International student program resurrected
The City of Melbourne will look to relaunch an old international student support program to help the community that has been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Migrant workers underpaid at restaurant
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured penalties of $209,000 against the restaurateur of Dainty Sichuan, which operates a number of restaurants in the CBD.
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Mama Alto’s Hot Desk
This time last year CBD News covered the Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk fellowships. Twenty-four writers were given a stipend and a workspace in the Wheeler Centre to work on their writing projects.
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Locals turn on pub plans
CBD residents have turned on plans to transform the site of a run-down Bourke St building into an almost 1000-patron late-night venue.
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Complaints soar amid extended city construction hours
The City of Melbourne’s fast-tracked approval of out-of-hours construction permits in March has resulted in construction-related noise complaints more than doubling compared to last year.
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“The importance of Melbourne getting this right”
The pending sale of a 1.4-hectare vacant site along the Flinders St rail corridor has divided the community over what is considered one of the CBD’s most strategically important parcels of land.
Read MoreCalls to withdraw market charter
Eighteen members of the City of Melbourne’s former Queen Victoria Market People’s Panel have petitioned the City of Melbourne calling on it to withdraw a motion adopting its charter for the new public space at Market Square.
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Rate freeze marks an economic rebuild
Despite unsurprisingly recording its first deficit in more than 30 years as a result of COVID-19, the City of Melbourne has made the symbolic move to implement a freeze on rate increases over the next financial year.
Read MoreLooking towards the future
While the Victorian Government has outlined the trajectory of a staged reopening, the City of Melbourne has begun to think through the needs of the CBD post-COVID-19.
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Bring back the brick
It has been business as usual for City of Melbourne councillor Nick Reece with days full of Zoom meetings and the added load of three children at his home in Fitzroy.
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City takes three awards
Six months in: representing Melbourne in our national parliament
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