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NATURAL history is a feature of the three exhibitions now running at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

The Art of Science is a Museum Victoria touring exhibition showing the art produced during 300 years of exacting scien-tifi c observation and illustration.

The exhibition shows the development of scientifi c art from the museum’s seldom seen collection of artworks and rare books as well as images produced with microscopes, macro-lenses and computers.

Vision Splendid: Landscapes of Phillip Island and Western Port features works by Eugene von Guérard, Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Walter Withers and Rick Amor, and is the fi rst exhibition to consider artistic representations of this unique and varied stretch of coast and land.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, Phillip Island and Western Port became a favourite destination for artists as they searched for views and vistas beyond the familiar confi nes of Melbourne and Port Phillip. Along with the treks of singu-lar artists, Phillip Island and the shores of Western Port also played host to artists’ camps where drawings and paintings were made, and ideas formed and exchanged.

The Call of the Coast shows work by Australian watercolour-ist Robert Wade who has travelled and painted across the globe, from the markets of Morocco to the canals of Venice. However, in this exhibition it is an outcrop of rock on the Mornington Peninsula that continues to capture his imagination.

The exhibition has 15 studies of Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck, which Wade donated to the gallery in 2007. Painted over many years, the works range from 1983 to 2007.Strange creatures: Peta Collings of MPRG with Albertus Seba’s 1734 book. Picture: Yanni

Artists go where Artists go where the wild things arethe wild things are

By Mike HastTHE Mornington Park precinct was marred by rubbish after the hot week-end and looked like a Third World country, says resident Paul Smith.

Mr Smith and former chamber of commerce president Scott Crowe are “citizen cleaners” who pick up rubbish in the precinct during regular morning and evening walks.

The pair has been calling for improv-ed rubbish collection for several years.

“At 8pm on Sunday I visited the precinct while walking my dog. The whole area was absolutely disgusting, littered with rubbish and picnic waste everywhere,” Mr Smith said.

“Rubbish bins where overfl owing in Mornington Park, the Mothers Beach picnic area, and the boat hire picnic area.”

Mr Smith complained to Briars Ward councillors Anne Shaw and Andrew Dixon in an email sent on Sunday.

“Councillors, it is clearly obvious that the shire staff responsible for over-seeing the placement of suffi cient bins for the summers season have failed miserably (yet again), leaving our ico-nic tourist area to be destroyed visually by all those who visited the area on

Sunday in particularly and other days over the past two weeks,” he wrote.

“The users of the area cannot be blam ed if there is insuffi cient ‘waste capacity’.

“Rubbish piled up against full bins obviously is a poor scenario at the best of times and with the stronger winds that prevailed during Sunday, this caus ed a particularly negative result.”

Mr Smith said more bins were ur-gently needed and should be emptied more often.

He said rubbish in public parks was not just confi ned to Mornington. “It is a problem right down the Port Phillip side of the peninsula,” he said.

He called for better performances by shire offi cers and cleaning contractors.

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By Mike HastBUSHFIRE scientist David Packham says fi re warning messages from the state government and fi re authorities before last Friday’s scorcher were over blown.

“There is a danger that if authori-ties make too much of high fi re danger days, people will not listen when we get a really bad, bad day,” he said.

A scientist with the CSIRO for 18 years and now a fi re management con-sultant who is an honorary senior re-search fellow at Monash University’s school of geography and environmen-tal science, Mr Packham on Friday af-ternoon told The News it was a diffi cult day “but nowhere near as bad as Black Saturday”.

He said authorities evoking Black Saturday was “hype” and risked peo-ple tuning out when future fi re danger messages were given.

“We were bombarded with satura-tion fi re messages including the usual ‘worst since Black Saturday’.

“For example, the fi re danger fore-cast for Tullamarine Airport (a good bad case indicator location for the state) was 72, which was about half of Black Saturday.

“The upper air wind speed was also well down (less than half) of Black Saturday. The air was dry, but not any-where as dry as Black Saturday.

“The forecast gustiness decreased a little from the preceding forecasts.”

He said Gippsland just made it into the Total Fire Ban criteria and its for-ests were still in low ratings of the

Keetch-Byram Drought Indices.“Typical forecast rates of spread for

forests were 2.2km/h and 3.5km/h for grass at Tullamarine, about one-third of Black Saturday.”

Mr Packham’s warning that people should “keep eyes open, listen and feel the weather, sniff the air for smoke, and don’t totally rely on the warning systems” proved to be prescient when the CFA’s website malfunctioned dur-ing Friday’s heatwave.

