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By Mike Hast A HOME for six people with severe disabilities supported by a live-in carer is nearing completion in Hastings.

The $1.5 million project, also known as a group house, is the culmination of years of work by Frankston Peninsula Carers, led by president Joy Jarman of Flinders and her committee.

It will go some way to solving the critical lack of housing on the peninsula for adult children who are being looked after by ageing parents.

The not-for-profit carers group was formed in 2005 and has been lobbying governments as well as raising money to build “supported housing”.

The big home on 790 square metres of prime bayside land bordered by Marine Pde and Church and King Sts will be adjacent to 20 “affordable” homes offering secure long-term rental accommodation to senior citizens, families on low incomes, and people with intellectual and physical disabilities who can live independently with support.

The $4.3 million project has been dubbed the “Hastings model” and is being built with money from state and federal governments as well as Frankston Peninsula Carers.

The house is stage one and will be ready by mid-June. The 20 homes will be completed by March 2012.

Mrs Jarman said the project was a partnership between the Victorian Department of Human Services, the Office of Housing, Frankston Peninsula Carers, Mornington Peninsula Shire and Community Housing Limited, an affordable housing company.

“Our aim is to provide suitable longterm housing for adults with an intellectual disability. We are thrilled that our efforts have paid dividends and the project will go a small way towards

BITTERN man Ralph Hamilton is missing out on his fishing because of parking bans at Western Port beaches, especially his favourite, Merricks.

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easing the crisis in housing for these forgotten people.”

The News joined Mrs Jarman and FPC committee members Beryl Gibb and Norman Carlyon on an inspection of the house. Also on the tour were Jim Houlahan, also on the FPC committee, and Peter Sibley of the shire, Chris Allen and Sharon Brooks of the state Department of Human Services’ Office of Housing, and Sonia Berton of Rosebud-based Karingal Konnections, which will provide the live-in support staff.

The house has all mod cons including kitchen with dishwasher, electric oven and cooktops as well as a big walk-in pantry. Benches are lower than normal for people in wheelchairs.

Two sitting rooms and a dining room are generous sizes.

Bedrooms have separate heating and cooling vents and televisions.

Water collected from the roof will flush the three toilets and water the garden. Skylights in an internal storeroom and in the roof of the south-facing patio provide natural light.

External and interior walls are insulated, and the house has a six-star energy rating, although it does not have double-glazed windows.

The staff room includes an office, single bed, bathroom and separate entrance.

The laundry has a washing machine and dryer raised off the floor for easy access.

Higher than normal ceilings, Tasmanian oak window frames and skirting boards add a classy touch.

Sharon Brooks said the house would be “home for ever for the six people selected”.

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Tracing family’s record FOOTPRINTS: the journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper is an exhibition produced by the Public Record Office Victoria, being displayed at Mornington Library from Friday 10 June to Friday 8 July.

Footprints explores the different places the Pepper family lived as well as details about the events of its members’ lives, their resilience in the face of adversity, and the strong family connections they protected despite government policies aimed at separating “half-caste� Aboriginal people from their full-blood family relations.

The exhibition and accompanying book is a search through public and family records that traces the lives of one Aboriginal family in the first half of the 20th century.

Featuring information panels and a short film, Footprints also illustrates how Aboriginal people can retrace the steps of their ancestors through public records, and in the case of the Stolen Generations, reconnect with families and communities.

Mornington Peninsula Library Service is staging several events in conjunction with the free Footprints travelling exhibition. For further details about the events – including during NAIDOC Week 3-10 July – visit ourlibrary.mornpen.vic.gov.au.

Time lapse: Lucy Pepper (centre) with her children, circa 1917, clockwise from top left Gwendoline, Phillip, Alice, Sarah, Lena and Sam. Photo courtesy Watkins family.

Film shows indigenous social issues FILM is being used by Mornington Peninsula Shire to arouse social conscience, with special screenings planned this month and next.

First on the bill is Liyarn Ngarn, a documentary featuring British actor Pete Postlethwaite, with musician Archie Roach and Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson.

The title means ‘the coming together of the spirit’ and the film shows Postlethwaite, Roach and Dodson in the outback tracing the past “in an effort to change people’s perceptions and attitudes towards indigenous people�, according to an ABC Radio National review.

The film was made in the wake of the murder of a 19-year-old Aboriginal man “allegedly because he was black�.

Liyarn Ngarn is being shown at 6pm at Rosebud Cinema on 25 May as part of the Reconciliation Week activities. Bookings essential, call 5950 1685 or email: spcd. admin@mornpen.vic.gov.au.

In June four award-winning short films will be screened at the shire’s Mornington office as part of the national Human Rights Arts and Film Festival.

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TEEN DENTAL VOUCHERS ALSO BULK BILLED

Call of help from the wild

By Keith Platt HAVING Easter stretch over five days brought little comfort to Klarissa Garnaut.

Most of her time was spent collecting injured and orphaned animals and then deciding how best to bring them back to health or watch as they died.

The Balnarring-based wildlife carer’s life normally revolves around feeding habits and lifestyle needs of animals under her care, but Easter was worse than usual.

“It was disastrous, with dead animals all over the place,” Ms Garnaut said.

While receiving a regular influx of animals is nothing new, Ms Garnaut is concerned that authorities make no provision for the loss of wildlife habitat when promoting the peninsula as a holiday destination or allowing subdivisions and developments involving land clearing.

Most recently the alarm was raised when bush was cleared at Mt Martha to make way for the 27-kilometre Peninsula Link freeway.

Fauna conservationist Mal Legg said the clearing where the freeway joins the Moorooduc Hwy led to 13 possums being killed by vehicles.

A spokeswoman for the consortium building Peninsula Link said all necessary approvals were in place for the clearing.

Ms Garnaut said land clearing “has a ripple effect” among wildlife

populations, forcing possums, kangaroos and wallabies “into the open or unfriendly territories”.

“I don’t think there is any way the animals were properly assessed before clearing for the freeway. Subdividers clear whole blocks and there are no laws to force replacement of native trees.

“There should be regulations to force people to keep native trees or have them replaced by mature native trees.”

Ms Garnaut said the peninsula was being promoted “as the place to be” and attracted some people who “don’t want to live among wildlife”.

“Half the possums are brought here by people who say ‘don’t bring them back’.”

Orphaned baby possums cared for

by Ms Garnaut usually weigh about 45 grams and need to be about 600 grams before they can be released.

It takes about six months to achieve the desired release weight.

“This is expensive for carers and virtually takes up their whole lives and they burn out,” Ms Garnaut, a carer with Wildlife Help On Mornington Peninsula (WHOMP), said.

A week ago Ms Garnaut was caring for 15 possums and three penguins as well as several other larger native animals.

Over a year, the number of possums brought in for care tops 200 and she is getting ready for the breeding season influx in August.

“We also get kangaroos, wallabies and many species of birds. The pen-

guins that are here now are late in moulting, which means they can’t swim until their feathers are fully developed.”

Tourists see them on the beach like this and put them back in the water.

The adult penguins each eat 20 pilchards a day, costing Ms Garnaut $15 every two days.

A Rosebud man had watched horrified last month as a dog savaged and killed a swan at Rosebud beach.

It too had been moulting and was among a flock of swans sheltering in the shallows and on the beach until new feathers came through.

The beach was not a leash-free area and the man had told Ms Garnaut that the dog’s owner walked off seemingly without a care.

When able to be reintroduced into the wild, possums are given a “soft release”, which means being provided with a box (brush-tailed) or a round fibre nest (ringtails), which is placed in a tree and surrounded by a wire cage.

Food is delivered for a few days and then the cage door is left open so the animal can leave and enter at will.

After about two weeks the possums become acquainted with their new territory and accepted by their neighbours, allowing Ms Garnaut to remove the wire cage.

To report an injured native animal call 0417 380 687 or visit the WHOMP website.

Handle with care: Wildlife carer Klarissa Garnaut warily handles a moulting penguin that has no fear of biting the hand that feeds it.

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‘Hastings model’ new era for housing help Continued from Page 1

New era: Inspecting the “Hastings model” house for people with disabilities are Jim Houlahan of the shire, left, Chris Allen of DHS, Peter Sibley of the shire, Sharon Brooks of DHS, Sonia Berton of Karingal Konnections, and Norman Carlyon, Beryl Gibb and Joy Jarman of Frankston Peninsula Carers.

“In the main bathroom there are support beams in the roof if we ever need to install a lifting device above the bath,” she said. “And there is plumbing in the wall if we need a more sophisticated lift bath.”

Mornington Peninsula Shire kicked off the project when it bought the land of about 2200 square metres for $1.3 million after it was spotted by Mrs Jarman.

“It was the ideal block and the shire moved quickly to secure it and then on-sold it to DHS and CHL when arrangements had been finalised,” she said.

The shire also tipped $200,000 into the project.

The group house has a temporary fence between its rear yard and where the 20 homes are being built. When they are completed next year, it will be removed and a community garden installed with the support of the shire, service clubs such as Rotary and Lions and volunteers from the general community.

It will be an oasis of certainty for people who have experienced uncertain and sometimes unsettled lives.

Norman Carlyon said shared, supported accommodation is what is most needed in the region. “There are about 1300 people in Victoria on the disability support register waiting for long-term supported accommodation, including 320 in the Southern Metropolitan Region, which includes the peninsula.”

He said there were many more people not on the register.

Mr Carlyon is perhaps best known for his contribution to the horse racing and breeding industries, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2002. He brings considerable organisational skills and a vast contact list to the carers’ group.

The group is now turning its attention to building a $1 million “McIntyre” house on the peninsula. The first one is in Geelong and it accommodates six people, two in each of three “corners” of the home with a carer in the fourth corner.

There are shared bathrooms, kitchens and sitting rooms.

The house would be on 1000 square metres of land on the peninsula and the group is already lobbying corporations, philanthropic foundations, service clubs and Frankston and Mornington Peninsula councils.

To contact Frankston Peninsula Carers, write to PO Box 511, Balnarring 3926 or call 5983 2620.

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Residents group to ‘guide’ Shoreham

Author bags a win with elephant tale SOMERVILLE author Dennis Nelson has won the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award for a first novel with his book Bagamoyo: Here I lay down my heart.

The award was presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group earlier this month.

Bagamoyo is historical fiction that begins when a legendary elephant hunter, Jack Lee, dies on an outback farm in Australia’s wheatbelt in the 1970s.

He has left his grandson a legacy of African stories and tales of adventure from when he hunted in East Africa before the First World War. When the grandson travels to Tanzania after Lee’s death, he discovers much more about his grandfather, including that he was credited with sinking Germany’s most feared gunboat on Lake Tanganyika in 1916 when the 1914-18 Great War came to eastern Africa via colonial powers Germany, Britain and Belgium.

In real life, Lake Tanganyika was the scene of two famous battles during the war.

Until 1915, the Germans had complete control of the lake with three gunboats, but the British brought two armed motor boats from England to the lake by rail, road and river.

They launched a surprise attack on the Germans in December 1915 and captured one of the gunboats.

Another was sunk in February 1916 and the Belgian air force damaged the third German vessel in June. The Germans scuttled it the following month to prevent it falling into Allied hands.

Bagamoyo is published by Glen Waverley-based Sid Harta Publishers, which says it is a story of loss, longing, love and revelations.

“It blends fact and fiction, and takes

the reader on a safari of discovery. The novel is brought to life through its characters and rich descriptions of geography and history.

“It provides an insightful look at how the politics and exploitation of the past have shaped a modern day independent African nation.”

Details: Sid Harta Publishers, phone 9560 9920.

A PUBLIC meeting next month will formalise ways in which Shoreham residents will help shape their town’s future.

The meeting will elect a committee for Shoreham Community Association and map its way forward by adopting objectives and articles of association.

The objectives drawn up by a committee and executive elected in April include investigating the concerns of community members about “matters that may affect their wellbeing or lifestyles, to create and facilitate an informed and active community”.

Issues already identified for involvement by the association include the ongoing saga of the future of land occupied by the general store and post office.

The association will also “identify and define the future character and essential services for Shoreham, including natural environment, through community consultation, to identify and advocate strategies and actions to address community needs”.

Membership of the association is open to all Shoreham community members and applications will be available on the day together with nominations for the committee “All members of the Shoreham community are encouraged to attend this important meeting,” interim committee vice president

Rob Patrick said.

“Our interim committee has been working hard behind the scenes over the past month to finalise our proposed objectives and prepare for incorporation.

“We have also been developing a web site which will go live shortly after the meeting with information about the community association and local issues.”

Other objectives include: To build on the unique character of Shoreham and to work with other coastal communities to achieve the common needs of all coastal villages and their hinterland.

To examine actions of authorities, organisations or companies in matters affecting residents and to investigate proposals by local, state or federal governments affecting Shoreham.

To build robust and respectful relationships with the Mornington Peninsula Shire - both officers and councillors - as well as state and federal members of parliament and government departments and authorities.

The public meeting to formalise the Shoreham Community Association will be held at 2pm on Saturday 4 June at the Shoreham CFA, Byrnes Rd, Shoreham.

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Teenager beats $1000 ‘knife’ fine

By Mike Hast A TEENAGER fined $1000 for carrying a work box cutter in her bag near Frankston rail station has had the fine withdrawn by Victoria Police.

Eighteen-year-old Ashleigh Hicks of Somerville, a qualified disability support worker, and her family were more worried about the effect on her budding career than the fine.

Ms Hicks works part time at Kmart in Hastings stacking shelves while she seeks a full-time job in the disability services sector.

She started at Kmart four years ago while still at school. She is also a parttime teacher’s aide at schools for children with disabilities in the region and was worried the fine would make her ineligible to work with children.

Police withdrew the infringement notice last week after high-profile Melbourne lawyer David Galbally QC went in to bat for Ms Hicks.

“I am just so relieved; it’s been a big weight on me and my family,” Ms Hicks told The News on Friday as she was about to leave for Melbourne where she was among a group of volunteers looking after teenagers with disabilities on an outing.

Her mother Trudy Hicks said commonsense had prevailed. “It was a difficult few months and it was hard for our family. We’re just an ordinary family who do ordinary things and being under the media and police spotlight was a stressful experience.”

The incident occurred at about 2pm on Friday 25 February when Ms Hicks was walking into the station to catch a train to the city to visit friends.

She was stopped by a transit police officer and her bag searched. Inside was her work box cutter, which the officer told her was a prohibited weapon.

“I thought he was joking at first, but then realised how serious it was.

I explained why I had it, but this had no effect. I couldn’t believe it when he wrote out an on-the-spot fine for $1000. I burst into tears,” she told The News in April.

“When I found out later the infringement could threaten by chances of getting work, I was even more upset.”

After police rejected her written plea for the fine to be withdrawn, Ms Hicks called Neil Mitchell of 3AW who enlisted the support of Mr Galbally, a partner with Madgwicks lawyers and a regular guest on the Mitchell show.

After the 3AW interview, Ms Hicks received widespread support from callers including other people who had been fined for carrying what new laws categorise as prohibited weapons.

Back to normality: Victoria Police have withdrawn Ashleigh Hicks’s $1000 fine for carrying a box cutter that she was afraid would threaten her career working with children.

