SHIRE vs INSURER CASE GOES TO COURT Very interesting information concerning the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s involvement in a legal action that came to court late last year has reached Bandicoot. The shire is sueing Jardine…
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Five of the 11 councillors were Apologies at the Planning Services Committee meeting last Monday, 20 November, continuing the pattern of low attendance at these meetings, many of which involve multi-million projects in crucial areas…
For the first time in anyone’s recollection, a councillor’s application to attend a conference funded from a shire allowance provided for such purposes was rejected by the narrowest margin – on the casting vote of…
◙ Freedom of Information documents spell it out. So why weren’t we just told the facts? EXCLUSIVE Avid readers of Bandicoot’s posts will recall councillors voting in May to “discontinue” the Peninsula Pet Expo, which the…
EXCLUSIVE The Mornington Peninsula would risk being swamped by the five municipalities with which it is proposed to merge under a plan being pushed by the Committee for Melbourne (CFM) and apparently favoured by the…
EXCLUSIVE Councillors have, in a stormy private briefing session last Tuesday (6 June), emphatically rejected a proposed shire media relations policy that would have given council officers control over what councillors could or could not…
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…
The house being built at 3080 Point Nepean Rd is nameless, so far as Bandicoot knows, but for the purposes of this story it needs a name. We hereby name this house Strode Sands for brevity,…