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By Mike HastTHE Hastings Neighbourhood Renew-al project has been thrown into turmoil with the replacement last week of man-ager Pam Ford.

Steering committee chairman Brian Stahl says Ms Fords removal was dis graceful and a bureaucratic pro-cess gone wrong.

Mr Stahl, a former councillor and mayor of Mornington Peninsula Shire, sent a highly critical email last Thurs-day to the projects steering committee

members, all agencies involved with the renewal project and its supporters.

This included the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Peninsula Health, Salvation Army, Mornington Peninsula Shire, police, school principals, teachers and community groups.

I am disillusioned, disappointed and offended at the recent turn of events since our successful and inspiring steer ing committee meeting last Thurs-day evening [14 June], he wrote.

The bureaucrats at Department of Human Services yesterday [20 June]

gave our beloved project manager Pam her marching orders from her role at Hastings Neighbourhood Renewal.

Mr Stahl said Ms Ford had been crucifi ed and relieved of her duties without any consideration for her per-sonal welfare, no acknowledgement of her dedicated and inspiring leadership since being appointed project manager seven years ago.

He said he had been told by Linda Cristine, acting director of DHS south-ern metropolitan region, that a staff complaint against Pam has been inves-

tigated internally by DHS and agency representatives.

No one on the steering committee had been told anything about the com-plaint, he said.

Our renewal project has been held up as an example for others to follow and Pam has played a key role in it, Mr Stahl said.

No manager of other neighbourhood renewal projects in Victoria had stayed the full distance, he said.

The move by DHS would make the completion of the eighth and fi nal year

of the renewal project diffi cult.Alas, I now have no confi dence we

will fi nish off the things we discussed following Mark ODriscolls address on mainstreaming without Pams sup-port and input. No other person can just step in and pick up the pieces.

(Mr ODriscoll is a project manager with DHS who is helping neighbour-hood renewal projects become self-suffi cient after funding runs out at the end of the eighth year in June 2013, dubbed mainstreaming by DHS.)

Continued Page 4

Renewal in turmoilRenewal in turmoil

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BETH Wilson was born and raised in Hastings one of fi ve kids with a sin-gle mum went to the towns primary school and then Mornington High School, but left at age 15 to work in a chicken factory, fruit picking and waitressing.

It was an inauspicious start, but Ms Wilson returned to school in her early 20s, completed what is now called VCE before doing an arts and law degree at Monash University in the 1970s.

Last week the Victorian Health Ser-vices Commissioner told her inspi-rational story to year 10 students at Western Port Secondary Colleges an-nual Beacon Charter signing.

The Beacon Foundation is a na-tional non-profi t organisation working in more than 120 secondary schools across Australia helping motivate stu-dents to either stay in school or seek employment, further education or training.

The colleges Beacon Pathways co-ordinator Gina Mathers said Ms Wil-son knows intimately the challenges and experiences of a young person growing up in the Hastings area.

After university, Ms Wilson found a job as a librarian and in the 1980s worked in the libraries of large cor-porations before joining the Victo-rian Law Foundation as its librarian in 1985.

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Health chief inspires Health chief inspires job charter studentsjob charter students

In the 1990s Ms Wilson was a sen-ior member of the WorkCare Appeals Board, chair of the Psychosurgery Re-view Board and president of Mental Health Review Board before being appointed Victorian Health Services Commissioner in 1997. She will step down later this year.

In 2008 she was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women for services to womens health in Victoria.

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It endeavours to offer a wide range of options to support school leavers as they enter the workforce, and forging links between young people and our local community.

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TREVOR and Jennifer Sammells are planning a move to Mt Martha from Shoreham.

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While Jennifer has been a member of Red Cross (formerly at Main Ridge/Red Hill and now at Balnarring), as a couple the Sammells were members of the Flinders Probus Club, on the committee of the Flinders Art Show and are Monday morning regulars at the Flinders Bridge Club.

The farewell dinner arranged by Shoreham Community Association starts at 6.30pm on Friday 6 July at Pier 10 Restaurant, Shoreham Rd, Shoreham. For bookings call Sue Boggan on 5989 8501 or email [email protected]

Gardeners bow out: Trevor and Jennifer Sammells in their Shoreham garden before moving to retirement at Mt Martha.

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Continued from Page 1Mr Stahl said he was concerned

about the timing of DHS promising to provide more staff to help Ms Ford, who was under pressure running the mainstreaming process as well as ex-isting community programs.

