Equality key to reducing violence
TWO of the most insidious, yet often hidden, scourges of modern Australian society are linked. One, gender inequality between men and women, is recognised as a key driver of male violence in the home...
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Hotel and conferences planned for Flinders
THE Flinders Cove Motor Inn at Flinders may be demolished to make way for a residential hotel, conference centre and restaurant. Retirement village pioneer Zig Inge is behind the planned $14.5 millio...
Shire online for gas ‘explanation’
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire will go online next month to explain its position regarding AGL’s proposed floating gas terminal at Crib Point. Although the shire does not have any power to approve or rej...
Legal help for keeping roofs over heads
PENINSULA Community Legal Centre has been working to address urgent housing and homelessness challenges during the COVID-19 lockdown. CEO Jackie Galloway said Homelessness Week (2-8 August) highlight...
Reprieve for Centrelink
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Council has welcomed the six-month extension given to the operation of the Mornington Centrelink office, but wants the arrangement to be permanent. The mayor Cr Sam Hearn s...
Motorcyclist killed in Mount Martha crash
A man has died and a woman has life-threatening injuries after two motorbikes crashed in Mount Martha this afternoon. The male rider was travelling in convoy with a second motorcycle along The Esplan...
Showing ‘respect’ by changing names
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors have “an opportunity to pay respect” to First Nations people by dropping the name Blacks Camp from a reserve and kindergarten at Somerville. An archaeological i...
Wrong turn on narrow roads
A MORNINGTON man is questioning the logic of having a primary school’s pick up and drop off areas blocking the town’s main arterial road between Moorooduc Highway and Peninsula Link. Ken McBride, a C...
Rocks off, so ‘no Portsea beach for summer’
ROCKS regarded as a vital to bringing sand back to Portsea’s badly eroded front beach have been removed. Their removal by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) will ensure t...
Yawa tops public pool poll
AFTER treading water for months, Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors are expected to choose Yawa as the name of the $50 million aquatic centre being built at Rosebud. The Indigenous name meaning “...
