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Are bollards the answer?
In June this year, five-tonne concrete bollards were installed in prominent city locations including Federation Square, Flinders Street Station, Southern Cross Station and the Queen Victoria Market.
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Don’t expect an end of homelessness
The chair of the state’s rough sleeping strategy has cautioned people not to expect an end to rough sleeping on Melbourne’s streets.
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Finger pointing over loss of heritage on LaTrobe St
Residents, councillors and state politicians are pointing fingers at each other over the failure to protect the historic 488 LaTrobe St which is to be demolished to make way for a residential tower.
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Car-stacker inferno fears
City residents fear the collapse of a neighbouring proposed high-rise development if it is allowed to proceed because it will be built on the city’s biggest car-stacking system.
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Artist urges rethink for the bay
Beautiful images of plant life washed into the bay, each with its place of collection labeled, its death throes, its disentanglement, posing questions, suggestive of whimsical ideas, bearing the cross of humans, floating away.
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Love is in the air
There was plenty of love in the Flagstaff Gardens on September 21.
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The aPostles of press pics
Australian photographic royalty is on display at Magnet Gallery in Bourke St until October 14.
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Fancy a swim in the Yarra?
Not-for-profit group Yarra Pools has released a concept for a floating swimming pool in the Yarra River in the turning basin near Enterprize Park.
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The CBD is an English classroom
For thousands of overseas students, Melbourne’s CBD is a hub to improve their English and experience a new life.
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State Library works underway
Construction has started on State Library Victoria’s $88.1 million Vision2020 project.
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Government approves major Queen St tower as questions linger over market precinct density
Killing the culture that laid the golden egg
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