SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE 89 PRICELESS WWW.SOUTHBANKLOCALNEWS.COM.AU : SOUTHBANK_News The voice of Southbank, South Wharf & Montague

■■Reece: precinct plan needed ■■Southbank's secret rainforest Page 3 Page 12 ■■Crown takeover ■■A dream life Page 7 Southbanker - page 22 Sustainable September

Sustainability has taken over South Market this month.

Now in its third year, Sustainable September has returned to our local market with a month-long program of fun and informative workshops, activities, cooking demonstrations and tours, with plenty of ideas to inspire sustainable living. And to kick-start the month, City of Port Phillip Mayor Dick Gross and councillors Tim Baxter and Bernadene Voss (pictured) helped launch a new BYO Cup Campaign on September 1 by unveiling new takeaway coffee cup recycling stations, adding to the market’s long list of sustainable practices. Southmelbournemarket.com.au It's time to return river to Birrarung By Sean Car

“We renamed Uluru from Ayers Rock. I would love us to rename it [] Birrarung, but that’s my personal view” - Kate Nagato, Melbourne Water.

While an unsurprising number of big to contribute to its development of her “Greenline” vision – an set the tone for an afternoon of more “big ideas emerged out of the Yarra River “Big future vision. initiative aimed at linking green spaces along ideas.” Ideas Forum” last month, there was one the river’s banks (particularly Northbank) – Moderated by Arup’s Mark Rowland, a pertinent theme that rang true among an Having expressed her own desire for “big has gained growing notoriety. panel featuring the City of Melbourne’s overwhelming number of its participants on ideas” for our city at a YRBA function last It’s an initiative that the City of Melbourne director of city strategy Claire Ferres Miles, the day. year, the Lord Mayor Sally Capp’s sense of Parks Victoria CEO Matthew Jackson and passion and ambition for reimagining what has adopted as part of its new City River Melbourne Water’s manager of innovation Presented by the Yarra River Business our river could offer Melburnians was largely Strategy and the kind of thinking that and resilience Kate Nagato helped kickstart Association (YRBA) in partnership with what inspired last month’s forum. underpinned the forum’s central purpose. planning firm Arup on August 15, the Sharing some of her own insights in a discussion. river’s major stakeholders all converged on Since being elected Lord Mayor, the typically uplifting opening address, Cr Capp Continued on page 4. 2 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 89 50 car parks to go Security works Preliminary works to improve public security on The City of Melbourne is Southbank Promenade have proposing to remove all commenced, after the City diagonal car parking from of Melbourne conducted Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade Kavanagh St and replace it PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 “service proving” this month. Tel: 8689 7980 Fax: 9602 2929 with parallel parking – a move www.southbanklocalnews.com.au questioned by the Southbank Angled parking is to be removed from Kavanagh St. According to the Yarra River Business Association (YRBA), the works involved Editor: Sean Car Residents’ Association (SRA). “I am not sure a 50-park reduction is investigation of underground services beneficial to the community’s needs,” he at specific sites along the promenade, to Publisher: Hyperlocal News Pty Ltd The decision to remove 50 car parks is said. “While I am in support of a safer cycling prepare for imminent upgrades. ABN: 57623558725 part of the council’s transport strategy for experience for our cyclists, I would like to In the coming months the council, Tel: 8689 7980 Fax: 9602 2929 Southbank, which will see new separated hope there is another way forward.” bicycle lanes installed on both sides of working closely with the state government [email protected] With Boyd Park and stage one of Melbourne Kavanagh St. and Victoria Police, will begin installing Square to be completed later this year, Mr Reader contributions are welcome. long-term security measures along the The plan to transform Kavanagh St has long Penna said removing all parking was not Please send articles and images to popular walkway. been earmarked as part of the council’s consistent with the community’s vision to [email protected] master plan for City Road, in an effort to transform Kavanagh St into a central street. According to the state government, divert cyclists from Southbank Promenade security works include physical Deadline for edition 90 is October 3. He said SRA believed it would be beneficial via Balston St and through to new designated protections that will: to keep angled parking available on the bike lanes on Southbank Boulevard. southern side of Kavanagh St out the front of ■■ Turn the whole promenade into a CONNECT The Melbourne Bicycle User Group Melbourne Square. protected zone; (MBUG) last year surveyed local residents Keep up to date with local news & events. “We will probably start to see the ground ■■ Mostly consist of bollards, to provide in Southbank on the new bike lanes, which floor apartments become spaces of boutique protection while enabling people to Follow us on Twitter resulted in a proposal to remove 15 diagonal consulting and retail business. 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Downstairs HP MAY2019_V1.indd 1 4/6/19 2:55 pm Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 89 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 3 Reece: key precinct needs a plan director of developer Beulah International The City of Melbourne’s chair Jiaheng Chan, whose development on the corner of Southbank Boulevard and of planning Cr Nicholas Reece City Rd is currently before the Minister has started an important for Planning for approval, suggested that the establishment of a special planning discussion around the future committee might be appropriate. management of Southbank’s “A coordinated approach to the riverfront precinct between improvement of the precinct is key in the Southbank Promenade and future success of the whole city and state,” Mr Chan said. “A master planning committee City Rd. with representation from all key stakeholders and a robust consultation programme will Referencing the area incorporating Hamer lead to creative ideas for the improvement of Hall, Southgate, Riverside Quay and the precinct.” Freshwater Place, Cr Reece has flagged his “We have commenced a similar process intentions to establish a plan that manages with neighbours but would happily play a and coordinates development in the precinct leading role in any future committee. We with all stakeholders. think this will help to gather and focus all key He said that between its extensive public stakeholders, opening up direct discussion works program, which includes upgrades with the right people to continually improve to Southbank Promenade and Southbank this important precinct.” Boulevard, more private development and the state government’s transformation of the Southbank Residents’ Association (SRA) Arts Precinct, there was a lot on the horizon. president Tony Penna said that there was good logic to Cr Reece’s vision for the “In terms of the riverfront, we do know precinct, and that residents looked forward that there are a number of development to playing an active role in how the area’s applications that the city is likely to see over The City Road Masterplan, which is now to be mindful of the context in which they future planning took shape. the next 12 months and that could include three years behind schedule, also provides sit with the other buildings around them Southgate, ESSO House, the Beulah site and an important foundation for addressing whether that’s the galleries or the parks and “In principle SRA supports any such Queensbridge Hotel,” he said. connectivity and a desirable public realm promenades,” he said. initiative,” he said. “Owing to the massive – areas Cr Reece said had previously been projects and expected upcoming works in “That amounts to almost one kilometre of overlooked in Southbank. “The city would certainly like to see more Southbank, we question why it is only now prime riverfront in the centre of Melbourne pedestrian links from City Rd through to that such an initiative is being spruiked.” and that is something which the City of “I think that Melbourne is famous for its the river’s edge to make it as porous and Melbourne will be looking very carefully at.” streets, whether it’s the bluestone footpaths, pedestrian-friendly as possible. If we and “Any such plan, however it may look, needs street trees, high-quality street furniture and the developers get it right we can make to ensure that all stakeholders have a say, “We’ll be doing everything we can to leading design in our public spaces and I that stretch one of the most beautiful river especially the residential community. There ensure that postcard view of the river and think that, historically, Southbank has been promenades in the world.” are some real opportunities to bring all that precious promenade is protected and underdone on that front.” these projects together under one planning enhanced because it’s hard to think of a While acknowledging that state government umbrella.” more important place in all of Melbourne.” With Southgate’s owners ARA understood was largely responsible for managing to be preparing its own new masterplan, development, as well as the Arts Precinct “Southbank has experienced poor planning While the Southbank Structure Plan 2010 ESSO House being recently sold and the transformation through Development in the past, as evident in its lack of open already addresses many of the issues Freshwater Place precinct expected to see a Victoria, Cr Reece the precinct would benefit space, oversubscribed community spaces Cr Reece is keen to manage, such as number of new developments, Cr Reece is with more open dialogue. and poor street level interaction. We would disconnection to the river, high-quality keen to tie them all together. ask council to acknowledge this to give such public realm, green space and unsustainable What shape this new planning initiative an initiative the space it need to flourish.” buildings, he said the riverfront required “Any development applications will have to takes is still unknown but many stakeholders special attention. be appropriate for a river setting, will have agree with Cr Reece in principle. Managing [email protected]

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Representing the three key stewards of the lower Yarra, the three leaders were each prompted on their roles and responsibilities, as well as major challenges and opportunities they saw in the river. A need to balance commercial activation with social responsibility was one notion shared by everyone in the room. How do we as a city reconnect and reengage people with a river that has for many years been maligned? Claire Ferres Miles was quick to point out that language was important: “Over the Lord Mayor Sally Capp addresses the forum. next 12 months you’re going to hear the City of Melbourne talk more and more about Melbourne as a ‘water city’,” she said. “Like Sydney celebrates its harbour, how does Melbourne celebrate its river and its waterways and its catchments?” Matthew Jackson then reinforced this through the usual acknowledgement of our first peoples. “Parks Victoria is very privileged to work with traditional owners across 20 per cent of Victoria and that is a very significant part of what we do.” L-R: Kate Nagato, Matthew Jackson and Claire Ferres Miles.

However, it was Ms Nagato who was first A group brainstorms around a map of the river. to refer to the river by its traditional name. Koorie Heritage Trust CEO Tom Mosby “Increasingly we’re starting to not talk about thinks we should start by renaming the river. the Yarra as the ‘Yarra’ but we’re starting This theme seemed to resonate strongly The rationale behind embracing the river’s “Renaming Birrarung will be a recognition to talk about it as the ‘Birrarung’,” she said. among participants on the day, as teams history for many was about stopping people of the continuing journey of our Aboriginal “It’s really important that we do recognise broke off into tables with a map of the from turning their backs on the river, people and a statement of Aboriginal our first people. They were here a long time river, sticky notes and highlighters to work celebrating its heritage as a food bowl and culture and history as a fundamental part of before we were and that they’ve got some together and come up with big ideas of their cultural centre and creating more spaces to contemporary Victorian life,” he said. fabulous knowledge to contribute in terms of own. linger and reflect. how we manage the river.” “The Koorie Heritage Trust encourages and Teams were asked to identify locations on Claire Ferres Miles had previously supports the use of traditional language as a Ms Ferres Miles had also pointed out that a their maps that they deemed both desirable highlighted the longstanding governance means of connecting and reconnecting our key pillar of the council’s city river strategy and undesirable. While Arbory, Southbank issues, which too have plagued the river. people to country, but also acknowledging was focused on recognising and celebrating Promenade and the green spaces along Between state government, council, Parks the First Nations history of Melbourne and our Aboriginal heritage. In fact, the Alexandra Ave ranked highly, further Victoria and Melbourne Water, one could the spiritual and cultural significance of the document makes a point of referring to the downstream Batman and Enterprize Parks, trip from the banks of the river and into river.” river as “Birrarung” rather than “Yarra”. Queensbridge Square and sections of South the water and fall through four layers of Wharf didn’t bode so well. bureaucracy. So, while we might have many “big ideas” And it was Ms Nagato who would eventually for our river, we should truly recognise its put the topic on the agenda … “We renamed So, how do we fuse the good with the It was, therefore, unsurprising that some past before trying to shape its future. From Uluru from Ayers Rock,” she said. “I would bad? What makes the desirable locations groups even built on the idea of the existing years of turning our back on the “Yarra”, love us to rename it [Yarra River] Birrarung, desirable? Why are some sections of the river Birrarung Council to establish a central which was long perceived as a sewer, we as but that’s my personal view.” so good, yet others so bad? What are some of Birrarung governance authority to manage a city continue to try and shake off those the missing links that may tie it all together? the river, provide education and help drive a According to the Koorie Heritage Trust, perceptions without fully acknowledging balanced commercial and ecological future. while Birrarung was a major food source These were some of the many questions the what it once was: a cultural and spiritual for the Aboriginal peoples of the Kulin nine groups would have posed to one and But what is it all worth if we don’t fully oasis. Language IS important. Nations, Birrarung is of spiritual and cultural another as they began articulating their “big acknowledge our history by continuing to Let’s start again and let’s really reimagine. significance to its people for connecting to ideas”. And interestingly, out of those nine refer to it as “Yarra”? It’s a name understood Let’s return to Birrarung. the past but also as a means of “shaping our groups, five would incorporate “Birrarung” to refer to “The Falls” next to Queens Bridge, future”. in the title of their final pitch. where saltwater met freshwater. [email protected]

