Port Votes
The results have been declared. Bernadene Voss, Marcus Pearl and Ogy Simic will represent the new Gateway ward for the next four years. For the first time since the creation of Port Phillip in 1994,...
View ArticleA Story of Dedication
23 March 2017 A group of supporters gathered here to mark the completion of 365 continuous days of litter surveys on this 35m of beach in Port Melbourne. Ross and Ramona Headifen counted every single...
View ArticleNew Year 2017
When white tents appear on Princes Pier in early January they signal that the Christmas-New Year lull is over and the cycle of the year’s calendar begins again, They announce Theofania – the Blessing...
View ArticleNot fit for luxury consumption
“A pretty unattractive arrival point” with significant limitations1 was how Lord Mayor Robert Doyle described Station Pier recently. He suggested that it would be preferable to have an island cruise...
View ArticlePubs in Port
Across inner Melbourne, pubs are disappearing ‘in a building boom unprecedented in its scale and tempo’.1 The illegal demolition of the Corkman in Carlton has catalysed concern about the loss of the...
View ArticleAir Pollution at Station Pier
The cruise ship season extends into May. P & O’s Pacific Eden was in today. Station Pier is off limits to foot traffic on cruise ship days but the western wing pier is a more relaxed place to be...
View ArticlePiers Festival Adaptation
Princes Pier was to have come to life on Sunday for the 6th Annual Piers Festival but a severe weather warning means it will now be held at the South Melbourne Town Hall. In between events Princes Pier...
View Article1-7 Waterfront Place
A planning application will soon be decided by the Port Phillip Council for the blighted, fire ravaged site at 1-7 Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne. The site’s deterioration and dereliction following...
View ArticleLagoon Reserve
Lagoon Reserve is a small park in Port Melbourne that was once part of the Sandridge Lagoon. How to describe the essence of this park? It has people at its centre, and ‘nature’ at its edges. That...
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April Autumn
It’s autumn in Port Places. The quest for the best red leads down Port lanes. There’s nothing like the red of old corrugated iron Dr Tim Entwistle, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, challenges the...
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Creative industries move on
Have you been to see the Jan Senbergs exhibition, Observation-Imagination, at the NGV yet? I first saw Senbergs work at the Port Melbourne Town Hall where it forms part of the City of Port Phillip’s...
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Grey reflections
‘The sharpness of things is going to soften, disappear’* grey from yellow – the Rex in Port Melbourne It started when they painted the Rex grey. And then I noticed how many other Port buildings were...
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A street in Port Melbourne
I’m fond of many streets in Port Melbourne, but if I had to choose one it would be Raglan St and these are the reasons why. It has to start with the magnificent Moreton Bay fig tee at the North Port...
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The seasons come again
It’s yellow with wattle in parks in Port Places and like colonial journalist Garryowen/Edmund Finn I am ‘wooed by the fragrant acacias, shaking their golden blossom curls’. In August a century ago,...
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EES – 1987 & 2017
Environmental Effects Statement under the Environment Effects Act 1978 The house at 58 Station Street is for sale. Somehow this very small house has survived. Sunset on 58 Station Street Thirty years...
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Mid-winter Port
On this grey showery solstice morning, the Port Melbourne Icebergs took the inaugural solstice plunge. Nearby, a man holding a wreath to his chest swam out into the bay, and returned without it. It...
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Wrapping up 2016
The weather The hottest day of 2016 was the 13th January when it reached 42 degrees. On that Wednesday evening, the Spirit of Tasmania broke its moorings as winds of up to 100 kph whipped up across the...
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Not fit for luxury consumption
Station Pier – not built for luxury liners “A pretty unattractive arrival point” with significant limitations1 was how Lord Mayor Robert Doyle described Station Pier recently. He suggested that it...
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Piers Festival Adaptation
Princes Pier was to have come to life on Sunday for the 6th Annual Piers Festival but a severe weather warning means it will now be held at the South Melbourne Town Hall. In between events Princes Pier...
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Six Degrees – Two Awards
Six Degrees Architects work on the Albert Park College Environmental Arts Hub received two awards at the 2017 Victorian Architecture Awards: the Henry Bastow Award for Educational Architecture and the...
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