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Heritage does matter

March 29th, 2023 - Inner City News

A new book, launched at the Melbourne Town Hall recently, highlights the effectiveness of communities when they work together to preserve the amenity of their suburb.

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Metro Tunnel reaches 40 million hours as testing looms

March 29th, 2023 - Metro Tunnel

Metro Tunnel workers have just clocked 40 million hours of work on the city-shaping project as they prepare to start testing trains in the tunnels in the second half of the year.

It’s time for reform of Victoria’s criminal justice system

March 29th, 2023 - Evan Mulholland

The March release of the Justice Reform Initiative’s Victorian State of Incarceration Report paints a harrowing picture of the problems facing our criminal justice system.

Legs for days! Black-winged stilt chick strides into new habitat

March 29th, 2023 - Inner City News

A newly hatched Black-winged stilt chick is growing into its legs at Melbourne Zoo with ample encouragement from Mum and Dad.

You can’t value what you can’t see

March 29th, 2023 - Inner City News

On International Women’s Day, the Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC) recognised the contributions of three of its foremothers by naming three classrooms after them.

Stop the demolition of public housing at Barak Beacon, Port Melbourne

March 29th, 2023 - Cory Memery

I am urging all my column readers – as I have in previous columns – to get behind Margaret Kelly and other residents who remain living on this estate. Margaret has declared they will have to carry her out if they want to proceed with the demolition of her home.

Carlton Rotary opens new second-hand bookshop in Docklands

March 29th, 2023 - North West City News

The Rotary Club of Carlton has combined with the Rotary Club of Albert Park to open a second-hand book shop in a shopping centre in Docklands, known as “The District”. This is near the now closed Southern Star Observation Wheel, and the Costco Warehouse.