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Mornington News 30 January 2018
STATE Opposition Leader Matthew Guy was in Frankston last week bearing gifts in the form of election promises ranging from extending train services to building bridges to ease traffic congestion and reviving expansion of the Port of Hastings. Mr Guy made an election pitch tailored to a Frankston audience when he addressed a Committee for Greater Frankston lunch at McClelland Gallery. (Premier Daniel Andrews will address the committee at a public event in May.) The Liberal leader said electrification of the rail line from Frankston to Langwarrin and on to Baxter was one of two major rail extension projects in the state (the other being Melton). “The [Frankston] line does need extending,” he said, “and we will be making formal comments [about it] in the months ahead.” C4GF chief executive Ginevra Hosking said extending the line would benefit two of the region’s most car-dependent suburbs, Karingal and Langwarrin, and connect 37,000 residents including 19,000 who commute to work. Mornington Peninsula residents would be able to drive to Langwarrin, leave their cars at a new car park, and access the metro rail network. Mr Guy said the Coalition’s $5.3 billion plan to build road bridges at more than 50 congested intersections in metro Melbourne included Frankston’s Cranbourne Road–Moorooduc Highway intersection, site of 53 crashes in recent years. A Coalition government would put expansion of the Port of Hastings back on the agenda to create “jobs in this region”. Mr Guy said he supported the proposed $250 million expansion of Frankston Hospital and its research partnership with Monash University. “We will say more after completion of the feasibility study.” He said a Coalition government would consider moving government department jobs to outlying suburbs such as Frankston and Ringwood, adding to existing plans to move jobs to Victorian regions. He reiterated proposals to extend jail terms for violent criminals who breached bail or parole; rejected safe
Gallery lunch: At the Committee for Greater Frankston (C4GF) business lunch on Friday 19 January were, from left, Frankston mayor Cr Colin Hampton, Liberal candidate for Carrum Donna Bauer, C4GF president Fred Harrison, Liberal MP for Hastings Neale Burgess, C4GF chief executive Ginevra Hosking, Liberal candidate for Frankston Michael Lamb, and the event’s guest speaker, Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. Picture: Gary Sissons
injecting rooms in Frankston; and said he would remove the ban on onshore gas extraction to help reduce electricity costs. Michael Hast
Public appeal plan Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au IF you’re unhappy with decisions made by the state planning minister, try to get him sacked through the ballot box. At least that’s the thinking of Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor David Gill. Cr Gill has outlined a plan to seek public funding for an assault on Planning Minister Richard Wynne’s seat of Richmond at the November state election. “I’m not too familiar with crowdfunding, but I’ll find someone who knows the technical parts of setting up an online way of raising money to make sure he’s not re-elected,” Cr Gill told The News. He said trying to influence the outcome of elections on the peninsula was pointless as all three seats – Nepean (Martin Dixon – who is retiring at the next election), Mornington (David Morris) and Hastings (Neale Burgess) – are firmly held by Liberals, and most likely to stay that way. Attacking the seat held by the Labor government’s planning minister would be a far more effective lobbying tool. Cr Gill stresses that he is acting as a private
citizen and not a councillor, although the shire has also voiced dissatisfaction at the planning minister’s decisions, mainly to do with building heights and densities and changes to green wedge planning provisions. Emails from the shire carry the following: Mornington Peninsula Shire Council is very concerned about recent state government changes that may drastically affect the peninsula. For more information, please visit our website at www.mornpen.vic.gov.au or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mornpenshire. “There’s the ability on the peninsula [of people] to fund something like this,” Cr Gill said. “We need to show the government it can’t take safe seats for granted and there’s enough time before the November election to get something started. ”I won’t be asking the shire to join in, although it’s already advocating against what [Mr Wynne is] doing. “I think Richmond is likely to fall to the Greens anyway.” Cr Gill said $200 million promised to Frankston in recent elections “shows the advantages of living in a marginal electorate”. Frankston is held for the Labor Party by Paul Edbrooke with a less than one per cent margin. The three peninsula MPs are comfortable, with