Category Archives: COVID-19

Hands-off way needed to win votes

March 15, 2020
OLD habits die hard, but kissing babies and shaking hands may become a lost art for politicians. The advent of COVID-19 is seeing a rewriting of the rules when it comes to greetings. Bodily contact i...

‘Corruption’ hearings closed

March 15, 2020
PUBLIC hearings being undertaken by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) into allegations of serious corrupt conduct concerning planning decisions at Casey Council, will be c...

RPPFM to suspend regular broadcasting due to virus

March 15, 2020
Mornington Peninsula based community broadcaster, RPPFM, have announced they will suspend regular broadcasting from 9am tomorrow (Monday 16 March) in response to Coronavirus. “With the escalati...

Centrelink rally cancelled

March 15, 2020
Organisers have called off next Wednesday’s rally to stop the closure of the Mornington Centrelink and Medibank offices because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The rally was scheduled to be held outside th...

COVID-19 – A message from our publisher

March 14, 2020
To all our readers, I’d like to assure you Mornington Peninsula News Group is dedicated to keeping readers informed during the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. We will continue to publi...

Shire helps with essential deliveries

March 10, 2020
SHOPS will be allowed to accept overnight deliveries of essential items as Mornington Peninsula Shire ramps up efforts to tackle the effects of the coronavirus. CEO John Baker said the shire was dete...