Environment

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.

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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.

A new era for Chinatown precinct

July 27th, 2022 - Jack Hayes

A new City of Melbourne-backed precinct business association is set to shake up Chinatown in what looms as an historic changing of the guard moment for the precinct and its traders.

Residents outraged over massive development, with voices “totally ignored”

July 27th, 2022 - Brendan Rees

A plan to build a 32-level tower above the heritage-listed Comedy Theatre has been met with concern by residents who believe it would impact the amenity of their neighbourhood.

Safety summit set to be staged after community voices calls to “find solutions”

July 27th, 2022 - Brendan Rees

A community safety summit set to be held later this year will aim to bring together stakeholders and residents’ groups to address neighbourhood safety concerns.

Archaeologists uncover remnants of historic homes at construction site

July 27th, 2022 - Brendan Rees

A remarkable slice of historic Melbourne is being unearthed at a construction site in the heart of the CBD – with the remains of homes from the 1800s believed to have been discovered.