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What is your favourite winter-exclusive activity?
I like playing outdoor games such as tennis and cricket with my friends. It’s good for your health, so I take time for that.
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McCracken St food share pantry supports the community
Kensington Neighbourhood House (KNH) worked with locals to establish a food share pantry to support local community members access food items and to provide residents the capacity to take, swap or donate food, which can all be done anonymously, 24/7.
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New councillor is a “unionist at heart”
Having snuck into the final councillor position at last year’s local government elections, CFMEU member and new councillor Elizabeth Doidge said she was looking forward to helping shape and reactivate the city that she loves.
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How do we solve a problem like rough sleeping?
Welcome to the seventh 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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From the courts to the Olympics
Considered the world’s number one urban sport, 3x3 basketball is on a meteoric rise from the streets to the biggest stage in world sport: the rescheduled 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
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“Problematic”: Community concerned new school could sew division
While most North Melbournians welcome a new school, the community has raised concerns that the Victorian Government’s proposed $36 million North Melbourne Hill Primary School has progressed without consultation.
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Does urban renewal need a rethink?
In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s one of Australia’s first large-scale urban renewal projects was built in Kensington. With two major urban renewals now under way in North Melbourne, are there lessons to be learnt from the nearby Kensington Banks?
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Kensington Primary still needs its fix
After years of campaigning for funding to fix major problems at Kensington Primary School, the Minister for Education visited the school to take a look in late February.
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78 Seniors: friendship, support and loving thy neighbour
“Loneliness is the biggest disease on the pensioner.”
Read MoreMelbourne Music Week dives into Kensington
Soul-searching insights into Kensington’s identity, culture, and sense of community were on display in Melbourne Music Week’s (MMW’s) new podcast Narratives of Neighbourhood.
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Kensington Community Fresh Food Market
Friendly parrot may be banned outdoors after ruffling the council’s feathers
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