From backyard flips in Frankston to the grand stage of the Paris Olympics! Brock Batty’s trampoline journey started with fun jumps and self-taught tricks. Now, at 17, he’s making history as the youngest male ever to compete in trampoline gymnastics. Brock is beyond excited to represent and compete in his first Olympics!
Mount Martha photographer Michelle Bolitho hopes to use her photographic art to encourage women to reimagine how they view themselves. She wants to capture their stories and beauty through every stage of…
Patricia Hunder always thought herself a city person, but a rising feeling of being trapped left her craving the open spaces of the peninsula. “I bought twelve acres in Balnarring and looked…
It is the contract of parenthood. Protect your kids at all costs. Teach them to look each way when crossing roads, and watch for any potential harm. But what if the harm…
Perched atop a backyard boulder in the Dandenongs overlooking the treescape, Merricks writer, Megan Rogers learned the art of storytelling from her Dad when she was four years old. They would sit…
Over the last five years though our world and our glorious Peninsula have taken a deep dive. Not much has happened on the event frontier. It’s not fashion that’s changed though, it’s our mindset. Dressing has taken on a new renaissance. Sneakers are now our new best friend! It’s been a slow and steady return but I’m not quite sure we are back yet.
Mike and Janet Green are well-respected, award-winning career artists. They are also genuinely equal partners in a marriage spanning nearly six decades. They have travelled together and separately for work and leisure,…
“My grandfather was a farmer, and I always wanted to be a farmer. But I never knew how I was going to do it. Then I went fishing, and here I am owning a mussel farm. I’m working with the best chefs in Melbourne and my product is known worldwide.”
With eighty-seven books on cricket and football, author and sports commentator Ken Piesse is the most published sports author in Australia – perhaps the world – although there is no official record for this. He’s about to publish his eighty-eighth, and this time, it’s all about Ken. It’s a memoir, ‘Living the Dream – 60 Years of Cricket’.