Latest articles by Meg Hill
E-scooters for summer?
While the state government is yet to let e-scooters into Melbourne, Lime is gunning for a summer trial in either the City of Melbourne (CoM) or the City of Port Phillip.
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When the music stops
The entrance bell at Lewis’ Music crackled. Sometimes it got stuck and kept ringing for a few minutes.
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Subbed-station
Development plans worth $16.7 million may erase a small part of Melbourne’s industrial charm that’s been “left out” of heritage studies.
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Seniors out of the suburbs
Bill Clark has Melbourne’s Peregrine falcon livestream playing on the computer in his apartment. After a while, the falcon stands up, revealing the nest at the top of 367 Collins St.
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Police mark the city a “designated area”
Certain police powers expanded over the past decade have become increasingly concentrated in the CBD as their focus has shifted to protests.
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Heritage blocks plans
The state government’s adoption of new heritage protections has ruled out a $1 billion project for Queen St – the third time plans for the property have been scrapped in six years.
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Mirka Mora: The teacher
Mirka Mora was one of the city’s most famous artists. Her career tracked with Melbourne’s development – her murals and studios appearing in key locations at prime moments.
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Beggar déja vu
“Police have arrested 77 city beggars this year, many of whom were either drug users or professional beggars.”
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Tax loophole finally closed
The state government has quietly closed a tax loophole that cost it hundreds of thousands of dollars and threatened hundreds of thousands more.
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Hosier Lane apartments are only a facade
Opposition to a planned multistorey apartment building in Hosier Lane has forced the issue to debate at an upcoming City of Melbourne meeting.
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The “gold rush jeweller”
“Because of the publishing house pressures to meet a certain number of pages and edit out much of the history, we end up getting history books that give credit to prime ministers and kings and queens,” Dr Douglas Wilkie told the Docklands History Group last month.
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Woolf at fortyfive
Shakespeare’s sister was named Judith and she died young – “alas, she never wrote a word”.
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Heritage tax dodges
Owners of state-listed heritage buildings in the CBD triggered a tax loophole earlier this year and escaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in land tax. Now, a bid to drag local heritage overlay into the loophole could cause an inundation of new tax dodges.
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Tower evacuated
The Liberty Tower apartment building at 620 Collins Street was evacuated late on June 23 at after a water main burst and flooded the basement.
Read MoreGrappling with Queen Vic Market management
An expert on community participation has criticised the Queen Vic Market (QVM) people’s panel six months after it wrapped up, while the City of Melbourne (CoM) has revised the market’s ongoing management structure.
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“Hack” Fed Square
As Heritage Victoria deliberated on Federation Square and the state government worked on the public consultation process for its review, the square’s management invited the public to help co-design its future.
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A night at the Nicholas
The Nicholas Building contains its own collective oral history. It’s unverified and inconsistent, but stems from the imaginative character of the building and its tenants.
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