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Pasko Sa Melbourne: a Filipino Christmas for our seafarers
Melbourne’s Filipino community is inviting the wider community to celebrate Christmas and the hard work of our seafarers this festive season with their annual Pasko Sa Melbourne event at the Stella Maris Seafarers’ Centre on Friday, December 2.
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Council targets less than one in 20 vacant shops next year
The City of Melbourne has set a drastic goal to fill empty shopfronts throughout the city, aiming for less than five per cent of vacancies in 2023.
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Push for swimmable Yarra River by 2030 continues
The campaign to create a swimmable Yarra River in central Melbourne by 2030 continues, with leaders converging for a key forum in November.
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Labor pledges $400K to Chinese New Year Festival
A re-elected Victorian Labor Government says it will provide $400,000 for the Melbourne Chinatown Chinese New Year Festival.
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Affordable housing to be pursued as part of A’Beckett St sale
The City of Melbourne says it wants to “incorporate into the potential sales terms” an incentive for a future developer to provide affordable housing at an A’Beckett St property which it is putting on the open market.
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Melbourne Theosophical Society turns a page with new-look bookshop
The CBD’s Melbourne Theosophical Society (MTS) has announced its iconic metaphysical bookshop and library has reopened with a new-look community space.
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More vintage Melbourne
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne has been released, this time a compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990.
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Magpie Meals Project soars in to help battle food insecurity
Collingwood Football Club has been provided the opportunity to continue collaborating with Meals with Impact after being selected as a 2023 City of Melbourne Connected Community Grants program recipient.
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More funding for CBD revitalisation
The Victorian Government has announced a further $50.4 million has been provided to the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund – a partnership between the government and the City of Melbourne.
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Ukrainian war refugee embraces new life at Queen Vic Market
Queen Victoria Market trader Khalilulla Dydar counts every day as a blessing. It was only in February that he and his family were dodging missile strikes in Ukraine after their home came under threat from a wave of Russian attacks.
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Australia’s largest Antarctic art exhibition opens at RMIT
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