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Royal Park “death-trap” crossing gets long-awaited funding for upgrade
Parkville Gardens residents are celebrating after the City of Melbourne announced it would spend $1.5 million to upgrade a dangerous intersection at the Royal Park Railway Station.
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Local park inspires North Melbourne resident to publish his second poetry book
Dabbling into poetry during lockdowns “for reading as much as writing” has led to a North Melbourne resident looking to publish his second collection of poems.
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Childers St reopened to traffic
A Kensington street is open to traffic for the first time in more than three years in another sign of progress on the Metro Tunnel Project.
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Neighbourhood Houses – bringing people together across the country
Neighbourhood House Week, which took place from May 9 to 15, is a national initiative which celebrates the role of more than 1000 neighbourhood houses in local communities across Australia. Kensington Neighbourhood House is one of 400 in Victoria.
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Housing in Melbourne is cooked and the Victorian Government just made it worse
David lives in North Melbourne with four housemates. He loves his rented townhouse and his housemates but says he is disappointed that the “Aussie dream” of home-ownership continues to get further and further out of reach.
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Maintaining our heritage with Victorian paint colours
Houses in areas where there is a heritage overlay are required to maintain their homes in their original style, thus preserving the architectural integrity of the area. Heritage colours are essentially those deemed appropriate to the historic period when the building was erected.
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Sex parties on short-stay platforms
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) is about to be exposed to sordid details of drug- and alcohol-fuelled sex parties and strippers enriching a short-stay operator in a Melbourne apartment complex.
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Barak Beacon public housing estate in Port Melbourne
Estate residents continue to campaign on Homes Victoria’s plan to relocate them, demolish and redevelop the estate and the lack of clear advice on their future housing security.
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Dear schizophrenia
Satellite Foundation Ambassador Justin Heazlewood is a musician and award-winning author. He wrote this piece for Satellite Foundation to acknowledge World Schizophrenia Awareness Day on May 24.
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World Localisation Day – June 21, 2022
There is a quiet revolution emerging. Many grassroots groups, individuals and non-government, not-for-profit, voluntary entities are coming together to forge a more hopeful path towards healthy communities grounded in strong local economies.
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Historic gas building undergoes a clean-up after being targeted by graffiti vandals
Community bands together to help bring little Theo home after he was struck by a car
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