Wyndham Star Weekly - 23rd April 2014 by Star News Group

Werribee Tigers50YEARS

A Wyndham Weekly special feature

President’s message

In 1965,when a fresh faced Brian Holcombe led the very first Werribee side onto the ground no one could have envisaged the rollercoaster ride that has taken place in the 50 years since then. The club has endured long periods of minimal success on the field and constant battles with finances off the field. I am happy to say that in recent times we have turned both those situations around. While we only have one senior premiership cup in our trophy cabinet, that is not the only way to judge success. We have survived when others have fallen by the wayside. Sunshine, Yarraville, Oakleigh and Geelong West - to name a few - are VFA clubs that no longer exist. We have developed champions like Dale Morris,Ben Hudson, James Podsiadly and Michael Barlow and the next crop in Kyle Hartigan,Luke McDonald,Ben Ross and Ben Brown.

We are in the process of committing to a large-scale redevelopment of our home ground provided we get the necessary support from Council, state and federal governments and supporters of the club. This is the future of the club: to allow us to be as competitive off the

ﬁeld as we are on it.We need to give our on and off ﬁeld staff the best facilities to bridge the gap between us and our VFL and AFL competitors. While there are clubs that have been around longer than us, rest assured there are no clubs more determined and dedicated to representing their city,their sponsors and their supporters than the Werribee Football Club. Go Tigers.

John Nicol President Werribee Football Club

Julia Gillard’s message

The colder wintry air that now deﬁnes our days and nights reminds us that another season has arrived - footy season. The change to the winter wardrobe always means reacquainting myself with my tried and trusted Werribee Tigers scarf. Though I now live in Adelaide,I am proud that the club has asked me to continue as Patron, a role I thoroughly enjoy and embrace.

The Werribee Football Club is celebrating its 50th yearanditsrichandproudhistoryrevolvesaround a dedicated group of people who have served the club for decades. Past servants of the club have moved on, but today the likes of President John Nicol, CEO Mark Penaluna, major sponsor Tino Ballan and hundreds of others carry the torch of the club into a new and exciting future, whilst acknowledging the deeds of the past.

I want to offer everyone involved at the club my best wishes for the season ahead and I look forward to joining the celebrations of half a century of the Tigers roaring at Chirnside Park, or Avalon Airport Oval as it is now known.

Julia Gillard Patron, Werribee Football Club

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Tigers in communitythe

The Community Development arm of the Werribee Football Club has hit the ground running in 2014, with the appointment of Majok “Shaggy” Ngong as Multicultural Development Ofﬁcer and Sam Mahoney as Project Ofﬁcer.Together they will be focusing ongettingculturallyandlinguistically diverseresidentsinvolvedinsport.

The community team has had a busy start to the year with a number of events happening in and around Wyndham, including the Weerama Festival, Unity Cup and the MulticulturalFiesta.

The annual Weerama Festival helped kick start the year with the Werribee players involved in the street parade. Players pleased the crowd by giving away footballs and club merchandise to kids and parents lining Watton Street.

Mackillop College boys and girls representedthecluband wonitsﬁrst Unity Cup Victorian Championship in the girls division recently at

JJHollandPark,Kensington. TheUnity Cup brings together Victoria’s diverse multicultural communities for a day of fun and football, where language barriers and cultural differences are forgotten, amidst the joy of kicking aroundaSherrin.

The Unity Cup was followed up with the Multicultural Fiesta held at the WerribeeMansiononMarch23which attracted hundreds of people to multicultural food stalls, dancing and football activities run by theWerribee players.

The club will continue its partnership with North Melbourne Football Club through the six week ‘Huddle in Schools Program’ and continue its multicultural schools program in primary and secondary schools runningeachtermoftheyear.

For more information on upcoming community activities please contact Chris Gallagher on 9741 6688.

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The Tigers were part of the Weerama parade

Werribee’s community development manager Chris Gallagher in action

The Tigers were victorious at The Unity Cup

Werribee Tigers50 YEARS

Some of the glory of fifty years

1964: TheromanticnotionofWerribee having its own team in theVFL moved closer to reality after a meeting of interested persons on May 25th,1964 at Chirnside Park.32 people attended that meeting and a committee was formed to make a presentation to the VFA for Werribee to be included in the competition from 1965. The late Roy Sheehan (father of Mike) and a well known local business and sports person was elected president ofthecommitteewhichincludedAlan Cations,RaySmithandBruceComben. 1965: Brian Holcombe leads Werribee in its ﬁrstVFA match against Sunshine at Skinner Reserve. Werribee battled away all day and were only 30 points down at three-quarter time before Sunshine rattled on 8 goals to win by 82 points. (Sunshine 18-15-123

Werribee 5-11-41). Don Traianon scored the Tigers ﬁrst ever goal in the VFA. Banner reporter Mike Sheehan wrote “ Werribee commenced their maiden match in the VFA most impressively at Sunshine last Sunday when they held their accomplished opponents to a hard fought 30 point lead at the last change”.

1968: Werribee played ﬁnals for the ﬁrst time in its history after making the four under captain-coach Neil Crompton. Sunshine were the combatants and won by 31 points. Sunshine 12.24.102 d Werribee 10.11.71 Best Players:Ogilvie,Richens, Crellin,Gillett,Comben,Lyons,D.Smith.

1991: Werribee blow a four goal half time lead to lose the 1991 Grand Final to Dandenong. Boasting players

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The Good Old days

like Neale Danaher, Leon Harris Lynton Fitzpatrick, Richard Geary, Rod MacPherson and Damian Drum, the Tigers ran out of legs in the ﬁnal term going down by 9 points. Dandenong 15.15.105 d Werribee 14.12.96. Anthony Eames won the 1991 J.J Liston Trophy voted by the umpires and the best and fairest player in the VFL. The honour has been won four times since by Werribee players Paul Satterley (1995), Michael Frost (1998), James Podsiadly (2008) and Ben Ross in (2012).

1993: Our ‘One Day in September” winning our first and only senior flag. Captain-coach Donald McDonald led his team to victory over Port Melbourne in a game as memorable for the astonishing final moments of bedlam, as the fairytale result for

the Tigers faithful. Werribee ruckman David Allday won the Norm Goss Medal for best on ground. Werribee 10.10.70PortMelbourne4..4.28.Goals: Lamont 3, Geary 3, Button 2, Raeburn, McDonald. Best Players: Wilson, Allday, Geary, Button,Wilkins, Lamont, Rienierts,Watts,Harrington,Williams.

2013: For the third year in a row the Tigers make the preliminary ﬁnal and for the third year in a row we come up short, this time to the eventual 2013 premiers,BoxHillHawks.JarredMoore wins the Bruce Montgomery Trophy as the Best and Fairest for the year. Luke McDonald and Ben Brown are drafted by North Melbourne and Ben RossisrookielistedbyHawthorn.1993 Premiership player John Lamont is appointed senior coach.

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MONEY ‘HOARDED’

The government is urged to spend growth area taxes intended to improve public transport

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INSIDE STORY

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SPORT

Twenty minutes of poor football costs Werribee Tigers in the VFL

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dogged days ahead

incorporating Dee Dee may look cute and cuddly, but she has the ability to change the life of someone with a disability. Wyndham dog trainer Dee Moore is seeking volunteer puppy-raisers after the black Labrador gave birth to a litter of seven. With the help of Assistance Dogs Australia, the pups will be trained to help their owners pick up items such as keys and mobile phones. Ԃ STORY BY LAURA LITTLE, PAGE 13

give us our growth money, say greens

TRANSPORT

e state government has been accused of hoarding almost $3 million in taxes intended to boost public transport in Wyndham.

Greens state leader Greg Barber called last week for the money to be spent immediately on ﬁxing problems with the municipality’s public transport and bus services.

Mr Barber said $23.5 million from the Growth Areas Public Transport Fund was ‘‘stashed away’’ by the government, including more than $2.9 million intended for Wyndham.

e money, collected by the State Revenue Oﬃce, comes from the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution and is for essential infrastructure in Melbourne’s

ENVIRONMENT

More Wyndham residents are choosing to harness the power of the sun, with new ﬁgures showing the municipality had among the highest number of roo op solar panels installed in Victoria last year.

According to the federal government’s Clean Energy Regulator, Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Werribee and Point Cook were among suburbs leading a switch to solar.

Suburbs with the postcode 3029 – including Tarneit, Hoppers Crossing and Truganina – had 4268 solar panels installed in the 12 months to January this year.

Postcode 3030 – including Point Cook, Werribee and Altona – had 3784 installations.

Tarneit has the highest percentage of solar-powered homes in Victoria: 18.6 per cent.

Werribee couple Sari Smith and Antony Skipper took out a loan to install solar panels on the roof of their home ﬁve years ago.

“Within a short time we produced a third more power than we were using and getting back 66 cents per kilowatt,” Ms Smith said.

“We paid oﬀ the loan within two years and now make an annual proﬁt of between $800 and $1000.” \ MC

growth areas. Figures released by the Greens show that in the two years to June 30 last year, only 2.3 per cent ($66,780) of the total tax collected for Wyndham had been used on infrastructure.

Mr Barber said public transport was not keeping up with population growth.

And he said there was a desperate need for more bus lines in Wyndham to take commuters to train stations as car parks were stretched beyond capacity.

“It leaves locals with only one choice ... to run a car for every adult in the family and spend large amounts of time ferrying the kids from place to place,” he said.

Public Transport Users Association spokesman Daniel Bowen echoed Mr Barber’s call for the money to be spent.

He said most buses in the municipality ran every 40 minutes, even during peak hour.

“Buses also get caught in traﬃc, and crowding on the Werribee line is getting worse so it’s no wonder most people drive,” Mr Bowen said.

Transport Minister Terry Mulder’s spokesman said the government had boosted the number of weekly train trips on the Werribee line by 181 since 2010.

“ ere is now a train approximately every 11 minutes during the peak, as well as more express trains for faster journeys,” he said.

e spokesman said the number of weekly bus trips in the Point Cook area tripled, from 697 to 2120, as part of the opening of Williams Landing station last year. \

MELISSA CUNNINGHAM

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hospital must wait for funding details

HEALTH

Werribee Mercy Hospital won’t know if its budget will be cut by the federal government until May, despite Labor Party claims that health funding has been slashed.

e ALP has accused the government of planning to cut funding to Victorian hospitals by $277 million.

Lalor’s Labor MP, Joanne Ryan, said Mercy Health would lose $8.3 million.

But a hospital spokeswoman said it wouldn’t know until the federal budget on May 13.