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 89 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 5 Council’s call to action on waste By Sean Car items of e-waste in the bin. Most people cash in on discounts of up to 50 per cent won’t throw phones in the bin but it’s all the for compost bins and worm farms via its accessories - headphones, chargers, cables partnership with social enterprise The While local councils across and batteries - that we can also recover.” Compost Revolution. the state continue working With around 75 per cent of the municipality’s He said he was also constantly encouraging behind the scenes to resolve residential bins located in high-rise high-rise residents to hassle their building buildings, he said these messages were managers and Owners’ Corporations to find our recycling crisis, the City of particularly crucial for those living in space on rooftops or in communal areas Melbourne is encouraging its communities such as the CBD, Docklands to build raised garden beds for vegies and and Southbank. composting. residents to play an active role The council has for several years run a “If you can keep compost on your property in being part of the solution on tailored waste management program in and use it on the garden then happy days,” waste. Recycling program officer Ian Clarke. high-rise towers. Many residents would he said. “Get a group of residents together be well aware of the different e-waste and who are keen to get the space. It could be on While a solution is being sought to recycle charity bins (managed by Diabetes Victoria) City of Melbourne recycling program officer the roof or in a communal area. Get a raised plastics following the closure of recycling that are already accessible in around 150 Ian Clarke caught up with Southbank Local garden bed in there and grow some vegies!” company SKM, Mr Clarke said locals could buildings. News last month to shed light on the many still recycle other forms of waste such as City of Melbourne has also established “We’re constantly working with building different ways the community could still organics, e-waste and hard waste. a permanent drop off zone for e-waste managers to try to encourage them to reduce make a significant impact in reducing its at Kathleen Syme Community Centre in In the first instance, he said it was important contamination in their recycling bins and to waste to landfill. Carlton, as well as battery collection services for community members to continue educate residents as they move in as to how at City Baths and City Library. Mr Clarke said the council’s transfer station recycling as usual, while trying to limit how waste works within their building,” Mr Clarke at Dynon Rd in West Melbourne was now much plastic they purchase every day. said. On September 21, it will also host a free open for residents to drop off their regular e-waste recycling day in partnership with “My role is to encourage people to continue “We’re also trying to reduce the amount of recycling items. However, he said it was Tech-Collect at Argyle Square in Carlton, recycling but the best thing to do is to try and hard waste. When Diabetes Victoria goes important that glass was kept separate from where residents can save their old phones, change your purchasing habits,” Mr Clarke into the buildings now, they go through the other recycling. computers or appliances from landfill. said. “When you go to the supermarket, hard waste and take out any good furniture “All of the cardboard and paper gets bailed don’t buy over-packaged goods.” to sell on at their stores.” City of Melbourne also supports businesses at Dynon Rd and goes to Visy Recycling for “Consider what you’re doing with food In another example of residents taking and the community to produce less waste. processing,” Mr Clarke said. because food scraps and organics make up action, he said that some buildings had even Its small business grants program provides approximately 50 per cent of our landfill set up “reuse” areas where people could up to $100,000 for proposals that focus on “The broader public perception is that bins. So, ask yourself: ‘do I have the capacity swap larger items with their neighbours. reducing waste, with a new series of grants to everything is going to landfill but that’s not to compost that at home?’” open in October. the case. We put actions in place to divert As part of the awareness efforts, Mr Clarke different streams that we can still recover.” “We need people to stop throwing small was keen to remind locals that they could melbourne.vic.gov.au/reducewaste

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 89 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 7 Faine flags Fischer Crown takeover for veterans’ art Crown Resorts has confirmed that it has purchased now former development partner ABC Melbourne radio Schiavello’s 50 per cent stake presenter Jon Faine got a in the site of its controversial local conversation started Queensbridge Tower proposal. last month in the aftermath of former Deputy Prime Minister The corner site at 1 Queensbridge St, which is still home to the former Queensbridge Tim Fischer’s death on August Hotel building, was the subject of Crown 22. and Schiavello’s two-billion-dollar approved One Queensbridge project. Speaking on radio about his friend, a The controversial plan, which received former Vietnam veteran who served for The late Tim Fischer. Image: ABC. circumvented planning approval from the Australia between 1966 and 1969, Mr Faine state government as a “state significant” proposed that Mr Fischer’s legacy might project in March 2017, ran to the end of A render of the old proposal One Queensbridge. exposure to chemical agent orange during lend itself nicely to a local initiative that its two-year permit without having started his service in Vietnam, Mr Faine suggested continues to fight for government support. construction. project having been hampered by the that ANVAM’s future home at 310 St Kilda nation’s property downturn. The Australian National Veteran Arts Rd might be named after the former Ongoing financing issues meant that the Museum (ANVAM) continues to lobby veteran. project, which included more than 700 “We now have a luxury of time,” he said. the Department of Defence and all levels apartments and a new luxury hotel, never “We can look at what the right solution is ANVAM’s director Mark Johnston told of government on gaining access to the saw the light of day. Minister for Planning and that will depend on what is going on in Southbank Local News that it was certainly former repatriation clinic at 310 St Kilda Rd Richard Wynne confirmed in March that the market at the time.” interested in exploring the prospect of in Southbank, which has been empty for the government wouldn’t be issuing the naming rights in some capacity with Mr The failure of the previous project has also more than 20 years. development partners with an extension to Fischer’s family caused frustration to the City of Melbourne, carry out the project. Defence maintains that the property with upgrades to Queensbridge Square, “Tim has a lot of relevance to what we remains “surplus to requirements” and has The minister’s decision, which was met with Southbank Promenade and Sandridge do,” Mr Johnston said. “Obviously he is made continuous efforts to try and offload widespread support from the Southbank Bridge having been tied up in a “public a veteran and a war veteran at that. He the building to the state government and, community, has forced Crown and benefits” package as part of the approval. went on to high office so his post service more recently, the City of Melbourne. Schiavello to return to the drawing board. experience was very positive.” Despite the setbacks, council’s planning “In accordance with this policy, Defence Following a City of Melbourne review chair Cr Nicholas Reece told Southbank “His death can be attributed to his is working with the City of Melbourne to in 2018, the site now also has a heritage Local News in March that he welcomed service, so the suffering that he endured explore its interest in an off-market sale of overlay for the historic Queensbridge Hotel the decision and he hoped Crown’s next particularly later in life due to his service is 310 St Kilda Road,” a Defence spokesperson meaning that any future development will proposal would adhere to the normal part of our message that we exist to relieve told Southbank Local News last month. have to incorporate some aspect of the planning process. suffering. And, his creative writing as an current building within its plans. While the situation continues to cause artform certainly resonates very well so “One Queensbridge did not come within a frustration to the ANVAM board, which is he becomes a very good figure from the Crown Resorts announced at its annual bull’s roar of complying with the Melbourne still seeking to establish an arts museum, particular generation.” general meeting (AGM) on August 21 that it Planning Scheme and I hope they reflect on studios and community space for the had agreed to purchase Schiavello’s stake in that the next time they submit,” he said. “I have actually spoken to a very close support and rehabilitation of veterans, Mr the site for $80 million. friend of his about it and we’ve tried to “That said, I very much hope that they Faine sought to boost spirits through a new put it to the Minister for Veterans Darren Its chief financial officer Ken Barton [Crown] find a way forward because the idea. Chester that this is something that we could told the meeting there was a “significant city would benefit from the investment and Following the sad loss of Mr Fischer, whose do as one of the elders of his National Party opportunity” to increase Crown’s hotel world-class tourism facilities that Crown death at 73 has been directly linked with but we’re still waiting to hear back.” capacity in Melbourne, with the previous has a history of building in Melbourne.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 89 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 9 New tram push for Fishermans Bend Councillor By Sean Car fires off on appears increasingly unlikely to meet that A new alternative tram route timeframe. to Fishermans Bend from the In response the FBBF’s proposal a Metro 2 spokesperson for Minister Allan said: Domain interchange via the “Planning work for a tram link to Fishermans By Sean Car Montague Precinct is being Bend continues as part of overall precinct pushed by the Fishermans planning.” City of Melbourne Greens “Fishermans Bend is Australia’s largest Cr Rohan Leppert has Bend Business Forum (FBBF). urban renewal project and this process will help us explore the most appropriate questioned whether the state It comes amid the state government’s current solution for the people who will work, study government is serious about planning work for “potential” tram services and live in the area.” between Fishermans Bend and the CBD, for Fishermans Bend. which it allocated $4.5 million towards in its Member for Albert Park Martin Foley The proposal calls for a major interchange to be said the state government welcomed the 2019/20 budget. His comments followed the constructed at the 109 tram intersection on Ingles St. constructive engagement from the business announcement of the state government’s While the government’s preferred option is community on the preferred route to a connection from Collins St over the Yarra preferred route for its Suburban Rail realignment of the property on the corner of Fishermans Bend, but that its proposal was River through Yarra’s Edge in Docklands, the Loop project last month. Fennell and Ingles to take of the sharpness missing a “key objective”. state’s current infrastructure squeeze and Cr Leppert fired off at the government out of the turn.” “As valuable as the southern route into tighter timeframes mean that all options are on Twitter this month stating that it Anzac station is (and integrated planning back on the table. “From this point on the route would follow was “completely neglecting” rail to of southern tram routes into and across the current proposed Plummer St route.” Fishermans Bend by choosing to invest The government’s Fishermans Bend the existing communities is underway) the all of its energy into the Suburban Rail framework legislated last year forecasts While FBBF executive officer David Weston proposal misses the key objective of linking Loop project. 80,000 residents and 80,000 workers in the acknowledged that the proposal didn’t the ’s engineering precinct by 2050, however it is still yet to provide a direct connection with the CBD, campus and other areas of the employment “State government announces new confirm any new public transport initiatives. he said it did eliminate the need for the and future industries precinct into the public Suburban Rail Loop authority, with “significant cost of a West Gate Freeway transport grid,” Mr Foley said. construction to commence by 2022 The FBBF this month submitted a proposal overpass.” (election year! Surprise!) – meanwhile to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure “That university and knowledge industries Fishermans Bend rail continues to be Jacinta Allan and the Fishermans Bend “The introduction of the Melbourne Metro project remains the state’s priority as we completely neglected,” he wrote. Development Board, which would see a new Tunnel offers a realistic alternative for the look to provide certainty and security to the tram route from the Domain Interchange Plummer St tram that would not add to management of Fishermans Bend’s future.” “Fishermans Bend WILL FAIL without where Anzac Station is being constructed. public transport investment now. congestion on Collins St,” he said. “We will continue to work with all groups Docklands population is 11,000 but at The “Wirraway Service” would travel along “Savings would be achieved by removing the in the community to land the best solution least has some tram access and edges are the existing tram route on Park St currently need for the costly overpass over the West for the public transport/accessible future walkable from Southern Cross.” used by tram 58, but would continue across Gate Freeway and the required acquisition of of the biggest urban renewal project in the Kings Way along Park St to connect with a number of privately-owned properties.” nation while ensuring the interests of the “Fishermans Bend planned for 80,000 existing tram 1 lines. 300 metres of new local community remain paramount to that residents and 80,000 jobs but zero public tracks would be required for this section. The FBBF proposal also highlights the project.” transport is funded.” benefits of connecting with the “multi- The tram would then continue along Park St modal” Domain Interchange at the future While describing the proposal as a “clever “The government cannot leave precincts up to Montague St, turn right and continue Anzac Station, with a significant portion of idea”, Montague Community Alliance half-planned and expect them to along to Dorcas St before turning left and employees in Fishermans Bend currently convener Trisha Avery said the creation of succeed. This will be the Andrews continuing up to Ingles St and past the commuting daily from Melbourne’s south- a major interchange at Ingles St would only Government’s legacy of failure as western end of the Montague Precinct. east suburbs. add to existing strain on 109 and 96 tram Fishermans Bend is left to develop lines. without any public investment in From here it would intersect with the The $4.5 million allocated in the budget to infrastructure.” “We support building greater infrastructure existing 109 tram between the CBD and Port planning and the developing a business case for the growing areas, but this route won’t Melbourne, where the FBBF proposes the for active transport and tram connections The state government has maintained do much to us, as Montague is already well establishment of a “major interchange” for between Fishermans Bend and the CBD has its position that construction of the next served by public transport.” passengers travelling to Spencer and Collins been largely focused on exploring a “Yarra stage of Metro cannot start until Metro 1 and a rail connection to the airport streets. River crossing”. “As the 109 and 96 are already among the are complete. The City of Melbourne busiest tram routes in Melbourne, adding “The tram would continue along Ingles, However, with the state government having continues to advocate for the project as another major interchange would just add to crossing Williamstown Rd and turning forecasted delivery of a new tram route to part of its transport plan. the busyness and noise.” left into Fennel St,” the FBBF proposal Fishermans Bend by 2025, the construction continued. “This may require a slight of the costly tram bridge over Yarra’s Edge [email protected]

