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The Hawks’ history flies The Monbulk Football Netball Club (MFNC) has celebrated its 125-year history by publishing a new book.Where Hawks Fly is a 560-page book detailing the club’s entire history, from each individual result to numerous club photos and past players. The book’s production was a collaboration between the MFNC and the Monbulk Historical Society, in particular historians Armin Richter and Jill A’Vard.While it predominately features the senior club’s history, the junior football club and the netball club were also documented for the first time. Turn to Page 8 for the full story. Jill A’Vard and Armin Richter hold Where Picture: ROB CAREW Hawks Fly. 221110
YR takeover plot Ex-Casey mayor Sam Aziz has revealed an attempt with Jim’s Mowing founder Jim Penman to “takeover” Yarra Ranges Council with a likeminded group of councillors. The aim was to install a predominantly Liberal “working majority” - “good people” to replicate the “success” of Casey Council, he told an IBAC inquiry on 16 November. They would be community servants with skills in business and “good governance”, Mr Aziz said. Mr Aziz said he had been in talks with Mr
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Penman, Jim’s Group chief executive Tino Grossi as well as members of Mr Aziz’s “political circle“ about the “project”. Mr Penman had expressed “great frustration” about Yarra Ranges councillors, Mr Aziz said. Counsel assisting IBAC, Michael Tovey, asked if Mr Aziz wanted to export a “model of corruption” from Casey to Yarra Ranges. Mr Aziz, who is under investigation over allegedly corrupt land deals at the Operation Sandon inquiry, dismissed the “ridiculous question”.
“There’s no corruption or behaviour traits, as you describe, Mr Tovey, in relation to Casey Council.” It achieved a “majority of hard-working individuals” delivering “one of the best local governments this country has ever seen”, he said. “Our financial position speaks for it in terms of the council budget. “The achievements we’ve made speaks for it, and I was trying to deliver that model to another council. “As it turned out that was a very short-lived aspiration because of the commencement of
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the IBAC inquiry.” Mr Aziz said he’d become an “expert” in getting candidates elected onto council. He discussed with former Casey mayor Janet Halsall with helping the Yarra Ranges push. In the 2016 Casey council election, Mr Aziz enlisted Ms Halsall as campaign manager for about 20 candidates that “we wanted to support”. He said he had no knowledge about developer John Woodman funding their campaigns. Substantial fundraisers had been held for candidates, including Cr Aziz himself. Continued page 10
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