Day: May 10, 2016

EXPERTS from the health industry will speak at a free community seminar organised by the Rotary Club of Hastings, Wednesday 11 May. The meeting will run 7-9.30pm at the Hastings Community Hub, 1973 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Hastings. Speakers include associate professor Harriet Hiscock, co-leader of community health at Royal Children’s Hospital, youth mental health first aid worker Jarrod Flanigan, family counsellor Sally Halligan and psychologist Sandra Martin. Tea and coffee provided. Details: secretary@rotaryhastings.org.au

Police are investigating an aggravated burglary at a house in Mornington early this morning. The female occupant of the Adelaide Street home has entered the garage just before 6am and noticed a man crouching near their car. The woman approached the man, thinking it was her husband, the man got up and grabbed her by the shoulder and demanded her car keys. The woman threw her cup of tea at him, causing the man to run off. A neighbour heard the womans scream and called Triple Zero. The woman was taken to hospital a short time later where she remains…

IN a first for Hastings – indeed the whole of Australia – a local boy has nabbed the Holy Grail of sports by becoming the first punter to be drafted by a top American NFL team. Lachlan Edwards, of Hastings, went to Balnarring Primary School and Mornington Secondary College. He played junior footy for Red Hill and Crib Point, notched a premiership with Somerville under-18s, played under-16s and seniors with the Dandenong Stingrays, had a stint at Frankston Dolphins and then played in the seconds for North Ballarat Roosters while at university. That background – with forays into rugby, cricket…

THE state convenor the Australian Greens Willisa Hogarth is standing for the seat Flinders in the 2 July federal election. Held by Liberal Greg Hunt since 2001, Hogarth nomination for Flinders follows that of Labor’s Carolyn Gleixner. Mr Hunt is the current environment minister and both the Labor and the Greens candidates have signalled they will be attacking what they see as the government’s failure in that policy area. “This is going to be a campaign where the Greens remind the Coalition that they can’t get away with leaving the environment out of the conversation.” Ms Hogarth said. Ms Hogarth…

DESPITE the best efforts of environmentalists and some government departments the survival of the southern brown bandicoot remains uncertain. With few viable colonies of the small marsupial remaining around Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula its “endangered species” status was last week reaffirmed. Foxes, feral cats and land clearing are among the bandicoot’s biggest threats. Environment Minister Greg Hunt told a biodiversity forum organised by the Western Port Biosphere that he agreed with the southern brown bandicoot staying on the endangered list. His announcement on Friday 6 May came one day after 49 extra species of flora and fauna were…