Arts & Culture

Feeling a bit introspective

October 26th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

An exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust at Fed Square is providing insight into the mindset of the Blak queer artist.

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Poet gets perfect score

October 26th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

Three of Victoria’s top poets have just left the state and are on their way to Sydney to compete in the Australian Poetry Slam.

Victorian Community History Awards celebrates its winners

October 26th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

The Victorian Community History Awards have announced its winning publications and projects, with Professor Janet McCalman’s Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria book taking top prize.

Unique building providing a “sanctuary” to seafarers misses out on heritage protection

October 26th, 2022 - Brendan Rees

Volunteers of a charity that supports seafarers have expressed disappointment over a decision to exclude their 50-year-old CBD building from heritage protection, with one likening the process to a “heavy handed approach”.

“Remarkable, rambunctious, sloppy, weirdo-filled”: A tribute to the Fringe, 40 years on

October 26th, 2022 - David Schout

Those involved in the early days of Melbourne’s Fringe Festival look back with fond memories of exciting and perhaps crazier times.

QVM set to ban the sale of inauthentic Indigenous products

October 26th, 2022 - Brendan Rees

Stallholders at the iconic Queen Victoria Market (QVM) will be banned from selling inauthentic Indigenous souvenir products ahead of new laws set to come into effect next year.

Key council reports to be made public far earlier

October 25th, 2022 - David Schout

Locals could be given an extra week to consider important council reports after the City of Melbourne pledged to amend their governance rules.

Council ramps up graffiti blitz

October 25th, 2022 - Sean Car

The City of Melbourne has pledged “faster graffiti removal” than ever before, with its Rapid Response Clean Team now proactively patrolling graffiti hotspots in neighbourhoods outside the CBD for the first time.