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Lawyers, lovers and STDs. How to limit your risk – part one

Lawyers, lovers and STDs. How to limit your risk – part one

January 27th, 2022 - CBD News

For those who recently exited or were ejected from a relationship, there can often be increased activity when multiple partners are involved. You may remember the slogan: “If it’s not on it’s not on!” 

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101 Victorians – could you be one of them?

January 27th, 2022 - CBD News

We all know Victorians are a diverse bunch, but the Metro Tunnel Creative Program is about to find out just how diverse a community we have.

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Down but not out

January 27th, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

It’s 4pm on Sunday, January 23 and it’s still over 30 degrees, probably more on the CBD’s bitumen streets.

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New heights, Turkish delights: Family business thrives at QVM

January 27th, 2022 - Spencer Fowler Steen

For Furkan Baydar, co-owner of Lunara Delights, running a Turkish delight business is a family tradition three-generations in the making.

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Aboriginal man wins top prize for artwork depicting identity and sexuality

January 27th, 2022 - Spencer Fowler Steen

As a proud gay Aboriginal man, Ronald Pepper didn’t hold back in putting his all into a recent piece of artwork which took home the top prize in the Koorie Art Show.

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Tragedy on our streets

January 27th, 2022 - CBD News

Thursday, January 20 was going along like any other until I received a phone call from St Vincent’s Hospital ICU. The “Can you please get here ASAP” call is always ominous.

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Learning from others

January 27th, 2022 - Barbara Francis & Rus Littleson

Around the world, cities are all regulating short stays, sometimes with eye-watering penalties greater than the property value of the apartment involved.

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Vertical village “volunteers”

January 27th, 2022 - Dr Janette Corcoran

Australia is a nation of volunteers and in 2020, Volunteering Victoria claims that 42.1 per cent of Victorians aged over 15 volunteered in our state. 

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Publicly accessible common property: Contested vertical spaces

November 24th, 2021 - Dr Janette Corcoran

Vertical villages are familiar with the challenges of common property, but might these spaces be more contested than we think?

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Unintended consequences

November 24th, 2021 - CBD News

My grandmother was quite elderly when I was young, so my memories of her are vague, apart from two enduring and detailed recollections involving her.

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