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Big cash grant for low-waste solutions
The City of Melbourne is offering local businesses the chance to share in a grants pool of $175,000 in a bid to encourage better waste management.
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Comedy Festival is back
Locals can look forward to a barrel of laughs with the return of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2021.
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“Completely unnecessary”: MPavilion event next to residents causes headaches
Residents living next to the carpark at 36 Little Collins St are concerned about the lack of consideration afforded to them by the City of Melbourne and MPavillion organisers who held a music event there in March.
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Women speak out about sexual abuse
The CBD had its own version of the March 4 Justice on March 15 as thousands of women spread throughout the Treasury Gardens then launched smaller protests at significant sites around the city.
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Injecting room report imminent
A make-or-break report that will determine the suitability of a proposed safe injecting facility near Queen Victoria Market will be tabled “soon” according to the state government.
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Residents fed up with skateboarders
Irate CBD residents are considering packing up and moving elsewhere due to the perceived danger and noise created by unruly skateboarders at Chinatown and Her Majesty’s Theatre.
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City-focused travel vouchers finally land
CBD hotel and hospitality owners are hopeful new state government incentives will help inject desperately-needed cash through their businesses.
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Residents still “ignored” in planning matters
The president of a CBD residents’ group has said locals continued to be ignored when it came to life-affecting developments within the Hoddle Grid.
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Calls to decriminalise begging rejected by police
Calls from legal groups to decriminalise begging have been opposed by Victoria Police, who warned it could not regulate “professional beggars” in the CBD without the law.
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Housing definitions
I congratulate the News for initiating its series on the role of housing in our society. I missed the first four articles, but have caught up with the last two. Unfortunately, they were sometimes confusing because they used different terminology interchangeably. This lead one contributor to suggest that the government had announced a $5.3 billion public housing program. Sadly, not a cent of that money will be spent on public housing.
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Central Equity launch Parkhill Apartments
Melbourne-based developer Central Equity is set to add their newest apartment project to the portfolio with the launch of Parkhill Apartments in West Melbourne.
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Life returning to Collins St
It’s a pleasing moment to walk through the Collins Street Precinct and see busy retail stores and restaurants filled with people.
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Victory Parade, August 1945 – “106 minutes of wild cheering”
The War in the Pacific was over and despite cold and rain, Melbournians turned out in force to celebrate. It had rained for 90 minutes before the parade of 20,000 service personnel and other war workers marched through the CBD in the early afternoon of Friday, August 24, 1945.
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Frankie’s post-lockdown play
Frankie, who lives with Biagio in his West Melbourne home, is relishing her newfound freedom in sunny Flagstaff Gardens.
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The Wild West of OC elections
Owners’ corporations (OCs) are often referred to as a fourth tier of government – and our elections are just as political!
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Government hypocrisy on the record
Hansard can be decidedly inconvenient for pivoting politicians.
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Losing more of our heritage
In a 1970s era gold-tiled lobby nestled into a 1920s facade on Russell St, you walk past a mysterious red door hiding a theatrette behind, and an old-school letterboard asks you to choose between a clunky lift and faded timber stairs.
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Portraits of a fictional artist
Photographs no longer reflect the world; rather the world reflects them. They deliver a version of reality that at a surface level is consumed as “truth”.
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Metro Tunnel project puts art in the picture
There’s still plenty of time to see the work of celebrated photographers at the Metro Tunnel project’s construction sites.
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Playground for doggies
Off-leash areas, badly-needed in parks within the CBD, could have a dual role.
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