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THE future of the estimated $25 mil-lion Victorian Maritime Centre at Hastings now rests on harnessing people power.

A petition calling for government sup-port and a public meeting planned for either February or March are both are seen as crucial to enlisting widespread

support from the community, particu-larly in its hometown of Hastings.

However, the two vessels at the heart of the project the 2030 tonne subma-rine Otama and former Port Phillip Sea Pilots ship Wyuna - languish at anchor, both unable to fi nd a permanent berth.

The Otama has been at Crib Point for 12 years and needs $50,000 spent on its moorings by May while the Wyuna is at Bell Bay, Tasmania, after Mel-

bourne City Council said it was unable to provide a berth at Docklands.

The Western Port Oberon Associa-tion which plans to use both vessels as the main drawcards and income gen-erators of maritime centre is running low on funds after spending money in the erroneous belief that it would re-ceive $1 million from the state govern-ment, no matter which party won the November 2015 election. The money

was promised by Liberal Hastings MP Neale Burgess but, unfortunately for the Otama association, his commit-ment was not part of the Labor Party platform. Mr Burgess was re-elected but his party was not.

Federal MP for Flinders Greg Hunt remains a staunch supporter of the maritime centre and this year acknowl-edged the dedication of some of the associations members by presenting

them with his own Flinders Awards.Meanwhile the associations two

vessels remain tied up by bureaucractic and fi nancial problems.

The Otama was in trouble from the start of its arrival in late April 2003 when the associations plans to bring it ashore at Hastings were not supported by government departments which controlled the foreshore.

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THE Baxter woman pinned against a wall by her car at the Grant Rd storage facility early last week was in a stable condition yesterday, Monday.

The 59-year-old staff member was airlifted to The Alfred hospital with se-rious injuries after being stuck for fi ve hours outside the Somerville business.

Police and emergency services crews stabilised the woman on Monday 4 January before the car could be moved.

The offi cers then had diffi culty evacuating the woman to hospital as locked bollards blocked their way onto Fruitgrowers Reserve where the air ambulance was waiting.

A Mornington Peninsula Shire offi cer arrived with the wrong key and the am-bulance offi cers lifted the woman over the fence on a stretcher and walked to the chopper.

The shire has always worked closely with the emergency services to provide vehicle access to ambulance helicopter landing sites when requests have been made, shire infrastructure maintenance manager Niall Mcdonagh said.

In this case we have not been made aware of any diffi culties experienced by the ambulance service.

It is understood that Somerville CFA has not been given a key by the shire.

Locked out: Paramedics were forced to carry an injured Baxter woman to a waiting air ambulance because no keys were available to open gates for them to drive a vehicle onto the Fruitgrowers Reserve, Somerville. Picture: Gary Sissons

Locked access delays airlift for seriously injured woman

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Police pounce on takeaway driversFAST food was the common denomi-nator in the charging of two Western Port drink-drivers last week.

A Baxter woman will be charged after being found in Somerville with a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit.

Hastings police spotted the woman in a fast food drive through on Era-mosa Rd, 1am, Monday.

The 33-year-old was breath tested and returned a reading of 0.202 per cent. She will be charged on sum-mons.

Senior Sergeant Michael Lamb said the intercept was potentially a lucky escape for both the woman and the community. With a blood alcohol level this high, we are simply lucky that our road toll is not higher this morning, he said.

Fortunately for everybody con-cerned and the community as a whole, diligent and observant policing pre-vented a potential fatality occurring last night.

In another incident, a Crib Point man got minimum chips after his car was impounded, Thursday.

Police had responded to a report of a vehicle swerving all over the road just before 9.30pm. It was intercepted on Stony Point Rd and the driver, who had just picked up some take-away fi sh and chips, was breath tested and returned a positive reading. He was taken to the police station for an evi-dentiary breath test and his reading was 0.222.

The 41 year old, who is also unli-censed, had his car impounded for 28 days. He will be charged on summons with drink driving related offences.

FIREFIGHTERS in the Main Ridge-Red Hill area are alarmed that the succession of fi res starting under pow-erlines will continue through the next several months, into the drier high-risk fi re period.

The big fear of some is that the next fi re in the sequence of the eight or so blazes in the area so far blamed on faulty bundled cabling currently now being replaced will occur in dense bush and not be noticed until it has be-come a serious menace.

I cant sleep on these windy nights, when conditions are right to set off the fi res, one veteran said. So far they have been brought under control quickly. But its just been a matter of luck.

How long will our luck last? When will a fi re start at night in a remote area and really get going before its spotted?

Faulty insulation has been blamed for the fi res, which appear to occur when heat from the cables causes the aerial bundled cable (ABC) lines liter-ally to explode, dumping hot material on the ground and starting the fi res.

The fi re-fi ghting volunteer, who did not want to be named, said United Energy, responsible for Victorias electricity poles and wires, had not re-

sponded to fi reys questions about the outbreaks. Volunteers are now keeping records of these fi res in case evidence is required for any subsequent inquiry.

The volunteer said no fi res had oc-curred under the old style single strand wiring. Its only the bundled stuff, it seems, he said. Lots of blokes in the crews replacing it are pretty browned off we believe the insulation changes colour from black to grey when its ex-posed to sunlight.

United Energy contractors have been seen using what they have told fi reys is a heat-detecting device to examine possibly faulty lines, he said. But this is a 10-year program and its barely under way.

