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Sunday is mum’s day Burnside mother Harshini Beekanahalli Kumarswamy will celebrate her very first Mother’s Day on Sunday 10 May after she and her husband, Suman Moolemane, welcomed their baby boy into the world last week. The happy couple’s son Amay Harshini Moolemane was born on Thursday 30 April at Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s at Sunshine Hospital. He arrived about three weeks earlier than expected, weighing 2375 grams. Harshini said becoming a mother for the first time was a “very happy moment”. “I know it comes with a lot of responsibility, but you don’t consider it as a responsibility when it’s your own child,” Harshini said. “That’s what my mum has done for me and my sister, and what all mothers do for their child.” Harshini said her mother, who lives in India, is coming to Melbourne for about four months to help them care for baby Amay. Harshini said she thought of her own mother during Amay’s birth: “I was thinking ’my mum could do it, so I can do it too’.” Harshini Beekanahalli Kumarswamy with son Amay. (Supplied)
Superhub concerns By Sam Porter “We’re not asking for more, we’re just asking for a little bit better.” That’s the sentiment of one Brimbank councillor towards the Sunshine superhub early designs. Brimbank council has provided feedback on the early designs to the state government, which includes eight recommendations. Th ree of them relate to the bus interchange, an additional concourse and three development sites in the precinct. In relation to the bus interchange’s current design, the submission stated that “retaining its current location will
significantly constrain integration, safety and public realm outcomes” with council highlighting that a relocation is “critical to achieving a safe, efficient, and legible multi-modal transport interchange”. Council asked that the bus interchange be relocated to the east of the station, in line with the 2022 Sunshine Station Masterplan, or otherwise altered if it remains in its current position. Council also recommended a southern concourse be added to the designs, stating a single concourse “will not meet future demand” and “will create a critical bottleneck, particularly during peak periods and major service disruptions”.
The integration of transport infrastructure into the precinct was also a concern raised by council. Council noted that a key component of the 2022 masterplan was the delivery of three integrated development sites which “play an important role in supporting long-term activation, economic activity and passive surveillance within the precinct”. In its submission, council asked for the delivery of the three development sites. “Without these, the precinct will not function as a true CBD. Transport infrastructure alone cannot deliver the vibrancy, economic activity, and passive
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surveillance required for a successful urban centre,” the submission stated. Other ‘key asks’ included the full implementation of the masterplan, for designs to promote safety and to be accessible, for the superhub design to be architecturally distinctive, and for the precinct to be climate-resilient and sustainable. Speaking at the April council meeting, deputy mayor Maria Kerr said, “Th is is a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of Sunshine and my view is it needs to be done properly”. Continued: Page 6.
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