Zoos Victoria cleans up the board
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With a zeal keepers might apply to mucking out The Trail of the Elephants at Melbourne Zoo, the state government is cleaning out the Zoos Victoria board. The entire board, in fact.
Zoos Victoria board.
Credit:John Shakespeare
The call has gone out seeking replacements for the chair and all nine members of the Zoological Parks and Gardens Board, the not-for-profit organisation that runs the Healesville Sanctuary, Melbourne Zoo and Werribee Open Range Zoo.
Which is a little odd, considering the board is populated by well-respected straight shooters.
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A legal stoush within a wealthy family has taken a bitter turn as a mother takes her own daughter to court over a multimillion-dollar property.
It has been little over a month since Toorak millionaire Celia Burrell urged a judge to force her mother Janice Shelmerdine to allow her to cook Christmas lunch in their family holiday home.
Mrs Burrell, who has been feuding with the 84-year-old for at least a year, was granted access to the kitchen of the $11million Portsea mansion until February 26, but not the adjoining toilet.
In the latest set of legal proceedings filed on January 5, Ms Shelmerdine claimed her son Richard sold a second waterfront property in Sorrento, south of Melbourne, to her daughter for $3.4million in 2012.
Melbourne woman Celia Burrell has launched legal action against her mother
Mrs Burrell claims her mother Janice Shelmerdine promised her a luxury house
Matter in Supreme Court over who cooks Christmas lunch in $11 million mansion
Dispute started over access to a three level bungalow overlooking the beach
Mrs Burrell claims mum said she could buy her siblings interest in the home
Mrs Burrell paid a small fortune to renovate the bungalow into a stylish pad
A mother and daughter from an exceedingly wealthy family are at loggerheads over the use of a kitchen on Christmas Day in their sprawling $11million mansion.
Toorak millionaire Celia Burrell first took her mother Janice Shelmerdine to court in July, claiming she had tried to sell the clifftop estate despite promising it to her.
The property on the Melbourne s Mornington Peninsula looks out over Shelly Beach in Portsea and boasts a main house, a three-level bungalow, grass tennis court and the use of a boat shed.
Ms Burrell was of the belief that the home would be hers upon the family matriarch s death after she agreed to pay out a sibling $4.5million for his share and secured the right to buy out her other brother s stake in the home.