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Farewell Inner City News – a short but meaningful chapter
After 62 editions serving East Melbourne, Carlton and Parkville, Inner City News is signing off – but the stories, relationships and local voices it has helped bring together will continue through The Melburnian.
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Naughtons to toast 10 years under its current custodians
Naughtons Hotel will mark 10 years under the stewardship of Ryan Moses and his family with a community celebration on Saturday, August 15, inviting Parkville locals, students, hospital workers and regulars to raise a glass to one of the suburb’s most important meeting places.
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Carlton clinic goes fully bulk-billed
Carlton’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinic has become 100 per cent bulk-billed, with local patients already responding strongly to the change.
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Vale Barry Dickins: Carlton farewells a prolific man of words and art
Barry Leonard Dickins, who died in Parkville on July 13 aged 76, was “a renaissance man of the people” and “a real Carlton character”, according to Readings co-owner Mark Rubbo.
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Alleged machete attack driver headed to County Court
An accused in the brutal 2025 New Year’s Eve attack on two young men in Lygon St has been committed to the County Court.
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Inner-city kids shine at junior chess championships
Carlton Gardens Primary School students have once again proudly represented their school at the 2026 Victorian Junior Chess Championships, building on last year’s success with a series of strong performances.
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Carlton’s future takes shape around the breakfast table
If the discussion at Carlton Inc’s quarterly networking breakfast is anything to go by, the future of Carlton will be built through collaboration.
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School plans for Carlton’s former Dan O’Connell Irish pub in doubt
The future of the former Dan O’Connell Irish pub as a primary school looks uncertain, with the planning permit for the hotel’s conversion set to expire in January while its owner is bogged down in investigations into allegations of abuse.
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Graduate House fight marks historic milestone
As the Graduate Union prepares to mark more than a century since its founding and 64 years since Graduate House opened in Carlton, members are also mobilising to save the Leicester St college from closure amid concerns its loss would dismantle a rare academic community.
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LINA backs urgent reforms to support local news
A national organisation supporting local and independent news publishers, which has just moved to Carlton, is ramping up calls for urgent changes to federal media bargaining reforms, warning that small newsrooms could again be left behind unless the proposed legislation is amended.
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“Something just didn’t feel right”: MP questions role of historic Bishopscourt
A Carlton Christmas spectacular
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