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Rising star returns to happy place Rising AFLW star Georgia Knight headed to Birmingham Primary School last week to present students and staff with a very special gift. Drafted to Collingwood in December, in the lead up to that moment, the young talent was spending her time with students passing on her skills, knowledge and mentorship. As a thank you, and as encouragement to students, Georgia gave the school a signed Collingwood jumper from all the players. “Every time I’m with these kids, I learn something new every day. So I think that’s why I love it so much. They teach me things that they don’t even they’re teaching me,” she said. “Why would I not want to play sport and spend time with the happiest people on earth?” To read the full story, go to page 9
Birmingham Primary School assistant principal Steve Harvey, Collingwood draftee Georgia Knight and principal Trish Enzinger. (Mikayla van Loon: 461301)
The CCTV promise From smashed shop windows to bin fires, robberies to assaults, incidents across the Yarra Ranges of this kind have concerned communities for years. The promise of a working CCTV network aimed to relieve these concerns by deterring crime and protecting businesses, community groups and community infrastructure. While eliminating this behaviour was never the aim, CCTV increases the capacity of police investigations and may prevent some people from
acting in an anti-social manner or committing an offence. But since the funding of projects across the Yarra Ranges, maintenance and the operation of the CCTV network has been called into question numerous times after an incident occurs. This Star Mail edition marks week one of a six week campaign initiated by the editorial staff to explore and determine the value of CCTV, as well as the current state of the network across the municipality.
Over the coming weeks, we will speak to police who have been on the frontlines attempting to investigate and respond to incidents throughout the region. We will look back at the incidents that have plagued townships in recent years, both in words and photos. We will touch on the psychology of CCTV as a deterrent for crime by speaking to experts and where CCTV has been effective elsewhere. We will speak with traders, township groups
and community advocates about their desire for a working CCTV network and the safety concerns they have for their businesses, customers and staff. We will look at the reverse and understand the privacy concerns people have in being captured on camera at all times. We will also document the challenges in upkeep and management of this system. To begin, reporters Callum Ludwig and Mikayla van Loon explore what triggered this campaign and the history of funding on page 2.
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