suns 9.14 (68) d West Footscray 3.2 (20). Tarneit 5.9 (39) d Laverton Magpies 3.2 (20). Sunshine Heights: Bye.

ARIES: (March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: Silver

Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 8.9.4.5

Lotto Numbers: 8.2.4.16.28.33.

A period of new beginnings many will be updating their love lives and appearances. More travel is indicated, and this is a good time to unwind. For many a windfall could eventuate.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Lemon

Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 6.9.1.2

Lotto Numbers: 1,17,23,34,44.45.

A windfall is indicated and the ambitious should be able to push their career ventures. Many will be making changes and new jobs could be on offer.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: White

Lucky Day: Monday

Racing Numbers: 7.9.1.4.

Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,34,36,22, Long distance travel is indicated and a busier time on the social scene your partner could get the opportunity to advance their career interests or take up a new position.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Green

Lucky Day: Friday

Racing Numbers: 7,8,9,3,

Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,34,41,22, Loved ones will play a very important part in your decision making. You should be successful in your career interests. If something is troubling you, you should discuss things with your nearest and dearest.

LEO: (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Cream

Lucky Day: Sunday

Racing Numbers: 6,8,4,5,

Lotto Numbers: 1,17,23,36,42,11, Take more care with travel and do over do the social scene. Stay out of fights and arguments you’ll lose even if you win. Apart from that a very luck y time ahead.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Mauve

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Racing Numbers: 7,9,3,4,

Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,34,41,22,

Most should be able to relax more and get down to serious business of having fun. Finances should improve and most of your worries find solutions.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Yellow

Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 7,9,3,5, Lotto Numbers: 3,6,23,31,22,28,

Improved health and opportunities and perhaps some recent rift could be patched up without losing your dignity. Exciting opportunities will be offered to you. Travel, love and generally having fun.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: Orange

Lucky Day: Wednesday

Racing Numbers: 6,9,3,4, Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,27,34,41, Dealing with authority should be easier. Business pleasure and travel should mix successfully. Some interesting news from a distance could improve your financial picture.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Saturday

Racing Numbers: 6,8,3,4, Lotto Numbers: 1,15,23,35,41,22, Misunderstandings in your love life and work scene, wiser to keep them apart if you can. Your secrets have a way of being revealed although something really special is about to happen to you luck.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Silver

Lucky Day: Thursday

Racing Numbers: 4,6,2,3,

Lotto Numbers: 1,14,23,27,34,38, Travel could come as a surprise. Opportunities to improve your love life. For many lives will head you in an entirely different new direction and improve your health.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Violet

Lucky Day: Thursday.

Racing Numbers: 5,7,3,4, Lotto Numbers: 1,16,23,26,34,39, Opportunities are on offer. New people will bring a change of plans and a new lifestyle. A social invitation could have strings attached.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20)

Lucky Colour: Red

Lucky Day: Tuesday

Racing Numbers: 7.8.9.3.

Lotto Numbers: 1,14,23,34,45,22, Career prospects are better so push ahead with plans stick to your intuitions with any financial undertakings. Unexpected visitors’ good news should make this a happier period.

LAKERS: UNBEATEN STREAK AT HOME

Scoreboard

Women’s Football

■ Northern. Women’s Division 1. Banyule 3.11 (29) d Eltham 4.3 (27).

Darebin Womens 1 9.7 (61) d West Preston Lakeside 1 0.4 (4). Montmorency 1 4,8 (32) d Diamond Creek Womens 1 4.6 (30).

Women’s Division 2. Greensborough 5.12 (42) d Whittlesea 1.3 (9). Heidelberg

15.13 (103) d Hurstbridge 0.0 (0). St Mary’s 5.14 (44) d Fitzroy Stars 2.2 (14).

Mernda: Bye.

Women’s Division 3. Laurimar v West Preston Lakeside 2. North Heidelberg 4.3 (27) d Diamond Creek Womens 2 3.4 (22).

Wallan 5.7 (37) d Darebin Womens 2 0.1 (1). Heidelberg West 5.6 (36) d Montmorency 2 1.2 (8).

■ Outer East. Women’s Division 1. Berwick Springs 14.15 (99) d Monbulk 0.0 (0). Healesville 8.4 (52) d Olinda Ferny Creek 5.3 (33). Upwey-Tecoma 10.2 (62)

d Pakenham 5.6 (36).

Womens Division 2. Belgrave 7.5 (47)

d Yarra Junction 3.4 (22). Seville 7.4 (46)

d Hallam 4.9 (33). Wandin 3.7 (25) d

Thornton Eildon 2.2 (14).

Country Leagues

■ Goulburn Valley Football League.

Seniors. Shepparton 9.16 (70) d

Shepparton United 7.7 (49). Seymour 11.5 (71) d Mooroopna 7.12 (54). Kyabram

20.12 (132) d Tatura 10.6 (66). Mansfield

18.10 (118) d Shepparton Swans 11.10

(76). Benalla 9.5 (59) d Rochester 3.9 (27).

Echuca 16.7 (103) d Euroa 11.5 (71).

Reserves. Shepparton United 7.6 (48)

d Shepparton 5.8 (38). Seymour 17.14 (116) d Mooroopna 4.5 (29). Kyabram

10.15 (75) d Tatura 3.5 (23). Shepparton

Swans 13.9 (87) d Mansfield 5.5 (35).

Rochester 12.16 (88) d Benalla 4.5 (29).

Echuca 18.9 (117) d Euroa 3.1 (19).

Under 18. Shepparton 8.10 (58) d

Shepparton United 4.10 (34). Mooroopna

12.4 (76) d Seymour 1.3 (9). Kyabram d

Tatura, forfiet. Shepparton Swans 7.14 (56)

d Mansfield 6.4 (40). Rochester 4.5 (29) d

Benalla 2.,4 (16). Echuca 21.14 (140) d

Euroa 1.1 (7).

■ Kyabram District Football League. Seniors. Avenel 100 d Rushworth 0, forfeit. Lancaster 17.14 (116) d Tallygaroopna

4.7 (31). Undera 13.13 (91) d Violet Town

12.8 (80). Nagambie 18.14 (122) d Shepparton East 4.8 (32). Dookie United 8.8 (56)

d Stanhope 4.11 (35). Murchison-Toolamba

27.21 (183) d Merrigum 4.2 (26). Grigarre

8.9 (57) d Longwood 6.8 (44).

Reserves. Avenel 11.9 (75) d Rushworth 1.7 (13). Lancaster 23.17 (155) d

Tallygaroopna 4.1 (25). Undera 15.13 (103) d Violet Town 3.4 (22). Nagambie 11.10 (76) d Shepparton East 6.5 (41). Dookie United 15.12 (102) d Stanhope 2.4 (16).

Murchison-Toolamba 100 d Merrigum 0, forfeit. Girgarre 18.22 (130) d Longwood 0.1 (1).

Under 18. Murchison-Toolamba 12.10 (82) d Lancaster 4.5 (29). Violet Town 14.7 (91) d Undera 7.7 (49). Girgarre 18.11 (119) d Longwood 5.7 (37). Avenel, Dookie

United, Merrigum, Nagambie, Rushworth, Shepparton East, Stanhope, Tallygaroopna: Bye.

■ Riddell District Football League. Seniors. Riddell 12.17 (89) d Diggers Rest 6.8 (44). Woodend-Hesket 14.11 (95) d Romsey 14.10 (94). Lancefield 17.16 (118) d Western Rams 0.2 (2). Macedon 11.9 (75) d Melton Centrals 7.7 (49). Wallan: Bye. Reserves. Diggers Rest 9.5 (59) d Riddell 3.4 (22). Romsey 8.10 (58) d Woodend Hasket 5.5 (35). Western Rams 7.19 (61) d Lancefield 2.5 (17). Macedon 4.8 (32) d Melton Centrals 4.6 (30). Wallan: Bye.

■ Kinglake held off an attempted final quarter comeback from Old Eltham Collegians to claim an eight-point win and maintain their unbeaten record at Kinglake Memorial Oval in the 2023 NFNL Division 3 season.

The Lakers scored five goals in the opening term and were able to keep their lead throughout the match despite the Turtles getting to within single digits on multiple occasions.

Still, the hosts excelled for long enough to win 11.13 (79) to 10.11 (71) and to keep their one-game gap on top of the ladder intact.

Old Eltham Collegians meanwhile still linger outside the top four in fifth spot but are on the same points as Heidelberg West in fourth position.

Jed Tyrrell was impressive for the home side, taking on the game through the middle, and kicking two majors for his side.

Meanwhile Leigh Gilbert’s brilliant goalkicking form continued into another week, kicking six goals in a game for the third time in 2023. He has now slotted home 26 majors in his last three matches.

At the other end, Benjamin White stood strong against a fierce Old Eltham Collegians forward line and had an impact in limiting the visitors’ shots on goal throughout the match. For the Turtles, Angus Robertson was the stand-out player throughout the game.

His defensive efforts stopped the deficit from blowing out further at times, with his strong tackling and intercept efforts a great highlight.

Matthew Williamson was the top goal kicker for the visitors with four majors and has now taken his 2023 tally to 55 majors.

His ability to burst through a pack of Lakers defenders and take strong marks allowed him to produce many opportunities in front of goal, while his offensive pressure played a role in his side’s final term comeback.

Jack Fitzgerald was another key member of the Old Eltham Collegians outfit, fighting hard throughout the match to keep his team in the contest.

A high-pressure first quarter saw Kinglake pull ahead to a sizeable lead as the Turtles struggled to get the ball out of their defensive 50.

Leigh Gilbert got things going just moments after the opening siren with his first major before Nick Snowdon answered back for the away side.

The level scoreline was quickly tipped back into the Lakers’ favour with another goal from Gilbert as well as majors from Joseph Slattery and Rory McIntyre.

McIntyre’s second major came after a Jay Smith goal, and it allowed the hosts to have control of the game, leading by 21 at the first break.

Old Eltham Collegians came out for the second quarter with a renewed sense of urgency and drive for the ball.

Nick Snowden and Benjamin Cox were standouts for the Turtles, moving the ball fluidly through the middle to put the Lakers defence on the backfoot.

Williamson was dominant in the forward line, taking four inside 50 marks and kicking three goals for the quarter.

But the Lakers were able to hold onto their lead going into the half-time break, as two goals from Gilbert kept the home side safe from the surging Turtles.

Ahead by eight points heading into the second half, the ladder leaders put the foot down, keeping Old Eltham Collegians goalless while registering eight scoring shots themselves.

Ethan Robinson and Matthew Langford were impactful in the hosts’ burst, while Jed Tyrrell was dangerous in front of the goals, kicking two of the Lakers’ three majors for the quarter.

But the margin could have extended further if it hadn’t had been for some great defensive efforts by Old Eltham Collegians.

Nathan Byatt and Matthew Keys were important, taking multiple intercept marks and causing turnovers from their opposition, while also working hard was Jeremy Murphy. He applied pressure to the home team and ensuring that not every movement forward by the Lakers was an easy one.

It wasn’t enough however to stop Kinglake from posting a comfortable 28-point lead into the final term.

But the Turtles had one final surge in them

during the last quarter and came out with a hunger to get on top of the Lakers.

Their ball movement was much more fluid, and the game was played predominantly in their forward 50.

Benjamin Cox was a key player for the side, and goals from Matthew Williamson, Jay Smith and Nicholas Milne kept Matthew Sleeman’s men in the game.

The Lakers however, were eventually victorious, thanks to some brilliant efforts from multiple players around the ground. Rohan King and Ethan Robinson produced some tremendous pressure with Benjamin White was also a standout in the defensive 50.

OE DIV. 2 SCOREBOARD

SENIORS

WARB.-MILL. ........... 5.1, 10.2, 12.4, 16.7 (103)

YARRA JUNCTION ........ 1.2, 5.6, 7.9, 7.10 (52)

Best. Warburton-Millgrove: Thomas Marr, Brayden Woolridge, Liam Westlake, Bailey Humpgrey, Tyson Henry, Jack Farrugia. Yarra Junction: Luke Spaulding, Christian Cameron, Troy Dargie, Ewan Wadsworth, Henry Relf, Dylan Cawsey.

ALEXANDRA ............. 4.1, 5.8, 11.3, 13.4 (82)

POWELLTOWN ........... 5.1, 5.7, 9.13, 10.16 (76)

Best. Alexandra: Stephen Steiner, Taylor Kleinschmidt, Charlie Millar, Edward Watkin, Brayden Norris, Matthew Peric. Powelltown: Gary Conyers, Joel Perry, Josh Johnson, Jake Sherriff, James Ashby, Matthew McArthur.

YARRA GLEN .......... 6.3, 9.7, 14.16, 18.18 (126)

BROADFORD ............ 7.0, 9.2, 11.3, 15.9 (99)

Best. Yarra Glen: Josh Hawkins, Ben Ashton, Nicholas McKenzie, Tyler Ames, Ryan Smith, Thomas Sullivan. Broadford: Tom Knight, Jayme Ruedin, Hayden Welch, Braydon Hardstaff, Dean Tydell, Benjamin Keyzer. RESERVES

WARB.-MILL. ........... 0.5, 7.8, 9.9, 14.11 (95)

YARRA JUNCTION ........... 0.0, 0.0, 1.2, 1.3 (9)

Best. Warburton-Millgrove: Tarkyn Nicolandos, Matthew Sidari, Aidan norfolk, Joshua Read, Kobi Gay, Zayden Crunden. Yarra Junction: Andrew Don Santos, Rhys Doughty-Cowell, Dale Treller, Paul Young, Luke Chandler, Jack Bishop.

POWELLTOWN ...... 4.1, 13.3, 16.6, 20.8 (128)

ALEXANDRA ................... 1.2, 1.2, 1.2, 1.2 (8)

Best. Powelltown: Jason Walker, Matthew O’Shannessy, Liam McGookin, Mitchell Wood, Ryan Gribbrook, Riley Whitworth.