It was reported that the CFA’s web-site and smartphone app received more than 12 million hits during a 12-hour period on Friday, causing it to slow down and freeze.

On Sunday, Mr Packham said the fi re weather for the next four days was most unusual.

“The highs are travelling well south, which is why Tasmania is having a bad time, and it looks like we are having Central Australian and subtropical dry air fi re weather,” he said.

“We can expect serious but not ex-treme or catastrophic fi re weather but with the winds forecast to be from the southwest to the southeast, rather than the usual north to northwest means fi re could come from the opposite direc-tion to what we normally expect.

“There will be nuisance fi res that will keep volunteers busy but they should be effective at these fi re danger levels.”

Mr Packham said every Victorian had a responsibility to fi nd out the ex tent of fi re risk where they lived or were staying.

Fire warnings ‘overblown’Fire warnings ‘overblown’Short and sharp: Fire scientist David Packham says fi res on the Mornington Peninsula like this one at McCrae in early December 2010 are generally brought under control quickly and are unlikely to spread more than 4-5 kilometres.

“It would be good if the authorities give people credit and allowed them to have access to fi re weather services, which currently does not occur,” he said.

He said the Mornington Peninsula was safer than many people thought.

“The majority of fi res on the penin-sula are short and sharp, rarely cover-ing more than 4-5 kilometres,” he said.

“You have a strong CFA presence; nearly every town has its own brigade.”

Mr Packham, who made submis-sions to the 2009 Victorian Bushfi res

Royal Commission, has consistently been critical of fuel management in Aus tralia.

“Fuels build up year after year at an approximate rate of one tonne a hec-tare a year, up to a maximum of about 30 tonnes a hectare,” he said.

“If the fuels exceed about eight ton-nes a hectare, disastrous fi res can and will occur. Every objective analysis of the dynamics of fuel and fi re concludes that unless the fuels are maintained at near the levels that our indigenous stewards of the land achieved, then we will have unhealthy and unsafe forests that from time to time will generate disasters such as Black Saturday.

“The political decision has been to do nothing that will change the ex-treme threat to which our forests and rural lands are exposed.”

He said “some shocking pseudo-sci-ence from a few academics” had seen the claim that high intensity fi res are good for the environment.

“The purpose of this failed policy is to secure uninformed city votes.

“Only a few expert retired fi re man-agers, experienced bushies and some courageous politicians are prepared to buck the decision to lock up our bush and leave it to burn.”


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SCIENTISTS and bird observers are trying to explain the mysterious dis-appearance of tends of thousands of silver gulls from their protected island breeding ground.

Commonly known as seagulls and no stranger on bayside beaches or inland rubbish tips, up to 50,000 pairs have been known to breed in one season at Mud Islands in the middle of southern Port Phillip.

While numbers were down to 30,000 pairs last season, few fl ew in this time around.

Crested terns also seem to have moved off, although at least 1800 have moved to the South Channel Fort, which was made a bit more hos-pitable when cleared of boxthorn.

“Silver gulls are successful and reli-able breeders on Mud Islands but for some reason they aren’t nesting there this year,” the Department of Sustain-ability and Environment’s Arthur Ry-lah Institute’s Peter Menkhorst said.

“It could be because the recent wet years have made other sites more attractive to them, but inquiries with interstate colleagues have failed to fi nd evidence of increased breeding elsewhere.”

Mr Menkhorst has been monitoring the birds breeding on Mud Islands since 1983 and has found silver gulls nesting there every year.

The islands, part of Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, are one of Victoria’s most important breeding sites for colonies of waterbirds.

Although known to breed on roof-tops and land behind businesses in Playne St, Frankston, Mr Menkhorst

Birds that callMud Islands homeStraw-necked ibis (56,000 pairs)White ibis (7000)Silver gull (30,000)White-faced storm-petrel (1000)Australian pelican (700-800)Pied cormorant (50-100)Little egret (3)Royal spoonbill (30)Caspian tern (30)

Gulls take flight from island homeGulls take flight from island home

does not believe the city’s gulls account for the missing thousands.

“The number of silver gulls nesting on Mud Islands grew from a few pairs in 1959 to an estimated 50,000 pairs by the mid-1990s,” he said.

“In the mid- to late-1990s, large breed-ing colonies of ibis moved in, taking over much of the area, forcing the silver gulls to the periphery and causing a decline in their numbers to an estimated 30,000 breeding pairs.”

But this season’s number of gull nests is inexplicably low.

