| Friday 26 June 2026 |
Issue #7 |
Frankston City, VIC |
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📬 A note from the editor — Issue #7
G'day Frankston,
Winter's well and truly here, but Council reckons that's no reason to skip the food trucks — the 2026 season is rolling out across the city, with a fresh stop in Langwarrin worth a look, given that's where we're headed for this week's Suburb Spotlight.
There's an R18+ comedy show at the Seaford Hotel tonight if that's your scene, a '70s West Coast tribute act at the Arts Centre, free pub trivia kicking off at Moon Dog Beach Club, and the Brewhouse keeps the Sunday Set rolling with Andrew Grahame on the mic. Plenty on, plenty to flag in Safety too — a timely reminder to lock your car, your trailer, and yourself, with fatigue on the roads doing some damage this week.
Bus users on the peninsula corridor — Council's flagged a decent round of timetable upgrades landing 5 July. Not live yet, but worth knowing about.
Still chasing a proper Resident Voice story on hard rubbish and road signage — a few of you have mentioned both, but I need the specifics to do it properly. Details below.
And don't miss this week's Only in Frankston — a man, a tea-tree magpie, and a piece of cardboard he was very sure was something else.
— Topher, Editor · The Frankston Local
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🚚 Local Business
Food Truck Season Is Back — and Langwarrin's Finally Got a Regular Stop
Frankston City Council's 2026 food truck program is up and running for the cooler months, with vendors rotating through reserves and car parks across the municipality. It's a small thing, but it adds up to a decent reason to get out of the house on a winter weekend.
The Laughing Lark Mobile Cafe has first dibs on a brand new site at Carrum Downs Recreation Reserve — new for 2026 as part of Council's expanded program. Rolling Mugshot is back at Riviera Reserve car park in Seaford. Little Olly's has you covered before or after the climb up Oliver's Hill. Harmony Place is splitting time between Overport Park in Frankston South and Sandfield Reserve in Carrum Downs.
And for Langwarrin — this week's Suburb Spotlight — Coffee On Q has become the regular at Lloyd Park. It's a small, practical thing, but it's the kind of detail that makes a suburb feel like it's actually being thought about, not just driven through.
Council's published a map with all the current sites if you want to plan a proper food truck circuit. What does this mean for you: if you've been holding off on a Sunday outing because everything feels closed for winter, this is your sign that it isn't. (frankston.vic.gov.au)
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🏠 Housing
Council's Own Numbers on the Affordable Housing Shortfall
Council's Engage Frankston platform has put hard figures behind a problem most of us already feel: an estimated shortfall of over 6,000 affordable homes in Frankston City, affecting 14% of households, with 785 people counted as homeless on Census night 2021. Without intervention, that shortfall's projected to grow past 8,000 homes by 2036. We're digging into this properly for a future issue — but the numbers are worth sitting with now. (engage.frankston.vic.gov.au)
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🎤 Entertainment
Jenny Talia Brings the Filth to the Seaford Hotel
Comedian Jenny Talia — daughter of Kevin Bloody Wilson, and every bit as unsubtle — plays the Seaford Hotel tonight. Razor-sharp, filthy, and entirely R18+. Not one for the family outing, but if that's your sense of humour, grab a ticket. More in What's On below.
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| Fri 26 Jun |
Jenny Talia — live 🎤 R18+
Seaford Hotel · Tonight · Filthy, fast-paced comedy-rock from Kevin Bloody Wilson's daughter. Strictly adults only. (tickets.liveatyourlocal.com.au)
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| Fri 26 Jun |
California Legends 🎸
Frankston Arts Centre, 27 Davey St · 8:00pm–10:10pm · A 1970s West Coast tribute show — sun-soaked harmonies on a winter night. (imaginefrankston.com.au)
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| Sat 27 Jun |
Guided Brewery Tour 🍺
Frankston Brewhouse, 10 New St · 12:00pm–1:00pm · FREE · A behind-the-scenes look at how the beer gets made, grain to glass. (frankstonbrewhouse.com.au)
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| Sun 28 Jun |
The Sunday Set — Andrew Grahame 🎵
Frankston Brewhouse, 10 New St · 1:00pm–4:00pm · FREE · The weekly acoustic session rolls on — grab a schooner and let the afternoon do its thing. (frankstonbrewhouse.com.au)
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| Thu 2 Jul |
Free Pub Trivia — Moon Dog Beach Club 🧠
490 Nepean Hwy, Frankston · 7:00pm–9:00pm · FREE · Weekly trivia, $350 worth of prizes, hosted by Jacob from Yarnberg Entertainment. (whatsonfrankston.com)
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| Thu 2 Jul |
Bush Regeneration 🌿
28R Fenton Cres, Frankston South · 9:00am–11:00am · Friends of Sweetwater Creek are after a hand pulling weeds and replanting native species. All welcome, no experience needed. (whatsonfrankston.com)
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| Thu 2 Jul |
Frankston & Peninsula Masters Athletics — Run Safely Tonight 🏃
Benanee Drive, Frankston · 7:00pm–8:30pm · Weekly social running club catering to ages 30–85. Come along, no pressure, just good company on the move. (whatsonfrankston.com)
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| Ongoing |
Food Truck Season 2026 🚚
Various reserves across Frankston City · Council's rotating food truck program is back for winter — full site list and map online. See Big Story above. (frankston.vic.gov.au)
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📍 This week: Langwarrin
Half Bush, Half Suburb, All Sorted With Where It's Headed
Langwarrin sits on the eastern edge of Frankston City, and it still wears its history a bit more openly than its neighbours. Big blocks, established gum trees, and a noticeable number of properties with a horse paddock out the back — this was semi-rural land not that long ago, and plenty of it still feels that way.