Alexandra: Lachlan Collard, Dylan Jack, David Ray, Charles Twitchett, Tom McKinlay, Mitchell Coutts.

YARRA GLEN ................ 2.0, 5.2, 5.4, 7.6 (48)

BROADFORD ................ 1.1, 3.3, 5.5, 7.6 (48)

Best. Yarra Glen: Chris Webber, Dayne

Donward, Steven Mylas, Regen Daniel, Liam Bull, Joswhua Dick. Broadford: Brodie Stray, Declan Teohaere, Jai Heers, Nathan Jones, Neil Johnson, Aaron Gleeson. LADDERS

DIVISION 2. SENIORS. 1. WarburtonMillgrove, 223.02, 44. 2. Alexandra, 188.37, 40. 3. Powelltown, 165.55, 40. 4. Yarra Glen, 79.51, 24. Broadford, 45.71, 2. 6. Yarra Junction, 44.70, 0. RESERVES. 1. Warburton-Millgrove, 533.07, 52. 2. Powelltown, 195.94, 36. 3. Alexandra, 116.94, 32. 4. Broadford, 64.82, 14. 5. Yarra Junction, 48.13, 12. 6. Yarra Glen, 27.82, 10.

NFNL Sunday

Under 13 Red. West Preston Lakeside 2.7 (19) d Laurimar Black 1.3 (9). Greensborough Green 8.7 (55) d Research 6.3 (39). Diamond Creek Devils 6.2 (38) d Diamond Creek Demons 1.3 (9).

Under 13 Green. Epping 7.5 (48) d Whittlesea 1.8 (14). Panton Hill 4.10 (34) d Eltham Red 0.6 (6). Wallan Black 13.124 (92) d South Morang Gold 3.1 (19). Laurimar Teal 4.8 (32) d Kilmore 4.4 (28).

Under 14 Girls Blue. Mernda 4.8 (32) d Montmorency 4.5 (29). Diamond Creek Womens 11.11 (77) d Kilmore 1.1 (7). Yarrambat 8.15 (63) d Wallan 0.0 (0). Research: Bye.

Under 14 Blue. Eltham Black 13.14 (92) d Whittlesea 2.4 (16). Yarrambat 5.10 (40) d Laurimar Black 4.0 (24). Kilmore 7.14 (56) d Mernda Blue 4.2 (26). Under 14 Girls Red. Laurimar 9.9 (63) d Epping 0.0 (0). Darebin Womens 2.11 (23) d South Morang 1.5 (11). Eltham 6.2 (38) d Whittlesea 1.7 (13). Under 14 Green. Hurstbridge 16.9 (105) d Eltham Red 2.0 (12). Wallan 13.9 (87) d Laurimar Teal 1.2 (8). West Preston Lakeside 11.13 (79) d Mernda Red 2.0 (12). West Ivanhoe: Bye.

Under 15 Blue. Eltham Black 11.15 (81) d Diamond Creek 3.1 (19). Yarrambat 12.6 (78) d Mill Park Blue 7.5 (47). Montmorency Black 19.19 (133) d Wallan 3.2 (20).

Under 15 Red. South morang 8.16 (64) d Mill Park White 8.0 (48). Eltham Red 11.10 (76) d Whittlesea 6.4 (40). Greensborough 17.21 (123) d Montmorency White 3.3 (21). Laurimar Teal 7.9 (51) d Mernda 5.16 (46).

Under 16 Girls Blue. Diamond Creek Womens 9.11 (65) d Laurimar 0.4 (4).Research 5.12 (42) d Whittlesea 0.1 (1).

Yarrambat: Bye.

Under 16 Blue. Whittlesea 13.7 (85) d Eltham Black 10.8 (68). Kilmore Blue 7.7 (49) d Mernda 5.10 (40). Montmorency 7.7 (49) d Yarrambat 3.4 (22). South Morang Blue: Bye.

Under 16 Girls Red. Wallan 2.8 (20) d Darebin Womens 2.1 (13). Diamond Creek Womens 2 9.7 (61) d Mernda 2.2 (14).

Eltham 4.1 (25) d Montmorency 3.3 (21).

Under 16 Red. Epping 16.12 (108) d

- Sheridan van Gelderen, NFNL

NFNL Netball

■ Section 1. North Heidelberg 1 74 d

Bundoora 1 42. North Heidelberg 2 59 d Heat 1 47. North Heidelberg 3 65 d Diamond Creek 1 54.

Section 2. Bundoora 3 38 d North Heid-

elberg 4 32. Heat 2 35 d Bundoora 2 25.

Hurstbridge 1 29 d Montmorency 1 23.

Section 3. Watsonia 1 28 d Thomastown 1 19. Lalor 1 36 d North Heidelberg 6

29. Greensborough 1 33 d Hume 1 30.

North Heidelberg 5: Bye.

Section 4. Heat 3 36 d Kinglake 1 22. Watsonia 2 33 d Hurstbridge 2 25. Greensborough 2 36 d Heidelberg West 1 25. Epping 1 40 d South Morang 1 17.

Section 5. Heat 4 32 d Thomastown 2

25. Montmorency 2 19 d Fitzroy Stars 1

17. Lalor 2 41 d Hazel Glen 1 24. Heat 5

27 d Kilmore 1 25. Whittlesea 1 40 d

Bundoora 5 19.

Section 6. St Mary’s 1 22 d Epping 4

19. Panton Hill 1 33 d Bundoora 5 22. Epping 2 0 v Hume 2 0. Diamond Creek 2

31 d Kilmore 2 29.

Section 7. Heat 6 24 d Thomastown 4

21. Husrtbirdge 3 23 d Montmoirency 3

22. La Trobe 1 30 d Watsonia 3 13. Bundoora 6 25 d Kilmore 4 20.

Section 8. Whittlesea 2 29 d Northcote Park 1 22. Thomastown 3 26 d Kilmore 3

25. Montmorency 4 19 d South Morang 2

16. Greensborough 3 32 d Bundoora 7 13.

La Trobe 2 30 v Diamond Creek 3 30.

Section 9. Epping 3 29 d Epping 5 22. Kilmore 4 28 d Lower Plenty 1 22. Heat 7

32 d Bundoora 9 31. West Ivanhoe 1 28 d

Hurstbridge 4 15.

Section 10. Watsonia 4 21 d Heidelberg West 2 16. Hurstbridge 5 36 d Montmorency 5 12. Bundoora 8 35 d South Morang 3 18. Kinglake 2 30 v Heat 9 30. Heat 8 31 d lalor 3 21.

Section 11. Kilmore 6 24 d Eppingt 2

17. Watsonia 5 42 d Fitzroy Stars 2 23.

Epping 6 27 d West Preston Lakeside 1 16, Hazel Glen 2 39 d Thomastown 5 12. La Trobe 3 214 d Bundoora 10.

Section 12. Bundoora 12 18 d Mont-

morency 6 10. Whittlesea 3 28 d Bundoora

11 13. Hurstbridge 6 28 d Kilmore 7 15.

Hazel Glen 3 12 d Epping 8 16.

Section 13. Heat 10 61 d Epping 9 8.

South Morang 4 33 d Hazel Glen 5. Hazel Glen 4 21 d Bundoora 13 17.

OE Netball

■ Division 1 A-Grade. Berwick Springs

47 d Yea 28. Emerald 70 d Belgrave 42. RIOC 66 d Healesville 14. Seville: Bye.

Division 1 B-Grade. Berwick Springs

36 d Yea 34. Seville 80 d Hallam 12. Belgrave 55 d Emerald 43. ROC 87 d Healesville 8.

Division 1 C-Grade. Berwick Springs

48 d Yea 16. Emerald 49 d Belgrave 25.ROC 56 d Healesville 9. Seville: Bye.

Division 1 D-Grade. Belgrave 26 d

Emerald 24. Seville 39 d Hallam 16. ROC

45 d Healesville 13. Berwick Springs: Bye.

Division 2 A-Grade. Powelltown 67 d

Alexandra 35. Warburton-Millgrove 59 d

Yarra Junction 24. Broadford 57 d Yarra Glen 55.

Division 2 B-Grade. Powelltown 56 d

Alexandra 29. Warburton-Millgrove 68 d

Yarra Junction 17./ Broadford 52 d Yarra glen 39.

Division 2 C-Grade. Powelltown 43 d

Alexandra 15. Warburton-Millgrove 35 d

Yarra Junction 14. Yarra Glen 36 d Broadford 21.

Division 2 D-Grade. WarbutonMillgrove 51 d Yarra Junction 0. Powelltown, Yarra Glen: Bye.

NFNL Juniors

■ Under 17.5 Red. Wallan 7.7 (40) d Diamond Creek Red 5.7 (37). Greensborough 7.13 (55) d Kilmore 8.5 (53). South Morang 12.10 (82) d Research 8.2 (50).

Under 18 Girls Blue. Montmorency 9.8 (62) d Eltham 0.4 (4). Diamond Creek Womens 6.6 (42) d Laurimar 0.3 (3). Yarrambat 12.3 (75) d Whittlesea 5.7 (37).

South Morang: Bye.

Local Sport Rebels take win against Powelly

Saturday

The Outer East League 2023 season Round 13 saw the Rebels return to Rebel Park and host Powelltown for two games of football and four games of netball.

The Reserves, missing some regular players, took on the second placed Demons who quickly got into gear with four goals to one in the first quarter before adding another 16 goals for the game whilst keeping the Rebels scoreless.

The Rebels never gave in but the Demons were too good on the day, Alexandra 1.2 (8) to Powelltown 20.8 (128).

Awards: Shepparton Volkswagen – Lachlan Collard, Ampol fuel card – Dylan Jack, Alex Sportspower – David Ray , Buxton Hotel –Charles Twitchett.

Seniors

The Seniors had a number of players unavailable, assisted by a couple of players doubling up including Mitchell Coutts for his first senior game at the Club to take on the second placed Demons.

In a free flowing first quarter the Demons kicked five goals to four before the Rebels kicked five unanswered goals in the second quarter, the Demons managing six behinds.

The Demons hit back in the third quarter with four goals to two to narrow the margin to two points at the last change in a great game of local football.

The final quarter was a terrific contest, the Rebels kicking two goals to one to take the win, Alexandra 13.4 (82) to Powelltown 10.16 (76)

Awards: Incentives – Steve Steiner, Taylor Kleinschmidt and Charlie Millar, Buxton Hotel

Ted Watkin. Yarck Hotel / Endeavour Petroleum volunteer award – Kylie Cairns. Raffle winners after the games, meat tray – Jake Steyger, wine – Natalie Gregg, gate raffle – Sue Haggis.

Netball Awards

A-Grade lost 35 – 67: Incentive – Mia Rouget, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer – Zoie Chessor

B-Grade lost 29 – 56: Incentive – Brodie Wheelhouse, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer –Sarah Mooney.

C-Grade lost 15 – 43: Incentive – Emily Van Lierop, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer – Mikaela Krijt.

Under 17 lost 19 – 22: Incentive – Caeley Palmer, Corner Hotel / Grant St Grocer – Maddy Northmore.

Club Notes

Thursday’s Rebel Raffles continued last Thursday and we thank our sponsors Swenrick Constructions, Yarck Hotel, Reddrops Foodworks / Houseboat Sales Lake Eildon, Eildon Bakery / Yarck Meat and Produce, Alexandra Quality Meats / AFNC canteen, Yea Chinese Restaurant / Bailey Funerals with the winners Jake Steyger / Sam Kidd, Ben Cooper, Max Church, Ben Cooper, Jake Steyger / Sam Kidd and Paul Brooks.

The Swenrick Constructions Joker Jackpot was won last week and will resume this week at $200 on Thursday so come along for your chance to win a prize.

Last Saturday the Club’s inaugural Ladies’ Day event attracted over 70 ladies to enjoy Club hospitality and a great day of activities, raffles, auctions and give aways. Thank you to Kylie, Roxane and crew for organising the day, our sponsors and volunteers and all of our attendees for supporting the event.

This coming Saturday the senior Club football and netball teams are at Rebel Park for our last home game of the season, hosting Yarra Junction in two games of football and four games of netball. There is no formal function on Saturday night but everyone is invited to come into the social rooms after the games to enjoy some Club hospitality.

Alex. juniors at Kings Park

■ In Round 12 of the 2023 season, the Alexandra Football Netball Club junior teams travelled to Kings Park to play St Marys in four games of football and two games of netball.

Alex Black had a bye, Alexandra Red’s three teams travelled to Broadford whilst the Under 16 football team travelled to Mooroopna to play Moama.

The Under 9s and 10s football had a game but theirs is non-competitive and non-scoring so there is no win loss for that competition.

Under 12s Football

Alexandra 14.18 (102) defeated St Marys 0.3 (3)

North Central Construction – Henry Doherty; Essence Coffee Lounge – Sam Weisse ; Foodworks – Hunter Ricco; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Austin Reeves; Coach – Levi Campbell, Billy Baker, Maverick Burchall.

Under 14s Football

Alexandra 14.15 (99) defeated St Marys 2.2 (14)

North Central Construction – Aiden Campbell ; Essence Coffee Lounge – Toby Lucas ; Foodworks – Lachlan Williams ; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Kayden Armstrong; Coach – Maddie Ware

Under 16s Football

Alexandra 11.11 (77) defeated Moama 9.6 (50)

DMK Taxation – Coen Miljkovic; Essence Coffee Lounge – Drew Coller; Foodworks – Will Granter; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Ashton Cowell; Coach – Bailey Bastion.

Under 11s Netball

Alexandra Black 15 defeated St Marys 11

Foodworks – Koa Parker; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Charli Stephens , Alex Sportspower – Ashleigh Francis.

Under 13s Netball

Alexandra Black 16 defeated St Marys 8

Foodworks – Emma Simpson; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Leah Cole, Alex Sportspower – Chloe Woehl.

Under 11s Netball

Alexandra Red 34 defeated Broadford 1

netball teams all return to Rebel Park, hosting Wandong in four games of football, Alexandra Black and Alexandra Red teams to play each other, Under 16 football also at Rebel Park and host Euroa.

