Celebrations highlight uni’s bright future
Deakin University celebrated its 25th year in Warrnambool with a very successful Twilight Festival on November 21 at the Sherwood Park campus.
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Approximately 3000 people attended this event, with many visiting the campus for the first time.
The presence of such a large number of children, described by Deakin’s Vice Chancellor as “the next generation of learners”, was particularly gratifying. The campus has changed markedly.
Many festival visitors commented on how modern the campus and its facilities looked.
Deakin has over 50,000 students and is rapidly rising up the world university rankings for teaching and research.
The Warrnambool campus makes an important contribution to these results and is significant in ensuring Deakin maintains its enduring commitment to rural and regional higher education.
Deakin’s Warrnambool campus and its students also contribute $53 million to the regional economy.
Many of our graduates are employed in senior positions in the region and throughout Australia and the world.
The university is very grateful for support from the Warrnambool and Great South Coast communities over the past 25 years.
The city and region should be very proud of its university and if the numbers and mood at the Twilight Festival were an indication, the Warrnambool campus, like Deakin University as a whole, has an exciting future.
Professor Gerry Quinn, Head of Deakin University’s Warrnambool campus
Storm damage prompts coastal planning query
Last year a big storm washed away the Pea Soup ramp and eroded the dune all along South Beach in Port Fairy.
The huge 225 meter long rock wall, being placed in front of the Pea Soup dune to protect houses from sea level rise, is half way to being finished.
People living in Port Fairy have witnessed the sea come over Ocean Drive and up storm water pipes. This was seen last year and in the past.
Moyne Shire council is also aware of where the sea has been and has mapping to show future inundation from sea level rise in this area.
The far west of Ocean Drive, the most low lying section of the road, has had the sea come over it a number of times, twice in the last six years.
Truck loads of soil have been dumped on land on this coastline and more is presently being brought in and dumped further inland in preparation for development.
If council permits development to proceed what responsibility does it have to future landholders when the sea threatens livability?
Don Stewart, Port Fairy
No parole for killers unless they tell all
The Liberal Nationals Coalition in government will make it law so that any convicted murderer is prevented from being released on parole if they have not provided police with the details on where the body of their victim is located.
A convicted murderer cannot claim to be remorseful or rehabilitated if they are not prepared to give closure to the family and friends of their victim.
Families have a right to bury their loved one and to say good bye.
Under Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews, crime is up and police numbers are being cut.
The Coalition in government will put the rights of victims and their families at the centre of decision making for the criminal justice system.
Simon Ramsay, Liberal Party Member for Western Victoria, Geelong