That said, it's growing fast. New estates have filled in a lot of the gaps over the past decade, and Lloyd Park has become the kind of community hub that didn't really exist there twenty years ago — sporting grounds, playgrounds, and now, as of this week, a regular food truck stop with Coffee On Q parked up for your caffeine fix.
The Langwarrin Flora and Fauna Reserve is the suburb's other quiet asset — bushland walking trails a short drive from the shops, home to echidnas, swamp wallabies and a genuinely surprising amount of birdlife for somewhere this close to suburbia. Keep an eye out for blue-tongue lizards sunning themselves on the path, and watch your step — brown and tiger snakes call the reserve home too, more active as the weather warms but not unheard of on a mild winter's day. Nothing to be alarmed about if you stick to the tracks and give them space, but worth knowing before you wander off the beaten path.
Langwarrin doesn't get much attention outside its own postcode, but it's quietly become one of the more liveable corners of Frankston City — close enough to everything, far enough from the noise.
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🔒 LOCK IT OR LOSE IT — A REMINDER WORTH REPEATING
It's been a week of opportunistic theft chatter in local community groups — cars being checked for unlocked doors in the early hours, trailers disappearing overnight from driveways. None of it's confirmed through Victoria Police channels as a formal pattern, but the message is the same regardless: lock your car, lock your trailer, bring valuables inside, and report anything suspicious to 000 if it's happening now, or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 if it's after the fact.
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😴 TIRED? PULL OVER — A FATIGUE REMINDER AFTER A CLOSE CALL
A driver came off Peninsula Link this week and ended up on a landscaped embankment near an underpass — lucky to walk away. Fatigue, not speed, was behind it. Victoria Police's advice is the simple stuff: if you're tired, pull over, get a coffee, take a short walk, or swap drivers. It's a five-minute fix for something that can otherwise go very wrong, very fast.
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Watch
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Affordable housing shortfall — the numbers are now official
Council's Engage Frankston data puts the affordable housing shortfall at over 6,000 homes, growing past 8,000 by 2036 without action. We're treating this as a future Big Story — it deserves more than a paragraph. (engage.frankston.vic.gov.au)
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Ongoing
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State election: Frankston City First $19M ask — still no takers
Not one state election candidate has publicly committed to Frankston City First's $19 million advocacy agenda — including the $500,000 Frankston Zero outreach component tied directly to the housing shortfall above. Victorian state election: November 2026. We're keeping the ledger open.
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Community Food Feature — Issue #7: Theodora's Cheerful Givers
You are not alone. Theodora's Cheerful Givers runs a foodbank and outreach service at 1/12 Govan Street, Seaford — there for anybody doing it tough and needing a hand with the essentials, for themselves or their family.
Open Monday to Friday, 10am to 3.30pm (except public holidays). No fuss, no judgement — just a genuine bit of support when you need it.
1/12 Govan Street, Seaford · Mon–Fri 10am–3.30pm
theodorahouse.org.au
Each issue we spotlight one of the organisations quietly keeping Frankston connected. Know one we should feature? [email protected]
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More buses coming from 5 July. Council's flagged a solid round of bus upgrades landing next Sunday: Routes 781, 784 and 785 get longer hours and better connections to the new Frankston Line train timetable, and 31 south-east bus services get new timetables to match. Route 781 starts as early as 5am on weekdays. Not live yet — but worth circling the date if you rely on the bus to get to the station. (transport.vic.gov.au) |
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No single Resident Voice this week — but plenty of you got in touch after Garry's hard rubbish story in Issue #6, and it turns out it's not just him. Same complaint, different streets, same shrug from Council. I've also seen a fair bit of chatter online about the state of road signage and verges around the city — overgrown, faded, or just plain missing.
I don't want to run a vague "everyone's annoyed" item — I want your actual story. A specific street, a specific date, what happened to you. Hard rubbish, road signage, or anything else council's dropped the ball on — if it's happened to you, tell me properly and I'll run it next issue.
Hit reply or send to [email protected] — include your suburb.
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"A bloke crouched in the Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve at dawn, ice cream container in hand, dead certain he'd found a good patch — two metres off the freeway shoulder, traffic roaring past, a magpie giving him the death stare from a tea-tree. He straightened up triumphant, holding what was almost certainly just a sad bit of wet cardboard."
— Submitted anonymously
Whatever he thought he'd found, he found it with total conviction, two metres from six lanes of traffic, under the judgmental eye of a magpie. That's Frankston in one image.
Got a moment that could only happen in Frankston? Send it to [email protected]
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— 😄 Joke of the Week —
I have a fear of elevators.
So I'm going to start taking steps to avoid them. 🪜
— Bert, Skye · Got one? Send it to [email protected] — best ones get published with full credit.
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That's Issue #7 done. Food trucks back on the streets, a magpie passing judgment on a bloke in the bush, and Council's own numbers laying out just how big the housing shortfall really is. We'll come back to that last one properly.
If you've got a tip, a story, or something in your street worth knowing about — [email protected] comes straight to me. That's how local journalism stays local.
And if this is the kind of thing your neighbours should be reading, forward it on. No algorithm, no ad budget — just word of mouth.
See you Friday. ☀️
— Topher · The Frankston Local
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