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Campaign channels an almost science-fiction approach to repurposing cigarette butts
Environmental charity No More Butts is collaborating with social enterprise Fungi Solutions to launch “Cig Cycle” – a campaign aimed at generating new ways of recycling cigarette butts discarded at Melbourne businesses.
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Jen Cloher
At a recent poetry reading at Milk! Records HQ, Jen Cloher read out poems from her recent book of poems entitled IHU. This book of intimate poems regarding familial relationships is a fine companion work of art to Cloher’s brilliant fifth album Ko Au Te Awa Te Awa Ko Au, I Am The River The River Is Me.
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Pedestrian numbers higher than pre-COVID as council renews focus on office workers return
For the first time since the onset of COVID-19, monthly pedestrian traffic in the City of Melbourne has hit a higher level since before the pandemic.
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The female force behind Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters show off their excellence
Victoria by Farmer’s Daughters is participating in its first Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, while also celebrating three of the restaurants, and its sister venue Farmer’s Daughters, talented female chefs.
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Council’s International Women’s Day invitation to nominate women for new statues
Lord Mayor Sally Capp used the platform of International Women’s Day to call on Melbournians to nominate inspirational women for statues in the city.
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Aurora debacle entirely avoidable if government chooses to lead OC and strata reform
In what may have been the largest meeting of its kind in Melbourne’s history, the recent decision of the Aurora Melbourne Central owners’ corporation (OC) to elect a new committee following a turbulent and higher-profile series of internal disputes serves as the most high-profile example of the urgency for Victorian strata sector reform.
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Council urges government to clarify noise guidelines before ending 1am licence “freeze”
The City of Melbourne has urged the state government to clarify its definition of “noise sensitive areas” before it ends a 13-year freeze on new late-night venues in the CBD.
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Owners fight to take back control of Aurora tower
Apartment owners at Aurora Melbourne Central tower in Latrobe St are fighting to take back control of their building after its owners’ corporation (OC) chairperson was accused of abusing the elected position’s power.
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Police investigate “suspicious” death in CBD
Homicide Squad detectives have launched an investigation after a man’s body was found in an apartment in the CBD on March 11.
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Council property used for childcare services sold off
Operation Harmony nets 55 arrests as police maintain boosted CBD presence
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