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VCAT out of reach of locals
CBD locals are despondent that serious financial risk has prevented them from challenging a controversial City of Melbourne planning decision late last year.
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Looking for a social conscience
These days everyone likes to advertise their differences including Marcus Dixon, the Big Issue seller in Flinders Lane, who makes up a little riff about the magazine to amuse buyers.
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$8 million gallery gift
An $8 million donation from the John and Myriam Wylie Foundation is enabling the State Library of Victoria to build a new gallery.
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Plenty of Chinese New Year choices
CBD residents have plenty of choices this Chinese New Year, which gets underway on Friday, January 27 and concludes on February 12.
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Apartment standards have been relaxed
Victoria’s new apartments standards to become law next month are significantly more relaxed than the draft that was circulated in the middle of last year.
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Third party rights back in spotlight
Third party planning notification and appeal rights for CBD residents are back on the agenda.
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Making a splash!
Young and old celebrated summer with a supersized inflatable slip ‘n’ slide at Federation Square last month.
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Metro Tunnel gets underway
The first major works of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project started last month with the closure of Franklin and A’Beckett streets.
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Homeless epidemic divides the city
Homeless camps around the CBD are drawing national attention and people are divided on what to do about them.
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Hall of secrets
The level of secrecy adopted by the City of Melbourne has been brought into sharp focus by recent inquiries about its approach to filling the 11th councillor vacancy.
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Councillor position saga to continue
Melbourne could be without an 11th and final city councillor for months, thanks to an attempt by the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) to overturn a decision made by a magistrate last year.
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Too close to home
January 20’s Bourke St horror will be with us for a long time.
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Police are appealing for witnesses after objects were dropped on an emergency services vehicle in Melbourne’s CBD early on Sunday, November 20.
Read MoreHungry thieves target Queen St
Melbourne police are still searching for two men believed to have broken into a Queen St building in late August.
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Big win for residents in parliamentary vote
The Owners Corporation Amendment (Short Stay Accommodation) Bill 2016 has been referred back to the Environment and Planning Committee for inquiry.
Read MoreLet’s define progress
One cliché often uttered when we’re faced with the heritage demolition is “well, that’s progress I guess ...”, but is this statement really all that true?
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A representative of the newcomers
For Hong-Kong native Wing Lau, Melbourne is a country town.
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Isolde’s contribution to the Melbourne street art scene is in the form of one-off paste-ups!
Read MoreResidents endorse city safety initiative
Victoria Police recently launched an innovative advice package to help residents keep themselves and their buildings safe in the city.
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Marvellous Collins St
Collins St has been Melbourne’s best-known and most fashionable street since the 1840s.
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