THE QUEENSCLIFF AND POINT LONSDALE NEWS Published monthly on the first Wednesday and available in Queenscliff, SEPTEMBER, 2018 – Number 226 Phone: 5258 4828, e-mail: [email protected] Point Lonsdale and the Queenscliff/Sorrento Ferry. FREE – Average monthly circulation 5000 Website: www.queenscliffeherald.com.au Funding withdrawn for BOQs Destination Queenscliff Lisa Neville, Member for the Bellarine, has Queenscliff Community Hub to rebuild the informed the Borough of Queenscliffe that the historical society and improve the library and state governments' $2.7million contribution community facilities. It will also assist in towards the Destination Queenscliff project for rejuvenating the main street. Shortland's Bluff has been withdrawn. The The government is also providing $450,000 decision came about after Ms Neville discussed from the Living Libraries fund making $2.850 the issues with many community members and million available to commence work on this traders stating that 'the government is not in the important community project. business of supporting projects that divide To ensure this project meets the needs of the communities'. local community and historical society, the State "Over the last few months it has been clear Government will chair a community reference that the community is divided on this project and group and take the lead on ensuring that they have major concerns about both the design appropriate community consultation is under- and impact of the project," said Ms Neville. "In taken. We will make sure that this project is addition, the community have expressed strong delivered in partnership with the community and reservations about the limited consultation and that local residents have a real input into the information provided to them to support this project.” project. The project has been humorously titled 'The Because of the strong views of the community, Bradbury Project' as the Queenscliffe Historical we have determined this project is not one that is Society only had to remain steady on its feet as appropriate to continue with. (The Federal the project in front of it fell over so it's gold for Government's contribution of $3.5 million to the them! Destination Queenscliff project remains.) $50,000 grant to traders groups Queenscliff Community Hub This grant is to enable local traders to develop The remaining $2.4 million will be made strategies and initiatives to drive visitation and Michelle Jepson handing over a petition signed by 1100 people not in favour of aspects of he available to support the development of the improve yield from visitors to the town. Destination Queenscliff project. A fresh new face for BCH Bellarine Community Health (BCH) has a "As the major provider of primary health fresh new image with the launch today of a new services on the Bellarine we need a structure in logo, website and strategic plan for the place that ensures we meet the needs of growing organisation. populations but also provide responsive health The re-brand and release of the 2018 - 2022 services for multiple communities with different Strategic Plan follows 12 months of community needs," he said. engagement through a series of 'Community "Bellarine Community Health recognises the Conversations', input from our Community and way health services are delivered has changed," Consumer Advisory group, research and other Mr Dawson said. workshops. "Services are client centred and clients will "This is the roadmap for the future," said BCH decide where and how they want their service Board Chair Margaret Belfrage. "The addition of provided and delivered at the right place at the 'for all people' in our mission statement means right time. We have to be able to respond to that." that BCH is opening its doors to everyone, both Bellarine Community Health is also in the public and private clients, aiming to meet process of major upgrades to IT systems to allow primary health needs locally. for greater productivity and expansion. The We believe the strategic directions laid out in revamp includes refreshing the BCH brand with a our plan will provide responsive and quality modern new logo and website. services whilst maintaining financial viability "We have a new look website with an easy to into the future." navigate platform that has the capacity engage at BCH CEO Shane Dawson said the Strategic an interactive level by hosting community chat Plan recognises the vital role of Bellarine groups," said Ms Belfrage. Community Health in providing health services BCH will roll out its new look over the coming BCH Board Chair Margaret Belfrage with CEO Shane Dawson at the breakfast launch of the where people live on the Bellarine and keeping months. The BCH 2018-2022 Strategic Plan is 2018-2022 Strategic Plan and logo. people living well and out of the hospital system. available on the new website www.bch.org.au Super Birthday Special 5 Plain SAVE $11.50 Beef Pies * $15 Celebrating 15 Years in Queenscliff

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Create a non-seasonal heritage-driven If you have any other questions about green economy for Queenscliffe waste collection in the Borough of Queenscliffe, Establish integration and cooperation of please contact our Customer Service Team on Mayor’s current historical organisations including the [email protected] or 5258 1377. Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, Queenscliff Historical Museum, Fort Queenscliff, the Victorian Seniors Festival Marine and Freshwater Discovery Centre The 36th Victorian Seniors Festival is coming Column and the Bellarine Heritage Railway. up in October with the theme 'Get Social'. Club rooms for Point Lonsdale Tennis Club Council has prepared an enticing program of Destination Queenscliff material about Destination Queenscliff, and we Extend existing club rooms to create a shaded events to suit the theme, including: outdoor social space with a BBQ area and Council's project is designed to place invite you to review this information, which is A bus trip and luncheon to a National Trust enable viewing of the tennis courts from Shortland's Bluff at the heart of Queenscliff's available at our offices at 50 Learmonth Street, at property inside the club rooms. special character, conserving the significant the Queenscliff Library at 55 Hesse Street, and The Mayor's Over 80s Luncheon Preserving nationally important Australian military, maritime, indigenous and settlement on our website, www.queenscliffe.vic.gov.au Come and try sessions for golf, croquet and heritage heritage and the stunning beauty of the coastal If you are interested in this project and the tennis Support the urgent conservation of four vista, and rehabilitating vegetation in the area to future of the Borough, please take the time to A musical comedy by the Queenscliffe deteriorating, nationally important heritage create a focal point for residents and visitors alike. read the whole story of Destination Queenscliff. Lighthouse Theatre Group structures on Crown land around the Point Council's vision for the Borough is that it We welcome and encourage your feedback, Book launches, guest speakers, movies and Lonsdale Lighthouse - the 1889 Rocket Shed, remains a safe haven defined by its unique but equally we recognise the importance of more. WW1 Searchlight Emplacement, WW1 / heritage, rich culture and significant natural providing you with correct information so that Seniors Festival events in the Borough of WW2 Light Direction Station and WW2 environment, and a special and restorative place you can form a balanced view. Queenscliffe will run throughout October. Infra-Red 'Magic Eye'. for an involved and caring community and our Details for each event, including any associated Queenscliff180 Family Swim visitors. We have an enduring role to play in Pick My Project cost, will be listed in the program, which will Ensure this successful, family-friendly, not- conserving the extraordinary natural beauty of Voting is now open for the Victorian soon be available from Council's offices at 50 for-profit community event in the Borough of our region with ecological values of global Government's 'Pick My Project' initiative and Learmonth Street. Queenscliffe continues to be feasible and significance, rich architectural heritage and there are eight projects proposed in Point sustainable, and maintain the rich history of military history fundamental to Australia's Lonsdale and Queenscliff. Vote for up to three of Community Listening Posts the Blue Water Challenge open water swim defence. These values underpin all the initiatives your favourite projects at www.pickmy Council's Community Listening Posts for the in the Borough and wider Bellarine we undertake in the Borough, and they are at the project.vic.gov.au before 5pm on Monday 17 remainder of 2018 have been scheduled at community. heart of our planning for Destination September 2018 and help make these mar- locations in Point Lonsdale and Queenscliff. Geelong and Bellarine Business Clinic Queenscliff. vellous community ideas happen. Please join us at these sessions to share your Walk in, walk out, on demand support at the Our recent community consultation activities Outdoor gym equipment stations ideas and feedback with Councillors. Business Hub at Queenscliffe Marina for on the concept designs for Destination Install 10 outdoor fitness equipment units at Thursday 20 September 2.30-3.30pm in the small business owners to identify, access and Queenscliff included a set of open house four stations along the foreshore area of Point Uniting Church Bay Room, corner Hesse fund expert assistance, achieve their goals sessions and a community survey that could be Lonsdale and in Princess Park, Queenscliff. and Stokes Streets, Queenscliff. and encourage employment, visitation and completed online, by mail and in person at Open 24/7, free to use, inclusive and Tuesday 23 October 6.30-7.30pm in the investment growth in our communities. Council's offices or at any one of the open house accessible. Uniting Church Bay Room. sessions. Independent analysis of the 122 survey Conserve the Lonsdale Rocket Shed as an Green Waste Calendar 2019 Thursday 22 November 2-3pm in the Point responses revealed significant support for key interactive heritage site Council is preparing a new Green Waste Lonsdale Primary School Hall, 22 Bowen elements of the project. For example, 82% of The Queenscliffe Maritime Museum and Calendar that will cover the period from January Road, Point Lonsdale. respondents support the proposed shared Geelong Amateur Radio Club propose to 2019 to December 2019. These will be available Thursday 13 December 11am-12 noon in the pedestrian and bicycle path connection to the create a staffed interactive educational to ratepayers later in 2018. In the meantime, Uniting Church Bay Room. township and foreshore, and the Queenscliff operating display of original lifesaving and Council's fortnightly green waste collection will Lighthouse Reserve pathways and improved radio equipment. continue on Fridays. Ordinary Meeting of Council planting, while 74% support the pathway linking Point Lonsdale: Born to Rock! A temporary Green Waste Calendar is Thursday 20 September commencing 7pm. Lovers Walk and 73% support the provision of Bring music education to our vibrant available from the 'Recycling and Waste' section All welcome. new public toilets at the site. beachside village with a community musical of Council's website at www.queenscliffe.vic Cr Susan Salter It has been extraordinarily disappointing to garden, musical instrument library available .gov.au/environment-and-sustainability/re- Mayor, Borough of Queenscliffe note recent misinformation broadcast on social for hire by the wider community, and a music cycling-and-waste/your-green-waste-bin. media and in the wider community in relation to education program, including a choir and Copies can also be collected from Council's If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching this project. Council has prepared a folio of group instrument lessons. offices at 50 Learmonth Street, Queenscliff. television by candlelight. George Gobel

