Epping

Today we have a promise to sell something off to help with budget repair.

Why sell the Melbourne wholesale fresh fruit and vegetable market? The Big market you see in Epping, particularly if you've ever driven into Melbourne or out of Melbourne on the Hume Freeway there.

You see it on the side of the road.

Why sell that off 11 years after building it? That is the plan from the Liberals and Nationals, and they're going to tell you why they want to do that today on the program.

For that, let's get into it here on The Country Hour.

The Coalition has unveiled a plan today to sell the Melbourne wholesale fruit and vegetable market if it wins the next election.

The 67-hectare site at Epping, just off the Hume Freeway, was only built 11 or so years ago, and its sale is now one of the key budget balancing measures being taken to November's vote.

Shadow Agriculture Minister Emma Kearley has stepped out of a meeting and joined us on the line.

Hello, and welcome to The Flourishing Podcast.

This is our School Spotlight series, and today we're here in Epping at St. Peter's Primary School.

Uh, I'm gonna be talking to Angela Tonkin, who is principal here at St. Peter's, as well as Erin Whitbread, who is their teaching and learning lead.

And we've got so much that we're gonna learn today in terms of how this school has implemented their change journey, moving from, um, what they were previously implementing around COVID and, and those kind of dreary COVID times.

Um, but as we move through over the last kind of six or seven years, where the vision for instruction really has guided their development and where they've been able to implement practice around, um, using their teachers' autonomy as well as using the evidence that's there to support.

So plenty to learn as, as a leader and as a teacher, uh, and I can't wait to get stuck into this.

So join me as we talk to Erin and Angela here at St. Peter's Epping.

Let's go.

So police have arrested five teens following a series of incidents in Melbourne's northern suburbs on October 5.

It's alleged a group of six offenders attempted to carjack a vehicle on McDonalds Road in Epping at 7:00 PM.

The vehicle was able to drive away.

PSOs located and arrested one teen, a 15-year-old boy from the Port Phillip area at the South Morang bus exchange.

Um, I live in Craigieburn, right? And, um, I drive, you know, down the, the Hume Freeway most days.

The amount of houses that are getting built on the left-hand side, sort of Epping, Wallert, you know, back to Craigieburn, there's houses going up everywhere.

There's like five new housing developments, the whole lot.

Right.

Wollert.

So Wollert being the Woiwurrung name for possum and being a suburb beside Epping.

It's south of Donnybrook.

Excuse me.

One, Maryvale, that's most furthest away.

There's the Sunbury one, which is actually Buller, even closer to the city.

There's the Willert proposal, which is, for people who don't know Willert, just think of Epping, right? It's right beside Epping.

And then the one that would affect most people is the Laverton proposal.