I had meetings with DHS staff who said they would provide staff for our project, but all along they knew Pam was about to be removed, he said.

I apologise to you all sincerely for having naively believed what I had been told and in effect misleading you, Mr Stahl said in his email to project committee members and sup-porters.

Mr Stahl said he had been told by a DHS manager, Sue Milner, that Pam Ford had taken extended leave.

On Thursday, Linda Cristine of DHS emailed the same group of people tell-ing them Pam Ford is currently on a leave of absence for personal reasons.

Ms Cristine said Ms Ford would be replaced by Di Mossenton-Brown and Emma Watene, describing it as an in-terim arrangement.

Di is well placed to continue build [sic] on the achievements of Hastings Neighbourhood Renewal and to con-tinue working with you towards main-streaming. Di knows the area well and has worked with local agencies on many programs including Neighbour-hood Houses, Best Start. Commu-nity Renewal and Maternal and Child Health, the email stated.

On Friday, Mr Stahl told The News he intended to leave no stone un-

turned as I seek to have this terrible injustice reversed.

I will be meeting the head of Neigh-bourhood Renewal, Harald Klein, to tell him about this illogical dismissal as well as the shires director of sus-tainable communities, Rob Macin-doe, he said.

On Wednesday 20 June as Pam Ford was packing personal items in her of-fi ce at Hastings Hub, opened to much fanfare in mid-May, she sent a fi nal email not about her dismissal, but about the visit on Tuesday morning of

judges from the Tidy Towns awards and asking all supporters to attend to show support for the renewal and hub projects.

The renewal project and the conver-sion of Hastings Hub from a rundown former sports centre to a key centre for the town have been nominated for the awards.

Her email ended: Your support will be very much appreciated. Regards, Pam.

Ms Ford could not be contacted for comment.

Towns renewal Towns renewal in turmoil after in turmoil after replacementreplacement

Easier times: Pam Ford was Hastings Neighbourhood Renewal manager when Hastings Hub was opened mid-May and is seen here with Brian Stahl, left, and federal minister Simon Crean. Picture: Yanni


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WARNING: This conversation be-tween me and fi shing friends may an-noy the hell out of serious recreational fi shers in the area.

But I am ambivalent about the power of the recreational fi shing lobby (thank you Rex Hunt).

I strongly believe in our right to feed ourselves from the sea, but I have a problem with people who go out fi sh-ing for sport, chase big fi sh for the fi ght, haul in the prize, take a photo and then release the maimed critter.

A professional fi shing friend from San Remo, John G, agrees saying he has seen exhausted fi sh released, they drop out of sight and are easy targets for predators.

John also has seen maimed fi sh and sea creatures tangled in lines. He be-lieves if recreational fi shers better un-derstood what they were doing they may change their habits.

John also takes issue with statistics on recreational fi shing. They are built, he believes, on shaky fi gures on boat usage, motel accommodation, equip-ment purchase, launch ramp usage, etc.

He is also concerned about latest technology such as sonar.

We went on to laugh, ruefully, about the number of boats rotting in back-yards.

My husbands boat was a case in point. Desiring leisure and needing it, with my full support he brought a fl oating caravan from Queensland and restored it at great expense.

Built as a Hong Kong Police vessel,

he liked its lines. Renamed Almitra, she sat in one local marina and then another, where she eventually rotted.

Mr Henke often laughed about the number of boats in Sydney Harbour, aground on their own beer cans. In those days we sailed, but later I couldnt pull ropes anymore.

My father was a typical fad fi sher-man he bought a boat bigger than his mates, then we spent the next couple of years bogged off Warneet or Toora-din in Western Ports tidal mud.

We caught a few fi sh. His best snap-per was frozen and brought out for par-ties. After mum choked on a fi sh bone she refused to cook fi sh. If dad even wanted prawns he had to have them out on the deck. His boat was sold eventually.

Looking around our streets, I see them as I scoot by with my dogs; boats covered in autumn leaves in backyards.

Exceptions in our street are the aba-lone divers boat, beautifully main-tained, and Micks boat plus trailer, which he has just had regalvanised. The boat is up on tyres for winter to be cleaned and repaired for spring.

Mick has a fridge full of frozen fi sh to see him through winter. He also feeds family and friends.

Mick pays launching ramp fees of

$120 annually at both Stony Point and Hastings, also boat registration, boat insurance and keeps his safety equip-ment up to date.

