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Start-up gets $25,000
A council grant will give a city-based start-up the chance to develop smart technology in its quest to provide consumers with zero-waste grocery baskets.
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Light the night
The CBD was ablaze in light and colour during the White Night Reimagined festival in August.
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Fed heritage
Federation Square has been added to the Victorian Heritage Register after a year under interim protection.
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Library assault
Police are appealing to witnesses following a sexual assault at the State Library on June 27.
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Laneway protection
The state government has formally adopted new CBD heritage overlays proposed by the City of Melbourne in 2017.
Read MoreMobile doc rolled out
A mobile doctor service that provides free healthcare to homeless people living on the streets of the CBD will be expanded under a new investment from the City of Melbourne.
Read MoreCouncil creates special committee to progress new gambling policy
Robert Doyle has been gone from Town Hall for more than 18 months but the impact of some of his decisions lives on – particularly in relation to conflicts of interest arising from campaign donations.
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90-year neighbours unite for garden
The Immigration Museum and the Port Authority Building have collaborated to deliver a community garden to residents.
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Fringe in search of truth
Melbourne Fringe has turned to truth 37 years into life.
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School of displacement
The School of Displacement is an alternative place to learn about Indigenous history and future and how they relate to displacement. Its third iteration is about to open in Melbourne.
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Czech and Slovak film festival
This September Melbourne’s iconic, and newly restored, Capitol Theatre will host the annual Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA).
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Bartenders score a grant
Melbourne’s first commercially-available bar laboratory has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the City of Melbourne as part of the council’s small business and social enterprise grant scheme.
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Spice up your Wednesdays
Wednesday nights at Queen Victoria Market (QVM) will continue to be a Melbourne hotspot for food and entertainment, with the springtime return of the Hawker 88 Night Market.
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Augmenting your reality in Flinders Quarter
Just in case you didn’t know, the Flinders Quarter in Melbourne’s CBD, is the area bordered by Collins, Flinders, Elizabeth and Swanston streets.
Read MoreSmall print shrinks state cladding fund
Premier Daniel Andrews’ cladding fund might be able to help a tiny percentage of apartment buildings with dangerous cladding.
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Outside Nott’s confectioners
This photograph was taken outside the shop of confectioner Thomas Nott in about 1900. He’d been in business for about 50 years by then and boasted that he made the best sweets for children in Melbourne.
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Farm gate goodness in the heart of the city
Queen Victoria Market’s (QVM) go-to man for milk, eggs and honey Luke Graczyk has been providing locals with the essentials for more than 10 years.
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Protecting our sacred laneways
As reported earlier in this issue of CBD news, after a two-year long process, Minister for Planning Richard Wynne signed off this month on one of the City of Melbourne’s most ambitious heritage protection studies in decades.
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Flinders St eastbound lanes closure
As works to build the new Town Hall Station ramp up, the eastbound lanes of Flinders St, between Swanston and Elizabeth streets, will close from September for up to three years.
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