Volunteer Secretary required at QHM Are you looking for more CUSTOMER SERVICE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED community involvement? The Visitor Information Centre is currently looking for Customer Service Volunteers to promote tourism in the region. The Queenscliffe Historical Museum is If you have four spare hours available each week to show off your bright, seeking the services of a Volunteer Secretary professional and friendly personality and fantastic customer service skills with basic computer skills. welcoming and assisting visitors to our region, the Visitor Information Centre Ten hours per week maximum and fully wants to hear from you. supported by volunteer administrative staff. This Your new role as a Visitor Information Centre Volunteer will provide you with position promises exciting prospects in a opportunities to enjoy day trips to local attractions and monthly social get- togethers with other volunteers. Training and uniforms are provided. dynamic and evolving organisation intent on 'Celebrating History'! Apply now to join the award-winning team of volunteers at the Queenscliffe Visitor Information Centre. For further information please contact the Contact Maree Greenwood, Visitor Information Centre Coordinator, on 5258 Honorary President Garry Spry 0400 131 370 or 4843 or [email protected], for a position description and email [email protected] application form. Borough of Queenscliffe 50 Learmonth Street (PO Box 93) Queenscliff VIC 3225 Telephone: 03 5258 1377 | www.queenscliffe.vic.gov.au Don’ t forget it is school enrolment time Enrolments at Point Lonsdale P.S currently being accepted for 2019 classes. VOLUNTEER HERITAGE GUIDES NEEDED Yes we do have vacancies and are currently not Do you have a passion for history and heritage? Do you enjoy talking to groups and zoned. having them hanging off your every word? Do you have one free Saturday or Tuesday Yes we are inclusive. a month to help others admire and immerse themselves in Queenscliff's past? Yes we believe relationships are the foundation The Queenscliffe Visitor Information Centre is currently looking for Volunteer for successful learning at all ages and stages. Heritage Guides to conduct weekly tours of the Borough's stately homes, majestic Yes we have an experienced and highly qual- hotels, quaint shops and beautiful churches. If you have what it takes to present ified staff. Copyright: Swansong Publishing 2018 the best of the Borough, apply now to join the award-winning team of volunteers ISSN: 1443-5071 at the Queenscliffe Visitor Information Centre. Yes we do run transition programs but par- ticipation is not a pre-requisite for enrolment. Your new role as a Visitor Information Centre Volunteer Heritage Guide will provide you with opportunities to enjoy day trips to local attractions and monthly Most importantly our goal is to support your social get-togethers with other volunteers. Training and uniforms are provided. child to be the best they can possibly be in all facets of life. Contact Maree Greenwood, Visitor Information Centre Coordinator, on 5258 READERS PLEASE NOTE 4843 or [email protected], for a position description and Need more information? The next edition will be available on application form. Contact the school for an information pack or Wednesday October 3, 2018. Borough of Queenscliffe classroom visits. Copy deadlines are one week prior for this 50 Learmonth Street (PO Box 93) Queenscliff VIC 3225 Phone 52581501 to speak to the principal edition on Wednesday, September 26. Telephone: 03 5258 1377 | www.queenscliffe.vic.gov.au Fay Agterhuis Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 3

“Brewhouse staff escorted some individuals from the property at News from your local MP 9pm on Saturday 24 August after being at the hotel for a short period. They were not drunk but behaving inappropriately. They returned to the Vietnam Veterans Day Service Government's Volunteer Emergency The rebate will be made available venue by jumping a rear gate and as such trespassing. Consequently the August 18 is the designated Services Program. This program to householders with an income up to police were called to escort them off the property again. As a result of Vietnam Veterans Day and the date ensures volunteer organisations such $180,000 who live in a home valued the offenders' actions towards the police which followed, the people that the battle of Long Tan was fought as the surf lifesaving clubs, CFA, SES up to $3million, capturing almost 90% involved have now been banned from the Brewhouse. in 1966. The annual service pays and Coast Guard receive significant of people who own their house. We are working hard to establish the venue as an all-inclusive, family tribute to the service men and women grants for much needed equipment. In addition, if re-elected the friendly environment for the community to enjoy. We thank the police who served in Vietnam and impor- The ATV will be put to great use over Andrews Government will extend the for their assistance and are actively working with them, and the tantly includes their families who the coming summer months in 50% rebate program to include the Bellarine Accord/Liquor Licencing, to ensure these incidents never supported them then on their return. providing mobility to lifesavers in their provision of an interest free loan over occur again." I was very proud to attend the line of duty and on permanent four years for the remaining cost. Deb Murray - General Manager Queenscliff Vietnam Veterans Day standby across the year. It is estimated that this will save the Commemoration. The day commen- I have always enjoyed working for average household up to $2225 for ced with the march to the RSL Hall and with the club, which has in recent installation of an average 4 kw solar Hang your heads in shame where the very fitting service and time resulted in a State Grant of system and up to $890 a year on their Police were called to the Queens- job to let everyone have a safe night wreath laying was held. $2million for clubroom refurbish- electricity bills. cliff Brewhouse in Gellibrand Street out," he said. "To get involved in Together with ANZAC Day and ment. I congratulate Club President Not only will this cut household around 10pm. While two police something that doesn't involve you to Remembrance Day, Vietnam Veterans Matt Ponsford and all club members electricity costs, but importantly it will officers were escorting one man from start with is going to put you before the Day is an important day on our on their important and dedicated cut the states carbon emissions by the pub they were assaulted by two court and could see you banned from calendar and one that ensures those work. almost four million tonnes and other men and the man being any licensed venue in Victoria for up who served are not forgotten. Cutting Power Bills with Solar generate 12.5% of Victoria's 40 per cent escorted out. The offenders ran off to two years." I commend Graeme Christie, the Panels target for renewable energy by 2025. but were located in the Little Hesse Victorian Premier Daniel And- Queenscliffe and Point Lonsdale My office is frequently contacted As always, please don't hesitate to Street laneway nearby. rews said the Government had zero RSL, the Vietnam Veterans Assoc- by people concerned with their ever contact me by email or call my office if Approximately five other people tolerance to anyone harming police. iation and the Borough of Queenscliff increasing power bills and asking there are any matters that I may be got involved, some friends of the "They work every day to keep us safe for their efforts. about Government rebates for the able to assist you with. offenders from the pub and a couple and it's simply unacceptable to assault Point Lonsdale Surf Club All installation of solar panels. The State Hon Lisa Neville MP of patrons from another venue. More any member of Victoria Police. It's Terrain Vehicle Government recently announced that Member for Bellarine police arrived and used pepper spray simply not on. We've taken a very The $30,000 vehicle was purchased households installing a solar panel [email protected] on offenders. Approximately 12 police strong position on this, passing laws thanks to the hard work of club system will get half the cost back via a Twitter@Lisanevillemp cars, emergency vehicles and the through the Parliament that require members and funding from the State 50% rebate. Ph: 52 501 987 police helicopter were on the scene. mandatory jail terms if anybody Six men were arrested and another injures a police officer." man handed himself in at the Geelong Victoria Police operates under the Council disappointed by Minister Neville's announcement police station. Those arrested include Victoria Police Act 2013 Council is very disappointed with funding was not part of the National showed high levels of support for the three men from Point Lonsdale aged Our Mission is to serve the the media reports of a statement Stronger Regions Fund Destination project. 20, 21 and 27, and three from Victorian community and uphold the made by Minister Lisa Neville yester- Queenscliff project. This community engagement has Queenscliff aged 37 and two aged 21. law so as to promote a safe, secure and day regarding the State Government In a time when targeted social included multiple mail outs and emails Charges include assaulting police, orderly society. Victoria Police achie- Regional Tourism Infrastructure media campaigns can be very per- to all the community, including resisting arrest, hindering police and ves this by: Preserving the peace. Pro- Fund project. suasive, Council is bitterly disap- businesses; a significant number of being drunk in a public place. tecting life and property. Preventing "Council was encouraged to apply pointed in the level of false information open house discussions; project Police are not punching bags offences. Detecting and apprehending for this funding by the State Govern- that has been published and which has bulletins; community workshops; A female police officer will be off offenders. Helping those in need of ment and did so," said Borough of resulted in this decision. extensive community surveys; and the work for at least a week and five of her assistance. Queenscliffe Mayor, Cr Susan Salter. Extensive recent community con- establishment of a community male colleagues were injured by these Getting barred from a licensed place "This withdrawal of funds means sultation resulted in high levels of reference group that supported this thugs who should be ashamed of their You can be issued with a barring that the community will miss out on support for this project. At its July 2018 concept in 2014. actions that were reported locally and order if you are drunk, violent or enhanced facilities, including path- Ordinary Meeting, Council made While bitterly disappointed in the nationally. This isn't the sort of arguing; when someone in authority ways, new public amenities, improved changes to key elements of the project Minister's decision, Council welcomes publicity any town needs. believes that there is a serious or car parking and public park areas for to reflect community feedback received the commitment by Minister Neville to Acting Senior Sergeant Michael immediate risk that someone will be which independent community con- during the consultation phase. direct this funding to priority projects Graham said a number of bystanders harmed because you have been sultation showed between 70% and Council has implemented a strong in the Borough and her guarantee to had been hindering police. "Our drinking. The order can be issued by 82% community support. community engagement program over continue the ongoing independence of officers don't come to work expecting the police, licence or permit holder or It is important to reinforce that this a number of years which consistently the Borough of Queenscliffe Council." to be assaulted. Police are doing their an employee. Carmel Murphy Page 4 – Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 5 History museum looks to the future Queenscliffe Historical Museum president Garry and which will provide history enthusiasts with a new Spry and his dynamic committee of management have History Research Centre is long overdue. Furthermore, Queenscliff Village News come up with an alternative 'Three Level' redevelop- the opportunity to collaborate with the adjoining ment of the history museum. Library and Visitor Information Centre, promises an 72 Hesse Street, Queenscliff, 3225 For the museum to display and exhibit historic exciting future for this Cultural HUB in the main street artefacts and conduct research they need additional of Queenscliff. Ph: (03) 5258 1828 Fax: (03) 5258 1828 office space, a comprehensive exhibition gallery and To its credit, the original concept of a HUB belongs Email: [email protected] theaterette, artefact treatment and storage space in the to the Borough Council. Funding for the project from basement, a separate research level housing documents State and Federal Government sources has been an issue secured in purpose-built shelving and compactus in the past; we are grateful therefore to our local State Need a Printer? facilities. To finance the Hub a $2 million commitment MP for finally addressing this 'log jam'. from the State Government is required. We are hopeful that the Federal Government, Fire up your Home/Office with Member for the Bellarine Ms Lisa Neville attended a through our strongly supportive local MP Sarah recent presentation at the museum and said she Henderson, will now see its way clear to provide a great printer deal! understood the museum's requirements and would do additional funding to ensure that The HUB becomes a her best to secure funding for the Hub and that a second Cultural Centre with a 'fifty plus' year horizon and an Canon MG 3160 round of Better Regions funding will have her support. inspiration to the town." (wireless – print, copy, scan!) "If the project is to meet our long term objectives, we figured we'd only get one crack at it and we could only support a building which will serve for a 50 year time NOW – $69.00 frame at least," said Mr Spry. An announcement made by Ms Lisa Neville on August 31st concerning Sate Government funding for “If you are buying your ink the Hesse Street HUB, was sweet music to the from anywhere else, Committee of Management and Members of the you are paying too much!” Queenscliffe Historical Museum. "After fourteen long years, relief from a critical overcrowding issue at the museum will be addressed," said museum president Garry Spry. "This will enable the museum to better meet its obligations in terms of spreading its message of 'Celebrating History' both QUEENSCLIFF POINT LONSDALE within the Borough and beyond. QHM president Garry Spry with vice president Rosemary Bigger and better premises to display material in a Brown, Diana Allen and Member for the Bellarine Ms Lisa COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE way that will appeal to a new generation of Australians Neville 2018 COMMUNITY GRANTS Model Boat Exhibition at Maritime Museum The Board of the QPLCE has much pleasure in inviting the 3225 29-30 September of all types on exhibition, including entry for Children under 5. Community to