LIBS candidate for Geelong Paula Kontelj is out of sorts over a political graffiti artist’s assault on her election billboards.
The board, on the fence of former mayor Ken Jarvis, was adorned with a talk bubble saying “I hate refugees”.
When the Kontelj camp scrubbed this out, it was re-written by said vandal, prompting PK to post an attachment telling the scribbler refugee policy is a federal, not state, issue and that she married the son of refugees.
FORD might be moving forward, bringing a new imported Mustang muscle car to the Aussie market and leaving hundreds in its wake, but not everyone’s forgotten the workers.
In fact, a so-called Falcon ‘art car’ has been put together by Ford clay modeller Peter Watson to show the people working at company.
“I wanted to show the faces behind the Falcon,” he said. “I thought it would be a fitting celebration piece to all the personnel who literally bolt the car together on the production line,” he says.
The car will be on show at a juvenile diabetes fund-raiser showcase of 30-plus artworks by the Ford Design Team this Saturday and Sunday at the 1000 Pound Bend Gallery in Melbourne’s CBD.
PORTARLINGTON seems to be in the news for all the wrong reasons lately.
Last week, it was the buyer of Ann Nichol House, Arcare, for hauling a dead resident from one of its nursing homes out of a fountain, drying her off and putting her back in bed before relatives were called in.
This week, the alleged rape by federal opposition leader Bill Shorten 30 odd years ago of a girl at a Young Labor conference reared again, even though police have discounted the claim.
Who says the old Port is a sleepy town?