Main Creek residents wrote to Unit-ed Energy last November about the fi res, demanding that the company maintain and preserve all records in relation to the acquisition and pur-chase of [the apparently faulty power lines], and in respect of any fi res that might occur as a result of the failure of such power lines.

As previously reported (No quick fi x for power grid, The News 15/12/15) many of the cables are es-timated to be up to 30 years old. It is believed only a fraction of the work will be done by the end of this bushfi re season with the remainder being done on a priority basis by 2020.

Faulty power lines fuelingfear of fireDavid Harrisondavid@mpnews.com.au

CRIB Point and Hastings CFA crews yesterday battled a grass and scrub fi re off The Esplanade between Disney and Lorimer streets.

Police were called to investigate the cause of the blaze.Duty offi cer Andrew Turner said 15 appliances and up to 50 fi refi ghters on the

scene were awaiting the arrival of a water-bombing aircraft at about 3.30pm. However, with a cooler wind change and light rain the fi re was classed as safe at 4pm.

Firefi ghters said it was lucky the wind did not pick up at the start of the blaze.

Fire alert at Crib Point

A ROAD is being built to provide a sealed alternative access to Woolleys Reserve, Crib Point.

Mills Av at the rear of the reserve will provide an extra access in emer-gencies and lesson the risk to the com-munity, Cr David Garnock said.

Construction of the fi ve metre wide

250 metre long road is part of the 2013 Woolleys Road Bushland Reserve long term master plan.

The reserve has a management com-mittee and is home to Western Port Equestrian Association, Balnarring Pony Club and Riding for the Disa-bled.

Improved emergency access to reserve

PAGE 4 Western Port News 12 January 2016

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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Membership of the Mornington Peninsula Arts and Culture Advisory Panel

Expressions of Interest (EOI) are sought from the Mornington Peninsula Shire for two new members of the Shires Arts and Culture Advisory Panel (ACAP). This group represents the local arts and culture sector and is integral to implementation of the Arts & Culture Strategy. Applicants will:

1. Have high level expertise/professional standing in the arts, culture or heritage sectors 2. Be conversant with the Shires Arts & Culture Strategy, its Objectives and Action Plan 3. Engage with at least one of the following - arts and cultural organisations, creative

practitioners and cultural industries, local history organisations and residents to understand relevant challenges and issues

4. Facilitate the development, implementation, review and reporting of Shire Arts & Cultural Policy and Strategies

5. Provide high level advice to Council on issues related to Shire plans and strategies and the development of its arts and cultural policies

6. Contribute to raising awareness of the value and benefits of the arts, culture and heritage through promotion of the Arts & Culture Strategy

7. Attend bi-monthly meetings 8. Currently reside or be employed on the Mornington Peninsula

EOI applicants must provide a brief response to the above, providing examples of professional and/or vocational experience. The term of office for external Panel members is for one year with an option to continue for a second year. For further information on the role of ACAP, a copy of the ACAP Terms of Reference or any queries regarding the EOI, please contact Jane Alexander, Arts & Culture Coordinator, Mornington Peninsula Shire, on 5975 4395 or via email: jane.alexander@mornpen.vic.gov.au. For a copy of the 2012 MPS Arts & Culture Strategy, please visit the Mornington Peninsula Shire website: http://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Whats_On/Arts_Culture/Arts_Culture_Strategy. Please address Expressions of Interest by Close of Business Friday 29th January to: Ms Jane Alexander Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery PO BOX 650, Mornington 3931 Or via email: jane.alexander@mornpen.vic.gov.au

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THE Mornington Peninsula branch of the Disabled Surfers Association is holding the fi rst of this years two surfi ng events at Point Leo on Satur-day (16 January).

Volunteers should be at the Point Leo lifesaving club well before the 11am start.

The event runs until 3pm and

includes a barbecue and awards ceremony.

Helpers and participants can call the Mornington Peninsula associa-tions president, Ash Gardner on 0417 362 983 or Stewart Lockie 0418 101 645. Details disabledsurfers.org/vic/morning-peninsula-branch

The branch is working towards

building a wheelchair accessible boardwalk overlooking Point Leo beach and trying to organise public access to its sand-friendly wheelchairs when they are not required for surfi ng events.

A second surf day will be held Saturday 5 March.

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A COUNCIL decision to close Rye tip appears to have been misconstrued by Mornington Peninsula Shire staff, demonstrated by the wording of a newspaper advertisement seeking ex-pressions of interest for disposing of shire waste from mid-2018.

Councillors resolved on 14 Sep-tember that the controversial landfi ll would stop taking waste after 30 June 2018. The advertisement, published on 28 October, stated that the shire was strongly considering closing the site.

The News has sought clarifi cation from shire offi cers but has yet to re-ceive a response.

To compound the confusion, coun-cillors overturned the September deci-sion at their last meeting for the year on 14 December, when dealing with seven expressions of interest from companies responding to the adver-tisement.

Councillors resolved to continue re-ceiving waste at Rye tip until a viable alternative waste technology facil-ity was available. Such a solution has been shire policy for a decade or so.

Any facility, probably a high tem-perature incinerator as used widely overseas, is not likely to be available

for decades and, at a possible cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, would almost certainly be a state government matter.

The December resolution also over-turned the intent of the earlier deci-sion, which was to take waste off the peninsula primarily to cut the shires carbon footprint by nearly 50 per cent.