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for this to happen in the 2012-16 council it report on the proposed tough new gambling always required one additional councillor policy off to Minister for Planning Richard to be either absent or conflicted to reduce Wynne. overall numbers to just five. By Stephen The council has asked the minister to go a Mayne When Team Doyle briefly got to a majority little harder than the panel recommended of six councillors in the second half of 2017, as it does not wish to encourage new the November 2017 decision to send the new poker machine venues, preferring a harm gambling policy off to panel had to be made minimisation approach. by officers under delegation. One of the reasons City of Melbourne only Robert Doyle has been gone The election of Sally Capp as Lord Mayor last has eight pokies venues – for instance there are none in suburbs such as Docklands, from Town Hall for more than year was hopefully going to ensure council could make gambling decisions but she then North Melbourne, East Melbourne or 18 months but the impact of opted to accept a $4000 donation from Ann Parkville – is that council has one of the best records of any Australian council when it machine policy which had been three years Peacock, a long-time marketing employee some of his decisions lives on comes to resisting pokies applications at in the making. at , which rendered her – particularly in relation to personally conflicted on gambling matters. VCAT and before the gambling regulator. Team Doyle councillors were ruled out by The Queensberry Hotel in Carlton, The conflicts of interest arising from a $40,000 donation to Team Doyle from the As all this became apparent at the July 30 Victoria Hotel behind Town Hall and the Australian Hotels Association in 2016, along council meeting, some quick thinking saw campaign donations. Francis Hotel in Lonsdale St are just some with the decision by wealthy advertising man the councillors opt to establish a dedicated and Crown Resorts director Harold Mitchell of the venues which have tried and failed to Team Doyle no longer formally exists but committee, the Gaming Planning Provision to donate $10,000. install pokies over the years. there are still five serving councillors who are Committee, to progress the planning scheme not able to make decisions related to donors After raising about $300,000 from property amendment. The adoption of Planning Scheme who Robert Doyle secured to support his developers for his 2012 re-election campaign Amendment 307 will make it even tougher, The new special purpose committee held a 2016 campaign. and successfully winning five seats for Team which is a good thing. 15-minute meeting on August 6 when the Doyle on council, the next four years saw a This came into sharp relief at the July 30 five non-conflicted councillors – Rohan Stephen Mayne is a former City of Melbourne number of examples of quorum being lost council meeting when council was unable Leppert, Cathy Oke, Jackie Watts, Philip councillor who has long campaigned to and decisions being delegated to the officers. to make a decision in relation to Planning Le Lui and Nic Frances Gilley – gathered reduce gambling harm in Australia. Scheme Amendment 307, a tough new poker A quorum is six of the 11 councillors, so together and endorsed sending the panel

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The City of Port Phillip will Among Ms Statelova’s concerns, which she adopt its new masterplan said were shared by many of her fellow for the Domain Precinct at a residents, include widespread loss of street parking, loss of footpath space on Park St, council meeting at St Kilda decreased access to Kings Way and the new Town Hall on September 18. bike path along Park St. “We don’t need the bike path ... It is not for The adoption of the final masterplan follows us!” she said. “We have many people walking an extensive period of consultation, which but very few commute to work by bike saw the Draft Domain Precinct Public Realm because we live close to everything ... it is Masterplan exhibited online for feedback, not worth it to ride for such short distances. while a series of public workshops with the However, we still need our cars.” community were also held. City of Port Phillip Mayor Dick Gross was The City of Port Phillip confirmed that it result of construction works and new raised Crescent and Queens Rd), creating better quick to reassure that the masterplan didn’t had received 57 submissions during the tram lines along Park St. pedestrian connections and streetscape suggest modifying or removing access to exhibition period, which were considered as improvements. According to latest Census data in 2016, private car parks or laneways in the precinct. part of the final vision. He also said the loss of access to Kings Way the precinct was home to more than 4500 While the City of Phillip said it would be from Little Bank St, as shown in the draft The Domain Precinct, which is an immediate residents, and the masterplan found that incorporating all feedback into the final plan, would be amended in the final vision. continuation of Southbank Village, is an around 23 per cent of households did not vision, not all residents were happy with the area of land bordered by St Kilda Rd, Dorcas own a car. master plan and expressed some frustration “Council has been made aware of a St and Kings Ways (up to St Kilda Rd and The masterplan doesn’t provide guidelines at the plans to Southbank Local News. discrepancy which makes it appear that Toorak Rd intersection). access to Kings Way from Little Bank Street or recommendations on building heights Local Park St resident Boriana Statelova said is removed,” he said. “This is not part of Described by many as somewhat of a and setbacks on private land as the area is that she was “massively concerned” with the the plan to create a safe and enjoyable “sleeping giant” given its proximity to the already regulated by the St Kilda Road North proposed changes. CBD, Botanic Gardens and Port Phillip Bay, Precinct Plan planning scheme amendment pedestrian link, with a potential drop-off the area has been the subject of an influx C107, approved by the Minister for Planning “I have written tonnes of e-mails and parking area for servicing, deliveries and of planning applications with increased in 2015. comments about that plan and have received visitors, and will be corrected in the final building heights in recent years. absolutely no consideration from the masterplan.” Rather, the masterplan seeks to pedestrianise council,” she said. The area is also under considerable strain the precinct by providing wider footpaths, “The aim of the draft masterplan is to at present as a result of the construction of better walking connectivity, green space “Our building has suffered hugely from the respond to our city’s increasing density and the new Anzac Station as part of the state and greater infrastructure for commuter new tram stop and the tram tracks kerbing. facilitate a community where a selection government’s metro tunnel works. The cyclists. Key projects include managing We have been left without access to Kings of travel choices – such as walking, driving project has seen traffic in Wells and Park street parking, a new Park St link, an upgrade Way north and the south of Kings Way ... or bike riding – are available, safe and streets double during peak periods as a to Kings Way Reserve (between Bowen again I have written many complaints and accessible.” Is Southbank about to Blissful bridge again lose its secret rainforest? By David Schout Evan Walker Bridge is noisy Hidden behind glass walls no more, after the footbridge at 12 Riverside Quay – right connecting the CBD with opposite the Evan Walker Southbank was finally fixed by Bridge – is a genuine the City of Melbourne. rainforest, complete with bridge, forcing its closure for nearly a month The half a million-dollar upgrade included a mini waterfall feeding a while maintenance works were carried out. the installation of new support blocks burbling creek. and steel fasteners to quieten what was But once re-opened, a surge of complaints colloquially known as the “noisy bridge”. followed about the new fibre-reinforced The building was owned by ExxonMobil polymer decking, a composite material that Users had become accustomed to the until it sold to Macau casino king Loi Keong produced a clattering sound when walked “click-clacking” on the pedestrian passage – Kuong in 2017. Since then it has been on. named after the former Victorian planning empty. minister – which was caused by a flaw in the Popular bar Ponyfish Island, which operates Local resident and photographer Anders design. beneath the bridge, told Southbank Local McDonald said he was concerned the News at the time that the noise was directly The noise produced by the bridge’s decking secret rainforest would be destroyed by the affecting its business. The rainforest in the ESSO building at Riverside Quay. had become particularly loud at the new owner. northern end near Flinders Street Station. The council is also investing $250,000 to a waterfall. The whole forest – ferns, stream “Unverified sources have it that the new repaint the bridge early next year, alongside and tall trees will be destroyed.” “The geometry and popularity of the owner is about to renovate the whole upgrades to its blue LED lights. pedestrian bridge had caused the building before repurposing it, and the “As a photographer, I have been lucky planks to flex and make noise,” Lord Mayor The works on Evan Walker Bridge were just ground floor will be deforested as part of enough to shoot some exquisite images in Sally Capp said. one of three footbridges the council recently the upgrade,” he said. the forest and I would hate to see it go.” announced it would upgrade. “This upgrade will deliver a much quieter Mr McDonald said the forest was “We need as much green in Southbank as we walk for anyone who uses the Evan Walker Nearby Sandridge Bridge also received consisted of all of the plants that were in can get. I hope the council, or someone, will Bridge.” $165,000 worth of waterproofing upgrades, Melbourne before Europeans arrived, and step in to preserve Southbank’s green oasis while Cr Capp announced $390,000 to was therefore a kind of time capsule of for the whole community.” It is estimated that around 20,000 replace timber decking with fibre reinforced Melbourne flora. pedestrians use the bridge each day. A City of Melbourne spokesperson said there polymer decking on the Birrarung Marr “It’s the whole ground floor, it’s huge and were no current planning applications for In June 2015, the council invested $150,000 footbridge between Flinders Street Station there are fern trees that are 12 feet tall and the property. to refurbish and re-deck the former timber and .