Ms Hicks met Mr Galbally midApril and he wrote to police Deputy Commissioner Ken Lay, putting her case and seeking a second review and the withdrawal of the infringement notice.

Mr Galbally wrote: “Ms Hicks is required to take the box cutter home, as there is no provision for her to safely leave it at Kmart. Unfortunately she had inadvertently neglected to remove the box cutter from her bag when she arrived home from work the previous night and it was still in her possession.

“By letter dated 3 March 2011, Ms Hicks requested an internal review of

the decision of Officer Boag-Wells who issued the infringement notice.

Ms Hicks was advised by letter dated 24 March 2011 written by Leading Senior Constable S Baker that her request for a review had been rejected.”

Mr Galbally quoted a section of the Department of Justice website to Mr Lay: Police will consider all the circumstances when deciding if someone has a lawful excuse for carrying a knife or other controlled weapon.

“Unfortunately at the time Ms Hicks spoke with Officer Boag-Wells, he was not interested in any explanation by her despite the fact that she at-

tempted to explain that as part of her employment she works with children and a clean record is imperative and that prior to this she does not have any criminal history.”

Mr Galbally told the Assistant Commissioner that the March police internal review of Ms Hicks’s case had not exercised discretion as it “did not entertain any of the circumstances that” Ms Hicks had attempted to explain to the police officer.

“The fact that there is discretion clearly allows for an opportunity for a young person such as Ms Hicks of good character to be given a chance

when it is clear that the breach of the law is one of inadvertence.”

Mr Galbally told Mr Lay it would be most unfortunate if Ms Hick had to go to court. “... the revocation of this infringement would be seen as a sign of good faith and acceptance of a young person’s honest and reasonable belief and good character. An act such as this would go a long way to repairing what has already been an unsavoury experience with the Victoria Police Force.”

A copy of Mr Galbally’s letter was sent to Chief Commissioner Simon Overland.

Trudy Hicks said the family was told of the fine withdrawal over the phone by a policewoman.

“We have been told that in recent months there had been 902 fines handed out to people carrying prohibited weapons, but Ashleigh is the only one to be let off,” she said. “I’m sure there are other people in similar circumstances to Ashleigh.”

Ashleigh Hicks said she had not applied for jobs in the disability services sector because of the fine hanging over her head, but would now do so.

She still works at Kmart and has come up with an ingenious way of ensuring she does not walk out of work with her box cutter: “I’ve put a security tag on it. If I walk out at the end of my shift and have forgotten to take it out of my bag, the tag beeps.”

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Living with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;sustainableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; neighbours proach â&#x20AC;&#x153;brings about a values reevaluation among participants at the deepest personal level involving identity, belonging and relationships to family, friends and precious new neighbours - whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve actually lived down the road for yearsâ&#x20AC;?.

This outcome is seen as the multiplier effect following research which indicates that people will react positively to information passed on through â&#x20AC;&#x153;community based social marketingâ&#x20AC;? than from organisations with which they have no direct connection.

Sustainability Street has its roots in the Vox Bandicoot organisation which began with street theatre more than 20 years ago before branching into the environmental education sector. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all know why it is so important to change the way we live, Sustainability Street guides people in how to change behaviour,â&#x20AC;? media personality and Sustainability Street patron Geraldine Doogue said.

The programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founder Frank Fitzgerald-Ryan will speak at three information sessions: Rye Beach Community Centre, 27 Nelson St, Rye, 10am â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11am Sunday 29 May then 1pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2pm at Rosebud West Hall, Vern Wright Reserve, (entry off Swans Way), West Rosebud and then at Balnarring Community Hall, 3041 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Balnarring 1pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2pm Sunday 5 June.

For bookings and details call Nicci Tsernjavski on 5950 1259, 0428 351 778 or Nicci.Tsernjavski@ mornpen.vic.gov.au or visit www.sustainabilitystreet.org.au.

Schooled in sustainability: Balnarring Primary School has been integrating sustainability into the school curriculum for over 20 years. Members of the school community look forward to becoming involved in the Sustainability Street Programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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NEIGHBOURS are being encouraged to band together to live more â&#x20AC;&#x153;sustainably at a local levelâ&#x20AC;?.

Lessons in the ways and means of reducing waste and using less energy are available under the Sustainability Street program, being promoted by Mornington Peninsula Shire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sustainability Street is a fun, easy, neighbourhood based program that provides information on how to live more sustainably at a local level,â&#x20AC;? according to a new release from

the shire which invites residents â&#x20AC;&#x153;to join with other like-minded people â&#x20AC;Ś and create a sustainable villageâ&#x20AC;?.

Since 2001, more than 200 local Sustainability Street villages have developed around Australia and overseas.

Statistics show that a Sustainability Street program in the City of Manningham east of Melbourne achieved reductions of 13.5 per cent in water use, 33 per cent in waste, 13 per cent energy and 10 per cent gas.

A similar program in West Melbourne saw water use drop 26 per cent, waste 33 per cent and energy 13 per cent.

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By Mike Hast THE last caravans are leaving Stony Point Caravan Park ahead of a threemonth closure and a $150,000 makeover.

The caravan park’s committee of management is resurveying the 45-site holiday spot as part of new fire and safety regulations.

All vans have to leave by this Sunday and the committee is taking the opportunity to redesign the park, improve roads, plants trees, and renovate or replace facilities such as toilets and the laundry.

The closure ends a controversial time for the park that started in late 2008 when a joint inspection by the CFA and Mornington Peninsula Shire found caravan sites too close together.

The committee of management surveyed the caravan park and was told it would have to reposition 14 of the 45 lots. Work was put on hold when the state government’s Department of Sustainability and Environment said it was releasing a report outlining new rules for all Victorian caravan parks in February 2009.

The Black Saturday fires, among other things, delayed the report. It was finally released in May 2010 and among the rules was that all sites had to be at least two metres apart and a minimum size of 80 square metres.

More controversially, all caravan parks and camping grounds on public land had to make at least 10 per cent of sites available through an annual ballot system.

DSE’s so-called “equity rule” created a great deal of angst on many peninsula camping grounds, especially those on the Port Phillip side, as fami-

lies and friends who had camped in adjacent or nearby sites for up to 50 years were no longer guaranteed a spot.

The equity rule had little effect at Stony Point as there were 25 sites used by annual permit holders and 20 by casual tourists, but the size restriction hit hard as most of the sites were under 80 sqm.

“We had to accept the inevitable – everyone would have to be moved out and we’d have to start from scratch,” said Cecelia Witton, secretary of Crib Point Stony Point Foreshore Committee of Management.

Last July permit holders received the bad news by letter and, at a meeting in Crib Point Community House the following month, there were many very unhappy campers.

The local committee copped most of the flak as it had delivered the news, but also at the meeting were two stonyfaced DSE officers who had made the long journey down from Melbourne.

Caravaners were told the Stony Point park was the first in the state to be affected by the new rules.

“We were the guinea pigs, the first to change under a two-year transition period,” Ms Witton told The News.

About five of the 25 annual permit holders upped stumps in following weeks. Others stayed close to the ultimate deadline of Sunday. Some had to do significant work on their vans as they had been immobile for so long.

Fifteen permit holders are expected to return when the park reopens in mid-September and there is a waiting list of people eager to snag a site. The park will lose two sites because of the redesign and will have 36 caravan/an-

Time to go: Annual permit holders at Stony Point Caravan Park are pulling down annexes and making caravans roadworthy ahead of the deadline to close the park on Sunday. New government regulations mean the 45 sites must be resurveyed to meet fire and safety rules, and the park commitee is spending $150,000 to renovate the holiday spot.

nexe sites and seven places for tents.

The 23-year-old caravan park is a hidden treasure: it has spectacular views of Western Port with Tortoise Head on French Island in the distance.

It’s a short walk across a public car park and along Stony Point jetty to the ferry that runs to Tankerton on French Island and Cowes on Phillip Island.

Many permit holders keep a fishing boat parked next to the caravan as the launching ramp is close by, with access to some of the best fishing grounds in the bay.

The Stony Point to Frankston train terminates next to the caravan park and on the other side is unspoilt bushland, part of the Royal Australian Navy’s

HMAS Cerberus training base.

It’s an idyllic spot to rest at the end of the day with a quiet beverage and friends – all for about $2500 a year, although this is expected to rise.

Work this winter includes:  Demolishing a toilet block near the entry and replacing it with trees and shrubs.  Installing a new toilet block with access for wheelchairs further inside the park.  Planting trees and shrubs to screen the manager’s residence near the entry.  Making a landscaped hill.  Repositioning the five short-term cabins that go for $115 a night and sleep six people.

 Remaking existing roads and creating new ones.  New overflow boat parking area.  New mobile rubbish bins.  New sullage pits for waste water from sinks and showers, and power lines.

The committee is using local tradesmen for the renovation including a plumber and an electrician who both know the park from working there in years past.

Cecelia Witton said planting indigenous trees and shrubs would transform the caravan park. “The whole concept is to link the caravan park to the Cerberus bushland and the foreshore.”

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New scheme gets enthusiasts enthused

Preserving invaluable history: Local identity and car club member Ben Mayne behind the wheel of his MG in the Western Port Festival parade.

MEMBERS of the Mornington Peninsula Historical Vehicles Club are applauding Vic Roads and the Australian Federation of Motoring Clubs for the introduction of a new registration scheme for club registered classic vehicles.

The new scheme provides for car club members to register their vehicle for either 45 days or 90 days under the new plan. Enthusiasts participating in the plan must be bona fide members of a recognised car club, while the vehicles have specific classic and historic registration plates, a special registration label and a log book system.

The new scheme has meant that

enthusiasts can now register and use their vehicles more freely from as little as $64 per year for registration.

Vehicles can’t be used for commercial purposes.

“As many enthusiasts know, we are all about preserving motoring history while enjoying the thrill that only an old car or motorcycle can deliver” said Chris Warwick, President of the Mornington Peninsula Historical Vehicles Club.

“The new club plate scheme is available to vehicles that are 25 years of age or older and you must also be a member of a recognised car club. The Mornington Peninsula Historical Vehicles Club was found-

ed in 1969 and is the oldest motoring club on the peninsula” said Chris.

“We are always welcoming new members to our club as the level of interest in historic cars, trucks and motorcycles is growing all the time” said Chris.

The MPHVC hosts a wide range of social events and activities and also assists local non-profit organisations, by participating in their events when invited.

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In some cases car parks have been moved further away from the sand itself while in others parking spaces have been reduced.

While understanding the need for foreshore protection, Mr Hamilton says the latest limit on his fishing has almost forced him to hang up his rods for good.

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“It’s just getting too much for me,” he said last week after showing The News his favourite fishing spot.

“The number of fish I catch here has changed too – there are not as many as in the past.”

The parking restriction signs are on the seaward side of Surf St and some residents on the other side of the road have planted out their nature strips, creating obstacles for anyone wanting to use them for parking.

Mr Hamilton was also unsure of the law when it comes to nature strips: “I don’t think you can go there.”

Inquiries to Mornington Peninsula Shire have proved fruitless, although he did get one reply, after the intervention of Flinders MP Greg Hunt, saying his concerns about parking restrictions would be passed on to the mayor, Cr Graham Pittock and Cerberus Ward councillor Reade Smith.

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Lifeline for marine environment: Scientific evidence shows that 1000 years ago a break in the build-up of sand and silt at the entrance to Port Phillip ended a dry spell that had made the bay a plain grazed by emus and kangaroos.

By Keith Platt MT Eliza filmmaker Peter Jupp might seem a bit smug when he agrees with the latest scientific findings that show 1000 years ago most of Port Phillip was dry land.

He is gratified, but not surprised.

“I knew that all along,” he said last week when asked to comment on widely reported research by Guy Holdgate that overturns conventional thinking that the water-filled bay has existed for 10,000 years.

Dr Holdgate, of Melbourne University’s earth sciences department, has published research showing what seems to confirm that 1000 years ago Port Phillip contained a lake fed by the Yarra and Werribee rivers.

Comprising about 30 per cent of the Port Phillip’s area, the lake would have been surrounded by grassland and saltbush where Aborigines hunted kangaroos and emus.

Much of the research was based on results of testing in the lead-up to the 2008 and 2009 dredging of Port Phillip’s shipping channels.

Jupp has long held beliefs about the bay and world that go against accepted history.

The emergence and, more intriguingly, the disappearance of civilisations have taken him on a journey that led him to attain a Batchelor of Arts with honours, majoring in archaeology.

During his studies, Jupp picked up a video camera and decided to use pictures and sound to illustrate his theories with a series of documentaries on cataclysmic events he believes have shaped history.

“I aim to overturn modern scientific dogma, from Darwin and his natural selection to Einstein and his theory of relativity,” Jupp told this reporter in September 2009.

“Since my early days, I’ve been fascinated with the rise and fall of civilisations. I don’t

Coupled with an earthquake, a tsunami swept into Port Phillip bay accompanied by wild electrical storms think archaeology involves being thrilled by dusting off broken pots and bones.

“Everywhere you go in the world you see ruins shattered, abandoned in deserts and buried under sand. You’ve got to ask: what happened?”

Not used to being aligned with conventional archaeological thinking, Jupp’s version of events leading to the inundation of Port Phillip goes a step further by suggesting the barrier to the sea was blasted away by a mammoth electrical charge.

He believes such charges – linked to coronal mass ejections from the sun – have been responsible for many almost instant reconfigurations of the earth’s surface.

“Together with solar flares, their explosive discharges dwarf any pathetically puny human efforts.”

Possibly coupled with an earthquake, a tsunami swept into Port Phillip accompanied by wild electrical storms.

His film Mega Tsunami Melbourne 1500AD includes shots of a tree on a beach at Mt Eliza.

Petrified in parts, the tree’s remains embedded in the shoreline reef are seemingly woody and burnt in others.

Jupp says the earthquake and tsunami was caused by the impact of the comet Mahuika, which burst through the earth’s atmosphere in 1481, igniting New Zealand’s “Fires of Tamaatea” and leading to the extinction of the giant moa bird.

Dr Holdgate believes Port Phillip held water at close to present-day levels until about 2800 years ago when its entrance to Bass Strait was blocked by sand and silt.

Despite being fed by the two rivers, water in Port Phillip evaporated and was not replen-

ished until the blockage at the entrance was broken by “some sort of overtopping”, storms or an earthquake.

Dr Holdgate refers to Aboriginal stories of Port Phillip being dry before quickly filling.

Jupp also relies on Aborigines for evidence: “Georgiana McCrae’s diary is spot on accurate.

She records how a Mr Cobb talks to the Aborigines who said originally you could ‘walk dry foot from our side of the bay to Geelong’.

“It was a kangaroo grazing ground and he [Cobb] quotes that, ‘long ago, in a night of great tempests, the trees blew down and a great sea rushed in through the heads at Portsea.

The land sank under earthquakes and the water became deep and void, just as it is today’. McCrae notes that Governor Batman also added the Aboriginal tradition that the Yarra once flowed along the Carrum Carrum swamp and came out in Western Port. What a great catastrophic event this must have been.”

Peter Jupp says he intends to continue “striking hard at the theory of uniformity that has dominated so much of geology and evolutionary theory. In my view a disciplined chaos runs the universe”.