Health Minister Peter Dutton said the revised budgets being used by Labor were based on the previous government’s funding agreement with the states and territories, and they were only estimates.

He said that under the agreement, annual funding was based on factors including hospital activity and population growth, meaning funding levels varied from year to year.

“Labor cut funding to public hospitals by $1.5 billion in the 2012-13 mid-year economic and fiscal outlook based on its agreement with the states,’’ Mr Dutton said. ‘‘ is created significant difficulties for states, coming as it did mid-financial year and by withdrawing money that states had already factored into their budgets. e figures, the so-called ‘funding cuts’ they are trying to use in that scare campaign, are projections based on Labor’s own formula.” \

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jobs, courses go with vic university funding cuts

TAFE

Drastic cuts to TAFE funding by the federal and state governments have forced Victoria University to shed jobs and a large number of courses, according to its annual report.

e 2013 annual report, tabled in Parliament earlier this month, shows a $31.7 million decline in the university’s revenue for the year compared to 2012.

A $26.6 million decrease in Commonwealth funding contributed to the fall, as did an $18.5 million drop in state government funding via direct cuts and a resulting loss of student payments. But the losses were partly oﬀset by higher student fees and other income.

Footscray MP Marsha omson said the report showed direct state government funding had halved from $18.9 million to $9.7 million, pushing VU TAFE to the brink of ﬁnancial collapse.

“Since $1.2 billion in TAFE cuts [over four years] were announced in 2012, thousands of jobs are gone, course fees have increased, courses were scrapped and campuses were forced to close,” she said.

“funding follows the student”

“Denis Napthine has no idea of the damage he’s done to TAFE campuses and communities across Victoria, especially in Footscray.”

e report shows almost 100 full-time teaching jobs have been lost, down from

creative WESTIES ARE turning heads

YOUNG ARTISTS

e west’s most talented young artists are drawing attention as part of this year’s 20th anniversary exhibition of StArt Up: Top Arts 2014 e exhibition, which opened at the National Gallery of Victoria in Federation Square last week, presents the works of Victoria’s freshest emerging artists, providing insights into the ideas and creative practices of young people.

Inspired by her love of music, Westbourne Grammar student Beth Audley created Piano, a series of pastel drawings featuring close-up angles of diﬀerent musical instruments.

Seddon’s Nicholas Mahady has produced I Appear Missing, a hand-cut stencil portrait that explores vulnerability and loneliness.

Young Maribyrnong artist Jessica Nguyen’s Just Knowing Nothing is a series of portraits shot on analogue cameras, edited to emphasise colour and generate mood, depth and feeling.

StArt Up: Top Arts 2014 will be on exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia at Federation Square, until July 20. \ BM

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414 in 2012 to only 320 last year. But Higher Education and Skills Minister Nick Wakeling said the annual reports by Victoria’s TAFEs showed they continued to focus on training in skills shortages. “Victoria’s TAFE sector is in the middle of an exciting transformation to help ensure it continues to deliver high-quality training that leads to better outcomes for students, employers and industry,” he said.

Mr Wakeling said the government had committed “record funding for training delivery of $1.2 billion per year’’.

A government spokeswoman said the government supported a system that gave students choices and job outcomes.

“In the current training market, funding follows the student, and not the institution. So if a provider’s TAFE enrolments increase, then funding from the Victorian Coalition government will increase, too.”

She said the job losses reflected an organisational restructure by the VU last year in line with changing student demand. Senior lecturer Paul Adams said the cuts had a significant impact on staff and students, particularly disadvantaging the most vulnerable.

e Weekly earlier this month reported VU staﬀ fear the loss of a further 170 jobs if management pursues plans to outsource services. \

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WERRIBEE

A mother and daughter are among hundreds of competitors taking part in this week’s Equestrian Victoria Masters Games at Werribee Park. More than 220 riders have entered for the mature-age competition, which runs from Friday to Sunday.

Vicki Sykes, 53, has been involved with horses for as long as she can remember, an aﬀection she shares with daughter Tracy, 27. While Vicki is usually the one helping Tracy, the Geelong pair will switch roles for the event, with Tracy helping her mum strap Twiggy, a thoroughbred former racehorse.

Vicki says the games give both her’s and the family’s retired racehorses a chance to compete again. “It gives the horses another life a er racing,” she says. “But it also allows us to take new horses into a racing environment before they begin racing.” is year’s games will showcase a Pas De Deux, a competitive dressage performance to music by two horses and riders. ere will also be a historic carriage show with carriages that have appeared in movies including Phar Lap, Ned Kelly and Australia General admission is free. \ MC

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mp seeks more cash for outer west

STATE BUDGET

e outer west’s booming population will place immense strain on roads and public transport unless urgent funding arrives in the May 6 state budget, a Wyndham MP warns.

Tarneit Labor MP Tim Pallas said Wyndham’s infrastructure was not coping with its annual growth of 12,000 people. As reported by the Weekly, new population data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals Wyndham’s population rose by 98 per cent between June 2003 and June last year, from 95,776 to 189,618.

Mr Pallas said Wyndham desperately needed a $90 million investment to extend Armstrong Road – including an overpass

of the rail line – to join with the Princes Freeway. He also called for funding to pave the way for duplication of over-congested roads, including Derrimut, Heaths, Sayers and Palmer roads.

Mr Pallas said the government must commit more funding to outer metropolitan roads.

“ ere is 17 per cent more traﬃc in Tarneit, Hoppers Crossing and Werribee, which is having a dramatic eﬀect on liveability for people in the area,” he said.

‘‘Arterial roads in Wyndham are overcapacity and constantly congested.”

the state, with few buses running a er 9pm.

Western Metropolitan Liberal MP Andrew Elsbury would not comment on what items he had suggested for budget funding, but he told the Weekly his list for the outer west was extensive.

“wyndham roads are always

congested”

Mr Pallas said Wyndham also had among the worst transport network connections in

bmx rider honoured

Werribee BMX rider Jordan Morgan has won Wyndham’s young achiever of the year award. Morgan, 23, is track co-ordinator of the Wyndham Warriors BMX Club. He coaches junior and senior riders and is a driving force behind plans to redevelop Werribee’s BMX track. \

teen highway hoon nabbed Wyndham highway patrol ofﬁcers nabbed a Ferntree Gully man travelling at 149km/h in a 100 zone on Princes Freeway in Werribee on Good Friday. Police said the man, 18, had held his driver’s licence for only ﬁve weeks. His Ford Laser was impounded. He will be charged on summons for exceeding the speed limit by more than 45 km/h. \

arrests over petrol thefts

Police have arrested two men following a spate of petrol thefts across Melbourne. Search warrants were last week executed by detectives of Wyndham, Melton and Hobsons Bay police at three properties across the western suburbs. One property was on Snowden Street, Laverton, with the others in Eyre Street, Melton. A Laverton man, 34, and a Melton man, 32, were arrested. Investigators seized more than 800 litres of petrol. A hydroponic cannabis set-up was also found in Melton, as were drugs and weapons. Police suspect the men were involved in about 48 incidents dating back to July last year. \

miss the lift? Catch a cab

He said the government had been forced to make some tough decisions this year.

“Unfortunately, we can’t spend the entire budget on Wyndham,” he said.

“I’m sure I could ﬁnd a way to spend it all on the region if given the chance, but that’s not realistic.” \

MELISSA

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Laverton Community Association is urging commuters affected by broken lifts at Laverton train station to complain to Public Transport Victoria and make use of free taxis being provided by Metro from Laverton. Laverton-bound commuters were advised to get off at Williams Landing for lift access at the weekend. As reported by the Weekly, two of the lifts will be out of order for weeks, awaiting parts from China. Western Metropolitan Liberal MP Bernie Finn said he would take up the matter with Metro. “In the meantime, it [Metro] will pay for taxis for those who need them,” he said. \

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Couch-surfing’s sad wave (Weekly, April 16)

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Training centre kickstarts students’ job prospects (Weekly, March 26)

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Landfill mountain gets tribunal green light (Weekly, April 9)

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let’s try lane-filtering

Ԃ To make our roads safer, the Napthine government should introduce a trial of motorcycle “lane-ﬁltering” on Victorian roads. This allows riders to travel between slow or stationary vehicles, to reduce congestion and improve motorcycle safety.

It is now legal in NSW, the UK and the US, and the government’s own inquiry into motorcycle safety recommended a lane-ﬁltering trial. LUKE DONNELLAN \ OPPOSITION ROADS SPOKESMAN.

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My shout

Like most budgetary measures, the Abbott government’s plan to increase the retirement age to 70 will be strongly felt in the north-western suburbs. While I can imagine sitting at a desk writing missives such as this well into old age, it’s a lot to ask for people whose work is mostly labour intensive. For those who can’t work until they’re 70, the financial burden will be worse. Blue-collar workers approaching retirement age have not had the benefit of superannuation most of their working lives. Superannuation wasn’t compulsory and was mostly a management perk until the early 1990s, meaning many people approaching retirement won’t have a significant nest egg. Small-business people, stay-at-home mums and migrants will be even worse off. Meanwhile, the government has axed the Income Super Contribution scheme for low-income earners. \

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brothers do a powerful job, to tonga’s delight

solar farm

Long-standing power problems in Tonga have been eased in part thanks to the work of Werribee-raised Shane Kennedy and his younger brother, Nicholas Guys.

e brothers, who live and work in Brisbane, recently completed a seven-month contract to build a 500-kilowatt hybrid solar farm on the island of Vava’u.

“ e whole experience was awesome,” said Mr Kennedy, who undertook all the electrical and safety equipment installation.

much her sons had achieved in installing 1680 panels.

“My youngest, Nicholas, supervised the trench digging and looked a er a team of local workers, who only worked by hand,” she said.

“seeing it come together felt great”

“We had a ceremony when it was completed and met Tongan royalty and other oﬃcials. Seeing it come together felt great.”

e solar farm was opened by Crown Prince Tupouto’a ’Ulukalala last December. It produces enough energy to cover about 13 per cent of Vava’u’s annual electricity needs and up to 70 per cent of demand during peak hours.

eir mother, Suzanne Guys, who lives in Bacchus Marsh, said she was proud of how

Mr Kennedy said the Tongans made the brothers feel right at home with their friendliness and generosity, even when many had so little.

“It was quite ﬂattering, actually, when they kept taking my shirts and wearing them around, and eventually they all had one,” he said, laughing.