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 89 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 13 Change afoot at the Guild By Rhonda Dredge Sully, whose self-portraits burst cheekily out Workmen were busy at of a vitrine for an upcoming exhibition. “There’s such an arts focus here it de- the Creative Spaces Guild institutionalises itself,” she said about the last month converting the precinct, which includes NIDA and the prominent co-working space Fringe Festival offices. at the front of the Arts Precinct Ms Sully is a student at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), across the road, where into some form of office for the the problems of getting around as an artist University of Melbourne. in an institution are dealt with early on in the curriculum.

Hot desks had been advertised at $80 a “Artists don’t want to fit into the world,” she week at Creative Spaces for more than two said. “They are taught to be critical instead. Ben Anderson. Cameron Taylor. years but have not been taken up by the arts You have to be inside a discipline to critique community. i t .” Workers at nearby offices said they had The self-portraits were made by squeezing never seen anyone in the glass-fronted her cheek onto a flatbed scanner, a office on Sturt St. technique pioneered at the VCA for recording parts of the human body. Melbourne Fringe The City of Melbourne, which administers the co-working space, has announced it is In one print she has made herself up with a negotiating with a new tenant. beard to challenge the binary of gender. Why haven’t the desks been taken up when Artists prefer messy places, said Anna in search of truth other co-working spaces have prospered? McDermott, a Masters student, who has taken advantage of the constraints of her Some see the space as too sterile and too vitrine to video herself walking around the September 21 to September 29. It’s a mix visible. Not every arts entrepreneur wants outside of it. This year the Melbourne between clowning and French Cabaret. it known they are paying $80 a week for the Fringe has turned to truth, 37 Southbank writer and performer Cameron chance to have a foot in the door into one of “Walking is a process. You’re doing Taylor sings, dances, clowns and improvises the city’s prime arts precincts. something. Something will come of it,” she years into its life. with the audience all while playing the role said. of a newborn duck. The terms and prices of the co-working space are embarrassingly plastered across Artists hate having to go through For its truth-themed year the Hub has “When you’re clowning, the show is the front window in large letters. gatekeepers to get their work out and about. relocated from North Melbourne to the completely about the audiences you get, They keep their ears to the ground about “People’s Palace” Trades Hall, while the rest and with a fringe festival you get an eclectic The arts community prefers a messier, more cheap studio space, often released in places of the festival branches out to 140 different crowd – there’s so many different things subtle approach. You only need to visit that are down at heel and need some life. venues, 2718 participating artists and 455 that can happen,” said Cameron. the popular Café Godot to pick up a bit of events. gossip and mingle with the up-and-coming. “It’s difficult to write applications,” Ms “The interaction between the character and McDermott said. “By the time you make the Two Southbank locals are on bill. the audience is more exciting.” Among those down at the Guild when Southbank Local News visited was Zara work it has changed.” Ben Anderson, an independent producer This will be Cameron’s third Fringe of the living in Southbank’s Arts Precinct, year, after Perth and Sydney. The show has has produced four shows in this year’s been in a process of development since Fringe – PISCA, WRATH, Just Us Girls and 2014. Somebody’s Somebody. “It started originally as a performance piece He said a fringe festival was a particular I created just after Robin Williams passed space in the arts. away,” Cameron said. “A Fringe Festival allows people to try “The original piece was based on what’s in more experimental work, but it also allows Behind Closed Doors – comedians having people to try new work that might still have anxiety – and the original character was a a really wide appeal,” he said. depressed clown and it was his job to go to “It can be a really good platform to work and be a duck.” showcase a new and upcoming artist Since then, PISCA has transformed itself like I think PISCA is, and then shows like and Cameron’s life. WRATH – which is kind of an absurd play “Every time I do the show it changes. Every Melbourne Uni is taking over the lease of the Guild – is by a writer who is very new but I think co-working space. will one day be writing for Malthouse and night there’s sections of improvisation and Melbourne Theatre Company.” with different audiences, different things work, so it’s constantly changing,” he said. Ben originally moved to Melbourne from Auckland to go to clown school. He said the It won him funding from Stonnington City shows he’s produced for the Fringe Festival Council to write a kid’s show, two Green all shared some commonality with that Room Award nominations, won him one background. of his first big paid roles, and a successful audition for Cirque Du Soleil. “PISCA is clowning based, Just Us Girls is a character comedy from that “I started at Victorian College of the Arts world, Somebody’s Somebody is a drag and my first year out was like a slap in the performance which obviously partly comes face, but since then I’ve started to figure out out of the world of masks, and WRATH where my place in the arts is and PISCA has is a very absurd high energy heightened done a lot of that for me.” realism,” he said. melbournefringe.com.au PISCA is showing at the Fringe Hub from Anna McDermott challenges art’s showcase mentality. Zara Sully and her Rock Your Body self-portrait.

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In chasing an update on the situation, a The wood-decked extension spokesperson for MCEC said: “The bridge is closed off as a number of the wooden boards of the Spencer Street Bridge have lifted, causing an uneven surface and Cyclists are forced on the footpath or on the road without a bike lane on Clarendon St. remains closed due to issues thus a tripping hazard.” relating to an engineering “Once the issue was identified we assessment, according to its commissioned an engineering assessment Clarendon St is of the entire bridge which has taken a owner. considerable amount of time and involved a number of stakeholders. We are working to Southbank Local News first reported the resolve this as quickly as practicable.” “dreadful” for cyclists closure of the bridge overlooking South “The bridge itself is structurally sound and Wharf in July 2017, which was at least six still safe for pedestrians to walk across on the By Alex Dalziel months after it was originally closed. concrete side of the glass wall.” “The City of Melbourne has totally dropped At the time, the walkway’s owner The western side of the bridge between Committee members of the ball on the connections in that area,” Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Crowne Plaza and MCEC currently has three Melbourne Bicycle User Group member Centre (MCEC) said that it was waiting separate walkways for pedestrians; one the Southbank Residents’ Nik Dow said. for an engineering report to be completed being the footpath which runs immediately Association (SRA) have raised and was ultimately unable to provide alongside the roadway, one concreted and “There is no way of getting even as far as the a timeframe for when the decking area the notorious wooden neighbour. concerns over the lack of clear river, and crossing the river there is either would be re-opened. direction for cyclists at the illegal or very dangerous. Cyclists either However, none of these spaces provide a have to choose the footpath or a four lane Last month, after reporting on issues dedicated area for cyclists and with bicycle Clarendon St, Normanby Rd road with cars.” relating to cycling on Clarendon St, user groups and many in the community intersection. Southbank Local News couldn’t help but requesting a safer solution for cycling over The Bicycle User Group is highly critical wonder how that timeframe could have the bridge, one can’t help but feel there is an of bicycle accessibility in the area, which blown out to nearly three years! obvious solution here … The bike lane that follows Normanby Mr Dow believed was unavailable due in Rd from the 109 tram route from part to the Melbourne Convention and Port Melbourne abruptly stops at the Exhibition Centre (MCEC) blocking any intersection. The result is that cyclists have proposals for bikes out the front of their to either co-mingle with pedestrian foot building on the Clarendon St interface. traffic or share the road with cars on the The group is instead advocating for a secure already narrow Clarendon St. bike lane down Whiteman St that would Local Haig St resident Jennifer Fletcher allow access up Queens Bridge and into the raised the issue at a Southbank SRA’s city. August committee meeting with Lord Mayor Sally Capp. She said that the area “Clarendon St is dreadful,” Mr Dow was notorious for reckless cyclists. said. “The prospect of getting the City of Melbourne to agree to implement a bike “The cyclists all come scooting down lane on Clarendon St is pretty remote.” around the Tea House [28 Clarendon St] and it’s a blind corner,” she said. Lord Mayor Sally Capp told residents at the August 7 SRA meeting that she would take Twice cyclists have knocked over Jennifer, the issue on notice. and she said that she now avoids walking in the area at peak times because of it. A City of Melbourne spokesperson said: “Clarendon St provides a strategic She said that she once saw a child get connection between the Main Yarra Trail at knocked over onto the road by a cyclist on the northern end, Cecil St and the well- that same corner. utilised 109 tram shared path.” “It is a blind corner both ways. A lot of “The City of Melbourne is currently people I know who live in our building are investigating how separated bike lanes always whining about it.” could be introduced to boost safety for Further up along Clarendon St bike access cyclists riding along Clarendon St between is almost entirely blocked off; a situation the Yarra River and Whiteman St. This that has drawn criticism from cycling involves ongoing discussions with the groups. Department of Transport.” The walkway along Spencer Street bridge remains roped off to the public.

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The Sedergreens. L-R: Steve, Mal and father of the two boys Bob. Paul Lewis. By Edward McLeish boys at the Primrose Potter Salon, a more plays with anyone else. the greatest works of all. This month, the Melbourne intimate MRC venue that inspires a formal “I’m just Bob and he’s Mal and he’s Steve “Completing his epic survey of the and classical approach. – we’re all different musicians with different great works of Haydn, Beethoven and Recital Centre (MRC) is Bob said punters could expect to see three ideas,” Bob said. Brahms, Paul Lewis once again displays his collaborating with Melbourne blokes who didn’t play together that often. “When I play with strangers and people extraordinary gifts in this grand program of “They hate being called my sons of course; who I work with, it’s like family for me masterpieces,” McGuire said. jazz royalty The Sedergreens, you don’t want to live in your old man’s anyway and it’s no different from playing The concert will take place on Tuesday, international classical pianist shadow,” Bob said with a laugh. with them.” September 24 at 7.30pm, but will be giving a “They’re men, fathers and musicians in Their compositional directions are broad, free pre-concert talk from 6.45pm. Paul Lewis, and Ludovico’s their own right.” including ground breaking “jozz” music, Classical themes continue in September, Band, who will be performing When it comes to style, their works range a blend of jazz with Celtic and Aboriginal with one of the most beautiful pieces of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. from traditional to the most contemporary; influences. music ever written, Monteverdi’s Vespers of and on an individual basis, each Sedergreen This concert is a unique event for MRC, 1610, to illuminate Southbank as a part of brings their own instruments to the table. where they will mainly play original the MRC’s Southbank Series. Jazz Hall of Fame inductee and father Bob “It’s just a matter of us getting together compositions, but also blend in “jozz” and Monteverdi’s seamlessly unaccompanied Sedergreen raised his sons Mal and Steve and presenting a different sort of program, funk, with Stevie Wonder elements to mix up choral church music combined with on a jazz diet, so it isn’t surprising they’ve because the Recital Centre brings a different old and new. the Baroque’s theatricality elements grown up to be prolific jazz composers and vibe to a hotel, restaurant or jazz club,” Bob Paul Lewis, the English pianist, will be demonstrates his mastery of both the old musicians themselves. said. returning to Melbourne as part of the MRC and the new. “I don’t get a chance to play with Steve “We’re going to display the empathy Great Performers series, and will play at Ludovico’s Band joins forces with and Mal very often because I’m playing with that we share having listened to jazz music Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Ensemble Gombert under the direction other bands,” Bob said. together over many years.” The MRC’s director of programming of John O’Donnell for this performance of Bob usually plays at The Horn in But, the feeling Bob gets when he takes the Marshall McGuire said he encouraged Monteverdi’s much-loved and sacred work. Collingwood, but is teaming up with his stand with his sons is no different to when he aspiring pianists to come and see Lewis play Mrc.com.au

