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A trip to the flicks a popular treat
Young people growing up in North and West Melbourne during the early years of the twentieth century had a choice of cinema to attend, if they had the money to buy a ticket.
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No to the demolition of public housing
The fantastic team at not-for-profit architectural and urban design research organisation Office has completed a third study demonstrating that public housing should not be demolished but renovated and expanded to ensure a supply of affordable housing in Victoria at lower cost to governments.
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Win a VIP ride on a Metro Tunnel test train
Melburnians have been watching construction of the Metro Tunnel take place across the city for more than seven years.
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Meet your new Upper House Greens MP – Anasina Gray-Barberio
I’m excited to introduce Anasina Gray-Barberio, our newest Victorian Greens MP.
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Reflecting on the Kensington Story
Kensington sits on a hill with the Maribyrnong River flats to the west and a gentle slope down to the Moonee Ponds Creek in the east. The suburb transformed from the poverty of a “struggle town” in the 1940s to the present gentrified multicultural community, one still in transition, now from an industrial to a residential community.
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Our loss of the night sky
For billions of years, all life has evolved, survived and thrived through the steady rhythm of Earth’s day and night.
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Lavender (Lavandula)
Plants are medicine and if we look to nature there are many healing properties offered in nature, which do not require plastic packaging.
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New leaders emerge for Parkville Gardens
As confidently predicted last month, the Parkville Gardens Residents’ Association’s (PGRA) AGM and social evening held on Monday, September 9 was a great success.
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Metro Tunnel celebrates third station milestone
Melbourne’s inner north and south will be closer together than ever before when the Metro Tunnel opens next year, with a train from Arden to St Kilda Rd taking less than 15 minutes.
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Forgarty St panels
The panels bearing the name “True North” were launched on Fogarty St, North Melbourne, on the afternoon of October 13 on a wall enclosing the Citywide Asphalt Group premises.
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Further support for retrofitting public housing towers as “ground lease model” confirmed
Mailbox smashed in hit and run, leaving $5000 damage
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