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Another record night market
The Queen Victoria Market’s (QVM) winter night market continues to outperform, with another record season attendance this year.
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The City of Melbourne has abandoned its renewal plans for the Queen Victoria Market (QVM) and is throwing the market’s problems back on “the people”.
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Killing the culture that laid the golden egg
In a fairly foreseeable series of events, the move of monolithic clothing chain Culture Kings into Melbourne’s iconic Hosier Lane has proved antithetical to the preservation of culture.
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Reflections on “full pelt”for 100 days
Some 100 days into the lord mayoralty, Sally Capp’s energy is undiminished and her learning along the way has sharpened her capacity to effect change.
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Critics open fire on Melbourne Day
The “invasion day” label, which has controversially dogged Australia Day in recent years, has caught up with the CBD-based Melbourne Day, with immediate consequences.
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Telstra plunders CBD for profits
After years of incremental encroachment into the public domain for private profits, Telstra appears to have crossed a City of Melbourne “line in the sand” with its latest rollout of monster digital advertising.
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Alaska Sun
The sound of the 150 active volcanoes on the Jupiter moon Io is the sound of Warped.
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Lauren follows her dreams
Recent William Angliss event management graduate Lauren Macron can testify to the value of volunteering to gain valuable experience.
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Big ideas wanted to dress up Metro Tunnel construction sites
The Metro Tunnel Project has put a call out to Melbourne’s creative industry to ensure Melbourne remains a vibrant and attractive destination during construction of Victoria’s biggest ever public transport project.
Read MoreVertical democracies
Democracy, the art of thinking independently together, may be the missing element for vertical village wellbeing, but are we prepared to risk the cost?
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Restoration of a sign of the times
Readers may have recently noticed scaffolding coming down from the former Herald and Weekly Times building on Flinders St, completing months of paintstaking restoration on one of our most iconic heritage buildings.
Read MoreOne woman’s stand gets results
One brave apartment owner has taken on the developer and the management company appointed to administer the common property for the owners’ corporation (OC) and won back residents’ rights that had been eroded in her apartment building.
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Boss Baby, Octo Pram in Melbourne
Hiding among the corporate CBD high-rise you can find amazing places.
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The forgotten telegraphist
On the William St wall of the Supreme Court building in Melbourne there is a small plaque, ignored by most passers-by, which commemorates one of the most significant events in the history of Melbourne and indeed Australia.
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Melbourne Fashion Week 2018
Australia’s fashion came to life as Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood announced this year’s Melbourne Fashion Week program on Thursday, July 12 at Melbourne’s iconic town hall.
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A romance about writing
In the novel Antidote to a Curse, the narrator meets his lover in the iconic Stalactites café in Lonsdale St.
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Max-imum entertainment
Max, a 10-year-old beagle shar pei cross, was recently rescued by CBD resident Jane Lee, 23.
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Phenomenon of street art
It is clear that street art has become an important part of the Melbourne cultural milieu with urban art appearing throughout the city in a variety of contexts.
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Smooth sailing for CBD development
July has been a relatively quiet month within the Melbourne CBD from a planning and development perspective aside from projects already under construction.
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School holiday gaol break
Emma, 14, at left Olivia, 8, were two of the hundreds of children to “Escape the Gaol” at the Old Melbourne Gaol during the winter school holidays.
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