submit applications for our Community Grants in 2018. Discover the fascinating mari- cruise ships up to 12 feet long, model The Queenscliffe Maritime Grant Applications will be open from the 3rd September and remain so time history of Queenscliffe and yachts, naval vessels and lots more. Museum at 2 Wharf Street Queens- until 5 pm Sunday 23rd September 2018. Southern Port Phillip, its wrecks, Talk to the model boat builders and cliff is open daily 11am-4pm rescues, boat builders, fishermen see their radio-controlled demon- (except Christmas Day and Good Grants will be presented at a Community Enterprise Celebration and the brave Port Phillip Sea strations in the outside pool. Friday). Entry fees apply. evening on Sunday 18th November at 5.00pm at a place to be advised. Pilots who guide the ships safely Entry fee includes museum Guided tours by prior appoint- We welcome applications from clubs, associations and informal groups, through the treacherous Rip. admission. Adult $10. Concession ment. Ph: 5258 3440 or info@ including new and unincorporated groups in the Borough. With more than 130 model boats $8. Children 5-14 years $5. Free maritimequeenscliffe.org.au We have a total pool of $25,000 (or as determined by the Board) with an expected limit per grant of $3,000. Amounts in excess of this will only be considered in exceptional circumstances and at the discretion of the Sunday Brunch aboard Searoad Ferries Board. Who doesn't love a good local bubbles, wine or beer supplied What better to do than, sit back, Sunday brunch? Combine that from both sides of the bay. relax and cruise the bay on a two- Applications can be accessed through the website www.qplce.org.au, with a couple of hours sailing the Sunday Brunch on the Bay is hour return sail between Sorrento or pick up a form at the Bendigo Bank, Queenscliff. The completed magnificent waters of Port Phillip served in the beautiful lounges and Queenscliff. application can either then be emailed to [email protected] or Bay and it's a match made in onboard Searoad Ferries allowing For more information visit delivered/mailed to the Bendigo Bank, 65 Hesse Street Queenscliff heaven. guests to enjoy stunning bay and www.searoad.com.au/brunch- 3225. Searoad Ferries is launching an coastal views. bay/ indulgent high tea, with a brunch- All applications must meet criteria to be considered. To review the style twist aboard both the criteria please visit our website. Queenscliff and Sorrento Ferries. If you need to make an enquiry on the grants process, Stephen The two-tiered spread will run every McGain on 0425 246 847 or [email protected]. Sunday beginning 9 September. Head chef Brent Love has developed an inspiring assortment of breakfast favourites such as assorted pastries and quiches alongside the more traditional high tea staples of finger sandwiches and scones. Served with juice, barista made Do you have a story of interest espresso coffee or pot of loose leaf tea, guests have the choice of a to our readers? Sunday morning welcome drink of Call Carmel – 5258 4828 Page 6 – Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 Destination Queenscliff for MP Sarah Henderson "I am pleased to announce I am which council has now agreed to cabins from Shortland's Bluff. CLIFFE’S CAFÉ AND PIZZA holding a Bellarine Community move," said Sarah Henderson, However, I have always been con- Forum for Queenscliff and Point Member for Corangamite. cerned about the cabins proposal, in PHONE: 03 5258 1166 Lonsdale residents on Friday 14 Lisa Neville has regrettably not particular, and look forward to One of September at the Queenscliff been transparent with the community. hearing further feedback on this K Rocks OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Uniting Church Hall at 5pm. "The money she has withdrawn important local issue. Top 10 BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER This will provide an important was the result of a $2.695m secret I strongly support the Queenscliff Pizzas! Sunday - Thursday: 10am to 9pm opportunity for local residents and deal she did with council last year Hub project and welcome the state traders to have their say including which increased the number of funding which is long overdue. With Friday & Saturday: 10am to 10pm on Destination Queenscliff. I share cabins from six to 10. This was never matching funding now available, the community's deep concerns part of the original 'Destination council will be eligible for Federal • PHONE ORDERS AVAILABLE about the new location and design Queenscliff' project. funding under the Building Better • FULLY LICENCED of the proposed cabins and the I am proud I helped lead a Regions Program which is very • EAT IN OR TAKE AWAY location of the kiosk on the bull ring community campaign to relocate the positive." • GREAT FOOD EVERY DAY! but the framework of good partner- • HOME DELIVERY Queenscliff Community Association ships and community support are FIND US ON Facebook OR The QCA, together with the retail traders and accommodation now highly visible. In itself that providers of the borough, have welcomed the announcement by Minister becomes the fundamental driver of www.cliffes.com.au Neville and her strong support for the community. good community outcomes. "We have firmly believed that diverse sectors of the community. We would now welcome from 1 SYMONDS STREET, QUEENSCLIFF, VIC 3225 elements of the project lacked Such a message was not taken this entire process a more productive credibility and any solid foundation onboard with the CEO reappoint- model that includes a true comm- which would address the key fund- ment process that simply requested a unity 'buy in' and an opportunity to amentals that drive Queenscliff and transparent and accountable 'go to deliver tangible results that 'best fit' Point Lonsdale. The overwhelming the market' process. The community the Borough that captures its huge & community signatures confirmed are not fools. They have tried heritage potential. Well thought out T R ASIAN CUISINE serious unease with divisive ele- repeatedly in a number of forums to and designed projects combined with Vietnamese & Indian Cuisine ments of Destination Queenscliff," have proper and robust consultation proper asset maintenance that en- said QCA’s David Connoley. and engagement. hance the key environmental and VIETNAMESE MR TANDOOR "We believe Council were given Council has struggled to deliver heritage values of Queenscliffe are an opportunity to re configure and that basic requirement of good key components of moving forward. LUNCH INDIAN FOOD recalibrate the approach they should governance and effective listening In the end the most fundamental character of Queenscliffe came to the PHO TANDOORI CHICKEN take in acknowledging vital comm- Unhinging a flawed project repre- unity input and undertaking proper sents a strong and concerted fore and that was a pretty united and RICE PAPER ROLLS NAAN BREADS consultation. That largely failed to commitment from a vibrant comm- committed community voice. Min- STIR FRIED NOODLES CURRIES materialise with this project. Council unity who wish to have the unique ister Neville recognised the power FRIED RICE RICE DISHES did not respond effectively to the fabric of our towns recog-nised and and passion of such a voice and she VIETNAMESE ICED COFFEE (ALL MEATS HALAL) messages emanating from quite celebrated. There is work to be done is to be commended." Trading Hours – Open 7 days Lunch: 11.30am-3.30pm Observations on the Destination Queenscliff Project Dinner: 5.00pm-10.00pm The announcement by Lisa competitive neutrality assessment of Headland being assessed for Nat- DINE IN OR TAKE AWAY – BYO only (No corkage charge) Neville MP that the State Govern- the proposal's impact given Council's ional Heritage. The Hassell plans ment was reallocating its grant for operations would be exempt from could compromise such a listing. Destination Queenscliff to the normal business imposts of land tax, So where does this leave things 13 Hesse Street Queenscliff Community Hub is welcome. This loan repayments, depreciation between Council and the comm- decision is a vindication of the very funding, construction and fitout unity? Likely somewhat strained in Phone: 4225 2924 real concerns held by 1,100 people costs. the short term. The community's who signed a petition to have the All financial risks would effec- well-articulated concerns have often contentious project re-evaluated. tively be carried by ratepayers in- disappointingly been met with de- The State Government's decision cluding debt guarantee, staff salaries rision. At August's Council meeting, would not have been made lightly in and superannuation, public liability one councillor gave the public gallery Spring Street but this hard decision is insurance and WorkCover. All this, a tongue lashing for supposedly commendable. Local governments plus the new buildings would be "tearing down the Borough". One are meant to be in touch with their positioned to enjoy the best views in week later and the State Govern- community and able to direct their town on public Crown land (with the ment's intervention will have come efforts in response to local culture planning scheme changed to enable as a profound shock to Council. The and values. This should be especially it to happen). result? A loss of face and the lost so in the Borough of Queenscliff - Heritage enthusiasts were deeply opportunity to have worked with the R I S T O R A N T E the smallest local government area in concerned that the Hassell design community to get the Shortland Australia. would see the loss of the WW1-era Bluff proposal right. FULLY LICENCED So what was it that caused the Bullring, and the adjoining WW2- It's hoped that the State Govern- DINNER FROM 5PM TILL LATE NIGHTLY negative reaction to Destination era cypress trees. The plans showed ment's intervention will act as a Queenscliff and caused the State little regard for the area's remarkable catalyst to improve Council's troub- CHECK WEEKLY SPECIALS ON FACEBOOK Government to act? The answer is heritage assets such as the extremely led community relations. The past multi-faceted. rare 'see-saw light' and importantly, few years have forged wonderful EAT IN & TAKEAWAY - HOME DELIVERY Traders took exception to Coun- the 'glacis' slope which links the Fort bonds among a wide variety of local OPEN 6 DAYS (Closed Wednesdays) cil setting up businesses in direct to the whole southern headland. groups and individuals. The onus is competition to existing accommo- Shortland Bluff is awaiting formal now firmly on Councillors to tap into dation and food outlets despite it assessment by Heritage Victoria and that goodwill to rebuild community 38 HESSE STREET, QUEENSCLIFF being widely understood the traders the Commonwealth Government trust and respect. Ph: 5258 1838 struggle in the off-season. No which may result in the Queenscliff Andrew Sutherland Queenscliff Harbour Fish & Chips SHOP 8 - 4 Wharf Street QUEENSCLIFF HARBOUR Ph: 5258 1277 OPEN 7 DAYS Choose from our excellent selection of Fresh Seafood and Snacks LOCAL FRESH FISH GOURMET SEAFOOD SELECTION HAMBURGERS SEAFOOD PACKS SOUVLAKIS CHIPS SNACKS SELECTION OF BEER WINE & COLD DRINKS 2.00pm EVERY SATURDAY AVAILABLE $15 per person, Our reputation is only surpassed by our quality children free. Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 7 Searoad Ferries an inspiration Mi Shells Seafood for children's book Tales of sea travel have long To help promote the new book, Copies of the book are available inspired writers and illustrators Anne and Piper are planning some for purchase aboard Searoad Ferries FFRREESSHH FFIISSHH and our very own Searoad Ferries activities aboard Searoad Ferries in and at the Ferry Terminal in pm have provided inspiration for a the September school holidays. Queenscliff. SAT & SUN 8.30-3 beautiful new book titled 'The Car OPEN Fairy', a lovely story about a boy who did not want to catch a car AT QUEENSCLIFF HARBOUR fairy, and his father who did. Twelve year old Piper from Lancefield illustrated the book FISH, OYSTERS, PRAWNS, MUSSELS, written by Anne Norman, who grew up on the Mornington Peninsula. ATLANTIC SALMON, SCALLOPS Anne's two year old nephew, who excitedly told her about catching a FRESH OFF THE BOAT. car fairy from Sorrento, was the inspiration for the book. A few months later, in a very long queue waiting for a car ferry to 82 Hesse Street, Queenscliff Saaremaa Island in the Baltic Sea, Phone: 5258 1742 Anne started to write. Over the course of a few years, Piper sent Fresh quality cuts and great service various drawings to Anne and water every day. color backgrounds with paper cut outs tacked on. Like Anne, Piper has a strong Australian Meat Industry Council connection to Searoad Ferries and Sausage King Competition uses it to sail across the bay to visit Piper and Anne will be hosting activities for kids on board the ferry during the her cousins during school holidays. September school holidays. GOLD MEDAL WINNER Producer Tastings at the Brewhouse HAM OFF THE BONE Try our award winning snags and kabanas, Darren Bourke from Leura Park Wines, and Matthieu Megard gold medal winning bacon, producer of L'Artisan Cheese, homemade ... ready made meals, discussed their passions and craft in curries, pies, pasties and sausage rolls. their respective fields at the latest intimate and enlightening night at the Queenscliff Brewhouse. The next Producer Tasting on the 21st of September showcases Terindah Estate and Queenscliff Meats. As space is limited for these special once a month producer hosted wine tasting bookings are essential to secure your spot. Wine tastings are free every Friday night 5.30-6.30pm in the Brewhouse Tasting Room.