“I feel we have naively accepted the theories of geologists on the formation of Port Phillip and ignored the legends and myths of the Bunurong and other local indigenous tribes.

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Keep in touch with what keeps us alive This is the third of an occasional series of articles by Andrew Raff and Peter North covering a range of environmental topics including the CO2 debate, use of resources, future energy and the nuclear power debate.

Both are members of SHIPPS – St Andrew’s Habitat Improvement, Preservation and Protection Society – on the southern peninsula.

IN days long ago, humans were just another member of the animal kingdom and top among the hierarchy of our needs was getting enough food to eat, enough water to drink and staying alive from one day to the next.

Later in human history the development of permanent agriculture created a less precarious lifestyle. But even at the start of the Industrial Revolution about 250 years ago, 95 per cent of the population lived on the land. People were in daily touch with what kept them alive.

In places like Ethiopia, where famine and starvation is commonplace, this is still the case. But Ethiopians don’t have much of a say in how the world is run.

In developed countries where the planet’s policies are forged, people have become increasingly separated from their life support systems. For example, a mere 3.7 per cent of the community grows Australia’s food, plus exports that feed twice the Australian population overseas. (ABS Labour Force Statistics, May 2002, Catalogue 6203.0, Tables 1 and 46.

Machine age: The development of permanent agriculture has created a less precarious lifestyle for modern humans, but looming shortages of fossil fuel might threaten our food supply.

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Most of Australia’s population takes the food supply for granted. Availability of food, as distinct from price of food, is not an issue in the lives of most citizens in developed nations.

For the average urban dweller, what maintains the supply of food to the su-

permarket shelves may not be all that obvious.

Most people probably understand that agriculture requires fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides. Fewer know these industries use natural gas (fossil fuel) as their principle feedstock and energy source.

Fewer still realise looming shortages of fossil fuel might threaten not only

still marvel that when I flip a switch here, the light goes on over there”.

The technological web that sustains people is mostly invisible to the consumer. It is itself sustained by key resources like fresh water and fossil fuel. Power generators, telephone exchanges, oil refineries, steelworks and myriad factories are out there somewhere, producing essential products.

Only when part of the web fails does it make news. Only then are we reminded of the existence and importance of technology that enables 6.9 billion to live on planet Earth in various degrees of comfort.

Less are we reminded of the physical environment and resources on which these wonders of technology depend, and that it is a finite resource.

A future article will discuss “environmental economics” showing several (and there are many) unbelievably stupid world food resource systems that simply don’t stack up.  Andrew Raff has lived on the Mornington Peninsula for 50 years, was in the Royal Australian Navy for 20 years, served in Vietnam, and has studied the nuclear industry and climate change. He is a member of Sustainable Population Australia and founded SHIPPS last year.  Peter North has degrees in engineering and commerce, and has worked in the petrochemical, mining, manufacturing and construction industries in Australia and overseas. He has published nine books on business, travel, environment and economics, has written for the environmental magazine Pacific Ecologist and is also a member of Sustainable Population Australia.

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(Other methods of making ammonia-based fertilisers are possible. But presently, 95 per cent of the fertiliser industry uses natural gas as a feedstock and as an energy source.)

The link between fossil fuels and food is just one of the many almost invisible dependencies of the modern world. In the long term this dependency is unsustainable.

Unless some other feedstock and energy source comes along, when natural gas runs out in few decades, fertiliser, herbicide and insecticide supplies also will run out. At this point, sustaining the supply of food to supermarket shelves will become much more difficult.

Policymakers and the broader community seem indifferent or unaware of such threats. People, whether citizens or leaders, take for granted availability of resources that in previous ages were more highly valued because people had to work hard to get them.

Water that flows at the turn of a tap creates the illusion of an infinite supply. Food just arrives on supermarket shelves. Eggs appear to be laid in cardboard boxes. Electricity comes magically out of wall sockets. Sewage disappears down a hole to who knows where? Petrol comes out of a nozzle at the local service station. Telephones connect the world and half the developed world uses computers that do magical things.

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Scientists investigate ‘secret life’ under the bay TEAMS of marine scientists are hoping to improve their understanding of life in the underwater world of Port Phillip with $3 million in research grants from the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE).

Marine life in bay will go under the microscope for three linked research projects undertaken by multidisciplinary research teams that will include top scientists from around Australia.

DSE chief scientist Graham Mitchell: “Port Phillip’s temperate reefs are large living habitats for marine life, similar to

forested landscapes on land. They support a diversity of life forms, including many that are unique to south eastern Australia, so preserving the bay’s reefs is vital to the future of the thousands of fish, invertebrates and seaweed species that rely on reefs for survival.

“What we’re hoping to gain by this research is additional knowledge and understanding of these complex living habitats. This ‘stitching together’ of current and new environmental and biophysical information will help us come up with better evidence-based

management approaches to protect and conserve our precious marine environments for the future.

“We can be very confident that the quality of the research teams brought together for these projects and the novel approaches they’ll be using are likely to yield some exciting new discoveries on the fundamental ecology of Port Phillip Bay’s seagrass and reefs. This new information will be imperative to improving our capacity to manage marine environments more effectively.”

Mr Mitchell said the research

projects will run over four years, investigating the likely responses of seagrass and reef habitats to environmental challenges including predicted climate change effects.

Two projects will be led by the University of Melbourne through chief investigators, Professor Mick Keough from the University of Melbourne and Professor Craig Johnson from the University of Tasmania and one project will be lead by the Department of Primary Industries, through chief investigator Professor Greg Jenkins.

The marine research studies are one component of the larger Seagrass and Reefs Program for Port Phillip Bay being implemented by the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Division of DSE. A DSE news release says its $5.5 million seagrass and reefs program is one of the most comprehensive investments into marine environments ever undertaken in Victoria.

A short video introduction to the Seagrass and Reefs program can be viewed at DSE’s You Tube channel:www. youtube.com/DSEVictoria.

The Western Port Whisperer THE Whisperer received a very well-thought out email from a local who suggested the submarine people cut their losses and make the most of the situation by placing just the conning tower on the foreshore so visitors could enter it and play submariners. It would be cost effective and would finally solve the Otama dilemma that is into its ninth year.

What this kind correspondent didn’t know is that the whisper is the City of Melbourne is looking closely at the submarine for several precincts in the city.

Secret files received fourth-hand by The Whisperer in a back alley from a one-armed informant named Savage Henry reveal the City of Melbourne may have other uses in mind for the submarine.

While it has been impossible to authenticate the photographs, they show the possible final resting places for the once-mighty Otama (see right).

It is believed these concepts have been drawn up by creative types who earn sixfigure salaries and drink soy lattes.

People of Western Port must make a stand!

We didn’t allow our submarine to gain nine years of rust lying idly at anchor in Western Port just to be snatched by soy latte-drinking urbanites to be used for their pleasure!

The Whisperer is calling on all those who value decency and hard work to bring the sub ashore NOW! The plan is this: harness the unspeakable power of 18-25 year old males who stumble out of local pubs at 2am, get them all to gather at the foreshore and simply drag the Otama ashore.

No doubt it’ll be done by sunrise, and lads around Hastings will be telling the story of the great achievement until the following weekend.

Let us all unite and resist the takeover of our beloved Otama submarine. thewhisperer@y7mail.com

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“The Ritchies program has helped us to purchase equipment for the brigades specialist gas support service as well as other salvage equipment

for cleaning up after structure fires. They have also helped us to purchase equipment for training purposes such as whiteboards.

Since the Ritchies Community Benefits program began in 1993, more than $2 million has been donated to CFA brigades.

WHERE has the month of April gone? It seems to be a mutual discussion with people that time goes by so quickly in our busy lives these days! So perhaps you could take some time out to enjoy one of our classes such as Yoga, painting or numerous other activities here at the Somerville Community House to help relax and unwind.

Term one has defiantly started off to be a busy term with classes filling up quickly.

We’ve have a very busy month ahead of us in May with National Volunteers Week and Neighbourhood House Week. We at the Somerville Community House would be lost without our band of volunteers and i would like to take this opportunity to thank them all for their dedication and commitment to our Community House.

On our term brochure we were taking expressions of interest for French classes. We will be running the French classes on a Thursday from 12:00 – 2:00pm, commencing May 5th. We still have places left so if you’re interested, please enrol to secure your place.

Children’s Hand Sewing classes will be running again this term with some new and exciting items to be made.

We have a new teacher by the name of Kathryn, who is more than experienced in teaching sewing to children and has some wonderful items for the children to make.

Community Houses provide a wide range of community activities, social, educational and recreational programs at affordable prices. If any of the classes or activities appeal to you then please don’t hesitate to contact the Somerville Community House, we would be more than happy to assist you with your enquiry.

The Somerville Community House is holding a “Biggest morning Tea” on May 26th from 10:30am – 11:30am.

We will be quizzing you on the Knowledge of the town of Somerville with prizes for correct answers, so start studying your town! Everyone welcome!

We are also holding FREE hearing tests on Wednesday June 1st at the Community House through Australian Hearing. If you would like an appointment please contact us.

If you would like to run a class or have an interest in a particular activity and we don’t currently have it on our brochure, please contact us and we will endeavor to assist you.

If you’re interested in becoming involved, please contact the Somerville Community House on 59 778 330 or somervi@bigpond.net.au or pop in and have a chat to us,

our door is always open.

We look forward to seeing our regular users as well as many new faces in term 2.

H a s t i n g s Community House

By Lisa Glover, Co-ordinator WITH the cold weather descending fast why not stay active, make a bee-line to the Community House and join one of our new classes.

Firstly Yoga for beginners, Mon afternoon or Thursday evening will keep you warm whilst improving fitness and flexibility. You can attend casually and pay as you go!

Acclaimed artist Robbie Bischoff is hosting art classes on Thursdays, with an emphasis on creative freedom in expression. This innovative class covers all mediums and will include the use of mixed media, collage and sculpting principles as well as traditional painting methods. Robbie is a published, prize winning artist with swag of experience and we are happy to welcome her to the House.

Beginners sewing is up and running on a Monday evening with tutor Jackie. Learn how to create from a pattern or free forming or if you just need to learn how to hem and repair we can teach you that too!

Don’t be cold this winter, make your own uniquely individual Pj’s, and then move on to more advanced items.

Most materials are supplied so even if you don’t have a machine and wish to learn, this class is for you.

Don’t forget the fabulous Hastings Walkers & Talkers playgroup at the new time of 9.15am Thursday’s.

Why not drop the big kids at school and come have a cuppa with our friendly playgroup mums whilst the toddlers play and socialize. This group is lively and motivated and well worth checking out on your way home from the school drop off.

We are also looking for interested people for our Italian for beginners and junior Italian classes. Ever wanted to go overseas but it’s just not ion the cards. Why not take an armchair trip to Italy, lean the language culture and the cuisine from the comfort of the Community House!

Attention all advanced knitters; we need you for a fundraising group with a difference.

Patterns, materials needles and finishing items all supplied for knitters who want to make unique one off items to fundraise.

Contact Lisa at the Community House for further information, or for details on any of our classes.

Crib Point Community House

By Mary Budd, Co-ordinator Well, as you saw on the

front page of the last issue of this news paper, the Take-abreak Occasional Childcare funding has been cut by the State & Federal Governments. This unfortunately will probable mean that we will have to close our Childcare room at the end of the year. I’d like to thank all the parents who have come to us for information as to who they can write to, to hopefully stop the cuts. If you too would like to help us, please write to your State & Federal members. If you need a list, please phone the Community House on 59839888 and we can supply you with one.

We still have a few classes that are yet to start and have vacancies in them. They are the Food Handlers course on Tuesday 24th May at 7pm, RSA on 7th June at 7pm, Hand & Shoulder Massage on 26th May at 7pm, Hand Massage on 30th May at 1pm & 9th June at 7pm. We also have vacancies for our Shop Til You Drop trip on 17th June. Call in or give us a ring if you’d like to enrol in any of these classes.

A Community House cannot run without its wonderful volunteers. We have our volunteer Committee of Management and office volunteers, teachers, as well as those who volunteer their time in other areas of the Community House. We’d be lost without all of them.

We love and really appreciate our Volunteers at Crib Point. There’s Barbara, who will always greet you with a smile and tell you all about the classes and book you in, Jules, will teach you all about computers, internet safety & buying a computer. Jody also loves to teach you photo editing and this term, Family History.

Lynette will greet you and answer your questions on Tuesday mornings, and Grant will help you out on Thursday mornings. Then there’s our Committee, who make the big discussions that keep the house going, but it’s not all serious stuff, they have fun too.

Many people think that Volunteering is all about giving of your time and expertise but it’s so much more. You can meet new people and make new friends, learn skills, get access to training, it can also lead to employment as well as being fun & social & give you a sense of belonging. There’s also that lovely feeling you get when you know you’ve helped someone, you can’t beat that.

We’d love to see you at the Community House anytime.

I’d like to ask you to do one thing when you visit us, give our wonderful volunteers a ‘Pat on the Back’ and say Thank You. They’re not just volunteering for the Community House, they’re volunteering for YOU!

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AROUND THE PENINSULA

Heavy lifting: :Left, architect’s drawings of the proposed glass and steel top station showing open chairs and closed gondolas, and, above, the viewing tower planned for stage two with the vista over the southern peninsula and Port Phillip. Pictures: Chairlift Group Arthurs Seat

Chairlift gets government backing

By Mike Hast THE Arthurs Seat chairlift consortium rolled out the big guns last week when it launched concept drawings for its $5 million attraction due to open in 2013.

On a wet Wednesday on Arthurs Seat, Melbourne and local media joined Environment Minister Ryan Smith, Parks Victoria boss Dr Bill Russell and consortium spokesman Simon McKeon to unveil drawings in the comfort of Arthurs Hotel’s dining room.

Dr Russell praised Mr McKeon – the 2011 Australian of the Year, Macquarie Group Melbourne office executive chairman and CSIRO chairman – saying he was a lover of the Mornington

Peninsula and determined to rebuild the iconic tourism attraction.

Mr Ryan said he was delighted to be back on the peninsula where he had spent an enjoyable Easter break.

The new chairlift would be a great addition to tourism attractions on the peninsula, he said, and there was great talent in the consortium.

The government acknowledged the importance of tourism attractions such as the chairlift, and Parks Victoria had recently spent $100,000 on the car park, shelters and barbecues at the summit, Mr Smith said.

He congratulated Mr McKeon and his team on their plans, “which will take into account the local environ-

mental sensibilities”.

Mr Smith stated in a press release: “There is enormous anticipation with this project. Arthurs Seat offers one of the great views in Victoria. The new chairlift will take that experience to new heights.”

He stated the project would create “local jobs, support the local economy and further opportunities for tourism providers”.

Mr Smith said members of the public would be consulted “later this year”.

Mr McKeon, dressed in what he said was his Arthurs Seat workgear, introduced members of the consortium – James McGann of McGann

Towering ambition set for fight THE chairlift consortium might have the backing of “city hall”, but faces a fight over its plans to demolish the Arthurs Seat lookout tower to make way for the top station.

The tower, built by the Shire of Flinders to commemorate the 1935 centenary of the founding of Melbourne, is heritage listed.