If anyone can assist with the canteen on home games during the season please speak to Melissa Crane and Shona Miljkovic to go on the roster.

Thank you to all the families that have paid their season 2023 junior football and netball player memberships and any families that have not done so yet, it would be appreciated if you could attend to this as soon as possible.

If you have any queries, please contact Club President Ray Steyger on 5772 2627.

- Ray Steyger

Yea Golf

■ Wednesday’s golf was a 22 Pairs Competition with Mick Sheather/Brian Simmons winning with 298 points from second Phil Armstrong/Peter Johnston with 254.

Best individual was Phil Armstrong with 33 points from Brian Simmons with 32.

2023 Club memberships are available: $200 – Patron, $150 – Family and $100 –Members. $600 Rebel Raiser Sponsor together with Business, Corporate, Executive and Major Sponsor packages available, so if you would like to support the Club, please contact Ray Steyger on 5772 2627. Do not forget to order your Club merchandise – polo shirts, warmup shirts @ $50, hoodies, vests @ $70, casual shorts, netball top @$40, Club stubby holders @$10, travel mugs @ $15, peaked caps and beanies @ $25, visors @$20, bumper stickers are free. Thursday night dinners are available after training with main course and sweets – adults $15 and kids $10, everyone is welcome.

Foodworks – Asher Mullins; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Summer Edwards , MiljkovicFamily – Zelda Van Lierop

Under 13s Netball

Alexandra Red 19 defeated Broadford 11

Foodworks – Zoe Mullins; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Phoebe Kidd, Miljkovic Family – Charli Edwards

Under 15s Netball

Alexandra Red 16 defeated by Broadford 26

Foodworks – Marli Coller; Alexandra Bakery and Café – Georgia Wales; Wales Family–Ashlyn Newman.

A very big thank you to the above award sponsors for their continued support of our junior footballers and netballers in 2023.

Saturday saw the 54 Hole Event start with 18 holes of Stableford. The following Saturdays will be Par followed by Stroke. The top 10 players each week receive points to determine an overall winner. Kevin Coghlan with 42 points took the honours on the first day of the Event. Brendan Chenhall with 35 points was second from Michael Spagnolo 33 and Phil Armstrong fourth on CB with 32. No NTP on the 10th for 2 and Jeff Aurisch won the Club Award.

Event points for Round One are Kevin Coghlan 10, Brendan Chenhall 9, Michael Spagnolo 8, Phil Armstrong 7, Martin Lowe 6, Alan Pell 5, Brian Simmons 4, Tom White 3, Ken Whitfort 2 and Steve Rumney 1.

- Ray Steyger

Next Sunday, Alexandra junior football and

- Alan Pell

● Alexandra Seniors 13.4 (82) d Powelltown 10.16 (76). Photo: Alex. Rebels.

● ● ● ● The Rebels in action. Photo; Alex. Rebels/Facebook

Burra ease past Redbacks

■ A relentless St Mary’s outfit have pushed themselves two games clear of the rest of the NFNL Division 2 top five, after a dominant 42point victory over Panton Hill at A.E. Cracknell Reserve.

The Burra made their intent known from the opening siren, with a 14-goal first half setting up a brilliant 21.14 (140) to 14.14 (98) triumph.

Fabian Carelli’s men now have a comfortable buffer in third spot and with a favourable run home, they look destined to book a double chance spot.

Panton Hill meanwhile now slip 10 points outside the top five having suffered their eighth defeat of the season. It means they’ll have to win each of their final three games of the year at a minimum to have a chance of a finals berth.

Rory Hanlon was superb around the middle, with his tackling pressure a particular highlight. He managed to also find two goals but in the forward half at least, was outdone by Jeremiah Antypas and Tane Cotter, who slotted five majors each in a terrific display.

For the hosts, Nicholas Parks was great in the ruck along with Samuel Parks who proved to be Panton Hill’s best midfielder in the defeat.

NFNL

Power flex muscles

■ Laurimar have returned to the NFNL Division 3 winners list in a big way, after defeating Heidelberg West by 63 points at Heidelberg Park.

A win in this top four clash was crucial for both sides and it was the Power who looked the more determined outfit throughout the contest, finishing 19.13 (127) to 8.16 (64) winners.

Both teams finish Round 15 in the same positions on the ladder as they did coming into the match, but the gap between the two sides has now stretched to 12 points, with match ratio preventing Laurimar from moving into the top two and Heidelberg West dropping out of the top four.

Kaiden Arthur was excellent for the visitors, roving from half back to the wing to be a powerful link up player and setting up multiple majors for his side in the process.

Ethan Bateman continued his brilliant intercept marking form on Saturday and was a key reason why the Hawks struggled to keep up with the visitors on the scoreboard.

Noah Mooney led the Power’s goalkicking by booting four majors, whilst Joel Lawson kicked three goals for the third straight game.

Lachlan Evans continued to fight in the ruck despite his side struggling in the middle of the ground, while his presence in marking contests gave his teammates multiple chances to win the ball at ground level.

Louis Hill worked tirelessly at stoppages and won plenty of hard balls while the home side’s eight goals were spread between eight individual goalkickers.

Kyan Watson got things started for Michael Missen’s men by kicking the first goal of the match inside the first minute, and early signs suggested the Hawks were up for the fight.

But the Power quickly took over, kicking five consecutive goals to develop a 21-point quarter time lead.

The Hawks once again came out hard at the start of the second quarter as Billy Wright found the big sticks.

However, as Laurimar continued to control the match, Heidelberg West began to grow frustrated, giving away several 50 metre penalties to allow Jimmy Atkins’ men to stretch their margin further.

What also helped the visitors maintain momentum was the Hawks’ poor goalkicking, as despite registering the same scoring shots as their opponents, they could only muster 3.7 for the term.

As Laurimar kicked seven of the 10 goals scored in the second quarter, they went into half time 41-point leaders and were well in control.

Goulburn Murray Junior Football

A quieter third term played out as Heidelberg West looked to peg their way back into the contest.

Both sides had their chances to score but struggled to convert due to poor inaccuracy, combining to produce 4.7.

Heidelberg West in particular were unable to find the big sticks and scored 1.3 to fall even further behind at three quarter time.

54 points to the good heading into the final term and with the game all but sewn up, Laurimar had the opportunity to grab a muchneeded percentage boost.

The hosts inaccuracy continued to haunt them and despite ending up with more scoring shots in the last quarter, they mustered just 2.4 for their efforts.

Laurimar meanwhile kicked a four-goal term, finishing as 63-point winners and keeping their charge towards a top two spot well and truly intact.

Outer East

Junior Football

Right from the onset it was St Mary’s who put their foot down, and with the help of great pressure by the forwards Jack Cicitta, on the back of an eight-goal haul last week, kicked the first of the afternoon.

The visitors dominated possession and territory for the first 10 minutes of the game, with Tane Cotter setting up multiple goals, none more impressive when Cotter sidestepped multiple opponents to set up Jeremiah Antypas who kicked truly.

Antypas and Nicholas Dean helped push the margin out even further and it was clear the Burra had taken the contest by the scruff of the neck.

Daniel Freeman was able to snap the first major for the home side from 30 meters out, and that seemed to spark the Redbacks into life, as they found more of the ball through Lachlan Buckley and Todd Johnston.

But a run of goals from Cotter, Hanlon and Vincent Loccisano saw St Mary’s pull away again, finishing with an eight-goal first term and a 27-point lead at quarter time.

Antypas’ ability to find the big sticks continued into the second term, as he second and third goals of the game kick started things in the next quarter.

Nicholas Dean really put his stamp on the game in the term as he worked up and down a wing and was very direct with his kicking, setting up many of his teammates during the quarter.

Soon William Dean joined in the fun by kicking two quick goals, before Antypas added his fourth for the half, as the Burra looked unstoppable going up forward.

Panton Hill were more competitive in this term than the first, as they were winning more of the ball, but they struggled to capitalise on their opportunities.

With late goals to Brayden Callaway and Daniel Freeman, Panton Hill headed into the half-time break with a more respectable score on the board.

Nicholas Dean opened the second half with the goal of the day, a snap from a contested play on the boundary line that drifted from right to left through the goal posts.

Rory Hanlon made his presence felt in the third quarter with lots of possessions in the middle to compliment his brilliant tackling pressure.

Tom Keys and Connor Kissane exchanged goals for either side before the Burra’s defensive traits came into play, with their ability to shut down multiple attacking efforts from the Redbacks highlighting the visitor’s dominance on the contest.

Leading by 49 points heading into the final term, St Mary’s were keen to inflict further pain on the hosts.

But Panton Hill did well to produce nine scoring shots seven and win the final quarter.

It was a positive to take out of what was otherwise a strong performance from St Mary’s away from home.

- Hamish Phillips/NFNL

(25) d Wesburn 3.3 (21). Gembrook-Cockatoo 10.10 (70) d OlindaFerny Creek 2.2 (14). Wandin 8.5 (53) d Upwey-Tecoma 4.8 (32). Belgrave 6.6 (42) d Seville 0.1 (1). Woori Yallock Yellow: Bye. Under 13 Mixed Yarra. Healesville 9.6 (60) d Emerald 4.1 (25). Mt Evelyn Maroon 7.4 (46) d Monbulk 2.7 (19). OlindaFerny Creek 13.18 (96) d Woori Yallock Black 0.1 (1).Upwey-Tecoma: Bye.

Under 14 Girls. Belgrave 5.9 (45) d Mt Evelyn Maroon 5.4 (34). Upwey-Tecoma 1.13 (19) d Wesburn 2.1 (13). Seville-Yarra Glen 7.4 (46) d Mt Evelyn 2.8 (20). Healesville 2.8 (20) d Emerald 1.5 (11). Olinda-Ferny Creek: Bye.

Under 15 Boys Ranges. Healesville White 7.6 (48) d Yarra Glen 3.2 (20). Emerald 12.7 (79) d Mt Evelyn 3.4 (22). Upwey-Tecoma Yellow 13.5 (83) d Wandin 5.3 (33).

Under 15 Boys Yarra. Wesburn 11.7 (73) d Gembrook-Cockatoo 9.9 (63). Woori Yallock 8.11 (59) d Mt Evelyn Maroon 7.10 (52). Wandin Blue 12.8 (80) d Monbulk

1.1 (7). Olinda-Ferny Creek 11.9 (75) d Healesville Red 5.9 (39).

Under 16 Girls. Mt Evelyn 4.5 (29) d Belgrave 2.2 (14). Yarra Glen 3.,7 (25) d Monbulk 1.5 (11). Healesville 11.12 (78) d Wesburn 1.0 (6).

Under 17 Boys. Wandin-Yarra Glen 14.6 (90) d Seville 7.9 (51). Olinda-Ferny Creek 26.15 (171) d Gembrook-Cockatoo

1.6 (12). Healesville 7.9 (51) d Mt Evelyn 6.12 (48). Woori Yallock 10.10 (70) d Upwey-Tecoma 4.10 (34). Monbulk: Bye.

Outer East

Junior Netball

■ 17 and Under Blue. WarburtonMillgrove 31 d Yarra Junction 13. Powelltown 22 d Alexandra 19. Broadford: Bye.

17 and Under White. Narre Warren 27 d ROC 23. Pakenham 26 d Beaconsfield 17. Berwick: Bye.

15 and Under Blue. Narre Warren 35 d ROC 17. Beaconsfield 22 d ROC 16. Berwick: Bye.

15 and Under White. Beaconsfield 35 d Pakenham 16. Hampton Park 27 d Berwick 20. Narre Warren 32 d ROC 17.

13 and Under Blue. ROC 24 d Narre Warren 23. Pakenham 25 d Beaconsfield

8. Berwick: Bye.

13 and Under White. Narre Warren 18 d ROC 15. Pakenham 23 d Beaconsfield

14. Berwick 21 d Hampton Park 4.

● ● ● ● St Mary’s 21.14 (140) d Panton Hill 14.14 (98). Photo: NWM Studios.

- Matt Haug/NFNL

● ● Laurimar 19.13 (127) d Heidelberg West 8.16 (64).

Photo: NWM Studios

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Shows

■ PLOS Musical Productions: Strictly Ballroom,(Musical) Until August 5 at the Frankston Arts Centre, Davey St., Frankston. Bookings: https://plos.asn.au/.

■ Frankston Theatre Group: Fast Food (by Morgan Rose) Until August 6 at Mount Eliza Community Centre, 90-100 Canadian Bay Rd., Mt Eliza. Director: Elli Haskett. www.frankstontheatregrou.org.au

■ Essendon Theatre Company: We Wrote Some Plays (by Audrey Farthing, Melissa Forge and Angelo Snell) August 3 – 12 at the Bradshaw St. Community Hall, Bradshaw St., West Essendon. Directors: Audrey Farthing, Shobana Sebastian and Casey Bohan. www.essendontheatrecompany.com.au

■ MLOC Productions: Fiddler on the Roof, August 2 – 13 at The Alex Theatre, St Kilda. Directors: Adrian and Sarah Glaubert; Musical Director: Kent Ross; Choreographer: Bridie Clark. Further Information: www.mloc.org.au

■ The 1812 Theatre: Picnic at Hanging Rock (by Tom Wright) August 3 – 26 at The 1812 Theatre, Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Dexter Bourke. Bookingds: www.1812theatre.com.au or 97583964

■ The Basin Theatre Group: The 39 Steps (adapted by Patrick Barlow) August 10 – 29 at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Ddirector: Michael Jewell. Bookings: www.thebasintheatre.org.au

■ Williamstown Musical Theatre Company: Frozen Jr August 11 – 20 at Centenary Hall, Williamstown. www.wmtc.org

■ Peridot Theatre Company: Things I know to be True (by Andrew Bovell) August 10 –20 at the Clayton Community Centre, Cooke St., Clayton. Director; Kellie Tweeddale. Bookings: www.peridot.com.au

■ Smile Theatre Company: Murder – a New Beginning (by Peter Eddy and Ian Robinson) August 11-13 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Peter Eddy. Bookings: www.kingstonarts. com.au phone: 9556 4440 Tuesday to Friday.

■ Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group: The Normal Heart (by Larry Kramer) August 17 – 26 at the Strathmore Community Theatre, Loeman St., Strathmore. Director: George Benca. Bookings: Trybooking or telephone 0493 166 774.

■ Brighton Theatre Company: Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use the F-Word (by Alistair Beaton) August 18 – September 2 at the Brighton Arts aand Cultural Centre, Carpenter St., Brighton. Director: Alan Burrows. Bookings: https://brightontheatre.com.au/ project/season-3-fracked/

■ Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC): Charlie and the Chocolate Factory August 19 – September 2 at the Cranbourne Community Theatre, Brunt St., Cranbourne. Bookings: www.cpacmusicaltheatre.com

■ Melbourne French Theatre: Flagrant Délire (by Jean-Pierre Martinez) August 22 –26 at The Stables, Meat Market, 2 Wreckyn St. (Cnr. Courtney St.), North Melbourne. Director: Luca Romani. Producer: Michael Bula. Bookings: www. melbournefrenchtheatre. org.au

■ South Gippsland One Act Play Festival: August 26-27 at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, Main St., Foster. www.famda.org.au

■ Beaumaris Theatre: Little Miss Sunshine (by James Lapine and William Finn) September 1 – 16 at Beaumaris Theatre, 82 Wells Rd., Beaumris. Director and Musical Director: Harrison Ewart-Dart; Choreographer: Leah Osburn. Bokings: Trybooking or 9583 6896.

■ Gemco Players: Stepping Out (Richard Harris) September 8 – 23 at The Gem Community Arts Centre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Director; Annette O’Shea. www.gemcoplayers.org.

Auditions

■ Eltham Little Theatre: Clue: On Stage (adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn) August 13 at 11am and 12pm; August 14 from 7pm at the Eltham Performing Arts Cntre, 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Luisa Romeo. Audition Bookings: https:// www.trybooking.com/events/landing/ 1087887

Miracle Club Observations

WHAT WAS THAT?

■ Essence Theatre Productions have much to celebrate this month - their 20th anniversary and 1000 performances of What Was That?, performed at the historic Werribee Mansion

Tickets are on sale now for audiences to join the Essence Theatre Productions team to celebrate these two special achievements at the ShadowFax Winery, Werribee on Thursday, August 17 from 7pm - 10pm.

The event will feature live music, cocktail food and dessert from local restaurants, and wine from the ShadowFax Winery.

Guests will meet the Essence Team and share their journey over the past 20 years, including a presentation of Essence's longest running show, What Was That?

Event Date and Time: Thursday, August 17, 7pm - 10pm

Venue: ShadowFax Winery, K Rd., Werribee South.

Tickets: $110 (includes an Essence Theatre Production Company presentation, live music, cocktail menu with five separate dishes plus dessert ,and two complimentary drinks.

Enquiries: 0439 690 091 - Cheryl Threadgold

Love With No Remorse

■ The Thespian Theatre Company presents Love With No Remorse, August 3-13, at the Meat Market Stables, 2 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne.

Written by Touka Shokor and directed by James Huang, Love With No Remorse is set in modern-day Australia, post-pandemic and where statistics show that one in six women and men experience domestic violence at the hands of those who say they love them.

Love With No Remorse explores the face of domestic violence, including coercive control and the ugly side of so-called love.

“This is a rich and relatable story about two people who believe they have found the answers,” says James Huang, Director.

“They soon come to feel the emptiness of a partner who isn’t meeting their needs and wants. With strained love comes loss of power, control and abuse, something too many people can relate to.”

The play brings the story to light through an Australian middle eastern lens, where topics like this are only whispered about behind closed doors.

Sahar, a medical school dropout, is a reluctant, headstrong, young woman, who meets a charming, successful lawyer named Isaac.

They fall in love and get married. From the outside, we see the perfect couple, however, life on the inside is very different.

As they begin their new life together, they quickly discover the complexities of married life.

Secrets are eventually uncovered as their true characters slowly emerge. When the pressure of keeping up appearances is all too much, the façade falls, and the truth is exposed.

Performance Details: August 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 7pm; 2pm matinees August 5, 6, 12, 13

Venue: Meat Market Stables, 2 Wreckyn St, North Melbourne

Not suitable for children.

Bookings: Eventbrite

- Cheryl Threadgold

Monument

■ Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents the premiere of Monument, from August 9 to September 3 at Rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda East.

Developed through Red Stitch’s INK new writing program, Monument is written by Emily Sheehan, directed by Ella Caldwell and performed by Julia Hanna and Sarah Sutherland. Monument tells of Edith Aldridge, the youngest woman to be elected leader of her country. In a lush presidential suite in a heritage listed hotel, she has just 90 minutes to get ready

for the biggest day of her life. Enter Rosie, a 22year-old makeup artist from the David Jones counter, sent to help Edith get camera ready. In Rosie’s capable hands, this morning will be a breeze. So long as they both stick to the brief.

Monument challenges the trivialisation of the hyper-feminine environment of beauty therapy and asks how we correlate beauty and competence in female identifying leaders.

While investigating class issues including economic disparity, inherited privilege and aspirational debt, Sheehan’s script explores the role that makeup and fashion play in how we perceive and receive women in power.

Set and Costume Design: Sophie Woodward; Lighting Design: Amelia Lever-Davidson ; Sound Design/Composition: Danni Esposito; Asst. Director: Ibrahim Halacoglu

Performance Details: Previews August 9-15. Season August 16– September 3 Shows run Wednesday to Saturday each week at 7.30pm, Sundays at 6.30pm; 1 Noon matinees on Wednesday August 23rd and 30; 2pm Saturday, August 26. Q&A’s Post Show: Wed Matinees Aug 23/30 at12pm, Thurs Aug 24 at 7.30pm

Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda East Bookings: www.redstitch.net

- Cheryl Threadgold

Hells Gates

■ The new Australian play Hells Gates premieres at the Geelong Arts Centre from August 10-12. Hells Gates is from the Green Room award-winning team of story makers at The Space Company, created and produced by Joel Carnegie. Drawn from verbatim sources in the wake of a mass whale rescue, Hells Gates follows the remarkable true story of a Tasmanian coastal community caught in the depths of an ecological crisis.

The live production stars Louise Siversen (Heartbreak Choir, House Husbands, Prisoner) Natalie O'Donnell (Come From Away, Next to Normal) and Matu Ngaropo (George Washington in Hamilton).

This new Australian work details the extraordinary bravery of Tasmanian locals, anglers, park rangers and state-wide emergency services, defining what can be achieved in the face of adversity. A truly authentic moment in time that left a profound impact on the way the people of Strahan (Tasmania) see the world around them. Hells Gates was supported in its development by Geelong Arts Centre's Creative Engine grant program.

Performance Details: August 10, 11, 12 at 7.30pm and August 12 at 1pm. Venue: The Story House, Geelong Arts Centre, 50 Little Malop St, Geelong. Tickets: $45/$40/$29. Duration: 70 minutes. Show Warning: Strong language, adult themes and use of smoke. Recommended for ages 15+. www.geelongartscentre.org.au

- Cheryl Threadgold

■ Any film that stars Dame Maggie Smith will immediately get a second look from most movie lovers. Add the names Kathy Bates and Laura Linney and it’s starting to look like a pretty spectacular cast.

Maggie Smith’s latest film, The Miracle Club, has the veteran in a very different role from the Dowager Duchess in Downton Abbey or Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies,

The year is 1967 and the country is Ireland. Close friends Lily (Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates) and Dolly (Agnes O’Casey) live in a hard knocks Dublin suburb they share a dream – to visit the sacred French town of Lourdes, where miracles are thought to happen to the faithful.

There is a talent quest to win tickets to Lourdes, and the sight of Smith, Bates and O’Casey in costume and belting out the pop song My Guy is a sight to behold. With a little luck, the trio secure the tickets to Lourdes

But then a fly in the ointment appears in the form of Chrissie (Laura Linney), the daughter of a recently deceased friend who is seen by the women as a cold-hearted deserter of her mother, who has briefly returned to Ireland from where she lives in America, to sort out her late mother’s affairs.

Chrissie manages to secure a ticket on the Lourdes pilgrimage, with a little help from a kindly and savvy parish priest ( Mark O’Halloran).

To aid the drama, Lily and Eileen end up as room mates on the trip, which creates a few sparks but also begins a process of healing and forgiveness.

There are some great lines from Eileen’s traditionalist husband (Stephen Rea) but what is remarkable about this film set in the 60s is that the male characters are simply support roles, with the women being front and centre.

How many films do we see that have that kind of gender balance? It helps that Smith and Bates give powerful performances, matched by Linney in her more difficult role as the outsider who is gradually forgiven.

The script is warm and witting and it can certainly claim to be a feel good movie. Hearing Smith’s version of an Irish accent is at times hard to believe, but an actor of her calibre simply makes you accept it.

Bates is a standout as the tough mother who has a heart of gold. The Miracle Club is a film to be enjoyed for its journey and its humour.

- Julie Houghton

Auditions

■ Warrandyte Theatre Company: A Hit and Miss Christmas (Written and Directed by Emma Wood) August 5 at 1.00pm and August 9 at 8.00pm at the Warrandyte Mechanics Hall, 180 – 186 Yarra St., Warrandyte. Audition enquiries: wood.emma.e@gmail. com

■ Essendon Community Theatre: The Odd Couple (Female Version)(by Neil Simon) August 15, 17, 7-9.30pm; August 20, 10am2pm at the Bradshaw Community Theatre, Bradshaw St., West Essendon. Director:Angelo Snell. Audition bookings: www.essendontheatrecommpany.com.au

■ Wyndham Theatre Company: A Christmas Carol (by Charles Dickens) August 25 from 2.00pm; August 28 from 7.00pm at WTC’s Crossroads Theatre, Cnr Duncan’s Rd and Synott St., Werribee. Director: Alaine Beek. Audition bookings and enquiries: 0439 690 091 or email hello@essencetheatre. productions

- Cheryl Threadgold

Essence Theatre founder/ playwright/performer Alaine Beek outside Werribee Mansion.

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Rough Trade

■ Rough Trade starts as you would expect, given its title, with sex, the surprising sex life of slugs.

Directed by Anthony Skuse, this onewoman show, a monologue delivered by its writer Katie Pollock, presents a woman trading away her past life after divorce as she downsizes to her new reality.

Within the micro-economy of Facebook group Rough Trade , home to “raging lefties”, our unnamed protagonist trades her problems away.

For example, our protagonist’s garden, full of sexy slugs, provides treats for someone else’s chickens.

Pollack tells the story of the real-life Kyle MacDonald and how he traded up from one red paperclip to a house in one year of bartering.

Like winning the lottery, she dreams of a bigger and better Eldorado of trades as she waits for the “delicious ping” of an alert message.

There are many poignant moments in the narrative.

A minimalist set with empty cardboard boxes demonstrates her transience.

We’re unsure if Pollack has just arrived in the space or is packing all her belongings for an even more uncertain future.

The bartering reveals a desperate edge. She is out of money and days away from her next Centrelink payment.

Objects have memories, and we are aware of loss, and the vulnerability of a life lived on the margins.

We are aware of shame; she does not let her children know how far she has fallen. What has brought her to this new normal?

A combination of marital separation, losing a job, insufficient super, ageism – you name it, the 21st-century economy does not work for women of a certain age.

Rough Trade was presented at The Explosives Factory, Theatre Works.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

Miracle Club

■ In 1967, a mystery unfolds in Ballygar on the outskirts of Dublin.

Lily, played by Maggie Smith, tends a small memorial grotto dedicated to her son Declan, who drowned at sea in 1927.

A young woman, Chrissie, played by Laura Linney, arrives from America for her late mother’s funeral.

Eileen, a mother with six children, played by Kathy Bates, discovers a lump in her breast.

What is the connection between these women?

What is the secret that sent one of them away 40 years ago?

It doesn’t take long to figure out the answers.

By way of a talent contest, the women are on their way to the Sanctuary of Our Lady in Lourdes, now joined by Dolly, played by an excellent Agnes O’Casey.

Each has a request for a miracle.

In the Disneyfied commercial experience that is Lourdes, each becomes disillusioned. “You don’t come to Lourdes for a miracle. You come for the strength to go on when there is no miracle,” says Father Byrne (Mark O’Halloran).

Beautifully set, the script, however, seems underwhelming and dated.

Cliched and crusty old chestnuts focusing on the patriarchy involve bungling and inept husbands left to fend for themselves while their better halves are in France.

In one memorable scene, Frank (Steven Rea) is so challenged carrying the food shopping home that he needs to be rescued by his daughter, Cathy (Hazel Doupe), accompanied by much teenage eye-rolling.

There are some heart-warming moments, and The Miracle Club has a great cast featuring an ensemble of award-winning women in Smith, Bates and Linney.

The script they get to work with, though, occasionally lumbers along like a car with square wheels.

- Review by Kathryn Keeble

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

■ Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Awardwinner Anthony LaPaglia takes to the Australian stage for the first time, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

Directed by Neil Armfield (Cloudstreet, The Diary of a Madman, Exit the King), this new production comes to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre for an exclusive, strictly limited season from September 1.

Lauded for his critically acclaimed performance in A View from the Bridge on Broadway, Anthony LaPaglia returns to the world of Arthur Miller as Willy Loman, joined by a company of some of Australia’s finest actors including Alison Whyte, Steve Bastoni, Richard Piper, Josh Helman, Sean Keenan, Louisa Mignone, Elizabeth Blackmore, Simon Maiden, Grant Piro and Manali Datar in one of the most profound and moving works on the pursuit of success and the post-war American Dream.

Prizes for MIFF

■ Melbourne International Film Festival has announced a total prize pool of over $300,000 across a suite of six award categories, together with the juries and nominees for two significant competition awards: the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award in collaboration with Kearney Group , and the return of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award recognising an outstanding Australian creative within a film playing in the MIFF 2023 program.