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Goffin's numerous infidelities took their feet and dancing the old moves their toll, they divorced and Carole like the locomotion, monkey and the Up on the roof at 360Q moved to Los Angeles and began her swim. solo career. She met Toni Stern, a The show was interspersed with a Nikky Nicholson accompanied by artists. Many of King's most popular the time she was 10 and she wrote a female lyricist, and they wrote the delicious 3 course meal of pumpkin Steve Wade and Rick Petropoulos songs like 'Up on the Roof' for the multitude of songs by her early teens. single 'It's Too Late' that became one and ricotta gnocchi, slow cooked beef both on guitar and Adrian Scott on Drifters, 'Will You Love Me She attended Queens College in New of her biggest hits as a singer. cheeks, almond and pear frangipane, keyboards took about 70 baby Tomorrow' for The Shirelles, 'Take York, where she met Neil Sedaka, Her second album Tapestry, wine and beer served on pristine white boomers back to the 1960s with her Good Care of My Baby' for Bobby Paul Simon and Gerry Goffin (whom released in 1971, stayed No.1 on the linen napery by attentive well trained tribute to American songwriter and Vee and 'You Make Me Feel (Like a she married at 17 and co-wrote songs Billboard charts for a record-breaking staff. lyricist Carole King at 360Q. Natural Woman)' for Aretha Franklin with) all future famous songwriters 15 weeks and on the charts in some One of Carole King's hits contains In between songs Nikky related were written in partnership with her like herself. form for 6 years. 'Locomotion' was the lyrics 'Winter, spring summer or Carole's life story including four first husband, Gerry Goffin. She briefly dated Sedaka, who recorded by Grand Funk Railroad, fall you've got a friend' that could husbands and several children and King's amazing musical gift was produced a hit song entitled 'Oh! Little Eva and Australia's Kylie describe 360Qs Barry Iddles talent for that she had written or co-written over apparent from the time she was a Carol!' Her response was the not so Minogue. bringing quality artists to his 360Q 400 songs recorded by over 1000 toddler, an accomplished pianist by successful song 'Oh! Neil!' Nicky had the baby boomers up on friends in Queenscliff all year round. Repair Café coming to town What do you do with jeans that need to be patched? A broom with a broken handle? A bike with a puncture? Toss it? No way! Tran- sition Towns Borough of Queens- cliffe, in association with the Queenscliff and District Men's Shed, is hosting the Repair Cafe at the Queenscliff Neighbourhood House, Tobin Drive, Queenscliff on Saturday 6 October 10am-12noon. Volunteer repair experts will be available to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Tools and materials will be on hand if you are keen to have a go at fixing your item. Clothes, bikes, toys, crockery, anything except electrical items, that is broken is welcome. By promoting repairs, Transition Towns BOQ wants to help reduce mountains of waste going to landfill. This is absolutely necessary says coordinator Brooke Connor. "We throw away piles of stuff in Australia, things which practically have nothing wrong with them that could easily be used again after a simple repair." Brooke points out that repairs save money and resources and can help Locals loved the lyrics and the meal! minimise CO2 emissions. But above Top Left: Kelly Winton and Michael Limb. all, Repair Café just wants to show Top Right: Kerry Pettigrove and Peter Taylor. how easy and much fun repairing Above Left: Peggy and Ken Sensor with John and Jan Barrett. things can be. Above Right: Annie King and Vicki Dick with Ken Roberts and Neil Petrie 'up Repair Cafe is also meant to put on the roof' at 360Q. neighbours in touch with each other. Plus, there will be a cuppa and a chat to enjoy during your visit. Transition Towns BOQ plans to host the Repair Café on a regular basis in Queenscliff. Check their Facebook page Repair Café Queenscliff

Lisa Neville MP “Proudly working Member for Bellarine for the Bellarine” Tel: 5250 1987 [email protected] Authorised by Lisa Neville MP Shop GO66, Gateway Plaza, 641-659 Bellarine Hwy, Leopold 3224 Funded from Parliament Electorate Office and Communications Budget Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 9 ‘Dinkum Assorted’ Presented by the Queenscliffe Lighthouse Theatre Group Linda Aronson's 'Dinkum Assor- putting on a show for the 'War Effort' Roles and Musical Direction by Ron ted' is a poignant, funny play about a and coping with the sudden arrival of Sudden. group of women striving for 2000 American airmen stationed just Queenscliffe Lighthouse Theatre personal and professional freedom outside town. Group is proud to continue with their against the backdrop of a changing There is the creamy biscuit section presentation of Australian written world. It serves up a slice of headed up by Pearl, the original plays and 'Dinkum Assorted' follows Australian social history with laugh- founders' granddaughter, who fights on from their sold out seasons of 'After ter, tears, songs, tap dancing - and with all her might to keep the creamy Dinner' and 'The Adventures of Peter Rita, the escaped regimental goat! biscuits going. Grace is the formidable Pan'. Set during the wartime spring of forewoman of the wafer biscuit section Dates: Friday 12th October 1942 in the remote outback town of and head of the Air Raid Wardens. 7.30pm. Saturday 13th 2pm & Warrabadanga, the female workers at The cast includes local teacher and 7.30pm. Sunday 14th 2pm. Thursday the Dinkum Biscuit Factory are well known song writer/performer 18th 7.30pm. Friday 19th 7.30pm. battling to keep the biscuits baking. Hannah Petrie Allbutt, Norma Addi- Saturday 20th 2pm & 7.30pm. For these ordinary Aussie women son, Ally Miller, Joy Launikonis, Venue: Queenscliff Uniting in a town devoid of men, life is chall- Heather Kiddle, Vivienne Lewis, Church Hall, Cnr Hesse and Stokes enging. Not only are they fighting to Carol Fogg, Chanelle Tait, Stepahnie Streets. save the factory machinery from being Bee, Gae Gray, Nicole Hickman, Tickets: Trybooking www.trybook- 'Dinkum Assorted' is a brassy, zany and moving mixture of comedy, drama and in sold for scrap, they're running a Eleanor Beasley, Emma Jones and ing.com/XPKB or the Queenscliff today's time, slightly irreverent look at life in outback 1942 Australia. 'Mum's Army' Civil Defence Unit, Petrina Dakin. Directed by Jennie Visitor Information Centre.

QMF announces Third Lineup Di King Exhibition Playing between Friday 23 to Festival of Small Halls partners 8-30 September Sunday 25 November are Aust- with QMF Di King believes variety is the spice of life and her ralian music legends The Black The Festival is a series of tours paintings reflect this. She loves to paint all kinds of Sorrows with Vika & Linda that takes the best folk and subjects. Her work includes the bush, gum trees, rivers Bull, festival favourite Vince contemporary acoustic artists and and tracks, horses and cattle. She especially loves Peach, singer-songwriter Al sends them on the road to tiny figurative work. Parkinson, duos The Twoks and halls in communities all over Di works in oils with an impressionistic style. Her This Way North, bluegrass five- Australia. The artist line-up for "Harry Jakamarra has great understanding of colour and form and how these are piece The Collingwood Casa- Small Halls incorporates one storytelling, a commanding singing influenced by the effect of varying light is truly novas, hip-hop-rock trio The Australian artist and one Inter- voice and he can pick a guitar or a impressive. banjo like the devil's on his tail." Cool Calm, Sydney blues artist national touring artist and will - Jeff Lang She is a well known and respected artist with many “Madison Violet really are a joy to Jesse Redwing and alt-country experience… there are few other acts host Juno-nominated Canadian awards and credits to her name. that can provide such a strong couple Montgomery Church, folk-pop duo Madison Violet and Queenscliff Town Hall venue Di has exhibited in London, Paris and New York and statement of quality musicianship Nahko and Medicine for the growling Aussie blues-folk troub- at this year's Queenscliff Music has had many solo and group exhibitions along with coupled with songs of the highest People's energetic violinist Tim adour Harry Jakamara. Festival with a dedicated show- several publications. caliber." - Lonesome Highway Snider, USA. The Festival opens at the case from both artists. She has won numerous awards including the 'Australian Art Excellence Award' Gold Medal Award - A.G.R.A. (Australian Guild of Realist Artists). Join us for drinks and meet Di on Saturday 8 No Lights September from 2-4pm for the opening of her exhibition. Queenscliff: The Harbour Story Also this month new works from many Seaview A new book on the history of The book has three distinct No Lycra Artists and new Australian Ceramic Table Lamps. the Queenscliff Harbour will be sections beginning with the 19th Lighthouse Arts Collective launched by Mayor Susan Salter century then covering the Cut is stupidly excited about NLNL on Sunday 14 October 3pm development in the 20th century coming to New Hall as we are upstairs at 360Q. and finishing with the contem- all die hard fans of this global, Seaview Gallery The author, Diana Sawyer, porary 21st century Harbour feel good dancing community!! queenscliff Research and Publications Con- Redevelopment. At the heart of No Lights No venor at the Queenscliffe His- Justin Francis, Borough of Lycra (NLNL) is the belief that torical Museum, researched the Queenscliffe Heritage Advisor, everyone can dance. NLNL is a topic over a period of two years wrote this in the Foreword. "It is global dance community and interviewed many people. She Diana's understanding of, and providing an inclusive and non- DI KING EXHIBITION particularly appreciated the assis- empathy with, Queenscliff locals judgmental place for people to tance of Les Irving-Dusting of the that ensures this book is much explore this notion. NLNL Queenscliffe Maritime Museum more than an outline of facts. brings people together to 8-30 SEPTEMBER and Queenscliff Harbour P/L This book is essential reading for experience freedom of self- who provided her with excellent history buffs keen to follow the expression and joy. At NLNL images and some unusual aerial pattern of the state's develop- you can completely let go, shake shots which com-plement the rare ment; for locals truly interested in out the stresses of the week, and images from the Queenscliffe their physical environment; or for Everyone is welcome to this lose yourself in the music and Historical Museum Collection. cultural tourists keen to delve free event upstairs at 360Q, 2 the physicality of your body. Colourful drone photos provided deeper into whether Queenscliff's Wharf Street. Refreshments Come dance your worries away by Garry Spry, President of the twenty-first harbour development provided. Bookings recom- every Tuesday.... in the dark! Queenscliffe Historical Museum, has faithfully incorporated the mended. Copies of the book will New Hall , 11 Kirk Road. are included in the book. heritage of its beginnings." be available for sale at $20. 7:30 - 8:30 – $7 entry

Seaview Gallery 86 Hesse St Queenscliff 3225 Phone 03 5258 3645 email: [email protected] www.seaviewgallery.com.au Contemporary, Traditional Fine Art, Glass and Jewellery Open 10:30am - 5:00pm DAILY Closed Wednesdays Page 10 – Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 Museum Talk Lighthouse Arts Collective Henry Handel Richardson "Our 'first supper' at New Hall 'Raising children while making art is a through collaborative conversation within Just how significant was Henry in literary magazines and anthologies was amazing!" said spokesperson daily tussle, for some of us this inspires and the collective. We are excited to embed our Handel Richardson's time at 26 and has won prizes in Australia and Suzie Wylie. "We had over 50 folks informs the direction of our work and the work within the local community and Mercer Street for the development of overseas. She has taught literature and and kids come together from Point way we engage with our practice; we're facilitate cultural experiences of the highest this internationally acclaimed writer? writing to adults for over 30 years. She Lonsdale, Ocean Grove and Gee- interested in alternative models for how life standard, bringing artists from near and It was a time ending her family life first encountered HHR when she read long to help celebrate this wonderful and art, children and practice can co-exist far to the Borough.' as she had known it, and on 27 'The Getting of Wisdom' at boarding new tradition. and enrich one another. To keep you informed of the September, Janey Runci will cover this school and has been a devoted admirer The atmosphere was warm and Our practices engage in a variety of Lighthouse Arts Collective events at question based on Richardson's ever since. welcoming and the food was forms and disciplines including sound, New Hall Kirk Road, Point Lonsdale, memoir, her fiction and other sources. Janey, Vice President of the Henry incredible. So much love was put into music, performance, poetry, visual art and watch out for their ad in the next Henry Handel Richardson was Handel Richardson Society of Aust- every dish. The kids were bundled film. We create work in our own right and edition of the Queenscliffe Herald. born Ethel Florence Richardson in ralia, will give the Museum's talk on together on a long table decorated 1870, she grew up in Australia and Thursday 27 September 10 for 10.30am with fairy lights and vases full of always called herself a colonial. A at the Queenscliff Uniting Church. bright wattle - I've never seen my 3.5 suffragette in spirit, she seems to have year old happily sit for so long to eat adopted her masculine pseudonym his dinner! The grown-ups chatted more out of whim than to make any and feasted on delicious food and statement. wine. Kids played as everyone Her father, a doctor, became ill, chipped in on the clean up. What a declared mentally unsound and soon generous and spirited community we died. Reduced to genteel poverty, the live in. We can't wait for the next last mother still proved capable of Sunday of the month." educating her and her younger sister, The Lighthouse Arts Collective is a Lil, in one of the best schools in group of artists and arts workers living in Melbourne, PLC. Both girls were Point Lonsdale. The lure of the seaside, musical prodigies. natural environment, community and a Janey, a fiction writer living in slower pace of life, saw them arrive here Melbourne, has been published widely 26 Mercer Street, Queenscliff with their growing families. Friends, fairy lights and foods - every little one's dream dinner.