“Mud Islands have grown in impor-tance as a waterbird breeding site over the past 20 years with an estimated 95,000 pairs from 10 species nesting on the islands in recent years. It was quiet out there this year with two species absent and numbers of breeding straw-necked ibis well down on the 56,000 pairs that nested there in 2008 and 2009.”

Mr Menkhorst said about 1800 crested terns had found better breeding sites on the South Channel Fort after Parks Victo-ria cleared it of boxthorn.

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Gulls away: There was no shortage of silver gulls breeding at Mud Islands in 2008, but this year they have almost deserted the colony that once housed 50,000 breeding pairs.


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By Jeff WeirTHE 2013 “i sea, i care” Challenge will be the fi fth year for the Dolphin Research Institute’s summer beach programs.

We call it the challenge because we want to challenge how people think about the incredible marine treasures that live in our bays.

Most of the species that live in our waters are not found anywhere else. We have the world’s smallest sea star, sea spiders, and colourful sea slugs, corals and fi sh that most people think must live in the tropics.

Just outside Port Phillip Heads we have visits from giant blue whales and massive brown kelps that can grow a metre a day during the peak of summer.

The “i sea, i care” Challenge team will run free family beach programs

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at Rye, Dromana, Frankston and Mordialloc.

Programs also will be run for pas-sengers on the Sorrento-Queenscliff car ferry on 17 January.

Our proven “Be a Dolphin Re-searcher for a Day” program will also run again at the institute’s centre at Hastings.

This 90-minute program is a fun introduction into the world of a dolphin researcher. It is a crash course

on dolphins and how we identify individual animals.

Participants, with the help of researchers, then trial their new skills on actual research photos of dolphin fi ns. Parents and older siblings can help the younger ones, so it is great for all ages. The program costs $9.90 a person.

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Caring for the sea: Dolphin Research Institute volunteers spread the message about the marine environment during the “i sea, i care” beach program.


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By Keith PlattROADWORKS to repair a landslide on the Esplanade between Mt Martha and Safety Beach are unlikely to be fi nished until February.

VicRoads originally announced the road would reopen in time for Christmas, but now says the contractor “struck rock” leading to a “minor change in the scope of work”.

The landslide occurred in July last year, but repairs were delayed for some months because the affected area required prepa-ration of a Cultural Heritage Management Plan to protect Aboriginal artefacts.

Two other landslides on the Esplanade in recent years were fi xed without the need for a CHMP, despite the entire coast being seen as an area of “cultural heritage sensi-tivity” under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006.

The tops of cliffs at Mt Martha Beach North were “shaved” by the Department of Sustainability and Environment in 2011, although the remains of Aboriginal mid-dens can be clearly seen in the dark earth.

A DSE spokesman last week said cliff overhangs behind beach boxes were trimmed “to reduce risks to public safety, and also to ensure the site was safe for construction of the revetment [embank-ment wall] at the base of the cliff”.

“Under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 – and as advised in the Coastal Man-agement Act consent given for these works – a CHMP was not required. Investigations conducted by DSE showed there were no AAV-registered midden sites at the loca-tion of the cliff works,” the spokesman said.

He said sand transported to Mt Martha

North from Mt Martha South “has now stabilised to a more regular seasonal pat-tern of sand erosion and accretion … [and] should be effective for fi ve to 10 years”.

“Investigations conducted by DSE showed there were no AAV-registered midden sites at the location of the cliff works,” the spokesman said.

Mornington Peninsula Shire was also given the all clear by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria to construct new beach access stairs from the Esplanade near Alice St, Mt Martha.

The shire was told the work was seen as “low impact activities” and no CHMP was needed.

Meanwhile, shell middens affected by the latest landslip near Ian Rd are being re-moved by hand or an excavator and being monitored by a cultural heritage adviser.

AAV communications manager Carol Nichols said the middens would be relo-cated to a nearby site.

“Within the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 there are provisions to enable emer-gency works in the aftermath of an emer-gency that allow works to be undertaken without the requirement for a Cultural Heritage Management Plan to be devel-oped, approved and implemented,” Ms Nichols said.

“A Cultural Heritage Management Plan is required if a high impact activity, as de-fi ned in the Aboriginal Heritage Regula-tions 2007, is being undertaken within 200 metres of the coast, or in a situation where there is potential impact on known Abo-riginal cultural heritage.”

Ms Nichols said AAV did not know about the earlier landslips on the Espla-nade or the works at Mt Martha North beach.