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The Bauhaus movement in 50 years Germany has been one of By Alex Dalziel the world’s most influential, particularly in the way it taught Orchestra Victoria’s year-long students how to combine logic anniversary celebrations and intuition in their artwork. continue next month with a new show coming to Joan Hammond You can still visit the original school in Hall on Southbank Boulevard on Weimar and see the design experiments set by Master Kandinsky. October 5. Students were required to combine two formal elements with one informal. The 50th anniversary celebration music Kandinsky colour coded geometric shapes series, called Five at 5, features five different but these were just the starting points for chamber music events, which started in students’ own experiments. March earlier this year. Buxton Contemporary has staged The latest performance, Grand Septet, will an exhibition for the centennial of the debut on October 5. The show will feature movement’s inception in 1919 called Kreutzer’s Grand Septet in E flat Major, Bauhaus Now! that revisits this point in Op.62, Hindson’s Light Music for Wind history. Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Composition, 1960, National Gallery of Victoria, (c) Chris Bell. Quintet and Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for The exhibition, which includes String Octet. contemporary responses and historical architecture and design based on materials, is associated with change and moving Orchestra Victoria’s artistic director works, attempts to be both formal and functionality and repeatability. forward into the future, the digital age and Nicolette Fraillon said that the concert informal in line with the ideology. First The argument was that everyone should space travel come to mind. But in his famous would offer patrons the perfect end to a a phenomenon was analysed logically in benefit from the new way of thinking and essay on the subject Heidegger says that its Saturday afternoon, or entrée for an evening terms of its distinct qualities then it was clean, functional housing units were one of purpose was the opposite of that,” she said. post-show. synthesised widely with other phenomena. the most pervasive responses. Technology in the old days protected “We are delighted to invite everybody into “An exhibition inevitably simplifies a Stephen has chosen to ignore the humans from change by freeing the human Orchestra Victoria’s Southbank rehearsal complex story,” said director Ryan Johnston, dominant strand of the Bauhaus in this dependency on nature, place, accident and venue. Bearing the name of one of Australia’s but this is one of the pleasures of the Buxton exhibition and has returned to history. fate with things that harnessed sun, water foremost opera singers, it is a fitting space for experience. Curators are not afraid to take a Before Gropius’s collaboration with and so on. the orchestra, which often accompanied her, position. industry, the school had a more mystical Paul Klee’s original thistle painting is on to now use as rehearsal and performance One moving aspect of the story told, by bent with theatrical performances related to display at Buxton and is apparently the only space,” she said. Sydney curator Ann Stephen, is that of the the moon and the occult. Klee work in Australia. It was bought by the “It is a lovely and intimate space and, thistle. Master Itten, now known for his canonical NGV in 1953. Beside it is a watercolour and as the orchestra for all Victorians, we look The story goes that Walter Gropius, head of book on colour, was a sorcerer and the monotype by Ludwig Hirschfield Mack, forward to opening the doors and inviting the Bauhaus school, likened their principles large contemporary ceremonial figures of who was deported here in 1940 as an enemy everyone to experience the power and joy of to the thistle; a plant that is present Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams, with alien. the finest music making.” when everything else has died back. The their amusing lights, whistles and buckets, Mack did the rendition of a thistle seed Later this year on December 21 Orchestra marginalised thistle resists when seasons connect to the spiritual world. in Australia in 1960 almost 30 years after Victoria will deliver its final performance of pass. Was the more informal, intuitive aspect Klee painted his thistle, a fusion between a the series, Corelli’s Christmas. Students were encouraged to feel the prick of art suppressed by the architectural fairytale and the plant’s life cycle, providing The Christmas concerto will feature of a thistle on their skin before imagining its model that eventually led to the concrete a moving tribute to the school which was Corellli’s Concerto gross in G minor Op.6 dispersal. The thistle was a metaphor for how uniformity we now know today? Is it too late eventually closed down by the Nazis in 1933. No.8, Kats-Chernin’s Redgum Suite for the ideas of the Bauhaus would travel and to go back? “It appears to be a response,” writes Trumpet, Trombone and Double Bass and what a successful concept it turned out to be. Included in the exhibition is a moving Stephen. “As the seeds of the outsider are Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition Gropius’s collaboration with industry, essay by Pam Hanford about the original scattered.” arranged for Wind Quintet. beginning with the construction of modular meaning of technology. Bauhaus Now! Is on at Buxton Tickets are available online via eventbrite. houses near the school, led to a revolution in “In the popular imagination technology Contemporary until 20 October. com.au by searching “Five at 5.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News Initially Mandarine was supposed to be on a judge’s panel but had to live stream the event in the hospital room, sitting on her mum’s hospital bed. “When the image came up and I scored gold straight up I started crying. It felt like I was in a dream,” she said. “On the Awards presentation night, I was unaware that my image had scored the highest as there were a few other gold distinctions too. One of my friends saw the look on my face when I won and said it was absolute disbelief, I couldn’t get out of the chair for a minute.” In total, PSC students won 18 awards between them, with students Susan Brunialti and Kim Nguyen scoring gold.

Mandarine Montgomery - surrealist landscape print Waiting for the Rain.

Hosted by the Australian Institute for Australian portrait photographer of the year Professional Photography (AIPP), the Ilford in 2013. Trophy is awarded to the highest-scoring Her winning print Waiting for the Rain is a

MANDARINE MONTGOMERY MANDARINE print of the event and was taken out by monochrome surrealist landscape piece that Mandarine Montgomery with her surrealist depicts a desolate landscape in the middle landscape print Waiting for the Rain. of a drought. Like a lot of her photography, Mandarine is PSC’s communications and the image is a photomontage composed of future students coordinator, and like most multiple different elements in the vein of who work at PSC, has a storied background American photographer Jerry Uelsmann. in photography. The idea and pictures for the print came Kim Nguyen - Gold Award winning image Goldfish. She said that her creativity was a product from a trip to Kangaroo Island. of her mother, who was a fashion illustrator “When I went to Kangaroo Island the in Melbourne. Photography became her landscape was very parched and dry, it passion when she was given an Olympus looked like a moonscape in parts. So, I took OM10 camera at the age of 15. a lot of landscape photographs as well as “I used to lock myself in the darkroom different elements that I knew that I might PSC wins in year 12 while everybody would be out at use later on,” she said. lunch, just doing prints,” Mandarine said. “I always like to do something a bit surreal, By Alex Dalziel Mandarine won her first photography so I wanted to create something that was a competition when she was 20 and was visually thought-provoking expression of presented with the $600 prize by then drought.” Photography Studies College Victorian Premier Joan Kirner. She boldly The AIPP awards use a scoring system Susan Brunialti - Gold Award winning image Solitude. (PSC) staff and students cleaned asked the Premier if she could do a portrait out of 100, with a panel of judges assigning of her, which she agreed to. Mandarine said scores to photos without knowing the Fourth-year advanced diploma up at the 2019 AIPP Australian that the experience gave her confidence in photographer. Photos given a score over 80 student Susan Brunialti scored 91 for her Professional Photography her photographic ability. are given awards, with photos scoring over print Solitude, inspired by Australian painter “It showed me that I could earn money 90 receiving a gold award, and photos over Jeffery Smart. She said that winning the Awards (APPA) last month, from photography and that I could access 95 receiving a gold award with distinction. award helped consolidate her learning and winning 19 awards including the people and opportunities that I wouldn’t Waiting for the Rain received a score of 97. gave her confidence to spring from. normally be able to,” she said. During the category judging, which “It felt quite exciting. I was squealing, coveted Ilford Trophy for highest Since then, Mandarine has won over 50 happened from August 9 - 12, Mandarine never in my wildest dreams did I think that scoring print. awards at various AIPP events, as well as was in the hospital with her mother who was I would win gold at an AIPP event,” Ms several international competitions and the ill at the time. Brunialti said.

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To say a show is about class today could mean almost anything.

Often it means the contemporary non- existence of class, in various ways. That class lines are increasingly blurred, or that society now consists of different classes to what it previously did, are common directives. It’s this that could make Zoey Dawson’s play Australian Realness the unpopular New face cynic of the theatre world, a lone voice preaching that the world is still irreconcilably divided – if the audience at ACCA sees beyond the entertaining genre blend and façade of irony. The play, which ran last month at The new executive director the Malthouse Theatre, is based on the experience of one middle-class family over of the Australian Centre for Christmas, as adult children visit home and discover their parents are short on Contemporary Art (ACCA) Emily Goddard and Greg Stone Photo - Pia Johnson. money. was named as Claire It’s the volatile experience of the middle Richardson last month, four layer – drawn down into economic crisis without losing their class status. months after the position was Melbourne icons are part of the early made vacant. settings and references, the ones that make us feel like the city is a community with a shared history – Piedemontes, Edinburgh Claire is currently managing the visual Gardens, Helen Garner. arts program at the City of Stonnington But the feeling is set up to be shattered, and will start in her new role in October. as it becomes apparent the city is not Claire’s resume includes exhibitions in fact unaffected by class divides but is manager at TarraWarra Museum of Art literally torn apart by them. and senior exhibition coordinator at the Its working-class characters are blue National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). collar brickies and wharfies. They talk ACCA chair John Denton said: “Claire about the union and are locked out of work has great passion and an excellent sites. knowledge of the Australian visual arts They blame Keating for a lack of sector, with extensive experience in the industrial power, set out to restore it Emily Goddard Chanella Macri Photo: Pia Johnson. administrative, financial, exhibition and end up undertaking an insurrection management and team-leadership aspects that – for one middle-class character in representation of the modern working class. are added and the daughter’s middle-class of arts management.” particular – is a descent into madness. It’s through the daughter’s perspective life is literally dismantled. It ends with a “Her passion for the visual arts and her The working class are portrayed in that the audience watch the insurrection, display of wilful ignorance – given truth, the excellent track-record are sought-after a variety of overdone stereotypes, but and the insurrection is her worst nightmare middle class would rather play “pretend”. attributes, and we very much look forward this is part of the realness. The subject – her family melt into the bogan characters, She finds it impossible to accept that to welcoming her to ACCA when she takes is the middle class, and the workers are her girlfriend leaves her, her baby is stolen. her layer is not the driving force of the play up the role in October,” he said. portrayed through their eyes. The daughter cares about the (or history) and to keep pace with a world Claire will replace Linda Mickleborough And particularly through the eyes of the disadvantaged only when they’re helpless quickly overtaking her. who concluded her role at ACCA in daughter, a photographer and bleeding- victims, and particularly if they pose well for It’s this insight that’s needed to appreciate April to take up consultancy work and heart liberal, who is set up initially as the her photographs. the work, but it may be obscured by thick undertake a period of extensive travel. most politically correct character. When they take control of their lives and perspective. Without an understanding of Look out for the October edition of She’s pregnant via sperm donor with then society, she’ll do anything to go back to liberal hypocrisy and capital C class, an Southbank Local News for a feature on her “wog” wharfie girlfriend – the only the status quo. audience might just see a lot of stereotypes ACCA’s new executive director. real character in the play and the realistic The play’s complexity escalates as layers and abrupt transitions. Testing Grounds to close for upgrades By Ed McLeish studios, which 15 new artists will move into over a six-month period, according to Testing Grounds curator Arie Rain-Glorie. “Exhibition visitors can expect to see Having got the most out of its freshly painted walls and new interior décor,” cubic arts spaces for a variety Mr Glorie said. of creative uses since its last The artist application process started in August and will be welcoming both local and renovation in 2015, Southbank’s international artist displays. Testing Grounds is temporarily Mr Glorie said Testing Grounds’ community outdoor grounds would shutting for three weeks for an remain a place of interdisciplinary practice, internal renovation. experimentation and courage. “Testing Grounds is a place where people at all levels can test, develop and share When the public space re-opens on their work; we encourage both creative and October 1, it will comprise new shared artist education-related activities,” Mr Glorie said.