Even though it has been closed to the public for almost 20 years due to a deteriorating interior, the outside remains in good condition, says Mornington Peninsula Shire mayor Graham Pittock, who attended the chairlift launch last Wednesday.

“The outside is structurally sound and they [the consortium] can’t just come in and knock it down. At the

minimum, they’ll have to move it to another significant location,” he told The News.

Dromana and District Historical Society president Peter Holloway said the chairlift consortium had completely ignored heritage considerations.

“Much has changed on Arthurs Seat since 1960 when the first chairlift was installed. Not only is the mountain now legally protected by five Significant Landscape Overlays, but also the lookout tower is heritage listed,” he said.

The tower’s significance to the Mornington Peninsula cannot be overrated, he said. “It was erected in 1935 to a unique art deco design by

George Brown, shire engineer of the Shire of Flinders.”

He said the exterior was in excellent condition and the tower provided a highly significant visual, cultural and architectural connection to the past.

Mr Holloway said the historical society did not object to a new chairlift “which adheres to ... heritage and planning regulations”, but was concerned a new cafe with views to Melbourne would “destroy this unique peninsula heritage icon for purely commercial gain”.

Last November, Mr McKeon was quoted in a local newspaper saying he hoped Parks Victoria would restore the observation tower.

Architects; consortium chief executive Hans Brugman, a former aircraft maintenance engineer; retired engineer Ron McCallum, who Mr McKeon called the doyen of Victoria’s chairlift industry and who built the Portsea back beach chairlift in 1961 and many others in ski fields; and Ron’s son Andrew McCallum, a former Qantas maintenance engineer.

“We’re interested in making the chairlift a great experience and in safety – all else is secondary,” he said.

“Today we launch concept plans, which will not be lodged with the relevant planning authorities. There is a need to work carefully with Parks Victoria.”

He said the existing chairlift corridor up Arthurs Seat would be trimmed “a little bit” and the chairlift would come over the existing car park and road, largely for safety reasons.

The existing top station location was narrow and restrictive, and people getting off the old chairlift spilled on to the road.

A new top station would allow more room and be well away from traffic.

The building would have large areas of glass to cut the visible bulk.

The consortium aspired to build a new viewing tower that would be accessible to more people, including senior citizens and people with disabilities. It would be above the treetops and allow 360-degree views, including of Bass Strait, Phillip Island, the Otways and Mt Macedon.

The tower would be part of stage two. “I want to get the chairlift built first,” he said.

The bottom station would get a big-

ger car park. “People will be able to drive down the new freeway [Peninsula Link], park at the bottom and use the chairlift to get to the summit,” he said.

Mr McKeon unveiled the concept drawings with the help of Mr Smith to reveal a futuristic top station with a kiosk and adjacent viewing tower. The bottom station would have a cafe and large car park.

“The chairs will be slightly bigger and have room for three or four people rather than the previous two. Every 10 minutes a train of six-seat gondolas would arrive,” he said.

They would be safer as people would enter a gondola and doors would be sealed until the end of the ride. They also would allow people to make the journey in comfort during bad weather.

Arthurs Hotel operator Jason Griffith, and Enchanted Maze Garden owner Michael Savage and his media officer Nelly Shaw all supported the chairlift plan in principle.

Tourist numbers had been affected by the chairlift not running since 2006 and at least one Arthurs Seat business had closed.

Mr Griffith said there had been several proposals to either restart or rebuild the chairlift since it stopped operating. “I hope this one is the real deal,” he said.

He was not concerned a chairlift kiosk would take custom away from his restaurant and kiosk. “People ride up on the chairlift then go for a walk around the precinct and often end up here.”

park and solve a complex traffic conundrum.

Mr McDonagh said the shire would look at the idea when planning the bus interchange.

At the council meeting on 9 May, Mornington area councillor Bev Colomb sought and won a deferment of the Pearson St road closure.

Councillors were told the development, at 71-79 Barkly St, had been in the pipeline for more than four years, but Cr Colomb said it was important to get the matter right.

Referring to the VCAT order that the shire pay for half the roundabout, she said that timing was everything and she was worried about the timing of the building of the development and when the roundabout would be built.

“We need the right traffic treatment and the roundabout should be built at the same time as the [four-storey] development,” she said.

Cr Leigh Eustace said the traffic would be “diabolical with this [roundabout] solution” and that traffic could be banked up back to Main St. “We should take it back to the VCAT and argue the point.”

Cr David Gibb agreed, saying he was always concerned about reducing the functionality of the ring road, but he wanted the matter to come back before the council in 30 days.

“Developments should be done in a timely manner. Everyone thinks developers are as rich as Croesus but this is not always the case,” he said.

(Croesus was the king of Lydia 560547 BC until his defeat by the Persians.

In Greek and Persian cultures his name became a synonym for a wealthy man, which passed down into English. Croesus is credited with issuing the first gold coins.)

Bus interchange could close Blamey Place

By Mike Hast THE proposed bus interchange in Barkly St, Mornington, could see the closure of the northern end of Blamey Place.

The interchange – a glorified bus stop on either side of Barkly St east of the Main St roundabout – was funded in the state budget in early May (‘Transport focus of state budget for Mornington’, The News, 5/5/11).

It will cost $450,000 and is planned to be built by June 2012.

Mornington Peninsula Shire asked Mornington MP David Morris for the interchange and he made it an election promise prior to the poll last November.

Mr Morris told The News the bus interchange had been included in the Mornington structure plan and the next step to make bus routes work better would be to install traffic lights at the intersection of Wilsons Rd and Nepean

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Hwy near Peninsula Community Theatre.

The state government was trying to get a few basic public transport elements in place for Mornington, he said.

The shire council’s director of sustainable environment, Steve Chapple, said two of four buses servicing the town used Barkly St and the shire would encourage Peninsula Bus Lines to reroute 781 and 788 to use the interchange.

The two buses currently stop at nearby Vale St. The shire’s manager of infrastructure strategy, Niall McDonagh, said the shire would design and manage the project using the government’s money.

Work would involve creating indented bus bays and “beautifying Barkly St”, he said.

The funds had not yet been secured but it was hoped detailed design work would start soon. “We wouldn’t do the

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work over summer as it would cause too many delays, but hope to be finished by next June.”

In a related matter, earlier this month, shire councillors were told the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal had ordered the shire to pay half the cost of a new $800,000 roundabout as part of the proposed closure of Pearson St to allow construction of 12 doublestorey townhouses and 107 apartments in a four-storey building.

The complex will be built either side of Pearson St, which runs between Barkly St and Mornington Primary School and is used by pupils and their parents at drop-off and pick-up times.

The shire will close the road, sell it to the developer and a “new” Pearson St will be constructed along the northern boundary of the school to connect with Eastern Ring Rd. The roundabout could include the exit/entrance to the Blamey Place car

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What an opportunity to live a lifestyle of peace & quiet. 360° of sweeping verandahs overlooking a tranquil bush setting from \RXU FRXQWU\ KRPHVWHDG ZLWK VTXDUHV RI OLYLQJ (QWHU WKH VSDFLRXV HQWU\ WR D ORXQJH ZLWK RSHQ Ă&#x20AC;UH DQG IRUPDO GLQLQJ A large country style kitchen with gas cooking overlooks the family area with split system air-con. 5 bedrooms main with :,5 IXOO HQVXLWH SOXV D ODUJH ODXQGU\ DQG Ă RRU ERDUGV WKURXJKRXW ZLWK VFDWWHU UXJV DGG WR WKH FRXQWU\ IHHO 7KHUH LV DOVR D VHSDUDWH UXPSXV URRP RU LQODZ DFFRPPRGDWLRQ ZLWK H[WUD URRP IRU VWRUDJH 7KH KRPH KDV GXFWHG KHDWLQJ IRU FRPIRUW LQ the cooler months and is close to B & Bs, wineries, cafes & nurseries and could be used as a possible B & B or home business.

Outside features a dam with windmill, large shed to store the boat or for the tradesman, brick barbeque area surrounded by lush vegetation & garden shed. $735,000

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You couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy a better position than right opposite the shops and 200m from the station. Crib Point is booming so get in on it. A brand new unit featuring open design and North facing living, 2 bedrooms, full inclusions like carpets, tiles, blinds, s/steel appliances, tv aerials, letterbox, clothesline etc - simply â&#x20AC;&#x153;turn the keyâ&#x20AC;? and move in! Ideal rental investment or great retirement location! Rental return - $260 p/w or $1,127 p.c.m.

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35 High Street, Hastings

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$529,000

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Pick your own builder and design your dream home on the largest block in the estate. Situated at the end of the court, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ideal position for family safety. Be quick as this wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last!

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Brand new 3 bedroom b/v home. Main bedroom with FES + WIR, modern kitchen with s/s appliances and open plan living/dining. Selected tiles + carpets (builders range) and paved entertainment area. Concrete drive + single garage in roof line. Walking distance to shops + foreshore!

$369,000

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Beat the banks with this high yield investment, where you can make a 7% return this year and easily achieve an 8% p.a return (or possibly more). Why put your money in a term deposit when you can purchase an asset that will appreciate in value and return a higher % annually! A large, just over 1 acre block (4243m2 approx) with 3 tenancies. 2 telecommunications sharing a tower at the back of the block and 1 building demolition company occupying the rest of the acre.

For Sale:

$550,000

5979 3000

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Mornington

$1,030,000

Esplanade Mornington SEEING is believing with this quality-built luxury resort-style home.

bathrooms, a spa, a wonderful family living area and a parents’ living area upstairs.

In a prime location on the Esplanade at Mornington, the home is opposite a secluded beach.

Outside, you’ll be capativated by the landscaped pool area with wonderful water feature and paved courtyard. It also has a double garage.

Inside, no expense has been spared with modern decor and styling throughout.

Featuring four bedrooms, it also has two

The property will not last, so don’t miss your chance to hear the waves and smell the sea.

Agency: Baywest Real Estate, 87 High Street, Hastings.

Phone: 5979 4412 Agent: David Nelli, 0403 111 234.

To advertise your business in the Western Port News trades & services section

Call Cameron 0407 027 707 Western Port

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www.hastings.harcourts.com.au

Hastings Bright 3 bedroom home delight!

Neg. over $280,000

Spacious and light filled this near new unit is located central in Hastings tucked away off Elisa Place. This immaculately presented unit boasts three bedrooms, spacious kitchen with stainless steel appliances and dishwasher, large living/dining area and a separate laundry. Added features include ducted heating, single closed carport and a private enclosed yard both front and back offering security and comfort. With such a convenient position close to shops, schools and public transport this one is sure to be snapped up.

Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 4/242 Hodgins Road

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Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

Somers ¾ Acre Lifestyle Living!

Neg. Over $750,000

Huge price reduction! Vendor says sell! Relax! This could be exactly what you are looking for. Boasting a 3/4 acre of easy to maintain parkland set in a quiet court location and with-in easy walking distance to the beach. With the Koala park to the East and Coolart to the West it’s located in the most stunning end of Somers Beach. Comprising 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, woodfire, 2 split systems, open plan living and extensive outdoor deck area taking in the private grounds. Feed the birds, stroll through the Koala Park or hit the beach only a short walk away.

Cannons Creek Modern Waterfront Living

ADDRESS: 2 Dover Court

ADDRESS: 89 Hardy Avenue

Harcourts Hastings

4

2

1

Neg. Over $330,000

ADDRESS: 22 Michelle Drive

Harcourts Hastings

3

Neg. Over $630,000 Hastings Pristine & Spacious!

4

5970 7333

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1

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Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Tim Hughes 0410 470 515

Superbly renovated, this ‘as new’ 4 bedroom, three bathroom residence offers light filled stylish interiors and landscaped easycare gardens in a brilliant central location only a short stroll to the beach. Immaculately presented and distinctively large family home appointed, the free flowing floor plan provides wonderful living spaces of impressive proportions. A wonderful entertainer, it comprises main bedroom with fitted robes and ensuite; the large second bedroom also has an ensuite; a very generous free flowing lounge; meals and large family room overlooking a delightful private rear yard.

Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 36 South Beach Road

Shop 10, 14 High St

3

Take advantage of this 3 bedroom home sitting on approx 810m2 block. Comprising a light and bright brick veneer home, 3 bedrooms with BIRs, kitchen with granite bench tops and splashback, large living area, separate dining, gas heating, undercover entertaining area, double lock up garage, and rear access. This property won’t last so act quick!

1

Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

HASTINGS

4

Neg. Over $279,950 Hastings Prime Location!

2

Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

Harcourts Hastings

Richard Smith 0433 669 112 Jason Dowler 0403 598 754

Your future success depends on timely investments and you can’t beat a beautifully packaged property, well located in this high growth area! Choose from 2 and 3 bedroom designs with a quality fit-out and a federation facade to make them stand out from the crowd! Smart designs feature internal doors to your garage, dual access bathrooms and Energy efficient layouts with stone bench-tops adding that extra touch of class.....Fully fitted inside and out, these great properties will be ready to rent out or move in to on handover day!

Harcourts Hastings ADDRESS: 288-290 Stony Point Road

Somers Large Home, Great Position!

Appreciate fine design principles and high levels of quality construction with this “Graham Alexander” waterfront home. Set on a level 1000m2 (approx.) allotment with direct water access this seaside property sits in the sleepy township of Cannons Creek. Face the water and watch the resting boats moored in Rutherford Inlet from your own open-plan living area or upon the entertaining deck. Offering four bedrooms and split-level appeal the home also features nautical windows, timber flooring, downlighting, varying ceiling heights, split-system cooling and a roaring Coonara.

1

Bree Coburn 0401 398 503 Tim Hughes 0410 470 515

Crib Point 10 Quality Units only 6 Left!

Neg. Over $750,000

3

Neg. Over $330,000

Here we have it! A brilliant comfortable home consisting of 3 spacious bedrooms, master with semi ensuite and walk in robe. The well-equipped central kitchen offers, plenty of space, stainless steel appliances and dishwasher, which overlooks meals area/living area and separate lounge. With ducted heating, air-conditioning, alarm system, outside entertaining area, garden shed, and double enclosed carport with rear access to backyard this home just awaits you.

ADDRESS: 12 Hilltop Rise

Harcourts Hastings

3

2 Bree Coburn 0401 398 503

Photo ID required for all Inspections

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Crib Point

$559,000

Your lifestyle solution SO many possibilities await the new owner of this striking home with a rustic outlook over a wide road reserve. It offers 30 squares of living set on about 1200 square metres (1/3 acre) originally designed to accommodate two families in comfort and privacy. Approached by a sweeping twoway drive and flanked by private courtyards,

the home features five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a vast split-level rumpus room, separate meals, lounge and study and two kitchens. It has gas heat and air-conditioning and is designed for easy living with a huge enclosed pergola area and carport.

Subdivide into two units or spread out and enjoy the space – this is the answer.

Agency: BTRE, 1/34 High Street, Hastings.

Phone: 5979 8003.

Agent: Ben Tallon, 0419 339 489.

Hastings

Hastings

$395,000

A dream come true THIS modern, contemporary, three-yearold, five-star energy rating home is set on a 640 square metre block. Walk up the central paved path surrounded by landscaped gardens to the well-zoned family home with neutral decor, four large bedrooms – including main with walk-in wardrobe and full ensuite – two living areas (formal and family), a modern, well-equipped kitchen

with 900mm stainless steel gas cooktop, wall oven, dishwasher and double-door pantry, separate meals/dining area, which has access to the double remote garage.