The meeting resolved instead to in-vestigate dumping waste at Tyabb.

The December resolution thus eerily anticipated what councillors decided nearly 50 days after the shire advert was published.

The reversal occurred because of voting numbers in the chamber. Cr Tim Wood was ill and absent from the meeting and Cr Lynn Bowden de-clared a confl ict of interest and could not vote, meaning the previous deci-sion was overturned fi ve votes to four.

The motion, an alternative to the staff recommendation that the mat-ter proceed to tender was proposed by Cr David Gibb, veteran advocate for keeping peninsula rubbish on the peninsula, and seconded by Cr An-tonella Celi.

They were supported by Anne Shaw, Andrew Dixon and David Gar-nock. Opposed were Graham Pittock, Bev Colomb, Tim Rodgers and Hugh Fraser.

The decision will come back to

council on 27 January by way of a re-scission motion drafted by Cr Fraser.

Failure to reverse the Gibb-Celi mo-tion would be a massive setback for the shire policy of becoming carbon-neutral, with Rye tip responsible for such a signifi cant proportion of shire carbon emissions.

The reversal vote was not unprec-edented and is perfectly legal, even though it has affected a key shire en-vironment and climate change policy.

A similar vote occurred when sup-porters of the proposed Southern Pen-insula Aquatic Centre unexpectedly found themselves outnumbered by op-ponents of the foreshore site.

It marked the beginning of the end for the dreams of Cr Gibb and his supporters, with the death blow being struck when the environment minister of the day withdrew consent for the beachfront location. The SPA project, ironically, is dormant: its location may depend on hot water from an aquifer.

Cr Gibb was a strong advocate for dumping local waste into the pictur-esque disused Pioneer quarry site on Boundary Rd, Dromana.

This proposal was ultimately re-jected by the Environment Protection Authority after vigorous community opposition.

Council confusion over rubbish planDavid Harrisondavid@mpnews.com.au

THE car park near Western Port Marina will be fi lled on Sunday with 300 eye-catching cars of all makes and models setting off on one of Victorias largest veteran, vintage and classic car rallies.

Hastings is one of three designated starting points and perhaps the big-gest for the RACVs Great Austral-ian Rally which runs from Melbourne to Mornington and attracts almost 1000 entries.

The 15-year-old rally aims to promote the pleasures of classical motoring and raise funds for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Last year the rally raised more than $72,000.

Organiser, the All British Classics car club, stipulates that all vehicles must be 25 years and older. Motorcy-cles and commercial vehicles are also eligible.

Motoring clubs are invited to enter a selection of members vehicles in club displays, the best of which will be presented with a trophy. A vehicle selected from the display will then be featured in the RACV City Club foyer.

Judging for section winners is based on the overall appeal of the vehicle, and winning vehicles are not allowed to win again for three years.

Details: 9739 4829.

Lure of the road: RACV Great Australian Rally organiser Len Butcher and Ben Mayne prepare Bens 1954 MG TF roadster for last years rally. This year Len will drive his Green Monster a 1951 Series 1 Vanguard.

Staying tuned for rally

PAGE 6 Western Port News 12 January 2016

Beer, Wine and Cider Garden Bigger and better

If you enjoyed the Beer and Wine Garden last year, you will certainly appreciate the expanded site this year. Perfectly positioned within the Live n Local Main Stage area, you will be spoilt for choice. In addition to our regular vendors, Mornington Peninsula Brewery and Cheeky Rascal Cider, we now welcome Grand Ridge Brewery and Dromana Estate; showcasing the best of the Mornington Peninsula.

And dont worry, you wont go hungry either, as a variety of food will also be available. Sit back and soak up the atmosphere and enjoy the weekends entertainment.

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2pm Luck-Louise

3pm Rick Hart and the Sweet Addictions

4pm Chango TRee

5pm Peta Evans-Taylor Band

6pm Facades 7pm The Jackson Four

8pm Cold Chisel Tribute Band

9.45pm Fireworks from Frankston Pier

Sunday

11am Eel Race Road 12pm Wilson and White 1pm Tiana V

1.30pm Cail Baroni 2pm The Chris Commerford Band

3pm Young Vincent

4pm Greeves

5pm Super Saloon

Get your family and friends together for a weekend full of fun at the Frankston Waterfront Festival. There is no better way to spend a summer weekend than by the bay with good company, great food and memorable entertainment.

Enjoy live music, market stalls, beach activities, water sports, food, wine, fireworks and more.

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The Banana Boat BeachCome and visit the Banana Boat Fun in the Sun Crew who will make sure you have enough sunscreen slopped on to safely enjoy your day. While there try out Banana Boats giant inflatable soccer field its all for fun and everyones a winner. See you there.

Other activities to do on the foreshore include:

Swim with a Mermaid half hour sessions with a mermaid at 12pm, 1pm and 2pm daily.

Snorkelling sessions with Dive Line will take place at 11am, 1pm and 3pm daily.

Patterson Lake Outriggers Surf Canoeing Saturday at 11am3pm.

Come and try sailing Frankston Yacht Club at 11am4pm daily.

Flyboarding (water-powered jet pack) shows at 11.30am, 12pm and 3pm daily. Festival special price $80 per person to have a go.

