Arts & Culture

New CBD public art intervention reveals Elizabeth St’s hidden waterway

August 24th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Buried beneath bustling Elizabeth St lies a hidden waterway, and emerging artist Joy Zhou is hoping to excite and intrigue people about its discovery through a new sound-based public art intervention.

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Turning attention to sustainability this spring

August 24th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

As spring returns this year, so too does Federation Square’s month-long festival Sustainable September.

Readers get to work

August 24th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

The first of the lockdown novels has been released, Dinner with the Schnables, by Toni Jordan, forcing readers to get cracking.

Fed Square becomes a Wellbeing Village

August 24th, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

For Melburnians who have spent the first half of the year unsure how to have a healthier and happier lifestyle, a weekend in the heart of the city may just be the answer.

The politics of handmade

August 24th, 2022 - CBD News

In the bad olden days, women used to sit in a corner knitting and stitching and no-one took much notice.

Plans for Birrarung Marr boardwalk revealed in first big Greenline step

July 29th, 2022 - David Schout

The river edge at Birrarung Marr will be transformed by new greenery and a 450-metre boardwalk in what is the City of Melbourne’s first big step in the $300m ‘city-shaping’ Greenline project.

Vaping’s a searing health debate

July 27th, 2022 - Fiona Patten

But what does vaping have to do with abortion clinic safety zones, the regulation of cannabis and other drugs, voluntary assisted dying, homelessness, and the frequently fabulous functioning of parliamentary committees comprised of ostensible opponents?

Does it really matter?

July 27th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

The ideas factory, more commonly known as the Nicholas Building, is set to be protected by a deal brokered by a CBD-based investment company.

Laneway management is shambolic

July 27th, 2022 - Adrian Doyle

In a recent news article, the state government has come out and said that it will now protect important laneways in the city. I would like to ask which important laneways they would like to protect. I wonder if they can name one that hasn’t already been irreversibly corrupted.