Queenscliffe Historical Museum Can you help? Diana Sawyer is looking for any old History Week photographs of the Botanic Gardens Handmade and Homegrown Produce 6-14 October now Victoria Park. Each year during History Week many organisations throughout Victoria put on Any old images of flower beds or family NEXT MARKET events to help bring our state's fascinating past to life. As the custodian of the social members enjoying themselves would be history of Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale, the Queenscliffe Historical Museum, in much appreciated for her new book SUNDAY conjunction with the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum and Fort Queenscliff Museum, “Queenscliff: The Botanic Gardens 9th SEPT has for many years hosted a week of events, relating stories of the Borough of Story” to follow her harbour book soon Queenscliffe's history. This year we have a special focus on Point Lonsdale. to be launched by the Mayor. Saturday 6 October 2pm Unveiling Lonsdale plaque on the Promenade at Point Lonsdale Contact Diana at the Queenscliffe This plaque, a result of local public funding, will commemorate and tell the Historical Museum (5258 2511) or email: narrative of Captain William Lonsdale after whom Point Lonsdale was named. [email protected] Lonsdale was a soldier and administrator who supervised the founding of the official Fort Queenscliff Museum settlement at Port Phillip from 1836, as Chief Agent of Government, Police Historical and Educational Guided Tours Magistrate and Commandant for Port Phillip. The Lonsdale name is linked to streets Enjoy the rare opportunity in Geelong and Melbourne, a ship, a torpedo boat, and the naval depot HMAS Queenscliffe Historical Museum to tour a 19th Century Lonsdale at Port Melbourne. Coastal Artillery Fort Sunday 7 October 11am MONTHLY TALK and let the children dress 27th September Guest Speaker - Janey Runci up in military uniforms. Join the 'History Alive' cemetery troupe as they introduce some of the well-known A great photo opportunity. residents of the Queenscliff/Point Lonsdale cemetery. These pioneers, some old The Girl who came to Queenscliff OPEN 7 DAYS – TOUR TIMES some new, all played an important part in the development of the Borough. Just how significant was Henry Handel Richardson's time at Weekdays 11am. Weekends 11am & 1pm Sunday 7 October 3 pm 26 Mercer Street for the development of this internationally School Holidays Sept & Oct: 11am & 1pm Pop over to the Terminus Guest House, now known as the Point Lonsdale Guest acclaimed writer? It was a time ending her family life as she House, at 31 Point Lonsdale Road, for an afternoon of fascinating stories about old had known it and Janey Runci will cover this question based Adult $15, Child over 15 $7, Concession $10, Family Ticket $35. on HHR's memoir, her fiction and other sources. Guided tours last 1hr and 15mins. Point Lonsdale. Three guest speakers, Bill Brown, Keith Quinton and Martin Warneke will immerse us in their stories of the first Point Lonsdale resident, the Point 10am Morning Tea for 10.20 start. Lonsdale Lighthouse and a Guest House experience. The Uniting Church Hall, cnr Stokes & Hesse Streets. All welcome Entry $5 members, $7 non-members. Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 October 2pm A special History Week guided tour of the Queenscliffe Historical Museum will be Winter Exhibition - Boxes of the Borough conducted by Maureen O'Neill as she brings many of the artefacts in the museum to Includes tea boxes, salt boxes, cigar boxes, hat boxes, life through the stories of our early pioneers, including photos and film footage. match boxes, soap boxes, a medical chest and more. Saturday 13 October 3 pm Historic films on the main screen or select you own on a At the Queenscliff Brewhouse, the Historical and Maritime Museums have standalone display; the Bay, the Pilots, the history combined to provide an afternoon of stories of the music played in the Borough in the of the Borough, the Scooter Races and more. 1950s and 60s. Hear the Edison cylinders, listen to the music of the era, and enjoy the More Info: www.queenscliffe-history.org >> Events stories of the people who made this music. Three guest speakers, Gil Allbutt, Eddie Contact: [email protected] Loughnan and Bruce Priddle will talk of their own experiences as participants in the local music scene and at the Espy, as the Brewhouse was then known. Sunday 14 October 3pm at 360Q Book launch: 'Queenscliff: The Harbour Story' written by the museum's Senior 6th – 14th OCTOBER, 2018 Researcher, Diana Sawyer. Complimentary refreshments will be served. Bookings recommended. Historic Films will be showing from 11am-4 pm each weekday during History Week at the Queenscliffe Historic Museum, which has an extensive collection of old newsreels and films about the early history of the Borough, and also specific topics like the pilot service, the fishermen, the steamers and more. Do join in for one or more of these 2018 fascinating events. There is an entry fee for some of them but the prices are very reasonable and have been set only to recover costs. History Week brochures and tickets The Queenscliffe Historical Museum are available from the Queenscliffe in conjunction with Historical Museum at 49 Hesse Street and The Queenscliffe Maritime Museum the Queenscliffe Visitor Information and Centre. The Fort Queenscliff Museum presents A WEEK OF STORIES and “Queenscliff: The Harbour Story” Captain William Lonsdale's plaque will be unveiled on the Point Lonsdale Promenade 2pm Book Launch Saturday 6 October. All welcome. Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 11

As I waited in the vicinity while preparations to fell the old growth eucalypt were Not Just Trees being undertaken, two mudlarks landed briefly in the tree. I imagined that they might be paying In this day and age of 'environmental their last respects. The 'divine intervention' I was awareness' one can only wonder at a decision hoping for never arrived and within half an hour by the City of Greater Geelong to entirely the tree was already being processed through the remove roadside vegetation, that for years has chipper. been labelled a Biodiversity Conservation Considering the number of ratepayers I have Area. spoken to that had no idea that such a Anyone travelling down Banks Road recently, widespread removal was planned, perhaps it is between Shell Road, Ocean Grove and the time COGGs 'due process' was reassessed to Bellarine Highway at Marcus Hill, would have ensure ratepayers are kept more informed. A noticed a dramatic change in the landscape. I good starting point could be the elimination of have been a regular user of that section of road signage that lulls ratepayers into a false feeling since the days when it was still a dirt road. I have of security, believing that the COGG might walked, ridden biycles and horses, and driven A Biodiversity sign in Banks Road. actually care about biodiversity. cars along that section of road out and back at Anyone who has concerns about further least twice a day for several years. vegetation are lost. Formal recognition, such as biodiversity and tree removals along this section One morning last week there were a number through environmental overlays or policies, may of road, be warned, COGG has additional of 'old growth' trees growing along the eastern supply little in the way of real protection." plans for future removals. boundary of a proposed housing development. I have often been in the audience at events Perhaps with the latest election of On my next trip that evening, trees, some fifty put on by the City Of Greater Geelong or their councillors, things might change. I for one will years old and stretching over hundreds of metres, representatives. Invariably the event is opened not be holding my breath. Don't get me wrong, had been removed. by a COGG representative with the words: "I in this day and age, only a rare few, could claim Despite the removal of undergrowth over a would like to pay my respect to the traditional complete innocence in regards to environmental few years, which in itself seemed to contradict custodians of the land, the Wautherong, both issues and I do not claim to be in that select council policy, I could not believe my eyes. Apart past and present..." Perhaps the COGG could group, it is just that some are more guilty than from a large River Red Gum, the irony being it pay a far greater degree of respect to the others. was inside the boundary of the proposed housing Wautherong by caring for land that they By Denis Walters Now reduced to chips. development, and another majestic eucalypt next inhabited over a far greater length of time with to a dam, all semblance of vegetation along that minimal environmental impact. section of road, had been removed. Adding to Bruce Lindsay shared some reasons as to the shock was the feeling that the trees were why he thought total biodiversity removal possibly 'removed by stealth. sometimes occurred. "In practice, especially in Very visible, for many years along Banks the absence of local community agitation, the Road are metal signs erected by the City of protection of old trees on road reserves (or other Greater Geelong that state that it is a Biodiversity areas outside of formal conservation reserves) Conservation Area. 'Vegetation on both sides of and native vegetation generally are treated as this road is protected. Do not commence any ancillary considerations in the context of off- 2018 activity or disturb this area without council the-shelf models of urban development. I think permission Penalties Apply.' this reflects deep industry and institutional After making enquiries about the tree by the inertia, sometimes intellectual laziness, and an dam, I learned that it was scheduled to be anxiety within institutions to question, chall- removed two days later. I began a last minute enge and critique. That anxiety is especially campaign to try to save the tree. After a number directed to established interests, profits and of phone calls, emails and being assured that methods. This is all despite many capable and council had followed 'due process' the fate of the skilful people working with councils, govern- tree appeared inevitable. ment and relevant industries." The day before it was due to be removed I The following is an extract from the text of the City contacted Bruce Lindsay, an Environmental of Greater Geelong's Biodiversity Strategy (2003). Lawyer with Environmental Justice Australia. 'Past, present and future losses of biodiversity are He committed a good deal of time and effort considered by many scientists and concerned citizens to ensuring that 'due process' had been followed. It be Australia's single greatest environmental problem.' had. He contributed the following. On a trips along Banks Road I have noticed "On the Bellarine, as with many peri-urban the presence of raptors occupying the upper and rural areas, roadside native vegetation limbs of trees recently removed. These birds of represents among the most important remnant prey are vital in the maintenance of environ- ecological features in this area and in greater mental balance and eliminating their natural Geelong. This is both because these areas habitat, has a dramatic flow on effect on the role avoided clearing and loss but also because they they play. form biodiversity corridors." Regular readers of the Queenscliff Herald In the event some of the trees had to be might recall an incident I wrote about two years removed, one is only left to wonder at the ago. "One day I parked my car in a wooded area complete devastation. An example of the on a Banks Road property. As I exited the vehicle ramifications of the considerable removal of I left the driver's side door open for a few minutes. trees, due to housing development on the Imagine my surprise, when on my return, I found Bellarine Peninsula and the considerable impact a large hawk sitting in the passenger seat. I it can have, was not lost on a former Wallington wondered how it could have come about as apple orchardist about three years ago. Despite hawks are usually quite timid. I carefully putting a number of controls in place, the extricated the bird and it was only after its orchardist attributed a major portion of the departure that a sparrow emerged from the back blame, resulting in the closure of his business, to seat of the car. The mystery was solved. No the growing bird population that began landing doubt the pursuer and the pursued had been so Saturday & Sunday in his orchard. intent on the other's actions that they ended up As a regular visitor to the orchard I witnessed flying into the car." September 29 & 30 2018 the devastating affect the birds had on his crop in Many concerned Bellarine residents will 10.30 am – 4.30 pm just a couple of years. verify that there has been an explosion in the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum 2 Wharf Street Queenscliff Bruce Lindsay shared his thoughts on population of the introduced Indian Mynah. 