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Enjoy free activities and displays, play giant chess and discover and touch marine life. Get your photo taken in the photo booth with Nine News and more. Children can also take part in the interactive Eden Gardens Childrens Zone, where they can pot their very own seedling to take home for only $4. Visit the team from Telstra Store Karingal at the NBN Experience Van for face painting, to play Xbox and to pick up some free giveaways.

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Tantalise your tastebuds and relax with family and friends with a range of gourmet food from across the region. Indulge your senses with calamari, paella, street food from Saigon, Indian, Mexican, pulled pork and beef sliders, gourmet ice cream, sweet and savoury danishes, frozen chocolate coated bananas, iced tea, coffee and lots more.

Markets, rides, amusements, come and try activities, art and craft exhibition and more.

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UNITED Energy is increasing inspections to fi nd faulty power lines in a bid to reduce the risk of fi res.

Energy and Resources Minister Lily DAmbrosio announced the increased when re-sponding to calls to urgently replace faulty aerial bundled cabling (ABC) at Main Ridge and Red Hill.

The cabling has already been blamed for a number of fi res in the area.

Nepean MP Martin Dixon in state parliament in December urged the minister and cable supplier United Energy to install new cables before this fi re season.

On Friday Ms DAmbrosio said the govern-ment takes the risk of power lines causing fi re very seriously.

In the short term, I am making sure Energy Safe Victoria works closely with

United Energy to ensure steps are in place to reduce the risk of vegetationfi res this summer, she said.This includes activating more sensitive pro-

tection settings on local lines,developing and implementing a system to ac-

curately locate line faultsfaster, and more frequent inspections and pa-

trols of the HV ABC.Mr Dixon said United Energy had committed

to replace wiring to the most at risk locations by September this year.

This is a vast improvement on the fi ve-year timeframe initially being quoted, he said.

Under normal circumstances the cabling is bun-dled together and coated in insulation to mitigate the fi re risk. However, it appears a faulty batch was installed in heavily wooded areas of Main Ridge and Red Hill, causing at least six fi res be-fore summer.

Mr Dixon told The News the Main Ridge CFA

Brigade and a number of home owners in the area have come to me because the insulation around this cabling is melting away, falling to the ground and starting fi res.

This has happened in winter and spring, so you can imagine in the summer season with high winds those fi res could very quickly get away, he said.

He said identifying priority locations for cable replacement would be based on CFA assessments.

United Energy which owns the peninsulas poles and wires had earlier agreed the risk of fi res was unacceptable and said it would take 10 years to replace them.

I really think that with the fi re season ap-proaching, the lack of rainfall, and the fact that the fi res have already been starting as a result of what is a recognised issue, this needs to be ad-dressed urgently, Mr Dixon said.

Mr Dixons pleas were prompted by concerned residents who wrote to United Energy stating there was evidence that the ABC power lines are faulty and explode periodically causing fi res. (The News, 15/12/2015).

They said a bushfi re on 9 November was a consequence of a failure of your power lines in Main Creek Rd.

United Energy last week confi rmed that the Main Ridge and Red Hill ABC cables were in-stalled in 2006 using cable introduced into Victo-ria in the 1990s.

Described as a heavy duty insulated cable, it was designed to reduce the risk of bushfi res being caused by vegetation coming into contact with bare wires in heavily vegetated areas.

Samantha Porter, of United Energy, said that although the cabling has had an extremely low failure rate, UE has noticed an increase in faults in certain areas so has accelerated a program to replace the ABC with a cable of different design.

The new cable we are using in the replacement program has been designed to eliminate the mode of failure of the existing cable.

Checks ease riskStephen Taylorsteve@mpnews.com.au

MORE than 200 people have been invited to the opening of the new community park at Red Hill on Sunday 24 January.

Red Hill Community Association has been working on creating the park with Mornington Peninsula Shire since 2009.

The invitation list includes councillors and politicians and traders have been asked to donate

supplies for the free barbecue which will follow the 12.30pm offi cial opening.

Landscaping is being delayed until after sum-mer although the park has barbecues, childrens playground, a shelter with picnic tables and benches and parking.

An information shelter will be fi nished in the next few months.

BALNARRING Freemasons have given $5000 to the Hastings Police Senior Citizens Register.

Lodge master Barry Hodder handed the dona-tion to register coordinator Denise Palmer. The register has been run by volunteers for 15 years and has 1000 clients. It operates out of Hastings police station.

The money will go towards a new car for fol-low-up action when concerns are held for a regis-tered person, especially when daily phone contact fails.

Volunteers check on each clients wellbeing. If, for any reason, theres no answer within a certain time, a nominated emergency contact is notifi ed.

If this fails police or a staff member will go to the persons home and check on their well-being.

After the meeting members, visitors and volun-teers enjoyed a supper.

To fi nd out about the register contact hasting-sregister@hotmail.com or call 5979 7033; after hours 5979 2137 (answering machine).

Good cause: Members, visitors and guests of Balnarring Lodge after the presentation of the $5000 cheque.

Lodge members put in for register

Red Hill readies for parks opening barbecue

PAGE 8 Western Port News 12 January 2016

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Bank backs outThe last day of trading for the ANZ bank in Hast-ings is 3 February, closing at 2pm.

This is the last straw for Hastings, where many shops have closed and the town is dying.

There were some challenges, but we were do-ing much better just before the November state election.

