Latest articles by Shane Scanlan
If you love it, it’s not a chore
If Cathy Oke was an elite athlete, and not a politician, you’d want her drug-tested.
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Richard’s a true believer
For a local councillor, Richard Foster speaks a lot like a politician.
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Nightly truck procession to continue
Sleep-deprived CBD residents were offered little hope of respite from the hundreds of nightly trucks movements when the City of Melbourne discussed waste management last month.
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Council ups the ante on Victoria Market redevelopment
The City of Melbourne last month put its money where its mouth is by buying 6500sqm of land abutting the Queen Victoria Market.
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Philharmonic is facing extinction
Australia’s oldest surviving cultural organisation, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic (RMP), is poised to close its doors at the end of the year because of local and state government indifference and neglect.
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Demolition fears for historic drill hall
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) fears it could be evicted from its premises and the historical building demolished after the state election.
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The experimental politician
Councillor Arron Wood has an amazing CV but it remains to be seen whether “politician” will be added to the list.
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Melbourne’s hip maestro
Rohan Leppert is very inner Melbourne.
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Market graves still in limbo
The bones of an estimated 7500 of the CBD’s first European residents remain in the City of Melbourne’s too-hard-basket after nearly a century of disrespect.
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Beverley adds heart to councillor team
Coming up to the half-way point of her term as a Melbourne city councillor, Beverley Pinder-Mortimer is starting to get the hang of how the town hall operates.
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