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Meet your friendly neighbourhood superhero
It’s reassuring to know that the world champion stick-fighter lives in the neighbourhood. It’s a bit like having our own superhero!
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Cha-ching!
This humble apparatus on the corner of Flinders and Williams streets is the state’s hardest-working revenue-raiser.
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Inner Melbourne bike crashes mapped
Monash University’s City Science research group has released a map of bike crashes over the last five years, between July 2008 and July 2013.
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Emerging from her silent world
Being deaf is just a minor disability if you have what it takes to be a great employee.
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Nightly truck procession to continue
Sleep-deprived CBD residents were offered little hope of respite from the hundreds of nightly trucks movements when the City of Melbourne discussed waste management last month.
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Angelic Mission
After a divine commute, these four angels were off to their day-job to add some colour and non-movement to an anti-climate change protest in Spencer St on October 9.
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AC/DC Lane anniversary
Cherry Bar owner James Young was in a celebratory mood to mark the 10th anniversary of AC/DC Lane on October 1.
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Council ups the ante on Victoria Market redevelopment
The City of Melbourne last month put its money where its mouth is by buying 6500sqm of land abutting the Queen Victoria Market.
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Loving where she lives
You’ve got to love people who love where they live – like the CBD’s Rhyll Dorrington who is smitten by her west-end location.
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Philharmonic is facing extinction
Australia’s oldest surviving cultural organisation, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic (RMP), is poised to close its doors at the end of the year because of local and state government indifference and neglect.
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Double trouble in harness
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