Latest articles by Shane Scanlan
CEO warns on QVM commerce
After nine months in the job, Queen Victoria Market CEO Stan Liacos has arrived at the same place as his numerous predecessors – that if the business and precinct is prevented from adapting, it may die.
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Good behaviour bond for Richard Foster
Former Melbourne councillor Richard Foster has received a good behaviour bond for his role in Brooke Wandin’s unlawful candidate nomination in the 2016 council elections.
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A puff in the park
Pro-marijuana protesters gathered at Flagstaff Gardens for their annual “smoking ceremony” on April 20.
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Developers take all benefits
Residents of the CBD and Southbank have missed out on a bonanza of new community facilities and open space because Planning Minister Richard Wynne in 2016 decided to reward developers for building commercial office space instead.
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Revolving door for spin doctors
The City of Melbourne is struggling to get enough “spin” on its media messaging, having churned 17 media advisers since mid-2015.
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Savage reaction to permit bid
The council’s application for a heritage permit for its Queen Victoria Market (QVM) ambitions marks a line in the sand in the political battle against the redevelopment.
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Melbourne’s lucky day
The City of Melbourne has just got lucky with the chance inclusion of Nicholas Frances Gilley as its 11th councillor.
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Doyle win fails to quell market battle
Opponents of the Queen Victoria Market redevelopment are ramping up their campaign, despite a Robert Doyle victory at the October council election.
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A very suit-able experience
“Tailor-made”. I've always associated the term with a cigarette that didn’t need to be rolled. So my recent first experience of having a suit made for me has been certainly a special delight.
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Will the real Melbourne please stand up
The ambiguity surrounding the place name “Melbourne” is a continuing challenge for those who live and work within postcode 3000.
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Noise wars: A guide to CBD survival
If you are thinking about living in the CBD, you would do well to find a spot in these three garbage-truck-restricted zones.
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Choosing life over cancer
Some time ago Victoria Pajouhesh made a deeply difficult decision to have a double mastectomy as well as a hysterectomy to get on the right side of overwhelming odds of developing cancer.
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Residents are the big spenders
SGS Economics & Planning research shows that residents each spend $10,000 on retail and hospitality each year within the city.
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If you can’t stand the heat …
Known as the “urban heat island effect”, the masses of concrete, steel and bitumen in the central city draws and retains heat like no other place in the state.
Read MorePalace battle at VCAT
The Save The Palace Theatre battle over the Bourke St building is going to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).
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Ken and the art of political independence
Cr Ken Ong is very much his own man.
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Melbourne CEO reflects on seven years at the top
After seven years in the top job, the city’s top bureaucrat moves on this month at a time of unprecedented tensions around population growth within the CBD.
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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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