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Marching, chanting with the environment in mind SOUNDS of chanting and drumming coming from Rosebud shopping centre last week were orchestrated by one of the many pro-environment groups making up Extinction Rebellion Victoria. Organiser Kate Wilkins said the local response to the Thursday afternoon disruption was interesting: “We were mostly cheered, congratulated and thanked by onlookers – surprisingly by a lot of the elderly shoppers,” she said. The retailers’ response was mixed: “Woolworths ran us out quick smart, while Aldi was hospitable and quite unconcerned.” Ms Wilkins agreed it “probably seems like there are so many environment stories and so much climate-related news” these days. “This will only increase,” she said. “Extinction Rebellion members find it hard to see how there really can be any more important news than this existential threat of utter environmental degradation and destruction of the ecological systems our very life depends on.” The group acknowledges the dedication of so many people in preserving and protecting the environment. “The problem is, nothing has worked,” Ms Wilkins said. “After many hard years of campaigning, we are in a worse state than ever before and are rapidly taking the world to the brink of a no-return scenario.” Setting itself on a collision course with mainstream society, Extinction Rebellion says it will use non-violent civil disobedience
United voices: Extinction Rebellion members make themselves heard in Rosebud shopping centre. Picture: Yanni
to get its point across. A Spring Uprising, with traffic disruptions and blockading in the Melbourne CBD from 7 October will no doubt put many commuters offside. “The disruptions will be creative and colourful and absolutely nonviolent,” Ms Wilkins said. “We must halt ‘business as usual’ in order to indicate to governments and power elites that we won’t allow this to go on. “We simply cannot let them destroy the future for generations
Applications open Fire Management Contractors List 2019/20 Mornington Peninsula Shire invites applications from contractors to be considered for placement on our Fire Management Contractors List. The Shire inspects private land for fire hazards in the lead-up to summer and during the Declared Fire Danger Period. Where a fire hazard is identified, landowners are sent a Fire Prevention Notice issued under the Country Fire Authority
Act 1958 to remove the fire hazard by a specified date. To assist owners with carrying out the work, the Shire includes a Fire Management Contractors List with each Fire Prevention Notice sent. Contractors may be requested to undertake works including slashing grass and undertaking weed and vegetation removal.
Applications close 5pm Friday 11 October 2019 To apply and learn more visit: mornpen.vic.gov.au/fpn
For more information contact the Environment Protection Unit: 5950 1050 PAGE 6
Southern Peninsula News 18 September 2019
to come. To allow that would be to fail humanity in the most profound way.” The group wants the federal government to commit to net zero carbon emissions by 2025 – “2050 is way too late”. It wants the decision-making process given to citizens’ assemblies that are “not pressured by giant lobbies and this vital issue moved beyond partisan politicking”. Ms Wilkins said: “I’m a grandmother of two beautiful boys and
I’ve come to the point – after crying so many tears – of understanding that the most I can love them is to stand against this criminal robbing of their future security and rights in an environment fit for healthy living. “All the people in this group are united by their passion for this beautiful world and all that lives in it and we will keep working until we achieve our goal of halting this disastrous course we have taken.”
Help shape our water future Join us to share your ideas We’re reviewing the way we manage water to ensure that it best supports our community, the environment, the economy, long term cultural change and climate change resilience. This review will also align us with the newly developed Victorian Integrated Water Management Framework. We’re developing a new Strategy in partnership with the community, bringing together your ideas, from everyday actions to innovation, to shape your water future. Councillors and community will get together for a ‘think tank’ discussion guiding the direction of our new Integrated Water Management Strategy and Action Plan.
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Recommendations from this meeting will be considered in council’s subsequent internal workshops. Anyone wanting to make a three minute verbal submission, at the forward planning meeting, needs to RSVP.
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Forward Planning Committee Meeting
23 October, 5pm Shire Offices, 90 Besgrove Street, Rosebud
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