The large family room leads through to the rear garden where there is plenty of room for the kids to play. The property also has solar hot water and rear access roller door from the garage.

Agency: Tallon First National, 35 High Street, Hastings.

Phone: 5979 3000.

Agent: Nigel Evans, 0439 540 055.

$329,900

Hastings

$315,000

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Exciting potential THIS attractive brick home in a quiet location is available for sale for the first time. It comprises three bedrooms with a semi ensuite, built-in wardrobes, entrance hall, spacious kitchen/dining area with gas upright cooktop and gas heating.

The solid home has been leased for the past 20 years by the same tenant and has

been beautifully maintained inside and out. It has scope to add your own style and would be great as a first home or investment property.

Overall the home is solid as a rock, positioned on a great sized allotment close to all amenities and in an affordable price range.

Agency: Satchwells Hastings, 1/97 High Street, Hastings.

Phone: (03) 5979 1888.

Agents: Lisa Roberts, 0488 910 368.

HERE is a great family home with an abundance of potential on a large, 762 square metre (approx) allotment. The home includes spacious loungeroom with gas heating, sun-filled kitchen with gas cooking and meals area. Three good-sized bedrooms and central family bathroom. Outside features a double lock-up garage, garden shed and chicken pen.

The property is ideal for first home buyers, retirees or as a development opportunity with similar allotments in the area having three or four units.

Agency: MC Real Estate, 4/82 High Street, Hastings.

Phone: 5979 8833.

Agent: Michael Curry, 0409 410 456.

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Satchwells

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Wanting to buy a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom dble garage new unit or low maintenance home? Then this block could be for you. Design your own on this fabulous parcel of 425sqms of land and still reep the rewards of stamp duty savings. With no covenants or restrictions this is ideal to build what you want.

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Footy memorial area to lose parking

By Mike Hast PLANS to redevelop the foreshore area near the Mornington football disaster memorial could see the loss of crucial car parking.

The landscape master plan for the picnic and park area on the corner of the Esplanade and Schnapper Point Drive is on display for public comment until the end of the week.

The shire says the plan is designed to improve the links between the main retail precinct and foreshore area.

The memorial was erected by townspeople soon after the disaster in 1892, one of the worst boating accidents in Victoria’s history.

Fifteen members of the football team returning from Mordialloc aboard the 10-metre double-ended yawl Process perished when the yacht struck Pelican Reef off Mt Eliza.

Shire planners say the “memorial park” plan is “an opportunity to maximise the historical significance and recreational amenity of the area”, which includes the old court house, police lock-up and 1860s post office.

“At present, these areas are underutilised and dominated by informal car parking. The lack of parking controls results in cars often parked within vegetated areas with detrimental impacts to … the vegetation.

“Overgrown weeds and grasses are restricting views and detracting from the overall appearance of the area.

Bollards are in need of repair and rubbish bins have been vandalised.

“The paved surface areas vary in material and condition. The number of picnic tables and seats could be rationalised and better located.”

Mornington councillor Bev Colomb says the work will cost about $330,000 and she hoped to secure money in the coming budget.

Memorial park “neighbour” Paul Pingiaro, who operates Schnapper Point Boat Hire on the beach below the park, said reducing car parks would make it even more difficult for locals and tourists.

“Each year we serve about 22,000 visitors, and numbers are increasing at about 10 per cent a year,” he said.

“It’s increasingly challenging to find car parks. This is a tourist destination and parking affects the overall experience. Parking spaces that will be lost are used by local traders, the church, visitors and locals.

“I support redevelopment of the area, but the shire could relieve parking pressure by opening up the old fire training facility on the western side of Mornington Park.”

Paved areas at the historic court house and post office would provide spaces for book sales, exhibitions and information boards.

The officer’s report states: “The views over Mornington harbour and Port Phillip are to be protected and enhanced where practicable. This does not mean that any extent of native vegetation will be removed to achieve this.

Where the vegetation is not of ecological significance, it may be possible to remove vegetation to open up some view lines.

“Picnic tables, barbecues, shelters and seating will be rationalised and relocated to more desirable locations. A new picnic area with a shade pavilion is

proposed that will be oriented towards views over the bay.

“The area around the existing rotunda donated by the Rotary club will be improved to increase the capacity of this shelter to cater for community activities and functions.”

The report said the safe and effective capacity of the car park as it is presently configured is 20 vehicles. A recent survey showed that at peak times there may be as many as 36 cars.

“The reconfiguration would result in 16 spaces, a loss of four spaces or a loss of 20 spaces if based on the survey of peak usage.

“It is unlikely Department of Sustainability and Environment would support any additional car parking in the foreshore area.”

The plan is on the shire’s website at: www.mornpen.vic.gov.au, under “OnExhibition”, “Draft Plans & Policies”.

Changes: Top, Mornington Peninsula Shire plans to fix up the foreshore area around the football memorial, left, at the end of Main St in Mornington, but car parking will be lost.

Marina go ahead from independent panel

By Mike Hast THE Mornington safe harbour, or marina, has been given the green light

by Planning Panels Victoria.

The independent panel, located in the state government’s Department of Planning and Community Development, released its report last week.

Panel members Nick Wimbush and Chris Harty reported they had “a very difficult task in balancing the state and regional policy imperatives for a significant safe harbour with the obvious concern and passion of mostly local people for the harbour as it stands now”.

They said they had considered issues and submissions in considerable detail, heard substantial expert evidence and concluded the environmental effects of the project “can be effectively managed or mitigated for most issues”.

“In net community benefit terms, the inquiry concludes that overall there will be significant positive community benefit.

“Subject to detailed recommendations in this report … the Mornington Safe Harbour proposal has strong policy support and should proceed.”

It’s a big win for Mornington Yacht Club and its separate company, Mornington Boat Haven Ltd, but a blow for objectors including Mornington MP David Morris, Mornington Environment Association and hundreds of citizens who spoke at hearings held by the shire council in February.

Mr Morris said he had been concerned about the safety of the harbour for more than 20 years, but “I’m not inclined to support a marina there”.

“It is disappointing to note the panel

Northern exposure: Mornington pier and harbour get belted in April 2008 by a northerly storm, the worst since 1984. More than 30 boats were sent to the bottom of the harbour or washed up damaged on adjacent beaches. Picture: Roy Hunter

recognised the importance of the harbour to our community, but was still prepared to support the project,” he said.

“Little weight appears to have been given to legitimate environmental questions, and none at all to the very real concerns about traffic congestion both in the harbour precinct and throughout the town at peak periods.”

He said it appeared the panel had assessed the proposal against “the obsolete policy framework of the former government, with little or no consideration of the impact the proposal will have on the Mornington community”.

The yacht club wants to build a $19 million marina protected by a 210-metre wavescreen mounted on piles running east–west along a seven-

metre depth contour.

It would protect the harbour from northerly storms that have devastated the precinct twice – in 1984 and 2008.

The marina would have 197 berths, a public jetty, refuelling and sewage pump-out area and associated infrastructure including a travel lift.

Yacht club commodore Tony Donnellan on Tuesday morning told The News the club was happy with the panel’s strong support “but we have lots of work to do with Mornington Peninsula Shire”.

“We are extremely pleased with the report; it gives us a good tool to advance the project,” he said.

The club was unsure of the final design of the safe harbour as there was still a distance to go.

Shire planner Frank Mangan said

the panel report had been sent to state planning minister Matthew Guy for assessment of the environment effects statement. This was expected to take at least five weeks.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment would then have to approve the project under the Coastal Management Act. It would then come to a full meeting of shire councillors, who also would consider recommendations made by shire planners.

The shire might allow one last opportunity for people to speak about the project at this meeting, Mr Mangan said.

The whole project and its hundreds of pages would then go to Mr Guy for final approval.

Mr Donnellan said yacht club members had been holding their breath this autumn, hoping the harbour would not be hit by a big northerly. “We were lucky to get through the season without damage,” he said.

The harbour had been made less safe following removal of rocks on the bay side of the pier and the announcement that Parks Victoria would not be replacing wave panels on the underrenovation middle section of the pier.

“We had to cancel the Variety Splash boats visiting the club and the Etchells state titles as we couldn’t guarantee the harbour would be safe enough.”

Changes or additions made to the marina proposal include:  Deleting 12 swing moorings planned for the eastern side of the harbour.  Improving the wavescreen to reduce wave bounce and making it lower.  Deleting eight fore and aft moorings from the southern side of the marina.

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No floating boat cradles.

 Improving the design of the artificial

reef.

Making room for tall ships to berth including public access areas.  Further investigation to stop the marina negatively affecting sand quality at Mothers and Scout Beach.  Monitoring of water and sediment quality during construction.  Determining the presence before and after construction of endangered species and state and federal “listed” species.  The club to consult with heritage groups and install signs about the harbour’s history.  Assess if extra car parking is needed and/or run a shuttle bus from the town centre.

Mornington Environment Association said it was “extremely disappointed” with the decision.

“The proposal will be detrimental to our historic harbour, adjacent beaches and the town. Amendments to the project as proposed by the panel will have little effect on protecting the harbour environment,” Judith Martin of MEA said.

“Car parking is a major community concern. The report provides no solution. Instead, it handballs the problem back to Mornington Peninsula Shire to deal with.

“The panel process has been an initial skirmish in what will undoubtedly be a protracted struggle to preserve that which is irreplaceable.

MEA will continue to fight to stop a much-loved community space moving into private hands. 

Western Port News 24 May 2011

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LOCAL HISTORY

ARTHUR

Part One Arthur Comelli started Welcome Motors in Somerville in 1947 and retired about 50 years later. Recently he celebrated his 90th birthday. This is his story. ***

house was right in the village and I went to school there. I passed my fifth class. I can read and write Italian perfectly.

There were four children in the family – two boys and two girls – and I was the youngest.

Where and when were you born, Arthur?

What did you do when you left school?

I was born Arturo Comelli [which he later Anglicised to Arthur] in a small village called Nemis in the north of Italy on 8 April 1921. The village, to the north of Venice, is only 10 kilometres from the border of what was Yugoslavia, and is much the same today as it was in 1921. It is surrounded by vineyards and fields.

We came to Australia in 1934 when I was 13; my mum and dad, my sister and I. My dad had gone guarantor for two of his brothers and things had not turned out well. Meanwhile my older brother Jack had come out to Australia and was doing well and urging them to come out. He was 11 years older than me. So we gave all our property to an uncle of mine from Venice and he gave us the money to come to Australia.

Tell us about your family.

Down the years: Above, a spritely Arthur Comelli at age 90. Below (clockwise from left), Welcome Motors (also called SAB Motors) in 1947, Arthur with his children Alan,right, Anita and Johnny outside the premises in 1950, the early 1950s and 1955 after renovations.

Welcome Motors throughout the years

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My father had a small amount of land; I guess you could describe him as a peasant farmer.

He was a big man and very strong; anyone who wanted anything lifted called on dad.

We had our own cattle (two), a pig and chooks. We lived, not in poverty, but not that well either but in a big house. It was three storey: kitchen downstairs, bedrooms in the middle, and up top was where we used to keep the corn, salami and those kinds of things. The

What part of Australia did you come to?

Mackay in Queensland, and I stayed there for a number of years, cutting cane for my brother. When I was still young I used to catch grasshoppers for pocket money and sell them to people for their birds; I got two shillings for a box full.

Where did you learn the trade of motor mechanic?

By Peter McCullough I learned this during the war with Allied Works and was in various camps such as Theodore and Charters Towers. When I was in Charters Towers in 1944 I was naturalised and was then able to move about without any restriction. Previously, being Italian, I was classed as an enemy alien. I worked hard in the Allied Works: another chap and I often worked right through the night with the aid of hurricane lamps. We didn’t get any extra pay; just the basic six shillings and sixpence a day.

How did you meet Bianca?

She was working in a store in Mackay and we went for coffee at a shop that specialised in Italian groceries. While we were sitting there she started playing with my feet. I thought “There’s a message here somewhere”. She was also Italian and her parents had a cane farm. She said “Come up and see me at the farm”, and I said “Where do you live?” She said “Proserpine” which was about 25 or 30 miles away. I was about 19 and she was very pretty.

The first time I went to visit her, I walked as I didn’t have a pushbike. I had to swim across

the river and because of the heavy rain, logs were floating down. There were also plenty of snakes. Then I went into the farm on the other side of the river and asked if I could use the phone. I told Bianca I was soaking wet and to have some hot coffee and dry clothes ready. She didn’t believe it was me and put the phone down.

It was about 8 o’clock in the evening and I followed the phone line to her place, soaking wet. When I got there she didn’t know what to say Then I got a pushbike but the first time I went to visit, it was very wet and, as the bike had no mudguards, I had mud up my back and all over my clothes. I was in such a mess I turned back.

Then I got a motorbike and that made things easier. The first time I went on the bike we arranged to go to the pictures that night; I bought the tickets and Bianca went and sat somewhere else. I sat by myself.

Afterwards I asked her “What happened?” and she said “I couldn’t find you”. I could never work it out: perhaps she didn’t want her friends to see her with me. The motorbike was not new and I had the occasional mechanical problem.

Parts were hard to get and one occasion I had to replace a cylinder with a piece of wood that I had modelled especially.

In spite of the odd setback with Bianca, our love continued to grow but, as I was cutting cane seven days a week, visits were sometimes once a month.

After I was called up by Allied Works, much of our courtship was by correspondence.

Eventually we were married at Proserpine in 1944. It wasn’t a big do as it was during the war.

We went back to the house, mainly family, and celebrated with one case of beer and one case of champagne. There was no refrigeration so it was hot beer, hot champagne and little food: by the time the sun went down some of the guests were sleeping in the canefields and some were down with the horses.

When did you leave Queensland?

One of my sisters was living in Melbourne so in 1945 mum and dad, Bianca and I moved down here. We lived in Coburg and I started work as a motor mechanic in a backyard in Fitzroy.

How did you come to Somerville?

The Angelico brothers (Sam, Joe and Mick) had several orchards in Somerville – two along Pembroke Drive and one at the bottom of Speedwell St – and they heard about me and asked me to come down and fix some of their machinery.

When I arrived one of them said “There’s an old Fordson tractor over under the trees that hasn’t been started for years.

See how you go”. I think it was like a test. It had seized up but with the help of some kerosene and a lot of elbow grease it

started with a cloud of smoke.

They thought I was king and said “There are no mechanics down here. Why don’t you set up in the old blacksmith’s shop in Somerville?” So in 1947 I came to Somerville.

What was it like in those days?

The garage only had a dirt floor and when it rained the water would flow in. We walked on planks to keep our feet dry and I would lie on my back on the “creeper” to keep out of the water. Alan was six months old and at first we lived in the office behind the workshop.

The business grew quickly and I worked on anything, even wheelbarrows. Soon I was able to buy a caravan, which was parked beside the garage and Alan spent a few of his early years in that; it had no heating or cooling.

A year or two later I was able to buy the building from the elderly lady who owned it, plus the old house alongside. I put a new front on the workshop and moved the house around behind the garage; this would have been 1951. While we were living in Somerville the rest of the kids were born – Anita (1948), Johnny (1951), Faye (1954), and Dennis (1960).

