| Friday 10 July 2026 |
Issue #9 |
Frankston City, VIC |
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📬 A note from the editor — Issue #9
G'day Frankston,
Please read the Safety Update first this week if you skim — Victoria Police are appealing for help finding a 15-year-old girl, Kelly, last seen heading to a bus stop in Frankston on Wednesday. Details and the contact number are below.
Onto the rest of it — Council's Pick My Park is back for round two, and this time it's your vote that decides where the money goes. Six reserves are shortlisted, voting's open now, and round one already put $915,000 of resident-directed funding into local parks. Full story below on how to have your say.
This week's Suburb Spotlight is Sandhurst — the golf estate suburb tucked between Skye and Carrum Downs that most of Frankston City drives past without ever turning in. There's a community market on this Sunday if you want an excuse to have a look.
Frankston Brewhouse is back on the radar too, with Comedy Club tonight and the Sunday Set running Sunday afternoon. Plus Jon Stevens brings the Noiseworks and INXS catalogue to Pier Bandroom Saturday night.
— Topher, Editor · The Frankston Local
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🌳 Community
Pick My Park Is Back — And This Time You're Choosing Where $1.8M Goes
Frankston City Council's Pick My Park program is back for round two, and it works differently to most council spending: residents vote on which local parks get the money, not the other way around.
Six reserves have made this round's shortlist — Myrtle, Cavill, Escarpment, Alicudi, Rotary and Burgess Reserves. Voting is open now via Engage Victoria and closes 4pm Monday 3 August. Whichever projects get the most community votes get built.
Round one already delivered $915,000 in resident-directed funding, matched by Council to bring the total local park investment to $1.83 million. It's a genuinely unusual way for a council to spend money — most capital works get decided in a boardroom, not a ballot.
What this means for you: If one of the six shortlisted reserves is near you, your vote directly decides what gets built there. Cast it before 4pm Monday 3 August at frankston.vic.gov.au
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🏛 Governance
Council Freezes New Partnerships While It Tightens the Rules
Councillors voted unanimously at the 1 June meeting to develop a Strategic Partnerships Framework — and, until it's finished, officers can't sign Council up to any new external partnership or membership without a council resolution first. Council says there's currently no single formal process for how it enters, renews or exits these arrangements. Full story in Council Watch below.
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🗳 Politics
State Election: Still Waiting on the $19M Ask
Council is doing its part on parks. The state is a different story. Not one Victorian state election candidate has publicly committed to Frankston City First's $19 million advocacy package. November 2026 is getting closer. We're keeping the ledger open.
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| Fri 10 Jul |
Brewhouse Comedy Club 😂
Frankston Brewhouse, 10 New Street · 7:30–10pm · Free. Five fresh comedians, second Friday of every month. Laugh your way into the weekend.
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| Fri 10 Jul |
Karaoke Fridays — LTK Karaoke 🎤
Beach162, 160–162 Beach Street, Frankston · 6pm till late · Free entry, $2 mic covers. Meals available, heaps of parking. Weekly.
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| Sat 11 Jul |
Jon Stevens — The Noiseworks & INXS Collection Tour '26 🎸
Pier Bandroom · 6:30pm. The former Noiseworks and INXS frontman runs through both catalogues. Tickets via pierbandroom.com.au
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| Sat 11 Jul |
KHAN — 10 Year Anniversary Tour w/ Transience, Terrestrials, Double-Barrel Mega Doob 🤘
Singing Bird Studio · 6pm · From $26.91. Heavy night, sales ending soon. Tickets via eventbrite.com.au
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| Sun 12 Jul |
The Sunday Set 🎶
Frankston Brewhouse, 10 New Street · 1–4pm · Free. Weekly live acoustic session, one resident artist each week from a rotating lineup of eight.
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| Sun 12 Jul |
Sandhurst Club Community Market 🧺
Function Room, Sandhurst Golf Club, 75 Sandhurst Blvd · 10am–2pm. Handmade goods, local services, food stalls, live music. Tied to this week's Suburb Spotlight — see below.