“When I asked them why, they said they all wanted to look like me.”

e Vava’u solar farm is part of the Outer Islands Renewable Energy Project, which includes eight other Tongan islands.

e project is designed to help Tonga reduce its fossil fuel imports for power generation by half and ease the nation’s carbon footprint and million-dollar diesel bills. \

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care for a Pup who’ll care for us

Wyndham residents are being urged to consider opening their homes, and hearts, to an assistance puppy.

Labrador Dee Dee (pictured) recently gave birth to a litter of seven and Assistance Dogs Australia is looking for carers for them.

Trainer Dee Moore said raising an assistance dog allowed people to give back to the community, with the added bonus of caring for a cute puppy.

“Puppy-raisers and sitters will teach these pups to undertake tasks that are diﬃcult, or even impossible, for people with physical disabilities,’’ she said.

‘‘ ey’ll teach them to pick up all sorts of objects, such as mobile phones and keys, and make sure they’re able to alert bark when required.

‘‘You can also take the pups to the shops, cafes, on public transport and even to the cinema as it is all these experiences that will help them become an assistance dog.”

Ms Moore will help train the puppies, who will stay in their new homes for 14 months before going to Sydney for advanced training. \

LAURA LITTLE

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April Super Savers in store now

forum to probe race act

multiculturalism

A western suburbs forum will give residents and community groups an opportunity to discuss proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act next week.

Race Discrimination Commissioner

Tim Soutphommasane and state shadow parliamentary secretary for multicultural aﬀairs Telmo Languiller will speak at the forum, organised by Gellibrand MP Tim Watts.

Mr Watts said Dr Soutphommasane and Mr Languiller would discuss what the changes meant for the community.

defended the changes by arguing that in a free country “people do have rights to say things that other people ﬁnd insulting or oﬀensive or bigoted”.

Senator Brandis said the federal government intended to repeal the sections of the Racial Discrimination Act that News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt was found guilty of breaching.

forum focus will be on race law changes

“If you’re concerned about the impact the changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will have on our multicultural Australia, please come along to the forum so that your voice can be heard,” he said. “We are keen to hear from people who want to learn more about changes to the act and wish to protect the multicultural society in Melbourne’s west.”

In a recent Nielsen poll, 88 per cent of respondents believed it should be unlawful to oﬀend, insult or humiliate based on race. Attorney-General George Brandis has

“I have always said that freedom of speech and the need to protect people from racial viliﬁcation are not inconsistent objectives,” he said.

Dr Soutphommasane argues there is nothing wrong with the current laws. “People see no need to change laws that have been in place for almost 20 years, laws which have worked well,” he told the ABC. “It’s important that we have laws that reﬂect our commitment to values of civility, decency and racial tolerance.”

e forum will be in the Maribyrnong council reception room, corner Hyde and Napier streets, Footscray, from 3-4.30pm on Friday, May 2. \

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of volunteers,

its record total for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. The brigade collected $30,389 on Good Friday after raising $21,502 last year. Volunteers from across Wyndham worked tirelessly through the day, knocking on doors and collecting donations in the Point Cook, Seabrook, Sanctuary Lakes and Werribee South areas. \ MC

Hundreds

including Wyndham mayor Bob Fairclough (pictured), helped Point Cook CFA smash

PROFILE

AHoppers Crossing girl is chasing her dream of becoming a star all the way to the bright lights of Hollywood.

Airez Coyle’s mother, Jayde Tadic, says the six-year-old sparkles when she is on stage.

Airez has been selected from more than 600 young Australian hopefuls to perform in front of Hollywood company iPop!in Los Angeles this July.

e scouting agency travelled to Australia earlier this year and invited the Woodville Primary School pupil to attend a workshop with leading models and actors.

Ms Tadic says Airez was born to perform and found her niche at a young age a er being inspired by her eight-year-old brother, Seven, who has autism.

“It’s been di cult for Airez at times because of Seven’s special needs, and she has had to grow up faster than a lot of other kids her age,” she says.

“From a young age Airez has been doing things to make her brother laugh and to entertain us all.

“Seven needs a lot of attention, which Airez understands, but as her mum I wanted to see her having something that was for her. is is her time to shine.”

Ms Tadic and Airez, who began dancing at Wyndham’s Westside Dance two years ago, will travel to Los Angeles on July 1.

Airez will spend two weeks performing in front of casting directors, including a dance and monologue. If successful, she will be registered with a casting agency.

Airez, whose singing idol is Taylor Swi , says she wants to be a singer and model.

“I love to sing and dance. It’s the most fun out of everything,” she says. \

» pozible.com/project/179180

(MICHAEL COPP)

the good old wheys

Sicilian traditions are alive and well in Tullamarine, writes SARAH HARRIS

It’s a ritual that’s been played out for centuries … across the hillside villages of Sicily, people troop to the door of the local farmer-cheesemaker to collect fresh-cooked hot ricotta for lunch.

e scene repeats itself in a somewhat surprising location, with Italians from all over Melbourne ocking to the city’s industrial heartland every Sunday for an authentic taste of the old country.

Men, women and children armed with an array of saucepans, bowls and buckets line up at the Alba Cheese factory shop in Tullamarine waiting for the next batch of ricotta to “ ower”.

As the proteins rise to the top of the simmering whey and clump together they are scooped steaming into receptacles customers have brought from home.

“It’s a tradition – rst church for Mass and then here for cheese,” says Gina Agliozzo, of Avondale Heights, as she joins a cheerful, chatty queue.

e story of Alba Cheese begins in Sortino, a Sicilian village with a population of just 9000 people. It was there on a dairy farm owned by their father that brothers Mario and Gaetano Bongiorno rst learned to make ne Italian cheese.

ey discovered on migrating to Australia in the 1960s that this was not a terribly useful skill in a country where Kra processed cheese dominated the household market.

“here things are still done manually”

Like many new migrants they rst found employment as labourers, before being able to return to their cra in one of the rst Italian cheese-making companies established in Melbourne.

By the late 1970s, the two men were ready to strike out on their own and they bought three lots in Assembly Drive, Tullamarine.

eir factory opened in 1982: the obvious name for the business founded by the Brothers Good Morning –as Bongiorno translates – was Alba, meaning dawn.

And true to the business name, for the next 30 years Mario and Gaetano would be at work well before the rst light broke, getting up at 2am to be at work by 3am and o en working until 7pm – seven days a week.

“I brought up our three boys by myself and there were times I felt like a widow,” says Gaetano’s wife, Lena, who is also Alba’s o ce manager.

But the work has paid o . Today Alba Cheese occupies ve lots and produces 30 award-winning cheese products, from the nest ricotta and feta to stretch curd cheeses like bocconcini, mozzarella and haloumi through to matured pecorino and parmesan.

“ e point of di erence between this company and, say, one like Bonlac is that here things are still done manually,” Lena says.

“Nothing is done by machinery. It’s still made the old-fashioned way.

“We have our own farms as well. We have a truck that picks up milk from the farms each day, carries it down, puts it in our tank. We take it out of the tank and produce cheese out of it.

“We don’t take cream out of it, we don’t separate cream and water, so it all goes into our cheese.”

Alba Cheese churns through 60,000 litres of milk a day, enough to make 5-6 tonnes of mozzarella and 2.5 tonnes of ricotta – the much-loved by-product of the cheese-making process.

Some of the products like the dried salt-crusted ricotta salata actually have a waiting list of customers.

As Lena explains: “We simply cannot make enough of that because it has to be made from ricotta that is le over. And, well, we never have ricotta le over. So sometimes – because people are so demanding of it –we actually do a whole ricotta production just to make

that product.” And it’s not just for the local market. Increasingly, Alba is making its name abroad.

was, now they can’t get enough of it,” Lena says with a laugh.

Production has increased by almost one third in the past 18 months, thanks largely to a growing Asian appetite for dairy products in general.

During the recent (March 2014) International Food and Beverage Trade Week almost one third of the South East Asian delegates elected to visit Alba Cheese and that’s already translated into new business.

“Four years ago they didn’t know what bocconcini

But the success of Alba goes way beyond this factory and its 66 permanent employees.

A whole community of Italian wholesale businesses has grown up around the cheese factory, turning Assembly Drive into one of the best food and grocery shopping destinations in Melbourne.

Blessed, indeed, are the cheese-makers. \ sharris@mmpgroup.com.au

Dairy dates: Workers and the various fruits of their labours at Alba Cheese factory.

(PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL COPP)

COMEDY SHOW

Be entertained by a new live production of Calendar Girls. Based on a true story, the comedy tells the story of a group of women who resolve to raise money for a cancer charity by posing for a nude calendar. Calendar Girls opens May9. From 8pm at Wyndham Cultural

Centre, 177 Watton Street, Werribee. Tickets are $43 for adults, $39 concession and $15 students.

■ 8734 6000

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Laverton Community Centre & Neighbourhood House is running a six-week Anger Management for Men

course starting Thursday, May 15. Learn why people get angry, when anger becomes a problem and ways to practise anger management skills.

From 6.30-8.30pm. Cost: $100.

■ 8368 0177

SPICE IT UP

Amateur chefs can join Indian and Pakistani cooking classes at Iramoo Community Centre. Eight-week course starts Thursday, May 1.

■ 8742 3688

WALK AGAINST CRUELTY

The 20th RSPCA Million Paws Walk is on Sunday, May 18 at 16 sites across Victoria including Presidents Park in Wyndham Vale. Registrations for the event are now open.

■ rspcavic.org

JOIN A CHOIR

If you sing around the house, try joining a choir. SingWest is a community choir that rehearses each Monday night in Williamstown. No auditions, just a willingness to let it all out.

■ Call Hugh, 0413 591 342

GO FOR YOGA

Yoga classes are being held at the Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre at 5 Sargood Street, Altona.

■ Call Carmen Weghaus on 0411 169 072, or email info@ inner-smileyoga.com \

WANT YOUR EVENT LISTED? Email details by noon on the Wednesday before publication \ whatsonwest@mmpgroup.com.au

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The Weekly is giving you a chance to win a PetzGo cushion for your pets. PetzGo offers pet beds, pet bags and pet vests for small to giant breeds. Products are designed for pets’ comfort and customers’ convenience. They are hypo-allergenic, 100 per cent waterproof, machine-washable, bacteria free and easily cleanable. The Weekly has two cushions to give away, total prize value is $189. Details: petzgo.com.au

To enter the competition, visit winthisnow.com.au and follow the prompts. Entries close on Sunday at 11.59pm and will be drawn the next day at 10am (Melbourne local time) at the of ces of MMP Group, 214 Park Street, South Melbourne, VIC 3205. Winners will be noti ed in writing and their names published at winthisnow. com.au. Terms and conditions are available at this site.

There’s

a new star in the West!

