April 19th 2011

Southern Peninsula

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Tribe called by the bell THE eyes of the surfing world are fixed on Victoria and the annual Easter contest at Bells Beach, Torquay.

The contest has been running for 50 years and Mornington Peninsula surfers have been there from the beginning.

The modern set-up is nothing like the judging tents and rule of thumb measurement of the past, possibly because there is so much at stake in prizemoney and sponsors’ reputations.

Although the event might have grown to be a worldwide attraction, the raw materials and arena remain the same: the big, beautiful waves of Bells.

Saturday 16 April saw a “reunion of the tribe”, surfers who have been involved over the past half century, including, from left, Ted Bainbridge of Peninsula Surf Centre, surfboard makers Mick Pierce and Maurice Cole, and Rip Curl coowner Doug Warbrick.

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Green Corps cuts strand students

By Mike Hast CONSERVATION and land management students Murray Williams and Samantha Stryk stood on Rosebud West beach last week, glumly staring out over crystal blue waters on a beautiful sunny autumn day.

It was hard to enjoy the day, the best one in a week of showers and clouds, because they are among 15 students who have just had the rug pulled out from under their budding conservation careers.

A Queensland-based job training agency has withdrawn funding for their conservation and land management program, which was being run by Clean Ocean Foundation on five peninsula foreshore locations.

The cut to the National Green Jobs Corps affects the students, three trainers and five programs at Rosebud, Rosebud West, Rosebud South, Dro-

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by Max Employment comes just two weeks before six of the students, including Murray and Samantha, were due to start the next stage of their Certificate II in Conservation and Land Management.

The move has dismayed Clean Ocean, foreshore committees of management and prompted federal Flinders MP Greg Hunt to call on the federal Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Chris Evans, to investigate Max Employment.

At a meeting on Capel Sound foreshore in Rosebud West last week, Mr Hunt said Clean Ocean and the students had been “done over by Max Employment”.

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“They [Max Employment] have not done the program they said they would and now we have unemployed youngsters.”

Mr Hunt said he had called Max Employment and was told the program “no longer fitted into their plans”. This was an unacceptable excuse.

“This has come as a huge blow to the conservation community on the peninsula. The last-minute scrapping of the program means there are now no Green Jobs Corps training courses for young people on the peninsula.

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Mr Hunt, Opposition spokesman for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage, said Green Corps was launched by then Prime Minister John Howard in March 1997. NowOpposition leader Tony Abbott had been in charge when he was a junior minister in the Howard government.

Mr Hunt said he had not called his leader about the cuts, but wanted to give Mr Evans “a few days” to respond to his letter.

Disappointment was obvious on the faces of Murray Williams, 18, of Dromana, and Samantha Stryk, also 18, of Rosebud, at the beach meeting.

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Ms Stryk said the program “provided an open door to finish my course and start a career looking after plants and animals”.

The peninsula is now without a Green Corps, with the closest at Cranbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

Programs to suffer are 800 hours of revegetation at Somers foreshore that already had a timetable distributed to students, ongoing revegetation at Capel Sound foreshore, revegetation at nearby Chinamans Creek with Norm McKinlay’s ‘Friends’ group, boardwalk construction at Waterfall Gully at the back of Rosebud, and ongoing work in Rosebud South and in Latrobe Pde, Dromana.

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Ratepayers outline hopes and concerns TWO controversial projects – one past, one future – featured at Nepean Ratepayers Association’s annual meeting earlier this month at Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron. World renowned veteran coastal engineer Gerry Byrne of Sorrento gave his take on the dredging of Port Phillip and the loss of Portsea’s front beach and Gerard Clarke of Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron outlined the club’s expansion plans (see page 5) Representing Mornington Peninsula Shire were Nepean Ward councillor Tim Rodgers, mayor Graham Pittock and shire chief executive Michael Kennedy.

Dr Kennedy – sitting at the rear of the yacht squadron’s main meeting room and sporting his triathlon gear – said he’d only missed one annual meeting and was still being reminded of this.

He left the room five minutes later to answer his mobile phone on the club’s balcony, but returned during the election of office bearers.

In her opening remarks, Ms Riley said the association promoted the ideal that one set of government planning rules did not fit all on the Mornington Peninsula. She hoped the Baillieu coalition government elected last November and planning minister Matthew Guy would give the peninsula a fairer go than the previous government.

The formal part of the meeting finished with all

officers being returned for another term: president Rae Riley, secretary Christine Granger, treasurer Michael Batchelor, and committee members Fred Dijkgraaf, Colin Giles, Sue Leeming, Alex Lockwood, Chris Quin and Lino Tarquinio.

First guest speaker Tim Rodgers said he was feeling faint after hearing praise from Ms Riley, which elicited much mirth.

He said projects underway and on the horizon had been informed by genuine community consultation, which was “all about people having a chat; finding out what people want and think”.

He said mayor Graham Pittock had bought a new attitude to the council by encouraging community members to meet councillors “in the councillors’ lounge” at the Rosebud shire office.

He credited the Blairgowrie Action Group with pushing for the St Johns Wood pedestrian path, now under construction.

Cr Rodgers said new street lights along Ocean Beach Rd in Sorrento would be installed, with the first five going in on the week before Easter; the result of effective community consultation.  For information about Nepean Ratepayers Association, call secretary Christine Granger on 5984 0397 or email info@nepeanratepayers.com or visit www.nepeanratepayers.com Mike Hast

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“We are acutely aware that the Rosebud community has high levels of disadvantage which is compounded by its relative geographical isolation. It is therefore crucial that we maintain a local presence in Rosebud,” said Helen Constas, chief executive officer.

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Early grapes a warming sign

By Mike Hast MORNINGTON Peninsula grapes being harvested earlier than historically normal since 1998 was a key marker of climate warming, says climate scientist Roger Jones.

Dr Jones, of the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University, told the Greenhouse 2011 Conference in Cairns last week that regional warming occurs in a series of “steps” rather than as a gradual trend.

Southeastern Australia had experienced two large steps in warming during the past 45 years. The evidence showed most of the change was not due to natural climate variability.

“On the Mornington Peninsula, grapes have ripened at least three weeks faster since an abrupt shift in 1998. The forest fire danger index in Victoria has increased by almost 40 per cent from 1997,” he told delegates.

Two large steps occurred in 1968 – when minimum temperature increased by 0.7°C and an underlying change in maximum temperature was masked by increased rainfall – and 1997-98, when maximum temperature increased by 0.9°C and rainfall fell by 9 per cent.

Most of the warming in southeastern Australia had occurred during these two periods, with little change in between.

The southern hemisphere also warmed in a step-wise fashion in these two periods. In 1997, the step-change was mirrored globally, with average temperatures worldwide increasing by 0.3°C, he said.

When regional climate simulated by 11 climate models was analysed, the same patterns of change were found.

“Early 20th century climate is stable in all simulations until the second half of the 20th century,” he said.

“Warming begins abruptly in one or two steps, then during the 21st century, as greenhouse gas emissions accelerate, regional temperature warms in steps and trends.”

The 1968 step-change also coincided with major decreases in rainfall over southwest Western Australia.

Professor Jones said major effects of the 1997-98 step change in southeastern Australia included increased fire danger, heat stress, water shortages and faster crop ripening times.

“Most planning for adaptation to climate change is based on assuming gradual change. These findings have

the potential to completely alter how we manage changing climate risks.”

Last year, Snow Barlow, professor of horticulture and viticulture at the University of Melbourne who owns a vineyard north of Melbourne, said he rarely meets a climate change sceptic in the wine industry.

He said Australian winemakers were at the forefront of climate change detection as most growers carefully recorded details of their vineyards, including temperatures, grape picking dates, sugar and acid readings, and soil moisture levels.

In 2007 one of the peninsula’s best known vineyards, Red Hill Estate, harvested its crop the earliest in its 18year history, two weeks before picking in 2006.

Chief winemaker Michael Kyberd said milder winters and drier conditions had triggered early budding on the vines, and fruit was becoming ready for harvest earlier each year.

He had been on the peninsula for a decade by 2007 and in his time, harvest was now a full month earlier.

Some winemakers say the drought, which broke last winter, had been responsible for earlier ripening.

Dr Jones, I presume ROGER Jones was the principal research scientist with the CSIRO’s marine and atmospheric research in Aspendale before taking up a post with Victoria University in early 2009.

Trained as a physical scientist, he has a Bachelor in Earth Sciences, a PhD in palaeoclimate studies and applies an interdisciplinary focus to understanding climate change risk, bridging science, economics and policy.

He joined CSIRO in 1996 and developed methods for assessing the risks of climate change.

They contributed to the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, the United Nations Development Program adaptation policy frameworks and are used by researchers in Australia and overseas.

Earlier in his career, Dr Jones investigated the 16,000-year history of climate change in western Victoria by modelling water levels of crater lakes.

He has published more than 100 papers, book chapters and reports.

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Houdini’s escape and cash ‘find’ add to aquarium tales

By Keith Platt HOUDINI is renowned for being an escape artist. Bound in chains, he would untangle himself and escape from a variety of tight situations.

To the amazement and applause of crowds watching from below (if dangling from a building) or above (submerged in a tank), Houdini would invariably emerge safe from harm.

Years later another escape artist with the same name left people shaking their heads in disbelief.

Standing in the shallows at Sorrento in 1996, Richard Thorpe watched as Houdini the New Zealand fur seal came up for seemingly one last look at his owner before disappearing beneath the waves.

Mr Thorpe’s Houdini had been the star attraction at the nearby Sorrento aquarium until he made his dramatic escape while being trained to swim around in the shallows before waddling back to his pool.

“He was supposed to walk down between the people to the sea where he would swim to the middle and

then catch fish we threw to him,” Mr Thorpe recalled last week.

“The seal trainer had thrown him about five whiting before he finally popped his head up.

“I reckon I could read his mind and immediately thought ‘this guy’s gonna go’.

“He ducked back under and was gone.”

Mr Thorpe said he was taken up in the Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad’s helicopter to look for Houdini.

The search proved fruitless and once they hovered over Chinaman’s Hat, the game was over. There was no way of identifying Houdini among the many seals frolicking about in the water or lolling on the structure’s timbers.

Mr Thorpe and his wife Robyn were the last ones to run the property in St Aubins Way, Sorrento, as an aquarium.

Since then it has had several uses, including a restaurant, and is now a construction site for a waterfront house.

Owner Nick Williams intends to replace the jetty, which has already been demolished at the front of the prop-

erty, and he has laid to rest what he describes as a “Sorrento urban myth”.

Contrary to many reports, contractors demolishing the aquarium did not find 10,000 pounds Sterling in a wall cavity.

“I wish they had,” Mr Williams told The News. “It would be terrific if it was true, but I can assure you it isn’t.”

Mr Williams said he was bound by a confidentiality agreement and was unable to disclose the amount he paid for the aquarium.

Mornington Peninsula Shire statutory planner Arthur Cooksley said a permit for the two-storey house was issued in July 2010.

One objection had been received, which was settled after mediation at the Victorian and Civil Administrative Tribunal.

“The approved building is not significantly different in scale to the former aquarium building,” Mr Cooksley said.

Mr Williams said the house would be finished later this year and a new jetty opened next Easter.

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Surfers line up for the bell

By Keith Platt MANY of the Mornington Peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surfing old guard have once again followed the road to Bells Beach for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gathering of the tribe reunionâ&#x20AC;?.

The east coast surfers rallied to the call of the bell, some coming from as far away as Queenslandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gold and Sunshine coasts.

These days it is easy to avoid the straight stretches of the Geelong Rd by catching the car ferry from Sorrento to Queenscliff, something that was out of the question in the early days of contest surfing at Bells.