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| Mon 13 Jul |
Sisters of Soul Women's Circle — Cacao Blessing (New Moon) 🌙
Indah Health · 7pm · From $43. A women's connection circle marking the new moon. Tickets via eventbrite.com.au
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| Thu 16 Jul |
Free Tech Help with Youngsters 💻
43/330 Cranbourne Road, Frankston · 10am–12pm · Free. Weekly drop-in tech help session. Bring your device and your questions.
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| Thu 16 Jul |
Crafty Connections 🧵
3/60 Playne Street, Frankston · 10–11am · Free. Bring your current craft project and work on it in relaxed company. Weekly.
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| Thu 16 Jul |
Bush Regeneration 🌿
28R Fenton Crescent, Frankston South · 9–11am · Free. Action Sweetwater Creek's weekly volunteer session restoring the reserve's bushland habitat.
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| Thu 16 Jul |
Free Pub Trivia 🍺
Moon Dog Beach Club · 7–9pm · Free to play, bookings essential. Prizes include $175 in vouchers, a free slab, six-packs and a jug of Fizzer or Moon Dog. $20 burger and jug deal from 7pm.
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This Week: Sandhurst
The Suburb Built Around a Golf Course
Sandhurst sits between Skye and Carrum Downs, and unlike most of Frankston City, it didn't grow up around a shopping strip or a train line — it grew up around two championship golf courses. The Sandhurst Club bought the land in the early 2000s and built the estate outward from the clubhouse. Around 5,200 people call it home.
It's an unusual setup for a Frankston suburb. Residents pay Council rates like everywhere else, but they also pay fees to one of two owners' corporations — Sandhurst Club east of McCormicks Road, or Sandarra to the west — which handle security, park upkeep and road maintenance directly, on top of what Council provides. There's a recycled water system, an active Auskick program on the mini oval near the clubrooms, and enough tech workers who set up shop from home that the estate got fibre broadband well before most of the municipality.
Sandhurst doesn't get its own postcode — it shares 3977 with Cranbourne, a hangover from before the suburb existed in its own right. Kids mostly go to school in Carrum Downs. There's no retail strip inside the estate itself, so like a lot of the city's newer suburbs, it leans on its neighbours for the everyday stuff.
If you're after a look inside, the Sandhurst Club Community Market is on this Sunday 12 July, 10am–2pm, in the Function Room at the Golf Club — handmade goods, food stalls, local services and live music, open to everyone, not just residents. If you live in Sandhurst and want to tell us what it's actually like day to day, we'd like to hear from you. [email protected]
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Frankston Safety — Week of 4–10 July
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Missing person — Kelly, 15. Kelly was last seen heading to a bus stop in Frankston about 3:45pm Wednesday 8 July, and was also sighted at Dandenong Plaza at 7:53pm the same day. She was wearing a black Gant hoodie, black track pants, black Nike TNs and carrying a black backpack. Anyone with information is urged to contact Frankston Police Station on (03) 9784 5555. Source: Victoria Police. |
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Teen charged — Carrum Downs factory fire. A teenage boy has been charged after the keys to a Ford Raptor were allegedly stolen from a Burwood gym on 9 June, with the vehicle then allegedly driven to a factory on Brett Drive, Carrum Downs, and set alight — causing over $1 million in damage. Police are using the case as a reminder to keep car keys close or in a secure locker while at the gym. Source: Victoria Police. |
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Serious collision — Langwarrin. Police are investigating a crash on Cranbourne-Frankston Road about 8:25pm, in which a motorcycle — travelling without lights on — struck a Toyota Yaris turning into a nearby car park. The 16-year-old rider was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries; the driver of the car stopped to render assistance. Witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppersvic.com.au. Source: Victoria Police. |
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Reminder: e-scooter rules. With school holidays in full swing, a timely one — e-scooters are capped at 20km/h, allowed on shared and bike paths, and riders must be 16 or over and wear a helmet. They're illegal over 25km/h and can't be ridden on footpaths or roads with a speed limit over 60km/h. More info at transport.vic.gov.au |
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Voting Open
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Pick My Park round two — voting closes 4pm Monday 3 August
Six reserves shortlisted — Myrtle, Cavill, Escarpment, Alicudi, Rotary and Burgess. Vote via Engage Victoria at frankston.vic.gov.au — see the Big Story above for the full picture.
