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What Australian startups are prioritising when building their first website

What Australian startups are prioritising when building their first website

January 18th, 2026 - CBD News

For Australian startups, building that first business website often feels like a make-or-break moment.

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Garden State Hotel to add 300-seat rooftop garden above Flinders Lane

January 16th, 2026 - Sean Car

One of Melbourne CBD’s busiest pubs is set to grow upwards, with Garden State Hotel unveiling plans for a new two-level rooftop venue overlooking the city.

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Bird’s Basement marks a decade of world-class jazz in Melbourne’s CBD

January 15th, 2026 - Sean Car

Hidden down Singer’s Lane just off La Trobe St, Bird’s Basement has spent the past decade quietly shaping Melbourne’s live music landscape.

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Melbourne CBD transformed into Manhattan for filming of Empire City

January 13th, 2026 - Sean Car

Melbourne has been turned into New York this week as Hollywood blockbuster Empire City filming across the CBD, with entire streets transformed into scenes straight out of Manhattan – including NYPD patrol cars, New York-style traffic lights, US postal boxes and swapped-out street signage.

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Final days of State Library Victoria’s summer kids’ festival promise stories, games and creativity

January 12th, 2026 - Sean Car

Families have just a few days left to enjoy State Library Victoria’s lively Library on the Lawn Kids Festival, with the final instalment running this week from January 13 to 15 on the Swanston Street forecourt.

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Saturday Night Fever set to light up Melbourne with reimagined disco classic

January 6th, 2026 - Sean Car

Collins St is preparing to sparkle this summer as a major new production of Saturday Night Fever brings the heat of 1970s disco to Melbourne’s historic Athenaeum Theatre.

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Hypetap moves into historic Swann House on Flinders Lane

January 2nd, 2026 - Sean Car

One of Australia’s fastest-growing creative agencies is set to make its new home in one of Melbourne’s most historically significant CBD buildings, with Hypetap signing on as the inaugural tenant at the newly refurbished Swann House on Flinders Lane.

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Hop on board the Metro Tunnel Summer Series

December 22nd, 2025 - Metro Tunnel

As things heat up over summer, the Metro Tunnel continues to celebrate opening to passengers, with free pop-up performances and the chance to win Metro Tunnel merchandise and prizes in the leadup to the Big Switch on 1 February, when peak services will start through the tunnel.

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Mini waste compactors prove a big win for Melbourne’s laneways

December 22nd, 2025 - Sean Car

A world-first waste collection system trialled in some of Melbourne’s smallest laneways is already delivering major improvements to cleanliness, recycling and amenity in the CBD, with the City of Melbourne confirming strong results from its new network of mini garbage compactors.

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CBD bubble tea chain Top Tea fined for banned plastic straws at Swanston St store

December 17th, 2025 - Sean Car

Bubble tea retailer Top Tea has become the first business in Victoria to be fined for breaching the state’s single-use plastics ban, after EPA Victoria found prohibited plastic straws and stirrers being offered to customers at its Swanston St store.

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Emerging from her silent world

Emerging from her silent world

October 22nd, 2014 - CBD News
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