The reunion was held Saturday 16 April as a lead-in to the 50th anniversary of the Easter Bells Beach surfing contest.

Invited to the reunion was â&#x20AC;&#x153;anyone who has ever competed in the event (main or trials), officiated, worked at or come to watchâ&#x20AC;?.

Among the peninsula crew were surfers who had competed and helped run the event, which has now become a major stop-off on the world tour of surfing contests that each year culminates with a series of competitions in Hawaii.

Making the trip were Peninsula Surf Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ted Bainbridge, Trigger Brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Paul and Phil Trigger, Peter Wilkinson, Rod McCarthy, the Fowler brothers, surfboard makers Mick Pierce and Neil Oke, surf coach Ian Portingale (now living in Queensland) and former contest judges Peter Wilkinson and Rob McCartney.

Former foes in the water were friends in the Bells car park, now ringed by portable stands of tiered seating of a type most frequently seen at motor racing grand prix.

The coveted viewing spots among the hardy, naturally bonsaied vegetation clinging to the cliff face are now out of bounds. Onlookers must keep inside fences, or the beach below.

The old guard from the west and the east coasts stood around in the car park, swapping tales of past and present deeds.

Names were raised and guesses made to explain their absence or mention made of their passing.

While the organisation of the contest has changed along with communications in the digital age, the waves remain the same.

The right-handers peeling from the almost perfect reef off Bells are the same as they ever were.

The classic shape is confirmed in old photos charting the changes in fashion of surfboards and dress.

Mingling with the crowds in the car park were former winners and losers. Surf company moguls as well as champion surfers may be counted among surfing royalty, but all wear thongs, T-shirts and jeans.

But no matter what has happened in their lives or careers, waves are a great leveller.

The sea is the ultimate force that binds these varied characters to each other and makes Bells such a special event on the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surfing stage.

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Back to Bells: Clockwise from top: A line-up of east coast surfers, including Rob McCartney, Chris Fowler and Ian Portingale, front, and from left standing, Gavin Duffy, Mick Pierce, Neil Crumble, Mark Harrison, John Collins, Mark McCabe, Phil Nichols, Mark Howey, Scott Abbott, Peter Wilkinson, Ian Cochrane, Geoff Vockler, Tony Fowler and Ted Bainbridge.

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Blairgowrie marina 50% larger

By Mike Hast BLAIRGOWRIE Yacht Squadron wants to expand its marina by about 50 per cent, adding 110 wet berths, upgrading 35 existing visitor berths, extending the wave wall and removing the wave attenuator, parts of which broke up in October 2009.

The club would also replace its slipway, winch house and gantry crane with a travel lift and construct a new hardstand area for racing yachts.

The club also planned to renovate and add a storey and observation tower to Scotts’ Shed, and extend its existing clubhouse.

(Scotts’ Shed was owned by the founders of the club, Bert and Louisa Scott, and donated to the club along with their slipway.)

The three ambitious plans were outlined by club general manager Gerard Clarke to Nepean Ratepayers Association’s annual meeting earlier this month, the first public airing of the projects.

Mr Clarke said the club had state government permission to expand the marina without doing an environment effects statement (EES).

Government permission was granted on 13 August 2010 by then planning minister Justin Madden.

Mr Clarke said the club had engaged Coastal Processes, a planning contractor, to prepare a number of reports.

Mr Clarke told the meeting the club had 1240 members with a strong dinghy and keel boat racing focus.

It was family oriented and over summer had trained 150 young people to sail, twice as many as the summer

Room to move: The state government has given Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron the go ahead to expand without an EES.

before. Over the past 12 months it had developed a strategic plan for expansion of facilities to secure its future.

Upgrading of the 35 visitor berths was necessary as only five or six were viable, he said.

The new hardstand area would accommodate about 27 “sports yachts” such as Etchells.

He said the removal of the wave attenuator was crucial. “We realised nine years ago the attenuator would not protect that [northern] end of the harbour,” he said.

In October 2009, parts of the floating attenuator, constructed of large blocks of polystyrene covered in a layer of

concrete, started to break up after being battered by winter and autumn storms. Polystyrene balls and larger pieces spread as far north as Safety Beach, necessitating a large clean-up.

The club submitted its marina expansion plan to Mornington Peninsula Shire on 8 April and hoped to start construction in March 2012, Mr Clarke said.

He said the Scotts’ Shed project would see a second storey added and an observation tower, which would be not much taller than the height of the existing gantry crane. It would be used by the club as a training room and harbour office, and would be available for community groups, for example,

yoga classes and local schools.

Southern Peninsula Rescue Service, currently based in Sorrento Park, would move to Scotts’ Shed. The service, which sold its helicopter last year, ending 34 years of air rescue, already kept its rescue boat at the marina and would buy a second one.

The rescue service would also use the observation tower, and there would be a new walkway built from the top car park directly to the harbour, Mr Clarke said.

Expansion of the shed would be paid for by the club and Southern Peninsula Rescue Service.

The third project, expansion of the clubhouse, would enable the club to

move its junior sailors to the middle of the building, move offices to the eastern end, build a larger radio room, improve kitchen facilities (“but not to create a commercial, public cafe; just pub-style food for members and guests”) and install better toilets.

He said the club had submitted its plans to the shire and would apply mid-year for state government permission to expand the building, which is on crown land.

It was hoped construction would start in February or March 2012.

Answering a question about sand build up caused by the marina, Mr Clarke said the amount of sand was consistent with what had been predicted by the EES for the original marina. The club had spent $50,000 on recent sand pumping and would continue to fund any further pumping.

After the meeting, Nepean Ratepayers Association members said they were concerned about sand build up and had been surprised when the government did not order an EES for the marina expansion.

Other concerns included no provision for extra car parking, the size of the proposed hardstand area, the height of the proposed travel lift and if it would be visually unsightly, no waste pump-out facility and no provision for diesel fuel supply.

The yacht squadron’s plans can be viewed on its website, www.bys.asn. au and comments can be emailed to info@bys.asn.au Information about the EES referral is at: www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/planning

Portsea beach wall criticised COOL CLIMATE

By Mike Hast COASTAL engineer Gerry Byrne says the revetment, or breakwater, erected on Portsea’s front beach to counter massive erosion will stop any chance of sand returning.

Mr Byrne, whose career has taken him around the world to work on major port and beach projects, told Nepean Ratepayers Association’s annual meeting earlier this month that the Department of Sustainability and Environment had erred in erecting the $2.2 million wall.

During his talk, “The erosion at Portsea front beach”, he said DSE had “in its wisdom built this beautiful wall” to protect the foreshore after the beach “had been seriously eroded last year and part of the year before”.

Mr Byrne said Portsea Hotel manager Andrew Henderson was worried about the disappearance of the beach and had asked him to “maintain a watching brief” on the event.

Mr Byrne said the erosion had started soon after

the end of dredging at The Heads, part of the Port of Melbourne Corporation’s channel deepening project in Port Phillip.

He said there was a prima facie case that dredging was to blame.

He dismissed the initial comments made by DSE, which said the erosion was caused by local storms.

Parks Victoria had later said it was caused by the greenhouse effect and global warming.

The port corporation’s environment effects statement (EES) and the far more comprehensive supplementary environment effects statement (SEES) had said dredging would not cause erosion.

“None of these statements were true,” he said.

“What got me upset was that it reminded me of what occurred at St Kilda Beach in the 1950s.

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Green Corps cuts strand students Continued from Page 1

Clean Ocean Foundation CEO James Clark-Kennedy said the Max Employment decision was “extremely disappointing” and one that had angered members.

“This was being seen in the region as a model for other programs,” he said.

“Change doesn’t just come about by banging a drum; we must also enable learning. Parallel to our campaigning role is our education role; schoolaged children love Clean Ocean’s programs, and we took very seriously our role for late teens and early 20s in providing real job pathways into careers in coastal conservation.

“Our conservation training course was lauded by many foreshore committees locally for the hands-on practical nature of the work.”

One of the three trainers, Peter Beddows, said the funding cancellation would seriously affect the Somers foreshore committee of management’s ability to carry out the project.

Pam Bannister of the Somers foreshore committee said the Clean Ocean students had been working in Somers for a year.

“Last month, we had the CO group over on two occasions to assist with removal of significant woody weeds, planting and hand weeding around seedlings plus spreading 10 metres of mulch,” she said.

“To start the year, we had two successful grant applications, so now have

two Caring for our Country grants to fund some continued restoration works on the Somers foreshore.

“In the grant application, we specified the use of Clean Ocean Green Corps volunteers as our ageing and limited base of community volunteers are not able to complete many of the necessary tasks and our extensive escarpment zone ensures only contractors or youthful volunteers can safely tackle tasks there.”

Ms Bannister said on-the-job training was a vital component of environmental restoration work and the students had been able to receive “first-class” training with “our knowledgeable contractors and older Somers volunteers”.

Learning lost: Rebecca McEwan, left rear, Murray Williams and Samantha Stryk with Norm McKinlay, left front, and Greg Hunt on Capel Sound beach in Rosebud West near one of the areas regenerated by Green Corps students.

AT Sydney Harbour National Park in June 1997, Tony Abbott announced the second round of Green Corps projects, describing it as a “splendid site … to celebrate a program that matches our best human resource with our best natural resource, young Australians with the environment ... concern for the environment is now part of the mainstream of Australian politics. Yet despite the greening of all major parties and the rise of dedicated Green parties, Australia still has daunting environmental problems ranging from salination of our best farmland to weed invasion of our most treasured national parks.

“As a society, we are trying to do less damage to the environment which sustains us, but remedying 200 years of neglect and outright vandalism is a massive task requiring, in many cases, a great deal of painstaking, hands-on work.”

For the first two years, the government allocated $42 million for 3500 environmental jobs for 17 to 20 year olds.

The program was run by the Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers with Green Corps teams working for six months with organisations such as the National Parks Service, Landcare groups, zoological foundations and

Howard and Abbott’s vision splendid catchment management authorities.

“The environment is not just every Australian’s home, it’s every Australian’s most productive asset.

Green Corps isn’t just protecting the environment, it’s helping to sustain the agricultural capacity of the country and, more immediately, boosting the ‘clean, green’ image which is sustaining Australia’s tourist boom,” Mr Abbott said.

Flash forward 13 years and in January 2010 Mr Abbott said a Liberal government would establish a green army of 15,000 people to work across Australia. It was his first major policy

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He said Australia should drop its narrow climate change focus and work on environmental problems it could fix.

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This new conservation corps would not be a traineeship program or an employment program with mere spinoff benefits for the environment.

The first deployment on behalf of the environment would cost up to $750 million a year.

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Great War stories of peninsula ‘boys’

By Mike Hast RELATIVES of peninsula pioneering families descended on the Royal Hotel at Mornington on Sunday for the launch of a unique history book.

Our Boys at the Front – a compilation of letters, diary entries, stories, war poems and photos from The Peninsula Post – brings together information about the First World War from what was once the peninsula’s dominant local paper.

The Post was published between 1913 and the late 1970s.

The book was launched by former Howard government Veterans Affairs Minister, Dunkley MP Bruce Billson in front of more than 100 people crowded into the stunning Victoriana Room at the hotel.

Pioneering names like Stone, Sorrell, Garlick, Tuck, Butler, Allchin, Bradford, Coxhell, Jones, Linley, Miller, Bryant, Connop, Haddock, Harrison, McLear, Oldfield, Olley and Skelton were either represented or feature strongly in the book, which comes with a DVD. The DVD contains a short documentary as well as scanned stories, biographies, feature articles and 140 poems from The Post, and the entire 424-page book in PDF format with its lists of almost 700 men who went to war, the units in which they served, timeline of the war and a comprehensive index.

