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Filming in Frankston FRANKSTON student Makayla Doyle is in post-production for her second short film. After entering her debut short A Mother’s Instinct, starring Bianca Rose (pictured left), in film festivals last year, she is hard at work applying the finishing touches to her next project. Her second short film is titled Her Story. See story page 5. Picture: Supplied
Calls for family violence intervention Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au SHOCKING numbers of family violence cases in Frankston have prompted calls for action. Around five domestic violence cases are reported on average each day in the Frankston local government area. It has among the highest rates of fam-
ily violence of any area in the southeast of Victoria. Frankston deputy mayor Steffie Conroy says that “more needs to be done” to address the rates of family violence in Frankston, and has called for intervention from other levels of government. “Unfortunately, Frankston City holds one of the highest recorded
rates of [family violence] incidents in metro Melbourne,” Conroy said. “Approximately one in four women have experienced violence or emotional abuse by an intimate partner, and women are nearly three times more likely than men to experience violence from an intimate partner. On average, one woman a week in Australia is killed by an intimate partner.
“This area is extremely delicate and we have so many community organisations out there supporting our community. We need to be able to keep getting funding and grants to be able to support them.” Conroy said that council was recently unsuccessful in its application for a state government grant addressing family violence. A motion, raised
by Conroy and agreed to unanimously by councillors at last week’s public meeting, read that council will write to state MPs Paul Edbrooke and Vicki Ward and federal MPs Jodie Belyea and Justine Elliot to “seek state intervention” and “seek federal intervention in areas of Dunkley with pronounced cases of family violence”. Continued page 7