Cottesloe’s push to curb anti- social behaviour and hoon driving along the beachfront has earned the town a presti- gious award from the Office of Crime Prevention.
The scheme includes a suc- cessful lock-down experiment at local hotels, even though Northbridge has rejected a trial of the scheme.
While the WA Crime and Safety Awards cannot be hand- ed out until the new government is sworn in, the council has been notified that the award will be going to Cottesloe.
The community safety pro- gram includes extra ranger pa- trols, CCTV, a 9pm lock-out at both hotels, and three-hour parking restrictions applicable 24 hours a day to both major beachfront carparks.
“If you leave (a pub) after 9pm on a Sunday you don’t get let back in,” said senior ranger Neil Ferridge.
“That way the crowd starts dis- persing and at 10pm closing time you don’t get so many peo- ple in the streets.” He said the three-hour limit at No. 1 and 2 carparks was also playing its part.
“The carparks also start emp- tying by 9.30, so you don’t get peo- ple going back to their vehi- cles and drinking alcohol … and causing trouble,” he said.
Reports of anti-social behav- iour have reduced dramatical- ly in the two years the program has been running.
It all began when a commit- tee was formed to tackle the prob- lem. The group included local res- idents, business proprietors, councillors, council staff, po- lice liquor licensing, hotel man- agers, council rangers and the officer-in-charge of Cottesloe Police Station.
They agreed peak time was Sunday evenings during the summer, with activity concen- trated around the Cottesloe Beach Hotel, the Ocean Beach Hotel and associated carparks.
The awards will be present- ed as part of Crime Prevention Week on September 25 at Fraser’s Function Centre in King’s Park.

Innovative thriller

By Rama Gaind

DUPLICITY:
Director Tony Gilroy has adopted an innovative way to approach a familiar spy theme.
A lot also has to be said for the chemistry between Julia Roberts and Clive Owens as they play former CIA agent Claire Stenwick and M16 agent Ray Koval who get caught in the bitter rival competition between two rival cosmetic companies.
THE PINK PANTHER 2:
An insipid comedy which makes you wonder why Steve Martin even bothered.
As well, what a waste of talent for Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwariya Rai Bachchan.
17 AGAIN:
An adult fantasy, to relive part of his/her youth is a theme that’s been done to death.
However, with a slight twist, director Burr Steers turns this one into a family oriented quest.
Mike O’Donnell feels that life has passed him by. When the clock turns back a couple of decades, Zach Efron plays the youthful Mike who wants to reconnect with his children – an unsuccessful attribute for some adults.
He has one last shot to get things right, goes back to class, but while Zach is likeable, a weak script lets him down.
 

Film reviews

By Rama Gaind

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE:
Australian song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman, who plays comic book superhero Wolverine, is pretty special.
AKA James Logan, Wolverine with formidable claws is grumpy, touchy and a recluse, torn between his honourable instinct to be a fighter and a wish to live a normal, simple life.
Going back to the origins, the film starts with Logan as a child in Canada realising that he and his brother Victor (Live Schreiber) possess super powers. Being immortal, the brothers fight their way through the wars before being hired by Colonel William Stryker (Danny Huston) in a special military troop.
This fast-paced action film, with a few appreciative surprises, takes off when Wolverine sets off to take revenge after the fate of girlfriend Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins).
Special effects are noteworthy, with director Gavin Hood adding another dimension by raising philosophical questions about moral principles
FAST AND FURIOUS:
Reteaming for the decisive chapter of a celluloid franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker head back to the streets and rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster as exotic cars race through Los Angeles and the Mexican desert.
When Dom Toretto and agent Brian O’Conner are forced to confront a shared enemy, the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel are pushed to the limit as the duo set out to exact revenge.
An unlikely hit the first time round, this high-octane action flim should appeal to a select audience.
 

If you were mesmerised, confused, disgusted, outraged, apathetic about ‘The Australian Wheat Board Scandal’, you need to see this piece of political theatre. Every word in the play is cited to be true. Definitely worth the drive over the boarder!

The critic’s said…..
“Most theatre companies aim to give us a good night out. Version 1.0 goes the extra mile: it entertains, informs and then contributes to the betterment of our democracy.” Jason Blake, Sun Herald, 2/9/2007

"It’s like The 7:30 Report on acid." FBi Radio says about Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue

$290 million in bribes was paid to the regime of an evil dictator on the eve of war. Why? Government ministers and Australian Wheat Board executives all struggled to remember exactly what went on, but no one is too sure… The 8,500 pages of transcript of the Cole Inquiry into the ‘wheat for weapons’ scandal have been transformed into provocative and entertaining theatre by Version 1.0, the team behind the acclaimed The Wages of Spin. It’s time to kickback the kickbacks.

"Hypocrisy on such a blatant scale is hard to represent in any form. Version 1.0 has recently specialised in a sub-genre of the verbatim – inquiry theatre – and this is its most assured work yet. Amid the suits and the recounted testimony and that ABC interview with the Foreign Minister, the work’s big question is stronger for never being explicitly stated. They read the Cole report so you don’t have to..." Stephen Dunne – Sydney Morning Herald
 

"Informed and informative, all balls and no filler; once again Version 1.0 prove themselves as purveyors of unmissable renegade theatre on a topic that should have our country still hanging its head in shame." Ewa Jaremkiewicz, City Hub, September 2007

LIMITED SEASON: 13 – 16 May 2009, with Matinees @ 2pm on Thursday and Saturday ($25). Access tickets from $25-$47 at The Q Box Office at www.theq.net.au
 