The newly shared award nominees join the line-up of films already announced for the Bright Horizons Competition, MIFF’s recently established breakthrough filmmaking prize.

Championing first and second-time directors, the Bright Horizons Competition awards a $140,000 prize to the winning filmmaker, supported by VicScreen, making it one of the most substantial film prizes in the world.

Winners across long-form awards categories will be announced at the Closing Night Gala event, on Saturday, August 19, including the recipient of the much-loved MIFF Audience Award, which gives punters the chance to vote for their favourite flick from across the program.

“MIFF is a space that presents world class cinema to Melbourne, and with our Film Awards in 2023, we continue to recognise and reward the talents of the screen industry who compel our cinema-going,” says Al Cossar, Artistic Director.

“The MIFF film awards recognise and amplify the vitality of our screen industry, and those who move it forward; from the Bright Horizons Competition as a space for global breakthrough, to the recognition and celebration of excellence in craft amongst individual screen practitioners, in the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award and First Nations Film Award, with generous support from the Kearney Group

“Not to mention our own MIFF-fluencers –our festival audience – crowning their own via our annual Audience Award. We stand in awe of our competing films and our shortlisted nominees, and congratulate all."

MIFF has celebrated and promoted the talents of First Nations storytellers on titles including Sweet As (MIFF 2022), The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (MIFF 2021) and Bran Nue Dae (MIFF 2009).

Transforming this commitment with formal industry recognition and significant financial reward, the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award supports First Nations talent and storytelling with the recipient awarded a $20,000 cash prize and $25,000 worth of financial services in collaboration with Kearney Group.

The pool of award contenders are drawn from across all film creative departments including directing, producing, screenwriting, composing, editing, cinematography, acting, production design, art direction and sound design.

The nominees of the First Nations Film Creative Award are:

■ John Harvey – Katele (Mudskipper) – Director

■ Lelarnie Hatfield-Yasso, Aunty Nicky Hatfield and Margaret Hornagold – Generations of Men – Screenwriters

Furphy Awards

■ Some 16 shortlisted writers were on tenterhooks as the winner and place getters of the 2023 Furphy Literary Award were announced at Shepparton Art Museum on Saturday night (July 29).

The winners were:

First: Jen Rewell ‘Away to Me’

Second: Eugenie Pusenjak ‘The Drey’

Third: Natalie Vella ‘The Lucky Country’ Jen Rewell’s uplifting and offbeat love story ‘Away to Me’ won a cheque for $15,000 at the ceremony. Along with the cash prize, Jen’s story will anchor the 2023 Furphy Anthology and she will be invited to a residency at La Trobe University to work on her writing.

More than 600 entries were received this year, with the judging panel comprising Anson Cameron, Margaret Hickey, John Harms, Stephanie Holt, Thornton McCamish and John Kerr carefully assessing the 71 stories on the Long List.

■ Derik Lynch and Matthew Thorne –Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) – CoDirectors

■ Adrian Russell Wills and Gillian Moody –Kindred – Co-Directors

■ ■ Tyson Mowarin and Mark Coles Smith –Keeping Hope – Director, Featured subject

■ Douglas Watkin – Rebel with a Cause: Neville Bonner – Director

The first-time prize will be awarded to the creative deemed to have demonstrated excellence and commitment in their relevant craft, with the eventual winner selected by a film jury of celebrated Australian First Nations creatives including Yidinji, Meriam woman and esteemed actor and director Rachael Maza (Radiance, Cosi, Lillian’s Story); Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri (Woiwurrung) acclaimed screen and stage practitioner and Birrangga Film Festival Artistic Director, Tony Briggs (The Sapphires, The Warriors, Force of Nature); and Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung artist, academic and director Tiriki Onus (Ablaze, MIFF 2021).

Of the new award, Rachael Maza said; “I’m very proud and inspired by this next generation of incredible First Nation film makers. I’d like to acknowledge MIFF and the Kearney Group in establishing this Award in recognition of these artists who will be our future leading storytellers. It’s an honor to be a part of the jury.”

“Congratulations to each of the extraordinary talents nominated this year,” says Paul Kearney, Founder and CEO of Kearney Group. “We are incredibly proud to partner with MIFF and present the inaugural First Nations Film Creative Award

“This award is a celebration of talent, creativity and the 65,000+ year legacy of storytelling within Australian First Nations communities.

“We believe in the power of storytelling and the transformative impact it can have on society. Through this partnership, we’re devoted to centring First Nations voices. And it’s our hope that, in turn and in time, it promotes a more inclusive and equitable Australia."

Following its inaugural awarding last year, the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award returns with a $70,000 cash prize to recognise an outstanding Australian creative within a festival film.

Writer-director Jub Clerc was awarded the prize in 2022 for her work on the uplifting coming-of-age outback road trip film, Sweet As.

An expansive range of roles were eligible for award consideration; such as director, technical or creative lead and other cinema craft positions. The nominees of the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award are:

■ Andrew Robinson – Mercy Road – Lead VFX Supervisor

■ Jeni Thornley – Memory Film – Director

■ Nathan Jurevicius – Scarygirl – Production Designer

■ Soda Jerk – Hello Dankness – Director

“Blackmagic Design is excited to be back supporting the Melbourne International Film Festival,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design.

“It is amazing seeing the level of creativity these filmmakers are bringing to the festival and I want to congratulate all the nominees for pushing creative boundaries.”

Furphy Literary Award director Sam Furphy said: “The quality of the shortlisted and finalist entries was outstanding again this year and just shows what writing talent we have across the country. I would like to congratulate all writers who participated, in particular our winner, placegetters and shortlist who put forward such outstanding works.”

On behalf of the judges, Anson Cameron said this about Jen Rewell’s winning story ‘Away to Me’: “It’s a love story, written with a light touch. It’s funny. The language is clear, and the author has a close knowledge of the rural world that Joseph Furphy would have recognized and enjoyed.

“It’s populated with rodeo clowns and decorated with CB radios atop kitchen fridges … a woman feeds her lover steamed lemon curd pudding. I salivated freely while reading it.

But above all the story has a pigheaded refusal to conform to reality. Just when you think it might be headed for a clichéd gloom it ambushes you with fabulism and, perish the thought, happiness.”

Jen Rewell grew up in a small beachside town in Western Australia. She studied Media at university and then completed the Broadcasting course at the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). She has worked as a journalist and copywriter.

In 2020 she returned to her early love of creative writing, winning a mentorship in the Emerging Writers Program run by the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA. She lives in Perth and is currently working on her first novel.

Second place ($3000 plus publication in The Furphy Anthology 2023) was awarded to Eugenie Pusenjak for ‘The Drey’ Judges’ comments were: “In her 4900 words Ms Pusenjak keeps the telling of the story moving forward at a masterly, varied pace.

“She conjures up two generations of the protagonist’s family history, the first generation in a very few fast brush strokes indeed.

“The protagonist’s residential and social past does not take very many more strokes. All this is related in the ups and downs of the action following page 1. It’s the pace of a crime or spy thriller, stripped down to short story.

“It will likely make you angry about housing today too. Very angry, I hope. Oh, you will find out what a drey is. Precisely when the protagonist does.”

And in third place ($2000 plus publication in The Furphy Anthology 2023) was ‘The Lucky Country’ by Natalie Vella. Coincidentally, Natalie also placed third in last year's competition.

Judges’ comments were: “This fierce, charming, and unsettling story tackles that classic theme in Australian writing: the migrant experience. It’s also about power, and corruption; about women’s solidarity and friendship, and women’s anger. But what makes it such a pleasure to read is the irresistible pull of the story itself. Vella’s Liele hooks the reader from the first lines: there’s no putting it down until we know what’s going to happen to her.”

Adam Furphy said, “We are always excited to see more great stories coming forward from writers around the country for this Award.”

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MEET THE TAYLORS

■ Television writer-producer and broadcaster Bob Phillips presents his latest novel The Taylors.

Ron and Bettina Taylor head an Australian family living on a small, idyllic seaside country property with five children.

The oldest child, Trish, blessed with movie star looks and destined for stardom, is guided by her mother to enter various amateur model quests to become Miss Australia, then an international supermodel on the world fashion stage.

Trish and the family take a rollercoaster ride of power, sex, deceit, love, and sex in a story that is said to be full of colour - and a few shades of grey.

Bob Phillips commenced his career in showbiz as a carnival hand, worked as a cinema projectionist, moved to television, and worked as a producer and executive producer for Australian TV icons such as Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton, Daryl Somers, Don Lane, Mike Walsh and Steve Vizard.

His first book was Like No Other Business, a light-hearted look at the first 50 years of Australian television.

Bob’s late wife was actor and TV presenter, Judy Banks. Their only son, Andrew, is an established author with six published books.

In Bob's words: “The author, veteran TV producer Bob Phillips, is a semi-recluse living on a small farm on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. He lives with two old horses – they don’t question him, and he doesn’t question them."

The Taylors can be purchased online from Amazon.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Burn The Floor

■ The energy and passion of all the dancers (too many to name in a brief review) is clear in Burn the Floor.

They are dedicated artists and each and every gesture tells a story. They move effortlessly between styles and forms of dance, captivating as they go. The small musical troupe of musicians is equally versatile, touching, as they do, on disco, soul and rock.

This alone would be sufficient recommendation for the latest iteration of a performance ensemble of 25 years' standing. But in their latest floor show, they have taken a risk.

An indigenous perspective of dance and music has been included with the works of Mitch Tambo and native dancers Albert David and Sermsah Bin Saad

This would have been a creative challenge for director Alberto Faccio and choreographers Jorja Freeman and Robbie Kmetoni, but from the first sinuous extension of limbs, it is clear there is a correlation between forms of dance.

This was best exemplified in the

Chevalier

■ (M). Opens in selected cinemas August 3.

The life and trials of Joseph Bologne, aka Chevalier de Saint Georges, makes for mildly entertaining viewing, but feels like a missed opportunity to examine and explore both a complex central figure and historical material, instead settling for a comfortable skim over a story that deserves far more compelling treatment.

After a very brief introduction (which follows an amusing opening scene where the unknown man challenges Mozart to an on-stage violin duel, which ends up coming across as homage to the guitar face-off at the end of Walter Hill’s Crossroads), where we see Illegitimate child Joseph Bologne (Reuben Anderson) dumped at a renowned boarding school by his plantation owner father George (Jim High), we see the talented violinist/composer/fencer (now played by Kelvin Harrison Jr., who was sorely underused in Baz Luhrmann’s flashily empty Elvis) overcome adversity and outright racism and assimilate into privileged French society, even forming a friendship with Queen Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton).

Bologne’s social status increases when Antoinette knights him as Chevalier de Saint Georges, and as he surrounds himself more and more with this rich crowd, he starts to embody their casually cruel nature.

On movie. Harrison Jr. does offer charm and presence, but the script never allows him to truly soar, and though he’s probably best known for Elvis, The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (2020) and Cyrano (2021), his best work is in lesser known films such as It Comes At Night (2017), and especially Luce (2019) and Waves (2019). If you haven’t seen them, then please seek them out (Waves is outstanding). Chevalier is frustrating, where the film-makers want to showcase an unjustly ignored historical figure while also exploring important subject matter, but by never digging too deep, skimming over parts of the title character’s life (the end text could fill another film), and a hesitancy in fully employing its contemporary approach, results in a film that is perfectly watchable, but ultimately forgettable, and may even end up being referred to as a poor man’s Amadeus.

RATING - **½

Women Talking

song Native Dance where the lyrics of identity and dispossession were interpreted movingly by the dancers. The art forms complemented.

Voice and dance, the ageless and the contemporary, merged for a moment. A further nod to that unity was to be found in the final iconic Australian song, You’re The Voice, sung by Tambo in the Gamilaraay language. His tenor voice is a match for

Farnham’s

The first half’s simple set of a native gum was tastefully done (James Kronzer ) lit for effect ( Adam Nicholls) to evoke the Australian landscape; the red horizon, a storm.

The sense of cultural heritage is further developed in the programme where each individual’s biography contains an acknowledgement of ancestry.

While the melding of indigenous and contemporary forms doesn’t always hold, it does provide the overall structure topping and tailing the evening. The company returns more to its roots in the second half as it dances its way through a variety of forms and styles.

Dancers tell stories with each look and gesture. These performers do it in spades.

What has been added in this production, however, is an appeal to a shared cultural history of dance which is ageless and, for Australians today, relevant and topical.

Burn the Floor was presented at The Palms at Crown, Melbourne.

- Review by David McLean

When he sees himself as the best candidate to take over as maestro of the Paris Opera, which sees him become close to singer MarieJosephine (Samara Weaving), who is married to the brutal Marquis De Montalembert (Marton Csokas, appearing to be channeling Russell Crowe), it sets off a series of events that will see Chevalier’s life turned upside down.

Chevalier is aggressively anachronistic, using its handsomely produced historical setting as a backdrop to look at themes and issues that are sadly relevant to this day.

But instead of embracing this approach in genuinely provocative fashion, director Stephen Williams (making his feature film debut after helming episodes of a multitude of TV series, including Watchmen, Westworld and Ray Donovan) and writer Stefani Robinson (Atlanta, Fargo and What We Do In The Shadows TV shows) unfortunately end up on a rather bland middle ground, deciding to deliver its worthy messages through overtly unsubtle, at times clunky, dialogue.