Rock delay to Esplanade openingRock delay to Esplanade opening

Shore work: Top, further delays have been announced in works at the Esplanade, Mt Martha. Left, sand being taken from Mt Martha Beach South to the north. Below, shells clearly visible at the top of cliffs “shaved” at Mt Martha Beach North.


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COMMENTBy Ian HundleyTHE route 788 bus service between Frankston and Portsea hit one million passengers for the fi rst time in the year ending 30 June 2012.

Recent fi gures from Public Transport Victoria show the 788, which runs seven days a week between Frankston station and Point Nepean National Park, is one of the most heavily utilised routes in metropolitan Melbourne.

This will come as a surprise to many peninsula residents who are accustomed to years of poor service and long ago gave up on public trans-port.

On average the 788 runs about every 45 minute services on weekdays and every 75 minutes on weekends, and is often overcrowded and running late, especially during the summer holiday period.

Regular users of the service are fami liar with increasing overcrowding and will be less surprised that more than one million people use the service.

An estimated 1,045,109 passengers travelled on 788 in 2011-12, which was more than a 50 per cent increase on the 695,400 passengers who used it in 2010-11.

This is the continuation of a growth trend

since at least 2006-07 when the service carried an estimated 550,000 pas sengers.

The 788 bus now ranks as the 19th most-used bus in Melbourne out of 353 services.

The most frequently used bus service in Melbourne is the 903 SmartBus that runs between Mordialloc and Altona, and catered for more than six million passengers in 2011-12.

The 907 SmartBus between Mitcham railway station and Melbourne CBD carries about the same number of passengers as the 788 bus, 1,048,001 in 2011-12. The big difference is the 907 SmartBus runs between 5am and midnight, and has 15-minute services on weekdays with buses every six to eight minutes during morning and evening peaks.

In 2011-12, overall bus patronage in Melbourne increased by about 15 per cent. Most of the increase occurred on higher-frequency bus services, such as the 903 and 907 SmartBuses.

It should now be clear to the state government that signifi cant increases in service frequency are required on the 788 and other bus services on the Mornington Peninsula to provide enough buses to satisfy demand. Ian Hundley is a public transport campaigner who has been advocating for improved transport in outer Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula for fi ve years.

Time for extra buses Time for extra buses as 788 tops a millionas 788 tops a million

Camp safety moveCamp safety moveMORNINGTON Peninsula Shire and Victoria Police are running a joint operation to combat what the shire says is persistent theft and other crimes in foreshore camping areas.

Operation CampAware includes police foot and bicycle patrols as well as the peninsula CREST team (Community Response Engagement and Social Tasking strategy).

Rosebud crime prevention offi cer Leading Sen-ior Constable Julie Simpson said thieves target bicycles, drink coolers, phones and other small personal items.

“Campers should be vigilant about keeping belongings safe, and look after each other in the camp ground.

“Secure outside camping equipment, gas bot-tles, barbecues, trailers, spare tyres and bikes with good chains and locks. Keep refrigerators and coolers inside the tent or lock them at night.”

The mayor Cr Lynn Bowden said the operation would help foreshore campers feel safer.

“The CREST team and CampAware are great examples of the partnership approach to safety on the peninsula,” she said.

Cash for coastCash for coastTHREE southern peninsula foreshore groups have scored Coastcare grants.

Dromana Foreshore committee of ma nage ment received $13,728 for coastal woodland links to reconnect rem nant native vegetation in Latrobe Reserve.

Friends of Flinders Coastline has $14,432 for protection and restoration of the coastline.

McCrae Homestead Coastal Group won $5500 for coast banksia woodland restoration and revegetation.

Nepean MP Martin Dixon said $388,000 in grants was awarded to 31 volunteer and com-munity groups for conservation and management works along Victoria’s coastline.

“Coastcare Victoria is dedicated to enabling coastal volunteers to continue their work and im-prove our coast for the benefi t of all Victorians,” he said.

“Since 2009, more than 100 projects have been supported through Coast care Victoria. Projects address important coastal issues including the protection of Ramsar wetlands, conservation of threatened species and the protection and restora-tion of threatened ecological communities.”

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Now showing: Clockwise from top, Ian Wilkinson, Eron Cripps, Jenni Macauley, Lynne and Paul Tucker at Oak Hill Gallery’s Footsteps exhibition; artists Pam Tregear (left) and Adriana Mahne with Belinda Brown; Frank South, creator of the Artists Trail (left) accepts a painting from artist Hans Werner after he offi cially opened the “Footsteps” exhibition; Peninsula Plein Air Painters secretary Maxine Wild (right) with Jeanette Grover of Rye; Ngaire Johansen and Tinie; Rudi Fuchs (centre) with Maureen and Ron Marshall.