Its always been a low socio-economic area, with problems in education and other things, but the shopping district and community services were good and for the entire time Ive lived here, weve rarely had to go any further than Hastings. Not so any more.

I believe the problem is that $80 million [budg-eted by the previous Liberal government for the Port of Hastings Development Authority] was re-moved from the community. It seems to me that prior to that we were struggling, just like every-one else in these economic times, but we were enduring, surviving.

Im going to do a transaction at the bank on 3 February before the bank closes. Any transaction that requires the branch stamp will do. Ill put the receipt in my safe. I want a chance to thank the staff for their dedicated service and to say good-bye.

When the government changes, Im sure the port will go ahead and Hastings will stabilise. I just hope we dont lose too many jobs and ser-vices before then. Brad Lemon, Tyabb

Trading the answerNow that our minister for coal (Flinders MP and Environment Minister Greg Hunt) has been told what Australias carbon reduction target will be for the foreseeable future by the Minister for For-eign Affairs [Julie Bishop] and the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is it possible that he will start doing something more enlightened than planting trees and getting his picture in the papers?

For Australia to achieve the minimalist target it set itself, we need a proper carbon trading sys-tem that is connected to the world markets, not the wishy-washy proposal of buying carbon cred-its from developing nations if we cannot achieve those targets. This will not improve the real per capita emissions of Australia.

The belated opening up of fi nancing offshore wind farms by the renewable energy fund an-nounced by Turnbull is just a trick by a govern-ment stuck in the dark ages of coal and oil. We have enough room for wind farms on the Austral-ian mainland to end our addiction to coal.

Rupert Steiner, Balnarring Beach

Changing sidesRupert Steiner claimed he wasnt a defender of the Labor Party and then proceeded to do just that (Labors jobs lost, Letters 1/12/15). He also referred to a breathtaking hypocrisy, but should look in the mirror fi rst.

After conducting a disingenuous campaign against the previous state Liberal government claiming it had plans to use Western Port for coal, knowing full well the plan was for containers only. He then turned around at the pre-poll and on polling day and handed out How to Vote cards for Clive Palmer, one of Australias biggest coal miners.

Yes, the hypocrisy is breathtaking, but its com-ing from Mr Steiners campaigning.

Barrie Macmillan, Somerville

Misdirected actionThe Direct Action attributed greenhouse gas emission fi gures have come in and are going the wrong way.

Emissions have increased by 1.3 per cent over the past year in a government report quietly re-leased at Christmas.

Recently at the Paris COP21 conference Flin-ders MP Greg Hunt was ranked third worst in the world on tackling climate change.

So what his response?To sign-off on one of the largest polluting coal

mines in the world and say its not our problem as India will burn the coal and not us.

The member for Flinders has failed his elector-ate and embarrassed us on the world stage.

Kelvin Stingel, Mornington Peninsula Greens

For the recordIn the interests of accuracy we wish to correct the article Committee numbers trimmed (The News 8/12/15) regarding the recent annual gen-eral meeting of Somers Residents Association (SRA). The article stated that Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) legislation required the SRA to reduce the size of its ordinary committee from 10 members to six.

This is not the case. New model rules for in-corporated associations were introduced by CAV, however these rules do not stipulate committee size; the SRA chose to reduce its committee. The new committee of 10 comprises an executive of four men plus six ordinary members: three men and three women. This is down from the previous committee of six women and eight men.

Under the CAV model rules, membership lists and other records are available for inspection by members. In the lead up to the AGM unlimited access to the membership list was available only to the SRA executive and the Rules of Association were temporarily removed from the SRA website.

Of the 147 proxy votes mentioned in the article and employed at the AGM, 82 (the majority of proxies) were controlled by the chair. Final count results for the ordinary committee positions, with 11 nominees for six places, have not been pub-lished by the SRA.

Anne Bartholomew and Sally Holdsworth,ex-committee members SRA

Editor: The article in question was submitted by a committee member of Somers Residents As

Back to workMarvellous to see the return of our globetrotting and well connected councillors Hugh Fraser and (the mayor) Graham Pittock from COP 21. Per-haps we will see more French cooperation with twinning of towns (Paris with Rosebud?) and maybe some Tour de Eiffel bollards along Main St, Mornington.

The mayor appears enamoured with the Eu-ropean love of wind turbines and solar energy. However, he ought to check his own backyard. Why should we take his word as gospel and a justifi cation for the French connection? Prove to us ratepayers that you can manage a small local project, maintain it and make us proud of being future focused.

Rust has appeared down Crib Point way where the [submarine] HMAS Otama is rotting away at sea anchorage awaiting her fate, which is prob-ably to be sold for scrap or sunk for a fi sh reef.

With the return of Western Port to the people

and not to absentee industrialists and shipping magnates, surely common sense dictates that the state government with shire co-operation, devel-ops a tourist attraction based at Hastings.

Mr Mayor, this is an item of environmental importance for you to suggest action plans and lobby for state and federal funding.

By all means adopt some of the patently obvi-ous European renewable energy initiatives like wind and solar farms (maybe better located se-curely out at sea off our shire coastline) but for goodness sake, fi x up fi rst the Crib Point subma-rine shamozzle.

Sadly, it appears to be the case of let sleeping dogs lie and dont fi x it until its totally stuffed or sunk.