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Ongoing - Until Oct 13 - National Gallery of Victoria Sep 14 - Nov 17 - ACCA Sundays - Arts Centre Melbourne The Australian Music Vault features a free, In a dual presentation of Chinese art and Harroon Mirza’s first solo exhibition in Australia, Over 90 minutes, specially-trained guides reveal immersive exhibition showcasing Australian culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter in collaboration with a crew of other artists. His the secrets of Arts Centre Melbourne’s theatres. music, innovative digital participatory experiences Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of diverse artworks are linked through the medium You will gain unique access to backstage rooms, and iconic objects from our Australian Performing Victoria presents China’s ancient terracotta and manipulation of electricity, and share an hidden passageways and technical contraptions Arts Collection. warriors alongside an exhibition of new works by interest in modes of perception that go beyond the unknown to anyone but our production crews and one of the world’s most exciting contemporary australianmusicvault.com.au ocular-centrism inherent to the visual arts. performers. artists, Cai Guo-Qiang. acca.melbourne.com.au artscentremelbourne.com.au ngv.vic.gov.au

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month, the SRA received positive feedback Arts Centre Melbourne divided from many locals. opinion last month after “I live and work in Southbank, I think they installing yellow barriers on are necessary,” one person wrote. the ramp from St Kilda Rd “Fantastic idea. We have avoided walking this way due to frequent near-misses,” La Camera to Southgate Ave alongside another wrote. Hamer Hall. Southbank Local News history columnist turns 20! Robin Grow also weighed in: “Have often The ramp, which is designed for mobility encountered cyclists along here who totally access and not cycling, has long been a ignore dismount signs. Well done.” La Camera is celebrating 20 dangerous hotspot for pedestrians as a result However, not everyone welcomed the news. years as a Southgate, and of cyclists who consistently ignore/miss the Melbourne, institution with a signs ordering them to dismount. “How about a real solution, this is just short Following many complaints and collisions sighted and impacts the mobility impaired month-long OctoberFESTA! over the years, Arts Centre Melbourne and others,” one person wrote. La Camera started off as a humble little (Hamer Hall) finally took the matter into its “Balancing the needs of pedestrians only. cafe in Chapel St, South Yarra. own hands last month by installing yellow Complete over reaction,” another wrote. cycling barriers, which force cyclists to either Since it has grown into a Melbourne icon While the area in question is privately slow down or avoid the area completely. and local Southbank institution with an The new barriers at Hamer Hall. owned, the issue raises a broader discussion aim to give diners an experience worth While the decision was lauded widely by about cycling in that section of Southbank, local residents, the width between the sharing. They said that for anything larger, there was which the City of Melbourne is currently barriers was met with some concern, with La Camera’s OctoberFESTA promises to 24-hour lift access next to Princes Bridge focusing on in its upgrade to Southbank some arguing that the space wasn’t sufficient showcase the very best in Italian cuisine from the Hamer Hall podium down to Promenade. for people with larger prams and mobility and hospitality, with the festivities Southbank Promenade. scooters. The current cycling lane which runs outside beginning September 30. Events include: “We want everyone to be able to access the the Arts Centre and Hamer Hall continues “How does one with a large mobility scooter ■■ Jazz and Shiraz: September 30; surrounds and our buildings so the barriers along Princes Bridge into the city, however or a double pram navigate this? Seems like were put in place earlier this month after offers no direct connection from St Kilda Rd ■■ Old School La Camera: October 9; a massive overreaction,” one local wrote on signs and line marking encouraging cyclists to Southbank Promenade. a post shared by the Southbank Residents’ ■■ Aperitivo Sunday: Sunday, October 13, to dismount were not being followed,” the Association (SRA) last month. It is worth noting that the new Southbank 20 and 27; spokesperson said. Boulevard will offer a new dedicated cycling However, a spokesperson for Arts Centre ■■ Monday Mania: October 14, 21; and “As the ramp is steep and it’s a shared zone route from St Kilda Rd to Queensbridge Melbourne said in a statement that the for walkers, runners, prams and cyclists alike Square once completed. In the meantime, ■■ Caffeeoholic Brekky Month. width between the poles was the standard we needed it to be available for all to use cyclists must get used to dismounting! door width, which provided access for all lacamerasouthgate.com/event/ safely.” pedestrians whether they had a pram, a What do you think? Send your thoughts to octoberfesta or its Facebook page @ wheelchair, or a mobility scooter. In sharing the news on its Facebook page last [email protected] lacameramelbourne Moray office proposal

A striking $14.5 million project may soon appear in South Melbourne in place of a two-storey office building as Lord Mayor Sally Capp (fourth from left) meets with the SRA committee at Prima Tower last month. part of regenerating the area next to Southbank.

A planning application for 144 Moray St Sally meets SRA sought to demolish the current building and replace it with a 10-storey commercial A render of 144 Moray St. the AGM, she made good on her promise office building designed with an “angular Sally Capp continued to to SRA president Tony Penna to attend the building form which increases in height Montague Precinct of Fishermans Bend to new committee’s first meeting, which was away from Moray St”. the tune of $5.25 million. cement her reputation as a held at Prima Tower. “Lord Mayor of the people” The area is part of the Eastern Business The property at 156-162 Thistlethwaite St is Following a quick presentation by the Lord Precinct of the South Melbourne Central currently occupied by office and warehouse on August 7 after attending Mayor to the committee on her current Activity Centre – where the City of Port buildings. agenda and a briefing of local council Phillip has outlined a regeneration strategy. the Southbank Residents’ activities in Southbank, she then heard The previous plans to build two rows of Association’s (SRA) first directly from the SRA committee on issues The building was designed by townhouses were submitted and approved affecting the community to take back to Rothelowman Architects and had a focus prior to the adoption of new planning committee meeting of its new council. on sustainable internal spaces. It would controls for the Fishermans Bend Urban term. include a two-level basement carpark, 5221 Renewal Area. The meeting also saw the 2019/20 office sqm of office space and a ground floor day A new owner purchased the site following bearers positions finalised, with Tony care centre. Having held its annual general meeting Penna returning as president for a seventh the approval and submitted the new (AGM) on July 25 at the Malthouse Theatre, consecutive year. Marcus de Rijk was Another 10-storey office development was planning application in August as a result of the SRA received a record 12 nominations elected vice-president, while Richard Drew recently approved nearby in Montague. a review. for its new committee, in a sign of strength and Laszlo Kucharski became secretary Another South Melbourne planning Changes included a number of design in the Southbank community. and treasurer, respectively. application sought to increase a $3.9 changes and a reduction from 12 to 11 total While the Lord Mayor was unable to attend million accommodation plan for the townhouses.

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With cars, progressively over time, Since forming 18 months ago, transitioning to electric or hydrogen fuel cell technologies, autonomous driving and the Fishermans Bend Business shared use vehicles, General Motors and Forum (FBBF) has provided Toyota are both currently increasing their a voice to some 400 forward- design and engineering teams in Fishermans Bend. thinking businesses already Also located in Fishermans Bend is operating in the urban renewal ARRB national strategic leader Samantha Taylor (right) the Nation Transport Research Centre provides FBBF representatives with a tour of the research operated by the Australian Road Research precinct. centre. Board (ARRB) and iMove, which is the Cooperative Research Centre for Transport While it has maintained a strong focus on the and intelligent transport systems (ITS). policy and planning issues associated with ITS Australia delivers safer, more efficient the state government’s vision for Fishermans and environmentally sustainable transport Bend, addressed through the Fishermans solutions and is part of a global network. Bend Taskforce, it has also been determined to make a positive contribution for future Other commercial businesses include, business growth. Sensys Gatso Australia – a Swedish based company that is the leading provider of With the state government ambitiously traffic safety solutions delivering systems, forecasting 80,000 jobs in the future FBBF president Richard Blackman with David Weston, Toyota representative demonstrating the hydrogen Cr Bernadine Voss, ARRB CEO Michael Caltrabiano and software and services primarily for Employment Precinct by 2050, the FBBF has fuel-cell electric vehicle now in production in Japan and Stephane Fayd’herbe the former Chair of FBBF at the automatic traffic enforcement globally such been has been actively engaging with current undergoing trials in Fishermans Bend National Transport Research Centre. as red-light cameras and speed monitoring businesses having developed a new database systems. with support from the taskforce. “We are all aware of the power of the diffusion centres, providing companies with industries that have clustered around well- valuable background expertise and skilled While development across the other four The heavy construction materials industry known areas such as Silicon Valley, but workers. They can also act as a source of precincts – Montague, Sandridge, Wirraway is vital to our building and construction clustering of industries goes right back to the entrepreneurial activity. and Lorimer – has been relatively stagnant, industries and underpins the development craft guilds of the early industrial revolution,” of Australia’s physical infrastructure. It FBBF president Richard Blackman told Richard Blackman said the decision of the Mr Weston said. generates approximately $15 billion in Southbank Local News that the forum had University of Melbourne to locate its school annual revenue and employs approximately been keen to help keep things moving for According to David, the original concept of engineering at the former General Motors 30,000 Australians directly, and a further industry. of a “business cluster” was described Holden (GMH) site would provide a catalyst by American academic Michael Porter 80,000 indirectly. “We are aware that the Taskforce was for innovation. as “a geographically proximate group of engaging with some of the larger employers The Melbourne Cement Facilities at Wharf interconnected companies and associated “We are encouraged that the government is in the Employment Precinct such as General 26 and 27 on Lorimer St each day welcomes institutions in a particular field”. looking to locate at least one other technical Motors, Boral, Boeing and the Defence ships to discharge their loads of raw cement. university in the area,” said Mr Blackman. Science and Technology but many of the “As we move into the what researchers call New silos for holding and transhipping this “The development of a master plan for the small to medium enterprises were not the fourth industrial revolution, the concept are currently under construction in order to whole GMH site is the next important step.” becoming involved, and there was a sense of clusters of innovation that generate new fulfil the current and future infrastructure projects undertaken by local and federal of uncertainty about the plans for the future employment has evolved. Silicon Valley Other factors that support Fishermans governments to cater for the rapidly growing and how that might affect local businesses,” is one example, but other local examples Bend’s future as a national employment population of Victoria. Mr Blackman said. include the bio-medical hub around and innovation cluster (NEIC) are; support Parkville,” Mr Weston said. “In building our database we became aware from government and public institutions, Fishermans Bend is also home to over 30 of a number of clusters of similar businesses A published paper in the California the presence of multinational companies companies involved in film and digital that had located in Fishermans Bend for Management Review defined clustering and collaboration of players with a common postproduction, studio hire, camera historic reasons,” he said. as “global economic hot spots where new interest. equipment hire, outside broadcast technologies germinate at an astounding equipment and set design. The advent One of the drivers behind the cluster analysis Having developed a deep understanding rate and where pools of capital, expertise, of digital effects offers an opportunity to is David Weston – the group’s executive of the businesses that are located in and talent foster the development of new expand including the further expansion of officer. In a former life, Mr Weston has Fishermans Bend through its database, the industries and new ways of doing business.” the digital games industry. worked in various roles across business, FBBF has proposed three industry sectors government and tourism and was appointed Educational and research institutions, as existing dynamic clusters: mobility and FBBF is assisting government to identify the a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in in particular universities, can foster automotive, heavy construction materials opportunities through the creation of the January 2019. innovation as knowledge creation and and digital creative technology. “Creative Tech Hub” concept. Doggy donation By Jack Hayes Southgate has continued its philanthropic ways by donating $2000 to The Lost Dogs Home. The announcement was made to They were the words that no coincide with International Dog Day on Southbanker, or wider lover August 26. of dogs, wanted to hear: the And Southgate Melbourne marketing manager Elise Hill shared some exciting annual Dachshund Race news for the future of the race last month. would not run in 2019. “While the event has now come to an end, we hope to continue Hophaus’ excellent German Bier Hall Hophaus and Southgate work by supporting groups such as The Lost have had a wonderful tradition of bringing Dogs Home,” she said. “We are planning a the Dachshund race to life since 2015, and in brand new event for the dogs of Melbourne that time raised over $13,000 for Dachshund to enjoy in 2020.” Rescue Australia. Since its inception, the “Tecklerennen” has Although there will be no race in 2019, attracted runners from all corners of the country and gained global notoriety. Ted Mitchell (Bastion Effect) and Hayley Fowler (ARA) present a donation to their furry friends.

