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Whale’s death a sign of health THE number of whales being washed up dead on our beaches may be a result of the overall increase in the whale populations. The latest carcass to come ashore on the Mornington Peninsula was found earlier this month at the western end of Koonya Beach, near Sorrento. Dolphin Research Centre executive director Jeff Weir said the 9.5-metre humpback had been “heavily hammered� by sharks before being washed ashore. It blubber was not very thick, which was a normal condition for a sub-adult humpback that had completed a long migration from the Antarctic. Mr Weir said the humpback was one of “a handful� recently reported washed ashore between the peninsula and southern New South Wales. “We don’t think there’s anything strange happening and there’s no need to go looking for a smoking gun.
For the record: Whale researchers take measaurements of the dead humpback whale washed ashore at Koonya. Picture: Dan Burke
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Storm surprised by ‘injuries’ By Keith Platt FIVE primary school pupils have had a closer encounter than they bargained of the reality of being a rugby player. The five were injured on Wednesday 9 November during a gala rugby day after coaching by Melbourne Storm players before playing a series of matches. The mother of a 12-year-old Rosebud girl told a Melbourne radio station that the five were taken to hospital, including her daughter with a sprained arm. However, the Storm’s development general manager Greg Brentnall said all injuries were treated on the spot at Rosebud’s Olympic Park Recreation
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Reserve. No one had been taken to hospital. He said 280 pupils from eight schools participated. It was the ninth year running the Storm had held its rugby program on the peninsula and the first time any injuries had been so widely reported. Mr Brentnall said all the injured children had been treated by the Storm’s “fully trained medical staff�. “It is a contact sport,� he said. The girl, whose arm had been placed in a sling, was advised to seek further medical treatment if she had ongoing pain. Principal of Our Lady of Fatima Parish Primary School Monica Coyle said
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the girl was back at school the following day “and she didn’t appear to be under stress, there were no bandages or anything�. Ms Coyle praised the Storm’s rugby program and said her school would be involved again next year. Meg Dallas, principal of Sorrento Primary School, had heard no reports of injuries during the rugby day and was also enthusiastic about a continuing relationship with the Storm. Mr Brentnall said the girl had sustained a hyper extended elbow. The other injuries had been a cut above a boy’s eye when “two boys clashed heads�; a bump that caused
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Storm’s program included three to five visits to each of the eight schools in the lead-up to the gala rugby day. Gala days involving many other peninsula schools were also held last week at Mornington, Tyabb and Hastings. The other eight primary schools involved at Rosebud were Eastbourne (Rosebud), Red Hill Consolidated, St Joseph’s (Sorrento), Dromana, and Tootgarook. Mr Brentnall said 186 schools throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area participated in the program each year, with winning teams from the gala days competing in state finals.
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