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The cheeky boy scout

The cheeky boy scout

July 15th, 2021 - Emma Hartley

With a love for the outdoors, Bruno is a dog that has given his owner Adeline Antolis both cheek and trouble.

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Another Rotary year begins

July 15th, 2021 - Rotary Club of North Melbourne

After 18 months at the helm, on July 1, 2021 Neville Page handed over to Sainab Sheikh as the new president of the Rotary Club of North Melbourne. 

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These 33 men are in indefinite lockdown

July 15th, 2021 - Ellen Sandell

Right now, 33 men are being held in indefinite detention in the middle of Melbourne at the Park Hotel in Carlton. They have committed no crime. They have fled war, persecution, violence and torture, and tried to seek a safer life.

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Thrift or uncommon sense?

July 15th, 2021 - Rotary Club of Flemington Kensington

Do you remember your grandmother mending clothes, saving buttons, using dad’s singlets as cleaning cloths and never wasting leftovers?

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Delivering on the services Stolen Generations people say they need most

July 15th, 2021 - Emma Hartley

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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Latest news from Parkville Gardens

July 15th, 2021 - Tom Knowles

This communiqué from Parkville Gardens can begin again with good news! Sixty local residents – 50 adults and 10 children – came together to enjoy a festive community dinner on Friday, June 25, just before the end of the financial year. The venue was the Reggio Calabria Club, where our genial host was Carlo Parvia.

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Public housing – the best way to solve our housing crisis 

July 15th, 2021 - Cory Memery

When the Victorian parliamentary Inquiry into the Public Housing Renewal Program (PHRP) handed down its report on June 5, 2018, it advised there were 36,742 applicant households on the Victorian Housing Register (VHR) made up of 57,077 adults and 24,622 children – a total of 81,699 at the end of March 2018.

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Arts House production explores cultural fear

July 15th, 2021 - Ellen Blake

Indigenous performance group Marrugeku is bringing a dance theatre production, which explores the connection to high Aboriginal incarceration rates and detention of asylum seekers, to North Melbourne’s Arts House.

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Metro Tunnel marks nearly 30 million hours worked

July 15th, 2021 - Metro Tunnel

All eyes were on the Metro Tunnel’s Arden Station recently, which was the location for Premier Daniel Andrews’ return to work after a fall that left him with spinal injuries.

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Reducing homelessness in the City of Melbourne

July 15th, 2021 - Rob Pradolin

Welcome to the second last article of our 12-part series which will attempt to explore the role that housing can and should play within Australian society and why it is important to our economy that we house all Australians, rich or poor. 

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Ambition and results

February 17th, 2022 - Zak Wheeler
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The Roundtable arrives in North Melbourne

February 15th, 2023 - North & West Melbourne Precinct Association
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