The book and DVD are the work of the Mornington & District Historical Society and supporters, historical societies and financial backers including the Tallis Foundation, Grand, Royal and Kirkpatricks hotels of Morn-

ington, Victorian Community Fund – Holsworth Local Heritage Trust, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, Mornington Racing Club and Dymocks Mornington.

Society president Diane White said the project had its genesis in the late 1990s when the society decided to scan, or digitise, the crumbling pages of its archive of The Post.

It applied for and won a federal grant with the assistance of Mr Billson, she said.

“During the process we saw the potential for many books about the Mornington Peninsula in the newspaper’s pages, especially the story of the First World War. “I remember talking to Bill Coventry who said it was mateship that helped keep our peninsula ‘boys’ together.”

(Former prison of war Bill Coventry, who died last year aged 91, was the driving force behind the creation of Memorial Park in Mornington, and was active in Legacy and the wider returned services community. A path is named in his honour at the park.)

Mrs White praised Michael Collins, who wrote the book, and the other members of the publications committee including Val Wilson, Janet Groves, Vicky Sapkin, Marg Nichols, Wendy Clark, Derek Smith and Frank Green. (She omitted herself and husband Keith, who worked on photos and illustrations, and production of the book and DVD.) Mr Collins said it had been a major undertaking: “We’ve got here at last.”

The driver was the amount of information in The Post and wanting to make it available to a wider audience.

Pioneer families: At the launch were, from left front, Chris Johnstone, Val Davenport, Beryl Burrowes, Janet McKie and Audrey Reeves; from left rear, Adrian Sayle, Kevin Davies, Don Stone, Barbara Thorn, Dorothy Watt, Doreen Stone, Norma Stewart and Janet Groves.

The book was the compilation of more than 200 issues of the newspaper that had been “condensed, summarised, reordered and grouped in topics”.

“During the war, most peninsula residents got news of the war from the daily newspapers, but The Post provided a valuable and contemporary perspective of what communities went through. Here are the stories of the boys that have remained hidden; the boys who answered the call to colours,” he said.

Peninsula men had taken part in nearly every major engagement of the war; from the landing at Gallipoli, in the deserts of the Middle East and on the Western Front.

Some letters covered the first, fateful day of the Gallipoli landing, on Sunday 25 April. One soldier of Dromana wrote in the understated way of the time that “we had a hot time of it”.

The book records stories from the war front as well as from the home front, where residents produced items for parcels to send to their boys.

The Post’s wartime publisher, Frederick Grantley, whose descendants were at the book launch, wrote editorials about controversials issues such as recruitment and conscription as well as support for the wounded, their repatriation, relief funds and government war loans to pay for the long conflict.

About 118 peninsula men were killed or died from wounds, and those who returned were welcomed home with special celebrations and given medals by their grateful communities.

Many were wounded or suffered from shell shock. Repatriation and absorbing them back into the community was another demand to which much support was given. It also led to the foundation of the RSL. Bruce Billson said Our Boys at the Front was “a blessing, a gift being handed over today”.

“This is a vivid account of wartime experiences, many of which will make your hair curl. It’s the story of individuals and the pain felt by their families.

“It’s a wonderful tribute to people who gave so much.”  Our Boys at the Front: 1914-18 The Mornington Peninsula at War from the pages of The Peninsula Post ($39.95) is available from peninsula bookshops and newsagents, the Shrine of Remembrance bookshop, Hylands Bookshop, 1/23-31 Heffernan Lane, Melbourne (9654 7448) and by mail order from Mornington & District Historical Society, PO Box 71, Mornington 3931 (add $9.50 for post and handling). The society is based at the Old Post Office, Main St, Mornington, and is open on Sunday afternoons.

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Anchor away without any local backing DOCKLANDS, Melbourne, is the latest place being investigated as an alternative destination for the HMAS Otama, the submarine slowly rusting away at anchor at Crib Point.

Caught in a net of bureaucracy for nearly a decade, the Otama is owned by the Western Port Oberon Association whose members are considering weighing anchor in Western Port if their tourism project is acceptable somewhere else.

In 2008 the Oberon class Otama was listed for sale on the internet, reportedly attracting the interest of drug smugglers, which in turn attracted attention from ASIO and the Federal Police.

Association president Max Bryant told The News that a “handsome offer” had been made about a year ago by a Queensland-based consortium.

The latest possible destination announced by Mr Bryant is Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. He said talks are being held with the “Docklands people, those that control the water and harbour and Melbourne City Council”.

While admitting it is early days with the discussions and that he would rather the submarine be developed as a tourist attraction in Western Port, Mr Bryant has two scenarios for it to be a showpiece at Docklands.

His favoured one would be to see the Otama lifted onto an existing wharf which would be strengthened to carry the 2000tonne vessel.

Mr Bryant said the Otama could be propped up while sitting safely on its reinforced keel.

The other alternative would be to basically build a steel cradle alongside the wharf.

Once in place, an interpretive centre would complete the project, much the same as planned originally at Hastings.

Mr Bryant said there was “no shortage” of heavy lift crane ships that could be brought to Melbourne to lift the submarine.

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Sub-plots to Otama quiz

By Keith Platt SUPPORTERS of the $5 million submarine project at Stony Point say it will be a waste of time and money seeking community approval.

Hastings MP Neale Burgess says a questionnaire asking residents if they want the Oberon class submarine HMAS Otama “brought ashore” will later this year be published in Mornington Peninsula Shire’s newsletter, Peninsula-Wide.

The shire’s communications manager Todd Trimble told The News that “nothing is planned at this stage” and that requests for a questionnaire about the submarine “would come from the council, if at all”.

In a Thursday 31 March email to former councillor Snez Plunkett, he stated “let me assure you there will not be a survey/questionnaire from Neale in Peninsula Wide!”.

Seeking the public’s opinion of the submarine project was one of Mr Bur-

gess’s pre-election commitments and he now says that if the answer is ‘yes’, he will make sure the job is done with state government money, failing investment from the private sector.

Western Port Oberon Association president Max Bryant believes plans to turn the submarine into a tourism attraction already have wide public support.

“There have been public meetings, panels and all sorts of due diligence done already – more than for the Port of Hastings.

“It would be a ridiculous waste of time to have another referendum.”

Mr Bryant said the shire’s economic development manager Shane Murphy had not contacted the association since November 2009 “that shows how interested council is in the project. It would be a different story if it was at Mornington”.

Mr Bryant said association members were “doing odd jobs” to make money to pay for the submarine’s $30,000 a year

insurance and maintenance costs while it is anchored at Crib Point.

He said council had told them 10 years ago “you get the submarine here, and you’ll be ashore in 12 months”.

It had been “pretty horrendous” ever since, Mr Bryant said.

Association vice-president Howard Bull said its members “don’t trust council” and that “council has torpedoed” the group.

“They hope the association will turn turtle and then they will come out as saviours.

They want the submarine for themselves.”

Mr Bull said Mr Burgess had suggested seeking public approval “as a platform for his election”.

“The survey is ill-conceived and, if there is one, the association should play a role in framing the questions.”

Mr Murphy said work was “still being done on the questionnaire” and Mr Trimble would be the one “to organise it going into the paper”.

“Neale will frame the questions which,

very simply, would be ‘do you want the submarine ashore’.”

Mr Murphy said the shire “has always been supportive of the submarine project”.

He believed there was room for the submarine on the foreshore at Stony Point between the existing pier and another on the drawing board ready for a planned vehicle ferry to Cowes, Phillip Island.

Plans for it to go on the foreshore at Crib Point had been ruined by a permit being granted for a Boral asphalt plant in the same area.

Mr Murphy said dredging would be required wherever the submarine was brought ashore.

“You can’t get it through without some amount of environmental effects.”

Asked if the shire should underwrite the project, Mr Murphy said “there is the question of risks ... if it sank tomorrow, can you afford to lump the ratepayers with that one?”

Experts blames ocean swells for Portsea erosion Continued from Page 5 “An offshore breakwater had been built for the Melbourne Olympic Games and sand had built up, completely changing the beach,” Mr Byrne said.

“The Public Works Department said this had not been caused by the breakwater but by the Cowderoy St drain.

“Now dead dogs and cats came down that drain, and even the occasional dead person, but never sand.

“Coastal engineering 101 is that sand builds up behind breakwaters.”

He said if the erosion had been caused by local storms, Shelly Beach next door also would have eroded, but “it looks the

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best it’s been for 30 or 40 years”.

So would the part of Portsea Beach to the west where there are bathing boxes.

“It’s not climate change, either,” he said.

Mr Byrne said he had read the entire 15,000-page SEES “because Andrew Henderson said I had to” and nowhere did it address possible erosion problems at Portsea.

He spoke at some length on wave frequency and said waves with 4 to 4.5 seconds between peaks had been generated inside Port Phillip.

“But you stand on Portsea pier and the waves are 12 to 13 seconds apart; these have been generated in Bass Strait or the

Southern Ocean.”

Mr Byrne said the government and the port corporation should have done a study about how waves interact with the seabed. There should have been before and after (dredging) bathymetric studies, and an historical analysis to see if Portsea beach had ever eroded like this and in such a short time.

He said he had been involved in setting the terms of reference of the information released by the Office of the Environmental Monitor in late March at a community meeting in Portsea.

This was where OEM chief Don Hough said dredging was not to blame for the loss of Portsea Beach.

Mr Byrne said the dredged channels focusing waves or refracting waves onto Portsea Beach had not been considered.

“DSE spent $2-3 million on the beach but did no study beforehand; they were told not to do a study,” he said.

One solution to stop further erosion might be to change the shape of the dredged channel, he said. “If it’s not this, there are other things you can do.”

Mr Byrne conceded no one knew the answer to the beach loss but more studies should be done – and soon.

“If it is an occasional event and has happened before, the beach should have been left alone and a seawall not built.”

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Leaping into the spirit of dol-fun

Sails for sale: Michael Berry’s acrylic on canvas All and Sea is one of the paintings chosen for this year’s Mornington Peninsula Art Show at Rosebud.

Artists help school chaplains MORNINGTON Peninsula artists are helping raise money for the chaplaincy program at Rosebud Secondary College.

Money raised from the sale of their works at this year’s Mornington Peninsula Art Show will go towards the program at the college which, according to the college’s website, sees chaplains “called upon in times of crisis to support members of the school community”.

“Pastoral care is a major part of their workload. They see a number of students and parents each week,” the website states.

“Issues raised relate to anxiety, study stress, family separation, grieving and loss, drug use and progress at school.”

The chaplains also conduct an out-

doors education program which involves working with Year 7 leaders and youth at risk on an adventure based learning experience.

The art show also aims to promote the peninsula as a “vibrant centre of the arts encompassing an exciting and eclectic artistic community”.

Artists are invited to submit works to be exhibited at the Southern Peninsula Arts Centre, which is at Rosebud Secondary College, 245 Eastbourne Rd, Rosebud.

Admission to the opening night, 7pm Wednesday 20 April, is $20. The show ends Monday 25 April, entry is $5. The show opens 10am-5pm on Thursday 21 April; 11am-5pm Friday 22 April; 10am-5pm Saturday 23 April; and 10am-4pm on the Monday.

THIS Port Phillip bottlenose dolphin entertained itself and a tour group aboard Sorrento-based Polperro Dolphin Swims’ boat Polperro last Sunday morning. Sorrento freelance photographer and “ship watcher” Andrew Mackinnon said he had taken a photo of the Spirit of Tasmania steaming past

Portsea Beach (you can see the pub in the background) and later when he had a closer look at the image, saw the dolphin (silhouetted against the Polperro) leaping out of the pressure wave created by the ship’s bulbous bow as well as a smaller dolphin in the water.

‘Party’ marks Dromana’s big day A BIG birthday celebration is planned at Dromana on Easter Saturday, the town’s 150th anniversary.