I had a BSA motorbike with a toolbox on the back and I would use that to attend breakdowns on the road, or visit farms to fix machinery. Sometimes I would stay overnight if the job was not finished. From the motorbike I progressed to an 8hp Austin utility; there

were no tow trucks in those days.

After a while I became an agent for Vauxhall and Bedford, and then a few years later an agent for Ford. I used to sell the odd car but couldn’t really compete with the big dealers.

It was hard work, long hours, but it paid off and gradually I built up some capital. One investment I made soon after I moved to Somerville was to buy the block in Marine Pde, Hastings, where the old pub used to be. I thought it would be a good investment and paid 350 pounds, which was a lot of money in those days. The pub was still there but the council made me demolish it as kids were playing in it and they said if there was an accident then I would be responsible. I have had a few enquiries over the years but no one has made me an offer I can’t refuse.

For many years you traded under the name SAB Motors: Somerville’s Arthur and Bob. Who was Bob? He is Bob Williams who learnt the trade off me, and then he and I went into partnership along with my daughter Faye Bushby. About four years ago I sold the buildings, including the Shell service station. Bob and his son still run SAB Motors, renting the building from the new owner. Previously they rented the building from me when I finally retired about 1015 years ago.

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Poets old and modern at HastingsWestern Port Historical Society COFFEE AND CULTURE AT MUSEUM The May Morning Coffee at Hastings Museum was an enjoyable occasion.

Information about poets who wrote some of the poems included in the old Victorian School Reader books together with the reading of their poetry was very entertaining.

Many hadn’t heard well-known poems for many years.

The poems of the much-loved A B (Banjo) Patterson, Henry Lawson, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, John Masefield and Pam Ayres were shared, bringing to mind past experiences.

Some of the other poems were funny and some were poignant.

Beside the well-known poems, there were a few brave local people who write poetry who kindly shared their poems during the morning.

Hastings Bakers Delight again provided buns and scones for the morning tea and this support is gratefully acknowledged.

Morning coffees at the museum are held quarterly and the next one on Thursday 4 August will be the antiques and collectables appraisal

by Wendy Morrison of the Tyabb Packing Shed.

People can bring one item (cup and saucer counted as one item) to be appraised during the morning.

Admission to morning coffee is $5 a person with the proceeds going

to the museum’s projects.

BUNNINGS HASTINGS SUPPORTS MUSEUM Bunnings has come to Hastings and the new store will be officially opened very soon.

As Bunnings has very strong community values it supports local projects.

The Hastings Museum is fortunate to have had a group of people from Bunnings working as volunteers on a project to beautify the backyard of the museum precinct.

In spite of a very rainy day a dozen or so staff worked valiantly in raincoats and boots planting roses and some specimen fruit blossom trees.

The workers also endeavoured to weed the garden and level the uneven spots in the lawn at the back of the museum.

Another part of the project is to build a viewing platform in front of Dad’s Shed, which will be most beneficial when school children visit.

Dad’s Shed contains a multitude of artefacts – a wooden fishing boat, cray baskets, a hand lawn mower, old signs and tools.

The society is most appreciative of this support from Bunnings.

MUSEUM DISPLAYS OLD GAMES On show in one of the showcases at the Hastings Museum is a display of some of the games that were played in the past. One of the

games played more than 100 years ago was knuckle jacks and there are some of these to be seen.

Ludo has also been around for many years and the one featured shows one of the very early boards.

These and other games on show in the museum have been exhibited by Ann Sullivan, who is the secretary.

Admission to the museum is $2 an adult with children accompanied by an adult free and children visiting not accompanied by an adult 50¢.

The museum is open on Sunday afternoons 2-4pm and on Wednesdays 10am-2pm.

FIRE SAFETY TALK AT NEXT GENERAL MEETING The society will hold its next general meeting on Sunday 5 June at 2pm at the museum, corner Marine Pde and Skinner St. A representative of Hastings Fire Brigade will highlight aspects of fire safety and give advice about fire extinguishers, prevention, evacuation, gathering points and other related topics.

Fire safety and deciding whether to evacuate is something all people should know, especially in view of the many buildings (including museums) that have been lost to fire.

The free meeting is open to all but due to limited seating, call Ann on 0448 023 287 if you plan to attend.

Questions for the History Hunter When is Balnarring’s time capsule due to be opened?

The time capsule was a project of the Balnarring Progress Association. It was sealed into the stone cairn on the site of the old Balnarring Hall in 1979 and was scheduled to be opened 50 years later. So that sets the opening date at 2029.

How did Tar Barrel Corner get its name?

In the early days of roadmaking the junction of Stanleys Rd and Red Hill Rd was the site where barrels of tar used for road surfacing were kept. Local people referred to it as the tar barrel corner and the name stuck.

The History Hunter asks: St Mark’s Anglican Church at the corner

of Balnarring Rd and the Frankston-Flinders Rd is a small wooden building that dates from 1914. The earliest photo, taken at its opening, shows it as an unpainted building.

Later photos show it to be white or at least a light colour with darker trim. Does anyone know if it has been any colour other than white?

Do you have a question about the Balnarring district?

The history room at Balnarring Hall is open every Monday from 10am till noon.

You are welcome to stop by and see us.

The Balnarring & District Historical Society can be contacted by calling 5983 5326 or emailing balhist@optusnet.com.au

Photo-finish: The finish line at Balnarring races, 27 December 1897.

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By Frances Cameron WE had some glorious autumn weather on the Mornington Peninsula, but now it seems as if the cold of winter has arrived.

Deciduous trees are losing the chlorophyll from their leaves as they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t require it anymore, which leaves the trees adorned in their red and gold autumn finery until the wind makes them bare. Dreary days can give us an excuse to sit inside and plan for the rest of the gardening year, but there is always something to be done; there are plenty of things which can be pruned at the moment.

If anybody is lucky enough to still have hydrangeas in their gardens after the extraordinarily long, hot summers of recent years, you can start to think about when you want to prune them. The most commonly planted Hydrangea is the Mop-head Hydrangea (H. macrophylla). The large, rounded heads of four petalled flowers can be found in a large variety of colours ranging from the ubiquitous blues and pinks to creamy greens and burning reds. The beauty of these flowers is that over time the colours will change, as a result you can have one bush with an array of different coloured flowers.

Leave the bush alone until all of the flowers have faded and the leaves have begun to drop before you prune; this can be done any time from late autumn to winter.

There are a couple of ways that you can prune these plants; older, less bushy plants can be cut back really hard to just above a healthy bud to allow for them to grow back with a better, more bushy shape. The drawback is that you may not get flowers for an extra year.

However, this may not always be the case, my father-in-law treats his Hydrangeas with an uncaring abandon at pruning time, and they flower beautifully every year!

Another, more gentle way is to firstly cut out all the old, woody canes to the ground, then taking each stem which has flowered, cut at a point where there are two fat buds starting to form. These buds will often be about one third of the way down the stem. After youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve cut off the old flowers take a step back and check which other stems need to be cut to get a nice rounded form and cut them back to a point where you think they should be. As with most plants, pruning hydrangeas need not be an

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The clumps at the base of the plant can be divided and moved to any area which is fairly sunny and well-draining, or be put into pots to share.

Have a look around your garden to see what other plants have dead flowers and stems and clean them up, simply getting rid of the unsightly dead elements of your garden will go a long way towards making it a more pleasant space. Keep deadheading Roses and patrolling for Aphids and other pests and weeds. Summer grasses such as Kikuyu have slowed down but not stopped and the pesky Winter Grass (Poa annua) will pop up absolutely anywhere!

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The Man from Iron Knob

By Stuart McCullough THERE is a town in South Australia called Iron Knob.

It has a rich history and is regarded by many as the birthplace of the Australian steel industry. Set in a desert landscape and marooned in red dust, it looks to be both quite beautiful and the perfect setting for a Mad Max film. However, when the mines closed in the late 1990s, the town suffered a significant blow and lost much of its population. But in spite of the undoubted beauty of the town, its rich history and colourful local characters, the simple truth of the matter is that I have great difficulty getting past the name. This, I am sure, says much more about me than it does about Iron Knob.

Once you see things a certain way, your view can set like concrete. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just with Iron Knob, either. Every once in a while, we return to Tyabb. The town remains largely as it was when I grew up, save that there is now a set of traffic lights and all the derelict warehouses have been turned into antique shops. That and the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;cafĂŠ latteâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which simply did not exist when I was a kid â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has been successfully introduced to locals. Otherwise, just as Sovereign Hill reminds us what it was like to be in 1883, so too

does Tyabb provide a valuable link back to the year 1983. A range of souvenir tea towels and a substantial cover charge supporting this fact can only be a matter of time. Perhaps thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfair, but I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see Tyabb any other way.

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fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. The long gravel drive that takes you away from the main road always manages to transport me back in time.

The walls remain filled with the pictures and decorations that hovered over my youth like a ghostly presence. Some are family artefacts, such as the tea

towel with the legend â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We love our Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and what is said to be a computerised representation of all five children. It was an item purchased from a stall in the Bayside Shopping Centre in 1983, before computer graphics really came into their own. The grey computer blots and smudges look not so much like children wearing the finest skivvies known to humanity as they do dirt. Much like the Shroud of Turin, there were attempts at preservation, including an ill-conceived effort to fill out the dots with a grey-lead. Regardless of its faults, it continues to hang in my fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study. Aside from family portraiture representing a variety of degrees of success, there are souvenirs.

Most of these objects were collected by my father in the years before we were born.

Posters and objects from faraway places, reminders of a well-travelled life. They are so familiar to me as to be almost invisible. I paid them no attention growing up â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I was far too busy doing all the things that clutter your childhood, even if those things have vanished as surely as a poor quality computer printout on a tea towel. I imagined any number of lives for myself: academic, musician and, for a brief time, professional

wrestler. Had my dreams of â&#x20AC;&#x153;turning proâ&#x20AC;? been realised, I would have wrestled under the name The Tyabb Terror.

We were in Tyabb for Easter.

Before dark set in, I made sure to bring up plenty of firewood to the house. It had been one of my chores as a child and still feels overwhelmingly familiar.

Very few of the people who know me now appreciate fully the extent of my fire-lighting skills. I can only say â&#x20AC;&#x201C; without fear of exaggeration â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that they are awesome. But as I struck the match and started to encourage the flames, the room filled with smoke. When it was suggested to me that this was the result of a flaw in my technique, I made the mistake of claiming that the billowing fog was normal.

Smoking ceremonies were regarded by some indigenous communities as powerful events that warded off bad spirits and cleansed the participants. I have to say, our experience was very different.

Instead, it looked like a large cloud was parked in the living room. However, as I waved my hands through the air to clear the smoke, I saw something on the wall that caused my jaw to drop. For as long as I can recall, this item has hung on the living room wall. It is best described as a metal pressing of someone who looks like a cross between

a soldier and an oompa loompa.

Although this object was overwhelmingly familiar to me, I had never before noticed a certain anatomical frankness to the piece. Without being too specific, the picture in question suggests the man was born in a particular town in South Australia.

It felt as though the scales had fallen from my eyes.

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Entertainment MUCH has been made of the Jetty Road story, beginning with Paula and Lee Bowman’s childhood journey starting in the small rural coastal town of Nungurner in Victoria outside Lakes Entrance.

The identical twins walked the roads of the town from age 10 singing to neighbours.

Their father Peter Bowman was also talented, playing guitar and singing songs at home.

Paula said: “We were isolated where we lived so we relied on our parents’ record collection and listened to Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, John Williamson and Abba.

“Mum and Dad went to Bali and bought back a stack of cassettes including Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt and we would sing to them.”

At age eight Paula started playing organ and Lee was playing guitar.

By the time they were at secondary school, Lee was also playing flute and Paula clarinet.

“Our school music teacher, Sue Bethune, encouraged us to sing and we ended up singing around Gippsland.

Sue prepared the foundation for performing,” Lee said.

They finished school but the careers teacher did not offer them a career as entertainers so Lee decided to

do hospitality while Paula took on photography.

Although the girls were keen on their new careers, they felt something was missing. At age 18 they abandoned their careers and headed to Box Hill College of Music to study.

There they met Julian Sammut and Simon Ross who both majored in piano. Jetty Road was born, named after a road in Nungurner.

In 2005 Jetty Road released the

debut album Full Circle before heading to Tamworth to do some busking before releasing the second album, Dirt Roads City Lights (2007), and then the award-winning album Life at a Million Miles (2009). The album went to No. 1 on the country charts and the group won the Golden Guitar for Best Group in 2010.

Jetty Road has won a host of awards including Australian Independent Group of the Year, Independent Album of the Year, People’s Choice Awards and National Music Oz Award.

Jetty Road’s new album Far Away Places is released this week and the first single, Serves You Right, has raced into the Australian country charts.

Jetty Road fans are celebrating that the single has raced into the US radio airplay charts debuting at No. 86, something an Australian country act has not achieved before.

One of Canada’s top labels, Onramp Records, has signed Jetty Road to its country music label, the first nonCanadian act signed to Onramp.

Paula said: “Things are heating up in the US and Canada and there are many possibilities at the moment with the Canadian and US charts. It would be nice to follow 2011 with another Golden Guitar just to prove it wasn’t a fluke.”

The album was recorded in Julian’s studio The Cool Room in Melbourne’s outer east and The Factory Studios in Vancouver, Canada.

“The Factory was awesome with bands like AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith recording there and for us little Australians to record there was cool,” Paula said.

Paula and Lee are influenced by a variety of music but don’t hide the secret that they are big Keith Urban fans.

Paula enjoys Fleetwood Mac, Miranda Lambert, Neil Diamond and a touch of classical.

Lee likes Brandy Carlisle, Iva Davies, Icehouse, classical and music of the 1980s.

Paula, Lee, Julian and Simon wrote four tracks on the album and co-wrote the remainder with other songwriters, produced by Paul Shatto and David Wills.

Musically, the album is a masterpiece with well-crafted songs interwoven with clever lyrics and superb production.

Highlights include Serves You Right, Wrong, Me & You, Sweet Goodbye, Dream West and Bye Bye Baby. The album provides an uplifting take on life and some incredibly catchy, appealing songs.

*** THE AFL cops $1.25 billion for the television rights and, as they tell us, it will be good for football and “good for the fans”. First they have to give themselves big bonuses, then the players will want more money as will all the clubs and executives.

All games live to air and, whacko, all games accessed on a mobile phone.

Will it cost us more? No, says Foxtel, if you can afford Foxtel.

The television stations will not pay more without a plan to make more; ditto Telstra. Lavish lunches will become more lavish, and so it goes.

AFL, Foxtel and Telstra the big winners and us the likely losers, eventually. From our pockets to theirs. A big con?

As for that “good for the fans” bit, where are these fans who support twilight Sunday games and the inclusion of two more teams and no Tassie team?

One day it may come to pass that the monolithic AFL resembles Humpty Dumpty.

PS: Andrew Demetriou and federal sports minister Mark Arbib (you remember Mark? He’s one of the twins

who stabbed Kevvy) have expressed concern about the level of gambling advertising. The AFL hired an “integrity officer” to combat internal match fixing. Almost as funny as that commercial I heard on the wireless: “Buy Australian. Buy Anxiety Aid today.

