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Delivering on the services Stolen Generations people say they need most
The state government dedicated $300,000 to cover the funeral costs of Stolen Generations people thanks to advice from the Stolen Generations Reparations Steering Committee.
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Will Spring go ahead?
Galleries are getting ready for Spring 1883, usually a joy-filled, anarchic coming together of Melbourne’s art community at the much-loved Windsor Hotel.
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Here’s to the invisible ones!
It started with ones and twos, which eventually became a trickle. Within a few days, it had become a human deluge.
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Making Melbourne child-friendlier
When north-sider Deanne and her south-sider partner made peace by moving into their CBD loft-conversion, raising a child in an apartment among the alleyways hadn’t yet crossed their mind
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A busy year ahead for the Chinatown Precinct
It’s hard to imagine a precinct in the City of Melbourne hit quite as hard from the unrelenting force of the current global pandemic like the CBD’s Chinatown Precinct.
Read MoreThank you, Shane
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Shane Scanlan, erstwhile editor of this masthead, and we readily recall how first we became involved with him.
Read MoreVertical villages – “what a waste”
“From 1 July 2021, the state government will increase the Victorian Municipal Landfill Levy”
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Visual junk ruining Melbourne’s laneway culture
It has always been a problem that young or emerging artists put their art near a far more famous artist’s work so that other people will see their work incidentally
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An early Melbourne home in Bourke St west
Dilapidated, abandoned and unfit for human habitation, this decaying single-storeyed building was photographed in August 1915 just prior to its demolition.
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The community councillor
An educator, publican, family man and proud member of the Flemington-Kensington Bowls Club – you’d struggle to find a more community-minded councillor than Davydd Griffiths.
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Retired architect finds his passion for photography
Third rally in a month amid rising tensions in Palestine
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