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Peninsula’s tourism goes online as a career choice SOCIAL media is being used to attract staff to work for Mornington Peninsula tourism operators. The mayor Cr Bev Colomb said the campaign being undertaken by Mornington Peninsula Shire and Mornington Peninsula Regional Tourism Board aimed to encourage and build understanding for people to consider the peninsula’s tourism industry as a career choice.
She said a website would help to inspire job seekers and provide insight into career options and “lifestyle choices” within the industry. Executive chair of the MPRTB Tracey Cooper said the shire and the regional tourism board were working with tourism operators to promote how people can have a satisfying career within the tourism industry.
Tourism operators: Tracey Cooper, head of Mornington Peninsula Regional Tourism Board, surrounded by industry people at the Epicurean, Red Hill. Picture: Yanni
Ms Cooper said the peninsula’s tourism industry was one of the “healthiest” in Victoria, yet businesses faced a genuine issue with attracting and retaining employees. Alongside the website, there will be a Facebook page on joining the tourism industry. The project is sponsored by Chisholm Institute. Details: mpcareers.com.au
Protesters call to end cat kill By Danielle Kutchel ANIMAL advocates are protesting against the number of cats being killed after being held at Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Community Animal Shelter. Around 25 people from across Melbourne attended the rally on Sunday 20 November at the Watt Rd pound. Many are in animal rescue groups or advocacy work and used the time to discuss best practice management with colleagues. The shelter, which holds animals
found wandering on the peninsula, has been criticised for its alleged high-kill rates, barriers to adoption and limited public opening hours. Rally organiser Rosy Fischer, a former volunteer at the pound, said she spoke out “after witnessing an apparent lack of interest from shelter management in facilitating adoption of unclaimed animals and high kill rates of impounded cats”. “The rally was to highlight the fact that very few animals are listed for
adoption, the shelter is closed to the public and potential adopters have to go through a long-winded adoption process,” she said. “These practices make it difficult for animals to be reclaimed or rehomed from the facility and can lead to higher rates of euthanasia.” The main aim of the rally was to achieve a no-kill shelter, Ms Fischer said. She said no-kill shelters have a euthanasia rate of 10 per cent or less,
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meaning most impounded animals are reclaimed or rehomed. Euthanasia is a last resort and animals are treated and rehabilitated before being marketed for adoption. Ms Fischer said this was not the case at the Mornington shelter. “I have seen healthy, rehomable cats taken away to be killed to make room for other cats coming in,” she said. “In their statistics the shelter says only feral or very sick cats are euthanised, which is false.”
Many of those attending were shocked the pound is not open [on a come-one, come-all basis] to the public, Ms Fischer said. She told the rally she had seen animals left without water and new arrivals not checked for microchips or assessed for potentially contagious health issues. She said some of the violations contravened the Victorian Code of Practice for the Operation of Shelters and Pounds. Continued Page 6
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