Star Weekly, your new local paper, will be launched in early May – and it’s bigger, brighter and better. The publishers of the Weekly titles, Metro Media Publishing (MMP), has merged with Star News Group to produce what will be the Number One source for news and advertising across Melbourne’s western and northern suburbs.

Your new local paper will combine the best the Weekly and Star have to offer – the best local news and sport, retail advertising, real estate and classiﬁeds.

The Star Weekly will have a combined circulation of more than 300,000, giving advertisers unprecedented opportunities across Melbourne’s western and northern suburbs. Your Star Weekly will come in an easy-to-read tabloid format.

With a strong focus on local news coverage, the new Star Weekly titles will be:

Brimbank & Northwest Star Weekly

Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly

Melton & Moorabool Star Weekly

Northern Star Weekly

Sunbury & Macedon Ranges Star Weekly

Wyndham Star Weekly

We are genuinely excited about our new venture and to making the Star Weekly newspapers the destination for information about your community.

So, keep an eye out for the birth of a new Star in the West.

Star Weekly. Your community, your voice.

The generosity of Wyndham’s residents is evident with the successful raising of around $120,000 for the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Good Friday appeal. This appeal was organized by the Werribee, Point Cook and Truganina Fire Brigades, who all did an outstanding job in

The launch of the Wyndham Business Awards

educator and former AFL premiership coach and footballer, David Parkin. David provided insights into the requirements for a successful leader in the community. The opening speech and welcome was delivered by the Chairperson

did another great job in organising this annual

Businesses are encouraged to enter for this

form available from Council’s website www.wyndham.vic.gov.au.

at 5pm on 27 June. Winners will be announced

Regards, Bob.

GETAWAY \ THIS IS A GREAT PLACE FOR A MARATHON WEEKEND, WRITES JAN FISHER

The Great Ocean Road is one of Victoria’s most scenic drives but, for a weekend in May, it belongs to runners. Starting at Lorne and ending at Apollo Bay, the Great Ocean Road Marathon on May 17-18 takes in some of the most spectacular views Victoria has to oﬀer. It was ﬁrst held 10 years ago by the Apollo Bay Chamber of Commerce to attract people to the area. It has grown to include six events over two days and, this year, about 6000 runners.

Race director Greg Hooton says the event’s appeal is simple. “It’s probably the most stunning course in the world; you’re running with the sea on the le and then the hills on the right,” he says.

A marathon takes about three hours for the elite athletes having a crack, or about ﬁve hours for mere mortals. What todo for the rest of the weekend?

Well, plenty. e Otways and towns along the Great OceanRoad welcome visitors; here are some of our picks. \ jﬁsher@theweeklyreview.com.au

» www.greatoceanroadmarathon.com.au

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Sea view: Great Ocean Road Marathon follows a stunning course for about 6000 runners taking on the challenge. (SUPPLIED)

Ran a marathon, but need some more adventure?

Try the zip line eco-tour. Fly through the treetops on a steel cable up to 30 metres above the forest ﬂoor. Or set your own pace on the tree-top walk, where elevated paths provide an excellent opportunity to view some of Australia’s most stunning temperate rainforest at your own pace. \

» Otway Fly Treetop Adventures, 360 Phillips Track, Weeaproinah. www.otwayﬂy.com

e marathon is billed as one of the most scenic in the world, but don’t just run past the beaches. Shake oﬀ post-race fatigue with a surf lesson or kayak tour from Apollo Bay Surf and Kayak. e tour takes two hours and visits a seal colony, while, at the surf school, qualiﬁed coaches cater for all abilities. \

» Apollo Bay Surf and Kayak, 157-159 Great Ocean Road, Apollo Bay. apollobaysur ayak.com.au

PISCES HOLIDAY PARK

311 Great Ocean Road, Apollo Bay. 5237 6749 » piscespark.com.au

Champagne-living on cider prices is the order of the day at Pisces Holiday Park. Set on a rise on the way into town, the holiday park has immaculate cabins that can sleep up to seven. The park also offers en suite caravan sites and powered and unpowered sites. Whatever the option, listening to the sound of the sea as you go to sleep … priceless. The barbecue and picnic area may have the best outlook over the bay in town; come for the cooked snag, stay for the ocean views. \

SOUTHERN OCEAN VILLAS

2-6 McCue Street, Port Campbell. 5598 4200 » www.southernoceanvillas.com

Port Campbell is about 90 kilometres from the marathon finish line at Apollo Bay. Combine the drive with a trip to the Twelve Apostles and you have a great wind down after a challenging weekend. But don’t let the indulgence end there; spoil yourself with a stay at the Southern Ocean Villas. The minimalist exteriors belie luxe, contemporary interiors that feature sleek styling and European fittings and fixtures. The villas house up to six people – enough for a couple of runners and their support crew – and are a short stroll to Port Campbell’s shops and restaurants. \

FORREST BREWING COMPANY

Forrest-Apollo Bay Road, Forrest. 5236 6170

» www.forrestbrewing.com.au

Matt Bradshaw made quite a leap of faith when he bought a near-derelict general store in Forrest more than 10 years ago and turned it into a brewery. Matt says he came for a ﬁshing trip and “never really left”. He was joined by his sister Sharon a few years later, and the duo have turned the brewery into a destination in its own right. They also run an utterly charming café/restaurant. Business must be good – they have just bought another site to expand the brewery. It’s an ideal spot to stop on your way home or carb load on the wayto the race. \

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Baywater Estate, Curlewis, is the only residential estate on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula with lots fronting Port Phillip Bay.

Bayfront residential land doesn’t come on the market very often, especially on the Bellarine.

e Baywater Estate really does overlook the bay.

e couple enjoying panoramic views across the water to the You Yangs are pictured on the balcony of the superb two-storey waterfront home which is currently our Land Sales Oﬃce.

e couple strolling along the water’s edge are pictured on the beach immediately below the estate, accessed directly via a new boardwalk down the cliﬀ face.

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HOUSE, DORNBIRN (AUSTRIA) ARCHITECTS \ DIETRICH

BOOKS

At rst glance, the traditional European mountain chalet might appear to have little in common with the lifestyles and domestic needs of 21st-century Melburnians.

Made of logs and with sloping roo ines designed to cope with heavy snowfalls, the original alpine chalets were used only during the summer as herdsmen’s huts. Abandoned in winter, these buildings had to be simple in design, practical and resilient.

In their new book, Chalets: Trendsetting Mountain Treasures, architecture writers Michelle Galindo and Sophie Steybe recall the development of the chalet from herdsmen’s hut to alpine institution.

“Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the word ‘chalet’ in the mid-18th century,’’ they write in their preface.

“It was at this time that his theories regarding a simple, sublime life in connection with nature were of particular importance.

“ e gentry built romantic huts in landscape gardens, and around the end of the 18th century this building type became typical of wild-romantic, picturesque mountain architecture.’’ Chalet architecture found a new fan base during the mid-19th century when alpine travel became the rage, particularly among English walking groups.

whAT TO READ …

Chalets: Trendsetting Mountain Treasures \ by Michelle Galindo and Sophie Steybe » $120 (Braun)

“ e bourgeoisie built themselves villas in chalet style,” wite Galindo and Steybe. “ ese had little in common with herdsmen’s huts, only the building outline, with a shallow sloping roof and large roof overhangs, and the materials used, remained true to the original form.”

Chalets presents some of the world’s most stylish mountain residences. Each project re ects either a remodelled old chalet, or a new development built to re ect the chalet style and honour its design attributes.

With 500 colour images, oor plans and brief introductions of around 200 words, readers are introduced to an unfamiliar, yet highly appealing, architectural genre. Having devoured this book, I can see many links between good chalet architecture and the things we value in our own Australian domestic spaces.

Natural light and big windows that bring the outdoors inside;

Rail line closures

26 – 27 April 2014

This weekend, major consprucpion works will pake place on phe Regional Rail Link projecp po improve Vicporia’s rail nepwork.

balconies and terraces that catch the sun; extensive use of natural materials such as stone and timber; ttings and furnishings that create intimate and cosy environments.

Take, for example, the Timotheé Georgis Architects-designed chalet in Switzerland’s Leysin area. is simple timber construction is an example of the kind of dwelling I wish we’d see more frequently in the hillier, less densely populated suburbs of Melbourne’s east and north-east. It is elegant, it feels roomy (despite its small 67-square-metre footprint) and it allows for comfortable living.

Even in a built-up inner suburb such as Richmond or South Melbourne, its design principles could easily be adapted to create a very special domestic environment.

e Norwegian winter cabin created by Oslo design team Christian’s & Hennie is another example of what we might recreate in, say, a South Yarra townhouse, a St Kilda Road apartment, or Fitzroy warehouse conversion.

Large windows allow the light to beam in, while the neutral walls and oors give a spacious feeling to each room.

e quiet backgrounds also allow contemporary furniture pieces, vases, lightshades, candles and the like to become the heroes of each room.

Properties such as the Dornbirn house in Austria, or Casa Prè De Sura in Badia, Italy, could easily t in to the beach landscapes of the Great Ocean Road, or Blairgowrie back beach.

Braun Publishing has a well-deserved reputation for producing quality themed architecture books.

We congratulate the authors on this carefully curated and well-researched volume. \

cperkin@theweeklyreview.com.au

TO READ MORE REVIEWS www.theweeklyreview.com.au/books

There will be changes po phe way you pravel during phis pime po enable works po safely pake place in phe rail corridor.

Buses and coaches will replace prains on phe following lines, from ﬁrst service Saturday 26 April until last service Sunday 27 April:

Geelong: bepween Geelong and Souphern Cross Spapion

Werribee: bepween Newporp and Norph Melbourne

Williamstown: bepween Williamspown and Norph Melbourne

Opher changes po phe public pransporp and road nepwork will also pake place ap phis pime. Please plan ahead and allow expra pravel pime for your prip.

For more informapion and po plan your journey, visip ptv.vic.gov.au or call 1800 800 007 (6am po midnighp daily).

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Only Lovers Le Alive \ Rated M, 123 min » cinemanova.com.au

This new, languorous vampire romance from Jim Jarmusch isn’t your usual fanged fare. There’s no love-struck teens or sparkly immortals. Instead, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) are a pair of estranged, ancient lovers, more or less enjoying a rare ed existence at the edges of the human world. In Adam’s case, he’s enjoying things decidedly less. Despite living out some alienated rock-star dream in a haunted house, listening to old vinyl and recording gloomy post-rock music, Adam has bought a wooden bullet and plans to end it all.

