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Community plants 2000 new plants at Royal Park
Thousands of native plants have been planted at Royal Park in a community effort to bring native vegetation and wildlife back into the space.
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Mass COVID vaccine rollout begins at Royal Exhibition Building
One of Melbourne’s biggest COVID vaccinations hubs, the Royal Exhibition Building, had a steady trickling of people when Inner City News visited in late April.
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Twenty-four refugees now detained in Carlton’s Park Hotel
Twenty-four refugees are now indefinitely detained at Carlton’s Park Hotel after 13 additional refugees were transferred from a Brisbane quarantine facility on April 19.
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Outrageous art hits East Melbourne
A hotel manager has staged an art happening at her normally quiet East Melbourne apartment block to honour one of her guests, an outrageous painter who used to live on the streets.
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Gender-equal plans for Ikon Park
Carlton’s Ikon Park will become the first AFL facility in Australia where training areas for women are identical in size and quality to those for men.
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Is Lygon St still Melbourne’s “Little Italy”?
From chariot races to the greasy pole competition – the Lygon Street Festa of the ‘80s was a grandiose celebration of Italian Carlton that brought people in from far and wide.
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Animated possums on show in Carlton
Digital, animated possums are on show at University Square for the next few weeks for a temporary public art piece commissioned by the City of Melbourne.
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City-focused travel vouchers finally land
CBD hotel and hospitality owners are hopeful new state government incentives will help inject desperately-needed cash through their businesses.
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Book launches back up and running
Some tough and amusing writers attended Readings book launches last month as lit culture burst out from its hibernation with a vengeance.
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Chalk portrait inspires hope for refugee
A chalk drawing on the pavement outside Carlton’s Park Hotel, where daily protests demand the release of around 12 refugees detained there, has inspired hope for an asylum seeker locked up in Papua New Guinea.
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