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Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
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Kidding around A three-week-old kid goat takes turns on an animal playground’s seesaw at Myuna Farm in Doveton. They were among two sets of newborn triplets, as well as emu chicks, lambs and ducklings frolicing in the Spring sunshine at the farm. More, turn to page 16
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Children welcome By Cam Lucadou-Wells Greater Dandenong Council has allayed fears that the long-awaited Dandenong Community Hub will be ‘childless’. In a meeting on 13 September, councillors voted for its draft concept plan to specifically include a kindergarten, child-care and playground. The proposed facility, fronting Clow Street between Stuart Street and Sleeth Avenue, is shaping as an intergenerational hub with ‘the works’.
It would include maternal and child health, community meeting rooms, maker’s spaces, community lounge, kitchen and outdoor space, multi-use flexible spaces for all ages and abilities, co-work spaces and technology hub and a cafe. In the lead-up, council officers would not confirm or deny if childrens’ services were in the mix. Cr Rhonda Garad said it was important to have childrens services to create a “meeting place where everyone is welcome”. “We know that where children are, parents
will come (and) community will come. It becomes an intergenerational gathering place. “This is incredibly important for the cohesion of our community, to welcome people at various stages of arrival.” Cr Jim Memeti, who proposed the hub in 2020, said it would help bring together an influx of residents in central Dandenong over the next 12 years. The hub would help address Dandenong’s “completely outdated” public meeting rooms, and a lack of activities outside “being a shop-
ping and central business district”. In opposition, Cr Sean O’Reilly said the busy site near Dandenong Market was the wrong location for child care and kindergarten. “There’s no correlation between Dandenong Market and child care. The only thing I can think of is Bananas in Pyjamas – that’s how ridiculous it is.” Cr O’Reilly said the move was at odds with State Government’s push to co-locate early childhood education at primary schools. Continued page 7
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