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Melbourne is so lucky
A recent visit to Sydney revealed how lucky Melbourne is to have so much anti-landmark heritage in our CBD.
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More support for OCs in the new Bill
The long-awaited exposure draft of the Owners Corporations and Other Acts Amendments Bill has now been released by Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) for public consultation.
Read MoreKeep politics out of it
The CBD News article by Kevin Jingga, refers to the City of Melbourne presenting to major parties issues, of which one is “climate change”.
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Moments of cruelty exposed
Cruelty to animals will touch the nerve of most readers and Janet Malcolm uses it to great effect in her latest book of essays, Nobody’s Looking at You, just released by CBD company Text Publishing.
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In praise of fiction
The Paperback bookshop at the top of Bourke St has been going 50 years and it celebrated last month with a bit of fiction.
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“Featureless” design atop heritage building slammed
The City of Melbourne has criticised a “plain” design directive from Heritage Victoria for a development atop the heritage-listed former Melford Motors building.
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Questions still loom over Fed Square
Following Heritage Victoria’s decision to reject a demolition permit for the Yarra Building, Apple and the state government conceded that plans for a flagship store in the square had become untenable.
Read MoreCosmic Mist
Easy Brown’s Chicken Truck Stop Band are a four piece band hailing from Melbourne who should be on the musical horizon of music fans everywhere.
Read MoreCaught in tight places
The CFMEU office is at the centre of Lindsay Tanner’s new novel Comeback as the union tries to sort out a crooked developer with shonky safety practices and traps a taxi driver in its web.
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Children blossom at high-rise oasis
Smoke and mirrors cloud the cladding issue
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