Welcome to the Cape Paterson Residents and Ratepayers Association
We are a group of residents, ratepayers and members who have come together to achieve mutually held goals built around the protection and betterment of Cape Paterson.

UPDATE: March 2025

NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT

Last step to save Cape Paterson – your support was substantial and appreciated!

On 18 December2024 the Victorian State Government released a revised proposed ‘Protected Settlement Boundary’ (PSB) for Cape Paterson, no longer including the farming land north of Seaward Drive.
The draft final Bass Coast Statement of Planning Policy has been released in June with this boundary. Once endorsed by responsible agencies it will published in the Government Gazette.

This reduced boundary is what our community has been campaigning for so strongly and for so long. Thanks to those who added your voice  to those that agree with this decision to revise the boundary back.

Survey has completed January 28 2025

What's New

Community Resilience Cape Paterson

Preparing and Responding to Emergencies in Cape Paterson- by Jennifer Anderson BCSC

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Parents' Group Next Date:   Friday 4 July

Parents' Group

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December 29, 2023

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CPRRA Newsletter April 2025

This edition features:

a profile of Jane and Kit Fennessy dates for your diary have your say on the Council budget notes on meetings with BCSC staff and Cr Meg Roberts weeds to watch and working bees

Go to the News Page for an archive of past editions of Cape Conversations.

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WORKING BEES

Our next Working Bee will be

Tuesday 8 July 2025

What's Happening:

This is an "out of session" working bee in association with Birdlife Australia. We will be pulling sea spurge to help protect our precious Hooded Plovers. If you are attending please email your RSVP finn.saurine@birdlife.org.au . This will help with estimating catering numbers.

Meet at:

End of Wilsons Road / F Break Car Park.

Note:

Please wear clothes suitable for wintry conditions and bring your own gloves and trowels/spades. If you don't have trowels and gloves we will have some available. The South Gippsland Conservation Society will provide morning tea refreshments and the CPRRA will provide a lunch at the Wonthaggi Lifesavng Club (Bay Beach) Cape Paterson at 12:30.

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Waring Wombat

April-July

Cool, rainy days follow misty mornings.
The time of highest rainfall and lowest temperatures.
Waring (wombats) emerge to bask and graze in the sunshine.
Bulen-bulen (Superb Lyrebird) males perform their courtship displays.
Hearts of Kombadik (Soft Tree-ferns) are the major food when no fruits are available.
Days are short and nights are long.
The constellation of Sagittarius rises in the southeast after sunset, indicating the mid-point of cold weather.

'Wumangurruditj, that's wombat.Put a piece of wombat, a piece of pork and a piece of porcupine [echidna] and you can't tell the difference.' Jessie Hunter, 1999