Following brushstrokes Following brushstrokes of great outdoor artistsof great outdoor artistsTHE work of peninsula plein air painters is the focus of the latest exhibition at Mornington’s Oak Hill Gallery.

“Footsteps” features works of the Mornington Peninsula Plein Air Painters group, whose members meet weekly to paint landscapes and seascapes, and have been following in the footsteps of the artists along the Sorrento-Portsea Artists Trail.

Started in 2005, the trail follows the paths taken by such artists as Sir Arthur Streeton and Arthur Boyd to the sites where they created some of their best-known works.

Photographs of their originals are on display along with those paintings of the plein air group with their impressions of the sites today.

The exhibition was offi cially opened by the trail’s creator, Frank South, on 6 January.

The exhibition is open until 30 January. All paintings are for sale.

The gallery is at 100 Mornington-Tyabb Rd, Mornington, next to Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

For more information, call Maxine Wild on 5985 5770.

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By Keith PlattCONTINUING the tradition, Mornington Penin-sula councillors have voted to allocate the high-est possible annual allowances to themselves and the mayor.

The Minister for Local Government Jeanette Powell sets allowance ranges under the Local Government Act 1989 and leaves it up to individ-ual councils to decide how much should be paid.

In the shire’s case, councillors have set the allowance for the mayor Cr Lynn Bowden at $85,741 and $26,843 for themselves.

In a letter to CEO Michael Kennedy on 26 Oc-tober, the acting director of Local Government Victoria, Kendrea Pope, said the allowance range for councillors was $11,204-$26,843 and mayors could be paid up to $85,741.

Nine per cent superannuation is paid on these allowances and councillors can also claim trav-elling (96.87 cents a kilometre for six-cylinder vehicles and 79.7 cents a kilometre for four-cylinder vehicles), child care and out-of-pocket expenses.

Cr Bowden has the use of a mayoral car and councillors are supplied with mobile phones and computers.

The adopted allowances will be paid for the next four years and adjusted annually in accord-ance with directions from the minister.

“The maximum allowance is considered appro-priate when relating to the diversity of the shire, the size and scope of activities and the number of voters each councillor represents, which remains one of the highest in the state,” governance and corporate support manager Noel Buck stated in a report to council’s Monday 10 December meeting.

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POLICE and water transport authorities are out to stop hoons on powerskis, also known as personal watercraft (PWC).

A summer safety campaign is aimed at strictly policing the fi ve knot maximum speed limit for PWCs within 50 metres of swimmers, other vessel and the shore.

Over the last summer season police issued more than 500 infringement notices to PWC operators, mainly in Port Phillip.

“There are 15,000 registered personal watercraft owners in Victoria and the majority of PWC operators do the right thing and ride safely,” Transport Safety Victoria’s safety education manager Paul Corkill said.

“Unfortunately, the actions of a few give the rest of PWC operators a bad name and spoil the day for other water users.

“PWC operators are also the source of a high number of complaints from members of the general public about alleged dangerous and anti-social behaviour.

“Hoon behaviour, such as speeding near swimmers or close to shore, and performing high-speed manoeuvres, is highly dangerous and puts other waterway users at grave risk.”

Letters have been sent to registered PWC owners to remind them of safety obligations. For details go to www.transportsafety.vic.gov.au

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Under the Local Government Act the shire must invite public comment on the allowances through newspaper advertisements and on its website.


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By David ChalkeBOLON Yokte K’uh – the nine-footed Mayan god of war, confl ict and general nastiness – having failed to materialise on 21 December left those hoping to avoid 2013 seriously in the lurch.

Promises of global Armageddon on the winter solstice held out the illusion of a consequence-free orgy of self-indulgence for those who “believed”.

This was the time to take up smok-ing again, polish off the carefully hoarded Grange and put real butter on the Vegemite toast soldiers.

Sadly, for the more sybaritically inclined, the interpreters of the Mayan calendar were wrong and so it is nec-essary to take a look forward beyond the remorse and the detox dietstoward what trends will impact in 2013.

Social trends fall into six broad cate-gories: political, technical, economic, demographic, environmental and cultural.

Politically, 2013 will bring relief from the rancorous Punch and Judy show that federal politics has become. One way or another the uncertainty, compromises and expediency of mi-nority government will be consigned

to history; as will be one or other of the leaders, whoever loses.

