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Perfect score for Lonsdale and Swanston
A website has awarded both Swanston and Lonsdale streets with a score of 100/100 based on their “walkability”.
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Online drug trafficking in CBD
“CBD News” has recently become aware of illicit substances being sold online, targeting the CBD.
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Get behind market plan
Visiting international market expert David O’Neil sees passionate reaction to the City of Melbourne’s plan to redevelop the Queen Victoria Market (QVM) as a positive.
Read MorePlenty of town hall intrigue to come
Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has been returned for a third term, but he won’t have it all his own way over the next four years.
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Kids colour the city
Some 55 artists between the ages of three and 10 years old have created what is believed to be the world’s first commercial colouring book made entirely by children.
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Team Doyle removes its website
Constituents will struggle to scrutinise the performance of Team Doyle during the new council term following the removal of its website.
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Glimpsing 14 years into the future
The CBD is quickly growing and expanding in terms of population, commercial and residential development, but what will it look like in 14 years time?
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Councillor vacancy to become a saga
The appointment of Melbourne’s critical 11th city councillor looks set to become a long and protracted saga, with a multitude of potential outcomes.
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Girls map a safer city
Young Victorian women, Plan International Australia and CrowdSpot have come together to create a digital campaign to help women feel safer in our streets.
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Santa arrives in style
It seems Santa got lost on his way to the magic cave at David Jones.
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Fluffy flatmate
Aki, the two-year-old Japanese Spitz pup is nothing but a white ball of friendly fluff.
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Council must help animals
A recent (September 28) report in The Age highlighted a local case of extreme animal cruelty that the RSPCA is investigating in Melbourne’s CBD.
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Strength to strength
The Southbank Medical Clinic’s philosophy is providing an accessible and patient-focused “one-stop-shop” for the local communities of Southbank, South Melbourne and the CBD.
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Putting your sleep health first
Forty Winks South Wharf is teaming up with a leading bedding manufacturer as part of its mission to improve the lives of locals via a better night’s sleep.
Read MoreThe world according to Barek
It’s an engaging and mystical world. One that is naive and charming, whimsical yet poignant.
Read MoreMinister gives mixed signals on apartment sizes
In a recent VCAT case, Port Melbourne Land Custodians Pty Ltd v Minister for Planning [2016] VCAT 1643, developers lodged an appeal against a decision by the Minister for Planning to refuse a number of amendments to a planning permit for a proposed multi-tower apartment development in Plummer St Port Melbourne.
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City Schools for City Kids
The State Government announced on Tuesday, October 11 that it is going to buy land to build a primary school in Docklands and also to build new schools in North Melbourne and Fishermans Bend.
Read MoreHow will heritage fare with the next council?
With only a matter of days left before final voting in the council election, it’s worth looking briefly at how heritage has fared under the current council, and what may be in store in the next term.
Read MoreScotts Hotel, Melbourne
This photograph was taken in c. 1950 within the saloon bar of Scotts Hotel, Melbourne.
Read MoreAll work and no play
The lovely anarchic sensibility of painter Bill Hay is on show at fortyfivedownstairs, inviting visitors to join in the fun.
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