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Contracts for bookseller
Getting a publishing contract is like winning a lottery for a writer. To get two at once is enough to make you feel like a millionaire.
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A blessing in disguise
Art students at the Box Hill Institute’s city campus are learning how to get viewers to connect both emotionally and intellectually with their work.
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School of displacement
The School of Displacement is an alternative place to learn about Indigenous history and future and how they relate to displacement. Its third iteration is about to open in Melbourne.
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Blissful bridge
Evan Walker Bridge is noisy no more, after the footbridge connecting the CBD with Southbank was finally fixed by the City of Melbourne.
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Czech and Slovak film festival
This September Melbourne’s iconic, and newly restored, Capitol Theatre will host the annual Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA).
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Bartenders score a grant
Melbourne’s first commercially-available bar laboratory has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the City of Melbourne as part of the council’s small business and social enterprise grant scheme.
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Expecting hay fever this spring? Don’t blame the plane!
As hay fever season looms, we’re being told to go easy on the humble London plane tree, which despite popular belief isn’t to blame for runny noses, itchy eyes and sneezing.
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Council crackdown on motorbike parking
The City of Melbourne could install “no-stopping” signs on some of the CBD’s busiest footpaths in a bid to free-up clogged walkways.
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Beggar déja vu
“Police have arrested 77 city beggars this year, many of whom were either drug users or professional beggars.”
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Heritage push for Queen St
The City of Melbourne has welcomed a recommendation to extend heritage protections at the Queen Victoria Market (QVM) to include a 200-metre section of Queen St on the Victorian Heritage Register.
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Protests spoil residents’ weekends. Where to draw the line?
Wellbeing in a heating city
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