From health stores and pharmacies.”

Begone. *** WHEN I was a kid, around the time of Socrates, we were poor apparently. I say apparently as I was unaware of my social standing. No locks on the doors, very few clothes (we went to bed in a state of excitement when Mum bought us new pyjamas), lemonade on birthdays, self-management as in unabated roaming, no television to guide us to a state of envy, no cars to drive through Toorak, no Tattslotto to live in hope and no big deal. But, we ate well.

Beautiful meals and sumptuous puddings; the works.

And yet, a look around today and it’s not difficult to see the severe (at times) downgrading in the quality of meals.

Why? Obviously cigarettes are a cause – $120 a week and $300 for rent takes a mighty toll.

I can’t help wondering whether or

not the do-gooders who whack on extortionate cigarette taxes realise how kids are suffering at the dinner table.

Stop smoking and save to buy a house, they reply.

Well, they stuffed up the house purchase idea by looking after the rich.

And Kevvy was responsible for the last massive tax hike on cigarettes.

The government estimates smokingrelated illnesses cost $300 million a year and collects $5.8 billion a year in tax excise duty. Ben Chifley said, many moons ago, “Never separate the working man from his beer and cigarettes”. Beer? Look out! A Cancer Council analysis has now linked longterm drinking to a broad range of cancers. Let them whack a bigger tax on alcohol – for our own good? *** SOME females don’t like men and it’s easy enough to understand why, but why is it that some men don’t “like” females? Men regularly accept verbal aggression from one another but rarely can they accept it from females.

Some males assume they’re more intelligent; God knows why. Was my wife the boss or more intelligent than me? Secretly I may have harboured

with Gary Turner Paula and Lee said: “We are ambitious, want to be a worldwide act, have put in a lot of hard work and want to see our names up in lights.”

You don’t need a GPS to find Jetty Road: travel down any highway and Jetty Road is straight ahead. www.jettyroad.com GTs Top 10 country albums 1. Far Away Places – Jetty Road 2. Holding My Breath – Adam Toms 3. Vintage Reg – Reg Poole 4. Boots ‘N’ All – Chris Lee 3. Diesel Boy – Travis Sinclair 4. Middle of Blue – Nia Robertson 5. Woman of Substance – Nicki Gillis 6. 14 Funny Songs – Jim Haynes 7. Cattle Town – Dean Perrett 8. Bad Machines – Shane Nicholson 9. Straight to the Pool Room – Smokin’ Crawdads 10. Left of Center – Left of Center

A Grain of Salt I SAW a tiny bit of The Wedding before the footy. I was interested in The Kiss, missed it, but caught one of the trillion repeats. It was more a peck, or two. I fancied a passionate embrace followed by a you-know-what kiss.

I look forward to the glossy Women’s Weekly photos in the doctor’s waiting room during 2013.

Let’s hope Julia was uplifted by it all. After the next election, despite my vote (I’m anti-populist right-wing conservative, for now), marriage may be her best option.

Surely the Yanks (Bin Laden) could have waited another fortnight to give The Wedding (and the Logies) their time in the sun.

Laurie Oakes was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame. He’s a long way off being a favourite of mine (on a par with Shaun Micallef), but I bow to his excellent speech and congratulate him. It’s fair to add he’s a good journalist, unlike Micallef’s (and Shane Jacobson’s) supposed comedy. Not so Shane Bourne, who was classy.

Congrats to Asher Keddie and Richard Roxburgh for winning the real acting awards. The Logies were once again embarrassing, as were most of the presenters.

with Cliff Ellen

the thought that I was more relaxed emotionally than Darling and a better driver, but in the interests of harmony (and fear), I rarely voiced this thought.

Two questions I always refrained from asking: “Who was on the phone?” and “When will you be back?”

On the other hand I secretly enjoyed Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady singing “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”. I’m told that some of them are, in a particular street in St Kilda.

“We’re after the same rainbow’s end, waiting ’round the bend, my huckleberry friend, moon river and me.” A little chaos is good for the soul.

I met a very nice lady recently. Barracked for Carlton and voted Liberal.

Here endeth the conversation.

Bye for now. cliffie9@bigpond.com

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Warriors switch on against Power THE mighty Westernport Warriors were faced with one of the hardest tasks in RecLink football when they lined up against reigning A Grade champs the Wynbay Power at Werribee on Wednesday.

On an extremely cold and wet morning the Warriors boarded our Driver Coastal coach and headed to Melbourne’s west expecting to play in the bleakest of conditions.

By the time the team had arrived at Soldiers Reserve, the weather was perfect and the mighty Warriors were primed to take on the competition’s best.

The Power had got wind of the Warriors’ newest sensation, big “Pepsi” Max Sanderson and a lot of their pre-match talk centred around how they were going to combat the huge man.

Little did they know that it was going to be another forward at the other end of the size scale, tiny Matthew “Spaghetti” Caruana (or “Libba” to his friends) who was going to cause them the greatest grief.

With our much-loved assistant coach Peter “Barrass” Thompson still in rehab, the pressure was on coach Barton to really dig deep into his bag of tricks to pull off a coaching miracle in energising the Warriors to victory over the switched

on Power unit.

Kicking with the aid of the breeze in the first quarter, the Warriors were ready for battle and had been stunned into action by coach Barton’s scintillating pre-match address.

The Power appeared to be thinking of past glories and the Warriors pounced, slamming on four unanswered goals in the first term.

“Jumping” Joey Robb and Joel “Home” Brand were killing them through the middle and Jake “The Walking Dutchman” Van De Nesse was proving a real handful for the Power defence.

Our own defence stood up in the second term with Nathan “Flippa” Phillips rebounding well off half-back with great support from Chris “Posters” Helweg and the shiny headed Danny “Ashley’n” Martin.

At the main break it was the mighty Warriors 5.3-33 to the stunned Power 1.1-7.

The Warriors were slow out of the blocks in the third term but were suddenly ignited by Chris “Head” Bastin who was to go on and play what the umpires described as the greatest game of football played by an individual in RecLink history.

Strangely distinguishable by the blue Miller shirt he was

wearing under his Warriors guernsey, Head was Judd-like in his ability to win the football.

Well supported by James “Crown” Cascini, the Warriors banged on four goals in the third to have the game in their keeping at the final change.

Urged by coach Barton to finish the game off, the Warriors were ablaze in the final term with Libba performing party tricks up forward to finish with four goals in a magical display.

The Warriors ran out 54-point victors 13.3-81 to the Power 3.9-27 and full credit must go to coach Barton for having the Warriors in such fantastic nick at this stage of the season.

Our next game is at Crib Point on Wednesday when we take on the Eastern Eagles with kick-off at 1pm.

It may be premature but there are some whispers floating around from long-time Warrior supporters that with our current list under the guidance of coach Barton, 2011 could see the Warriors perched on top of the ladder come season’s end.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here and just take it two weeks at a time with our focus set firmly on the Eagles who will be out to claim a big scalp in the next round.

Go the Warriors!

Sporting a smile is a dead giveaway

JUST when you think you have seen it all, up pops this photo.

Fanatics of Colombian soccer side Cucuta Deportiva managed to sneak a coffin carrying the body of a teenager, Cristopher Jacome, into the game against Envigado allowing him to be “on hand” for the team’s equalising goal.

The 17-year-old was shot dead playing the game he loved in a local paddock – reportedly by hired assassins. (Shades of

his fellow countryman Andres Escobar who we told you about in a recent edition of The News). The next day, after the wake for their fallen brother and fellow Cucuta Deportivo supporter, members of the “Barra del Indio” fan group broke into the funeral home, stole the body, which was paraded through the streets, and then slipped it into the match of the day at the 45,000-capacity General Santander Stadium in

Cucuta. The game against Envigado finished in a 1-1 draw.

Not surprisingly, the event has generated some interest in Cucuta. In something of an understatement, Deportivo doctor Julio Rivera stated: “This is the only part of the world where this has happened.”

At the same time police and stadium officials were asking a few questions about how an occupied coffin got past security.

Down memory lane DURING the early 1900s, as most of the players at Hastings Football Club were fishermen and lived on their boats all week, regular training was impossible. However nearly every boat had a football on board and groups would train sometimes on French Island, sometimes on Churchill Island, or anywhere there was a clear space to kick the ball and have a run.

On calm days they would kick the ball from boat to boat.

These men were hard and fit with swimming being part of their daily life. Hastings for years held an annual regatta and water sports meeting on Boxing Day each year and these chaps thought nothing of a swim from the pier to Sandstone Island and back before breakfast.

They worked in the mud and water all week in wet clothes, winter and summer, and greatly enjoyed their football on a Saturday afternoon.

These were the men who won 11 premierships in 12 years and were so tough that the name Hastings struck fear into a lot of opposition players. I have been told by old players from other clubs that they had to hold onto some of their teammates when coming in the gate at Hastings to stop them from jumping out of the cart and going home.

Lou Connell, a former Mornington player and a pretty tough man himself, told me a few years ago that Hastings was the one team that he didn’t like playing against. As he put it: “You knew you were going to get flattened but they weren’t content with that. Once they got you in the mud, they ran all over you.”

Most of this “fire” has vanished from the Hast-

ings club now, be it for better or worse. A lot of it was still in the teams when I first joined the club in the early 1930s but has gradually disappeared. Our supporters, too, have become more refined. Helen “Sis” de la Haye now leaves her umbrella at home and one of our women life members, Mrs Liz Lothian, no longer chases opposition players with a “sapling”!

From Blue Power 1977, No. 5.

Written by the late Norm Francis.

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SPORTS DESK

The sprint clash of the century is on the cards Reporting from Singapore PREPARE yourself for a mighty clash if we get the much-talked about meeting of the world’s two best sprinters in the $1 million Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington this spring.

And prepare yourself for the prospect that “our girl”, Black Caviar (13 wins from 13 starts) might meet her match.

Anyone who saw Rocket Man’s sensational win in the $S1 million Group 1 KrisFlyer International Sprint (1200m) at Kranji in Singapore on 22 May can vouch for this. She will have to be at the top of her game to win.

The ease of Rocket Man’s victory showed Singapore-based Patrick Shaw was justified in saying about Australia’s five-time Group 1 winner Black Caviar: “We’re happy to take her on. I’ve seen her and she is a great mare, but Rocket Man is better than she is.”

International handicappers rate Black Caviar the world’s best sprinter (and the world’s best horse for the sixth months from October to March), but she has met only local opponents in Australia and there is no question that Rocket Man is the best international sprinter – he has won his past two Global Sprint Challenge sprints (the 1200m Golden Shaheen on the Tapeta track at Meydan in Dubai, and the KrisFlyer on turf) and has finished

Up with the stars: Rocket Man wins the KrisFlyer International Sprint at Kranji in Singapore on 22 May. Picture: Ron McKnight

second in his four other international Group 1 attempts, and with luck could have won them all. As it is, his record is a brilliant 16 wins from 20 starts.

Shaw said he is keen to come and he will inspect the Werribee quarantine facility at Racing Victoria’s invitation, but a decision won’t be made for some time – after the July Cup at Newmarket England and/or a spell. Rocket Man’s connections have the choice of Japan, Melbourne or Hong Kong.

The Victoria Racing Club has arranged a $600,000 sweetener on top of any prizemoney he may win if Rocket Man comes to Flemington for the $1 million sprint.

It would be a wonderful boost to the spring carnival if connections take up the challenge to provide a match for the Peter Moody-trained Black

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Caviar, who thrilled race fans in Melbourne (wins in the Lightning, the Newmarket and the William Reid), Sydney (a win in the T J Smith) and Brisbane (yes, another win in the BTC Cup) before going to the paddock.

Rocket Man ($6 favourite for a $5 unit, or 1/5 in old terms) won the KrisFlyer by almost five lengths from Eclair Fastpass and Perfect Pins, also Singapore-trained.

He jumped well, raced three wide as others booted up under him, settled third, went to the front on the turn and made the race a one-act affair in the straight. Two former KrisFlyer winners, Hong Kong’s Sacred Kingdom and Green Birdie, finished sixth and seventh.

Melbourne jockey Steven Arnold, who finished eighth on Capablanca,

Pies dodge a bullet but now face rampant Eagles Round 10 preview Friday 27 May Melbourne v Carlton, MCG 7.40pm From what was a promising start to the season for the Demons, it’s all gone downhill after losing to the Saints. Melbourne really isn’t coping with the loss of Mark Jamar, and Stefan Martin, despite how good he’s going to be, just isn’t enough now to swing games for Melbourne. The Blues last week showed they can match it with the best, after they deserved to win against the Cats. If Melbourne don’t start winning games soon, it could be the end for Dean Bailey. Carlton by 54 points.

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said: “Rocket Man was in a league of his own.”

Rocket Man’s jockey, South African Felix Coetzee, said: “These champions help you, they tell you what to do.

I’m just the guy who sits on top.”

The win was a South African bonanza for Shaw, Coetzee, who was the great Silent Witness’ partner in Hong Kong when he won 17 races straight, and Rocket Man’s owner, Johannesburg-based businessman Fred Crabbia.

For most on course at Kranji, the win overshadowed the major Group 1 at the meeting, the $S3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup (2000m), also a South African bonanza and also a race of huge significance for Victoria this spring with the winner, Gitano Hernando, a probable run-

ner in the Melbourne Cup. Gitano Hernando is trained by South African Herman Brown and was ridden by Sydney-based South African jockey Glyn Schofield.

The pair combined to finish third behind Shocking in the 2009 Melbourne Cup with Mourilyan, owned by controversial Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, who bought Gitano Hernando recently.

In Singapore, Gitano Hernando ($73, or almost 14/1) beat another South African, the mare River Jetez, with Hong Kong’s Irian (Darren Beadman) dead-heating for third with Singapore’s Waikato.

Brown said the Melbourne Cup was an option for the winner, but his father, Herman Brown Snr, a former champion trainer who was representing Kadyrov at the meeting, said Australia’s greatest race was firmly on the agenda.

Schofield was to have ridden Gitano Hernando when he was unplaced in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong earlier in the month, but broke his collarbone in a fall in the Sydney Cup the week before and Damien Oliver filled in.

Grateful that Brown put him back on, Schofield said: “He travelled really sweetly and then he showed a lovely turn of foot when I asked him. I knew my horse was tiring but he was brave all the way to the finish.”

Brown said he thought the 2000 metres would have been a bit short for him. Sounds like a Melbourne Cup horse.

against Port Adelaide. Nathan Fyfe would have to be the most improved player this year. The Saints as well got a much-needed win, beating a poor Demons side. It was good to see Brendon Goddard play some good footy; same goes for Nick Riewoldt. This will be a good test for St Kilda considering they’ve won their last six against Fremantle. Fremantle by 25 points.

Gold Coast v Geelong, Metricon Stadium 7.10pm This is a game the AFL has been looking forward to all year. Gary Ablett will face his old side in the inaugural match at Metricon Stadium (formerly Carrara). The Cats have beaten all challengers and even though they looked flat last week, should be far too experienced for the Suns. The Suns will be refreshed after the bye but that hasn’t done teams any favours this year. Joel Selwood has been unstoppable since returning from concussion and has a knack for earning free kicks. Geelong by 54 points.