New Car Warranty Protection

next to Claremont Oval.
The plans stipulated that all new multi-storey buildings in the de- velopment would have to have below-ground and basement parking for occupants.
Claremont this week released its much-anticipated blueprint for the 9.4ha area north of the rail- way line that will set Claremont’s shape for the next century. Structure plans for the precinct will be shown to the public from this week, after the council voted to advertise the plans and seek public comment on them at this week’s council meeting.
The council has a statutory obligation to advertise the plans for a minimum of 21 days, and commenced this 21-day period from Friday this week. “The release of the Proposed Structure Plan is a significant mile- stone which will pave the way for transforming the poorly-utilised north-east precinct into a vi- brant centre with excellent access to public transport and improved pedestrian connectivity with the town centre,” Claremont’s mayor Peter Olson said.
“We look forward to further in- volving the community in refin- ing the plan as we head towards the final planning approval.” Widespread advertising of the plan would ensure that members of the community had the oppor- tunity to present their views and give input via public submissions before the plan was presented to Claremont’s councillors for formal

Cottesloe’s push to curb anti- social behaviour and hoon driving along the beachfront has earned the town a presti- gious award from the Office of Crime Prevention.
The scheme includes a suc- cessful lock-down experiment at local hotels, even though Northbridge has rejected a trial of the scheme.
While the WA Crime and Safety Awards cannot be hand- ed out until the new government is sworn in, the council has been notified that the award will be going to Cottesloe.
The community safety pro- gram includes extra ranger pa- trols, CCTV, a 9pm lock-out at both hotels, and three-hour parking restrictions applicable 24 hours a day to both major beachfront carparks.
“If you leave (a pub) after 9pm on a Sunday you don’t get let back in,” said senior ranger Neil Ferridge.
“That way the crowd starts dis- persing and at 10pm closing time you don’t get so many peo- ple in the streets.” He said the three-hour limit at No. 1 and 2 carparks was also playing its part.
“The carparks also start emp- tying by 9.30, so you don’t get peo- ple going back to their vehi- cles and drinking alcohol … and causing trouble,” he said.
Reports of anti-social behav- iour have reduced dramatical- ly in the two years the program has been running.
It all began when a commit- tee was formed to tackle the prob- lem. The group included local res- idents, business proprietors, councillors, council staff, po- lice liquor licensing, hotel man- agers, council rangers and the officer-in-charge of Cottesloe Police Station.
They agreed peak time was Sunday evenings during the summer, with activity concen- trated around the Cottesloe Beach Hotel, the Ocean Beach Hotel and associated carparks.
The awards will be present- ed as part of Crime Prevention Week on September 25 at Fraser’s Function Centre in King’s Park.

Those of you who loved Gold Logie Award-winning Australian actor John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon in Blue Heelers, you will be fascinated to watch him transform into Monk O’Neill, one of the great comic creations of Australian dramatic literature.
 

In A Stretch of the Imagination Monk’s colourful, rambling monologue cuts to the core of what Australia once was and what one day it could become. The resilient ironies of the play will not be lost on today’s generation.
 

The Sydney Morning Herald had this to say about the play, currently showing at The Q Performing Arts Centre in Queanbeyan: “No sooner had Stretch premiered than it was deemed an Australian classic, for good reason. It was bold and absurd, it spoke about and to Australians, it boisterously let rip with the vernacular, and gave its actor the chance to show his mettle.”
 

From his corrugated iron bush hut atop One Tree Hill, we are invited to spend an entertaining day with the irascible Monk O’Neill, bush philosopher, yarn spinner, epic lover, mate, heroic battler and individualist, sardonic iconoclast, sportsman, cultured man-of-letters and bon-vivant – as he acts out his memories and fantasies while heroically fighting against his own physical decline and the depredations of his environment.
 

“Jack Hibberd’s Australian classic is a gift to Wood’s comic sensibilities and acting prowess. The audience is putty in his hands as he creaks and flits around the stage, his handsome girth put to repugnant good use. Monk O’Neill’s irascibility is tragic rather than terrifying in Wood’s wonderfully droll portrayal, eliciting sympathy that Monk doesn’t always get. “ The Advertiser
‘Stretch’ is at ‘The Q’ until 9 May. ** It is important to note that this play has an MA rating. Bookings at ‘The Q’ Box Office phone 62980290
 

The Tuggeranong Homestead Market’s 8th Birthday plus Mother’s Day.

The Canberra-Lake Tuggeranong Lions Club invite the community come along to the historic Tuggeranong Homestead and help us celebrate Mothers Day & our market’s 8th birthday on Sunday 10th May 2009 from 9 am to 2 pm

All mums will receive a flower and chocolates on entry and everyone can enjoy the stalls, BBQ, live music, historic engine display and more at the beautiful homestead site, located on Johnson Drive opposite the Calwell shops.

Come on kids, test mum’s skills at:

Sack races;
Three legged race;
Egg spoon race;
Apple Bobbing;
Paper Aeroplane making and flying;
Gumboot throwing; and

The Treasure Hunt between 11am and noon

The Minders of Tuggeranong Homestead are presenting the Colours Choir from Sing Australia, singing some of ‘Australia’s Favourite Songs’ at 11 am

Entry is by GOLD COIN Donation (used for Lions club projects)

A portion of the funds raised at this market will be donated to Pegasus – Riding for the disabled, which is a major focus for the club this year. This amount will be added to the funds raised at the Annual Lake Tuggeranong Lions Club Auction Dinner Dance, to be held at the Erindale Vikings Club, on August 29th 2009.

For more information please contact Heath on 0400 190 622.

In response to the outbreaks of Swine Influenza the Department of Health and Ageing has established both a national hotline and website to provide the most up to date and accurate information to the Australian public.

The website can be accessed at: http://www.healthemergency.gov.au/internet/healthemergency/publishing.nsf/Content/health-swine_influenza-index.htm

The hotline can be accessed by phoning: 1802 007
 

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