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Council boosts bike lane funding in final budget after community pressure

Council boosts bike lane funding in final budget after community pressure

July 1st, 2025 - Sean Car

The City of Melbourne has bowed to public pressure and boosted its funding commitment for cycling infrastructure, voting at its June 30 council meeting to increase its four-year bike budget to around $15 million.

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Tackling hunger in Carlton

June 26th, 2025 - Tony Milne

Food insecurity is a quiet crisis affecting almost half of Carlton’s residents.

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Speeding in Parkville

June 6th, 2025 - Rob Moore

With great interest we noted the Lord Mayor’s comments about East Melbourne and the need for greater speed restrictions.

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“Slap in the face”: vulnerable residents face eviction amid Grattan St redevelopment

June 4th, 2025 - Georgie Atkins

Amanda* has lived in her flat on Grattan St for seven years. At 76, she’s built a quiet, steady life in Carlton – a location close to public transport, shops, and medical care. But that stability is now under threat.

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The postbox preserver: one man’s mission to revive Melbourne’s forgotten pillar boxes

June 4th, 2025 - Georgie Atkins

For most Melburnians, the city’s cast-iron, Victorian-era pillar boxes blend quietly into the urban backdrop – unnoticed relics of another century.

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Carlton’s own noodle masters

June 4th, 2025 - Ricky Sproule

In a quiet back street, just off the southern end of Lygon St, Kevin Huang and Xinyan Wang have been making some of Melbourne’s best noodles since 2017.

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Give Carlton Gardens a break!

June 4th, 2025 - Martin Brennan

The Carlton Residents’ Association (CRA) has called on the City of Melbourne to conduct a review of the location of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show in the Carlton Gardens.

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The face behind one of the world’s last anonymous food critics

June 3rd, 2025 - Georgie Atkins

After more than two decades of fiercely guarding her anonymity, Besha Rodell – The Age and Good Weekend’s chief restaurant critic – has stepped into the spotlight with the release of her debut book, Hunger Like a Thirst.

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“It’s like putting a band-aid on a healed wound”: East Melbourne residents object to the council’s road safety proposal

June 3rd, 2025 - Jon Fleetwood

East Melbourne residents are urging the City of Melbourne not to proceed with the installation of new road safety measures, describing them as “unnecessary” and a poor use of government funds.

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Council funding allocated to University Square

June 3rd, 2025 - Jon Fleetwood

Stage Two of University Square is on track for delivery, with the City of Melbourne allocating funds to the project in its draft budget and progressing with the closure of Barry and Leicester streets in Carlton.

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