03 5258 3440 planning rules. "Planning rules, such as those Like starlings, these birds adapt far more readily [email protected] found in the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme, when biodiversity is removed and are aggressive do recognise these corridors and environmental competitors for any remaining habitat. As the values but commonly in council and government raptor population diminishes even further, the decision-making these values give way too easily problem with mynahs and other introduced birds to development and built infrastructure. The is only going to get worse along with other irreplaceable benefits of remnant old trees and environmental pests. Page 12 – Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 St Aloysius to host National Kids' Environment Extravaganza St Aloysius is one of hundreds of teach her group about the effects of schools and more than 13,000 Marine Debris on local birdlife. "I am students across Australia who will excited to be sharing our knowledge focus their knowledge and passion and I hope kids will take away the key for the environment through com- messages to put their rubbish in the edy, songs, quizzes, rap, plays and right bin and use less single use experiments around the environment plastics," she said. and issues of concern to them during Event creator Arron Wood, Aus- 2018 Kids Teaching Kids Week, 3-7 tralian Environmentalist of the Year September. for his environmental education St Aloysius teaches students Students will be teaching each efforts, said that all the events being other about issues such as climate held around Australia are packed with change, water, waste, conservation, great activities and learning oppor- to make a difference energy, drought, habitat destruction, tunities. "Adults take a back seat at this population and pollution to bring event - kids teach each other in much At St Aloysius Primary School excursions with a unique environ- of a Catholic Community the students about positive environmental change more interesting creative ways than our focus on sustainability recog- mental focus. Outdoor Learning is an are guided by Catholic values and in Princess Park, Queenscliff. Students the usual classroom format. Most nises the interconnectedness and integral part of our teaching and Catholic Social Teaching so as to from five local schools from around importantly, the kids learn they can interdependence of life on our learning program, given our spec- make a difference in our world both the Bellarine and Surf Coast will come make a real difference on environment planet, and acknowledges that we tacular location and a significant focus locally and globally. together to teach each other about the issues, despite the magnitude of are responsible for each other and the has been placed on science and We encourage prospective families environmental issues that matter to problems facing their environment.” earth, our common home. As the environmental science with a goal of to come for a tour of our amazing them. Kids Teaching Kids, an environ- Catholic school in the Borough, we instilling in our students a deep school, meet the staff and students Workshops include seaweed mental education program, is run in understand that living and working understanding of how our world and immerse themselves in a culture varieties of Port Phillip Bay, Birds of schools across the nation thanks to the in our environment develops in us, works and to build upon their natural of school improvement and inno- Swan Bay, Effects of Marine Debris, support of the Department of an obligation to act in a way that dispositions of inquiry. vative learning opportunities." and Making a Worm farm. Environment, Land, Water and ensures future generations can live The learning environment of the Phone 5258 1736 to make an Year five student Angelina Pollard Planning (Vic), Qantas and Sydney sustainably on our planet Earth. school can best be described as calm appointment. is leading a workshop designed to Airport. At St Aloysius much emphasis is and engaging, allowing students to placed on Wellbeing within a frame- learn both independently and collab- work of Positive Psychology in oratively in an interactive and focused Education which goes far beyond our manner. We actively encourage traditional Pastoral Care model says academic success and focus positively school principal Fiona Dawson. "We on social and emotional wellbeing as strongly believe that the future of our part of our ethos. There is a strong students depends upon what we do emphasis within the learning and today. Our vision for wellbeing at St teaching program on developing a Aloysius is that we are a faith filled solid base in literacy and numeracy. learning community where all indi- We believe that Visual Arts, viduals are encouraged to flourish. We Performing Arts including Music, aim to inspire children who want to Dance and Drama and Italian contribute to their world and the lives contribute to building the whole child. of those around them in a positive way While being very proud of its as they grow. history, the St Aloysius community is St Aloysius is located between intent on providing the most contem- Swan Bay and Port Phillip Heads in a porary and engaging learning and pristine natural environment that teaching program for our students Prep and Grade 1 students enjoying the Outdoor Learning Year five students teaching a workshop group about local allows for seamless interaction and today and into the future. Being part program on Swan Bay. seaweed varieties. Miniature train rides over spring The Portarlington Bayside Family Park on the corner Point Richards & Boat Roads, Portarlington operates every Sunday from 11am-4pm during the Still kicking summer months September to April. Spring School Holidays the railway will operate a special service on Wednesdays 26 September and up their heels! Wednesday 3 October 11am-4pm. The ever popular Leopold Hall is Trains run at frequent intervals and the cost is only $4. to undergo and extension which will Children under the age of 2 travel free. The train ride 5pm Wednesday provide extra facilities to meet the takes about 10 minutes and. Family and periodical tickets future needs of the community. available. Currently the hall is used for Line This family park is only 30 minutes by car from 19 September Dancing, Exercise Class, Tia Chi, Geelong and with its natural beachside setting makes an Yoga, Calisthenics, Aglow Internat- ideal location for a special family outing or picnic. ional, Karate, Scottish Dancing, There's ample car parking, playgrounds, walking trails, Ballet and Old Time Ballroom free electric BBQ facilities and a station kiosk nearby. Dancing. More information from Kerry 0476 124 598. A new organization, known as ROUND Dancing, assists people in the early stages of dementia will be operating in 2019. MA PAR The Victorian Government has U K assisted with funding for the project to S provide areas for storage, ballet, bal- ance exercisers, one-on-one training, HOMESTEAD toilet facilities and a new external ramp and doorway will be added to the main hall to meet OH&S require- ments. Old Time Dance - Sunday 16 September 2-5pm Admission is FREE and includes afternoon tea. Music provided by the Leopold Hall Committee from CDs. Seniors Dance - Sunday 7 October 2- 5pm Admission $5pp includes afternoon tea. Music provided by Geelong's well known musician Ron Sudden. People CONFERENCES FUNCTIONS who are unable to attend the weekly Saturday night dances and would like WEDDINGS to be entertained by Ron Sudden will ACCOMMODATION be made most welcome. WINERY CELLAR DOOR Daytime hours are available for groups to use the hall in 2019. Call 0400 500 402 or email leopoldhall All enquiries 5258 3507 [email protected] Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 13 Birds of a feather “We started making bird Greater Geelong. It's been Energy for Life boxes for rosellas with the local quite a learning process for all of school kids and loved it so much us to get the right design for the 25 Years Qualified Personal Trainer we ended up making 150 boxes boxes, and learn about the best for 9 different species. I used to ways of installing them up trees, Boutique Gym keep birds in cages - I would the right position that the never do that again," said Bob different species require, etc. Memberships Evans from the St Leonards The Men's Shed now have Men's Shed. designs for 9 species of fauna - available St Leonards' primary school students with members of the Mens Shed. Bob is quietly passionate ringtail possums, eastern rosellas, Photo courtesy of Sophie Small. Circuit Classes about looking after our wild bird microbats, boobook owls, sacred populations and helping them to kingfishers, grey thrushes, pard- 1 on 1 Training flourish. "We'd like to raise alote, welcome swallows and awareness about the immense kookaburras. All of them require St Leonards' primary school students with members of the Mens Shed. Group Training value of those old gum trees for a different sized and shaped box Photo courtesy of Sophie Small. our native animals, and try and with a different size entrance!" available protect the ones that are left and "Our Men's Shed worked with Portarlington and the Lower learns about the tools. Phone Kerry Pettigrove give them the potential to St Leonard's primary school Bluff at St Leonard. There will be Men's Sheds are a wonderful regenerate seedlings. Those old students to build 8 boxes. This got lots of birdwatching groups addition to the community. We've gums need 100 years to produce the kids thinking about conser- monitoring who's using them. made cubbies, a gahgah pit, a 0414 581 670 the hollows that are suitable for vation. Their boxes were covered There is one species of owls that learning garden, vegetable gar- wildlife. Many people are using with old fence palings to look use them all year round. Over den enclosures and pavers with these old gums for firewood so authentic but we found them to winter many of the birds move for St Leonards primary school. that is why there is a need for be too heavy. These have been out and possums move in. We've provided picnic tables and breeding and habitat boxes for installed around the St Leonards We have 34 in our St Leonards mulch to Bellarine Bayside. Each birds and mammals." Lake Reserve," said said Shane Men Shed group. Our oldest club has different relationships Sophie Small from Bellarine McManus. member turned 94 recently and with different parts of the Landcare adds: "Bob approached "The Bellarine Bayside Coas- our youngest is in high school. He community. It is all linking and us about building the boxes, we tal Committee has been involved comes along with a carer after strengthening the community." had some funding from a Victoria in purchasing 50 nest boxes for school every second week and By Jacqui Bennett, Landcare Grant and the City of their reserves at Point Richards at tinkers around making things and Humans in Geelong You don't need a license to save lives Australian Red Cross targets motor vehicle accident 'first on Sunday 7 October 10am-3pm scene' for World First Aid Day on Saturday 8 September. Up to 15% of motor vehicle accident deaths could be prevented if first aid was Deakin Waterfront Campus administered before paramedics arrived. Based on our national road A Free Community Event highlighting amazing locals in our toll over the past five years over 1100 lives could have been saved. region and lots of fun for the kids with free face painting and crafts. Ninety per cent of car accidents in Australia are caused by 1500 attended our first inspirational event last year. Humans in distraction including mobile phone, fatigue, speed, and alcohol or Geelong aims to INSPIRE - CONNECT - STRENGTHEN our drugs. It is known that the care provided in the first few minutes of a community. car accident can make a statistical difference in both mortality and Twelve Guest Speakers morbidity. A study by Flinders University in 2013 showed that a Nasir Sobhani 'The Street's Barber' a reformed addict who now bystanders' decision not to intervene could be due to insufficient first gives back by cutting the hair of the people on the streets. Professor aid knowledge and therefore an inability to judge and determine the Steven Allender, GLOBE Deakin Uni, how to combat the rising rates severity of injuries and need for first aid. One of the most common in childhood obesity and other complex social problems with a whole causes of death for road crash casualties is anoxia - a lack of oxygen community approach. Andrea Downie, Project Thrive, wellbeing for supply caused by a blocked airway. us and our families. Doug Lang, 'The Nature of Survival' as seen on Preparation can be as simple as remembering the basic life support ABC Landline. acronym DRSABCD: Six Live Performances D - Check for Danger 10.30 am Dazzling Dan the Magician, Sweethearts, With One R - Check for Response Voice Choir, Latin Dance Group. S - Send for help. Call 000 44 Exhibitors A - Open Airway P H A R M A C Y Liam's Art, Liam will be painting, Geelong Sustainability, Creative B - Check for normal Breathing Geelong, Cherished Pets, Arkoun & Fair Wrap. C - Start CPR (30 chest compressions: 2 breaths) H E A L T H I S B E A U T Y Program updates www.humansingeelong.com D - Attach Defibrillator Helpful advice always available. Sponsored by The City of Greater Geelong, Deakin University, Be prepared and book into an Australian Red Cross First Aid Free delivery and pick-up in Pt Lonsdale & Geelong Connected Communities and Snap Printing Geelong. course and make sure you have an Australian Red Cross Motorist or Queenscliff daily – Senior’s Card Welcome. 