The casting of Csokas as the villain seems particularly predictable and tiresome. Other innuendoladen conversations almost feel like they’ve been lifted from a Carry

■ (M). 104 minutes. Now streaming on Apple TV. Though it deserved more Oscar attention, it was great to see Sarah Polley (finally returning to the director’s chair after a decade long absence) win for Best Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking, a powerful, intelligent and riveting drama that is definitely one of the best films of the year. The film (based on a horrific true story) centres on a group of women, living in an isolated religious community, who decide on whether they should stay or leave after discovering that their husbands have been drugging and raping them for years. As all the women have been forbidden to learn how to read or write, August (Ben Whishaw) is asked to keep the minutes of everything they discuss, and just as importantly, listen to what is being said. The group only have a certain amount of time to make their choice, as the rest of the men, all in town dealing with lawyers about these multiple accusations, will return soon. The screenplay by Polley and Miriam Toews (based on Toews’ 2018 book) is thoughtful and humane, while Polley’s direction is superb. Despite its potentially stagey structure, Polley (who also directed Away From Her, Take This Waltz and Stories We Tell) manages to keep the dialogue heavy, basically one location material fluid and emotionally absorbing (something the current The Son fails to do), allowing the story to brim with electrifying energy. A truly relevant film (it is a genuine shock when you discover what year the story is set in) that has been crafted with achingly real conviction.

RATING - ****½

● Bob Phillips

● Albert David and Sermsah Bin Saad in Burn the Floor.

Photo: Belinda Strodder

■ I can remember seeing Tyrone Power in The Mark Of Zorro at a Saturday afternoon matinee in the Grand Picture Theatre in Coburg

There he was, all dressed in black with his moustache and mask, swashbuckling his way through the big swordfight scene.

He thrust his trusty sword at a set of candles on a brass candelabra. "Ha," said the villain "You missed." But then, all the sliced candles dropped to the floor as the spellbound audience of children let out a collective gasp - he was so cool and good looking.

I became a big fan of Tyrone Power from that moment on.

Tyrone Edmund Power Jnr (it was his real name) was born in Ohio in 1914. Tyrone's sister Anne was born the following year.

He was not a healthy child and the family moved to the warmer climate of California to improve his health. His parents were both film and stage actors and they divorced when Tyrone was only six. In 1931 his father died of a heart attack and passed away in Tyrone's arms.

Tyrone worked as a stage actor for many years before landing a film contract with Twentieth Century Fox studios in 1936. After appearing in minor film roles his break came when he was cast in Lloyd's Of London and he gained acclaim and attention.

Tyrone appeared in several successful films over the next two years but his best role occurred in 1939 when he played the title role of

Whatever Happened To ... Tyrone Power

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

Jessie James opposite Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott

I asked Maureen O'Hara in a radio interview about her memories of Tyrone Power, as they worked together in 1942 on The Black Swan Maureen described Tyrone as and "absolute gentleman" and a "sweetheart". He served as a pilot during the Second World War and flew on missions during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa

He rose to the rank of Captain and was discharged in 1946. He returned to the screen in The Razor's Edge opposite Gene Tierney

Apparently he turned down some interesting roles during his career - Richard Burton's role in The Robe and Burt Lancaster's role in From

Here To Eternity. (It could have been Ty on the beach with Deborah Kerr.)

His films included Blood And Sand, The Rains Came, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Rose Of Washington Square, The Long Gray Line, Witness For The Prosecution and The Eddy Duchin Story

Tyrone Power was married three times and had three children. All of his children had the "acting bug" and appeared in small roles in films. Tyrone suffered a heart attack in Madrid in 1958 whilst performing a strenuous swordfight scene with George Sanders during the filming of Solomon And Sheba. He died on his way to hospital - he was only 44. His only son Tyrone Power Jnr was born several months after the tragedy.

We still have the legacy of the films of Tyrone Power to enjoy - he never won a Best Actor Academy Award for any of his films but he was a wonderful actor.

Kevin Trask

Kevin can be heard on 3AWThe Time Tunnel - Remember WhenSundays 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

CERAMIC EXHIBITION AT ABBOTSFORD CONVENT

Gather

A ceramic exhibition and workshop scenes by the team at Cone 11.

The Melbourne-based collective will exhibit a collection of sculputural works, made exclusively from nonrecyclable studio waste and fired in solar-powered electric kilns.

Aiming to demonstrate sustainable high-temperature firing practices, the ethos of Cone 11 gives a glimpse into a “no waste” futiure for artists and audiences.

In keeping with this ideology, the exhibition qill be opened and supported by Joost Baker, who was described by the New YorkTimes as the “poster boy of zero waste living”.

As well as thr free exhibition in The Store, Cone 11 will host an opening night celebration, and a talk from leading seramics maker Lona Topolcsanyi on the Mercator Lawn outside Cam’s Kiosk.

Exhibition opens August 31 and closes September 17.

Abbotsford Convent.

1 St Hiliers St, Abbotsford

At Kingston

For Our Elders

Reflecting on the 2023 NAIDOC Week theme, For Our Elders, Kingston Arts presents a group exhibition of esteemed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists that encourages conversation between traditional practices and contemporary approaches.

Exhibition closes Saturday August 26.

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Kingston Layers –Robert Scholten is an exhibition of paintings, printmakingand drawings inspired by different areas of Kingston all made on location in the spirit of en pleinair art and includes sketches and photos showing ther process behind the work.

During this process, a group of artists joined Scholten to create collectively.

The support of this artistic commuinity had an immense positive impact, informing each artists work as well as their interpretation of each location.

Exhibition closes Saturday August 12. Venue: G3 Artspace 64 Parkers Rd. Parkdale.

The Arts

Finalists named

■ Some 66 finalists have been announced for Australia's most prestigious photography prize at the Museum of Australian Photography:

Love letter to football

Who Am I ?

Using whatever medium you choose, use your imagination tp create an artworlk representing youir vision of identity and self discovery. Tryout sculpture.

Calling artists aged 12 – 25.

The Youth Art Expo is back. This exciting expo provides an opportunity for young artists aged 12-25 to showcase their artwork with the theme Who Am I?

Using whatever medium you choose, use your imagination to create an artwork representing your vision of identity and self discovery.

Try out sculpture, painting, drawing or even digital artworks to share your vision,.

This is and amazing chance to share your creative expression through art and have your artworks seen by a wide audience.

Entrée is free with registration so if this sounds like something you’d love to be part of contact youth.services@kingston.voc.gov.au to secure your spot.

Registration closes Tuesdy August 29 at 5pm.

Artwork drop off Saturday September 2, 12 Noon -4pm.

Opening event and prizegiving

Thursday, September 7 ,5.30pm –7.30pm

Exhibition dates: Friday September 8-Friday October 6.

Artwork collection Saturday,

Grace Allen, Ashe, Robert Ashton, Alison Bennett, Madeline Bishop, Tom Blachford, Jane E Brown, Jane Burton, Anna Carey, Patricia Casey, Danica Chappell, Renato Colangelo, Michael Corridore, Zo Damage, Rory Daniel, Steve Danzig, Gerwyn Davies, Mikayla De Pasquale, Tamara Dean, Yask Desai, D-Mo, Rozalind Drummond, Stephen Dupont, Rhy Dyball, Robert Fielding, Murray Fredericks, Genevieve Ginty, Geoffrey Goddard, Tom Goldner, Rebecca Griffiths, Sammy Hawker, Ponch Hawkes, Shelley Horan, Nicholas Hubicki, The Huxleys, Minami Ivory, Inez Joakim, Pia Johnson, Ayman Kaake, Mark Kimber, Shea Kirk, Kelvin Lau, Janet Laurence, Putuparri Tom Lawford and Tobias Titz, Dylan Le'mon, Paula Mahoney, Jesse Marlow, Charles McKean, Danie Mellor, Kent Morris, Daniel Noone, Sonia Payes, Drew Pettifer, Izabela Pluta, Patrick Pound, Clare Rae, Yhonnie Scarce, Cassandra Scott-Finn, Jon Setter, Scotty So, Cyrus Tang, Hiromi Tango, Craig Tuffin, James Tylor, Justine Varga, Anne Zahalka.

They are participating in the prestigious William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, for the much-anticipated 2023 edition. The exhibition will take place from September 21 until November 12.

Museum of Australian Photography 850 Ferntree Gully Rd, Wheelers Hill - Contributed

■ Laugh yourself silly at this years fun fest ‘Love Letter to Football’, hosted by Ross Stevenson from the 3AW Breakfast team. The function is a cocktail lunch with personalities taking the mickey out of AFL footy. The event is to be held on August 31 at the Medallion Club, Docklands. Tickets from Eventbrite. Be there.

River City runs its race

■ Sad to report the closure of the iconic River City Jazz Club at Mildura The club opened 44 years ago and was behind the Mildura Jazz Jamboree, and the Mildura Jazz, Food and Wine Festival. Lack of patronage over recent years has been blamed for the shuttering. Sad loss.

Side hustle for Cher

■ US entertainer Cher, now aged 77, is still setting a cracking pace. Latest on her bucket list is to establish her own gelato van operating in LA, called Cherloto. The venture is a collaboration with a New Zealand ice cream company who have perfected a gluten-free gelato.

Cat’s Whiskers

■ Name of the exhibition is Cat-isms and it's all about our feline friends. There are Japanese ink paintings sharing the wisdom of cats, to homage to cats in Islamic culture, to whimsical drawings of cover worthy drawings of moggies, plus cats in all sorts of quirky animation. The exhibition is fun, at Loft 275, Ivanhoe Library, closes August 13.

Denis commits

■ Without a doubt Denis Walter is the King of Christmas Carols. Advance news is the King has agreed to host a live celebration from 5pm-6.30pm on December 16 at Greensborough War Memorial Park. Also, on the bill are the Australian Children's Choir, and the Diamond Valley Brass Band, enquiries to banyule.vic.gov.au

- John O’Keefe

with Peter Kemp

Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

US SUCCESS FOR ‘GARAGE DREAMS’ TV SHOW

■ Hi everyone, remotely from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites in West Hollywood comes this week’s news.

Prodced in Melbourne

■ Television producer Brett Hardy, son of director Rod Hardy, has had success with his television show called ‘Garage Dreams’. Series 1 was a greattriumph in the States and now series 2 is being played on Foxtel’s Real Life Channel 121 on Sunday afternoon at 4.30pm.

The show is about real people with a real passion. Garage Dreams. Just think of car and bikes rejuvenated into a very cool model. I call it motor porn.

The world's most authentic car show has been a runaway success both in the States and now in Australia. Check it out.

RIP Sinead O’Connor

■ Remembering Sinéad O’Connor: A music icon, activist and trailblazer. Sinéad O’Connor, cherished Irish singer and activist, has tragically passed away at 56.

Her death comes following the loss of her son, Shane, 18 months prior. She leaves behind a music industry in shock, a grieving Ireland, and her three remaining children.

O'Connor was respected for her trailblazing and outspoken nature, particularly for women in the music industry, and known for her haunting cover of Prince's ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.

Actor strikes hard

■ The strikes by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA are not solely affecting Hollywood's film and TV productions but also causing financial strain for many local businesses that depend on the industry for their revenue.

These businesses range from art supply stores, catering and florist companies, to prop houses, bookstores and set construction firms.

These businesses are finding innovative ways to survive during this challenging period, some are considering launching new services or optimizsing on other opportunities.

World population boom

■ The global population has steadily increased at a high rate for decades. For instance, in 2003 the population of the planet came in somewhere around 6.4 billion.

Today, humanity has crossed the eight billion population mark. No shortage of studies and organisations attempt to predict what the future holds for humanity in terms of population statistics.

Now, a new report states that if global society takes a “Giant Leap” in terms of investment in economic development, education, and health, the world population may peak at around 8.5 billion people by 2050.

Marijuana still the one

■ As legal marijuana expands, a record share of US workers is testing positive for the substance in workplace drug screening.

Overall drug use among workers tested by employers generally held steady last year, according to an annual tally from Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest drug-testing laboratories.

In drug tests given to workers after accidents on the job, marijuana positives rose sharply last year, hitting the highest level in a quarter-century.

Of the more than six million general workforce tests that Quest screened for marijuana in 2022, 4.3 per cent came back positive, up from 3.9 per cenmt the prior year.

That is the largest marijuana positivity rate since 1997. Positivity rates last year for certain classes of opioids and barbiturates declined.

Sanctions hit

■ Russia has suffered on the world stage, with over 1000 companies announcing voluntary withdrawals from the country.

Politically, sanctions of varying severity have been the medium of choice for many countries to exert pressure.

In 2022, more than 11,000 new sanctions were implemented, leaving Russia as the most heavily-sanctioned country on Earth, causing its economy to shrink 3 per cent last year.

Out

and About

Sniffer dogs on the job

■ Shoplifting has become so rampant that one of the Big Apple’s busiest commercial districts is turning to “man’s best friend” to sniff out thieves. The 34th Street Partnership is the trade group serving the neighbourhood that includes Macy’s Herald Square, Penn Station and Madison Square Garden and is contracting with a firm that provides K-9 units. It launched this month at the CVS at Eighth Avenue and West 34th Street in the heart of the district that has been plagued with thefts.

Tay Tay tickets up

■ Taylor Swift is bringing in $13 million a night on her tour, which could total $1.3 billion to become the highest-grossing ever.

Sleep divorce

■ More than a third of Americans say they occasionally or consistently sleep in another room from their partner, according to a survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The practice of sleeping separately is known as a “sleep divorce,” and is meant to help you fall asleep and stay asleep without disruptions such as snoring, stolen covers or early alarms.

More cops leave the job

■ Ten years ago, the Los Angeles Police Department celebrated a historic hiring milestone, announcing the city had reached a target sought by at least two mayors and multiple police chiefs: 10,000 officers. Now, within a three-year span, those gains have been erased. The LAPD is haemorrhaging officers, with more leaving the force than are joining it.

Sneakers: record price

■ A pair of Air Jordan 13s worn by Michael Jordan during the ’98 NBA Finals, his final year with the Chicago Bulls, auctioned for $2.2m, becoming the most valuable shoes ever sold.

Huge COVID fine

■ A California church has been ordered to pay over $1m in COVID fines after the church did not enforce a county’s social distancing and masking requirements. Superior Court Judge Evette Pennypacker ordered Calvary Chapel San Jose to pay $1.2m in fines after it did not follow COVID restrictions put in place by Santa Clara County, requirements the church said violated their religious freedom.