Ian Morrison, convenor Mt ElizaCommunity Alliance

International relationsIn 2009, two councillors from Mornington Pen-insula Shire went to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a trip paid for by ratepayers; in 2012 one councillor went to East Timor to monitor the elections of all things; now, two councillors have had a lovely little trip to Paris, and they even took a female staffer with them, we now fi nd, at a cost of some $18,000.

I always thought that our council was suffering from some sort of irrelevance syndrome causing them to venture onto the world stage. I now know that it is simply milking the cow.

Climate change? I have the wit to understand far more about climate change than any two coun-cillors, without leaving Mornington.

Brian A Mitchelson, Mornington

Money well spentI fi nd it quite educational that so many are up in arms about a couple of councillors spending their legitimate allowance for seminars and training to go to the climate summit in Paris. After talking one-on-one with Graham Pittock, I fi nd it to have been well spent money.

These funds are referenced in the Local Govern-ment Act 1989 and also specifi cally identifi ed in shire policies: Councillor Resource and Expense Entitlements Policy - Professional Development and Conferences and Seminars. The funds were also approved by the council.

This is a drop in the bucket relative to the mil-lion dollar losses at Pelican Park, Hastings, that we suffer each year which no one seems to be too concerned about.

And as for the whinging councillors, just more politics as usual.

Joe Lenzo, Safety Beach

Necessary activismPersistent criticism of local community activ-ism by Michael G Free is becoming tiresome (Protest dismissed, Letters 17/11/15, Wasted words Letters 15/12/15).

In the fractured political system we now have, public advocacy is all thats left for ordinary peo-ple. It doesnt always win, but sometimes it does, or makes fl awed projects better and has saved many Australian treasures. The Franklin River, Fraser Island and Kakadu remain iconic because a community fought to save them. Locally, com-munity action stopped a tip on Arthurs Seat. Could anyone seriously argue we would be better off if these places had been lost?

MPs are under no obligation to act in accord-ance with anything promised in their election spiel, so our support is ignored. We then have to wait three or four years to vote them out, only to be disappointed again. A very blunt instrument.

Meanwhile, political donations from vested interests means entities with no accountability to the electorate are the puppet masters, enjoying armchair rides into ministers offi ces. Affected communities the vast majority who select MPs and provide their statutory benefi ts - are left out-side. Meanwhile, the tally of environmentally, fi nancially and socially dubious projects grow lo-cally and Australia wide.

As for the completed projects Mr Free refers to, surely most would now agree removing Morning-tons train line and station was a bad idea? The Martha Cove marina has been fi nancially toxic for a string of developers.

Contrary to the promised 24/7 access through the Heads, severe restrictions on larger ships are in force; Portsea beach has disappeared as ocean swell pounds the shore daily; the piers low land-ing had to be raised; and taxpayers have spent millions of dollars in vain attempts to save the beach - now armoured with rocks and sandbags with the amenity of a war zone.

I applaud anyone prepared to act to protect the places they love rather than meekly accepting some faceless persons vision, or hoping some-body else will do something.

If William Wilberforce, widely criticised in his time, had accepted the status quo, we would still be engaging in slavery. Jenny Warfe, Dromanasociation.

Tax plastic bagsIt is crazy, just crazy, how much litter there is around. I think that there should be a 10 cent bag tax on plastic bags. It will help the environment.

If plastic bags had a 10 cent bag tax on them it would cut down the number of plastic bags in the ocean. A United Nations environment program said that in every square mile of water there are 46,000 plastic bags. In 2000 a whale found on a Queensland beach had six metres of plastic in-side it. Imagine dropping a plastic bag and a few months later being on a cruise with your family and you see a baby dolphin swimming up to your ship. Then you see it has a plastic bag on its head - the exact plastic bag that you had dropped and you realise the baby dolphin is dead. You would feel like you have murdered it.

Fewer plastic bags will also mean more space for landfi ll, less methane gas polluting the air and the ozone layer would be in better condition.

Have you ever killed an animal? Yes you have, you just have not been there. When your litter goes to landfi ll, it can fl y away and go into the ocean and kill many animals.

In Africa they jokingly call plastic bags their national fl ower. But, even in Africa they have a tax on plastic bags and all their people only use about four plastic bags a year.

So please, lets spread the news about this tragic problem. Jack Davidson, Mt Eliza

Letters to the editor can be sent to The News, PO Box 588, Hastings 3915 or emailed to: team@mpnews.com.auLetters should be kept to a maximum 300 words and include name, address and contact phone number for verifi cation purposes.

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The woes of the association are clearly stated by Mr Bryant in its December 2015 Sub-Scriber newsletter.

Mr Bryant begins his end of year report by explaining its late-ness because of a declining membership (about 130) and we do not have enough people to tackle all the tasks.

He says membership fees ($50 a family including joining fee and then $25 a year) will help preserve our maritime history.

The biggest low of the year was our so called million dollar grant prior to the last election. All were ecstatic when we learned we had successfully secured this grant which was supposedly not subject to the election. On the pretence of receiving the grant funds were expended only to discover after the election the funds did not exist, Mr Bryant stated.

Using fi gures from a 2004 Macroplan by a now former Morn-ington Peninsula Shire executive, Mr Bryant said the community has lost $63.7 million dollars in revenue thus far and no one appears to be accountable.

That 12-year-old report - which was not commissioned by the shire - estimated the maritime centre would employ 40 people, have 50,000 visitors a year and have an income of $4.5 million.