The lasting effect of the past few years, however, will be a grow-ing public disconnection from the conventional political process as traditional media loses its relevance and importance and is replaced by the self-selected, self-reinforcing opinions of the blogosphere.

Technologically the major trend for 2013 will be the explosion of mobile computing via tablets and smart-phones fuelled by the life and death struggle as Google (Android) over-takes Apple, while the ageing champi-ons Microsoft (Windows 8) and Nokia try to regain their lost supremacy.

Whichever way the battle goes the consumer will benefi t from a slather of low-cost, high-powered portable devices – the power of the web at your fi ngertips, wherever and whenever you want.

Economically, whichever party wins the federal election, government spending will have to be constrained.

The US and European economies will remain fragile as Democrats and Republicans squabble, as do the Calvinist northern Europeans and their more profl igate southern cousins.

As usual, China will act as the loco-motive of our economy.

However, the tensions of the euphemistically named “patchwork economy” (or, more accurately, min-ing versus non-mining economy) will continue to cause problems.

Cost of living pressures will build as the price of essentials such as utilities, food and housing rise ahead of CPI, while inessential luxuries such as electronics and fashion drop in price.

As a result, concern about the short- and long-term future of the economy will continue to dominate Australians’ priorities and so feed the mood of prudence and thrift that has dampened consumer spending in the past year.

Demographics, or the structure of the population, will start to have a long-lasting and accelerating infl uence in 2013.

The four million baby boomers (a quarter of all adult Australians) will be facing retirement.

For many, this will be a matter of great uncertainty: well over half are concerned that they will not have suf-fi cient funds for retirement. Further-more, rather than having paid off their own homes as retirement approaches, more then a third of Baby Boomers

are still saddled with a mortgage.Turbulent times ahead for many so,

rather than retirement, many will try to remain in the workforce, block-ing the ascension of the perpetually frustrated Gen Xers.

The environment will certainly affect life in Australia in 2013 as it always has. Whether El Nino or La Nina prevails, the droughts or fl ooding rains of our climate are a constant force in our “sunburnt country”.

Politically, the environment will not be the force it was in 2007.

Across-the-board threats to the en-vironment are seen to be less serious and immediate than they once were and the climate change gospel has fewer adherents, down to about one in fi ve from a peak of three in four in 2007.

Culturally the most signifi cant trend will be the growth of “self-reliance” in the community.

The confl uence of disconnection from the political process, unfet-tered access to self-selected news and information sources, and the regaining of control over personal fi nances will create a newfound sense of liberation and self-empowerment.

Regardless of an individual’s world

view there will be a website, blog, Facebook page or whatever populated with like-minded (“right thinking”) people to reinforce their opinions, beliefs and prejudices.

The consequence will be greater fragmentation and individuality of thought and behaviour.

So in one sense the Mayans were right. The so-called American Cen-tury, which was a world of global movements, mass markets, mass production and mass media, is coming to an end.

It is being replaced by a more fragmented and anarchic world of personal, local, selective, bespoke connections and ideas.

A high-speed world that will demand greater agility from govern-ments, businesses and not-for-profi ts as they attempt to keep up with, let alone manage, the unpredictability of a self-reliant world.

As Sam Goldwyn, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fame, said: “Never prophesy; especially about the future.”

David Chalke, of Tyabb, is a social scientist who each year conducts

the AustraliaSCAN survey of 2000 randomly chosen residents.

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Continued from Page 1“The reputation of Mornington is at stake – people

are talking about how unkempt and dirty the place is, locals and visitors alike.”

Mayor Cr Lynn Bowden said the shire had hired ex-tra staff, part of “High Visibility Clean Teams”.

“The teams are providing cleaning services over and above the shire’s usual practices,” Cr Bowden said.

This included “increased street and footpath sweep-ing, bin emptying and cleaning, toilet cleaning and litter collection”.

The additional services would ensure that busier locations across the shire were well maintained espe-cially during the holiday season, she said.

Clean teams had been deployed in Sorrento, Rye, Mornington, Rosebud, Dromana and Hastings on weekends, and services would increase to daily from 20 December.

“Daily services in Blairgowrie, Port sea, Mt Martha, Rosebud West and McCrae starts from 20 December.”

Mr Smith said the clean teams “have been doing a good job in the retail area, but seemingly are failing in the Mornington Park precinct. Manpower verses volume of waste cannot compete”.

He said a national anti-litter education program was needed.

“A generation of people have grown up not caring about littering,” he said.