There’s little more to the story than this, but you don’t come to a Jarmusch lm for the plot. Only Lovers Left Alive has a seductive, somnambulant and post-apocalyptic air, heightened by the extended sequences in a nocturnal Detroit. As our anti-heroes bemoan humanity’s capacity for self-destruction, the evidence is rarely off-screen. This reimagining of the undead as moral superiors – killing victims is described as “so mediaeval” – is, perhaps, Jarmusch’s boldest stroke. He eschews campy mythology for science, Adam creating improbable electrical gadgets and feeding from hospital blood bags. The lovers refer to humans as “zombies”, whereas they are truly romantic gures in every sense: glamorous philosophers, rubbing shoulders wi good and the great. The unearthly Swinton is perfect casting as an ageless thing, while Hiddleston remains charming throughout his melanchol lm, they are clever, moody and quite genuinely cool. \

TILDA SWINTON & TOM HIDDLESTON

DECANTER \

BEN THOMAS GETS SOME FRESH EYRE

Every spring, Australian winemakers travel to the northern hemisphere to help make wine. It’s part holiday, part education and, a er a few weeks, they return to their wineries and the start of a new growing season.

But every now and then one stays. Jane Eyre is one who stayed.

Eyre’s journey to Burgundy started in the 1990s when she was working as a hairdresser.

With a holiday to Europe booked, she organised some work at a Bordeaux winery through a hairdressing client. e holiday proved to be the start of a new career.

“I came back here and enrolled in a winemaking degree at Charles Sturt University and ended up working at the St Kilda Prince Wine Store,” Eyre says.

“Working there was great – there was great enthusiasm and we sold wines from all over the world. It was great palate training.

“Every time we did dinners with someone interesting, I’d call them and ask if I could do vintage with them.”

Working at the Prince Wine Store gave Eyre the exibility to spend time at wineries during the vintage harvest.

“I’d go back to Burgundy for harvest every year, plus a couple of vintages in New Zealand with Ata Rangi and Craggy Range and with Vanya Cullen (in Margaret River).”

At the end of 2003, South Melbourne Prince Wine Store opened and Eyre was o ered the job of manager at the now-closed St Kilda shop. e job came with a catch – she wouldn’t be able to take three months o a year to make wine.

“I thought ‘if I don’t go now I’ll never go’,” says Eyre, and a few months later she was working for the highly regarded Burgundy producer Domaine des Comtes Lafon.

Eyre has been assistant winemaker at Domaine Newman since 2006. In 2011 she made the rst wine, a pinot noir, under her own label, Jane Eyre.

“At rst I wanted to make wines in one of the more prestigious regions – Pommard, Volnay, for example,” Eyre says.

“ en I got calls from two friends to say there was a parcel of fruit at Savigny-les-Beaune, which wasn’t on the radar, but I went to see the vineyard and the grower was someone I knew – he lived up the road from my in-laws and had even been to my wedding.”

Eyre added a Gevrey-Chambertin to the range in 2012 and at the same time started making pinot noir in Australia with friend William Downie.

“Bill Downie gave me access to the best parcels of wine that he has,” says Eyre, who makes pinot noir from the Mornington Peninsula and Gippsland.

“I’m here too late for the Yarra, but really wanted to make wine from Gippsland, which is where I’m from.

“[It’s great] to be able to come out and work with my friends here and see a di erent vintage and di erent fruit because you don’t work with [the grapes] in the same way – they’re ripe and there’s plenty of tannin there.

“I’m not trying to take over the world of wine, or become a 5000-case producer. e idea is to get the best parcels I can.” \ bthomas@theweeklyreview.com.au

WERRIBEE SALE ENDS

“the idea is to get the best parcels I can”

Follow Ben on Twitter @senorthomas

(JAMES BROADWAY)

WINEMAKER \ JANE EYRE

WYNDHAM VALE \ 6 BURRUMBEET COURT

Best described as the complete family package, this Federation-inspired residence in the coveted Manor Lakes estate has the wow factor.

Built to last by Belani Builders in 2005, the brick residence of about 29 squares is ready to be enjoyed by all the family.

Making a lasting rst impression, the leadlight entry opens to a foyer displaying the period detailing used in the front formal areas, such as fretwork, 2.7-metre ceilings with roses and deep cornices, pendant lighting, brass light switches and polished oorboards.

The carpeted lounge room with dado railing, gas log re and timber mantel is opposite the study or fth bedroom.

The hall continues past the staircase and two double bedrooms with built-in wardrobes and into the tiled informal living and dining domain.

The Tasmanian oak kitchen, which is tted with Westinghouse stainless-steel appliances (wall oven, four-burner gas cooktop and xed rangehood), Fisher & Paykel dual-drawer dishwasher and removable island bench, also has a butler’s pantry that has direct access to the remote-controlled double garage. The kitchen is next to a dining area

and the rear rumpus room, off which another passage accesses another bedroom and Regeneration-style bathroom and laundry with storage space.

French doors open from the rumpus room to a wrap-around merbau deck and from the dining room to the vast, covered backyard, which has a brick-paved sitting area, sandstone-edged garden beds, two 2500-litre water tanks, cubby house, chicken run, large shed and manicured gardens on the 860-square-metre block.

Back inside and the carpeted staircase ascends to a small sitting area or study nook,

which separates the bedroom area, with dormer roof and box bay window, on the right from the walk-in wardrobe and en suite on the left. Extras include evaporative cooling, zoned ducted heating, Foxtel connection, pelmeted drapes and understairs storage.

The position will also have no shortage of admirers. It’s in a quiet court, close to Manor Lakes Central shopping centre, a library, childcare, schools (Our Lady of the Southern Cross Primary, Manor Lakes P-12 College), medical centre and under-construction railway station. \

ROSS MCGRAVIE

Being close to a railway station, shops and schools always adds value to an investment property, and this modern townhouse ticks those important boxes. Werribee station, Watton Street shops, St Mary’s Primary school, Wyndham Park and Werribee River are within walking distance, while Werribee Plaza is a short drive away. The stylish townhouse has two bedrooms with built-in wardrobes, two bathrooms, a carpeted lounge room, separate meals zone with recessed wall and built-in shelf, and a kitchen with stainless-steel appliances. And there are split-systems, oating oorboards, high ceilings, roller and vertical blinds, downlights and a feature wall. Neutral tones ensure the new owners’ furniture won’t clash with the interior. A sliding door from the meals zone leads to a low-maintenance courtyard. Also included are a remote-controlled single garage and an additional off-street parking space. \

This house can be lived in now and updated later. There are three bedrooms, including the main with walk-in wardrobe and en suite. The remaining bedrooms have built-in robes. There’s a bathroom with spa, separate toilet and laundry with outside access. And entertaining will no longer involve squishing into one space as this house has an open-plan lounge-dining room with bar, meals zone, and large rumpus room. The kitchen has been partially revamped with new benchtops and splashbacks. Features are slate-tiled oors, polished oorboards, a wood heater, ducted heating and evaporative cooling. The backyard has an entertainment area, a single carport and two 5000-litre water tanks. And there’s a remote-controlled double garage. The 640-square-metre property has low-maintenance gardens and is within walking distance of Hogans Road Reserve. Hogans Corner shopping centre and several schools are a short drive away. \

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Saturday26thApril12pm

Craigieburn (Donnybrook) 700 Donnybrook Road

We areofferingthegrowingfamilythisthreebedroomhomewithstudywhichcanbe easilyusedasafourthbedroom.Fullensuiteandwalk-in-robetomasterbedroom, built-in-robestoallotherbedrooms.Stepdownlounge,largekitchen/mealsarea adjoiningsitting room,spaciousrumpus roomandfamily roomwithopenﬁreplace andcathedralceilings.Ductedheating,evaporativecooling,dishwasher,doublelock upgarage.

ConjunctionalAgents:Harcourts175A WattonStreet WerribeeBH:97419000 Nicole:0438578275orPat0417206207

CUTE PACKAGEONACORNERBLOCK

We haveonofferthiscomfortable3bedroombrickveneerfamily home,built-in-robestoallbedrooms,kitchen/mealsareaand seperatelounge roomwithgaswallfurnaceandsplitsystemairconditioner,carpetstoallbedrooms,outdoorawnings,gardensheds, lockupgarage.Closetoschools&publictransport.

Shop3/19SynnotSt, Werribee Ph:97411000Pat0417206207 www.pellegrinorealestate.com.au

Thissuperbvillaunitinablockoftwoofferstheastutebuyer/investor 2bedroomsbothwithbuilt-in-robes,spaciouslounge roomwith gasheatingwhichoverlooksthefrontyard,wellappointedkitchen/ mealsareawithgascooking,gardenshed,carport.Enquiretodayin regardstoyourpersonalviewingofthisproperty.

Renovateor replace

WERRIBEE13FrancisStreet

Anarrayofpossibilitiesherewithacomplete renovationorstartfromscratch.Situatedinoneof Werribee’smost renownedstreets,thisisaonce inalifetimeopportunitytosecureprime Werribee RealEstate.(UnderinstructionsfromAdamNikitins &SimonCathrointheircapacityasReceivers& Managers)TERMS10%DEP,BALin30/60DAYS

AUCTION

Date Saturday3rdMay11.00AM

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PRDnationwide Werribee

2/85SynnotStreet,97427557 prdnationwide.com.au/werribee RohanSmith0412864525 rohans@prdwerribee.com.au

WYNDHAM VALE6BrockwellCrescent

Thisspacioushomeis readytomovestraightinto. Offering4generousbedrooms,masterwithWIR& en-suite,formallounge&wellappointedkitchen overlookingtheadjmealsarea&secondlivingzone. Otherfeaturesincladoublegarage,ductedheating, spacious rear&sideyard,allnottoofarawayfrom thesoontobecompletedManorLakestrainStation.

PRDnationwide Werribee 2/85SynnotStreet,97427557 prdnationwide.com.au/werribee

GregO’Meara0419580535 grego@prdwerribee.com.au

WERRIBEE22Railway Avenue

Intheheartof Werribee,thishomeisonlymetres fromthestation&mainstreet.Comprising3 bedrooms,lightﬁlledkitchen,lounge&family bathroomallongreatsizeallotmentpresenting futureopportunities.(Underinstructionsfrom AdamNikitins&SimonCathrointheircapacityas Receivers&Managers).10%deposit,balin75days

Date Saturday3rdMay1.00PM

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PRDnationwide Werribee

2/85SynnotStreet,97427557

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RohanSmith0412864525 rohans@prdwerribee.com.au

HOPPERSCROSSING172BethanyRoad

Withplentyof roomtoputupthebigshed,this homesgaragehasbeentransformedintoa2nd livingarea,whilststillhavingaccommodationfor2 carsunderthedoublecarport.Themainlivingarea isveryopenplan&consistsofheating&cooling. Locatedclosetopublic&privateschools&located atthe TarneitRoadendofBethanyRoad.

