A tale of two Montague Streets
Returning home to Port via Montague St, it is likely you would have stopped at the traffic lights at City Road. It can feel like a long wait. A City of Port Phillip sign futilely warns that there are...
View ArticleSubmarine at Station Pier
The Bay is calm on these late autumn mornings. The protrusion of a dark shape reveals that a submarine is at outer east Station Pier. The submarine is HMAS Rankin, the sixth and final Collins class...
View ArticleThe Lower Yarra – 50 years on
This week, people packed the Great Hall of the NGV to Reimagine the Birrarung in 2070 – a symposium for Melbourne Design Week. The symposium was playful and provocative. Curator Ewan McEoin is...
View ArticleOur coast – past and future
We tend to think of beaches as ‘natural’ but Sandridge Beach and environs have been profoundly altered over the last century. Sandridge was where the Yarra River entered the Bay through low marshy...
View ArticleLooking up!
On my way from here to there last week, my favourite thing happened. I saw something that I would have missed had I not been riding between here and there. And that observation suggested the theme for...
View ArticleThirty years of the City of Port Phillip
Thirty years ago, on 22 June 1994, the City of Port Phillip was created from the amalgamation of the three former cities of Port Melbourne, South Melbourne and St Kilda by the Kennett Liberal...
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