Tylenol murders

■ James Lewis, the only suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, was found dea in his apartment outside Boston , according to reports. Lewis, 76, had served 12 years in prison for extortion charges related to the incident but was never charged with murder. The case remains open over 40 years later. In September 1982, seven people died within a 24-hour period in the Chicago area, immediately after taking over-the-counter Extra Strength Tylenol. Investigators later discovered the Tylenol had been laced with cyanide poison, causing a scare across the nation and ultimately leading to the development of tamper-proof packaging. Lewis was arrested three months later for writing a letter to Tylenol-maker Johnson & Johnson demanding a $1m payment to stop the killings, prompting the then-largest search in US. history.

Send email to Jennifer

■ If you are considering coming over to California for a holiday, then I have got a special deal for you. We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood. I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper. Please mention ‘Melbourne Observer’ when you book to receive the ‘Special Rate of the Day’ for your advance bookings. Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood.

Casino for New York?

■ Broadway theatre owners are trying to block a casino proposal in Times Square. The proposal is backed by Caesars Casino and Rapper Jay-Z.

Cancer surprise

■ Emerging research is starting to suggest that reducing the intensity of cancer treatments may not affect certain patients’ chance of survival.

With that clearer data, more oncologists appear to be scaling back the use of aggressive or uncomfortable therapies in consideration of their patients’ quality of life, a move described as de-escalation. De-escalation describes when optimal care could be achieved with less treatment rather than more. A growing body of research suggests that this approach could have benefits for people with certain cancers. “The trouble in cancer care is, the medicine can definitely give people side effects,” damaging healthy cells or organs, said Dr.Tatjana Kolevska, medical director for the Kaiser Permanente National Cancer Excellence Program. “

In cancer, the fear and anxiety are huge, so it’s very frequent that we may use more, which could make people very sick,” she said. “We want to try everything to treat a patient, but in some cases, too much of an aggressive treatment could do more harm than good.”

● ● Thumbs up: producer, Brett Hardy with father, director Rod Hardy, and (centre, standing) Alan Johnson of Ramada Plaza West Hollywood.

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By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Ultimate tour

■ Eighties super group Pseudo Echo have been selling out shows around the country on ‘The Ultimate’ tour 2023, coinciding with the release of the ‘Ultimate’ double album and DVD, chronicling their expansive 40year music career. On Friday, August 4, they bring their full-production stage show featuring epic lighting, visuals, and an expanded six-piece line-up fronted by the band’s founder, lead singer and guitarist Brian Canham to the Wendouree Centre For Performing Arts in Ballarat. More info and other shows at www.pseudoecho.net

David sings Van

■ The songs of Van Morrison will be relived on Aug 19 at the Abel Tasman Dutch Club in Carnegie. David McCall has been described as one of the best Van Morrison tribute acts and along with the VM show band will treat the audience to all the hits made popular by the Irish music legend who was knighted in 2016. More info and tickets: 0409

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The Syncopators

■ Melbourne jazz band The Syncopators will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2024. They’ll be playing 30s hits with their wonderful guest Nichaud Fitzgibbon singing the best from jazz divas Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and are sure to delight the audience once again at Melbourne's premier jazz venue Birds Basement. Date. Frday, September 15, commencing 6pm. Tickets at Birds: www.birdsbasement.com

■ Melbourne is such a forgiving place for Australian productions to be premiered. The local media reviewers are generally kind, often too kind. It is a traditional Melbourne thing, to encourage theatre producers.

Opening night audience membersof 2:22 A Ghost Story were offered complimentary flutes of Chandon champagne as they milled outside Her Majesty’s Theatre in Exhibition St last Friday night (July 28).

We didn’t partake; but maybe we should have had a few belts to help us through the next 2.22 hours.

One fellow media reviewer texted us through the show that he thought it was a “shocker”.

Perhaps our view was coloured that the publicists sat us in row X, behind that dreaded pillar that obscures the view of the stage.

(To be fair, we had asked for a seat on the aisle to help with access. The tickets were gratis. But no audience member should have to watch a show from behind a pillar.)

2:22 A Ghost Story has had the script reworked to be in Melbourne, with two couples having a Friday night dinner party.

Jenny (Gemma Ward) is a new mum, concerned about worrying noises in the house.

She persuades her dinner guests Lauren (Ruby Rose) and Ben (Daniel MacPherson) to stay up until 2.22am to witness the hauntings.

● ● This reviewer’s view of 2:22 Ghost Story and THAT pillar.

Jenny’s husband Sam (Remy Hii) is cynical, and repeats that point as the slow-moving script calls for conversation.

Ruby Rose and Daniel McPherson do their best to add what they can to puff life into a largely predictable script. Their roles call for them to hit the wine and the Jack Daniels to make the chatter flow. Perhaps they should have passed the bottle around the audience.

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It is not the often-contrived script, but it is the lighting and audio special effects that cause any scares and jumps.

The woman in row Y, immediately behind me, unexpectedly kicked my seat in fright and let out a bit of a scream at one of the flashing lights moments.

It is not a ‘horror’ show. There is no gore or gruesome aspects. A thriller needs to be unpredictable.

The show does rev up in the final five minutes of the second half.

Two additional members of the cast ( Ayeesha Ash and Jack Van Staveren) make brief but important appearances. They spend just as much time on stage for the curtain call.

The show does provide a handful of laughs, and a twist or two.

The show’s publicity material describes 2:22 A Ghost Story as a “nail-biter”. All our 10 nails were thoroughly intact as we left the theatre.

The audience seemed to comprise a significant rainbow contingent, with a personal following for Ruby Rose and her body art. Daniel MacPherson’s media and theatre profile will not hurt the box office.

We found Gemma Ward to give a performance consistent with someone at the start of their career. Remy Hii’s script did not allow him to be as lively as he otherwise might be.

2:22 has had runs in London’s West End and Los Angeles.

The show is scheduled for a four-week run at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Don’t fret if you don’t get to see it, you’ll live.

Audience members are flashed with the request: “Shhh! Please Don’t Tell.” Sadly, from what we gathered from the after-show Her Maj foyer comments, they are unlikely to say very much at all to the friends about this show.

- Review by Ash Long

■ Australia’s richest sprint race is getting closer with all the star sprinters engaged in the classic back in work for the big one.

The favourite, Victorian champion, Giga Kick , is back in work for his young trainer, Clayton Douglas at Mornington, and looking a treat.

Clayton a former jockey certainly knows what is all about, having ridden an on the flat and over the jumps.

He would have the son of Scissor Kick, starting to bowl along nicely for his crack at a second Everest.

He hasn’t run since a great win in the Doomben 10,000, over 1200 metres back on May 13.

That made it seven wins from his nine starts, with a second and a third.

He has only missed a place once, an unlucky fifth after being slowly away and was well back. That was in the Champion’s Sprint at Flemington back on November 22.

Another that will be right in it here is the top galloper, I Wish I Win, likewise with Giga Kick, his trainer, Peter Moody, would have him back in work at Pakenham.

Back on April 1 he was most impressive in winning the T.J.Smith Stakes over 1200 metres at Randwick back on April 1.

COUNTDOWN TO THE EVEREST Ted Ryan

Prior to that he put in a sensational run in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington up the straight over 1000 metres, coming from last at the 400 metre mark, to be beaten only a long neck by the brilliant filly, Coolangatta, and being slowly into stride.

Then at his last run after that in the Newmarket Handicap, he flashed home to be just beaten by the brilliiant Sydney filly, In Secret, coming from last.

Next, we have another top-class horse in Think About It, prepared by leading Sydney trainer, Joe Pride.

Pride said after the sprinter won the Stradbroke Handicap over 1400 metres that he was the best ghorse he has trained.

From Think About It’s 10 starts, he has won nine with a second.

That took home to eight on end in the Stardbroke.

Another good type competing in the Everest is the top New Zealander, Imperatriz, a brilliant winner of the William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley, back on March 24th.

He is smart and could be hard to beat, although the three above him here are all class.

Meetings affected

■ Racing Victoria advises that the meeting scheduled at Hamilton on Saturday (Aug. 5) has been transferred to Casterton owing to the impacts of wet weather.

The Stewards inspected the Hamilton track and determined the surface is not suitable for racing on Saturday given the track has received 249mm of rain over the past two months.

Racing Victoria advise sthat the two meetings scheduled at Mildura on August 12 and September 9 will be transferred to Kerang and Horsham respectively due to ongoing construc-

tion works. The Mildura Racing Club is currently undergoing repair works to their amenities which were required following the flooding earlier this year.

While the track is progressing well in its re-

covery from flood damage, the racecourse facilities are still being repaired with the construction works not due to be completed in time for the Club’s August and September meetings.

Report on Moody

■ Racing Victoria Stewards have received a report from Racing Analytical Services Limited confirming that a prohibited substance was detected in a pre-race blood sample collected from the Peter Moody trained racehorse, Brereton.

The report relates to a pre-race blood sample taken from Brereton prior to the colt starting in the Hilton Nicholas Straight Six - (Race 6) over 1200 metres, at Flemington Racecourse on May 13, in which it finished in sixth position.

RASL reported that the blood sample was shown to contain Phenylbutazone and

Oxyphenbutazone (a non- steroidal anti-inflammatory and its metabolite) which is a prohibited substance on raceday in accordance with the Australian Rules of Racing.

The Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory also reported that it had detected Phenylbutazone and Oxyphenbutazone within the reserve portion of the blood sample.

Phenylbutazone is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent. It has analgesic (pain relieving), anti-inflammatory and fever suppression properties and is registered for use in horses by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.

The substance is, however, a prohibited substance under the Australian Rules of Racing when detected in a sample taken from a horse at a race meeting or trial (including an official trial or a jump-out for the purpose of obtaining a permit to start in a race).

RV Stewards initially informed Mr Moody of the irregularity on June 20. Mr Moody was informed on July 20 of the confirmatory findings and that Stewards are continuing their investigation.

New look VOBIS

■ The Victorian Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme (VOBIS) has undergone a rebrand ahead of the 2023-24 racing season, with a new structure designed to streamline the renowned program, which offers in excess of $30 million in prizemoney, bonuses and vouchers.

From August 1, the program is being split into VOBIS Silver, VOBIS Gold, VOBIS Platinum and VOBIS Sires in order to simplify the structure for owners, breeders and trainers.

The long-standing Super VOBIS program has been renamed VOBIS Silver which remains the foundation of the scheme from which connections can upgrade to VOBIS Gold and VOBIS Platinum for more lucrative rewards.

- Ted Ryan

● ● Clayton Douglas, trainer of Giga Kick. Racing Photos.

VALLEY DOUBLE TO BEN’S KILMORE STABLE Harness Racing

■ Yarra Valley commenced the week with an interesting even eight event card – the highlight being a double to the Kilmore based Ben Yole stable and ace Lexton reinsman James Herbertson.

Ten-year-old Bettors Delight-Girl In A Million gelding Guys Bettor Bet a winner of 27 from 274 outings with 70 placings was first to arrive taking the restricted class United Petroleum Pace over 2150 metres.

Despite racing uncovered from gate five as Hear The Call inside him led, Guys Bettor Bet after looking to be struggling on the final bend rallied in the straight to record a 1.4 metre margin over the pacemaker returning a mile rate of 2-01.9. Speculator came from the tail for third 6.8 metres away.

■ Stablemate 7Y0 Four Starzzz Shark-Illustrator stallion Image Of Starzzz was victorious in the Yarra Valley Toyota Pace again over 2150 metres for restricted class, leading throughout from the pole to account for Pinnacle Hope (one/ two) which flashed late, with Our True Colours (three wide last lap from the rear to be outside the winner home turn) third. The margins a head by a half head in a thrilling finish with the mile rate 1-59.5.

■ Kilmore trainer Alannah Logie combined with Ellen Tormey to land the 1650 metre Eastern Generator Hire Vicbred Pace with much travelled 11Y0 Bettors Delight-Barogue Pearl gelding Friends in a mile rate of 2-00.3.

Settling at the tail from an inside second line draw, Friends in a daring move was sent three wide racing for the bell to sit parked for the final circuit outside Goodtime Halo (gate three).

Although tackled strongly by The Falcon Prince on turning after following him, Friends defied the challenge to record a nose victory. Williebillie (one/two last lap – three wide home turn) was third 3.9 metres away. The mile rate 2-00.3.

■ Cranbourne based reinsman Kyle Marshall is having a ball in Victoria and chalked up another winner when successful aboard fellow Cranbourne trainer Scott Ewen’s 4Y0 Hes Watching-Cracklin Rosie gelding Hes Olly in the Blonde & Co. Pace over 2150 metres.

Beginning fast from gate five, Hes Olly was able to stride past Best Back Bruce shortly after the start and rated to perfection defied all challengers to greet the judge a half neck clear of Norms Lady (one/two – three wide home turn) in a 1-59.8 mile rate. Helansen (one/one) was third 3 metres away.

Rough night

■ It was a rough night for punters at Shepparton’s Tuesday fixture and very honest 8Y0 Artistic Fella-Madam Narryna mare Roslyn Gaye didn’t help the cause when chalking up her 18th success in 191 outings by taking the 1690 metre Saddleworld Shepparton Pace – first leg of the quaddie at odds of $61.

Bred raced and trained by Tongala’s Gary Merkel who snared all the spoils, Roslyn Gaye with Laura Crossland in the sulky enjoyed a sweet passage from inside the second line following the poleline leader Always Be Chloe another Goulburn Valley trained runner.

Using the sprint lane on turning, Roslyn Gaye dashed home in a 28.2 final quarter to blouse the pacemaker by 1.3 metres, with Tooram Cee Cee off a three wide trail from near last in the final circuit for third 2.2 metres away. The mile rate 1-57.2.

■ Another long priced winner was Echuca trainer Peter Lindberg’s 7Y0 Down Under Muscles-Reba Supreme gelding Star Down Under ($23.00) in the 2190 metre Jims Diggers Trotters Handicap.

