Alison Champion | Public figure
Alison Champion
Phone: +61 466 486 593
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25.01.2022 Banyule Council elections were declared yesterday. Thank you very much to the newly-formed Sherbourne community for trusting me to be their representative for the next 4 years. It has been such a pleasure getting to know more of you during the election campaign via our ‘phone calls, and understanding what is important to you as individuals. Thank you also to those of you who texted me over the last couple of days with your messages of ‘Congratulations’. I am reading them all and look forward to speaking with you soon. The 9 councillors are being inducted on Monday evening, so from Tuesday please feel free to contact me at [email protected] or on 0466 486 593. Onward and upward!
25.01.2022 Banyule Flats Pavilion in Viewbank is completed. And more excitingly, training’s back ! I met with some very keen and relieved players and volunteers this afternoon who are happy with a slight lifting of the restrictions. There is a light .... Please make your way down on your next walk to see the transformation. Great work by the Banyule Sport and Leisure team.
25.01.2022 Best wishes to you all for a beautiful Christmas and a safe New Year.
20.01.2022 There’s still one more week to respond to the latest Were St Streetscape Upgrade. Please have your say on Shaping Banyule via the Banyule Council website. Thank you so much to all of you who have participated in this restricted consultation to date. AC
19.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne community! In this video, I am showing you two photos of the footpath outside the Lower Plenty shops on Main Road, Lower Plenty. I’ve been asked to have more lighting here to increase safety. What do you all think? a) increase the lighting along the strip for pedestrian safety... b) leave it as it is
19.01.2022 Celebrating IDAHOBIT with a speech, an insightful share by Paul (one of Banyule’s Intersex community) and raising the Rainbow Flag with Paul and Cr Langdon. The sun shone brightly in the clearblue sky and reflected warmly off The Greensborough Walk outside WaterMarc - just perfect ! Visit Banyule website to watch this morning’s sparsely attended event. More entertainment on Sunday 17th May from 8pm.... more rainbows on IDAHOBIT Day
19.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne Ward! Many of you will have received this brochure in your letterboxes in the last week. It reads like this project is going ahead as per this design. So many of this community are concerned that there hasn’t been sufficient effective engagement in this project by LXRP. Over 1,100 signatures from this community have been collected to date requesting genuine consultation around the new location. What are your thoughts? How does this design impact you? What a...re the implications of this design? Please post your responses below. I can use your feedback in council’s briefing with LXRP in the new year. Thank you. See more
18.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne community, again. In this video, I am showing you some photographs of the car park taken next to Suwan Thai restaurant Lower Plenty. What would you like to see here? a) resurface the car park next to Suwan Thai Restaurant... b) redesign and engineer the car park to include suitable drainage, lighting and landscaping c) other - please specify d) do nothing - leave it alone
18.01.2022 Despite many, many requests to the Minister for Local Government to postpone the next local council elections, they are officially going ahead in October. Postal voting only for all Victorian councils. A first for Banyule, divided into 9 wards. Please check your boundary.....
18.01.2022 Congratulations to our new Australian citizens in Banyule for taking The Pledge. Thank you to all who participated and made this special event a reality in our refurbished Great Hall. A perfect way to start a new year
18.01.2022 Make sure you contact Banyule City Council if you believe you are experiencing financial hardship at this time. Click on the link to hear the first "Champion Chat" about how Banyule Council is supporting its residents, businesses and communities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS7LZgAEK68 The next edition of The Banyule Banner is in your letterboxes later this month and also has relevant information. Enjoy!
17.01.2022 Welcome to National Sorry Day which marks the start of Reconciliation Week in Australia. For more information than my current post, please go to Banyule’s website. Enjoy the celebrations !
16.01.2022 Hi Everyone, on this week's champion chat, we are talking to Maureen Jones about her fascinating book Montmorency: The Farm on the Plenty. Watch full episode here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qg9kCQaM3U This book lays out the history of Montmorency from its earliest years as a hunting ground the Wurundjeri willam people, through its uptake by white settlers. Ownership of the land remained in the hands of one family for four generations spanning seventy years, before... the land evolved through small farmlets into a suburb once part of the former Shire of Eltham, now part of Banyule City Council. We also discuss; How Maureen got into writing. What inspired Maureen to write Montmorency: The Farm on the Plenty. How did the community react? Challenges Maureen faced during the process. People who supported and reflections If you are interested in finding out more information about the book please reach Maureen at [email protected]
16.01.2022 If you want to learn more about how the NELP impacts Banyule and why the council chose to discontinue the journey to the Supreme Court, please listen to the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ44F1837oo&t=56s
16.01.2022 Some Monty history through the eyes of our long-term residents, Blaise and Dal: https://bit.ly/3041kbe https://bit.ly/3geeB6L Many thanks to one of our resident photographers, Rod Ceballos, who has loved creating this project for us. Enjoy!