PRDnationwide Werribee

2/85SynnotStreet,97427557 prdnationwide.com.au/werribee Ash Taylor0407808233 asht@prdwerribee.com.au

WERRIBEE

12SerpentineCourt

Setonapprox541m2,offeringformallounge, rumpus/2ndlivingarea, reﬁttedkitchenwithmeals area,masterbedroomwithensuite&WIR,3good sizedbedroomswithBIR,familybathroom&generous sizedlaundry.Ductedheating,aircon.& recently repainted,newdrapes,carpets&tiles,&complete roof renovation.Largeoutdoorconcreteentertainingarea, landscapedgardens,fruittrees, rearaccessfrom garage,pergolawithBBQarea,decking&heated sunkenspathatseatsupto8people.Closeproximity totrain,bus,schools,shopping.

4 A 2 B 2 C

PRICE: $349000

CONTACT: Suzanne Vitagliano0435730522

KURUNJANG

26MacdougalStreet

LocatedinthesoughtafterThoroughbredEstatein Kurunjang.Enjoytheserenesurroundsgivingyou theopportunitytoliveinapeaceful&picturesque environment.Closetonumerousprimaryschools &secondarycolleges&withincloseproximityto WoodgroveShoppingCentre.Closetoallamenities &publictransport.This ﬂatlargeblock,setamongst qualityhomes,isideallysuitedforbuyerslookingtoup size&buildtheirdreamhomewithplentyof roomto move,footpath&crossoveralreadyconstructed,this blockis readytobuildonnow.Inquiretoday!

PRICE: $290000

CONTACT: MarnieRoberts0408367719

PORTARLINGTON

4GoldenRoad

Beautifulopenplanhomesetonapprox.675m2 comprising2brmswithBIRs&masterbrmwith ensuite&WIR.Formallounge&openstudy,bright kitchenextendingtolargemeals&spaciousfamily room.Separaterumpus roomidealforgrowingfamily. Northfacing rearyardhasaccessthroughthedouble garagewithcoveredcarportaccommodatingupto8 cars!Idealforcaravanorboat,onlyminutesfromboat ramp,township&popularbeaches. Toogoodtomiss outonsopackthecar&boat&calltoviewtoday!

3 A 2 B 2 C

INSPECT: Byappointmentonly

PRICE: $900,000-$990,000

CONTACT: YabsRealEstateWyndham93947116

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8RavidaStreet

ContemporaryArnoldsCreekoffersavibrantlifestyle inanexciting&fastgrowingsuburb.Idealfor ﬁrst homebuyerstolargerfamilies.Melton’sthriving TownPrecincthasplentytoofferfromShopping Centres,Primary&SecondarySchools&Colleges, Recreational&SportingFacilities,withcloseproximity toCinemas,Public Transport&Freewayoptions ArnoldsCreekistheperfectplacetostartandgrow inacontemporarycommunity.Lot1/8Ravida Avenue issizedat328m2approx.Lot2/8Ravida Avenueis alsoforsale.

PRICE: $125000

CONTACT: MarnieRoberts0408367719

DOREEN 2AngoraDrive

Fabulous771m2blockwith30mfrontage.Mitchell’s Runisanestablishedcommunitymadeupofover 650uniqueblocksofland.Uniquelydesignedto incorporatespaciousparklands&meandering waterways,while retainingthemagniﬁcentnatural river redgumsthroughouttheestate.Thisestate offersanunparalleled&prestigiouslifestyleforits residents.Thisopportunityoffers22hectaresof lusciousparkland,1hectareofserenewetlands,no throughtrafﬁc,interconnectedbustransportation, Daclanddesignguidelinestoensureinvestment

PRICE: $269000

CONTACT: KevinMizzi0477101027

Kyabram,inGoulburn ValleybetweenEchuca& Shepparton&closetoMurrayRiver,locatedinthe centreofarichirrigationdistrict200kmnorthof MelbourneintheCampaspeShire. Withexisting amenitites,providingforatownshipof6000&a districtof16000.Thiswellpresentedweatherboard homesetonageneroussizeblockfeaturingalla family’swants&needs,3brms,spaciouskitchenwith electriccooking,livingareawithgasheating,slug withcarport.Closetoshops,transportandschools. Approx rent$260-$270pw.

3 A 1 B 2 C

PRICE: $200000

CONTACT: MarnieRoberts0408367719

ROCKBANK

276-288SinclairsRoad

Approx.7.5acres(approx.)inUGZ.UnderPSP1080 &draftframeworkstructureplansuggestswillsuit residentiallots(STPA)innearfuture30kms(approx.) fromMelbourneCBDand24kms(approx.)to MelbourneAirport.Closeproximitytoschools,parks, shopping,train&localamenities.

A3bedhomecurrentlyissituatedonthisland. CallKevinMizzion0477101027orSuzanne VitaglianoforfurtherDetails.

CONTACT: KevinMizzi0477101027

Designedwithanabundanceofparks,gardensand plentyofopenspace,TheHeartlandsEstatewill providetheidealsettingforanactive,healthylifestyle, whilethecentralwetlands regionofferbeautifulviews overthetranquilsurrounds.TheHeartlandsEstatewill offer residentsanon-site‘ClubHeartlands’ recreation centre,featuringapoolandgymnasiumthisfacility willpresentagreatopportunitytosocialisewith friendsandfamilyallwithinthecomfortofyourown community.*Conditionsapply.

INSPECT: Byappointmentonly

PRICE: $334000-$454000

CONTACT: YabsRealEstateWyndham93947116

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The‘cando’agents.....

Beachonyourdoorstep&bayviewstolapup.

•Anexceptionaldesignertownhousewhichisimmaculatelypresented.

•Openplankitchen,meals,familyareawhichopenstoNWcourtyard.

•Adownstairsmasterbedroomwithsemiensuite&WIR.

•Upstairslivingareawithabalcony&viewsofthebay.

•Features:stonebenchtops,TasOakstaircase,heating,cooling&alarm.

•Investinamodernbaysidepropertyandenjoywalkingalongtheesplanade.

PrivateSale

Price $795,000-$860,000

Inspect Sat1-1:30pm

Office 54PierStreet,Altona. 93983799

Contact PaulLindemann0418336025JulieBurt0410553517

Immaculatefamilyhomeinbeautifulcourtlocation

•Formallounge&dining,casualmeals/livingwithwoodfireplusseparaterumpus.

•Generousmasterbedroomwithlargebaywindowshighceilings,ensuite&WIR.

•Functionalkitchenwithgreatbenchspace&dishwasherandhugefamilybathroom.

•Glassslidingdoorsopentodeckingwithawning&impressivegardensfrontandrear.

•Stunningtimberfloors,BIR’sinother2bedroomsplusstudyoroptional4thbedroom.

•Features:Centralheating,splitsystem,alarmanddoublegarage.

•Inaquietculdusac,youwillbeimpressedwiththequality&finishofthishome.

PrivateSale $420,000-$440,000

Inspect Sat2-2:30pm

Office Shop5,73PointCookRoad,PointCook. 93609399

Contact JodieLindemann0425850606AnthonyKent0425850610

Magnificentfamilyhomeseton691m2approx. •Spaciousopenplankitchen,diningandlivingarea. •Largekitchenfeaturingatimberbenchtop. •Timberfloor,ductedheating&evaporativecooling. •Singlegarage,extraparking,sheds,watertank •Walkshops,trainstationandMtStJosephCollege. •AltonaBeach,cafesandrestaurantsnearby.

PrivateSale $640,000-$680,000

Inspect Sat1-1:30pm Office 54PierStreet,Altona. 93983799

Contact KetNguyen0418336024 BarrySeignior0425850607

Altona 1/9SevesStreet

Abaysidelifestylewithavillageatmosphere. •Afewstepstothebeach&theesplanade. •Frontgeneroussizedunitwithaseparatelounge •TwobedroomswithBIR’S&acentralbathroom •Spaciouskitchen,mealsarea.Plentyofcupboards. •Singlegarageplusextraparking. •Walktotrainstation,shops&school.

Auction Saturday3rdMayat11am

Price $395,000-$420,000

Inspect Thurs6-6:30pm,Sat11-11:30am

Office 54PierStreet,Altona. 93983799

Contact PaulLindemann0418336025

FitforaKing

•Thisbeautyisallaboutspace,sizeandquality •Twolargelivingareas,study&aretreat •Brightkitchenwithplentyofcupboardspace •Openplancasualdiningandspaciouslivingarea •Formaldining&multiplepergolasforentertaining •Ductedheating,evaporativecooling,landscaped

Auction Saturday3rdMayat12noon

Price $680,000-$720,000

Inspect Thurs6-6:30pm,Sat1-1:30pm

Office Shop5,73PointCookRd,PointCook. 93609355

Contact SarahElhawli0438336024

ATrulyUniqueOpportunity!

•Featuringanenormousgarage/workshop. •Residencewithtwobedrooms&centralbathroom. •Additionalbedroom/study&bathroomattherear. •Landscapedgardens&largealfrescoarea. •Renovatedhomesituatedontheborderof Newport.

PrivateSale $550,000-$600,000

Inspect Sat11-11:30am

Office 54PierStreet,Altona. 93983799

Contact PaulLindemann0418336025 BenWatson0414397167

Altona 5 CorreaStreet

Seabrook 12TeatreePlace

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Tradesman’s Heaven

Close to schools, shops & public transport is this very neat home, with nothing to be done. Presenting 4 fitted BRs, ensuite to master, separate family area, rumpus & kitchen with meals area looking out onto the beautiful backyard set-up. Appointments inc gas ducted heating, cooling, floor boards, alarm, landscaped gardens & double garage with drive thru access into another under cover area. Wait, there is more, at the rear of the property is a 2nd oversized double garage for the mechanic, carpenter, etc, looking to enjoy their trade or transform it into that Man-Cave that every guy yarns for. The lady of the home has not been forgotten about; they can invite their friends over for coffee & cakes or champagne at night, while being under the cover of the home’s large pergola area, with its pond & greenery.

59 Church Street 4 2 2 1 3

Hot Property On The South Side Of Werribee!

A solid double fronted 3 BR plus study home featuring spacious fitted bedrooms, master with ensuite & BIRs, study or nursery/4th BR, central bathroom, step down formal lounge, large family/meals area & rumpus room with vaulted ceilings & a bar/servery area. Includes ducted heating, refrig cooling & nearly 5-car accom undercover with workshop area/garage. This is prime Werribee & a great opportunity to secure a hot property.

