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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Historic gems: Gallery curator Danny Lacy sorts through archival material with marketing coordinator Rowena Wiseman. Picture: Yanni
Exhibitions aim to enthral A VARIED range of exhibitions are planned over the next few months at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington. Max & Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain, a travelling exhibition by the National Gallery of Australia, looks at the work of the photographers who shared lives, a studio and professional practice. It focuses on a key period in their careers – 193445 – when they made many of their most memorable images. Their work often involved shooting the same subjects, or pursuing subjects and pictorial effects in similar ways. Iconic Australian Houses: An exhibition by Karen McCartney is a Sydney Living Museums travelling exhibition exploring 31 of the most important Australian homes of the past 60 years. It begins in the 1950s and culminates in key works by some of Australia’s contemporary masters. Zoë Croggon: Deep Cuts is a Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery exhibition in which the Melbourne-based artist presents a series of collages splicing together the human body with the natural landscape and built environment. It is a busy year for Croggon who will hold solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Fitzroy. Her work will also be exhibited at Heide Museum of Modern Art. The gallery is at Civic Reserve, Dunns Rd, Mornington. Opening hours are 10am-5pm Tuesday to Sunday. It is closed Mondays except on public holidays. Call: 5950 1580.
VCAT ‘no’ to quarry permit Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has determined that the planning permit for the former Pioneer quarry in Boundary Rd, Dromana has expired. Community groups are hailing the decision as a victory over Hillview Quarries although one leading campaigner cautions “we’ve won a battle, but not the war”.
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“We’re over the moon and I’d love to think that was the end, but I think it will go on,” Dr Mark Fancett, of the Sheepwash Creek Catchment Landcare group said. The decision handed down on 27 April is the second win for the protesters who also four years ago successfully campaigned against the quarry being used as a rubbish tip. The ideal outcome, according to Dr Fancett would be for the former quarry to be added to the neighbouring Arthurs Seat State Park.
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“It’s an amazing piece of land … which ultimately we’d like to see opened to the community. There could be walking trails around the lake and the waterfalls are absolutely stunning. “If you go there it feels like the nearest house could be 100 kilometres away.” Hillview CEO Paul Nitas said on Thursday that the company was “at this stage reviewing the [VCT] decision to map out a way forward”. The decision had only been handed down the previous Friday and it was
“too early in the process” to have yet decided what steps to take next. Mr Fancett said it was still open for Hillview to appeal against the VCAT decision through the Supreme Court. VCAT member Judith Perlstein ruled that the quarry permit had expired “because the use of the land for the purpose of extractive industry did not start within two years of the issue of the permit”. And if the use did start within two years of the permit being issued it has expired “because the use of the land for extractive industry has been dis-
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continued for … more than two years”. Jeremy Gobbo QC, appearing for Hillview, told the March hearing that once a resource was in place “you should be able to extract from that resource until it has been exhausted”. Ms Perlstein said although “this principle” may be recognised in the shire’s planning scheme it would still depend on the validity of a planning permit and did not depend such a permit may never expire due to discontinuance of use. Continued Page 9
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