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How do we solve a problem like rough sleeping?

Welcome to the seventh of our 12-part series which will attempt to explore the role that housing can and should play within Australian society and why it is important to our economy that we house all Australians, rich or poor. 

As much flak as Captain Cook

Some nice people come from Captain Cook’s home town of Middlesbrough although you wouldn’t know it, judging by the recent protests against his arrival in Australia.

Welcome from the Public Housing Residents’ Network

Hi readers, this column is from the view of a long-term public housing resident.

Inner-city life: where to after a pandemic?

This COVID-19 pandemic has hit us all hard, but for those who spend their lives in our CBD and inner-city, it’s changed things very dramatically.

Teetering between construction and deconstruction

There’s a brilliant outdoor exhibition of photography in Barry St, Carlton, in a strange urban landscape next to the Metro Tunnel site for Parkville Station.

A testament to Tiamo

Lygon Street’s culinary scene is an iconic part of Melbourne’s inner north, and few restaurants can lay claim to being as iconic as Tiamo.

Baby Button a bundle of joy

The last woman hanged in Australia

In November 1949 a murder occurred in Dorrit St, Carlton, that was to lead to the last hanging of a woman in Australia before the death penalty was abolished.

“How do you feel about the rollout of the vaccine?”