Activities starting at 3pm around the Dromana pier include live music, children’s entertainment and activities for all ages.

A commemorative flag will be raised and a plaque unveiled to mark the occasion during the official opening of the recently refurbished pier precinct from 4pm.

Weather permitting, a fireworks display will be held at 8pm.

Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor and Kangerong Ward councillor Graham Pittock said the festivities marked “an important milestone in Dromana’s history”.

“We’ve got a great afternoon planned, so residents should come along and join the party,” he said.

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You be the judge: Judges compare notes at Mornington racecourse during the 2010 International Cool Climate Wine Show.

Cool wins matter of taste COLOURS and palates will be under the microscope at Mornington next month.

But instead of being scrutinised for their use in creating some form of artwork, the two subjective tastes will be used by judges awarding medals at the International Cool Climate Wine Show.

The annual event that began on the Mornington Peninsula 12 years ago promotes the grape varieties and wine styles of cool climate regions.

The event comprises judging, a public tasting, a lunch and a dinner at Mornington Racing Club’s Gunnamatta Room.

The show attracts more than 600 entries from the cool climate regions of Australia and New Zealand – about 20 per cent from the Mornington Peninsula, 20 per cent from Tasmania and 20 per cent from across the Tasman.

Wines are also entered from the Yarra Valley, Macedon Ranges, Whitlands and Geelong in Victoria and the Limestone Coast and Adelaide Hills in South Australia.

The most popular grapes used to make the cool climate wines are pinot noir, chardonnay, sauvignon blanc and riesling.

As part of the wine show

week, 10 peninsula restaurants and cafes are offering a twocourse lunch featuring local produce and a glass of cool climate wine for $49.50.

The offer is available only on Friday 27 May. Public tasting of the wines at the racing club is 6-8pm Wednesday 25 May; the awards presentation dinner is 7-11pm Friday 27; and the Cool Climate Classic Lunch on Friday 27 May at restaurants around the peninsula. Details: www. classiclunches.com.au Details of the wine show are at www.coolclimatewineshow. org.au or call 5983 2400.

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NEWS DESK

After the quake: Villagers at Tarley in northern Myanmar (Burma), left and above, and the damaged church at Bethel after the 6.8 magnitude 23 March earthquake.

Appeal for quake victims BURMESE contacts of the New Peninsula Church are appealing for money to help them restore villages hit by a 6.8-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday 23 March.

Teams from the church regularly visit Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) to help orphanages.

In January a 10-member team followed hot on the heels of another group from the Mt Martha and Rosebudbased church to extend a training centre and help rebuild two cyclone-damaged

dormitories at orphanages “adopted” by the church.

Late last month Mark Brown, of Mt Martha, received an email and photographs from a pastor associated with the church detailing the damage caused by the earthquake. The pastor had been in Thailand when the earthquake hit, breaking plates on his dinner table. The following day he spoke by phone with another pastor from a Bible school established by the New Peninsula Church who told him about the houses collaps-

ing in several villages.

Upon returning to Mayamar the pastor was “surprised, shocked and saddened by what I saw”.

“According to the witness, there were 60 people found dead in Maing Ling township. There were 21 found dead and 50 injured in Kya Ku Nyi. These 71 were gathering for worship at a church building … there were 21 dead and 50 or more injured.”

In nearby Tarley there were 11 dead, including a Church of Christ pastor.

Birds of a feather take a Western Port holiday together

By Keith Platt A SURVEY in February has shown Western Port mudflats as well as its beaches are popular with overseas and interstate visitors.

However, residents were not shy of paddling in the shallows and mixing with the hordes that flew in for the summer.

In some cases the locals were more inclined to take the visitors for a meal, rather than taking them out to dinner.

White-bellied sea eagles were seen on two days, with one sitting on Long Island spit eating a puffer fish and one on the Esso jetty eating an oyster catcher.

But being preyed on by the locals is unlikely to put off future visits by the many different species of birds record-

ed in the February bird survey by volunteers working with the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

While the five-yearly federal census of Australia’s population is to be held in August, the head count of birds in Western Port is more frequent and requires more stealth.

Despite some bad weather on the final day of the count, the survey showed there were 489 curlew sandpipers on the tide edge of the north-west French Island mudflats on Monday 14 February.

A day later 23 eastern curlews, six bar-tailed godwits, 182 pied oystercatchers, one whimbrel and one sharptailed sandpiper were recorded on the Middle Spit mud banks.

Other birds counted in the survey

included 36 eastern curlews on French Island, flocks of waders on Barrallier Island including 3158 red-necked stints, 310 curlew sandpiper, two double-banded plovers, 22 red-capped plovers, 42 pied oyster catchers and one terek sandpiper.

Eastern curlews were also spotted on Long Island spit near Hastings.

Another bird count, also commissioned by the Port of Melbourne Corporation, will be held in May. The project aimed at finding out how birds use the Port of Hastings and nearby areas.

Birds are being counted each season at the port, on the bay’s western shore north of Yaringa boat harbour and the western shore of French Island.

Counting time: Volunteers taking part in the Western Port bird survey use various forms of transport to reach the bay’s shoreline, including kayaks and this hovercraft driven by David Cropley, who is a member of the Victorian Wader Study Group.

Mangroves a ‘carbon bank’ WESTERN Port’s mangroves seem to be loved or loathed. To many observers they are seen as a barrier between them and the water, something dark green that grows in mud.

Up close they can appear like a bonsai tree, gnarled and ancient-looking with roots that poke up into the water and, at low tide, the air.

Naturalists see them as essential for the health of the bay, a nursery for fish and other aquatic life – a necessity for the ecosystem.

Scientists have now discovered a new reason to treasure and nurture mangroves: they store more carbon than forest trees.

Research has shown that mangrove destruction amounts to 10 per cent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions while accounting for just 0.7 per cent of the tropical forest area.

While the destruction of mangroves steadily climbs – declining 30-50 per

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cent in the past 50 years – the researchers have found mangrove forests store large amounts of carbon below ground, according to a study published online in Nature Geoscience.

The amount of carbon being released by the clearing of mangroves is being seen as the largest source of CO2 emissions after fossil fuel combustion.

While Western Port contains Victoria’s most extensive and developed mangrove areas, studies have shown a steady decline since they were first mapped in the mid-1800s.

Aerial photographs taken since 1939 have confirmed the increase of sandy beaches at the expense of mangroves.

Clearing of mangrove and salt marshes began in Western Port as early as 1840, to make loading points for cattle and produce. Oil and steel industries were established by the 1970s at Hastings, with port facilities at Crib and Stony Point.

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Under threat: Mangroves have been cleared to make way for industry at Hastings since the 1970s and for jetties, such as that built at Jacks Beach, Crib Point, in 1908.

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$549,000

OLDE WORLD CHARM

Positioned perfectly on a 870m2 allotment in an ever Just three years young is this outstanding, luxury, two Set on a level allotment within walking distance to the beach, schools, kindergarten. This 3 bedroom home so quiet street and ever so close to all your needs and storey townhouse only 250m to the waters edge. A tiled ZLWK KLJK FHLOLQJV SROLVKHG WLPEHU Ă RRUV DQG GHFRUDWLYH the beach. This substantial two storey home comprise entry area leads through to the spacious open plan cornice offers the charm of yesteryear with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of four bedrooms, two bathrooms and huge open plan, ORXQJH ZLWK JDV ORJ Ă&#x20AC;UH FHLOLQJ IDQ VSOLW V\VWHP FRROLQJ PRGHUQ NLWFKHQ Ă&#x20AC;QLVK LQFOXGLQJ 66 (XUR JDV FRRNHU split level lounge living. Chefs kitchen with SS appliances. and access to double remote garage. The chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rolled edge laminated benches and breakfast bar and Upstairs is a generous master bedroom, parents retreat kitchen adjoins the living area with built-in bar, open plan living/dinning and outdoor living areas. lounge with easterly views to Arthurs Seat.

SS appliances, undercover patio for alfresco dining.

ROSEBUD

$469,500

FOUR BEDROOM TWO STOREY FAMILY HOME

Well presented 4BR, two storey brick veneer home in â&#x20AC;&#x153;all brickâ&#x20AC;? area - within walking distance to Primary and Secondary Schools and Recreation Reserves. Down stairs: Bedroom 1, tiled entry, lounge, dining area ducted gas heating. Timber kitchen - gas oven and dishwasher. Second lounge opens onto paved BBQ, Upstairs, 3 bedrooms along with 2nd bathroom.

TOOTGAROOK

$495,000

REDUCED TO SELL

Looking for a home that would suit two families, or a separation from the kids? Consisting of two separate dwellings divided by bi-fold doors. Two bathrooms, 2 laundries, 2 kitchens, 2 lounge rooms and 2 dining areas. Both accessing the paved undercover pergola via glass sliding doors. With ducted gas heating and 2 reverse cycle air conditioners.

ROSEBUD WEST

PICTURE PERFECT

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1377 Point Nepean Rd, Rosebud

$369,000

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Blairgowrie

8 Egerton Street

BRILLIANT BLAIRGOWRIE GETAWAY

On offer we have a very solid well appointed 3 bedroom brick veneer home with large rear covered outdoor verandah / entertaining area. The 3 bedrooms are all nice and big, the bathroom is well equipped, theres a large kitchen with big stainless steel cooker and a lovely spacious lounge. Further extensions and renovations will only add hugely to the value of the property without fear of over capitalisation.With the ocean beaches at your Àngertips and the bay beach and Blairgowrie Village only a short drive it is the perfect spot for your family getaway or permanent home. Guaranteed to please. Terms 10% Deposit, Balance 60 Days.

AUCTION Inspect: Agent:

Saturday 7th May at 12:30PM By appointment Diane & Phil Key 0419 324 515

Tootgarook

Tootgarook

SEASIDE RENDEZVOUS Properties like these are a sheer delight. Spotless throughout with manicured gardens, huge entertaining deck, much loved veggie patch and fruit trees and all within an easy walk to the sparkling waters of the safe bay beach. The home itself is very pretty and boasts 3 good sized bedrooms, a nice big family friendly lounge and well appointed kitchen and bathroom facilities.

There are polished timber Áoors throughout, a large split system air conditioner and gas heating. Everything is like brand new.

The gardens compliment the large block of approx 1000sqmt and there is plenty of bore water.

Price: Inspect: Agent:

75 Mathis Avenue

2 Bona Street

$480,000 - $520,000 By appointment Phil Key 0418 516 470

Rye

34 Boatshed - Tyrone Foreshore

STUNNING PRESENTATION

BOAT SHED NO. 34 TYRONE FORESHORE

Built to the highest standards by its current owner it has been used sparingly as a holiday home by the family since then. First impressions reveal a substantial, good looking double storey home. On the ground level we have a large secure garage and a separate self contained Áat. Upstairs offers high ceilings, ornate cornice and extensive high quality tiling. There are 3 lovely big bedrooms with robes, a large beautifully appointed bathroom, a vast living room, dining area and gorgeous fully Àtted kitchen.

Everything throughout presents as brand new. The block rises to the rear and offers plenty of room for a family veggie patch.

Overall condition, presentation and position is outstanding. Inspect for yourself and prepare to be impressed.

Price: $475,000 Inspect: By appointment Agent: Phil Key 0418 516 470

Rest assured you are not the only person that wants to secure this brilliant boat shed. They seldom change hands and usually pass down through families when they do.This particularly desirable little gem has hit the open market. It will be auctioned on Easter Saturday and is sure to be more popular than the Easter Bunny. It would be safe to say that if you miss this one the wait for the next one could be long. Consider the capital gain these Peninsula icons have accumulated over the last 10 years and Address: Bass make no mistake it 66-68 will only getMeadows better especially as this one has stunning waterfront views and located opposite Neville Drive.

