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2021 – Port places in pictures
January Side by side. People cool off at Sandridge Beach in the foreground of VICT’s automated container terminal. The drive through COVID testing site in Johnston St became familiar. It is a future...
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Year in Review 2021
Diving right in to Fishermans Bend The sections below are arranged by precinct, as per the Fishermans Bend Framework. Montague In Montague, several projects came to completion this year, including the...
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The seventies in Port Melbourne
The Victorian Government, as part of the Big Housing Build, intends to demolish the Barak/Beacon Rd/Boulevard public housing estate and replace it with updated housing using a ground lease model. When...
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Charming a corner of Port Melbourne
It was often said that there was a pub on every corner in Port. Now it’s more likely to be a café. Brûlée, a patisserie, opened on the corner of Ingles and Crockford Sts in Port Melbourne during, and...
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The First Quarter 2022
January 2022 On Saturday the 1st January the maximum temperature was 37.1 degrees. COVID testing processing services had wound down over the Christmas break. Cases of the highly transmissible Omicron...
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I accepted my own invitation and went back to the city to attend the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Committee. Two items about heritage on the agenda had attracted my attention: the proposed...
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Federal election in Macnamara
It is the eve of the federal election in the electorate of Macnamara. Will there be a change of government? Will sitting member, Josh Burns, hold Macnamara? This is a tenterhooks election, on which the...
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The week after the federal election
Last Friday I asked two questions. Will there be a change of government? Will sitting member, Josh Burns, hold Macnamara? While the answer to the first question has been a resounding yes, the answer to...
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Retrofitting a bank house in Port Melbourne
Ramona and Ross Headifen conclude their five year study of microplastic pollution on a beach in Port Melbourne Ramona and Ross Headifen are well known, and loved, in Port Melbourne. They are dedicated...
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Spirit of Port Melbourne
The spirit of Port was embodied in Perce White who died on 1 June. Perce was born in Port in 1932, and apart from his last few years at Emerald Hill Residence, spent his entire long life in Port. His...
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Pop up bike infrastructure in Port Phillip
“The miracle of cycling turns cities into lands of adventure, or, at the very least of journeys”. Marc Augé For months variable message signs have advised that pop up bike lanes were coming to Port...
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Can we become ‘nature positive’* in Port Phillip
Walking along the promenade at Yarra’s Edge in Docklands you come face to face with a bronze 7 month old Giant Panda, one of a trail of 20 sculptures, Wild About Babies. The sculpture trail is intended...
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Favourite trees in Port
The ABC is inviting people to vote for their favourite native tree, an initiative for National Science Week. Through a process of elimination over several weeks, the favourite trees will be whittled...
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Two sites in Port Melbourne
The Exchange The Exchange Hotel in Port Melbourne is for sale by auction on 14 September at 10.30 am. The auction is in the hands of Burgess Rawson. The Exchange is leased by the Australian Venue...
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The spacious streets of Port
It rained last night. Again. The Pumping Station in Port Melbourne responded, its huge pumps kicking into life to push all that stormwater out into the Bay. Living on the western shore of the former...
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From a yard to a youth arts precinct
Multinet’s yard on the corner of Richardson and Pickles Sts has been vacated. The yard is part of the original Gasworks site. Multinet’s vacant storage yard, from Pickles St After several months of...
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The member for Albert Park
Last week, Martin Foley, the member for the state seat of Albert Park, made his final speech in the Victorian parliament. He had caught many by surprise when he announced that he would not re-contest...
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The Local Paper
In the lead up to the 2020 council elections, I wrote about the closure of our last, and very diminished, local paper, the Port Phillip Leader. Now a new (online) local paper with bold aspirations has...
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The conditions
One of the intentions of the Port Places project is to follow over time how aspirations, visions and plans for the future are expressed in planning documents, then translated by planners and decision...
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After the Spirit
What’s next for Waterfront Place? On Saturday 22nd October a crowd gathered along the Port Melbourne foreshore to bid farewell to the Spirit of Tasmania. The rain held off. A band, appropriately called...
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