16.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne community! In this video, I am showing you a few pictures of Lower Plenty Primary School crossing. Early this year one of our lovely parents came to me and suggested we should have a raised crossing to slow down traffic and allow for people to cross safely. What do you think? a) construct a raised crossing to slow down traffic.... b) do nothing - leave it alone
15.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne Ward! Due to our current restrictions, Maureen Jones’ book launch and signing of Montmorency The Farm on The Plenty won’t take place tomorrow, 4th September, in Were St. Please contact Maureen at her email address mentioned in this month’s podcast if you’d like to order a copy. Or three. We are hoping for this event to take place as soon as we know restrictions are lifted, and will keep you informed of a future date. In the meantime, Happy Fathers’ Day to all our dads through all the generations on Sunday, 5th (not 12th! ). Have a special day, whether in person or virtually.
14.01.2022 So very exciting to be on the lush Monty North Oval with some of our junior players during their training last Thursday. ‘Thank you’ to Lorne and Brodie for the opportunity to practise hand-balling (been about 30 years since my last attempt!). Also, great to see familiar faces in Adam and Riley. Just! They have grown so much since they were 3 at Panorama Heights Kinder along with my Nicky. And many thanks to Banyule Sport and Leisure and Montmorency Football Club for working together so well to make this happen. We hope the football community enjoys playing many, many games on this new field, and continues to create great players and special friendships.
14.01.2022 Our beautiful Baha’i Community is celebrating its Australian Centenary this month. Please click on the link in the announcement attached to be emailed the Zoom link in time for this special event on 24th July. As always, looking forward to this celebration. AC
13.01.2022 National Sorry Day Flagraising and Smoking Ceremony with Aunty, her family and Cr Craig Langdon. Listen to the lovely Natasha on 3KND during Reconciliation Week to learn more, and take a look at Banyule Council’s website to enjoy the celebrations.
11.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne Ward! Banyule Council recently met briefly with LXRP to learn about the change of plan on the Hurstbridge Rail Duplication project. The line is not being duplicated past Montmorency Station and councillors asked questions relating to impacts on Petrie Park and vegetation, cost savings on the project (which we thought could be used for a bike/pedestrian trail along the north eastern train line), the location of new signals near Monty Station, planned parking... provisions on Mayona and Station Roads, and the possibility of a transport interchange at Greensborough Station. When asked about the next online community information sessions (due to this change of plan), Council was told this: The Department of Premier and Cabinet’s instructions to LXRP are to not conduct anymore information sessions online for this project and to get on with all aspects of the project to complete it by 2022. I’d love to know your thoughts on this comment and intention. What do you think? See more
10.01.2022 Remembrance Day this year for Monty-Eltham RSL was held at Kangaroo Ground War Memorial. As an invitation-only event this year, it was smaller than in other years, and no less significant. It’s always an honour to be asked to participate as the Banyule representative. Lest we forget
08.01.2022 I am forwarding a message from The Governor of Victoria, her Excellency the Honorable, Linda Dessau AC. Ple ase click on the link to hear her speak to us all. https://www.governor.vic.gov.au/all-news/message-governor
08.01.2022 Hello, Banyule Community. Please take a few minutes out of your day to listen to my message. As challenged as we are right now, know that This Too Shall Pass. Very best wishes to you all.
08.01.2022 Ask yourselves, is this destruction worth only 2 additional train services a day, a still at-grade pedestrian crossing and no shared-use path? Who decided that... the safety of commuters on straight platforms was more important than the safety of local children and the elderly or disabled crossing the double tracks several times a day? If Monty's heart must be ripped out, should it not be replaced with the safest, most sympathetic and user-friendly option we can get? For this much destruction and devastation, could we not have been asked if we wanted an underpass, or an overpass? This new station precinct will be bulky and sprawl out over 13,500 sqm across Monty. Is this what you expected? Did you also expect to lose most of the trees in Petrie Park along the train line? We certainly didn't. And we know Petrie Park can and should be untouched. Let LXRP and Vicki Ward know how you feel. Email or call Vicki Ward to ask her to advocate for our park: [email protected] 9439 1500 You can also email or call LXRP, attention Hurstbridge Line Duplication Team and mark your query as urgent: [email protected] 1800 105 105 They should respond within 7 days. If not, you can escalate your query to the Victorian Ombudsman: [email protected]
04.01.2022 I planned to chat with Tom Melican about the impacts of NELP on Rosanna and his take on the Supreme Court challenge. I got more of his vision of our lives post-COVID and how our transport methods may look very different as well as our lifestyles. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sligfoQT7go&feature=youtu.be
04.01.2022 Hello, Sherbourne community! In this video, I am showing you two photographs of Briar Hills shops. One is a north facing wall, which has a beautiful artwork of a bird by a local artist. The other has graffiti on it. What would you like to see on the wall with the graffiti? a) Paint the graffitied wall with a suitable mural... b) Other - please suggest c) Do nothing - leave it alone Let me know your thoughts
04.01.2022 The new crossing outside Montmorency Primary School in progress. Ready to use when school starts again - long-awaited and very exciting. Thank you to everyone at Banyule City Council who made this possible.
04.01.2022 9 wards for Banyule this election - check your ward, it may have changed....like mine has. I'm running again this year in Sherbourne, the new name for my ward.
03.01.2022 Our Urban Designer would love to hear anymore ideas or thoughts you’ve had about the Were St Montmorency streetscape. Thank you to everyone who has participated in this project so far. We appreciate your time and interest in our community - invaluable.
