View photos of the arrests here POLICE have evicted the leaders of a Christian group who staged a sit-in protest today (Wednesday 6 May) at the electorate office of Flinders Liberal MP Greg Hunt. Shortly before seven Christian leaders who had refused to leave the Hastings premises were arrested at 5.40pm, Mr Hunt released a statement criticising the Love Makes A Way group who were protesting against the federal government’s asylum seeker policies. A Christian coalition of Uniting Church, Baptist Church, Church of Christ and Peninsula City Church members grouped under the Love Makes A Way umbrella arrived at Mr Hunt’s…
Day: May 6, 2015
CHRISTIAN leaders have occupied the Hastings office of Flinders Liberal MP Greg Hunt and are refusing to leave until the Federal Environment Minister gives a commitment “to release all children” from the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres. A Christian coalition of Uniting Church, Baptist Church, Church of Christ and Peninsula City Church members grouped under the Love Makes A Way banner turned up unannounced at Mr Hunt’s electorate office at 11am this morning to protest against the federal government’s asylum seekers policies. Love Makes A Way describes itself as “a movement of Christians seeking an end to Australia’s inhumane asylum seeker…
CRIB POINT FC – by Jared Newton CRIB POINT opened their winning account for the season with victory over Tyabb on Saturday in a solid 91 point win. The game won’t exactly go down as one of the greats and wasn’t spectacular viewing, but because of Crib’s slow start to 2015 it was a crucial clash. The Magpies had a lot of the football throughout the day but didn’t bring the kicking shoes as they posted a wayward 9.17 in the first three terms before clicking into gear for an 8-goal final quarter to finish with 17.21. Coach Annable missed…
HASTINGS FNC, by Phil Stone, club president SENIORS REPORT WE got another win and it has been great to see us start the season off the way we have. Our first quarter was almost flawless we didn’t miss many targets and played some really good footy. It’s always good to get off to some really quick starts. Unfortunately we played our worst quarter for the year in the second and let them back into it and went in at half-time just ahead. We responded well to the pressure and played a good second half and the only thing that was…
A VARIETY of groups have been working to restore fire-damaged Warringine Park, Hastings. Some areas of the park are being kept closed for safety reasons and to allow regrowth of bushland lost in the January fire. At work within the park are a Green Army team, Franklin Scholar students and the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s natural systems team members. The shire’s Simon Thorning said groups have been working on making the area safer, collecting rubbish and debris and clearing vegetation. “We’ll soon start restoring the bushland and continue to manage the fire risk in the park as the vegetation grows back,” he…
OPERATION Trinity – in which Fisheries Victoria officers patrolled peninsula and bayside beaches over summer targeting shellfish offences in the intertidal zone – has netted a number of offenders. One hundred and seventy two inspections detected 41 offences. These resulted in 25 verbal warnings, 11 official warnings and 28 infringement notices. Four court orders were issued. Fisheries Victoria executive director Travis Dowling said the pending court cases related to the illegal taking of abalone. “Several instances involved alleged offenders taking more than 40 abalone – when the bag limit is five per person. “Three cases involved individuals taking more than…