Rye

1/46 Grandview Avenue

AUCTION Inspect: Agent:

Saturday 23rd April at1:00PM By appointment Alana Balog 0412 536 624

Fingal

180 Devonport Drive

STUNNING VILLA

One of only two on the block and totally refurbished to the most exacting standards. High class villa within easy walking distance to the beach and township. Consisting of 2 generous bedrooms, a sparkling state of the art bathroom, large open plan living from which you can step out to the extensive private fully paved entertaining area. The crowning jewel is the stunning kitchen with quality appointments and appliances and best of all the striking red glass splashbacks. On top of all this there is a security system, split system A/C, lock up garage, privacy fencing, access for safe boat/van storage and further paving.

Price: Inspect: Agent:

$380,000 - $410,000 By appointment Glenn Key 0402 445 208

Blairgowrie

BUILD YOUR PRIDE & JOY

6 Egerton Street

Design it, build it and love it. Right here, right now in Blairgowrie. A magic elevated block that will showcase your creation to perfection. Delightfully quiet area only a short distance to both front and ocean beaches and the gorgeous village at Blairgowrie. Blocks as good as this are very rare indeed and offer brilliant value for money. There should be no fear of over capitalisation as the Peninsula is recognized as a world class place to be. Inspect with conÀdence. Note: The block is elevated not steep. Terms: 10% Deposit, Balance 60 Days.

Address: 66-68 Bass Meadows AUCTION Saturday 7th May at 12noon Inspect:

By Appointment Agent: Diane & Phil Key 0419 324 515

WHISPERING PINES - 5 ACRE EQUESTRIAN DELIGHT This wonderful property has served its current owners admirably for the past 20 years. Typical of small acreage properties there are things everywhere. For starters we have an extremely comfortable cedar colonial style homestead, not large but certainly warm and inviting.There is a separate large rumpus / games room for a spot of pool and a beer and a large enclosed pool room (swimming pool that is). No its not an in ground pool but it still would give a ton of pleasure. There is other shedding and the land is divided into several very useable paddocks. Tucked away in a no through cul-de-sac with walking Address: 66-68 Bass Meadows at its very best. access to the hot springs it is tranquility Price: $830,000 - $860,000 Inspect:

By Appointment Agent: Diane & Phil Key 0419 324 515

2397 Point Nepean Road, Rye

5985 6555

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Rosebud West

McCrae

Rosebud West

Rosebud

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Portsea

$780,000 - $820,000

Rosebud

A great entry level into Portsea On a service road with a northern aspect looking toward Delgany, this Merchant Builders home presents a wonderful opportunity. Only a few minutes to Portsea back beach, it comprises three bedrooms, two living areas and two bathrooms. This beach home has plenty of upside and has the potential to leave as is or upgrade if you wish. Land approx 833 square metres.

Attention all investors or retirees Put your order in now for one of these units, soon to be constructed.

You have a choice of two-bedroom or threebedroom units, with two bathrooms, two living areas and a double garage, all within five minutes’ walk of the beach and Rosebud

Agency: Fletchers, 136 Ocean Beach Rd, Sorrento. Phone: 03 5984 2600.

Agent: Larry Callaghan, 0414 593 804.

Plaza, or a two-bedroom unit with living room and separate dining/family area and a single garage.

Also available with paved area for those sunny peninsula days.

Call today to discuss your future.

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Rosebud, 1089 Pt Nepean Road. Ph (03) 5986 8600.

Agent: Barry Sanders, 0423 100 925 or Jon Perrett, 0405 123 921.

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ROSEBUD WEST

$410,000 - $450,000

RYE

$520,000 - $570,000

ROSEBUD

$390,000 - $430,000

THE PERFECT HOLIDAY / INVESTMENT PROPERTY ON OFFER! Within an easy walk down the road to one of Port Phillip Bays premier beaches.This versatile beachside beauty comprises of separate living areas upstairs and downstairs, Modern kitchen, 3 bedrooms with BIR’s, 2 bathrooms, polished floorboards, L/U garage with remote, workshop area, paved and covered patio area leading out from rumpus room, rear bungalow with running water and BIR’s, all set on approx. 724m2 of land.

The property also offers plenty of off street parking with room to accommodate a boat or caravan. Inspection is by appointment only.

PEACE & TRANQUILITY This substantial property is ideal for holidays or permanent living. Comprising 5 bdrms & study all with BIR, 2 bthrms, entertaining deck, established garden including veggie patch.

Set on 835m2 block, all within walking distance to Rye foreshore, shops, clubs & cafes.

Large carport with access to rear, room to store boat & caravan, outside hotwater shower & bore water. Inspection by appointment is highly recommended!

A HIDDEN TREASURE Set in a location within walking distance to schools, shops, transport and the foreshore, this family home will surely impress the astute buyer or investor. With it’s appealing charm and immaculate presentation this property features three generous bedrooms, main with BIR, open plan spacious kitchen with 900ml stainless steel oven and rangehood. Also features a Dining area with separate lounge, central bathroom with separate toilet and laundry. Step outside and enjoy an outdoor area with well maintained gardens, all fully fenced for your privacy and a games or pools area.

Paul Basso 5985 9000

Ryan Deutrom 0406 426 766

Ryan Deutrom 0406 426 766

TOOTGAROOK

$340,000 - $370,000

ROSEBUD WEST

$440,000-$475,000

ROSEBUD WEST

$370,000 - $410,000

ALL THE WORK HAS BEEN DONE This fully renovated 3 bedroom home located within an easy stroll to the beach would make the perfect holiday / investment property. Features include: good sized open plan living, updated kitchen, 2 toilets, polished floor boards, gas heating, split system A/C, BIR’s in all bedrooms PLUS the added bonus of a rear sunroom or study. Outside there is a large workshop, new fencing, carport, bore water and well maintained low maintenance gardens. Overall the property is in great condition and would make an excellent addition to any investors property portfolio. Inspection is a must.

POSITION PERFECT 200 mtrs to Beach & Shops. Nothing to spend on this exceptional 3 bdrm home main has ensuite. As they say ‘A picture paints a 1000 words’ you can see the pictures show this home to be ideal for permanent or holiday living. terracotta tiles throughout. Large open plan living with bright galley kitchen and has both heating & cooling, outside entertaining area and low maintenance garden. Private fenced back yard with lock up garage. This one has it all and is priced to sell. Private inspection can be arranged anytime.

ITS WORTH EVERY CENT! This magnificent renovated home is ideal for permanent or holiday living, situated within 200 metres from the Bay & walking distance to Rosebud West shops & cafes. Comprising 2 dbl BRs, lounge with OFP, polished floor boards throughout, main bathroom with toilet, Sunrm/Study or could be 3rd BR, laundry with 2nd toilet adjacent, kitchen with gas cooking & dining combined. R/C split system Aircond & gas wall furnace in lounge. Access to rear yard with room to store boat or caravan. This affordable home would be ideal for a young family or young at heart retirees seeking a beachside lifestyle.

Paul Basso 5985 9000

Roy Thompson 0419 304 650

Ryan Deutrom 0406 426 766

Tootgarook 1807 Pt Nepean Rd 5985 9000

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Sorrento

POA

Plans and permit for prime commercial building in Sorrento with one shop, three apartments What a wonderful opportunity to develop this main street retail and residential investment.

Comprising a plan with permit to build one shop of 170 square metres and three modern two bedroom and two bathroom apartments.

The planned complex boasts a lift and secure basement parking and is situated in the retail heart of Sorrento next to Coles.

This prime holding of 488 square metres also offers two street frontages with rear access from Morce Avenue.

Sorrento main street opportunities are few, so lock in this golden opportunity with all the permit work already done.

Capital growth is assured in Victoria’s premier seaside village.

Agency: J. P. Dixon Sorrento. Phone: (03) 5984 4388.

Agent: Troy Daly, 0418 397 771.

Rye

$780,000-$830,000

Contemporary, peaceful and secluded This contemporary beach house is a great example of modern and practical coastal design.

The functional layout provides ample space and accommodation in five large bedrooms, three bathrooms, extensive open plan living areas spilling seamlessly onto an amazing

outdoor alfresco area featuring built-in spa and outdoor kitchen. The large allotment (1060 square metres) requires minimum maintenance with sympathetic landscaping and the soft palettes of the exterior sit beautifully among the tea trees. In all, a beautiful home, ready to enjoy.

Agency: John Kennedy Real Estate Rye. Phone: (03) 5985 8800.

Agent: Sam Crowder, 0403 893 724.

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Perfectly located only 650m (approx) to Sorrento Village and so close to iconic back beach is this well presented, original 3 bedroom BV home on a fantastic elevated and level block of 820 sq m approx with full rear access.

View towards Village and of National Park possible from a 2nd level (S.T.C.A.)

Walk 150 metres from this tastefully refurbished 2 bedroom Unit with lock up garage and you are sipping coffee in the main street or casually meandering down to the Bay Beach or Back Beach of Sorrento. With just 4 units on the site this truly is an outstanding opportunity.

Auction Guide Inspect Land

For Sale Guide $510,000 Inspect Sat 2–2.30pm

Sat 23rd April at 3.30pm Contact Agent Sat 3-3.30pm 820 sq m approx

Contact Joshua Callaghan 0418 595 719 Michelle Callaghan 0401 977 075 Office 136 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento 5984 2600

Contact Larry Callaghan 0414 593 804 Office

136 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento 5984 2600

> Achieving the highest rental and minimising vacancy periods > Sourcing reliable and suitable tenants > Ensuring the rent is paid promptly > Maintaining communication with our landlords at all times > Acting promptly on all property owner and tenant requests > Providing expert administration and documentation

CONTACT: Samantha Christmas 5984 2600 Senior Portfolio Manager Sorrento Rob Fletcher 0411 222 988 Tim Fletcher 0411 222 966

BLAIRGOWRIE Bed & Breakfast Style Accommodation

PORTSEA What A Great Entry Level To Portsea

Become acquainted with this beautifully presented Mt Gambier Limestone/ Weatherboard family home. Provides additional space for the extended family or an opportunity to operate as your very own B&B. Offering 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 3 living areas and outdoor entertaining.

On a service road with a northern aspect looking toward Delgany. This merchant builders home brings a wonderful opportunity. Only a few minutes to Portsea back beach, comprising 3 bedrooms, 2 living areas and 2 bathrooms. This beach home has plenty of upside and has the potential to leave as is or upgrade if you wish.

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Rye

$420,000

Blairgowrie

$939,000

Be prepared to be impressed!

Vacant land with plans and permits With approved plans and permits ready go for a multi-storey luxury four-bedroom dwelling, this vacant block is located just one street back from the popular Tyrone Beach foreshore.

The home is designed to maximise the use of the land and achieve the best possible

bay views and would suit the astute home buyer or quality builder with an appreciation for excellence.

Some available services have already been connected to the site so there’s nothing more to do than start building your dream home in Rye’s most sought-after pocket.

Agency: Jacobs & Lowe-Bennetts Rye. 2115 Pt Nepean Rd, Rye. Phone: 5987 9000. Agent: Brendan Adams, 0419 566 944.

Rosebud

$525,000

Delightful package Beautifully presented home on a level 853m2 corner block with dual access boasting 3 bedrooms, master bedroom with ensuite and WIR. A formal entry leads to the first lounge room which is also accessible off the double lockup remote control garage. A large second lounge with a hostess open plan kitchen featuring plenty of cupboards.

Pantry, dishwasher and breakfast bar with a designated dining area with glass sliding

door. Access to the deck and garden which has been designed with a tropical feel of ferns, palms and fruit trees. The house is bathed in natural light creating a clean, healthy ambience.

