In recent years, Frankston has been an outspoken advocate for reducing the role of telecommunications companies in the evolution of the internet, particularly with respect to broadband and mobile communications.

The major part of the City was first incorporated in 1860 as the Mornington Roads District, which became a shire in 1871 and was renamed Shire of Frankston and Hastings in 1893, losing its western riding to form the Shire of Mornington, which has since been amalgamated into the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.

This has received much attention in local Frankston newspapers.

The Frankston Bypass route has long been marked in the Melway street directory.

Frankston Council has been in talks with EastLink, with a view to getting the bypass built from EastLink to as far as Cranbourne Road.

One SmartBus route, connecting Rowville to Caulfield via Monash University and Huntingdale Station has been established, with the other providing a link to Ringwood and Frankston which began operation in 2008.

The origins of the name " Frankston " has been subject to some conjecture.

A consumer credit report by Dun & Bradstreet published in 2009 showed that, of all Australian suburbs, Frankston North has citizens most at risk of defaulting on bills and loans.

* Frankston North has no direct access to rail services, but is serviced by two bus lines which run through the suburb via the Frankston-Dandenong route.

Bentleigh has two railway stations, Bentleigh and Patterson ; the former is the end of zone 1 on the Frankston train line.

Carrum has its own railway station which opened in 1882, being the first Railway Station between Mordialloc and Frankston.

From Caulfield, the Frankston line has three tracks to Moorabbin.

Chelsea has its own railway station on the Frankston line.

The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is incomplete, and has been for decades ( VicRoads having decided that traffic on the route was not heavy enough to merit a Frankston Bypass, the middle section of the freeway ), and at this stage, there are actually two freeways, a northern section and a southern section, linked by a divided highway.

The construction of the Eastlink freeway and its interchange with the northern section has led to speculation of possible congestion on the Frankston Freeway, especially at the southern terminus at McMahons Road.

Bonbeach has a railway station on the Frankston line and a string of shops on the Nepean Highway.

In Victoria it has friendly relations with the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia which has congregations at Geelong, Frankston and MacKinnon.

The Frankston Freeway was designed to accommodate Mornington Peninsula Freeway from the northern section, and it has had a missing Frankston Bypass for decades ( Vicroads having decided that traffic on the route was not heavy enough to merit a Frankston Bypass, the middle section of the freeway ), and at this stage the Frankston Freeway serves as the missing link between the two Mornington Peninsula Freeways.

Chisholm Institute has campuses in Dandenong, Berwick, Frankston, Wonthaggi, Cranbourne, Noble Park and Mornington Peninsula Campus.

In July 1998, Liberal MP Peter McLellan, Member for Frankston East, resigned from the party in protest over alleged corrupt Liberal Party Senate preselection, changes to WorkCover and the auditor-general ’ s office.

Frankston was named for Frankie Miller, a young woman who donated land for the downtown city park.

The peninsula extends from the mainland between Pearcedale and Frankston in a south-westerly direction for about at a width of about.

In addition, the local MP for the Federal seat of Dunkley, Bruce Billson, is also working with local councils with a view to applying pressure on the state government for the Frankston Bypass to be built.

Unlike other Melbourne radio stations that were based in the inner city areas, 3MP-as the callsign " MP ", which stands for Mornington Peninsula, implies-was based in the south eastern suburb of Frankston, originally in the Bayside Shopping Centre.

It is the seat of government and administrative centre for the local government area, the City of Frankston which had an estimated population of 130, 462 at 30 June 2010.

The demonym for a person from Frankston is a " Frankstonian ".

The Bracks Labor Government later compulsorily re-purchased the land and offered it for free to the City of Frankston.

Frankston North, " The Pines ", had a reputation during the 1970s and 1980s for being a " high crime " suburb.

East Ward councilor Jane Hill said that there was " No reason for ( the ) Pines stigma " and said that its reputation existed only in the minds of a minority of Frankston residents.

A proposal in the 1970s to sandmine the remaining bushland met with community uproar and the Eureka Flag was raised on Trig Point ( the site from which the Frankston area was originally surveyed ) and the area claimed for the people of Frankston.

Operated by Frankston City Council, the centre is used by schools from surrounding suburbs for sports and recreational activities.

Due to the population of the City of Frankston increasing rapidly in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a local chapter of the club was established for Frankston North.

At the end of November 2005, Vicki McClelland from Frankston North was unanimously elected mayor by her fellow councillors for a two year term.

The Frankston North Community Map was launched by Jude Perera, MP for Cranbourne on 20 June 2006.

This program is funded by the State Government and there are currently eight Community Renewal sites around the state, of which one is Frankston North, the project team for this site are project manager, Tricia Folvig and project officer, Orma Ringberg, who are located at the Mahogany Centre.

Frankston North Community Renewal will build on the initiatives of previous community strengthening programs that have been delivered in the area over the past five years, including Pines Connecting the Community, Best Start and Communities for Children.

The associate editor of The Age, Shaun Carney pointed out both the Liberal ( Bruce Billson ) and Labor ( Helen Constas ) candidates for the local federal seat of Dunkley at the 2004 Federal Election attended Monterey High School, now known as Monterey Secondary College in Frankston North.

His son Gary Guy played for Melbourne and Mark Czarnecki who played for Melbourne, Dandenong VFA and Frankston VFA.

MacDiarmid, who emigrated with her family in 1987 from the Scottish Highlands to Australia, had been playing tennis after work with two friends at ( what was then known as ) Flinders Park in Batman Avenue, East Melbourne before walking to Richmond station where they found that they had just missed a Frankston line train.

Gen. Swing has received public attention before this for abuse of some of the prerogatives of his office.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

Sen. Case Aj, has received a nice `` thank you '' note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Unless within the sixty-day period the Export-Import Bank has received such a communication from the Department of Economic Affairs it shall be understood that the Department of Economic Affairs has no objection to the proposed loan.

The design of orthographies has received much less attention from linguists than the problem deserves.

Geometric pottery has not yet received the thorough, detailed study which it deserves, partly because the task is a mammoth one and partly because some of its local manifestations, as at Argos, are only now coming to light.

The idea has received much attention in philosophy, in literature, and in a few works of general social criticism, such as The Sane Society.

The radiation processing of meat has received extensive investigation.

The school has received letters from parents asking, `` What happened to Johnny??

He remarked: `` It has been clearly established that in a number of instances the message did not come from a spirit but was received telepathically by the medium from the sitter ''.

`` We regard it as fair only when each party feels that what he has received is as valuable, or more valuable, than what he has given ''.

Once he has received this blessing, the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense, but their major superior under canon law, and has the additional authority to confer the ministries of acolyte and lector ( formerly, he could confer the minor orders, which are not sacraments, that these ministries have replaced ).

Although Albert has received relatively little recognition in German history, his dissolution of the Teutonic State caused the founding of the Duchy of Prussia ( and also the Hohenzollern dynasty ), which would eventually become arguably the most powerful German state and instrumental in uniting the whole of Germany.

A Mexican agate, showing only a single eye, has received the name of cyclops agate.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Johnson's administration has received very poor historical rankings amongst scholars, typically amongst the bottom three.

Ampicillin has received FDA approval for its mechanism of action.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

" The old priest, Eli, fell dead when he heard it ; and his daughter-in-law, bearing a son at the time the news of the capture of the Ark was received, named him Ichabod — explained as " The glory has departed Israel.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

The ARIN membership elects the Board of Trustees ( BoT ), which has ultimate responsibility for the business affairs and financial health of ARIN, and manages ARIN's operations in a manner consistent with the guidance received from the Advisory Council and the goals set by the registry's members.