Private Sale $430,000 - $460,000

Inspect Sat 12.30-1pm

Photo ID required

Contact Bassam Tofaili 0411 449 821

James Antonio 0401 889 248

Private Sale $355,000 - $365,000

Inspect By appointment

Photo ID required

Contact James Antonio 0401 889 248

Leslie Goodwin 0419 110 582

Werribee 32 Carter Avenue 1 2 2 4

Brilliant Carter Home

This character filled family home comprises 4 fitted BRs, 3 with BIRs & master with WIR & FES inc spa, formal lounge/theatre room, open plan family meals area, rumpus room & modern kitchen. Includes heating, split system A/C, 9ft ceilings, polished timber floors & more. Outdoors a timber decked alfresco overlooks a landscaped garden & single garage with room for a workshop. Only a stone’s throw away from all amenities.

Private Sale $560,000 - $585,000

Inspect Sat 1-1.30pm

Photo ID required

Contact Tony Vercher 0421 734 414

James Antonio 0401 889 248

Werribee

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Rock Solid Gorgeous 2 Storey Residence

This stunning example of fine building comprises 4 BRs, master with semi ensuite & WIRs, updated Tas Oak solid kitchen adjoins a meals & 2nd family room, also a formal lounge & dining. Ducted heating & split system cooling keep things cosy all year round. An oversized auto double garage with internal access, and outdoors has been finished with select paving & features unrestricted side access. Located close to all local amenities.

Private Sale Contact Agent Inspect By appointment

Photo ID required

Contact John Camilleri 0414 778 940

Leslie Goodwin 0419 110 582

Sensational Opportunity - South Side Werribee!

This lovely first home or investment opportunity is positioned perfectly within walking distance to all local amenities. Three BRs, central bathroom, lounge leading through to a study area & separate meals, modern kitchen & large rumpus/family room. Includes gas heating, A/C, wood fired combustion heater, ceiling fans t/out, IG swimming pool, large garage shed/workshop area, single carport & matured landscaped gardens.

Private Sale $290,000 - $305,000

Inspect Sat 11.45-12.15pm

Photo ID required

Contact Leslie Goodwin 0419 110 582 Bassam Tofaili 0411 449 821

Dynamite Location & Perfect Presentation

Situated in a quiet central pocket of Hoppers Crossing is this low maintenance family home. Comprising 3 BRs & a study, master with a WIR & FES while the remaining BRs all have BIRs. The formal lounge takes you through to the hostess vinyl wrap kitchen overlooking the meals & extra family room. Includes ducted heating, floating floor boards, pergola, landscaped gardens, double garage & plenty of OSP for boats & caravans, all on 644m2 approx.

Charming Federation Inspired Family Home!

Built by Belani Homes is this masterpiece with 4 fitted BRs, formal lounge with a gas fireplace, central kitchen that overlooks the meals area & a rumpus room with French doors leading through to a timber decked verandah & upstairs, a master BR with FES &WIR. Includes heating, cooling, remote garage with internal & drive thru access, 2 x 2500L water tanks, a huge entertainment area & fully landscaped backyard with matured trees.

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FASHION \ JANE ROCCA TAPS INTO DESIGNER KARA LIU’S NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

There’s something about New York that’s got Kara Liu hooked. e Shanghai-born designer spent three months in Manhattan last year for an internship with Alexander Wang before returning to Australia to launch her own label.

Drawn to the Big Apple’s energy and charisma, and inspired by the re ned elegance of the fashion set, Liu translated the city’s best features for her commercial debut collection.

“I grew up in Shanghai and I love big cities,” Liu says. “But New York has always been special because I feel connected to the people.”

Liu speaks highly of New York’s buzzing streets of fashion lovers. “New Yorkers are many things – they are elegant, re ned but also bold and daring,” she says.

“ ey are quite romantic, but also very realistic, hardworking and e cient. ey get things done. ey always wear the classics but wear them creatively. e clothes always complement the wearer, never overtaking him or her, and these things align perfectly with my own design philosophy.”

Liu’s choice of fabrics re ects this wintry New York in uence. ere’s plenty of luxurious wool and alpaca textures in her collection, but she calls on heavy structured silks to so en the silhouette. e RMIT fashion graduate works from a city studio and splits her time between Melbourne and

Shanghai.

Liu says she would have become a surgeon if she had followed the footsteps of her parents. “I went on a school trip to Melbourne in grade 6 from Newcastle and absolutely loved it,” says the designer whose mother was then doing her PhD in Newcastle.

“My mum then made the decision for us to move to Melbourne when I was 14. We love the lifestyle and mum felt that Australia was an environment that suited me better than Shanghai.”

Working as an intern at Alexander Wang in New York was a fashion highlight for Liu, although her time there was cut short so she could return to Melbourne for L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Week 2013, where her collection was selected as part of the National Graduate Showcase Runway.

big on box pleats, organza and geometrical shapes, pinning her fashion forecast on all that is a tad unusual.

A capsule collection by Liu is also available in Glue stores nationally – this sub range is a result of her winning the 1% Glue fashion design competition last year.

“Titled [SLEEP. WORK. PLAY.], it is an exploration into the simple joys of domestic life, inspired by the familiar and the sensation of comfort of home,” Liu says.

“new york has always been special”

“ e collection combines my edited, minimal design aesthetics with Glue’s relaxed, fun-loving lifestyle. It has been such a fun collaboration and a great experience for me to be immersed in the commercial end of the industry.”

“It was an incredible experience to assist the designers and work alongside the best pattern-makers in New York,” she says. “I had the opportunity to see how the company operates, as well as get rst-hand knowledge of the New York garment industry. Assisting backstage at a major show was an experience like no other,” she says of helping on the ready-to-wear fall and resort collections.

For her own collection, Liu keenly follows simple design aesthetics. She plots this season’s message on reminders of New York; from the grey winter skies to concrete skyscrapers and ashing neon lights. She’s

e driven designer has also collaborated with Australian footwear label Belmore Bootmakers to complement her capsule collection.

“We share modern, re ned, minimal aesthetics, which is re ected in the collaboration range,” Liu says.

“It is a very beautifully edited range that promotes design and longevity. All the shoes are made by skilled cra smen in Belmore’s NSW factory and available in their stores now.” \

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MOTORING

Ford’s Mustang, one of the world’s most iconic sports cars, is turning 50 but the man who made it possible won’t be at the party. Lee Iacocca, now 89 and regarded as the father of the Mustang, had a falling out with Ford 14 years a er the car was launched. e Mustang, which at the time proved the nancial salvation of the Ford Motor Company, was launched in New York on April 17, 1964, and the American car industry being what it is, the car was called a 1965 model. Simultaneous launches were held in 11 European countries. A er the New York event, American motoring journalists took Mustangs on a 1200-kilometre drive intended to underline the car’s reliability.

e car was unique. Two-door, four-seat cars were hardly rare but this was the rst that o ered sports-car looks with passenger-car durability at a budget price. e US charge was $2368 – the price of an average car. at bought a base model with a 76-kilowatt 2.8-litre six-cylinder motor and a three-speed manual gearbox. From there prices climbed; the options list was one of the longest in Ford’s history and included everything from a three-speed auto, power brakes and two-speed wipers to a 200-kilowatt, 4.7-litre V8 with a four-speed manual.

e Mustang, in convertible and hardtop,

THINGS

was an instant hit and became an evergreen, recording nine million-plus sales in 50 years. Anniversary celebrations are being held in New York, Las Vegas and Charlotte and about 150 Australian enthusiasts are attending. Two 1800-kilometre drives have been organised, both starting in Oklahoma. e eastbound drive nishes in Charlotte, North Carolina, the westbound in Las Vegas, Nevada.

At the same time a current Mustang is being displayed on the observation deck of New York’s Empire State Building.

Ford Australia has also run a social media campaign inviting people to nominate an equivalent of Route 66 for a Mustang drive.

Iacocca was a vice president of Ford and general manager of the Ford Division during development of the Mustang, and was the car’s driving force. He said its launch was one of the proudest moments in his life. Its tearaway success enhanced his career considerably and he became president of the company in 1970. But a heavy public clash with Henry Ford II led to his sacking in 1978. He was immediately courted by Chrysler and was appointed president, later publishing his autobiography, Iacocca, which became a bible for aspiring executives worldwide.

Portfolio magazine named him the 18th-greatest American CEO of all time. \ reasdown@theweeklyreview.com.au

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falcons go on goal rush

VNL

City West Falcons produced the highest score for the season in a ruthless performance against bottom side Fed Uni Ballarat Pride in the Victorian Netball League on Wednesday.

e unbeaten Falcons missed just seven attempts at goal for the game, dominating from start to ﬁnish against the winless Pride to win 80-42.

Coach Marg Lind said that a er the team shot 20 goals in the ﬁrst quarter she set the players a challenge to continue that intensity.

“It was a convincing win … to get almost 20 goals in every quarter was good,” she said.

“At half-time, we set the target of getting 80 to assist with our concentration.”

Lind said the team’s front-court players controlled the match, with the goalers making the most of their opportunities.

Goalshooter Kathleen Knott outscored the Pride by herself with 49 from 54 attempts.

“We were able to get the ball close to the post for our shooters, which helps,” Lind said.

“We had the chance to run our goalers at wing attack, which we don’t get o en.

“Our manager said it was the lowest stats [for penalties and turnovers] we have ever had.”

e win comes as two senior Falcons were named in Australian squads. Elizabeth Watson was a late call-up to the Melbourne Vixens and was a shock inclusion in the Australian squad for the Commonwealth Games.

“I texted her during the week and just said; ‘Take the opportunity to get on court with the country’s best players’, which I’m sure she’ll do,” Lind said.

Falcons youngster Alice Teague-Neeld was

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Goals: Carlton: L Henderson 5 J Waite 3 H Scotland

2 M Murphy 2 A Everitt B Gibbs C Yarran D Ellard D Thomas T Bell. Western Bulldogs: S Crameri 4 K Stevens 2 L Dahlhaus 2 A Cooney D Giansiracusa L Jong M Boyd M Wallis.

Best: Carlton: M Murphy L Henderson B Gibbs A Walker A Carrazzo J Waite T Bell. Western Bulldogs: R Griffen S Crameri M Boyd J Macrae L Dahlhaus.

