THE value of building permits issued on the Mornington Peninsula last year was up more than 40 per cent up…
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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire celebrated the 20-year anniversary of its inaugural council meeting held on 20 March 1997 at the Rosebud…
MOST respondents to a Peninsula Speaks online survey believe that man-made climate change is real and that it will affect…
MORNINGTON Shire Council already made significant steps towards transparency this year as a result of a Victorian Ombudsman’s investigation into…
RUSSELL Joseph has been selected as the Liberal Party’s candidate for the seat of Nepean at the November 2018 state…
ALL 11 of Mornington Peninsula Shire’s newly-elected councillors have been handed copies of a “Councillor and staff interactions policy”, which…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire acted quickly to remove electoral signs on Wednesday after being swamped by complaints about illegally-erected advertising. In…
FOOTPATHS, foreshores … and frogs. There is seemingly no end – and some cases no relation – to the variety…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire councillors were on Monday poised to give themselves the right to spend an extra $14,000 over their…
TWO Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors who attended a United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris late last year have fulfilled…
MORNINGTON Peninsula councillors are divided over a revised code of conduct that discourages them from making personal attacks on each…
DETAILS of each councillor’s spending on allowances will not be released until Mornington Peninsula Shire’s annual report, possibly as late…
IT WAS a small gallery that gathered at the shire’s Rosebud bunker for the council meeting of Tuesday evening, 15…
SHIRE staff have given councillors revised details of their spending on seminars and conferences during the current council term that…
THE first thing the alert observer noticed at the Monday 8 February meeting of Mornington Peninsula Shire Council was the…
TWO Mornington Peninsula Shire councillors have overspent their seminars and conferences allowance, one by more than 92 per cent. Figures…
CAN it be the coming council election? A series of malignant New Year resolutions? Whatever it was, hopes were dashed…
ANALYSIS THE state government’s recent move to tighten rules to control councillors and council staff raises some interesting issues, the…
AFFABLE new shire mayor Graham Pittock was given a damned good tryout at his first council meeting of 2015-16. He…
RESIDENTS wanting to help shape the way the shire council spends its income can have a say about the 2016-17…
Those anticipating a community meeting of Mornington Peninsula Shire Council at Somerville on Monday 26 October were gutted to learn…
COUNCILS looking to get around the state government’s rate cap plan are believed to feel they have found an answer…
THE seemingly long wait over, it was all eager anticipation on 14 October at the first Mornington Peninsula Shire Council…
THE “age-friendliness” of the Mornington Peninsula was a major topic at the shire’s first Positive Ageing Community Summit held on…
GREAT sheets of silent lightning flashed over the Rip as Council Watch headed for the Rosebud meeting, listening in the…
WAS it a Ghillie Dhu* or a Shellycoat* who, at the 24 August council meeting, spirited a packet of family…
FOR council watchers, the shire’s austerity drive is plain to see. It’s the biscuits. Now only a small jar accompanies…
THE sound you can perhaps hear on the shire’s recording of its 27 July meeting is not what you might…
Venue: Hastings Hub, 22 June 2015. Fine buffet, but spartan for the discerning vegetarian, with carnivores far more generously catered…
Besgrove St bunker, 7pm Tuesday 9 June. Stalwarts cooled (literally) their heels until doors were unlocked. Initial absence of biscuits remedied personally…