Its not a cheap hobby, he said, but I try to do the right thing.

He goes out without GPS and sonar equipment, just his instinct.

Yes Ive caught fi sh with a line and hook hanging out their bum, he said. And often you might lose a fi sh and catch it again with your bait or hook in its guts.

He said hooks were supposed to dissolve in the gut, but fi shermen to-day were using stainless steel, which doesnt.

Mick wasnt against charter boats in the bay, but doesnt appreciate opera-tors bad manners of parking in the middle of pontoons, leaving no room for other boats.

Nor does he appreciate long-line fi shing that drowns albatross or wast-age in net fi shing.

Nets are supposed to let bait-sized fi sh escape, but you see a ton of dead fi sh being thrown back from the nets, he said.

John talked about one of his neigh-bours who said hed just cleaned out his fridge full of whiting. Why didnt you eat it, John asked.

Whitings on; going out to catch more, the man said.

And thats my issue with sport fi sh-ing. How much fi sh is wasted, maimed and killed? For nothing!

John and I talked about the Danish

fi sh historian Professor Poul Holm, currently in Australia, who Id heard on radio (ABC Mornings with Mar-garet Throsby, 21 June, still available on podcast) talking about marine fi sh populations, his area of expertise.

Among the fascinating fi llets of in-formation he imparted was that orange roughy (also called deep sea perch) only ovulate when they reach 40 years of age, so catching them before they breed obviously is senseless.

John told about commercial fi sher-men fi nding a spot in the Southern Ocean with a big population of orange roughy, which they caught and went back for more. It seemed an inexhaust-ible supply.

But John said fi sh congregate for whatever reason in a place. When some are removed, others move in. However, their numbers are depleted elsewhere.

He said it would have made more sense to make marine parks in de-graded areas rather than in productive ones; this would give them a chance to regenerate.

Professor Holm said that after the Second World War when people went back fi shing in the Atlantic and North Sea, they found the fi sh stocks had in-creased dramatically due to the mora-torium.

John said sport fi shing in Austra-lia would implode if anglers failed to learn about the harm they were doing and modify their ways.

We (commercial fi shers) are trying

to feed people and deserve better con-sideration, he said.

Meanwhile, the Australian govern-ment was said to have approved a mas-sive foreign super trawler the second largest commercial fi shing vessel in the world to fi sh in Australian waters for the favourite food of bluefi n tuna and albatross as well as myriad other marine life.

The 142-metre long Dutch-owned Margiris specialises in the type of factory fi shing that environmentalists claim is unsustainable.

Newspaper reports stated the gov-ernment had approved the ship being re-fl agged and moved to Tasmania, where it will be allowed to catch up to 17,500 tonnes of small baitfi sh each year under a joint venture with Seafi sh Tasmania.

Ausfi sh and other industry blogs were livid, one blogger commenting with classic understatement that the decision seemed overboard. Then the report was denied by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

A more balanced treatment of com-mercial and recreational fi shing, based on better information is essential.

John believes we will never properly understand fi sh movements and needs. Nor should we, he concluded enig-matically.

Men of the sea are like that.

And now here is the fishing newsAnd now here is the fishing newsHooked: Above, James Kelly and friends fi shing on Western Port in the good old days. Right, the Hastings boat launching ramp on Christmas Eve in 2011.


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IT has been an appalling year so far for dolphins in Port Phillip, according to Jeff Weir, executive director of the Hastings-based Dolphin Research Institute.

The institute has posted a video on YouTube showing aerial footage of a fi shing trawler sinking after hitting rocks near Point Nepean as well as close-ups of dolphins with skin lesions.

Speaking over the pictures, Mr Weir said the institute wants to double its research programs into the causes of the skin lesions by the end of 2013.

He said the shipwreck was near our dolphin sanctuary while the lesions were seen after storms.

Mr Weir is using the video to urge people to donate to the institute and remind them that its not too late for dona-tions to be included in this years tax return.

Institute chairman Ian Stevenson said researchers at Lakes Entrance had proved there was a correlation between outbreaks of the pox lesions and declining water quality.

The pollution seems to lower dolphins immunity levels. The researchers believe there is a link between the outbreaks and water quality.

To see the video or make a donation go to www.dolphin-research.org.au/

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DAVID Nyuol Vincent lost his country, fam-ily and childhood before fi nding Australia.

Described as one of the lost boys of Su-dan, he arrived here in 2004 under a hu-manitarian visa after 17 years in refugee camps.