Saturday 28 May North Melbourne v Sydney, Etihad Stadium 2.10pm After a loss to the Lions, the pressure is mounting on Brad Scott and his boys. Last weekend was a huge blow for a young team.

Sydney suffered a disappointing loss to Hawthorn at home, letting Buddy Franklin kick six. Ben McGlynn got himself back into form kicking three and is looking like the player of earlier in the season. Sydney should be too classy for North Melbourne, especially in the ruck with Mumford v Goldstein. Sydney by 31 points.

Richmond v Port Adelaide, TIO Stadium 8.40pm In the first Darwin game of the season, these teams are yet to have a bye and will rely on their fitness to chase victory. The Tigers were outstanding last weekend against Essendon.

They were challenged all night and refused to give in. Trent Cotchin continues to show he will one day be a champion after winning best on ground. Port Adelaide is at the bottom of the ladder and will need to dig deep to be competitive this weekend. Richmond by 39 points

Fremantle v St Kilda, Patersons Stadium 3.10pm Finally the Dockers are back after a huge win

Sunday 29 May Adelaide v Brisbane, AAMI Stadium 1.10pm It’s been a while between drinks but Brisbane

finally won its first game; it wasn’t pretty but a win is a win. Adelaide surrendered a 23-point lead early in the last quarter to be thumped by 43 points by Collingwood. Scott Thompson was good but the Crows’ overall effort was poor. Now that Brisbane has some confidence who knows what could happen? You would think Adelaide could win but you never know.

Adelaide by 19 points.

Collingwood v West Coast, MCG 2.10pm Match of the round with both these sides playing amazing football last weekend. Collingwood took half of the game to get going but 11 goals straight in the last quarter to zoom past Adelaide was sublime. West Coast was more impressive, smashing the Dogs by 123 points with Josh Kennedy unstoppable with 10. Kennedy is the man to stop for the Pies; Chris Tarrant is his most likely opponent, although “Taz” succeeded in the forward line on the weekend. Ben Reid would also be a worthy opponent.

Collingwood by 20 points.

Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn, Etihad Stadium 4.40pm These are dark days for the Dogs after they suffered their worst-ever loss to West Coast (123 points). They were nowhere near the mark and the absence of Brian Lake is taking its toll.

Hawthorn was pretty solid on the weekend in beating the Swans on the road. The Hawks stayed with Sydney in the first half and then blew them away in the second. Lance Franklin was great kicking six. What can “Rocket” Eade do to save himself and his team? Hawthorn will be too dominant this weekend.

Hawthorn by 78 points.

WHAT’S ON Beleura Ladies Probus Club – Retired/Semi-retired why not join our happy group of ladies for Meetings, Outings Gallery visits and more? Meet 2nd Wednesday of the Month at 9.30am at St Mark’s Uniting Church Hall, Barkly Street , Mornington. New members most welcome. Details Contact Joy 5974 3162.

LADIES SOCIAL TENNIS is now available, at the hastings tennis club, 54 Marine Parade, Hastings, every monday and wednesday from 10am. Beginners welcome.

Please contact Vicki 59794920 for more information.

The Women’s Shed. meets Wednesdays from 9:45am till 11:30am. Mt Martha Uniting Church Hall. Bay Rd. Mt Martha.

“Time out group for women of all ages”. A supportive environment for women of all ages and backgrounds. Wednesday 1st June Guest Fitness Coach will be Keith Buttler, ‘’Exercise Routine”. Cost of morning $5.00 Includes morning tea. For Further information Please Call Merrilyn 59744072.

World Environment Day, Sunday June 5th. The Sunshine Reserve and Fireguard Group in Mount Martha will be having their working bee from 9.30am to 12.30. Come and learn skills and make a difference to our environment.

Meet at the Alexandrina St. fire access track, with long pants and sleeves, hat and sturdy boots. All welcome, morning tea supplied.

Details, Gill 5974 1288

The Peninsula Bushwalking Club meeting will be held at 8pm Tuesday 7th June, in the Mt. Martha Community House, The Esplanade, Mt Martha. New walkers are welcome.

Arthritis Self-help Group meet the last Tuesday of the month in the Baptist Church Hall, Boneo Road, Rosebud, at 1:30pm.New members welcome. Contact Lorna 59822678.

MORNINGTON TOY LIBRARY The Mornington Toy Library is open on Wednesdays between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm, Saturdays between 9.30 am and 11.30 am and Monday afternoons between 1pm and 3pm.

Occasional borrowing and party pack are also available.

Enquiries: 5975 1847

Mahjong Club plays at Mornington R.S.L. (Virginia Street) on Fridays.

12:30 - 4:00pm. Experienced players made very welcome. Cost is $3.50. Tea & coffee provided.

Contact Lucy - 5981 0801.

Western Port Equestrian Association Inc, for equestrian families, holds rallies on the 3rd Sunday and 2nd Wednesday of every month at Woolley’s Road Equestrian Reserve, Woolley’s Road, Crib Point. New members most welcome. Enquiries 0408 173 486

Over 50’s American Clogging New beginner classes learning Clogging, cross between Country Tap Dancing, Irish Dancing and American Folk Dancing. No dance experience or partner needed.

Contact: Mornington Cloggers Lee : 59776985 04129777898

Cancer Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month. All welcome. Community Health. 185 High Street, Hastings, or ring 0419 020 543.

Mornington Peninsula Family History Society will meet on Saturday 4th June at 1.30pm in the Frankston South Recreation Centre, Towerhill Road Frankston Mel ref 102 D7.Subject “Researching Irish Family History”.

Members $3.00 Visitors $5.00 Details ph 9785 6814 or www. mpfhs.org

The Great Three Legged Chair Op Shop HALF PRICE SALE is back. Everything half price. Furniture, electrical goods, homewares, toys, brick-a-brac, pictures.

Large selection of brand new Japanese crockery from 50c per piece.

Books $1 per kilo. All proceeds to Community Caring Inc. 19-27 May. 18 Progress Street, Mornington. Monday-Friday 10am to 4pm.

Phone: 5973 5522.

Aglow Somerville is holding it’s next meeting on Friday, 10th June at the Recreation and Community Centre, Edward St. Somerville.

Meeting starts at 7.30pm and includes an encouraging talk and great supper. Come with a friend.

Entry is $10. Contact Roslyn on 0488 998086.

Hastings View Club. Upcoming events. 17th June, Meeting & Lunch @ The Hastings CLUB. Guest, GIVONI Leisure Wear.

1st July, Lunch & Film @ Karingal.

3rd August, Mornington Market & Lunch @ The Grand Hotel.

15th July, Meeting & Lunch @ Hasting Club. Guest Speaker, Peter Bishop from McDonalds. For information or bookings for club meetings, ring Val on 03 5931 3726. Bookings for outings ring Bel on 5979 2817. New Members are made most welcome.

Bird outings for June start at 10am. June 8th at Shergolds Lane Dromana. June 19th at Troups Creek Hallam please call Max on 97890224 for details,good birding assured.

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Autumn Motoring Looking to get to 100km/h in under five seconds FORD Performance Vehicles has unleashed its fastest and most powerful GT which it claims can storm from 0-100km/h in just 4.9 seconds.

The 335kW GT, with more power and torque than the 6.2-litre V8 GTS from rival Holden Special Vehicles, tops the new supercharged range from the tuning arm of Ford Australia.

It has also introduced the entry level GS as a permanent member of the line-up.

FPV says it expects the arrival of the strong new engine to more than double sales of its V8 models from just 766 last year to more than 2000 a year.

An all-new Boss V8, developed by Ford’s FPV partner Prodrive for a total investment of $35 million, is the centre piece of the new models and provides 335kW in the GT. FPV will pass on some of that investment cost to customers, with prices rising by between $2040 and $3400 across the V8 range.

The new GS Ute kicks off the line-up at $51,990, while the sedan version costs $56,990.

Stepping up to the GT sedan means a $71,290 pricetag (manual and auto), the luxury GT-P is $80,990 (manual and auto) and the more discreet auto-only GT-E is now $81,450.

The Super Pursuit Ute, which ran the same engine as the GT, has been dropped from the line-up.

FPV general manager Rod Barrett defended the price rises when discussing the GT’s new price tag.

“What we are giving you is a six per cent increase in power and a four per cent increase in price, and we think that is a pretty good equation,” Barrett said.

Most of the work for the new FPV V8 range has gone into the development of the V8 engine, codenamed Miami, but there are new-look wheels, a fresh stripe kit reminiscent of the 1970 Boss Mustang and FPV badges for the key fob and steering wheel, replacing the Ford blue oval.

Prodrive Asia Pacific managing director Bryan Mears is unapologetic about the minimal visual difference between

this model and the last, saying that FPV owners were less interested in “bells, whistles and flashing lights” than improved performance.

“We’ve done what we can visually, but $35 million is a lot to spend and most of the money has gone on the engine,” he said.

The engine is available in two kinds. For the GS sedan and Ute, it produces 315kW at 5750rpm and 545Nm of torque from 2000rpm to 5500rpm.

Transmend Panels

More boost pressure means the GT version generates 335kW at 6000rpm and 570Nm from 2200rpm to 5500rpm.

The more potent of the two engines delivers so much torque that engineers struggled to get the ute to put it to the road. Consequently, FPV decided to offer only the 315kW engine in the GS Ute. Fuel consumption has also been improved by four per cent, running from 13.6 litres per 100km through to 14.2L/100km, depending on the model.

Like the 5.4-litre Boss it replaces, the new 5.0-litre engine is assembled at FPV’s Campbellfield headquarters from local and imported ingredients.

It uses many components from the new Ford Mustang Coyote V8, including the allalloy block that delivers a huge weight advantage of the old engine’s cast iron block, and its four-valve heads.

While Ford Racing in the US sells a supercharged version of the 5.0-litre Coyote, which is a basic bolt-on system, FPV has re-engineered several key parts of the engine to ensure optimum performance, economy and durability.

These include unique conrods, pistons and pins, a custom alloy winged oil pan, high flow metal matrix catalysts, special

camshafts and a massive air intake system with a funnel that takes up a fair chunk of the engine bay.

The supercharger uses the latest generation Eaton TVS components (as used by Audi and Jaguar) fitted in a custom housing produced by Preston (Melbourne) performance engineering outfit Harrop.

It pumps 1.9 litres of air per revolution using a new four lobe system that has been designed for greater thermal efficiency, preventing the air from warming up and spoiling the effect of the supercharging.

The maximum boost pressure varies, but FPV says runs as little as 6psi. It is pleased to point out it has plenty of room to increase the boost when it looks for more performance in the future.

There is also a bypass valve which means the supercharger is using as little fuel as possible when its assistance is not required.

FPV was stung by criticism of the previous V8 engine which was deemed too quiet by many of its owners. It has introduced a new electronically controlled active exhaust system that opens valves in response to certain throttle applications to increase the sound quality.

This also helps counter the

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supercharger whine, which was an issue during the development process. Engineers were ordered to allow the supercharger whine to be heard, but not too much.

“You know it is a supercharger, but it can’t be intrusive and has to be acceptable to the public,” Mr Barrett said.

The smaller, light lighter alloy block contributed to a 33kg weight saving across new FPV models, most it saved over the nose for improved steering turn-in.

None of the FPVs are lightweight though, with the GT manual tipping the scales at a considerable 1855kg.

Transmission options for the new models include a revised six-speed Tremec manual and an upgraded six-speed ZF automatic transmission. The automatic is available as a no cost option on all models except the GT-E, on which it is standard.

The entry-level GS is based on the XR8 (which is currently out of production) with a premium centre display and FPV instrument cluster and special black seat trim. It runs 18-inch five-spoke alloy wheels, and is available in 11 colours (10 for the Ute).

The stripes available in three colours, and are mandatory on the GS. GT models come with a unique front and rear bumper and grille, differentiating them from the Ford XR and GS models.

They ride on 19-inch alloys wheels (in different styles depending on the model) and are available in 11 colours, while three stripe kits are available – and optional.

FPV continues to offer turbocharged six-cylinder models including the F6 and F6E sedan and F6 Ute which produce 310kW and 565Nm. These models were recently upgraded to pass the mid-year Euro 4 emissions standard, but otherwise remain unchanged.

Autumn Motoring

XV Concept defines crossover future Got a few million spare?

SUBARU has unveiled its new XV Concept crossover car.

The bold, fashionable, funthemed design is a progression of Subaruâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-running sports utility vehicle success story.

Underpinned by a horizontally opposed boxer engine and symmetrical all-wheel drive, the XV Concept is a solid yet stylish package.

It features Subaruâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new hexagonal grille design with winged motif and hawk-eye headlights.

The black lower bumper and wheel arch protection, com-

bined with the carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s metallic highlights, underline its crossover status.

The distinctive five-spoke alloy wheel design features silver spokes, black rims and clear blue centre caps, complementing the carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strength and road presence.

The XV concept roof features a continuous glass sheet, while metallic and clear-finish roof rails are another positive visual cue.

A light interior leather treatment contrasts with the darker tones of other cabin features.

A large touch panel multi-

function display in the centre panel enables easy navigation and audio control while displaying vehicle information.

Nick Senior, managing director of Subaru Australia, said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;XV Concept clearly flags Subaruâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions to capture even more of the crossover market in the future and this stunning new design no doubt provides some clues as to what we may expect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sub-compact SUVs are a growing opportunity and XV Concept is the type of vehicle that will attract even more customers.â&#x20AC;?

HAD a model been especially popular or highly successful in races, Ettore Bugattiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customers often pushed the master to tease out of the engine a few horsepower more for their future car.

Bugatti Automobiles had been in a similar situation when their existing customers asked the company to not only design their second model optically differently but also to create a version with a sportier and more extreme driving experience. The result is a car with a uniquely high performance of 882 kW (1200 bhp) offering experienced drivers a whole new dimension of excitement, with a a limited top speed of 415 km/h (to protect the tyres).

The Super Sport offers a stunning set of specifications, such as the twin clutch gearbox with seven speeds, the extraordinarily precise driving performance

in bends and excellent stability when braking and accelerating.

Continuous work in extreme performance ranges lead to constantly new conclusions, which enabled the engineers at Bugatti to develop the Veyron into a direction in which the driver can reach new dimensions.

Every modification is designed to produce an even more powerful car for an agile ride.

Four enlarged turbochargers and bigger intercoolers have been used to boost the power of the 16-cylinder engine, and the chassis has been extensively redesigned to maintain safety at extreme speed. Thanks to slightly raised main-springrate, stronger stiffer anti-rollbars, and new shock absorbers with a complex architecture originally developed for racing cars. This gives noticeably more precise control of the

wheels and the car as a whole.

With lateral acceleration of up to 1.4G and improved interaction between the tyres and the intelligent all-wheel drive system, the Super Sport offers perfect handling and even more powerful acceleration of 1.500 Newton metres on corner exits.

The body has been fine-tuned to improve aerodynamic efficiency, while the new fibre structure of the all-carbon monocoque ensures maximum torsion rigidity and passive safety â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at reduced weight. The skin is made entirely of carbonfibre composites, and the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is available in 100 per cent clear-lacquered exposed carbon on request.

As for the price to drive away in a piece of machinery like this? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cost anything to dream.

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