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Daily population boom in the city

October 8th, 2017 - CBD News

Some 903,000 people are in the City of Melbourne municipality on an average weekday in 2016, a City of Melbourne population estimates report shows.

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Are bollards the answer?

October 7th, 2017 - CBD News

In June this year, five-tonne concrete bollards were installed in prominent city locations including Federation Square, Flinders Street Station, Southern Cross Station and the Queen Victoria Market.

Don’t expect an end of homelessness

October 6th, 2017 - CBD News

The chair of the state’s rough sleeping strategy has cautioned people not to expect an end to rough sleeping on Melbourne’s streets.

Finger pointing over loss of heritage on LaTrobe St

October 5th, 2017 - CBD News

Residents, councillors and state politicians are pointing fingers at each other over the failure to protect the historic 488 LaTrobe St which is to be demolished to make way for a residential tower.

Car-stacker inferno fears

October 4th, 2017 - CBD News

City residents fear the collapse of a neighbouring proposed high-rise development if it is allowed to proceed because it will be built on the city’s biggest car-stacking system.

Artist urges rethink for the bay

October 3rd, 2017 - CBD News

Beautiful images of plant life washed into the bay, each with its place of collection labeled, its death throes, its disentanglement, posing questions, suggestive of whimsical ideas, bearing the cross of humans, floating away.