Community Hub opening
A grand opening celebration will be held at the Laverton Community Hub from 10am-3pm on March 16 with proceedings beginning with a ‘welcome to country’ and Aboriginal smoking ceremony. The $8.6 million venue, at 95-105 Railway Avenue, will be home to a medical centre. It will also house a Brotherhood of St Laurence centre, Laverton Community Association, Wyndham Community and Education Centre, North West Migrant Resource Centre, sports organisations, and church and community groups.
Refund scheme no rubbish idea
Western suburbs Greens MP Colleen Hartland says this Sunday’s Clean Up Australia Day is the perfect time for the state government to consider a 10-cent refund scheme on drink containers. “We could prevent a lot of the rubbish if we could return our drink bottles, cans and cartons for a 10-cent refund, as they have in South Australia and the Northern Territory. After cigarette butts, the top litter items in rubbish collected on Clean Up Australia Day are glass and plastic bottles, and aluminium cans, all of which we can keep out of our environments with a 10-cent refund.”
West women wanted
Nominations are open for the Hobsons Bay women’s advisory committee, as the council starts to develop a gender equity policy. The policy aims to increase education and work participation, and reduce violence and inequity for women. Nominees must have a personal or professional link with women’s services or networks in the municipality, and an understanding of the issues affecting women in the west. Details: hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au or 9932 1000. Nominations close on March 22 at 5pm.
Fast forward to short flicks
Eight short films will be screened at Newport’s Substation for Colourfest, Australia’s Multicultural Film Festival. The films, exploring identity, culture, religion and generational themes, will be screened on March 20 at 10am, 1pm and 6pm and March 23 at 1pm. Each screening, at the 1 Market Street venue, runs for an hour.