4WD First Aid Kit in your car. Bookings 1300 367 428. Income generated through Red Cross training programs and Shoes for Spring are here with Defibrillator Demonstration products supports ongoing humanitarian work, nationally and exciting colours including There are now many locations where Automated External internationally. Rose-Gold and Pewter. Defibrillators are stored. These lifesaving devices are easy to use with recorded instructions activated as soon as the defibrillator case Call in and try! is opened. Boot Scootin' a Red Cross Fundraiser BUY YOURSELF A GIFT WITH A Friday 14 September 7.30-10.30pm Many people are still interested in seeing one in use to reassure WICKED SISTER TOILET BAG them of their capabilities in using it if the need arises. RSL Hall 9 King Street Queenscliff Matthew Ponsford from the Point Lonsdale Surf Lifesaving Club Come along, have some fun and learn a few line dances with our AND ACCESSORIES. will demonstrate how to operate a Defibrillator at the Neighbourhood expert caller Peta. House on Sunday 30 September 10-11am. Finger food supper will be provided by the wonderful Red Cross ladies. 52 Hesse Street Queenscliff Please note this is not a CPR training session. Bookings essential BYO Drinks, Nibbles and Glass. Tel 5258 1817 Fax 5258 4128 5258 3367. Gold coin donation. Tickets $20pp. Enq: Julie 0410 496 871 or Gae 0448 201 183. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm and Saturday 9am to 5.00pm Page 14 – Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 Shortland's Bluff – Significance of The Bullring Memorial Site The Bullring Memorial Site (The who are so nobly fighting our battles site to the west, Everett's concept is sinking of the RAN minesweeper Shortland's Bluff is interwoven Bullring) was the first WW1 mem- at the front." clearly evident, situated exactly at the Goorangai off Shortland's Bluff in through its association to nearby built orial in the Borough of Queenscliffe Because of the acute shortage of end of Hesse Street, the amphitheatre 1940. All 24 lives on board were lost in and commemorative structures, the and ranks among the oldest in money, a public subscription was configuration with surrounding walk- the incident, the first loss of an RAN surrounding waters, its maritime, Victoria. Surprisingly there is little established for seats to become a way, and steps leading to its emphatic ship in WW2. military and social history, its general appreciation of its signifi- reality, a wonderful example of elevated viewing position facing The Another tragic incident, that of the geography, its people and its natural cant history. effective community engagement. Heads loss of three army commandos in environment. Yet, it remains an What is its origin, the reason Seats have now been a feature of the Post WW2, a stand of cypress 1960, also in the waters off Short- enigma which calls out for under- behind its distinctive amphitheatre site for the past 100 years, making it an pines were positioned around the land's Bluff, is commemorated standing and our protection. design, its colloquial name, located on enduring site of remembrance and memorial as part of the extension of through a memorial located at the To alienate it from its important one of Victoria's most beautiful reflection. the town's Avenue of Honour. The base of The Bullring. This tragedy had surroundings simply for the purpose coastal headlands? Recently, council declared that "no few remaining commemorative pines a profound effect on the local of commercial opportunism requires The Bullring is often misrep- information has been found to suggest have been declared by council as community as the rescue effort careful and considered analysis. It is resented by visitors and locals as the the area is a memorial of any kind". superfluous in the context of develop- included the Queenscliff Lifeboat evident that, to date, such an analysis Ocean View car park. It is only when This is bewildering considering this ing the site and have earmarked their Service, residents, police, a former has not been done and continues to be you stand on its dramatic elevated was an initiative of past Borough removal. navy minesweeper and the Italian avoided by those vested with the position, or see it from aerial photo- councils and is well documented. Name cruise liner, the Toscano. In all 71 responsibility for the site's survival graphs, that its unique characteristics Comparison to its importance During WW1, Australian troops commandos were rescued. and protection. are clearly definable and separate to should be made with the nearby at the Western Front became intrin- Many residents were severely Jefferson Kinsman, Honorary, the car park. ANZAC Memorial at Point Danger, sically attached to what was known as traumatised by this incident and few Melbourne Graduate School of Commemorative Heritage Torquay which begs the question a bullring. It represented an area set received any professional counselling Education, wrote in an article on the When Australia entered WW1, "would the Point Danger site ever be aside for troops to conduct intense as was the case for all the rescued Hotel and Spa development, also Queenscliffe became a significant charged with the same crime of training drills before being redeployed commandos. proposed by Council for revenue recruiting ground for volunteers. resisting development as that imposed to the Front Line. The design for Destination raising in 2014 for the Point Lonsdale They, along with regular army on The Bullring?" The resulting The diary of Herbert Andrew Queenscliff did not consider the Reserve: "For when it comes to soldiers attached to Fort Queenscliff, sentence, to be bulldozed to make way Smythe, 3rd Battalion, 1st AIF Commando Memorial when siting culture and the environment, gover- joined together in the AIF Expedit- for a cafe, should be regarded as en- records: "Learn to my disgust that I've the cafe, nor was the National nance no longer means guardianship. ionary Force, sailing past Shortland's vironmentally unspeakable and con- got to go through The Bullring. Went Commando Association consulted in A commitment to economic growth Bluff on their voyage abroad. trary to our egalitarian values. The to the bullring early morning about 3 the process. apparently compels our leaders to hive Tragically some 100 of them never same values that inspired our young miles, returning at 11.30." The memorials that complement off public concerns to private enter- returned home. soldiers to defend the rights of Men were posted here from the The Bullring make it a site of National prise. At the stroke of a pen, social With mounting losses abroad and innocent people to enjoy a life free front line for refresher training, and to significance and central to the vision becomes capital blindness." personal grief within the local from repression and fear, and the 'inculcate the offensive spirit'. The application currently in place for both The Way Forward community, in 1917 the Borough exact reason why The Bullring still Bullring at Etaples, an important National and State Heritage Listings With the upcoming 100th Anni- council set aside the area at the end of exists today. Australian lead off point, was for Shortland's Bluff. The dilution of versary of its construction, The Hesse Street as a commemorative site. Design infamous for its severe discipline. this importance through the proposal Bullring should take its rightful place According to extracts from the With the end of WW1, it saw a Wilfred Owen, English soldier and to build the cafe alongside and on top in our heritage and, with it, promote Queenscliff Sentinel, the much period of extreme hardship and renowned poet described the training of these memorials surely requires peace and understanding as was its respected Mayor W. T. Thwaites deprivation for Australia. As a result, camp at Etaples as 'the Bullring' further careful consideration in original intent in 1917. The starting wrote: "Seeing we have undertaken in 1919, the Borough of Queenscliffe because of the brutality of its context of the pursuit of Heritage point needs to be the recognition of improvements at the beach end of received a £749 Repatriation Grant to instructors and the generally harsh Listing. the site as a significant memorial and Hesse Street and the council is placing assist in finding paid employment for conditions that reigned there. It has also come to light, through the important part it plays in the six seats there, I would suggest the returned service personnel and nurses. Two of our most respected information supplied by operators of dynamics of the surrounding area. placing of two seats there of approved Suggestions were sought as to how residents recently added insight into the existing small kiosk, of the high The sites inclusion within a heritage design and dedicate them to our boys best spend this money. the colloquial name. Mr Jack Beazley number of families who gather on the park precinct, incorporating aspects at the Front. They could be suitably A young architect, Percy Everett, recalls it from his childhood being site to remember family and friends of landscaping and pathways, and inscribed and would afford rest to the submitted a grand design for attributed to Dave Hutchins, foreman whose ashes have been scattered in the complementing other built and many who own sons so nobly fighting Shortland's Bluff to be landscaped as of the council outdoor staff. Hutchins waters off Shortland's Bluff. This is a natural features of Shortland's Bluff, our battle." an amphitheatre style memorial. The had two brothers who were WW1 significant addition to the importance would offer a unique tourist precinct This initiative was seconded by cost of the design however far veterans so through them had first this location has in terms of comm- which would sit comfortably along- Capt R Lyon Instone, a Port Phillip exceeded the funds available and what hand knowledge of the notorious emoration. side the opportunities we have for the Sea Pilot and resident: "I heartily was implemented, was a scaled down training camps in France. Destination Queenscliff whole area to be a true National endorse our Mayor's suggestion that version of his design where the Lt Col David Millie (Ret) distinctly In an attempt to give legitimacy to Heritage location seats of approved design should be memorial seats had been erected. recalls his time as an Army Cadet at the Destination Queenscliff proposal, Recently the Prime Minister of erected and dedicated to those boys From the image above of the Duntroon in Canberra, performing council is loosely implying that a cafe France, Edouard Phillipe spoke of the who have gone from our town and Ocean View carpark and The Bullring drills at its 'bullring'. The colloquial has stood on the coastal headland for pivotal role played by Australian name given to the Queenscliff site some fifty years. The modest kiosk troops in defending his country. He conjured up memories of his own previously located there was, how- reflected on the terrible loneliness experience. Mr Millie has conveyed to ever, located at the current entrance to which thousands of young Aust- council the commemorative history the sports ground/caravan park off ralians must have felt as their young of the site and the need for its Hesse Street and destroyed by an lives were cut short in a foreign preservation. Accordingly, a rich vein arson attack in the 1970s. Subse- country. "A foreign country. A far of military association connects this quently, a small, leased kiosk has away country. A cold country whose site to its colloquial name and its operated there. earth had neither the colour nor the importance in terms of our heritage. It is essential that conciliatory texture of their native bush. A far Australia's premier automotive exhibition is set to be bigger and Uses discussions take place to reconsider away, foreign country which they better than ever before, when the doors open to Motorclassica 2018 at the The Bullring has long been an an alternate location, style and defended, inch by inch, in Fromelles, Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building on 12-14 October. iconic location for both locals and capacity that will also minimise the in Bullecourt, and in Villers Breton- Now in its ninth year, Motorclassica will again bring together the tourists to enjoy the vistas of Port impact on local traders, to that neux. As if it were their own country." greatest collection of classic cars and motorcycles in the southern Phillip Heads and its surroundings. It currently proposed under Destination The Bullring Memorial Site hemisphere, mixed with the very newest supercars and sports cars from the has remained unspoilt and the Queenscliff. honours their sacrifice and deserves world's premium automotive manufacturers. original concept of council providing The community appears to heavily our similar respect. Not a cafe. Mercedes-Benz will unveil a special new model for the Australian seats for this purpose continues. support the retention of the existing Footnote: I acknowledge the market at Motorclassica joined by Porsche, McLaren, Lamborghini and Over time the site has been further kiosk site for this purpose and are extensive research by local and military the Australasian debuts of the new Alpine A110, and Ford Bullit Mustang enhanced with the erection of nearby opposed to any development along historians and members of the community amongst others. memorials. One suite of cairns the Shortland's Bluff coastal fringe. in compiling the history of this significant Motorclassica will also host a display of cars and motorcycles from the complement the Goorangai Mem- A Sense of Place memorial site. Art Deco era of design, 1910 to 1940, including a show-stopping 1936 orial in recognition of the accidental The Bullring's relationship to By Keith Stowers, Queenscliff Delage D6/70S coupe with Figoni & Falaschi-styled coachwork, and a trio of special Cords, featuring the ex-Amelia Earhart 812 Sportsman and a matching ex-Bing Crosby Custom Beverly. For motorcycle fans there will be a celebration of 70 years of the legendary Harley-Davidson Panhead and 60 years of the Triumph Bonneville and a display of 18 quirky Micro Cars. American automotive icons will be honoured with an exhibition of significant Cadillac models down through the years, and of the legendary Muscle Cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Australia's own 1980 World Driver's Champion Alan Jones will join us onsite to celebrate 90 years of the Australian Grand Prix, the second-oldest in the world after the French Grand Prix. Learn more about Motorclassica www.motorclassica.com.au/ Ticket Giveaway To be in the draw for one of five double passes to Motorclassica email [email protected] with your name and address by Friday 28 September. War Memorials located near the Bullring Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018 – Page 15

