HILLVIEW QUARRY LOSES AT VCAT
EXCLUSIVE Hillview Quarries has lost its appeal to restart stone extraction at a site in Boundary Rd, Dromana. VCAT Member Judith Perlstein ruled that the relevant planning permit “has expired because the use of the…
April 2017
CRUDEN FARM: DAME ELISABETH’S INSTRUCTIONS
This is the schedule to the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Trust that governs the affairs of Cruden Farm. Signed on 30 March 2007, it may not reflect the circumstances that exist on 26 April 2017, a…
CRUDEN VEILED BEHIND LEGAL ENTITIES
■ Meeting takes first step against subdivision EXCLUSIVE Cruden Farm is draped in trusts, business names and public and private entities. It’s a wonder passers-by can see anything of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s splendid garden for them….
WHAT CRUDEN FARM TRUST WANTS
EXCLUSIVE Bandicoot is just back from a filing cabinet raid with some scribbled notes about what the Murdoch family expects – there’s no suggestion of “requests” – for Dame Elisabeth’s beloved property at Langwarrin. The…
WHO WON? TURKEY’S REFERENDUM DEEPLY FLAWED
EXCLUSIVE Tony Radcliffe Thousands of Australians go to Turkey every year on holiday. Probably not so many now, because of the terrorist attacks of the past two years. In their hotels or pensions around the…
TRUMP TAKES THE RIDE OVER NIAGARA
EXCLUSIVE This view of the Middle East comes from a widely respected scholar who cannot be named who has studied the region for half a century. It is, so far as it is possible, a…
IS CONCRETE CASE MADE FOR $100K HELIPAD?
EXCLUSIVE STOP PRESS! Bandicoot is told a state-owned, state-maintained helipad lies idle on the Hastings foreshore at Long Island. Big enough to accommodate Elvis, it is kilometres from houses. Could this be the spot for…
OUR HOUSING OUTLOOK – HIGH AND DENSE
■ EXCLUSIVE Shadow planning minister David Davis visited Sorrento last Friday (7 April) with some alarming news. The state government wants to “scoop the Mornington Peninsula into metropolitan Melbourne”, he said, where it…
YOUR EVERY KEYSTROKE worth $$$$$$
Bandicoot congratulates readers on knowing Facebook’s corporate mission – you do know, don’t you, good people, what it is? The link on the Mornington Peninsula Bandicoot Facebook page has brought you to the whole story. … And…
NO-VOTING LETTERS CAUSE A FINE FUSS
Fines for not voting in last October’s local government elections are causing reactions all the way from mild indignation to uproar across the Mornington Peninsula, and across the state, Bandicoot is hearing. The fines are…