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Fired up for health cup The 2024 Mental Health Cup is locked in for Sunday, September 22, as firefighters and umpires unite to raise awareness for mental health and support the community. Taking place at Avalon Airport Oval (Chirnside Park) in Werribee, the ball will bounce at 10am and the game will be followed by a function at 12.30pm featuring a guest speaker and a comedian. Both groups have been touched in some way, shape or form by mental illness – be it fighting their own battles or witnessing those of family, friends and colleagues, and at times the being faced with the most tragic of outcomes. The game dates back over 15 years, with several CFA brigades and the WRFL Umpires Association making a tradition of the friendly yet competitive game of footy. The CFA and WRFL umpires association encourage the community to purchase a ticket to a great match of Aussie Rules Football and to get behind either the umpires or the firies. Peter Habersatt from Hoppers Crossing CFA holds the cup. (Damjan Janveski) 427173_01
Rally against freight hub By Adrian Black, AAP Residents of Little River have rallied against plans for a multi-billion dollar freight hub, which they say threatens nearby grasslands and wildlife. Around 250 locals of Little River, near Werribee, gathered in protest at a proposed Pacific National freight terminal that would handle as many as two million containers a year. The hub, which has not yet been approved for a 550-hectare site, would cost between $3 billion and $5 billion and take 25 years to build.
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Little River, with a population of 1400, has formed an action group and gathered 5000 signatures so far opposing the terminal. Grassland ecologist Dr Megan O’Shea said the site had been planned in an environmentally sensitive area. “A massive freight hub will sever the link between Western Grassland Reserve and the internationally recognised Ramsar wetlands of Port Phillip Bay, impacting on the threatened plants and animals,“ Dr O’Shea said. Earlier this year, federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek rejected Victorian state government plans to dredge the Western Port Ramsar wetlands to build a wind turbine
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Marshall said. “There has not been a proper environmental assessment of the site. What is the logic of putting a freight terminal there?“ Little River Action Group president Adrian Hamilton said if the terminal was built, 1500 trucks would pass through the area every day. “This freight terminal will bring significant noise, light pollution and fumes emissions to our door,“ Mr Hamilton said. “It makes no sense that residential development is banned on the green wedge, but they are proposing an industrial freight monolith in the centre of a fragile and threatened ecosystem.“
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assembly plant at the Port of Hastings. Locals have photographed the endangered growling grass frog in Little River, while departmental surveys have found critically endangered golden sun moths on neighbouring land. Other threatened animals such as the striped legless lizard and fat-tailed dunnarts have also reportedly been spotted nearby. Grassy Plains Network facilitator Adrian Marshall said the freight terminal would impact the equivalent of around 75 football fields of rare volcanic plain grassland. “99 per cent of Victoria’s native grasslands have been destroyed. Why remove more?“ Dr
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