Three’s a crowd when crews come ashore
INTERACTION between crews aboard overseas ships using the Port of Hastings and onshore workers are being kept to a minimum, but there is no physical barrier to crews coming ashore. The Victorian Regi...
Category Archives: COVID-19
CEO powered up for emergency
Mornington Peninsula Shire CEO John Baker will be given emergency powers to make decisions normally made only by elected councillors. A special meeting on council (Tuesday 7 April) is expected to agr...
Mornington Peninsula COVID-19 Update – 5 April 2020
Residents are using the isolation time to clean up around the house, and then going for tip runs in violation of the rules for Stage 3 restrictions. Police receptions counters close until further not...
‘Non-essential’ tip use under fire
A RESIDENT has complained that Mornington Peninsula Shire’s transfer stations are “going flat strap catering to hordes of customers who are treating tips like there is no coronavirus”. The man, who a...
Police close doors
RECEPTION counters at all police stations on the Mornington Peninsula are closed until further notice because of the COVID-19 crisis. Stations are at Mornington, Rosebud, Dromana, Sorrento and Hastin...
One more peninsula case, as curve starts to flatten
Coronavirus cases in Victoria are 1135 today – an increase of just 20 from yesterday. It is an encouraging sign that the efforts of Victorians to “flatten the curve” are working. The Morn...
Beaches not so closed after all
NEW, simpler, rules have been introduced for what can and can’t be done on Mornington Peninsula Shire-managed beaches. The simplification followed discussions last week to ease “public confusion and ...
Mornington Peninsula COVID-19 Update – 4 April 2020
The peninsula’s beaches were closed until further notice last week, but now they are a little less closed. Peninsula cases rise by one to 52. Key facts from today’s Victorian COVID...
Peninsula cases at 52, one up from yesterday
Coronavirus cases in Victoria are 1115 today – an increase of 30 from yesterday. The Mornington Peninsula’s figures rose by one since yesterday to 52. Nearby, the City of Frankston have 33 confirmed ...
Mornington Peninsula COVID-19 Update – 31 March 2020
The Mornington Peninsula Shire have committed to a “support package for local business” a week after the Committee for Mornington Peninsula began lobbying the shire on behalf of businesses hit by th...