A brick home with a colourbond roof built by Bob Rollings, a well respected local builder.

Approximately 10 years old this home would suit many a scenario be it family entertainers or business.

Agency: David Short Real Estate. 1377 Pt Nepean Road, Rosebud. PH: 03 5986 8188.

Agent: Wayne Robertson, 0438 255 594.

We have all heard of properties with the ‘WOW’ factor, this is the one they all refer to! The photos only give you a glimpse of this amazing property, once you enter this magnificent home you immediately feel the ambiance of tranquillity & quality.

Ideally located approximately 400 metres from the ocean beach and only approximately a kilometre from the bay beach, you will be spoilt for choice when going for a stroll!

Not only is the location great, the house itself pure opulence! This fantastic split level property comprises of a large study/ guest bedroom, formal lounge room with full working bar, bathroom, and this whole area can be closed off from the rest of the house - perfect for guests!

Separated from the master bedroom there are another further three generous bedrooms all with plush new carpet, a unique central bathroom with a boat shaped bath and large

walk in shower, a second living area or family room – this design has been thought out with the kids in mind!

The centre piece of this magnificent home and the most important part – the entertainer’s area! The large gourmet kitchen comes with Ceaser stone bench tops, breakfast bench and stainless steel appliances, the large dining area leads out to the large deck – with the kids in bed, plenty of entertaining could be had here!

Other great features are; a tucked away master bedroom/parent’s area with walk through robe and en-suite, a double carport at the front, a large work shed with storage space, fully fenced, private, garden & night lights, natural light and plenty of room for that all important things such as boat storage!

Call NOW to avoid the disappointment of missing this tremendous opportunity to see such a remarkable property!

Agency: YPA Estate Agents, Shop 3, 2255 Pt Nepean Rd, Rye. Phone: (03) 5985 2600.

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Stunning character filled classic Everybody loves homes like this; few have the pleasure of owning one. The opportunity has arisen for you to join the select few. This is a home with attitude. It looks great and feels fantastic.

Situated within easy walk to the beach and shops. Extensive elevated decking ensures year round entertaining is a pleasure. The home oozes character and has a surprise around every corner.

On the lower level we have a lovely big living room opening onto the deck, a well appointed kitchen, two lovely bedrooms and bathroom

facilities. Upstairs is full of surprises with a wonderfully large master bedroom and a second living room with private balcony.

This area is currently used as a quilters workshop and is big enough to accommodate the vast amount of equipment involved with room to spare.

There’s plenty of under house storage and off street car parking. The gardens are low maintenance and come complete with bore water and the setting is sensational.

This home ticks all the boxes.

Agency: Stockdale & Leggo Rye, 2271 Pt Nepean Rd. Phone: (03) 5985 6555.

Agent: Glenn Key, 0402 445 208.

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You will fall in love with this extremely well maintained Price three bedroom home that boasts bay glimpses from Inspect Sat 2:00-2:30pm the balcony and the upper living area. Built over four Sun 2:00-2:30pm levels, this homely property will relax you as soon as you Contact Robert Magnano 0425 772 073 step through the front door, and with the private back Wendy Ross 0403 596 466 garden with in ground spa, you’ll never want to leave!

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Rye 33 Willonga Street Quality built and individually designed with the large family in mind, situated within walking distance to Rye’s main shopping precinct and bay beach. Beautifully landscaped and ready to go there is nothing more needed to spend on this fantastic property.

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This amazing home has five bedrooms with built in Price robes, master with walk in robe, amazing views and Inspect en-suite with spa, central bathroom as well as powder Contact room all with top quality fittings, home theatre room with built in surround sound system, rumpus room with fully functioning bar and purpose built wine cellar.

New on the market is this retro beach shack which needs some love and attention! Set on a large block of 892m2 approximately, there is plenty of room to expand this property, or leave it for the kids to run about on. Comprising of 3 bedrooms and one bathroom, with a bungalow out the back.

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Rye Great Location, Great Price

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Conveniently located close to the Rye shopping village, safe family beach and public transport, this neat 2 bedroom unit would make an ideal holiday escape, permanent home or investment property. Comprising 2 bedrooms, kitchen with gas appliances, gas heating, central laundry and bathroom, separate toilet, single lock up garage.

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Featuring 3 good sized carpeted bedrooms all with built in robes, separate bathroom, separate toilet and laundry with access to back courtyard. Open plan kitchen with gas appliances, open meals area and private adjoining living room.

$365,000 1/137 Eastbourne Rd

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4 Rye Vacant Land with plans & permits. Fantastic bay views!

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$420,000 16 Johnson Avenue

Contact Brendan Adams 0419 566 944

Tootgarook Cosy 3 Bedroom House With Bungalow

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One of only a handful like this in Rye. Separate title. Solid brick and concrete construction, building completed only 5 years ago.

Situated in the absolute best location on the Rye Foreshore shopping strip. There are 2 access points to the apartment, one is at the rear (which has 1 parking space) but the main entrance is actually on the front of the building facing the beach and leads you up the staircase up to the 1st ƀoor residence. Be in no doubt this apartment has class! and plenty of it.

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Scientists find gaps in bay knowledge

By Keith Platt SCIENTISTS have found gaps in scientific research needed to make valid environmental assessments of Western Port.

Papers reviewing information already available have highlighted reductions in bird and fish numbers and the effects of diminishing seagrass beds.

However, the existing science is not conclusive and more research is needed to fill the gaps “to help inform the future management of the bay”, according to Melbourne Water’s water-

ways and wetlands research manager, Rhys Coleman.

“Western Port will be under increasing pressure from changes in climate, more urbanisation and coastal development,” Mr Coleman said.

“That’s why we need a better picture of how vulnerable this area will be to these changes and how we can best protect the environment in this context.”

Mr Coleman’s comments followed release of the review led by Melbourne

University’s Professor Mick Keough at a seminar at Cardinia on Tuesday 5 April.

The review was jointly financed by Melbourne Water and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Mr Coleman said about 200 attended the seminar to hear the findings of the review, which aimed to find “critical issues and research gaps to help inform the future management of the bay”.

“One of the key elements of reviewing the science of Western Port was to

share the findings and seek feedback,” he said.

Peter Dann of Nature Parks Phillip Island said human activity was the main threat to Western Port’s birds and marine animals.

However, their numbers could also be affected by sea level rises and other climate-related changes.

Dr Dann said birds were disturbed by humans while roosting and feeding on mudflats, which would also be reduced by any rise in sea level.

Human activity also reduced the amount of food available to birds.

Dr Dann said oil spills and a predicted sea level rise of 80 centimetres would halve the amount of rock available to the 20,000 Australian fur seals at Seal Rocks, off Phillip Island.

Prof Greg Jenkins of the Department of Primary Industries and the University of Melbourne said fish in the bay were most threatened by a loss of seagrass beds, water quality, climate change and over-fishing.

Shoreham group wants ‘identity’ Keeping tabs on koalas ANYONE spotting a koala on the Mornington Peninsula can add their sighting to an online map of Australia.

The mapping portal is part of the national movement to help protect koalas and their habitats.

Launched by Esri Australia and the Australia Koala Foundation (AKF), the koala map lets visitors add to research on koala sightings and habitat quality.

Australia Koala Foundation CEO Deborah Tabart said more than $8 million worth of research and 25 years of koala information was now available to the public.

“Koalas can never be protected until their trees are,” Ms Tabart said.

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By Keith Platt SHOREHAM residents want their town to have its own identity, with facilities and a social life befitting a small town.

“There is a strong feeling among permanent resident that we don’t want it to be just a dormitory suburb of Hastings,” said Peter Renkin, recently elected interim president of the Shoreham Community Association.

The formation of the association also follows concerns over the future of Shoreham’s Post Office and general store.

The store in Byrnes Rd is vacant and the post office operates under a shortterm lease.

Development plans were abandoned in the wake of the failure of a company that owned both sites, although uncertainty remains as the new owner, based in Bangkok, also wants to sell.

The vacant general store is being advertised for $1.4 million by a real estate agent who says it has “almost unlimited scope” and can “emulate the success enjoyed by comparable entities at Merricks and Somers”.

In April 2002 it was on the market for $650,000.

The agent also states that buying the store will provide its new owner with “the chance to make a contribution to the local lifestyle that is certain to be appreciated”.

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New association: Members of Shoreham Community Association include, from left, Steve Dolman, Barbara Kelly, Peter Renkin, Gina McInnis and Rob Patrick.

to come under scrutiny by members of the new association, most of who have already been involved in the earlier plans to develop the two prominent sites.

An interim committee and executive were elected at a public meeting on 2 April which was addressed by representatives of community associations at Flinders, Somers and Safety Beach.

Mr Renkin chaired the meeting which elected Gina McInnis as interim secretary and committee members Rob

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“Issues including development of the Shoreham Triangle and the common, and the future of the post office and general store development will be high on the agenda.”

The association will have a website and the interim committee is organising its incorporation.

A public meeting will be held at Shoreham CFA at 2pm on Saturday 4 June to adopt final rules and objectives of the association. For details call Mr Renkin on 5989 8818.

Senior Manager Gary Sanford, phone 0409 194 314 Dromana Community Bank®Branch, Branch Manager Bronwyn Ralph, phone 5981 0106 Rye & District Community Bank®Branch, Branch Manager Julie Toward, phone 5985 9755

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Patrick, Sue Boggan, Helen Alcock, Lee Collins, Michael Francis, Linda McLeish, Gerald Freestone, Wolf Passauer, Barbara and Peter Kelly and Steve Dolman.

“The Shoreham Community Association membership will be open to all residents and ratepayers in Shoreham and will tackle issues of development, amenities, services, young people, the future, community advocacy and social needs in Shoreham,” Mr Renkin said.

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Method Grease and line 22cm tin with baking paper Sprinkle base with two tbsp of castor sugar and the orange juice Trim rhubarb stalks to fit snuggly into the base of the tin Make cake mix; add all remaining ingredients into food processor and blitz to combine and pour over rhubarb.

Bake cake for 60 minutes uncovered and 30 minutes covered with tin foil or until inserted skewer comes out clean.

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Entertainment SINGER–songwriter Talia Wittmann was born in November 1984 in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the youngest of four. Talia’s father Manfred came from Germany to Australia with his family in 1953 and Talia’s mother Rosalee was born in Australia.

Talia has two sisters, Sasha and Shana, and a brother Karl.

She grew up in the small town of Verdun in the Adelaide Hills on her parent’s property. Talia’s interests as a child included dancing, playing sport, riding horses and motorbikes.

In 1998 Talia started her secondary education at Modbury High where she studied biology, chemistry and geography, achieving an amazing tertiary entrance rank of 95.05. At the year 12 prize-giving, Talia was awarded a geography prize and gave a terrific solo singing performance.

During her final year, Talia, then only 18, released her first EP. In 2003 she completed Certificate III in Music at TAFE and began to concentrate on her music. She went on to do a Bachelor of Music in Queensland.

Not long after this Talia headed up the road to Tamworth and entered the 2005 Tamworth Busking Championships and was placed third of more than 500 entries. The following year she won the 2006 Rockhampton Tel-

stra Road to Tamworth heat.

In 2007 Talia graduated from the CMAA College of Country Music before taking out the Toyota Star Maker quest in 2008.

Star Maker has been a major stepping stone in the careers of many country artists including Lee Kernaghan, Keith Urban, James Blundell and Beccy Cole.

Part of her Star Maker prize was a record deal with Compass Bros Records and she went into the studio with a who’s who of country music including Mark Punch, Rod McCormack and James Gillard with a collection of songs co-written with the likes of Mike Carr, Lianna Rose and Karl Broadie. The result was Reckless Side of Me produced by Graham Thompson. It earned Talia a Golden Guitar for Best New Talent at the 2009 Tamworth Country Music Awards.