Since then he has written a book about his experiences and built a reputation as some-one who can help bridge barriers between African refugees and resident Australians.

In 2011 The Age named him as one of Victorias 100 most infl uential people.

Mr Vincent will next month speak about issues facing refugees at the Mornington Peninsula launch of his book The Boy Who Wouldnt Die, co-written with journalist Carol Nader.

We are geographically isolated from refu-gees in Melbourne, but they will be such an important addition to Australia in the near future, launch orghaniser Dizzy Carlyon said.

I felt that some genuine interaction would help us to understand the issues they and we face to ensure that they are a welcome and happy part of our little world.

Mr Vincent has become a spokesman for the growing African population, especially those in Melbourne.

He runs a blog (davidnyuolvincent.com/blog/) that contains his thoughts on tensions and progress being made within the com-munity.

In his latest essay he describes the treat-ment in alarmist headlines by the press of tensions between young Africans and police.

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lines because for one they sell and at the same time it is an interesting read, Mr Vin-cent states.

What I am sure is not being considered either by the media or those who read these news stories and believe them is that these headlines incite a certain fear in the public and as a result people grow to have very con-servative attitudes towards others, especially so-called refugees.

Worst of all, it encourages prejudice and racism, and reinforces suspicion of anyone who is different.

There will always be the fear of the un-known. This is what is happening.

The majority of the Australian public doesnt know much about the African settle-ment process or about African people.

I could be wrong but those who dont know much about African refugees outweigh

the handful who are very welcoming and un-derstanding.

The only time Opposition leader Tony Abbot seems to come alive is when hes damning the boat people.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who has also criticised Mr Abbotts approach to boat people, will launch the book.

The Boy Who Wouldnt Die by David Ny-uol Vincent will have its peninsula launch at 5pm on Friday 20 July at Maxs Restaurant, Red Hill Estate, Shoreham-Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South.

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By Keith PlattFROM a tourism promotion point of view, Frank-ston is about to become part of the Mornington Peninsula.

Details of the new Mornington Peninsula Tour-ism Board will be outlined at an industry briefi ng on Monday and publicly launched on 17 July.

The board will initially be fi nanced with $40,000 from Tourism Victoria and $25,000 each from Frankston and Mornington Peninsula coun-cils.

A nine-member committee will be headed by ex-ecutive chairperson Tracey Cooper, the only paid employee.

It is understood Ms Cooper who has a back-ground in business (including a Hunter Valley winery) and as head of the St Kilda Tourism As-sociation board will operate two days a week from an offi ce at Frankston.

Tourism Victorias Tom Smith has overseen the establishment of the new peninsula board, which supersedes both Mornington Peninsula Tourism and Frankston Tourism.

Mr Smith said the six directors on the new boards committee were skills-based.

Ms Cooper was chosen from nine applicants and there were 42 nominees for the directors.

The directors are Greg ODonoghue (Morning-ton Peninsula Gourmet), Conleth Roche (manag-er RACV resort Cape Schanck), Matt McDonnell (Searoad Ferries), Andrea Lucas, Sheree Fraser and Brian Boote (formerly with Tourism Aus-tralia).

Also on the board will be the shires sustain-able development director Ste phen Chapple and

Frankstons coordinator of tourism and economic development, Sam Jackson.

The changes to tourism within the region were foreshadowed in a Tourism Victoria report Re-gional Tourism Action 2009-2012.

The board will be given two years to draw up a fi ve-year strategic tourism industry develop-ment plan and a viable funding model (Capi-talising on tourism, The Times, 29/3/12).

The shire has indicated it wants the new board to have stronger links to the Western Port Bio-sphere Foundation and the peninsulas marine industry.

In March the shires economic development manager Shane Murphy said Mornington Penin-sula Tourism and 10 local tourism associations had been highly successful, winning awards and attracting visitors to the peninsula.

He described tourism as a major propulsive sector for the local economy and estimated the peninsula industry to be worth $850 million a year.

The announcement of the new board follows the establishment of a Victorian Tourism Em-ployment Plan by the state and federal govern-ments.

Plans for Phillip Island and the peninsula will be drawn up by a consultant.

We will be consulting local businesses includ-ing hotels, cafes and restaurants, and travel and retail businesses to develop a targeted plan as part of our overarching strategy to further grow Victorias $15.2 billion tourism industry, which employs 193,000 people, state tourism minister Louise Asher said.

