Day: March 9, 2015

FRANK Yamma and former Killing Heidi singer Ella Hooper will perform later this month at the second Baany to Warrna Ngargee – Water to Water Festival at The Briars, Mt Martha. Yamma, who sings in English and Pitjantjatjara, has toured Australia and overseas. Hooper, a singer-songwriter, radio presenter and TV personality, won four ARIA awards in 2000 as a member of Killing Heidi. Yirrmal and the Yolngu Boys will return to The Briars to join musicians, dancers and artists during Cultural Diversity Week, Harmony Day and the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Mornington Peninsula resident…

LARGE tracts of Arthurs Seat State Park near the summit will be taken over for car parking to service the proposed Skylift gondola ride, a meeting organised by Save Our Seat was told last week. More car parking will also be developed near the gondola’s bottom station, beside the historic Dromana cemetery, the 70 attendees were told. There were gasps from the audience when pictures were shown of the total car park area, which will accommodate well over 600 vehicles. An audience member and local resident, Gabrielle Johnstone, protested that the summit’s number two car park would cover an area…