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A better balance on heritage
Recently, the City of Melbourne has been working with consultants to conduct a review of heritage protection in North Melbourne. The Planning Panel’s report raises questions over where our priorities should lie.
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A sustainable art precinct
A few months ago, I secured a lease on some land on the edge of the city on King St.
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Lively AGM delights CBD residents
Where do you find people gathering to enjoy an AGM?
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Come for Wakuda’s dining, and stay for the karaoke
There is a new venue calling Melbourne’s Midcity Centre home promising to deliver a dining and entertainment experience that “fosters connections and creates lasting memories through the universal pleasure of good food and fun times”.
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Observing the universe: the Great Melbourne Telescope, 1875
The open-air reflector telescope at the back of the Great Melbourne Telescope Building faces up to the skies, its seemingly delicately filigreed barrel looking like something from a circus act.
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Pakana woman Lola Greeno takes out Macfarlane Prize
Lola Greeno, a Pakana woman, has been awarded the $50,000 2023 Don Macfarlane Prize at Craft in the CBD.
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Cash without the cure
Victoria’s proposed tax on short-stays will generate cash for the state government while ignoring internationally recognised solutions to tackle problems with the industry.
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A little less conversation, a little more musical
When producer David Venn began floating the idea of an “Elvis Musical”, his mother was ecstatic.
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China’s National Symphony Orchestra to tour Melbourne
The China National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) will return to Australia this year following a six-year absence and will play at Southbank’s Hamer Hall on December 2.
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Forty randomly selected locals to make up “people’s panel” on affordable housing
The City of Melbourne says “now is the time” to create an Australian-first community panel on the complex issue of affordable housing.
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Salvation Army celebrates two million coffees for those in need
Neil Munro and his apartment museum
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