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KNITTERS are busy stitching up a warmer winter for needy Mornington Peninsula residents, with calls for as-sistance to welfare agencies doubling in the past 12 months.

Carrum Downs Community Bank branch has partnered with Southern Peninsula Food For All Winter Blan-ket Appeal to provide blankets, rugs and comforters for needy families, elderly and homeless.

We are calling on an army of knit-ters to use their skills to help people in need this winter and we will lend sup-port by donating $6000 of wool, bank chairman Greg Sugars said.

Times are tougher, its a cold win-ter and we understand there are knit-ters out there who could help with the blanket appeal, but they cant afford the wool.

Knitters will be able to make squares with the donated wool, which will be sewn together to make blankets for those in need this winter.

Janice Bartlett started Needy Stitch-es when her own knitting was no long-er needed by family members.

I went online to try and fi nd a place to donate the things I had made, but it seemed that either most of the places were in the United States or most of the websites were outdated and no longer viable, she said.

I decided that there must be other people out there who, like me, know how to make things and have nowhere to donate them to, or do not know how to search for somewhere.

I thought about the hard economic times we are all facing and of all the needy families out there who barely scrape through after paying their

Knitting lesson: Needy Stitches founder Janice Bartlett of Seaford shows the fi ne art of knitting squares to Greg Sugars, Carrum Downs Community Bank board chairman, on a cold wet day, highlighting the need for knitters to throw their support behind the Food For All winter blanket appeal.

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Fountain near youth WESTPARK had its own spectacular fountain for a short time last Friday when a water main burst at the corner of Curacoa St and Bataan Crt. Residents Brian and Sue Briscoe discovered water bubbling up through the nature strip at about 9am and called the water authority. An emergency van turned up, had a look and left. Then about 11am it suddenly just blew and water went gushing 10 metres into the air, Mr Briscoe said. Hastings Community Bank director Steve Dowling was leaving Westpark Primary School and snapped this photograph. He said an emergency repair crew arrived soon afterward and repaired the burst mains.

expenses and thought it would be a wonderful idea to donate these things to those families and individuals in need.

About 30 members of the resulting Needy Stitches group are now making squares for the winter blankets.

Nothing we create is for sale, thats the number one rule. I have done a lot of research on who requires what and will keep doing this so we can help as many organisations and people that we can, Ms Bartlett said.

Southern Peninsula Food For All has been providing assistance to people in need since 1991 including food par-cels, Christmas hampers and blankets.

With increasing costs for utilities

and food, more people are fi nding it diffi cult to make ends meet, Southern Peninsula Food For All chairman Ken Northwood said.

We have had a rise in the requests for emergency assistance, but at the same time there has been a decline in donations.

The blankets will be collected and distributed by the St Vincent de Paul Mornington Peninsula Conference.

Anyone who can help make knit-ting squares for blankets can register to receive wool from Bendigo Bank branches on the Mornington Penin-sula. For patterns and wool, email Fran Henke at [email protected] or call 5979 7274.


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By Mike HastTHE Solomon Lew pool saga is near the end after the Department of Sus-tainability and Environment approved plans for the pools removal.

The works will also see remediation of Crown land on which the horizon pool, a retaining wall, fence and land-scaping had been placed.

The $400,000 pool was built on

the foreshore adjoining the Lew fam-ily holiday property in Osprey Ave, Mt Eliza, in 2010 and 2011 with near neighbours being told by workmen they were installing water tanks.

The pool area has a spectacular view of Port Phillip and Mornington har-bour in the distance.

In late May the existence of the pool was revealed by the Sunday Age, which reported Mr Lew and his daugh-

ter Jacqueline Lew, through a family company called Shuttlehall Pty Ltd, had been given 14 days to explain to Mornington Peninsula Shire why the horizon pool had been built on Crown land without a planning permit.

Last August, the shire ordered the demolition of the pool within 21 days under the Building Act. It was drained on Friday 12 August.

Then followed months of negotia-

tions, with Mr Lew fi rst trying to buy the Crown land from DSE, which was refused after lobbying by Mornington MP David Morris among others, and then offering to lease the land from the shire, which manages it on behalf of DSE.

The land along the cliff tops of Moondah and Sunnyside beaches was rezoned by the shire council in 2006to public use and residential.