To report cleaning or maintenance problems, con-tact the shire on 1300 850 600. Keep Australia Beautiful (Victoria) was formed in Melbourne in 1969 by Dame Phyllis Frost.

A load of rubbishMORNINGTON’S history comes alive on Australia Day with the re-lease of a new booklet, Morning-ton Heritage Walk – Esplanade, Park and Foreshore, and guided walks at 11am and 2pm from the Old Post Offi ce Museum.

The 24-page booklet published by Mornington and District His-torical Society covers 34 sites of historical interest on the Esplanade and surrounds and can be divided into two walks.

Derek Smith of the society said the walks would enable people to discover the history of “some of the wonderful heritage places in-cluding long gone guesthouses, holiday homes, shops and the Mornington Baths”.

Saturday 26 January will also see the society’s Old Post Offi ce Museum, corner of Main St and Esplanade, open 10am-4pm.

The booklet, published with the assistance of Mornington Penin-sula Shire, costs $10.

Details and bookings: Vicky Sapkin, 5977 3192 or [email protected]

High life: The Esplanade in Mornington in 1896 showing Holcomb House, left, the two-storey Kirkpatrick’s Hotel and Royal Hotel, far right. Picture: Mornington and District Historical Society

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By Keith PlattTHE future viability of taxi services in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula could depend on the state government’s reaction to recommen-dations in the taxi industry inquiry report.

The creation of an outer urban zone and cer-tainty given to wheelchair taxi services provided by Frankston Radio Cabs has been welcomed by manager Kevin Dunn.

However, Mr Dunn believes cheaper taxi li-cences proposed in the Customers First: Service, Safety. Choice report could lead to some opera-tors “going broke”.

“I’m not saying that would mean the world coming to an end, but we have a good rapport with the community and believe we are good cor-porate citizens,” Mr Dunn told The News.

However, he said “the game has just started, to be quite honest” for taxi ope rators waiting for the government’s reaction to the report.

Mr Dunn said the asking price of licences had dropped in anticipation of the government adopt-ing recommendations in the report.

Licences bought for $450,000 were on the mar-ket, but not selling, for $300,000 and it was esti-mated they would drop to $265,000.

Mr Dunn said the proposed outer urban zone ex-tended the area that could be covered by Frankston and peninsula taxis, although Peninsula Taxis and his fi rm had for many years cooperated over “re-ciprocal services on weekends”.

He said under the report’s recommendations, solo taxi operators could take away business from taxi fi rms, eventually making them unprofi table.

In August Mr Dunn told the taxi inquiry led by Professor Allan Fels that Frankston Taxi Cabs could be forced to close if it lost control of its

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14 wheelchair-accessible taxis (WATs). He said areas such as Frankston differed greatly to Mel-bourne where most taxis were not pre-booked.

Professor Fels described his report’s recommen-dations as “a win for outer urban areas including Dandenong, Frank ston and the peninsula”.

“Taxi drivers in outer urban areas will have to sit an independent exam in local knowledge, disability awareness and customer service if the fi nal report of the taxi industry inquiry is adopted by the state government,” he said.

Professor Fels said by issuing more afford-able taxi licences and providing more fl exibility where cabs could work, services would be more effi cient and reliable.

“We have listened to taxi operators and not gone ahead with proposed zone changes for Dan-denong and Frank ston, and also to the public and local hospitality and tourism businesses on the Mornington Peninsula [which] have been crying out for more cabs and better access to taxi ser-vices there,” Professor Fels said.

Not appy about Link mapNot appy about Link mapTHE builder of Peninsula Link freeway is re-maining tight-lipped about the opening date, but users of Apple Maps have been wrongly directed to the road for more than a month.

Rumours about the freeway opening have been circulating since before Christmas with one Mel-bourne radio station broadcasting Australia Day long weekend as a possible opening date.

On Sunday, a Melbourne newspapers reported “the freeway does not open for at least another week”. Erin Coldham of Linking Melbourne Au-thority on Monday told The News a date had not been set.


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THE winner of this year’s Mornington News Rotary Art Show raffl e will receive a $2000 travel voucher.

The prize donated by Harvey World Travel must be used toward a Carnival Spirit cruise.

Second prize in the raffl e is a $1500 “garden hamper” from Bunnings with a bar fridge painted by artist Rose Knight third and a $600 voucher for clothing from Ken Cameron’s Menswear fourth.

The raffl e will be drawn Sunday 27 January. Tickets are available in Main St, Mornington, at Ken Cameron’s Menswear and outside Farrell’s Bookshop and also will be sold during the art show (20-27 January) in Peninsula Community Theatre, Wilsons Rd, Mornington.