Talia Wittmann then disappeared off the country music scene after her record company did not take up an option for a second album.

I caught up with her last weekend to see what the talented singer–songwriter had been doing the last few years.

“After the record company didn’t take up an option for a second album, l decided to head back home to the family property as l couldn’t afford to re-

cord a second album,” she said.

Talia always wanted to study and do her music and decided to go back to school and is currently studying a Bachelor of Science at university.

“I had some trouble with my teeth and after numerous operations l am now wearing braces.”

Talia now feels that songwriting is a better direction and is looking forward to writing songs for other artists, and may might do a new album.

“Songwriting pays more money,” she said, “but l hope to return to doing some live appearances in 2012. l certainly miss singing live on stage.” www.myspace.com/taliawittmann *** AUSSIE balladeer Reg Poole has released a new album, Vintage Reg, with 20 tracks including Freight Train Yodel, Goin Rodeoin, Stan, The Warrumbungle Mare, I Love this Land Australia, Country Hands of Fame, Rodeo Riders, We Miss You Russell Hawking, and the Allan Caswell composition Devil’s Drive.

Reg has won three Golden Guitars for Heritage Song of the Year 1984-85 and Best New Talent 1974. The album contains two Golden Guitar-winning tracks and two bonus tracks, Reedy River and A Little Piece of Me.

In 1970 Reg recorded his first record, Down in the Goulburn Valley, at the studios of Radio 3SR in Shepparton that sold 1000 copies over the station counter in three weeks.

Reg received an Order of Australia Medal in 2006 for his contribution to country music. We salute you, Reg Poole, for your Australiana songs and contribution to country music.

Next month he will start an extensive tour of New Zealand and will appear at the Maryborough Queensland Country Stampede Festival on 11 and 12 June. www.regpoole.com *** JEANNE Pratt’s Production Company presents its first show of the year, Anything Goes, at the Arts Centre from 20-24 July. It stars Amanda Harrison (Wicked), Alex Rathgeber (Boy from Oz) and Anne Wood (Follies). To subscribe to the season, call 9247 4800. www.theproductioncompany.com.au *** THE world’s No.1 selling touring show Walking with Dinosaurs returns to Melbourne in a few weeks. Based on the award-winning BBC Television series that was seen by more than 700 million people, the huge production will hit Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on 4 May. Tickets from 132 849.

with Gary Turner *** A TRIBUTE to Bon Scott is at the Forum Theatre on 27 May starring Angry Anderson, former AC/DC member Mark Evans, John Swan (Swanee), Mark Gable (Choirboys), Paul de Marco (Rose Tattoo), Dave Gleeson (Screaming Jets) and many more.

Born Ronald Belford in 1946, the Scottish-born Scott joined his father’s band as a bagpipe player aged 11. He went on to become a singer in the 1960s rock group The Valentines, sharing lead vocals with Vince Lovegrove and produced the hits My Old Man’s a Groovy Old Man and Juliette.

He replaced Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC. Scott died after a heavy night of drinking in 1980. Tickets from 1300 111 011. www.empiretouring.com.au

A Grain of Salt THE Logies? One woman suggested Karl Stefanovic for the gold, because “he’s not dull”. He’s about as dull as a cigarette butt. I suppose Rebecca Gibney will win anyway due to lack of opposition. No objection to whoever wins the most popular actor, but please, not Erik Thomson or Michael Caton. As for the silver for the most outstanding actor/actress, we will plump for Richard Roxburgh and Catherine McClements, again due to lack of opposition. Why no Bed of Roses in the most popular drama series? No good? Is that so? Oh well, I won’t be watching anyway. Posers all. *** MARK Twain is “the man” for mine.

“What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head and is known to none but himself. All day long, and every day, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those other things, are his history. His acts and his words are merely the visible crust of his world ... The mass of him is hidden – it and its volcanic fires that toss and boil and never rest, night or day. These are his life, and they are not written

and cannot be written.” Beautiful. *** BIG, bigger, biggest. And so it goes with the AFL. Every football show on television shoves betting odds at us, without shame. They can wax lyrical until they’re blue in their faces but the reality is more and more money, which translates to more out of our pockets and into theirs. Andrew Demetriou gets more than the Prime Minister and goodness knows what Adrian Anderson gets, not that he needs it. “Independent research” and “very productive” are favourite quotes. Mind you, they are running a business so I suppose it’s fair enough to run with the profit motive. It’s when they start rambling on about “for the good of the game” and “looking after the supporters” that I choke. The day I’m invited by Andrew or Eddie McGuire to one of those lavish before-the-game lunches will be the day I’ll agree that it’s a “family game”. *** THE new approach by the Sidney Myer Fund to give 15 artists about $80.000 a year for two years beginning next July is a fine idea as it stands, particularly with the previous Sydney-

centric system in the 1990s, although well intentioned, having its flaws. Neil Armfield, Geoffrey Rush, Robyn Nevin and Reg Livermore received large grants, suggesting a “who you know” system. Regardless of any selection criteria it will depend, as always, on “who selects the recipients” and with it the bias, self-interest and mateship that can accompany them. We wish the Myer crowd well, particularly in whatever unbiased system the fund devises to select the lucky artists. Will it work?

Doubtful. Better to fund 15 new plays every year? Probably. Time will tell. *** BETTINA Arndt, author of What Men Want – In Bed is now called a social commentator? Her latest is that smoking lowers your sex drive, with research – as always – to support her claim.

This is of some concern because I fully intended to give away the cigarettes.

Assuming the research is correct, is it logical to assume the opposite would apply if I stopped smoking? I pondered this possibility for 10 minutes before I lit up a cigarette. Not much point in risking an increased sex drive at my age.

*** I WORKED for on-course totalisators at racetracks all over Victoria for 37 years, which educated me in the wacky ways of the punter. My experience told me that 80 per cent have their ups and mainly downs, two per cent are born winners and the rest couldn’t win if they were offered 10-1 on a one-horse race. Take Charlie, who was $16,000 in front after the first two days of the three-day Warrnambool Cup meeting 20 years ago. He couldn’t wait till tomorrow. I said to him “Bank $12,000 in the morning and take the rest to play with. That way you can’t lose.” Charlie, of course, had the ridiculous theory that he was playing with “their money”. He took the lot and lost the lot; bit me for a hundred before the second-last race.

I’m still waiting. Mind you, that fellow called “Snowy on the Trams” won countless raffles over the years. The big problem with many is knowing when a run of luck has ended, with “the more you have the more you want” a pervasive influence. This pattern extends to all walks of life. *** MORE hypocrisy. Joe Hockey sug-

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gested taxing family trusts and, of course, was howled down, as was Peter Costello in 2001. Labor’s Bill Shorten said it was a legitimate tax tool. No doubt the same applies to negative gearing. If either party was fair dinkum they would scrap them both in favour of fairness to the very large majority of Australians. Selfinterest rarely, if ever, wavers. On politics and AFL football, have you noticed the nexus between the Australian Labor Party and the St Kilda Football Club?

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell that falls on the rails.” (Thoreau) Keep yourselves nice. cliffie9@bigpond.com

Joke!!!

A priest is walking down the street one day when he notices a very small boy trying to press the doorbell on a house across the street. However, the boy is very small, and the doorbell is placed at normal adult height, and the little fellow just can’t reach.

After watching the boy’s sorry efforts for some time as he moves closer to the boy’s position, the priest steps smartly across the street, walks up behind the little fellow and, placing one hand kindly on the child’s shoulder, leans over the boy and gives the doorbell a solid ring.

Crouching down to the child’s level, the priest smiles benevolently and asks, “And now what, my little man?”

To which the urchin replies, “Now we run like Hell!”

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RIddle Solution

ANSWER: They’ll both be the same distance to paris when they meet.

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Impressionist exhibition a Lunch at 10 top Mornington feast for the eyes ANOTHER pleasure for the eyes, Romain Suzzoni’s new solo exhibition, Recent paintings from France.

After the sold out exhibition of 2008, Suzzoni is once again delighting the Australian public with a series of stunning and sensuous paintings, street scenes of Paris, beach hobbies and beach beauties.

Suzzoni makes it possible for the onlooker to be part of each individual scene, be it as a pedestrian walking the Parisian streets; or sitting at a café terrace watching the passers-by; or playing lizards on a Mediterranean beach, drenched with sun; or contemplating the River Seine flowing past – a mass of water pregnant with memories of one’s sojourn in the City of Light.

Always the same aloofness of his characters, symbol of a disjointed urban life, where people meet, but don’t meet; communicate but don’t communicate.

Impressionistic in style, reflection of a mood, of a light, of an instant Mediterranean blues, hazy hues of the Northern Seas, surfing swells of the Atlantic - to which Suzzoni has added a very modern touch, those amazing bright, fluorescent colours, harsh bonbon pinks, toffee yellows, viridian greens, like out of a Japanese manga book.

Suzzoni’s new paintings are preselling.

Do come & see the exhibition.

You’re in for a treat of the eyes and the senses.

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TEN of the Mornington Peninsula’s top restaurants and cafes are making a delicious offer that’s hard to resist: a two-course lunch featuring bountiful local produce with a glass of cool climate wine for just $49.50.

But the offer is just available on Friday May 27, as a feature of the 12th Cool Climate Wine Show from May 25 – 27 on the Mornington Peninsula.

Participating restaurants are Barmah Park Vineyard Cafe, Green Olive at Red Hill, Max’s at Red Hill Estate, Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove, Nazaaray Estate Winery, Salix at Willow Creek, The Long Table Bar and Dining Room, Trim’s of McCrae, Veraison at Bluestone Lane and Verge Restaurant and Bar. The chefs have more than risen to the Cool Climate occasion...Green Olive at Red Hill is offering three courses for the price of two, including hand-made sausages from their own organic lamb, accompanied by their farm-made relish and chutneys, with seasonal greens. Chocolate mousse is made with their free-range eggs, and is served with coffee from Green Olive farm-roasted single origin wild beans.

Max’s at Red Hill Estate recently won the Australian Tourism Award for Best Tourism Restaurant, and its dishes include baked figs with Red

Hill blue cheese, prosciutto and Max’s famous aged morello cherry balsamic vinegar.

Barmah Park Vineyard Cafe has brought together a basket of local producers, including Dannic garlic to accompany baked and stuffed pork loin with a celeriac and chive salad drizzled with Delgrosso apple balsamic coulis. It’s followed by Nirvana free range egg pavlova roulade, filled with Sunny Ridge macerated strawberries and cream.

The Long Table Bar and Dining Room is serving an entree of Mornington Peninsula seafood and sea herbs, followed by Chinese inspired duck, heritage beetroots and organic watercress, accompanied by a glass of Darling Park pinot noir.

The Cool Climate Wine Show attracts well over 600 entries from the Mornington Peninsula, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Yarra Valley, Macedon Ranges, Whitlands, Geelong, and South Australia’s Limestone Coast and Adelaide Hills. There’s a public tasting event on Wednesday May 25.

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What becomes of the Broken Beefhearted?

By Stuart McCullough DON Van Vliet died on 17 December last year. While for the past 30 years he had carved a successful career as an expressionist painter, it’s his work under the name Captain Beefheart that he’ll be remembered for.

I have to be honest – I only own one record by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica.

According to Rolling Stone, the album comes in at number 58 of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Incidentally, he was sandwiched between The Beatles (Meet the Beatles) and The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet), both of which he had openly mocked in Beatle Bones ‘n’ Smokin’ Stones. I suspect they put him on the list solely to annoy his neighbours.

I can’t pretend to understand his music. The first time I played Trout Mask Replica, it sounded like a bunch of instruments having an argument.