Bred and raced by Peter under the banner of Echuca Sulkies Pty Ltd, Star Down Under was bad away from outside the front line as were some of his rivals, but made ground quickly with reinsman James Herbertson lobbing one/one mid-field trailing the hot favourite Van Doren (10m) which raced outside the leader Firengrace (barrier two).

When Van Doren strode to the front on the final bend, the effort of racing exposed told and Star Down Under out wide finished best to prevail by 6.2 metres (his 7th in 53 outings) over Berriesandcherries (barrier three) which trailed

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the pilot. Yankee Lover (10m – five pegs – one/ three at bell) was third a half head away. The mile rate 2-02.8.

■ Four year old Bettors Delight-Carolsideal gelding Carolsdiamond first up for Strathfieldsaye trainer Julie Douglas landed the rich $10,000 Alabar Vicbred Platinum Maiden Pace on debut.

Driven by brother-in-law Daryl Douglas, Carols Diamond after a failed bid from gate two to cross Roam inside him was left stranded until another first starter Ariarne after a slow beginning from gate five went forward to park outside Roam at the bell.

Moving to join the leader on the final bend, Carolsdiamond showed great intestinal fortitude to gain a last stride nose victory in a rate of 159.2. Aliza Hill after trailing the leader was third 7.7 metres away.

■ 2015 Inter Dominion and 2016 Ballarat Cup winner Lennytheshark sired filly Lennys Angel a daughter of Earth Angel to snare a dramatic Neatline Homes 3Y0 Pace over 2190 metres.

Trained and driven by David Aiken (Lennys trainer), the filly settled three back in the moving line from gate three as Kialla Kid led from inside her. Going forward in the last lap to join Kialla Kid on the home turn as Son Of The Shark, Island Feenix and Eye Dee Philtra all came to grief on the final bend, Lennys Angel easily accounted for Royal Appointment (three pegs) by 10 metres returning a mile rate of 1-59.3. Kialla Kid battled on gamely for third a half neck back.

Caught wide

■ At Bendigo on Wednesday, Kyneton duo Greg and Steve Leight were victorious with their 4Y0 Peak-Van Perfect gelding Perfect Peak ($34.00) in the Racing Education Centre Trotters Mobile over 2150 metres.

Given a lovely trip from gate four most of the way after Jack Sullivan aboard Major Max which had been caught wide from outside the front line went forward to race exposed outside the poleline leader Mumstheword.

When Major Max strode past Mumstheword on the home turn, Perfect Peak was poised to pounce and that he did, scoring by 3.3 metres from Lindy Grace which trailed the leader and finished fast. Major Max was gallant in defeat 1.9 metres back. The mile rate 2-02.4.

■ The Haeuslers Echuca Trotters Mobile went to 6Y0 Love You-Focus On Me gelding Kyvalley Surfrider to the deafening roar of Ross Creek part-owner/trainer Katrina Fitzpatrick.

Driven by Michael Bellman, Kyvalley Surfrider was away safely from gate six to enjoy the run of the race on the back of the pacemaker Dances (gate three), before running home late along the sprint lane to blouse the leader by a neck returning a mile rate of 2-01.4. Tetra (four pegs) was third 11.1 metres away.

■ Heathcote owner/trainer Terry French combined with in-form eighteen year old Liam Older to snare the Gold Central Victoria Pace over 1650 metres aboard 4Y0 Well Said-Fun On The Run mare Interpretation. Coming out running from gate four, Interpretation was restrained to allow Community Art to cross him in what was the ‘drive of the night’ from Tayla French who had weaved in-between runners from the extreme draw.

Using the sprint lane, Interpretation gained

the judges nod by a head, with American Hammer (one/two – three wide last lap) third 5.3 metres back in third place. The mile rate 1-55.9. Liam Older has only recently joined the Alex Ashwood/Taylah French stable.

■ Cardigan trainer Anton Golino’s Love YouTop Of The Anvils 4Y0 entire Iron Love has returned to racing in dynamic fashion for Pat Driscolls Yabby Dam Farms Pty. Ltd, making it two from two this time in when successful in the 2150 metre Sheahan Plumbing Trotters Mobile.

Allowed to find his rhythm from gate four as pole marker Hold That Gold led before taking a trail on Everybodylovesme . Iron Love (three wide) sprinted brilliantly to assume control racing for the bell and coasted for the rest of the journey, winning as he pleased by 13.6 metres in advance of Kyvalley Picasso along the sprint lane from four pegs. Everybodylovesme after looking beaten approaching the home turn rallied in the straight to finish third a metre back. The mile rate 1-58.8.

4 trots events

■ Ballarat raced on Thursday with an even program featuring four trotting events, the first being the VHRC /Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members Maiden Trotters Mobile over 2200 metres, the victor being Havelock (Maryborough) breeder/owner/trainer/driver Tina Ridis’ 6Y0 Danny Bouchea-Town Player mare Chantilly Dee.

Despite racing uncovered for most of the trip, Chantilly Dee outstayed her rivals to score by 14.7 metres from the leader Heza Gunslinger in a rate of 2-04.3. Roll With Roscoe was third 2.3 metres away.

■ The Australasian Premium Trotting Sale Heat for 3Y0 Colts & Geldings over 2200 metres went the way of Kialla trainer Wayne Potter’s Aldebaran Eagle-Naked Majesty gelding Avenel Eagle with daughter Tamsyn in the sulky. Settling four pegs from gate six and one/ one for the last lap, Avenel Eagle ran home strongly to account for Darcys Fireball (one/two last lap from the rear) by 2 metres, with Aldebaran Jensen third 1.8 metres back after racing exposed for the final circuit. The mile rate 203.5.

■ The Fillies heat saw an easy victory to the Jess Tubbs trained and Greg Sugars driven Cognati, a daughter of Majestic Son and Elusive Charm which led throughout from the pole to greet the judge by a neck from a death-seating last lap Aldebaran Miley in 2-03.4. The Sky Is The Limit after following the winner was third 11.1 metres back.

■ The 2200 metre Aldebaran Park Benefiting Our Members Trotters Mobile was taken out by A.J & Beau Tindale’s Used To Me-Elle Galleon 5Y0 mare She Sailz giving Greg Sugars another winner on the card.

Tackled at the start from gate three by both Acool Investment and Silent Reverie (three wide), She Sailz defied all challengers to defeat Eagles Nest (one/two) and Countess Chiron (one/ four) in a rate of 2-03.5. The margins 14.2 by a half head.

■ Speedy 5Y0 Somebeachsomewhere-Our Narissa Franco gelding Telemachus raced and trained by Smythes Creek’s Nathan Cahir led throughout from gate four in the VHRC/ Heywoods Shepparton Motor Panels Pace over 1710 metres giving youthful Heathcote concessional reinsman Sean O’Sullivan his seventeenth winner.

Kicking clear on the final bend, Telemachus scored by 1.4 metres over Tallaras Shadow (one/ one at bell) and Metro Memory from near last returning a mile rate of 1-58.2.

Double day

■ Two meetings Friday running in conjunction with each other – Melton and Mildura.

At Melton, Cranbourne trainer/driver Kyle Marshall’s high quality American Ideal-Rusty Mac colt Son Of Mac (gate four) at the unbackable odds of $1-06 was another easy winner of the 2240 Swift Signs Pace, leading for the last half of the journey in defeating Melanion (one/one) and Jilliby Nitro which was left exposed after trailing the winner, but has bigger fish to fry in upcoming races. The mile rate 1-56.2.

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This Week

■ Wednesday – Bendigo, Thursday –Charlton and Kilmore, Friday – Mildura/ Geelong, Saturday – Melton, Monday –Maryborough, Tuesday – Shepparton.

■ At Mildura local reinsman Luke Watson chalked up a treble scoring aboard Stylish Gem for Frank Cavallaro in the McDonalds Irymple & Mildura Pace, Powerofpersuasion for Sandra O’Connor in the Gary Ridings Thermo Imaging Pace and Headbanger trained by himself in the Hero Retirement Planning Pace, while Ellen Tormey and Ryan Sanderson each drove a double – Son Of Zodiac (Andrew Vozlic) and Wiltshire Boulevard (Scott Garraway) for Ryan and while Neds Beach and Itsallaboutned also gave Reece Moore the Tormey double.

Life of luxury

■ Handy trotter Carnera has been retired to a life of luxury – with a record of 19 wins and 47 placings from 187 outings, the horse earned stakes in excess of $165,000 from wins in both Victoria and Queensland.

Entertainment

Indie Symphony

■ ‘Indie Symphony’, presented by Orchestra Victoria at Hamer Hall on Friday, September 8, offers a spectacular and rare Australian opportunity to experience a selection of independently developed video games and live performance of their scores like never before, extending orchestral music beyond its genre boundaries.

In this special event which celebrates the vital role of music in enlivening video games, Indie Symphony will showcase beloved soundtracks from bestselling, independently developed, video games.

This is the first time that Australian video game fans will be able to experience these soundtracks performed live by a full orchestra with guest soloists, accompanied by striking visuals from feature games and bespoke lighting designs.

The soundtracks featured in this special event have transcended gaming, inspiring millions with their captivating melodies.

Composed by Christopher Larkin, the epic score for breakout game Hollow Knight is the central work of the concert and its epic finale. Hollow Knight is one of Australia’s top-selling games, with a soundtrack that has amassed over eight million listens and is available on vinyl, five years post-release.

Indie Symphony’s program will also feature Stray Gods, a groundbreaking roleplaying musical, and acclaimed games Celeste, Necrobarista, Journey, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Hades. These soundtracks have transcended gaming, inspiring millions with their captivating melodies, and this is an opportunity to connect with them in a unique experience.

Each of the showcased games are a testament to the incredible talent of Australian game developers, composers, musicians, orchestrators, and fans. Indie Symphony champions the creativity and diversity found in the games and music industries. With a strong emphasis on representation, the concert highlights women and gender-diverse creatives who have often been underrepresented in these fields.

‘Indie Symphony’ will play at Hamer Hall in Melbourne Friday, September 8 at 8pm Running time is approx. 140 min (including 20 min interval).

with Len Baker

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FRONT including bonnet for Ford BA XR6. Fair offer. Seymour. 0419 881 573.

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FORD. 93 XF Panel Van. VIN 6FPAAAJGCMPM. 77,320. Fair Cond. $1500. St Alabns. 0481 213 471.T-AA

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HAY

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MATTRESS. Coleman

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RIMS. 4. 18-inch to suit Toyota Hilux, GC. $350. Reservoir. 0418 752 691.

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SUZUKI. 2022 Vitara

Manual 2WD SUV. 4 cyl, 1.6L, petrol, one owner, low kms (2250 kms). New car warranty till 2027. Reluctant sale due to overseas relocation. As new. $29,900. Wandin East. 0400 062 010.

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WANTED TO BUY

TANDEM TRAILER. 10’ x 5’, all steel construction, lights, brakes all in good working order. Made by Forest Hill Trailers. GC. $2000. Croydon. 9726 8513.F-I

TOYOTA Sedan. 2001. Silver. A/C, good tyres, body good, runs great. Clean little car. 190,000 kms. No registration. Car was purchased for granddaughter but she never got her liecnec. Would make someone a good car, JT764AEB 20006409. VGC. $32,000. Mill Park. 0402 145 766. T-AA

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MOONEE PONDS BAPTIST CHURCH , 45 Eglinton St, 5.30pm Mondays, supports those from Moonee Valley in a tough place. All welcome for a free hot meal from 5.30pm on Mondays. If you have food handling, listening or cleaning skills, then contact us to help out. 0466 075 820. UFN

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Public Notice of Precipe, Tacit Acceptance and Reconveyance

Shaun William Carroll© and Michelle Dianne Carroll© of Diamond Creek, Victoria State, are not voluntary transactors in commerce, and are the irrefutable Holder in Due Course of our property and all associated copyright protected Trade Names since unrebutted lawful Reconveyance to the Land and Soil jurisdiction of Terra Australis, commonly known as the Commonwealth of Australia, Public Recording Number RPP44 63900 05100 20162 94600 and RPP44 63900 05100 19526 46603, Proclamation Date 20th June 2023, thus severing usufruct subjugation ties with the occupying corporate government of Australia in its entirety. Immediately cease and desist any further infringement upon these copyright protected financial instruments and cease and desist misaddressing Shaun William Carroll© and Michelle Dianne Carroll© in fraudulent debased Dog-Latin, GLOSSA.

FORM 7

Regulation 16

Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986

Notice of Acquisition

Compulsory Acquisition of Interest in Land

The Greater Western Water Corporation (ABN 70 066 902 467) (Greater Western Water) declares that by this notice it acquires the following interest in part of the land described as Lot 3 on Plan of Subdivision LP203463S and contained in Certificate of Title Volume 9687 Folio 144.

An easement for water supply and sewerage purposes over that part of the land marked as “E-2” and “E-3” on the plan for creation of easement (Surveyor’s Ref. 302903CE23, Version 04) depicted below in accordance with the rights and obligations set out in Memoranda of Common Provisions AA8989 and AA8988 in relation to the water supply and sewerage components of the easement respectively.

Interests Acquired: That of Nick Zurzolo and Sheryn Lee Zurzolo (registered proprietors) and all other interests.

The acquisition is made pursuant to section 130 of the Water Act 1989, for the purpose of the Aintree Sewer Rising Main.

A notice of intention to acquire the interest in the land was served on 22 December 2022.

Published with the authority of Greater Western Water.

For and on behalf of Greater Western Water

Signed: CATHY BOURKE

Name:Cathy Bourke

Acting Manager Major Infrastructure and Project Delivery

Greater Western Water

Date:21 June 2023

ALL CAR advertisers must supply registration or Vehicle Identification Numbers. By law, we are unable to publish listings without those details.

ANTIQUE MIRROR. Back English Oak Sideboard 2 srawers and 3 cupboards, Will forward photo by text if interested. VGC. $350. Ivanhoe East. 0431 239 955.

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FOR SALE

•Long-term agreements

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•Property inspections are by appointment only NET PROFIT: $381,153. PRICE: $1,143,459