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THIS year’s Mornington News Rotary Art show begins with a gala opening night on Friday 20 January.

Food and a range of refreshments will be available from 7pm at what has become regarded as one of Mornington’s social events of the year.

Held at Peninsula Community Theatre, corner Wilsons Rd and Nepean Highway, the event attracts residents and visitors of all ages.

Opening night tickets are available from Farrell’s Bookshop, corner of Main and Barkly streets, Mornington, and from Ken Cameron’s Menswear, 185 Main St. Tickets also will be available at the door from 6.30 on opening night.

Proceeds from the raffl e and art show are used by Mornington Rotary for local, national and international projects.

Gala openingGala openingTHE Mornington Peninsula coast has an artistic and personal attraction for Jayne Henderson.

Childhood holidays were spent at Mt Eliza, which was then seen as a remote beach area rather than the suburban enclave it has become.

Henderson, right, this year’s “featured artist” at Mornington News Rotary Art Exhibition, frequently depicts the southern parts of the peninsula’s coast and bays where she spent many of her childhood holidays.

Her works have appeared in numerous exhibitions in Melbourne and country Victoria. She says the time spent at Mt Eliza led to a love of Port Phillip, its beaches, swimmers, piers and boats which in turn prompted her fi rst attempts at painting.

After completing an art course at Prahran Technical College (now part of Swinburne Institute of Technology) Henderson taught at Echuca-Moama High School, the fi rst of a succession of jobs in colleges in and around Melbourne.

She is now a full-time painter.Henderson’s style has been described as “strong

and vigorous, showing the infl uence of the Australian impressionists she so admires”.

Collectors of her work appreciate and admire the exactness of her tonal values, an appreciation echoed by many art show judges.

In style, her paintings strike a balance between broad brush and the smallest of details. Recent awards include Camberwell Rotary Art Show, Sorrento Art Show, Mornington Art Show, Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron Art Show, Seymour, Echuca and St Kevin’s College.

Mornington News Rotary Art Exhibition opens at the Peninsula Community Theatre, Mornington, on Friday 20 January and runs until Sunday 28 January.

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Young at art: Secondary college students have become valuable contributors to the annual Mornington Rotary Art Show. Among this year’s exhibitors are Kaitlin Ridley of Mornington Secondary College, above, with her self-portrait and Tessa Harrison of Padua College with her painting Embrace.

THERE is no lack of artistic talent at the secondary school level, says Mornington Rotary Club member John Renowden.

One of the organisers of the club’s annual art show, Mr Renowden said the quality of works submitted by students was attracting recognition and praise.

“Artistic talent at our secondary schools is alive and well,” said Mr Renowden as he perused artwork students from senior secondary classes are submitting for the 41st Mornington Art Exhibition.

“In the past few years quality art pieces in a variety of media have been submitted by students for public viewing at the exhibition.

“Public comment has been most positive in relation to this work and last year the judge awarded a major prize to a student piece of art in competition with adult amateur and professional artists.”

Schools submitting artwork at this year’s show include Toorak College, Mornington Secondary College, Padua College and, for the fi rst tiume, Balcombe Grammar School.

“Of particular note is the work submitted by Tessa Harrison of Padua. Tessa indicated that art is a great passion of hers,” Mr Renowden said. “She told me that ‘art can say a thousand things that words cannot express’, and her acrylic on canvas work Embrace is a beautiful, stylised expression of love and compassion.

“From Toorak College, Bethany Walraven’s piece Viellissement shows the ageing process in three juxtaposed portraits. It is a brilliant sample of work.

“Also from Toorak, Laine Saccuzzo uses three fractured faces to display a range of expressions refl ecting life’s experiences.”

Mr Renowden said Kaitlin Ridley of Mornington Secondary College had “presented a soulful portrait of a woman constrained by society from speaking out”.

“A pensive refl ective pose in self-portrait style, the painting has a haunting simplicity.

“Last year’s impressive winner Jemma Cakebread continues to display her range of creative skills with a challenging, mixed-media, three-picture series depicting a woman distorting her face.

“Also from Mornington Secondary College Lara Martin has used make-up materials to present a softly glamorous portrait of a woman in a pose suggesting shyness and refl ective thought.

“Visitors to the Mornington Art Exhibition at Peninsula Community Theatre on the corner of Nepean Highway and Wilsons Rd, Mornington, will be truly amazed at the quality the student art on display from these and other students.”

The exhibition runs at the theatre 18-27 January.

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