Lew pool removal plan gets OKLew pool removal plan gets OK

Empty feeling: The Lew familys $400,000 horizon pool built without a planning permit on Crown land above Moondah Beach in Mt Eliza will be demolished and the land remediated. Picture: Keith Platt

It was reported that Mr Lews law-yers, Schetzer Brott and Appel, of-fered the shire an initial lease payment of $250,000 with annual instalments of $50,000 for 19 years.

Last September, the Building Ap-peals Board refused a retrospective building permit for the pool after cracks were discovered in the retain-ing wall. The shire closed parts of Moondah Beach over fears the land would subside.

DSE approved plans for the pools removal that had been submitted by Mr Lews engineers.

Mt Eliza Ward councillor Leigh Eu-stace said it was a win for rate payers, the shire and the people of Victoria who own Crown land.

The work will be done at no cost to ratepayers, he said.

Cr Eustace confi rmed reports the Lew family would pay the shires legal fees of about $150,000 and $50,000 to a registered charity of the shires choosing.

The matter was due to go to Frank-ston Magistrates Court on 14 Decem-ber, but a deal was struck beforehand.

It has taken since then for the shire, DSE and the Lew family to agree terms on the pools removal and reme-diation of the land.

Two weeks ago, David Morris issued a coy press release headed Mt Eliza foreshore. In it he stated: Morning-ton MP David Morris has welcomed the decision of the Department of Sustainability and Environment to pro vide Coastal Management Act con-sent to the land manager (Morn ington Peninsula Shire Council) in relation to Moondah Reserve.

The decision brings to a conclusion an unfortunate episode, and ensures that the construction of a private build-ing or other asset on public land does not provide an excuse for alienation of that land for private purposes.

The shires communi cations man-ager Todd Trimble said a schedule for the demolition and remediation had not been set.

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TEACHERS across the Mornington Peninsula can get expert insight into the Australian Curriculum during a conference at Toorak College.

College principal Helen Carmody said every classroom in the country would be affected by the national cur-riculum.

The Australian Curriculum outlines learning entitlements for Austra lian students to provide a foundation for successful, lifelong learning and par-ticipation in the Australian commu-nity.

The curriculum will initially be de-veloped for English, mathematics, sci-ence and history and followed by geog-raphy, languages, the arts, economics, business, civics and citizenship, health and physical education, information and communication technology, and design and technology.

It focuses on seven general capabili-ties (literacy, numeracy, information and communication technology com-petence, critical and creative thinking, ethical behaviour, personal and social competence and intercultural under-standing) and three cross-curriculum

priorities (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australias engagement with Asia, and sustainability).

Our purpose in organising this con-ference is to bring together primary and secondary mathematics, science, history and English teachers in a fo-rum where they can interact with those directly responsible for the implemen-tation of the new curriculum, Mrs Carmody said.

She sees the establishment of a na-tional curriculum as a landmark move in the history of education in Austra-lia.

The delivery of the Australian Cur-riculum will impact the teaching and learning in every classroom in this na-tion, Mrs Carmody said.

Keynote speaker at next months two-day conference is the chair of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, Professor Barry McGaw, who will focus on the logic of the curriculums structure and its consequences.

The 11 keynote speakers include Dr David Howes, general manager of the

curriculum division of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

The conference will also include workshops and trade exhibitions.

The conference is an outstanding professional development opportunity. It will assist practitioners in enhancing their personal strategies and the deliv-ery of the Australian Curriculum, Mrs Carmody said.

It is a wonderful opportunity for teachers who have trialled various as-pects of the Australian curriculum to share their experiences with the wider teaching community and the experts responsible for its implementation.

Education minister Martin Dixon, who is MP for Nepean and a former teacher, described the conference as a ground-breaking initiative and a mar-vellous opportunity to have opinions voiced while taking on board a diverse range of views on curricula.

Toorak College is hosting the con-ference called Exploring and Imple-menting the Australian Curriculum on 23 and 24 July. Details: Ranjith Dediwalage on 9788 7265.

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FLINDERS Golf Club superintendent Colin Morrison has scored a trip to the United States and has been invited to help prepare the course for the $4.6 million John Deere Classic golf tour-nament a US PGA tour event.

The trip was the result of him win-ning the Australian Golf Course Su-perintendents Association 2011 Ex-cellence in Golf Course Management Award.

The award was recognition of Mr Morrisons work in reconstructing the 11th green at the club, which turned the hole from a relatively straight par four along the left-hand boundary of the course to a sharp dogleg right.

Mr Morrison worked with club cap-tain Neil Cavanagh on the change.