Injuries: Carlton: C Judd (hamstring) E Curnow (knee) T Bell (ﬁnger). Western Bulldogs: Nil. Reports: Carlton: Nil. Western Bulldogs: K Stevens (Western Bulldogs) for rough conduct on K Lucas (Carlton).

OfﬁcialCrowd: 27,986 at Etihad Stadium.

GEELONG 3.5 6.9 9.14 15.16 (106)

HAWTHORN 3.2 5.9 8.12 12.15 (87)

Goals: Geelong: T Hawkins 5 S Johnson 3 C Enright

2 J Murdoch 2 C Guthrie H McIntosh T Varcoe.

Hawthorn: J Gunston 3 L Breust 3 B McEvoy C Rioli

D Hale I Smith M Hallahan T Duryea.

Best: Geelong: T Hawkins S Johnson J Bartel H McIntosh J Selwood M Duncan. Hawthorn: S Mitchell J Gunston L Hodge J Lewis L Breust.

OfﬁcialCrowd: 80,222 at MCG.

VFL – RD 3

ESSENDON 2.7 3.12 7.20 11.25 (91)

BENDIGO 3.4 6.6 6.6 9.9 (63)

Goals: Essendon: Kefford 4 Mellington 2 Duscher

Pears Coghlan Bellchambers Rayner. Bendigo: Stroobants 3 Heavyside Bacon Bifﬁn Downie

Lambden Magin.

Best: Essendon: Aylett Coghlan Steinberg Duscher

Schultz Merrett. Bendigo: Farrelly Sheahan Magin

Lambden Stroobants Byrne. At Queen Elizabeth Oval.

COLLINGWOOD 4.4 9.10 11.13 15.17 (107)

COBURG 1.1 2.5 6.8 9.9 (63)

Goals: Collingwood: Martin 3 Karnezis 3 Moloney

Allan Ferguson Howe Gault Hudson Lynch Marsh Couch. Coburg: Younan 3 Featherstone 3 Saad 2 Cooper.

Best: Collingwood: Dwyer Martin Marsh Adams Moloney Armstrong. Coburg: Thomas Linton Sturgess Saad Sortino Younan. At Victoria Park.

in the under-19 national development squad.

VU Western Lightning lost to the Yarra Valley Grammar Ariels 55-25. \ TARA MURRAY

PORTMELBOURNE3.1 10.4 14.8 16.11 (107)

WERRIBEE

Goals: Port Melbourne: Rowe 4 Scipione 3 Bonaddio 2 Pinwill Purcell O’Sullivan Valenti Johnson Magner Connors. Werribee: Daw 5 Gribble 2 Warren 2 Porter Reid Sherlock Sodomaco Buchanan. Best: Port Melbourne: Pinwill Magner O’Sullivan Rowe Davies Baird. Werribee: Daw Sherlock Crichton Moore Buchanan McGenniss. At North Port Oval.

WILLIAMSTOWN 6.4 8.8 14.13 19.15 (129) RICHMOND

Goals: Williamstown: Owen 3 Wheeler 3 Clouston 2 Gibbons 2 Masters 2 Banner 2 Davies Ferguson Jolley Johnstone Lambert. Richmond: McBean 3 King Elton McIntosh McCartney Vickery. Best: Williamstown: Meese Jolley Owen Banner Wheeler Fahey. Richmond: Banﬁeld Batchelor Conca Lennon Batsanis McDonough.

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SANDRINGHAM 2.3 10.6

NORTHBALLARAT

Goals: Sandringham: Dennis-Lane 4 Weller 3 Zijai

2 Milera 2 Markworth 2 Dunell 2 Siposs 2 Longer. North Ballarat: Keeble 3 Horbury 2 Searl 2 Staley Wilkins Peters Rippon Lockyer. Best: Sandringham: Weller Shenton Cockie Zijai

Dennis-Lane Fisher. North Ballarat: Dumont Rippon

Kiel Austin Horbury Wallace. At Eureka Stadium.

BOXHILL

GEELONG

Goals: Box Hill: Grimley 4 Kennedy 2 Sicily 2 O’Brien Murphy Lock Ceglar Lawlor Walker Wood

Andrews Ross. Geelong: Walker 4 Brown 3 Bews

Lynch Motlop Schroder Luxford Hollmer Hartman. Best: Box Hill: Wood Ceglar Hartung Iles Webster

Mirra. Geelong: Hamling Walker Schroder Hartman

Kolodjashnij Bath. At Simonds Stadium.

NORTHERN 4.8

Goals: Northern: Johnson 4 Thomas 3 Garlett 2 Armﬁeld 2 Graham 2 Wilson Totevski Holman. Footscray Bulldogs: Dickson 5 Redpath 2 Jamieson Campbell Fogarty Honeychurch Tutt Sullivan. Best: Northern Blues: Johnson McLean Thomas Graham Watson Wood. Footscray Bulldogs: Honeychurch Dickson Fogarty Russell Redpath Roberts. At Victoria University Whitten Oval.

early buzz gets bees over the line

NPL

Werribee City ﬂew out of the blocks with four ﬁrst-half goals in the National Premier League clash with Goulburn Valley Suns on Saturday night.

e ﬁrst-half onslaught was enough for the Bees to hold on in a thrilling game, winning 4-3 against the winless Suns at McEwen Reserve.

e Bees’ scoring started through Anthony Ragusa a er 14 minutes before the Suns equalised through an own goal by Steven Cudrig at 22 minutes.

e rest of the ﬁrst half was all about the Bees, who scored again through Zois Galanopoulos, Ryan Filipovic and Oliver Rowland.

e Suns hit back in the second half, proving the stronger team for the rest of the match.

Craig Carley reduced the margin to 4-2 in the 52nd minute and a Kristian Sarkies penalty with 15 minutes to go made it 4-3.

But the Bees had done enough and held on for the win, which moves them to ﬁ h on the ladder with three wins and two losses.

Werribee City will play 10th-placed Northcote City away on Saturday for its next match. \ TM

CASEYSCORP

Goals: Casey Scorpions: Best 3 Jamar 2 Salem Morris Nicholson Smith. Frankston: Alwan 2 Simpson Lourey Matheson Tynan. Best: CaseyScorpions:SalemPanozzaStraussClisby Petropoulos Smith. Frankston: Kitchin Cavarra Alwan Harper Potts Newman. At Frankston Oval. LADDER Team PWLDB ForAgst %Pts BoxHill

Out of the way: Falcons’ Chloe Watson tries to get front spot. (SHAWN SMITS) named

20-minute laPSE COSTly for tigers

VFL

Werribee was le to rue a sloppy 20 minutes of football in a 13-point VFL loss to Port Melbourne at North Port Oval on Saturday. e Tigers allowed the Borough to score seven goals to one in the second term and in the end it was the diﬀerence between the two sides as the Borough hung on to win 16.11 (107) to 14.10 (94).

Tigers coach John Lamont was disappointed his side made fundamental mistakes in the second term. “We absorbed a lot of pressure in the opening term and

we had a lead at quarter-time,” he said. “We kicked the ﬁrst goal of the second term and then didn’t kick another for the rest of the quarter.

“We made fundamental and dumb mistakes which were incredibly costly. It was a bit of everything: missed tackles, playing on unnecessarily, not manning up and poor match-ups.

“ e 20 minutes of football was costly and we’ll talk about what happened.”

“We stuck at it and kept on working,” he said. “We clawed our way back a little in the third term and a little in the fourth term but ran out of time.”

“we made dumb mistakes”

Lamont said it was a positive that his team fought back in the second half.

North Melbourne-listed Majak Daw was best for the Tigers with ﬁve goals.

“Jared Moore continues to get the ball out of the middle and Dylan Reid in the ruck is adjusting well to playing senior football,” Lamont said.

In their ﬁrst home game for the season, the Tigers play the unbeaten Northern Blues at Avalon Airport Oval this week. \ TM

Disappointed: Warriors coach Steve Kretiuk said his side’s performance against St Albans couldn’t have been any worse. (WAYNE HAWKINS)

warriors bow to saints

Hoppers Crossing’s rollercoaster start to the season continued with a loss to St Albans on Good Friday in the Western Region Football League division 1.

A er surprising many with their win against Sunshine the previous week, the Warriors ran out of legs against the Saints, losing 20.11 (131) to 7.6 (48) at Hogans Road Oval.

Warriors coach Steve Kretiuk said that although the Saints went into the match without a win, he knew it would be a tough

one for his team. “I think they’re a top-three side and I’m under no illusions on where we’re at,” he said. “I was disappointed with most of the day. Against Sunshine we had 22 contributors; against St Albans we had only four or ﬁve.

“We didn’t have many winners and when we had our chances in the third we didn’t take them. We missed three easy shots at goal and dropped a mark 25 metres out. If we’d capitalised on them it would have le the door ajar.

“A few guys dropped their heads in the last quarter. We couldn’t have played any worse.”

Kretiuk said his side was second to the ball all day but conceded its inconsistency was a by-product of youth and inexperience.

“ ere will be good and bad, but that’s no excuse,” he said.

He highlighted the job Jackson Viola did on former AFL player Aaron Henneman as the standout for his side.

“Jackson is only 18 and did a great job against one of the best forwards in the competition,” he said.

e Warriors play Port Melbourne Colts this weekend. \

TARA MURRAY

VFL footy allows spectators on the ground to hear the coaches. How do you feel about that?

Great idea, it allows people to connect with the competition and hopefully understand it more, and allows young spectators to get up close to the players, particularly the players that are on AFL lists.

The 23rd man concept in VFL football. Your thoughts on that and how it works?

Another great concept. Firstly it allows TAC Cup clubs to promote players and gives them an opportunity at VFL level, most TAC Cup players have no idea how big a step up it is into the VFL. For graduates of the TAC Cup system, and players from local clubs who have made the Werribee list, it is basically and extra spot available in the team.

The Werribee Development squad had the bye on the weekend, did all the players not in the senior team that played Bendigo, play at local level?

Thirteen went back to play at local level, mainly the players who had been restricted in some way over the pre-season and we felt another game would have been of benefit. Or there were those that are working on game specific areas of their game. They are all different in that sense. Anyone with injury concerns or very close to senior VFL selection were rested. There is no real benefit in those players having an isolated week of local football.

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Ballan Holden has been around nearly as long as the Werribee Football Club. Tino, Mario and Lou Ballan established the dealership in 1978 and now are one of the most respected and well-known Holden dealers in Australia.

They have built their business on serving the people of the west and offering great deals and great service and support for their customers.

2014 is the 15th year that Ballan Holden has been the Major Sponsor of the Werribee Football Club. It is a relationship that has grown over the years and the Ballans are a vital part of the fabric of the club.

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