Mr Bryant told The News on Monday that the shire is 100 per cent behind the project, theres no doubt about that.

Weve now got to convince the politicians and get the people behind us, he said.

He said a lot of people, some very important people, are coming to our aid.

I hope well have a breakthrough in the near future, Mr Bryant said.

He said the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) was aboard and backing the project.

The Otama is proposed to be lifted out of the water on the outer seawall of the Hastings marina while the Wyuna would have a wet berth alongside.

Visitors would access both vessels through the maritime centre, with the Wyuna being used as a shore-based school camp.

When advocating for the maritime centre at Hastings, Mr Bry-ant cites the success of the $24 million West Australian Maritime Museum which opened in December 2002. He says there are now maritime museums at Freemantle, Geraldton and Albany.

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THE two vessels integral to the success of Victorian Maritime Centre being built at Hastings are in trouble.

The Otama, an Oberon class submarine, is anchored off Crib Point and needs new moor-ing cables by May if it is to survive winter storms. Cost of the cables is put at $50,000.

The other vessel owned by the Western Port Oberon Association, the Wyuna, was built in 1953 and donated to the association in 2013.

Although extensively refi tted and under-going sea trials she remains in Tasmania because there is no berth available in Mel-bourne.

Association president Mx Bryant said the Wyuna is a classic 20th century design and spent 26 years with the Port Phillip Sea Pilots before being used as a training ship for the Australian Maritime College in Launceston until 2004.

Several other plans for the use of the Wyuna fell through until it was given to the association which wants to use it as a school camp.

In his end of year report Mr Bryant sees the latest instalment in the Wyunas history as a sorry tale laying at anchor unattended in Bell Bay where Tasports dumped her.

Mr Bryant said the Wyuna was partly restored and then ran beautifully at over 14 knots downriver to Beauty Point {before] completing sea trails.

During this period the berth in Melbourne at Docklands disappeared due to proposed wharf renovations being brought forward by Melbourne City Council. We ended up stranded; thankfully Tasports came to our aid and allowed us to stay alongside at Inspec-tion Head. The Tasports management at that time thankfully were aware of our fi nancial situation and after initially issuing a berth notice of a fee of $442 a day agreed to waive

the fee and we pay for power consumption only.

The very day the harbourmaster retired the original notice was reinstated without any warning and back dated. We had budgeted for the cost of the power not the berthing fee. Tasports also had wharf renovations being carried out at the berth so we had a limited tenure at Inspection Head.

Months were then spent unsuccessfully looking for a berth at Melbourne. The same result came from inquiries at ports from Portland to Eden.

Tasports was then under pressure to move the Wyuna or face penalties for holding up contracted port works.

It fi nally seemed a berth was available at the old Hydro wharf in bell Bay, only to see the opportunity disappear when the pilot decided it was unsuitable.

We had inspected the wharf with the rep-resentative of the owners and deemed it suit-able [but] apparently we were not qualifi ed to make that determination, Mr Bryant stated.

The pilots eventually called to say Wyuna would be sailing within hours and told Mr Bryant to organise a crew.

How they expected me to muster a volun-teer crew in such short notice I have no idea, he said.

When this was relayed to the pilots they said they would use a tug to move her and place the vessel on anchor in the bay. I made it quite clear we were not in a position to not only fund a tug but did not have the infra-structure set up to man a vessel on anchor, this was also relayed to the harbourmaster - still they went ahead.

Wyuna was unceremoniously dragged away from the wharf by a tug and taken out in to the bay and dropped on anchor where she rests.

Marine history all at sea

All tied up: The Wyuna, top, has been refi tted and made seaworthy to be brought from Tasmania to Victoria but there is no berth available. The submarine Otama, left, is already in Western Port but unable to be brought ashore at Hastings because of a mixture of red tape, planning rules and lack of money. The two vessels are the planned centrepiece of the Victorian Maritime Centre.

PAGE 12 Western Port News 12 January 2016

PROTECTORS of the endangered hooded plov-er are documenting senseless acts by beachgoers that are threatening breeding birds.

The plovers each year struggle to breed on Mornington Peninsula beaches with an ever de-creasing number ever of their chicks ever taking fl ight.

Dr Grainne Maguire of BirdLife Australias beach-nesting birds team said data shows that without preventative action hooded plovers will be extinct in the region in the next 25 years.

There are a suite of threats these birds face. A number of these threats are natural, but it is the human modifi cations of habitat - weeds and access points - and predator systems such as in-troduced foxes, super abundant ravens, gulls and magpies and the impacts of disturbance, direct crushing and predation by domestic pets, that are tipping the balance, she said.

Members of the Friends of the Hooded Plover group have this season erected fences around nests and placed notices asking that the birds be left alone.

Other groups such as the Hastings-based Wil-lum Warrain Aboriginal Association have built shelters under which the plovers and their chicks can seek refuge.

But as soon as the latest breeding season was underway it soon became obvious that thought-less humans were one of the main dangers threat-ening the survival of hooded plovers and other small ground nesting seabirds.

Diane Lewis said a woman approached about allowing her dog to run all over the beach and into the dunes claimed not to have seen Parks Victorias dog restriction signs.

Ms Lewis, president of the Friends of the Hooded Plover group, had been at Rye surf beach

watching 12-day-old plover chicks.These chicks still have a long way to go, they

cant fl y until they are 35 days old, but they can now regulate their own temperature and have the strength to run up to the dry sand to avoid beach goers and their dogs - if they are on a lead, she said.

