30th September 2014

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Day with a message: everyone belongs

In Harmony: Jade Balaam, Nam Soonthronpreuk and Harrison Colling with music duo River Tribe in the school grounds. Picture: Yanni

ROSEBUD Secondary College students finished term three with high ideals at the annual Harmony Day celebration. “The message of Harmony Day is ‘everyone belongs’ and it is marked globally each year on 21 March as the United Nations’ International Day for Elimination of Racism,” organising teacher Nicolle Brigden said. “We choose to celebrate this important day in the spring term as a sign of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home: from our country’s traditional owners to the many people who have come here from all over the world.” This year, Harmony Day featured a performance by Egyptian-Australian comedian Khaled Khalafalla, and the school’s courtyard at lunchtime was the setting for an international festival. Rivertribe provided indigenous beats, and students were treated to face-painting and the ancient Hindu custom of henna body art. “With the financial support of the Mornington Peninsula Shire, we are able to highlight to students the many advantages multiculturalism brings to Australia,” Mrs Brigden said. Students and staff wore orange ribbons to show they believe in diversity, equality and acceptance of all those that make up the community. “At a time when refugees fleeing persecution are demonised for coming to Australia by boat, and Muslims are again being unfairly stereotyped as terrorists because of the actions of a small number of extremists, it is more important than ever that we make a stand against racism,” school captain, Tim Tilley, said.

Minister deals new blow to SPA David Harrison david@mpnews.com.au PROSPECTS for a pool complex on the Rosebud foreshore have receded even further after written confirmation that the project must meet the state government’s new stricter Victorian Coastal Strategy requirements. The confirmation was in a letter from the environment department, received as Mornington Peninsula councillors again engaged in tense, sometimes highly emotional, debate about the Southern Peninsula Aquatic Centre.

The issue, raised as urgent business at the 22 September council meeting, was the second SPA debate in a fortnight. Some 30 placard-carrying proforeshore site supporters filed quietly into the Rosebud Memorial Hall as the meeting started, to a welcome from the mayor Cr Antonella Celi, a strong foreshore pool advocate. Questions on the project were dealt with by shire CEO Michael Kennedy, some paraphrased to meet question time standards. The two-part urgent business resolution first tackled a rescission motion,

lodged by Cr Anne Shaw a fortnight earlier to try to overturn a decision stopping work on the SPA. It then laid out a detailed proposal for community use of property bought in Wannaeue Place in 2012 as an alternative site for the pool complex. Both parts passed, the second part with the highly significant backing of leading foreshore site supporter Cr David Gibb. Opposition came from councillors Celi, Shaw and Andrew Dixon. Cr David Garnock is overseas and Cr Graham Pittock is unable to vote on SPA issues. But immediately the meeting ended

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