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St Johns Southgate Health & Wellbeing An inspiring How to connect with your grown-up child legacy Connecting with grown-up children can be difficult.

At dawn on April 9, 1945, after one-and-a-half years of As children grow up, they can become ■■ Guilt-tripping your adult child about the disconnected from parents due to distance, amount of time they see you; and imprisonment, Dietrich Bonhoeffer – the German pastor and anti- changes in lifestyles and schedules. Or ■■ Passive-aggressive Nazi dissident – was hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp. simply they grow into adulthood, and the communication: Including silent nature of the relationship changes. treatment, withholding, saying one Although cell phones and texting have thing when you mean another, being Bonhoeffer has an enduring and set the light-level in each moment’s room. made sharing information inexpensive, combative, etc. inspiring legacy, but depending on who Bonhoeffer himself wrote poetry that would easy and more immediate, these methods you ask, you might get a different answer be turned into hymns – some of which of communication can sometimes be the Developing a healthier parent- child as to what exactly that legacy is. One thing are still sung today, and would have been only ones used between the busy child and relationship is for certain though; Bonhoeffer was committed to the memories of many. The parent, sometimes leaving one or both sides There are plenty of things you can do to intellectually and spiritually curious. In the final stanza of one of his hymns, has the longing for more connection. Regardless of nurture the relationship you have with your letters he sent from prison, we can certainly singer proclaim the following: the mode of communication between you adult child, here are just a few: see that curiosity, but also revealed in them “By powers of good so wondrously and your adult child/children, it is important ■■ Listen if you sense that your child needs was his beautifully ordinary humanity. protected, we wait with confidence, befall to understand that as your child grows and to talk to you, make time for them; One of the things Bonhoeffer took to what may. God is with us at night and in the develops, so too will your relationship. ■■ Respect an adult child as their own doing while in prison, he writes, was to morning and oh, most certainly on each person; memorise the hymns of Paul Gerhardt. new day.” Understand your needs as a parent ■■ Understand that your adult child is not Why, you might wonder? Well, why not!? Yes, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged The needs of a parent and those of an responsible for meeting your emotional After all, committing words to memory at dawn on April 9, 1945, just two weeks adult child are different. Which of the below needs; can do something profound to us. In my before Flossenbürg concentration camp best fit you? ■■ Accept spouses and partners. Unless experience, learning something by heart was liberated. I have no idea what would 1. You want to maintain a connection with you fear that your child is in an abusive almost changes one’s DNA, or at least adds have comprised his thoughts that morning. your child: you want to be a part of their relationship, keep your concerns to some chromosomal definition or shading. But I hope that the wallpaper of Dietrich’s lives. yourself; When I was a young man, I saw a certain mind had some of his favourite Paul 2. You want to spend time with their ■■ Use healthy communication. Speak film – the title of which I’ll keep to myself. Gerhardt lyrics scrawled on it. Perhaps child: You just want to see them. clearly and directly, without being Over and over again I watched it. It had these words, in his task of memorisation, 3. You want to feel reassured that their child passive-aggressive, sarcastic, or saying such a profound impact on me (and still had marked the contours of his morning’s is doing well, and is happy. one thing when you mean another; does), that I truly don’t know if the film mind: 4. Your sense of who you are, your identity, ■■ Praise your child. Even as adults, your means so much because it captured “Awake, my heart, with gladness, see your sense of self and your purpose is children crave your approval. who I was, or because it made me who I what today is done; Now, after gloom and tied to you child and so when those same ■■ Set reasonable expectations. Avoid would become. Every image, every note, sadness, comes forth the glorious sun; My children become distant and detached, it comparing. is plastered like wallpaper on my mind’s saviour there was laid, where our bed must can feel like losing your sense of self. ■■ Watch your words. If an adult child room, providing a sort of gift-wrapping to be made; When to the realms of light, our asks for advice or opens up a topic my thoughts, and I wouldn’t have it any spirit wings its flight.” Know what “unhealthy” parent- for discussion, it’s okay to share your other way. May we all be fortunate enough to have child dynamics are opinion, but be tactful; and I’d like to imagine that during his things of deep beauty written on our hearts Some relationship dynamics can lead to a ■■ Set aside adult-only time. If your adult incarceration, the glorious hymns of when the time comes, so that we don’t need strained relationship, poor communication, child has children, try and enjoy some Paul Gerhardt might have helped to to think them, or say them – so that just by a mismatching of needs and potential adults-only time, without the grandkids frame Bonhoeffer’s darker days with being who we are, a light might shine. dissatisfaction. Here are just a few: around. some creeping light – even when, in his ■■ Projecting your own values, wishes, or own words, he sometimes felt “restless, dreams onto your adult child; yearning, sick, like a caged bird … too tired ■ Tom Hoffmann ■ Not respecting them as their own people and empty to pray, to think, to work, weary who make their own decisions and lead and ready to take my leave of it all.” Tom Hoffmann is the pastor at their own lives, separate from you and We are complex and inevitably St Johns Southgate Church. yours; Rajna Bogdanovic contradictory beings, but having some www.stjohnssouthgate.com.au ■■ Emotional needs, and incorrectly Clinical psychologist memorised touchstone truths that you thinking adult children are responsible can consciously, subconsciously, or even for meeting them (they’re not, and vice [email protected] unconsciously draw upon, can help you to versa);

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Owners’ Corporation Law Metro Tunnel Refund stamp duty to those affected by flammable cladding allocated $150 million in total for affected Barely a fortnight passes in buildings (as the federal government has declined to put in $300 million, and Melbourne these days without $150 million is already allocated to fixing word that another residential public buildings affected by the flammable cladding). It is speculated that only the building with dangerous worst-affected buildings will be rectified by cladding is evacuated by the the state government, and with some reports Anzac construction update that the true cost of remedying the cladding Victorian Building Authority issues on the 1000 affected buildings construction works get underway. (VBA). If we aren’t already at expected to cost at least $1 billion in Victoria, To enable the next stage of The shed, coloured eucalypt green, is designed to blend into the nearby Shrine a crisis point already, we are then it is clear that not all owners will be construction to build the compensated by the cladding fund. of Remembrance grounds and, once definitely approaching one. The stamp duty issue is an interesting one. new Anzac Station, buses constructed, will minimise noise, light Consider this: stamp duty was introduced will replace trams on St and dust impacts on the surrounding as a means of defraying the government’s community during 24-hour tunnelling Of course, people are right to ask, how did administrative costs of transferring a Kilda Rd between the operations. it get to this stage? How could the relevant Certificate of Title from one party to another, Inside the shed, inbuilt gantry cranes authorities turn such a blind eye to these and to ensure that the property records will be used to assemble two tunnel boring compliance issues for so many years? were properly held. In the modern era of and Commercial Rd from machines (TBMs) once excavation of the As a lawyer acting for owners’ corporations course, this doesn’t actually hold true, as station box is complete. (OCs), my response is, unfortunately, October 13 to 27. there is no possible way that it costs the state As tunnelling begins, the cranes will also that I’ve known for years. The best part of government $30,000 - $50,000 to transfer move concrete tunnel lining segments a decade I’d say. I’ve acted for dozens of a Certificate of Title. In fact, you pay extra Crews will work around the clock as from the surface onto the machines buildings with these types of issues. Sure, for that anyway in the administrative fees they realign the road and tram lines so that underground. they haven’t been as bad as the ones that are charged by Land Victoria and the relevant excavation of the middle section of the The TBMs launching from the Anzac now getting evacuated. Those buildings were mortgagors. Anzac Station box can commence. Station site are named Alice and Millie, 10/10 in terms of the threat to life safety. The And of course, in NSW the state During this time, replacement buses will after wartime medical hero Alice Appleford ones I’ve been dealing with are further down government sold off its Land Titles Office run to the tram timetable, with a frequency and Victoria’s first female MP Millie the spectrum, perhaps a 6/10. two years ago to private interests, so stamp of one to two minutes during peak periods. Peacock and will feature a yellow and green But of course, confidential settlements and duty really shouldn’t be charged at all St Kilda Rd will continue to remain open cutter head. deeds prevented my clients and I from going anymore in NSW. to motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and When completed, the new Anzac public. And so, the band played on. Nothing So, my argument is simple. The state public transport users, with the relocation Station – located under St Kilda Rd near changed. Builders and developers continued government ought to clearly and succinctly of the road and tram lines designed to the Domain Albert roads intersection – will to build sub-standard buildings. The state articulate why it should keep affected ensure people move safely around the improve access to the Domain Precinct and government continued to keep “red tape” owners’ stamp duty payment when it has worksite during station construction. be an important interchange between train and “bureaucracy” away from the process, actively removed most of the consumer Visitors to the area will soon notice a and tram services on St Kilda Rd. all in order to boost the state’s coffers with protections that were in place in developing new acoustic shed, 75 metres long and For more information please visit swollen stamp duty proceeds. and constructing a residential building? 20 metres high, taking shape as shed metrotunnel.vic.gov.au However, by keeping away “red tape” and It should answer the question as to why it “bureaucracy” (which are interchangeable failed to properly administer and enforce terms for “compliance” and “adherence to building regulations and standards, and relevant standards” and the Building Code failed for over a decade to properly fund and of Australia (BCA)) the state government resource the VBA to act as its watchdog? created this vacuum, and is now squarely I won’t hold my breath for an answer. responsible for creating and perpetuating this mess. The announcement of a cladding fund Tom Bacon of $600 million for affected buildings is Tom Bacon is the principal a welcome first step towards rectifying lawyer of Strata Title Lawyers. the issue. Of course, others have already [email protected] reported that this fund is actually only