The improvements to the course have been substantial over the past 10 years and the award recognises Colin and his teams contribution to that im-provement, Mr Cavanagh said.

As well as helping to prepare the course for the John Deere Classic to be played at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, 9-15 July, Mr Morrison will also have a tour of the John Deere fac-tory and headquarters at nearby Mo-line in Illinois.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime, which has come about as the result of the construction of our 11th green.

Mr Morrison believes the trip will give him experience and knowledge that he will be able to apply at Flinders.

Award win: Colin Morrison is off to the United States.

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By Mike HastFRANKSTON Council will borrow less money for the $46.35 million aquatic centre after the federal govern-ment promised $13.5 million earlier this month.

The council now has $26 million of government money after the state gov-ernment promised $12.5 million in the run-up to the 2010 state election.

Minister for Regional Australia, Re-gional Development and Local Gov-ernment Simon Crean announced the councils application for funds under the Regional Development Australia Fund had been successful.

Frankstons mayor Cr Brian Cunial said money from the two governments meant ratepayers wont have to carry the full burden of the remaining costs.

The News understands the state money is available, but the federal

Canberra money helps fill poolCanberra money helps fill poolIn the swim: Architects drawing of how the Frankston Regional Aquatic Health and Wellbeing Centre (FRAC) might look when it opens in mid-2014.

cash will not come until the 2013-14 fi nancial year.

The council will borrow up to $18 million with the balance coming from rates and other sources of council rev-enue.

Mr Crean was joined by Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus and Frankston council-

lors at Samuel Sherlock Reserve where the council will build the Frankston Regional Aquatic Health and Wellbe-ing Centre (FRAC) with a 51.5-metre Olympic-sized swimming pool, a learn to swim and leisure pool with play area, cafe, gymnasium, waterslides, splash deck, warm water therapy pool,

spa and sauna, crche and health and wellness centre.

Mr Crean said the centre would provide people living in the regional centres of southeast Melbourne with access to state-of-the-art competition and leisure facilities.

He said the project was a great ex-ample of an investment partnership that stacks up and joins the dots be-tween being a local priority, leverag-ing other funding sources and return-ing an economic and social dividend to the region.

The project would project a signifi -cant economic boost across the region and create about 300 construction and 50 ongoing jobs.

Mr Dreyfus said the pool would draw people from all over the growth corridor of Melbournes southeast and contribute to community pride and regional liveability.

Cr Cunial said the centre was ex-pected to attract 700,000 visitors each year, providing a recreational outlet for people of all ages.

The pool would bring more visitors to the city centre, creating new impe-tus for business operators.

The centre will create about 300 jobs during construction and 120 on-going jobs once open for business. The plans are being fi nalised by Wil-liam Ross Architects and construction is scheduled to begin later this year and be completed by June 2014.

State MP Jude Perera said he had strongly supported the councils devel-opment fund application. Labor has committed $26 million toward making this great dream into a reality. Frankston Council is advertising for a business manager for the aquatic centre. An advertisement in The Age stated the manager would oversee all aspects of the business from estab-lishment of the centre to managing it when open. The role also takes in the Pines Forest Aquatic Centre.

Cash galore: Frankston councillor Brad Hill, left, Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus, Simon Crean, the mayor Brian Cunial and Cr Alistair Wardle check out plans for the $46 million aquatic centre at Samuel Sherlock Reserve.

NEARBY residents have been told that it will be October be-fore work will begin to replace the collapsed wall on Nepean Highway near Olivers Hill, Frankston.

VicRoads expects to receive a consultants report on the $1.4 million collapse early next month and will make a decision on what to do next by the end of July.

Workers have said the type of construction used for the wall had never before gone higher than seven metres Frankstons wall was more than 11 metres

high. The gambion wall that collpased was backfi lled with packing sand.

However, the weight of the sand appeared to have caused too much pressure for the wall to withstand, causing it to burst in the centre.

VicRoads decided to build the wall to stem erosion of the cliff face, which had been monitored by a resident whose house was built close to the cliff edge.

The erosion has now gone inland beyond the boundary be-tween the Vic Roads land and on to private property.

Steel rods hammered into the cliff showed it had receded by at least one metre since houses were built there.

The area at the foot of Oliv-ers Hill was once part of the Frankston Brickworks and was backfi lled before being opened up for residential development.

Houses on the steep land have to comply with strict building regulations that include con-crete foundations up to 15 me-tres deep.

