Politics

Community demands better security for JJ Holland Park

June 17th, 2021 - Spencer Fowler Steen

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Low-earning sole traders lose again

June 17th, 2021 - Matt Harvey

Arts practitioners and some sole traders are again left without support as lockdown restrictions in greater Melbourne eased and the Victorian Government announced additional support for businesses that continue to be affected.

Thank you to Paddy

June 17th, 2021 - Rhonda Dredge

Most kids in Victoria were celebrating the end of lockdown on Friday, June 11 by returning to school to see their mates. Not so Paddy Williams who, like many North Melbourne kids, has been through a bit of an ordeal.

Recovering stolen bikes – a wheel chain in the butt

June 17th, 2021 - Matt Harvey

A recent incident of a stolen bike being found has not quite turned out how the owner might have hoped as they were left to cut the lock the thief placed on their own bike and were offered no support from the police.

A hospo girl buys the bar

June 17th, 2021 - Rhonda Dredge

There are many ways of being a barfly and one involves buying the bar yourself and creating the kind of culture you crave.

Calls to improve lighting

June 17th, 2021 - Ellen Blake

Residents have raised concerns about poor street lighting in the area of West Melbourne where a woman was sexually assaulted in April.

Councillor Profile

The community councillor

June 17th, 2021 - Sean Car

An educator, publican, family man and proud member of the Flemington-Kensington Bowls Club – you’d struggle to find a more community-minded councillor than Davydd Griffiths.

Errol St’s Town Hall Hotel

June 17th, 2021 - Felicity Jack

The Town Hall Hotel was ordered to close its doors in 1904 because of a Liquor Licensing Board assessment of all the pubs in North Melbourne. Somehow, and there is no record of how this occurred, the pub survived and today it is one of the area’s most popular drinking spots.