NEWS DESK Artists to shine light on mental health AN art competition and exhibition for young people on the Mornington Peninsula is being held to celebrate the inaugural Victorian Youth Week. Southern Peninsula Youth Advisory Group is encouraging artists to participate in the Our Mental Health Matters section under the theme: Light after the dark. Works should demonstrate how art has assisted a journey “out of the dark and into the light” focusing on hope, recovery and the impact of mental health. Applications are open to those aged 12-25 years who live on the peninsula. Categories are painting, drawing, sculpture, graffiti art, dance and poetry. Our Mental Health Matters Exhibition is 6- 8pm, Friday 20 April, at Southern Peninsula Art Centre, Eastbourne Road, Rosebud. Entries will complement an information session by Headspace Frankston. “Our wellbeing is a key theme of the council plan and we’re committed to ensuring our youth feel valued and supported,” the mayor Cr Bryan Payne said. “The theme Our Mental Health Matters was chosen to raise awareness around the prevalence of youth mental health issues and provide our young people a platform to share their stories.” Applications close 5pm, Monday 16 April. Prizes include vouchers to the value of $250 for first prize; $150 for second prize and $100 for third prize. Youth Week 2018 runs from 13-22 April.Details: mpys.com.au/art
PROPOSED changes to the boundaries of Victorian federal electorates almost halve the seat of Flinders held by Liberal Greg Hunt, while the neighbouring seat of Dunkley held by Liberal MP Chris Crewther moves slightly north into parts of Isaacs. The changes – which create a new seat of Monash from the eastern and northern parts of Flinders – are designed to reflect population growth so that each electorate has a similar number of voters and have been made to accomodate a new electorate to be called Fraser in Melbourne’s western suburbs. Mr Hunt’s Flinders electorate could be scaled back to cover only the Mornington Peninsula (excluding Mt Eliza) and French Island. Cut from Flinders are large areas in the cities of Casey and Cardinia and the Shire of Bass Coast, including Phillip Island. Added to Flinders is that part of Baxter north of Baxter-Tooradin Road and from Bentons Road, Mornington to Manmangur Creek (the northern boundary of Mornington Golf Course) and Oakbank Road, Mt Eliza. These areas were formerly within Dunkley. Dunkley stands to gain a section of the seat of Isaacs north to Thompsons Road (Sandhurst), and down Eel Race Road to the bay. Both Mr Hunt and Mr Crewther declined to comment on the proposed changes late last week and referred media inquiries to the Liberal Party’s state director, Nick Demiris, who was not available. The Redistribution Committee for Victoria considered names and boundaries for the 38 Victorian federal electoral divisions. It had the task of rearranging boundaries in the lowgrowth eastern suburbs of Melbourne to “more equitably balance the high-growth areas in the south-east and north-west”, as well as taking high growth areas out of electoral divisions which “exceed the maximum number of electors permitted by the Electoral Act, including the divisions of McEwen and McMillan”. Committee chair and electoral commissioner Tom Rogers said the redistribution was required to enable an increase from 37 to 38 federal electoral divisions.
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Electoral ground “Under the proposal the boundaries of all 37 existing Victorian electoral divisions would change, the additional division of Fraser would be created and four divisions would be renamed,” Mr Rogers said. “The high population growth in Victoria, together with the dispersed spread of electors,
has resulted in the redistribution committee proposing significant change to Victoria’s electoral division boundaries.” The proposed new seat of Monash would replace the seat of McMillan and take over the eastern portion of Mr Hunt’s existing electorate. Written objections to the committee’s propos-
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