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Wednesday 19 December 2018
5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Masked mischief: Much Ado About Nothing stars Michael Davidson, Stephanie van Rekum Ayres, Matt Young, Sorcha Breen, Eleanor Ruth, and William Lark. Picture: Supplied
Shakespeare’s ‘battle’ returns to Coolart SHAKESPEARE’S Much Ado About Nothing will be performed at Coolart Homestead and Wetlands 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 5 and 6 January, at the Coolart homestead, Somers. The play is Shakespeare’s humorous guide to the “battle between the sexes”, full of comic incident, bumbling security guards, squabbling brothers, and mismatched lovers. It is a mix of suspense, high drama and delightful comedy, brought to life with powerful acting and exquisite costumes. This is the 12th year OZACT has been performing at Coolart Homestead. Details: Visit ozact.com for tickets which usually sell out before the performance day.
MPs to vie for peninsula vote Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE coming year is likely to see the state and federal governments pay more attention to the Mornington Peninsula. The Labor state government has won one of the peninsula’s “safe” Liberal seats and the shire’s new mayor, Cr David Gill, wants to make sure there is
no weakening of land use regulations, especially in the green wedge zone. A federal election is due by May, and while the Liberals will want to win back support, Labor will want to build on the sentiments that saw Chris Brayne take Nepean. Ironically, Cr Gill and shire CEO John Baker were last Friday meeting with the failed Liberal candidate Russell Joseph, who had been aligned
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with the shire on several issues. “The ALP guy [Chris Brayne] should have been in touch with us by now,” Cr Gill told The News last Thursday. The shire is continuing its against the imposition by the state of the same planning regulations as apply to Melbourne suburbs and a new business-backed advocacy group will be launched early next year. The group will work in a similar way
to that of the high profile Committee for Greater Frankston. Former Liberal MP for Dunkley, Bruce Billson, said a “foundation group” meeting at the Woodman Estate conference centre, Moorooduc, two weeks ago had seen “a positive sentiment to explore what can be done” through an advocacy group. The list of issues to be tackled by a Committee for the Mornington
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Peninsula included economic sustainability, transport and “local livelihoods”, or the provision of jobs on the peninsula. “It will be similar to the Frankston committee and those running in Greater Dandenong and Geelong,” Mr Billson said. The peninsula committee had already received offers of “seed money” to cover establishment costs. Continued page 7