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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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Why wait? We can change the date ourselves
Did you know that organisations and businesses all over the country are changing the date themselves?
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Working to keep our wildlife safe, including Melbourne’s famous peregrine falcons!
We’re incredibly lucky in Melbourne to share our city home with some amazing wildlife, including the charismatic peregrine falcons which nest each year high on the top of a building in the CBD.
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New group of refugee traders live their dreams at QVM
A man who fled civil war in East Africa more than two decades ago is among a new group of refugees realising their dreams at the Queen Victoria Market (QVM).
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Tourism sector calls for short-stay day limit
Tourism industry groups want Victoria to follow other states, including NSW, and impose a limit on the number of days per year that properties can be let as short stays.
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What’s going to happen next?
Faces of Errol St, North West City – What’s going to happen next?
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Art meets Activism
North Melbourne’s own slice of Italy
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