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By Mike HastRENOWNED zoologist Hans Brunner was more than an interested bystander when Northern Territory deputy coro-ner Elizabeth Morris announced on 12 June that a dingo had taken Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in 1980.

Mr Brunner of Frankston was a key witness in 1988 when the NT Court of Appeal overturned the 1982 conviction of Lindy Chamberlain for the murder of her nine-week-old baby Azaria and Michael Chamberlain for being an ac-cessory after the fact.

Then a senior technical offi cer for the Victorian Department of Conservation, Forest and Land (now DSE), Mr Brun-ner told the court of appeal in Darwin that animal hairs on Azarias jumpsuit and singlet were from a dingo.

I was delighted with the coroners decision which, after 32 years, fi nally accepted that Azaria was taken by a dingo, he said last week. I am elated that the truth has fi nally been accept-ed.

After developing a technique for iden tifying the hair of mammals, Mr Brunner co-wrote a landmark book in 1974, The Identifi cation of Mam-malian Hair, which is still used today

by animal forensic experts around the world.

Right from the beginning I believed a dingo took Azaria on that fateful night in August 1980, he told The Times.

My belief was confi rmed after I was asked to examine hairs found on the jumpsuit and singlet. The task was easy as I had used dingo hairs as ref-erence samples for dog hairs in my book.

Mr Brunner, who came to Australia from Switzerland in his youth and con-tinued his zoological career, said his evidence was readily accepted at the 1988 hearing.

He also told the court the damaged jumpsuit had been torn and not cut, basing his evidence on investigations of wild dogs preying on adult sheep that had been shorn and young lambs that had not.

Mr Brunner has always believed there was human intervention in the Azaria case, but not in her death.

Someone must have taken Azaria from the dingo, disposed of the body and buried the clothing, but it was not and could not possibly have been the Chamberlains, he said.

Azaria was taken by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980, but her mati-nee jacket was not found until 1986.

Lindy Chamberlain was released from jail in February 1986.

The discovery was largely respon-sible for the case being reopened and the Royal Commission of 1987, which exonerated both parents.

All convictions of the Chamberlains were overturned in 1988.

Mr Brunner said he contacted NT police in 1986 after Azarias clothing was found and offered to examine din-go droppings collected nearby to see whether I could fi nd remains of Azaria in them.

I was bluntly rejected and told she did it anyhow and the phone went si-lent.

I was only asked very much later by the Chamberlains defence lawyers to examine hairs mounted on two micro-scope slides.

A third inquest was held in 1995, but the coroner delivered an open fi nding no one or thing was found responsible for Azarias death.

The fourth and fi nal inquest, which ended earlier this month, was told there had been 11 serious attacks of hu-

mans by dingoes since 1980, including a nine-year-old boy killed on Fraser Island in 2001.

Mr Brunner says he does not blame people who still doubt a dingo was re-sponsible for the death of Azaria. The media frenzy and the lies and perver-sion of some scientifi c reports remains foremost in many peoples minds, he said.

He is critical of authorities who did not want to admit that dingoes at Ul-uru were a danger to children as this could have badly affected tourism.

And what about dingoes? I love dingoes very much. I was directly working with dingoes at the Keith Turnbull Research Institute on Bal-larto Rd in Frankston North for about two years where I got to know dingo behaviour very well.

Finally, the irony of the dingo saga is that in another case a woman on Fra-ser Island was fi ned $40,000 for feed-ing a starving, thin and sick-looking dingo. This went almost unnoticed and the media was not interested. Starv-ing dingoes will naturally and desper-ately try to get some food even if it is a young child. Are starving dingoes in the Northern Territory any different?

I always believed a dingo I always believed a dingo took the baby: zoologisttook the baby: zoologist

Key witness: Above, Frankston forensic zoologist Hans Brunner gave evidence identifying dingo hairs on Azaria Chamberlains matinee jacket to the 1988 NT Court of Appeal, which overturned the 1982 conviction of Lindy Chamberlain, pictured right with her daughter Azaria.

FOXES at Stringybark Bushland Reserve in Langwarrin are about to be fi tted with collars.

The electronic tracking devices will be placed on foxes trapped by Frankston Council rangers so their movements over the next few months can be monitored.

The reserve on the north-western corner of Centre and North roads will be closed from Monday 25 June until Monday 9 July while the fox control program is undertaken by council and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

All access points will be locked or closed with barriers and signs erected.

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