All the usual songwriting habits and conventions were missing. It was strange, unsettling and almost upsetting. For this reason, I would usually cue up Trout Mask Replica at great volume whenever I took my car in for a service, so that when the mechanic turned on the ignition, he was greeted by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s particular brand of weirdness.

Even the cover was disturbing. It featured the Captain himself, wearing a mask made from a giant carp. Years before Lady Gaga threw on a couple of forequarter chops and decided to call it art, Captain Beefheart was

Bongo Fury: Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart (right) on the cover of their 1975 album.

wearing a fish for a face. Granted, it’s a process that has since been perfected

by Susan Boyle, but at the time it was revolutionary.

While the music sounds like a mess, it was actually the product of an extremely strict and ever-so-slightly cult-like work ethic that required the band to rehearse for 14 hours a day.

Members of the group were allowed to leave the house on a restricted basis and – legend has it – the Captain tried

to employ a range of brain-washing techniques such as sleep and food deprivation, and consistent negative reinforcement.

He even rewarded band members for attacking each other. He went so far as to encourage an intra-band “fight club” where musicians were encouraged to express their disapproval through physical violence.

The drummer, John French (also known as “Drumbo”) described being

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kicked, punched and attacked with a broomstick. You don’t get that with Coldplay. Unfortunately, Drumbo tendered his resignation after being thrown down a set of stairs. Which is fair enough.

When it came time to record, the Magic Band were a well-oiled machine (probably some kind of lawnmower) and got all the music down in four hours. The whole shebang was produced by Frank Zappa.

Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa had been friends since their teenage years. That’s them sitting together on the album cover for Bongo Fury.

While it might be tempting to tar them with the same freaky brush, the two were very different.

Frank may well have been responsible for songs such as Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow, The 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear and The Muffin Man, but he was a disciplined and exceptional musician. It was Frank that gave Don the stage name that served him so well.

And it was Frank who signed Captain Beefheart to his own label, Straight Records, when the other labels thought the material too dark (which it wasn’t) or too weird (which it most certainly was). They apparently fell out, though, during a tour in the 1970s.

Frank would be playing on stage while Captain Beefheart sat and sketched tangled caricatures of his friend. They stopped speaking for a time, but reconciled prior to Zappa’s death.

The Captain gave up on music and directed his efforts towards painting.

It’s ironic that having struggled in an

idiom like rock and roll – which is supposed to be about non-conformity – he was judged to be too weird to ever receive mainstream acceptance.

Painting was a different story, and his works were highly A true maverick spirit is a rare thing. It’s the type of character who has been driven near to extinction by the gelatinous, creeping conformist sludge that condemns us all to live in a world where The Black Eyed Peas continue to prosper and the back catalogue of Steeleye Span remains hard to come by.

Many people become performers for the attention – they seek to draw in the love and adoration of worshipping hoards. Not Captain Beefheart. He made music that dared you to like him.

Heck, those records almost dare you to listen to them without ripping off your own ears. It’s an uneasy experience, but someone’s got to do it. That’s why the world still needs the likes of Frank Zappa and Don Van Vliet. It’s those artists willing to take the ultimate risk of being dismissed as weird who are the only things standing between us and a life of pasteurised blandness.

I might dig out my copy of Trout Mask Replica but I doubt I’ll listen to it. Instead, I’ll probably put on a copy of Bongo Fury and take a good long look at that cover.

What I will not be doing any time soon is wearing a fish on my face as part of an ill-conceived homage, no matter how much you beg.

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Rye raring to go THE Rye Senior Football and Netball club has finished a hard working and rewarding Pre-season.

The football club under senior coach Stephen Ryan, had their last practice match on April the 2nd against Edithvale Aspendale, and recorded a great win. This finished the pre season with previous practice games played against St Bedes Mentone and Mornington. Travis Sawers coaching the reserves and Danny Walker the under 18’s have been very pleased also with the practice match form displayed by their sides.

Great news for the club has been the outstanding numbers that the under 18’s have had the entire Pre-season and the fantastic attitude the young boys have shown in completing a thorough and rewarding Pre- season. Danny and the club are extremely buoyant and confident the under 18’s are in for a big year, keep up the hard work. Already Josh Garner, Jack Kerr, Andrew Dean, Jack Noseda and Jai Lloyd have been rewarded with some senior game match time in the Pre-season, well done boys.

The Rye Netballers also concluded their Pre-season with a practice match against Seaford, resulting in 2 good wins. The A Grade team this year will be Coached by Amy Jobling, while the B Grade will be Coached by Ellen Millar. After the inaugural Premiership last year the A Grade team is working hard to go back to back, while the B

Grade will be striving to win the big one after being just pipped at the post last year in their B Grade grand final.

All supporters are reminded that the A Grade team will be unfurling their Premiership Flag at our first home game against Tyabb on April the 30th at 12.30pm All teams have a bye in Round one on April the 9th, with our first game for premiership points being against Rosebud at Rosebud on April the 16th.

Then the Easter bye, with our first home game on April the 30th v Tyabb.

All supporters are encouraged to attend our first home game and cheer the boys and netballers on.

Don’t forget your membership tickets with a chance to win weekly prizes in the members draw and attend special functions. Please call into John Kennedy Real Estate or purchase through any of the committee men at the club.

Also don’t forget our huge Easter Sunday Car Boot Sale which starts 8am Easter Sunday at the ground.

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Happy trails on a path to succcess WHILE Black Cavair stole the show at Royal Randwick on the weekend, some of the lesser lights indicated they are horses to follow in the coming weeks.

Perhaps the most impressive of them was the Adelaide-trained Happy Trails, which finished an unlucky fourth in the Carbine Club Stakes (1600m).

Jockey Damien Oliver said he had a chequered passage in the straight and should have just about won.

Oliver also reported to trainer Paul Beshara that he felt Happy Trail should run 2400m. With that in mind, Beshara is considering the 2000m Packer Plate on 23 April.

Darley-owned Divorces also caught the eye in the Carbine Club with a brave second to the highly progressive Needs Further. A group 3 winner, she appears back to her best after losing form last spring and will be tough to beat in any race she contests over the next month.

Patinack Farm’s Marquardt will derive great benefit from her third ($18) in the Sapphire Stakes (1200m).

She was having her first start in six weeks and after looking the winner at the 200m, peaked on her run. Trainer John Thompson will have some nice

mares’ races in mind in Sydney and later at the Brisbane carnival.

New Zealand Derby winner C’est La Guerre has managed only one victory in 22 starts since being purchased in 2008 by Lloyd Williams, but he did hit the line strongly when third in the Chairman’s Handicap over 2600m. Proven at 3200m, the Sydney Cup is his best chance to set the record straight.

Mick Price, who has an excellent record at Caulfield, is following a proven pattern with the promising Vivid Vixen.

Two years ago Price won the Easter Cup with Miss Maren and he has Vivid Vixen going along the same pathway.

A mare like Miss Maren, she showed her class in winning over 1800m at Caulfield last Saturday and is primed to secure black type on Easter Saturday.

Cranbourne-trained Avionics failed to fire last campaign, but her two starts this prep have been encouraging. The five-year-old was a tenacious third behind the in-form Cat’s Pyjamas at Caulfield last Saturday and will be hard to beat in similar company.

Choisir colt Tokugawa is worth backing when he gets to 1400m. A slashing first-up second over 1200m at Moonee Valley, he had plenty to offer when caught in a traffic jam over the same trip at Caulfield.

Trainer Nigel Blackiston has the lightly raced Right Of Refusal ticking along nicely towards the

Pies v Bombers on Anzac Day set to be a cracker Round 5 previews Thursday 21 April Brisbane v St. Kilda, Gabba 7.40pm In what seems to be an interesting match-up, both of these teams have come off the bye last week and both haven’t won a game this season.

Brisbane has been competitive on occasions but unable to play a full four quarters. St Kilda a fortnight ago got its game picked apart by Essendon, and Ross Lyon needs to decide whether he’s going to focus on playing youth or keeping the faith in his older players.

Saints by 22 points.

Saturday 23 April Port Adelaide v Gold Coast AAMI Stadium 3.10pm Another week, another big loss for the Gold Coast Suns. It’s still early days but things are looking pretty grim for the Suns. Port Adelaide go into this match with a huge confidence booster after its come from behind win against Adelaide last week. David Rodan is in sensational form at the moment, and has recovered remarkably well from surgery earlier in the year. Having Gary Ablett back in the side will no doubt help but the Suns are just boys against men. The ruck division for the Gold Coast has been encouraging with Gorringe and Smith looking comfortable.

Port Adelaide by 67 points.

Carlton v Adelaide, Etihad Stadium 7.10pm Carlton will be wanting to bounce back after a disappointing draw against Essendon last weekend. The Blues will need to improve on their first quarters after being held goalless. If Adelaide want to make finals it will have to start winning matches like this. Time will tell, but losing a highly winnable match against Port Adelaide last week was a massive blow for the Crows, especially since their first three matches were at home. This is a must-win for both teams.

Carlton by 34 points.

Sunday 24 April North Melbourne v Richmond, Etihad Stadium 4.40pm These two winless teams will have pencilled this match in as a winnable game. The Tigers were smashed by the Magpies last weekend but can take positives from a great third quarter. The combination of Brett Deledio, Dustin Martin and Trent Cotchin shows promising signs for the future. The Kangaroos are coming back from another Perth loss and really need to win this match to gain some confidence. Andrew Swallow again was the best for the Kangaroos last weekend and needs more players picking up the slack.

North Melbourne by 8 points.

Monday 25 April Essendon v Collingwood MCG 2.40pm This game will be probably one of the greatest Anzac Day matches since the fixture started.

Both teams are in cracking form. Essendon was gone after losing Dempsey and Winderlich with knee injuries in the first quarter last weekend but fought on to salvage a draw against Carlton.

$350,000 South Australia on 8 May. An easy winner against older horses over 2200m at Seymour, he was only collared in the last few strides in the Galilee Series Final (2400m) at Caulfield. He is a versatile galloper who will even better suited to the spacious Morphettville circuit.

Elvstroem four-year-old Carrara has been a tad disappointing since finishing second behind international group 1 winner Starspangledbanner in the 2009 Caulfield Guineas (1600m), but his two starts this prep have been full of merit and is the one to beat in the Victoria Handicap on 23 April.

Sparingly raced five-year-old By The Way ($17-$12) wasn’t suited by the greasy conditions at Caulfield, but his late sectionals were very good.

Look for him in restricted grade over 1200m or 1400m.

Best: Happy Trials (below).

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Collingwood cruised to an easy 71-point victory over the Tigers. Dane Swan was sensational with 33 disposals and four goals. Essendon will struggle to match Collingwood for the full four quarters and those two injuries will be costly.

Anzac Day medallist: Travis Cloke.

Collingwood by 45 points.

Fremantle v Western Bulldogs Patersons Stadium 8.40pm All is going well for the Dockers at the moment. They’ve beaten the Crows on the road and smashed North Melbourne at home. They are in fourth position on the ladder and hope to keep it that way. The Bulldogs have come off the bye, which will help their preparation for the trip to Perth. Antoni Grover will most likely have the big task of stopping Barry Hall, who is the key to the Bulldogs’ success in this match.

Fremantle by 25 points.

Tuesday 26 April Hawthorn v Geelong MCG 2.40pm In the 2008 Grand Final replay, these two will be looking to show they’re the real deal when they meet on Tuesday. Hawthorn, despite winning the last three games, has failed to show its best, but was very lucky last weekend against the Eagles and survived a last-quarter comeback. Geelong has exceeded expectations this season winning the first four games against quality opponents, and last week was the second win on the road this year. Joel Selwood has yet to hit form so if he can turn it on, the Cats can go all the way this year.

Geelong by 4 points.

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