PROBUS CLUB of TREE TRIMMING BUSINESS DIRECTORY POINT LONSDALE-QUEENSCLIFF TREE HEALTH & SAFETY SPECIALIST TREE CARE Cricket - the Gentleman's Game Qualified Arborists Tree Removal & Pruning It's Not Cricket! Hedging Branch Removal Mr Cricket, Bob Merriman, add- great Sachin Tendulkar was caught in Experts in Tight Space Removals ressed the local men's Probus club at a 2003; and the Pakistan team refused to recent meeting. It was a 'warts and all' continue play at The Oval in 2010 when Fully Insured – Pensioner Discount talk. Bob has held many important and umpires penalised them for ball David Stevens 0411 785 181 impressive cricketing appoint-ments. tampering. Bryan Doheney 0459 902 233 He was Chairman of Cricket Australia Cricket in Australia and internat- for 5 years and Director for 15 years, ionally is big business. Television and [email protected] Australian Team Manager for cricket radio rights deals are bigger than the tours of India, Malaysia, United Arab rights for Australian football per match Emirates, New Zealand and England and other sporting events here and in the late 1970s and the mid-1980s. He overseas. Cricket in India is big business. was Director of Cricket Victoria and is Over 80% of world cricket money is currently the Patron of Geelong associated with cricket in India. The Cricket Club and a Director of the power of India in international cricket is Geelong Regional T20 Group. huge and illegal gambling on cricket on Cricket is Australia's favourite sport the sub-continent is a massive problem. and it is the most popular, despite its Not long ago, it was revealed that 'crises', and there have been many, there were over 60 illegal gambling culminating in the recent ball tampering organisations in India. The effects on incident, the breach of the 'spirit of the game have been felt far and wide, cricket' philosophy and the suspension with some players being induced to from first class cricket for more than 12 'throw the match' or to take an action months of Australia's captain, its vice- against the spirit of the game. Financial captain and an opening batsman. inducements for some players have been Every Australian male and, in- massive. The incident in 2000, when the creasingly, many Australian females captains of India, Pakistan and South have, at some stage of their lives played Africa were suspended for life for cricket, watched cricket or have been 'throwing cricket matches', has had a involved in cricket in some form. significant impact on the elimination of Bob admitted that the game of gambling on cricket matches world- cricket, both in Australia at all levels, wide. and internationally, even at ICC-level, With cricket so popular, and revenue PRINTING & COPYING has seemed to go from one crisis to from the game so huge (the income will another. He recalled the more recent be $1.3 billion this year), the manage- major crises (cricket lovers will ment of cricket in Australia is deter- ELECTRICIANS remember most of these): the under- mined to put money back into the game. arm bowing with the Chappell brothers Better cricket facilities across the against New Zealand; the Kerry Packer country; money to assist the growth of World Series Cricket era; the Javad women's cricket; youth and school Miandad incident when he tried to part cricket; and the game at the grass-roots Dennis Lillee's hair with his bat; Border level would all benefit from the flow- quitting as Australia's captain (3 times); down of cricket revenue. the South Africa rebel tour; Kim Bob emphasised that the 'spirit of Hughes' resignation as Australia's cricket' was such that it can survive, and captain; Australia's not winning the has survived, the challenges that have Warren Jankowski Ashes in England since 2001. faced cricket the world over. Cricket 0404 163 609 Bob said that ball tampering is not a remains the 'gentleman's game' and will new practice. England captain Mike always remain thus. [email protected] Atherton in the 1990s was caught with Bryan Hughes Registered Electrical Contractor 23229 dirt in his pocket; the Indian captain, the Point Lonsdale-Queenscliff Probus Club

Masonic Musings Cosmopolitan Lodge Freemasonry is an Organisation of Good Men, No. 96 RESTORATION supporting each other, their families and the community.

The 136th Installation of Cosmo- politan Lodge No 96 will be conducted on Saturday 15th September with Bro Steve Kartsaklis being placed in the Chair of King Solomon. The Installation Ceremony is an annual event scheduled in September of each year, whereby a new Master is MARINE SERVICES Installed, or the current Master is Re Installed Steve owns and runs St Leonards Auto and Marine at Drysdale. He is married to Artemis and has been PLUMBING blessed with two daughters and a son. Artemis & Steve Kartsaklis, the newly The ceremony will be an Open Installed Master of Cosmopolitan Lodge Installation and Investiture of Officers No 96 after 15 September 2018. Paul Griffin Plumbing and conducted by Most Worshipful Bro Keith Murray Grand Master of the and Investiture is not a regular Repairs-Maintenance-Replacements United Grand Lodge of Victoria who occurrence but is conducted about will be accompanied and assisted by the every 3-5 years or more depending on Spouts & Downpipes 2018 Grand Ceremonial Team. the circumstances.) All Domestic Plumbing The Installation is normally open to It is expected that over 90 people only Freemasons with partners being from various parts of Victoria will be in Gas Fitting admitted to the banquet, however at an attendance to enjoy the Installation and Hot Water Service renewals Open Installation non-Freemasons, Banquet festivities. wives and partners are invited to attend If you are seeking information Leaky Taps & Blocked Drains to watch the spectacular investiture regarding Freemasonry call me on 5258 ceremony followed by a banquet meal 2680 or 0400 553 939. Dick Clark - Sewage & Stormwater for about 90. (The Open Installation Secretary Cosmopolitan Lodge No 96. Established 30 Years TO ADVERTISE OR PROMOTE Lic No 28637 YOUR BUSINESS OR EVENT IN THE QUEENSCLIFFE HERALD Clinton White, Manager 0408 520 262 Wharf St Queenscliff, VIC 3225 Tel: Office (03) 5984 4333 CALL CARMEL – 5258 4828 Wayne Parr, New Boats, 0421 426 844 Tim Phillips, Director, 0407 244 336 Page 16 – Queenscliffe Herald, September 2018

the surface of the water that is located near or at the entrance to the sea from a bay, inlet, river or waterway. A bar may extend across the bay or inlet or Queenscliff Coast Guard News be parallel to the shore. A bar may be permanent or occur from time to time. Defibrillator at the Queenscliff Boat Flotilla Commander Graham the injectors. This is an uncommon breath of a person under the age of 21 An ocean bar extends to all waters up Ramp Douglas commented: "If a person experience this far south but much years in charge of a vessel (even if the to 500 meters from the ridge. Marine Wightons Lawyers Geelong rec- suffers a heart attack or drowning, more common in the northern vessel is at anchor)? Answer: Zero, Nil, Safety Requirements require that a ently responded to a community need response time is critical. This climates. Unfortunately the repair Nada, Zilch! lifejacket must be worn on certain for a defibrillator at the Queenscliff magnificent donation from Wightons requires cleaning out the contam- Hoon Laws recreational vessels during times of Boat Ramp. Their $3000 donation has Lawyers may be the difference inated fuel and tank, replacing fuel What can a Police Officer do if a heightened risk such as crossing a bar. provided a defibrillator at the Coast between life and death. I thank lines, filters, and replacing the injectors person is found to be operating a vessel Exercise Extreme Care, this spec- Guard Base in Queenscliff. This Directors Justine Finlay and Murray on both engines. The cost including (including a PWC) at a speed or in a ifically includes Port Phillip Rip. means that when our defibrillator Pegg, Trust Administrators from importing new engine components is manner which is dangerous to the Recreational Boating Operators equipped vessel is out on the water Wightons, for their generous support." estimated at $15,000. Once work is public, birds and marine animals? Licence Course (Needed to get a boat First Aid trained base volunteers will Operations completed we will introduce a clean- Answer: The officer may exercise the license) have access to a second defibrillator to August has been a quiet month due ing additive to all loads of fuel and the power to SEIZE, IMPOUND OR Next course Thursday 27 Sept. assist the public. to a major maintenance problem with fuel tanks to eliminate a repeat of this IMMOBILISE your vessel and as a Bookings and information to Training What is a Defibrillator? CG09. Our diesel fuel tank contracted very expensive fuel system failure. result really ruin your day. Officer Gary Tomlins 0409 380 359. What does it do? a fungal infection which caused con- Persons under 21 in charge of a vessel Ocean Bars Remember: Plan every voyage, When a person suffers a 'heart taminated sludge to be sucked up What is the legal amount of An Ocean Bar is regarded as a ridge your life depends on it! Attack' it is often because their heart through the filters, hose lines and into alcohol permitted in the blood or of sand or gravel near or slightly above Safe Boating, Ric Lasslett has lost its necessary rhythm. In order to give the heart a chance to regain its beating rhythm it can be given an electric shock which acts in the same Hotel damaged during huge brawl way as 'rebooting' your computer. It stops the system for a brief moment Heated arguments in a hotel bar blow in the face and knocked down. and allows it to self restart in the led to a huge brawl outside the This appeared to be a signal, for correct rhythm. Defibrillation has no Esplanade Hotel on Saturday 13 June every civilian in the vicinity of the guarantee of success but combined 1908. The affray between a group of hotel was similarly dealt with by the with CPR it does provide the heart artillerymen and civilians took place artillerymen. with the best chance of normalising outside the hotel in Symonds Street Even men who had been attracted and avoiding a fatal outcome. just after closing. by the noise and came to see the brawl During the football season party were attacked. feeling had always run high between The brawl lasted about five min- the two groups, and arguments about utes, during which a stone was hurled the rival teams frequently took place. through one of the hotel windows, However in the past most tempers striking the licensee. and arguments had been dealt with Queenscliff Police Constable Brad- inside the hotel. ley was quickly on the scene and On this occasion a number of men restored order. of both sides frequented the hotel bar, Queenscliff people were critical of and that on several occasions during the brawl and demanded that more the night a fight seemed imminent. police be stationed in the town during On coming outside the hotel at football season. closing time it was alleged an Local people also asked if military artilleryman "made use of a foul police from the Fort should be sent to Crewman Jarrod Stone displays the expression" towards a civilian who, on the hotels to assist in keeping order. Submitted by Greg Wane, former owner of the Queenscliffe Herald, and author new Defibrillator. remonstrating, was struck a violent Melbourne Leader 1908. of the soon to be launched book 'What Made News in Queenscliffe1860-2010'.