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Artist goes full circle FOURTEEN years ago, Miodrag Jankovic’s world took an odd turn for an artist. This expression of a new artistic direction saw Jankovic “create a definite statement against the conventional square or rectangle”. Welcome to Jankovic’s vision: presented within circles, ovals, semicircles “and more organic shapes”. In 2000 he entered the world of curved art by using white paint to “frame” existing paintings. The Rye-based artist bases his abstracts mainly on the landscape. “The shapes usually represent nature’s elements – religious, organic and ethereal,” he says of his current “Classical Fragments” exhibition at Antipodes Bookshop in Sorrento. “In this current crop of paintings, the shapes have become artworks themselves. “By cutting out parts of larger painting they became paintings of their own. “It’s like looking at your artwork through a keyhole or looking glass. Seeing what you like, what’s compositionally right, and keeping those parts of your final statement.” Well-rounded: Miodrag Jankovic and his art at Antipodes Bookshop in Sorrento. Picture: Yanni
Fox in box seat to win By Mike Hast THE state government is unlikely to be successful in reversing a decision that saw billionaire trucking magnate Lindsay Fox given an extra 45 metres of prime beach at his Portsea property. An obscure state government policy – known as the doctrine of accretion – allows people with land adjoining beaches on old property titles to in-
crease the size of their land when extra sand accumulates, or accretes. The government would likely have to fight any attempt to reverse the decision in the High Court of Australia. It was revealed nine days ago that on Christmas Eve the state land titles office granted Mr Fox a section of prime beach for his property at Point King on the border of Sorrento and Portsea. The news generated a wave of public
criticism and saw Planning Minister Matthew Guy vow to bring in retrospective laws to stop Victoria’s coastline falling into private hands. It’s too late – many parts of the state’s coast are private property due to old titles. Mr Fox has been seeking the extra land since the 1990s, claiming the doctrine of accretion applied to his beach land claim and backing it with evi-
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stace questioned the Fox decision. “The doctrine of accretion states any land claimed by a person must be a permanent increase,” he said. “Is the extra beach permanent? This section of the coast has undergone radical change just in the past few years. “Extra sand on the beach closest to the water has come as a result of Port of Melbourne’s channel deepening.” Continued Page 4
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dence from a coastal engineer. It has been estimated the extra land is worth more than $5 million. In 1999, Mr Fox erected bollards along the beach side of his property, generating an outcry from locals but no action by the state Labor government or the Liberal-Nationals Coalition elected in 2010. On Thursday, former Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor Leigh Eu-
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