Monday 30 May – Sunday 5 June

Special express edition #318
Macnamara held by Labor
After 10 days of counting, the Greens vote with preferences will stay just behind the ALP and Liberals.
Greens preferences will then re-elect Labor’s Josh Burns with a comfortable 62%.
Congratulation to Josh Burns.
Link to AEC’s latest count
While the counting of last postal ballots continues until later this week, 
there are several early observations:
The Greens’ campaign increased their vote by over 5% – an impressive effort.
With Labor’s vote also up slightly, the Greens must have snatched the increase from previously conservative voters.
The Liberal vote was down 9% but they enjoyed a swag of preferences from other conservative candidates who polled about 6% in total.
The conclusion: Macnamara’s progressive vote is over 60% but spread ever so slightly in Labor’s favour.
Not surprising, but perpetually interesting.
ABC Votes Macnamara page


Hybrid offering @ St Kilda Film Festival
Until Sunday 5 June
St Kilda’s short film festival is back again in hybrid format after an opening night at the Astor.
Sessions are mostly at the Astor or online, with a special feature at the Pride Centre.
Full program, venues and ticket sales are now available.
Info

Joan As Police Woman @ Palais
Thursday 2 June, 7.30 pm
Joan Wasser aka JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, lauded as ‘one of the 21st century’s best musicians’, performing in full band mode. 
Tix

Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball (Gomez) @ Espy
Thursday 2 June, 8 pm
Old mates, Ian Ball and Ben Ottewell from the band Gomez, will be returning for a set of intimate live performances, marking their Australian debut as a duo. Featuring an eclectic array of work spanning across their 20+ year career. $52
Tix

Rick Price ‘Soulville’ @ Memo
Friday 3 June, 7.30 pm
Australian Singer/Songwriter Rick Price has will perform his classic hits along with soul songs from his new album ‘Soulville’.
From his humble beginnings as a child performer with his family band in country Queensland dance halls, this self-taught artist has forged an internationally praised and respected career spanning three decades.
Tix

Songs For Suzanne: The Music and Poetry of Leonard Cohen @ Palais
Friday 3 June
Debra Byrne, Henry Wagons, Rebecca Barnard, Delsinki, and Alma Zygier perform renditions of songs from Leonard Cohen’s classic early albums. Classy $89
Tix

X – Back To The Espy @ Espy
Friday 3 June, 8 pm
Legendary band X is coming back to the Espy to help kick off the Live Music Month of June.
Steve Lucas with be leading X through songs from X-Aspirations, At Home With You and more. $22.50
Tix

Chocolate Starfish – Best of The Best @ Palais
Saturday 4 June
This exhilarating show features the full Bat Out Of Hell album, plus the singles from the ‘INXS:KICK’ album and the entire Live Aid set from lead singer Adam Thompson’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody Concert’, then capped off with Chocolate Starfish hits. $89
Tix

Kim Salmon – Haunted Grooves @ George Lane
Saturday 4 June, 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Kim Salmon has his share of ghosts lurking within his career.
Haunted Grooves is Kim’s telling of some of the stories left to him by people he’s collaborated with who are no longer around to tell them. Kim will resurrect some of those no longer lost, but still very much haunted grooves! Supporting act Chris Taranto and the Subterranean Deadbeats w/ Kim Volkman.
Tix

Broderick Smith & Shannon Bourne @ George Lane
Sunday 5 June, 4 pm – 8 pm
A special Sunday show with multi-instrumentalist and singer song-writer Broderick Smith (The Dingoes) alongside critically acclaimed blues and roots founded guitarist, Shannon Bourne. 
Tix  

A Western Winter Warmer @ Memo
Sunday 5 June, 3 pm
The inaugural ‘Wester Winter Warmer’, bringing two of the best in local Americana southside for a double bill of finely honed blend of country, folk and rock n roll:
Lachlan Bryan And The Wildes have been pioneers of the new wave of Alt Country, while 
Ben Mastwyk And His Millions plunge headlong into Seventies country-soul glam with lashings of cosmic American pedal steel and psych-guitar glitz that erupt into swaggering bar-room gems.
Tix

Sunday Blues | The Werewolves @ Espy 
Sunday 5 June 6 pm 9 pm
Melbourne-based blues/soul rock outfit The Werewolves truck into St.Kilda for an afternoon of original music! Free
Info

A new independent, local newspaper for Port Phillip? @ Middle Park Library
Sunday, 5 June, 3.30 pm. 
Organised by Progressive Port Phillip, the founders of *PS Media, Simon Crerar and Karen Mahlab, will meet locals in a community conversation about local media and local democracy.
Read more about *PS Media
*PS Media are about start local journalism in Port Phillip with staff online working from offices in Fitzroy Street.
A free event, $5 donation at the door welcomed. 
Bookings essential
Middle Park Library (upstairs) Community Room

Lovers & Fighters exhibition of environmental art @ Artful Yoga Gallery
Until Friday 17 June
This exhibition brings together the Port Phillip sustainable living and climate action community with:
• Eclectic mix of local artists with a wide variety of styles and techniques
• Month long exhibition will feature sustainable living workshops and mini markets
• Judith Lucy hosting the exhibition finale silent auction on Friday 17 June
More info @art.disrupt on Instagram.
 Artful Yoga Gallery, 1 Vale Street
 
Soon

End Of The Line: Wilburys Tribute  @ Memo
Thursday 9 June, 7.30 pm
Celebrating the phenomenal success of The Wilburys through a narrative and musical journey. All-time hits including performed by the who’s who of Oz Rock. Starring: Brian Mannix, Bernard Curry & Taylor Sheridan. TWiSK has seen this show – five star performances.
Tix

Local news

Petition to bring back the bike lane trial on Kerferd Rd 
Cycling advocates are seeking support for a protected bike lane trial on Kerferd Rd.  They say Kerferd Rd is recognised as one of the most dangerous of Council-controlled roads for crashes leading to serious injury to cyclists. They are calling for the reinstatement of the trial.    
Sign the petition here
  Read more about the issue here

Port Phillip Progress magazine, Ed 2 (May 2022) @ Progressive Port Phillip
Read PPP’s collective thoughts on good council management and community outcomes, such as rates, childcare, climate change, heritage protection and the arts. 
Read now

Social meal program is back @ Christ Church Community Centre
Thursday evenings
The Christ Church Community Centre’s  weekly Open House social meal program is returning to the dining room, for the first time since March 2020.
Now on Thursday evenings because this is the day least catered for by other kitchens.
There will still be take away options. 
Thanks to City of Port Phillip, Second Bite and Foodbank as well as Volunteers for their ongoing support.
More Info
Keep your pussy in at night @ Port Phillip
With cat like stealth, Council has introduced a cat curfew from 9 pm to 6 am to “help protect native animals and reduce the number of roaming felines being taken to the pound”. It’s also aimed at reducing ‘catfights’, unplanned kitten litters and cats being hit by cars. The fine is $91.
More info


Greg Day
Happy to chat anytime 0418 345 829
Content suggestions and community questions are always welcome.
gday@archives.gdaystkilda.com.au
Yet another edition of TWiSK from hospital, this time however actually in East St Kilda!
Starting three weeks of rehab to get more mobility back.
Wish me luck!

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