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Writer and intrepid traveller launches new book exploring the Amazon rainforest
Travelling has always given Anthony Ham a sense of purpose.
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Applications open for It’s A Mad World
Do you feel there are gaps in the dialogues around mental health experiences? Do you like the idea of exploring these conversations through things like art, performance, film, or photography? Then apply for the next chapter of It’s a Mad World, now!
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Arts House presents local and global works for BLEED
Building on the success of the online 2020 program, the Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital (BLEED) is back this month with three works being presented at the Arts House.
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Freeman Manuel and the Eight Hour Movement
My past two articles were about people whose graves in the Melbourne General Cemetery had been renovated by the now defunct Labour Graves Committee, particularly men who had been involved in the 19th century Eight Hour Movement.
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Final rail delivery to Metro Tunnel marks new milestone
Around 18 kilometres of rail was delivered to the Metro Tunnel’s eastern entrance in South Yarra last month, with work starting in October to install the rail that will carry trains through the new tunnels.
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“Find your community … or create one”
Do you feel that Kensington or North Melbourne is your community? I’m not just asking about where you live – for most readers it will be Kensington or North Melbourne. I’m asking about a feeling!
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News from Parkville Gardens
The 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Parkville Gardens Residents Association on the night of September 8 produced its fair share of good news. The committee now features new faces along with the old and can get to work with confidence in the association’s sound financial position.
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The gall of North Melbournites
If you’re a gardener, or just wandering North Melbourne’s parks, you’ll have seen many galls in your time, although you may not know a lot about them. Non-gardeners can mistake these often colourful and attractive little baubles for a natural part of the plant, which of course they are not.
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Our nature
According to the ancient science of Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, all the elements that are contained in nature are in us. In nature there is a rhythm, a pulse that keeps things in harmony. When this rhythm is broken, either through man’s intervention or a disturbance, there is discord – nature bounces back and always starts building again, if we allow her.
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How I’m fighting the cost-of-living crisis
Many people across Melbourne are doing it tough.
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A new life for Moonee Ponds Creek?
The good news …
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