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Ongoing
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Strategic Partnerships Framework — new partnerships frozen until it's finished
Councillors voted unanimously at the 1 June meeting to develop clearer rules for how Council enters, renews and exits partnerships and memberships with outside organisations — covering approvals, governance, renewal cycles and how Council manages lobbying and advocacy. Until the framework is done, officers can't sign off on any new external partnership without a council resolution. A councillor briefing is expected by September 2026. Council says the current process isn't formalised — this closes that gap.
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Community Food Feature — Issue #9: Community Support Frankston
Not free food, but a genuinely useful stop if you're struggling with more than groceries. Community Support Frankston, at 35 Beach Street, runs a cluster of support services under one roof: the Bolton Clarke Homeless Persons Program, free Tax Help from July to October for people earning under $50,000, Orange Sky's free mobile laundry service, a Mental Health Legal Clinic, a Services Australia co-location, and free eye checks and glasses for low-income earners through the Australian College of Optometry.
Orange Sky's laundry service runs Wednesdays 11:30am–2pm and Thursdays 1:30–3:30pm. Reception can point you to whichever service fits.
35 Beach Street, Frankston · Reception: (03) 9783 7284
frankston.net/supportservices
Each issue we spotlight one of the organisations quietly keeping Frankston connected. Know one we should feature? [email protected]
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Bus upgrade update — closing the loop. The Routes 781/784/785 changes we flagged a couple of issues back went live on 5 July as scheduled. The combined 20-minute frequency between Mornington and Frankston has been retained, Route 786 (Rye–St Andrews Beach) has been discontinued, and a new Route 886 between Hastings and Mornington has launched. Source: Transport Victoria. |
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"How awesome are the local bike trails — well done to the council for upkeeping such beautiful shared paths. I was so pleased to see an echidna digging around."
A nice change of pace after a few issues of bin gripes and pothole complaints. Fair credit where it's due — the shared paths through Frankston City are genuinely well kept, and an echidna sighting is a decent reminder of what's still hanging on out there.
Also still keen to hear from anyone else who's had bin-raiding trouble like Stevey mentioned a couple of issues back — send it through and we'll run a fuller set of responses.
Want to share something? Reply to this email or send to [email protected] — include your suburb.
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TRUE STORY
"UGG boots. Boardshorts. A puffer jacket. All at once. And somehow, worn with total confidence."
— Topher
Three seasons, one outfit, zero self-consciousness. It shouldn't work. It does anyway. There's a specific kind of local confidence that lets you dress for warmth, comfort and the beach in the same five minutes, and not one person on the street bats an eyelid. That's Frankston.
Got a moment that could only happen in Frankston? Send it to [email protected]
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— 😄 Joke of the Week —
Why did the seagull move to Frankston?
Because the chips were easier to steal. 🍟
— Sandy, Frankston · Got one? Send it to [email protected] — best ones get published with full credit.
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That's Issue #9 done. A missing teenager we're hoping turns up safe, a park fund that's actually yours to direct, and a suburb built entirely around two golf courses. Please keep an eye out for Kelly if you're in the Frankston or Dandenong area this week.
If you've got a tip, a story, or something happening in your street that deserves a look — [email protected] comes straight to me. That's how this stays local.
And if you reckon someone in your street would get something out of this, forward it on. No algorithm, no ad budget — just word of mouth.
See you Friday. ☀️
— Topher · The Frankston Local
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