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Wednesday 3 July 2024
For all advertising and editorial, call 03 5974 9000 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au FLINDERS Fringe Festival will flaunt fabulous fashions in a triple tryst on Saturday 27 July, at Flinders Civic Hall. Supported with a Mornington Peninsula Shire Council performing arts development grant, the triple event will include a static catwalk, a fashion forum with industry leaders and a one woman show with mezzo soprano Dimity Shepherd, who earlier this year won the industry’s Green Room Award. The peer-presented performing arts industry awards recognise outstanding achievements in performance. The curtain raiser L’Exposition: a Static Catwalk will feature costumes designed by Marion Boyce for Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, while the La Costumiere fashion forum will include work by local ateliers and feature key costumes. Boyce will also join the forum panel, sharing wardrobe-mistress anecdotes, alongside the macrame musings of Lea Oldjohn, sustainable wardrobe strategies from Dr Kate Luckins and the styling of Estelle Michaelides. The forum will be led by artistic director Melissa Jackson. The interval will include wine tastings and a book signing of Dr Luckin’s Live More With Less accompanied by roaming performers and projected images by documentary photographer Noa Smith Fletcher. The tryst concludes with Opera Closets, a one-woman show by mezzo soprano Shepherd. Reminiscent of nostalgic dress-ups, Opera Closets steps through the wardrobe where every outfit tells a story, and every story has a song. “It’s about ageing disgracefully, breaking through society’s rules and finding your own voice,” Shepherd said. Opera Closets is an expressive work touching on body image, rejection, well-being and self-love, and showcasing Shepherd’s vocal and acting prowess. It is co-directed by Richard Piper and Evelyn Krape in collaboration with chamber trio The Persephone Project. The festival program is at flindersfringe.com.au Liz Bell
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MEZZO soprano Dimity Shepherd is in tune with the Flinders Fringe Festival and will be part of the festival’s “triple tryst”. Picture: Noa Smith Fletcher
Lobbying for peninsula in Canberra Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula and Mornington Peninsula Shire Council joined forces last week to lobby federal politicians about homelessness, housing and the use of land near the Port of Hastings. The committee’s CEO Josh Sinclair, the mayor Cr Simon Brooks and advocacy, communications and engagement manager Randal Mathieson went to Canberra to express their shared concerns. The shire is a “community member” of the committee and Brooks and
Mathieson extended their Canberra visit by two days to join a delegation from the Greater South East Melbourne (GSEM) for more meetings with ministers and their staff. “This face-to-face advocacy is really important as it enables us to explore direct funding sources from the federal government and push for a more equitable distribution of federal funds via state government to the local government,” Brooks told The News. “These meetings also give us the opportunity to directly influence key national decision makers and keep our main priorities front of mind.” Brooks thanked Dunkley MP, Jodie Belyea (Labor) and Flinders MP Zoe
McKenzie (Liberal) for their help in arranging meetings with ministers and their staff. Sinclair said the committee “presented” MPs with a strategic plan that outlined “key advocacy priorities for the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula region, including tackling our region’s housing crisis, better infrastructure, and sustainable development”. “Many of these priorities are shared with local government.” The committee will launch it’s strategic plan in full to its members on 18 July in Hastings. Sinclair said meetings had been held with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s office and chief of staff
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and Housing Minister Julie Collin’s office and her senior advisors. “We also briefly met with Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Bridget McKenzie and Victorian Senator, Jane Hume.” Talks about housing and homelessness had centred around unlocking surplus port-zoned land near Hastings for housing to help the state government meet its target of providing 67,000 new homes for Frankston and the peninsula. The MPs and their staff had been told of the need for more crisis accommodation and places for “key workers” to live. Sinclair said the committee had told Plibersek’s staff that it saw a terminal
to build offshore wind turbines at Hastings as the “centrepiece in attracting further green and clean energy industries and high-tech precincts … [to] Western Port”. “Certainty is what the community, stakeholders and business are after when it comes to long term, gamechanging projects like the [terminal], and the committee is comfortable that the process is now progressing in the right direction after some initial uncertainty,” he said. Brooks described the meetings with MPs and their staff as “very constructive and [as a result] we have several positive leads and actions to follow up to help address these pressing issues”.
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