Planning
Council approves amended Russell St function centre, despite 36 objections
The City of Melbourne has backed an amended permit for the Space Hotel on Russell St, approving changes to a long-running proposal for a rooftop function centre after finding the revised scheme would deliver better heritage and amenity outcomes.
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Is your high-rise building safe and secure?
For residents living in Melbourne’s CBD high-rise apartments, the building you call home is far more than four walls and a roof.
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Reminders of wartime looms over Princes Bridge
In the early 1940s in Melbourne, as war ravages overseas, life in the city carries on as normal at the corner of Princes Bridge and Flinders St.
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Cohealth can no longer outrun the questions
The immediate crisis around cohealth’s inner-city clinics may have been delayed by another $1.5 million in Commonwealth funding, but the broader crisis facing the organisation is only deepening.
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Australia tightens the screws on international students
One in three international students applying to an Australian university was rejected in February 2026. That 32.5 per cent refusal rate is the highest monthly figure recorded in 21 years of tracking data, and it is no accident.
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Will the real “Melbourne” please stand up
The recent awarding of “Melbourne” as the World’s Most (put in what you like) City, this time by Time Out was based on a survey of 24,000 across 50 cities. On average this reflected the views of 160 people in each city plus 100 Time Out experts!
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Three arrested as police claim breakthrough in CBD nightclub arson spree
Victoria Police says it has now arrested someone in relation to every alleged Operation Eclipse arson offence in Melbourne’s CBD, following the arrest of three more people over a series of nightclub fires and attempted fires earlier this month.
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Future Melbourne podcast wraps pilot season with Lord Mayor Nick Reece looking ahead to 2050
The pilot season of Future Melbourne is set to close with a fitting final guest: Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece, joining the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about the city’s future and the decisions that will shape it over the next 25 years.
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Queen Victoria Market’s Winter Night Market returns for 2026
Queen Victoria Market’s popular Winter Night Market is set to return for the 2026 season, with the weekly event running every Wednesday from June 3 to August 26.
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Melbourne’s global health partnership puts local policy in the spotlight
The City of Melbourne’s quiet but increasingly influential role in a global public health network is helping shape some of the most practical policy responses now emerging across the municipality, from smoke-free zones to food relief and a pushback against junk food advertising.
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The politics of handmade
Traffic “mayhem” at Queen Vic Market causes angst as council seeks extension to permit
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