Ms Lewis said hot weather created more pres-sure for plover chicks, with their parents trying to get them down to the waters edge to keep them cool.

Hooded plovers incubating eggs will be swap-ping constantly, fl ying down to the waters edge to wet their breast feathers and returning to the nest in an effort to keep the eggs at a normal tem-perature.

Ms Lewis described the three chicks as cute balls of fl uff standing on legs thinner than a matchstick.

Against the odds they have survived through the 28 days of incubation by both parents. They have survived tides, storms, hungry gulls, kes-trels and ravens and very sly foxes, she said.

They have also survived the few irresponsible dog owners who let their dogs loose in the na-tional park ocean beaches.

Despite all these threats they are here on the beach, their parents watching out for them, stand-ing guard, telling them when to hide, then calling the coast clear signal.

Mr Lewis said the fi rst 10 days are especially critical as those same threats are ever present. The chicks forage for food from day one and keep cool and safe under their parents brooding. When they can, they scurry across the sand to the waters edge to feel the cool sand and feed under seaweed.

If they are disturbed, the parents may leave the chicks and lead the threat away. The chicks can starve if they have to hide too long.

Mr Lewis pleaded for beachgoers to give the plovers a chance by staying away from the

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Beach protection: Wooden shelters help protect three vulnerable hooded plover chicks at Rye back beach while their parents stand guard outside. One of the chicks has since disappeared. Picture: Glenn Ehmke. Right: A sand castle built around a nesting red-capped plover at Shoreham. Pictures: Mark Lethlean

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fenced areas.With luck and great care these three chicks

may very well be some of the few endangered plovers to fl edge and survive this season, she said.

When they can fl y they have made it, but that's fi ve weeks after they hatch. Will they be okay? Will they beat the odds and fl y?

Mark Lethlean, a volunteer for Parks Victoria and BirdLife Australia, said the two organisa-tions had extended their work of protecting nest-ing shorebirds to Western Port, including both hooded plovers and red-capped plovers.

Unfortunately, the peak period for breed-ing also coincides with the summer increase in beach usage, Mr Lethlean said. We recognise the inconvenience to beachgoers when we cordon off an area of beach for a nesting bird or newly hatched chicks.

He said fences would be removed as soon as possible, but research had shown there would be few chicks surviving without this intervention.

Three red-capped plover chicks had success-fully fl edged at Point Leo although he had seen an increase in the number of people ignoring dog regulations.

Breaches carry heavy penalties and ignorance is no excuse, Mr Lethlean said.

My second experience involved a couple who read the signs about hooded plover chicks on the beach but instead of abiding by its directions and walking along the waters edge, have entered the area looking for the chicks.

This action dramatically increased the chance of injuring chicks or forcing then into more dan-gerous, unprotected areas of the beach. There is no logic to this action.

Mr Lethlean said the worst example of all was following a request by the Shoreham ranger to fence the nest of a red-capped plover found by a camper.

When I arrived, someone had thought it amus-ing to build a sandcastle around the nest. I con-sider this an act of vandalism and for certain pro-

tected species such as the hooded plover, is likely a criminal offence.

Red-capped plover are among the most com-mon and widespread of Australias beach-nesting shorebirds.

They forage by using a characteristic stop-run-peck method, taking small invertebrates from the surface. Their speckled eggs are laid in a shallow depression in the ground, often beneath a low shrub, or out in the open if near water.

The threatened hooded plover is listed as vul-nerable nationally and endangered in Victoria.

The peninsula has the second highest concen-tration of this species in south eastern Australia but the lowest chick survival rate. It is believed about 70 of the states 550 hooded plovers fre-quent beaches within Mornington Peninsula Na-tional Park.

The plovers breed September to March, usually laying a clutch of three eggs in a simple scrape in the sand.

Neil Shelley, also a volunteer with the hooded plover friends group, said that in the past fi ve years just three hooded plover chicks at Gun-namatta have fl edged, or grown enough feathers to fl y.

In September one chick survived one day. In Oc-tober four clutches were laid, but non produce a chick due to tides, death of an adult and predation.

In November three of fi ve clutches failed to produce a chick, one clutch produced two chicks which survived four days - fate unknown - and another clutch of three eggs was due to hatch mid-December, Mr Shelley said on 12 December.

So here we are again, about halfway through the breeding season, and nothing has improved. The birds are doing their bit and have laid 10 clutches totalling 26 eggs - 20 failed to hatch, three are still being incubated and three chicks have hatched.

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PENINSULA Community Legal Centre is celebrating the contribu-tions of its volunteers who enable it to offer free legal advice four nights a week.

The not-for-profi t organisation has been providing ongoing assistance to clients on low incomes since 1977.

Its volunteers were celebrated around the world on 5 December: International Volunteer Day, by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985.

Last year our volunteer lawyers provided more than 2000 free legal advices, Volunteers and Education general manager Andrea Staunton said.

Seventy-six per cent of clients assisted by volunteers had no or low incomes (less than $500 gross per week).

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The shires Draft Economic Devel-opment Strategy 2016-19 designed in consultation with the local busi-nesses outlines key activities aimed at supporting economic, business and employment growth throughout the region.

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BOATERS are again able to use credit cards instead of cash when parking at boat ramps across the Mornington Peninsula.

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