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Lack of security creating violence at housing towers
Residents at the Carlton housing estates are calling for 24-hour security and screen doors to put an end to violence, squatting and drug dealing.
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Volunteers plant hundreds of native plants in Royal Park
The City of Melbourne’s citizen forester program is back after a year of being on hold due to COVID restrictions.
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Melbourne Uni’s job cuts put “buildings over staff”
After hundreds of job cuts allegedly due to the pandemic, Melbourne University is coming under fire from the education union for investing money in “buildings over staff”.
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Fitting in to Hotham St
If you walk down George Mews in East Melbourne and turn left you’ll enter an unnamed lane that takes you past a dog leg and several unmarked doorways leading off it, including a circular gate into a hidden garden.
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Tough times for musicians at the Curtin
The EP tour had been cancelled, tickets for a dozen shows refunded plus they were about to lose their outdoor seating.
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Carlton COVID vaccine clinic opens for public housing residents 16 and over
To encourage vulnerable residents to be immunised, pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics have opened up at six public housing towers around Melbourne, and anyone from the towers aged 16 and over is eligible.
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Heavy investment in new CBD North urban renewal precinct
The Victorian Government has announced $44.6 million to fund a new “green spine” linking the CBD, Carlton, Parkville and the Queen Victoria Market through a series of RMIT University-led capital works projects.
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Businesses count their losses after lockdown
Businesses in Melbourne’s inner city are still reeling nearly a month after the state’s fourth COVID-19 lockdown ended, with industry leaders warning the ongoing cost of restrictions will be “enormous”.
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Thresherman’s Bakehouse site to finally become new restaurant
A new restaurant is rising from the ashes in Carlton after the pandemic forced the closure of many businesses in the suburb.
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Demand for food parcels has trebled since start of pandemic
Carlton’s Church of All Nations has provided emergency relief food packages to the community for more than a decade, but demand from the local community for food basics has trebled since the start of the pandemic.
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Carlton’s future takes shape around the breakfast table
Draft urban forest plan looks to protect Parkville’s green character
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