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Southbank Sustainability Group Highs and lows, yet always in action

vegies planting day in late September/early It’s impressive how many highs October. Watch our Facebook page for the and lows a month can pack. exact date. How to harvest From the heartbreaking Amazon fires and ■■ Leafy greens (spinach, rainbow chard, avoidable deforestation about to happen in etc.) cut leaf low at the base of its stem, Victoria, to our little group getting to the next only cutting large external leaves. stage of the prestigious Melbourne Awards! ■■ Turnips: take them whole and don’t forget In doing so, we hope to be recognised for to eat the leaves which are packed with our efforts to bring practical education and antioxidants. environmental solutions to Southbank, while ■■ Rocket and broad bean leaves: cut a few also seeing many members wanting to act with industries, working hard to reduce our Onto some good news! leaves sparsely from various parts of the and get more involved. country’s carbon emissions and polluting Our group is proceeding to the next stage plant. One of the things I love most about this practices to do something about it. of the 2019 Melbourne Awards! These awards ■■ Anything else you want to harvest, just group is how members are always ready to We hope to see more of you join the are City of Melbourne’s highest accolade for email us for instructions. spring into action and focus on solutions strike, and even get your company to pledge contributions made by Melburnians to our Upcoming meet-ups are on Saturday rather than staying stuck on the problem; support for workers that want to participate city by helping to make it a world leader. It September 14 and 28, 10am at Boyd. Come one that feels too-big-to-handle at times, at notbusinessasusual.com.au. After all, humbled us to find out that we were in the join us and do some gardening, harvesting, leading to denial and inertia. It’s well if the “big four” banks and giant Atlassian running for the environment category award. and more. established by now that in order to not reach can make that commitment, surely other It provides us an opportunity to share the the point of no return, every one of us needs companies can too. knowledge of a garden functioning as a place About the group to take action and reduce our footprint, Another way to lend support is by helping to “gather-round-the-fire”, creating a vibrant A solutions-focused community while applying pressure to government the Djab Wurrung embassy (dwembassy. community where environmental solutions group of Southbank residents working bodies and companies to do better. com) protect 3000 old-growth trees (some are shared, behaviours are changed, to bring positive change in sustainability We as a group have decided to participate 800 plus years old and of great cultural where we motivate each other on this practices and education to our in the Global Climate Strike, on September significance), from getting unnecessarily cut challenging journey, and create educational neighborhood, while building a wonderful 20, 2pm-4pm outside . down. Apparently, experts identified another opportunities for the wider community. community of like-minded people. While acting on an individual and solution to expand the Western Highway, Not to mention all the local organic vegies Reach us at southbanksustainability@ community level is important, it’s just as which will cost far fewer (younger) trees’ produced, reducing our food’s footprint and gmail.com or facebook.com/ important to work in solidarity and show lives and thus, releasing less CO2, cost less absorbing, instead of emitting, CO2. SouthbankSustainabilityGroup in great numbers that we are demanding money, and still address driver needs. September will continue to be a month immediate action to mitigate this crisis We’ll keep posting a range of actions and of gardening, harvesting, and neighbours Artemis Pattichi before it’s too late. activities on our Facebook page to help meeting. As you’ve probably seen, there’s The City of Melbourne has already taken counterbalance the massive amounts of CO2 plenty now ready for harvesting. Look for Southbank Sustainability Group a significant step, declaring a state of released from the Amazon fires; fires that the green rocks that will show you what’s southbanksustainability@gmail. “climate and biodiversity crisis”. We now scientists predict will continue for months. harvest-ready and always pick enough for com need state and federal governments, along one meal at a time. We’ll also have a spring

Montague Community Alliance Are you getting to know us? longer. These days the Fishermans Bend particular putting in traffic lights and a location of transport connections for We hope so. Taskforce falls under the auspices of Gavin pedestrian crossing. This is vital for access elderly. If we remove all car parking and Jennings MP, Special Minister for State and to the South Melbourne Primary School, movement of vehicles how will those Minister for Precincts and Regions. The from other parts of Montague. who do not, or cannot ride a bike, or walk Over the last few years we have been Taskforce itself seems to be going through a ■■ Parking issues and potential need for long distances get around? It appears that introducing you, dear readers, to members transition and we hope that the intelligence precinct scale parking – recognising developers are creating larger apartments of our community – Montaguans. and data we have provided over the last few that we have working parents that come with more amenity aimed at downsizers We hope that in meeting our local years will not be lost or discarded in this next in from the outer suburbs, drop their with money, often this cohort is older community, both residents and business iteration. children of at schools or kindergartens and not as mobile, and as we are an aging owners, we have demonstrated that we are We had set up a “working group” of and continue to drive to work. Where do population this must be addressed in a vibrant 24/7 precinct of South Melbourne. residents and businesses from Montague, they park? Montague. We hope that we offer a welcome to that met with the Taskforce in June and we ■■ Keep the fine grain and history of the area ■■ Create a Montague bridge/street festival newcomers and we hope for reciprocal were hoping to meet again in October. Let’s as it develops, particularly the bluestone, – Let’s celebrate the legacy and vibrancy respect from our new neighbours and hope (one more time) that the new team the industrial heritage, the residential and of our community and show the greater friends. will continue our work together rather than business history. Ensure that the legacy of Victorian community that we are not To bring these hopes to a reality, we not asking us to start again! the area remains with the locals. just a thoroughfare to the and from the only need a strong community, but we need These are some of the areas that we ■■ Local businesses and developers freeways. support and acknowledgement from those have covered over the past few years and working more closely with residents In hoping that these ideas and discussions that will decide our fate from a planning and specifically at the June meeting: as development and construction become a reality we thank you for paying design perspective. ■■ Creating a neighbourhood agreement occurs and improving notification attention to us and more importantly getting We understand that an enormous amount – a way of ensuring that the community to advise locals of activity. Ask each to know us. of work is going on in the background and and the developers can create a precinct of the developers to create a page on we as a community are not privy to all those together with the best intention and their websites where locals can access outputs. This presents us with challenges communications. information about demolition and and it’s as if we are holding our collective ■■ Recognising there is a clear division building schedules (this can be captured Trisha Avery breath while this work is being done. When between east and west of Montague St in in the neighbourhood agreements). Trisha Avery is the convener information or discussions are available to terms of heights, design and current foot ■■ Naming of bluestone laneways – this will of the Montague Community us, we can exhale a little more. traffic. Although this is rapidly changing. ensure that the fine grain and history of Alliance. [email protected] It’s worth noting, that the Montague ■■ Prioritise intersection upgrades on corner Montague is preserved. Precinct and Fishermans Bend, do not sit of Buckhurst and Montague streets, ■■ Address ageing in place, appropriate with the state planning department any

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Southbanker A dream life By Meg Hill in Southbank and crossing to the city over “Eight years ago, we decided to here,” Dean said. He said the “novelty” of Southbank quit our jobs on the same day definitely hasn’t worn off it – although it is and plan an adventure.” changing. “In five years, it’s changed considerably and it’s continuing to change a lot,” he said. Jeanelle Mariani was describing how “It used to feel residential but kind of go- she and husband Dean went from working in and go-out. Now there’s more and more corporate jobs they hated, to living their amenities and liveable space, there’s stuff for dream lives. locals.” They live in Southbank and own CBD Their African-inspired CBD venues span venues polepole (pronounced pol-eh-pol- two levels – downstairs is polepole for dining eh) and Glamp, which embody both the and upstairs is the more informal Glamp. Melbourne hospitality scene and their East- “We had this dream of when people walk African inspiration. upstairs, they’re just totally transported, In addition, Jeanelle works part time for it’s not an extension of downstairs, but an not-for-profit Plan International. entirely different place,” Jeanelle said. “We spent a summer in Europe, four And they nailed it – Glamp is unlike months in East Africa and then travelled to any other bar around. It’s named after the the US,” Jeanelle said. Dean and Jeanelle inside the communal tent at Glamp. concept of “glamping” and huge communal The couple went through Rwanda, tents dominate the space. Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. piece of paper.” “The day we got the keys for polepole “When we travelled through East-Africa It was on our last night in Tanzania, on “I said I wanted to work in a not-for-profit it was like three days out from that date,” we were very much budget campers and we our 10th anniversary, when we had the and give back, and Dean wanted to open Jeanelle said. heard about people who were apparently conversation about what we would do with a bar. We just made a deal we would chase The couple have been living in Eureka glamping and thought ‘god it’d be nice to do our lives, what we were going to do when we that dream.” for just over a year – but Southbank for five. that one day’,” Jeanelle said. got home,” she said. Jeanelle said they drew out a mock They made the move from Northcote to set “If you come in here on a Friday or “We asked if there was a chance of us timeline on the spot and wrote a pretend up the venues, and Jeanelle’s day job is in Saturday night, you’ll see groups merge into living out our dream life what would that date that could work if they started working Southbank too. other groups and people meet new people. look like, and we wrote it down on a scrap toward the goal immediately. “Our whole lives seem to be basically It’s a ‘you’re-all-under-the-same-tent’ party.”

Southbank Residents’ Association The Lord Mayor visits to lobby for protected bicycle lanes. It consulting and retail business. If this is the We were delighted that the Lord conducted its own surveys by letterboxing case, then more, rather than less, street a questionnaire to many, if not all, the parking would be needed. But having said Mayor Sally Capp was able to buildings along Kavanagh St, where the that, while the residential permit parks are join us at our first committee response was overwhelmingly supportive. proposed to be preserved, if not increased, Southbank Residents Association (SRA) I question the logic of that. Only older meeting post our annual general was also presented with a proposal by buildings, ready for occupancy before March meeting (AGM) last month. MBUG for protected lanes from Power St to 2010 are entitled to residential parking Southbank Boulevard, which in its proposal, permits, yet they are the buildings where it left Southbank with a net loss of 15 car parks. was mandated that every lot has a minimum As you may recall, we had an abundance However, none of them were residential of one car park, sometimes two. Yet the new of interest from the community to join our Lord Mayor Sally Capp meets with SRA last month. permit car parks. In principle, we endorsed developments were rewarded with height for committee. This was a great opportunity for this for the interests of the Southbank every car park they didn’t include. Many of our new committee members to begin to In short, council is proposing to remove cyclists as a potential solution for the the newer apartments don’t have a car park, understand the workings of council first- all the angle parking and replace it with promenade. The reason the stretch between especially the one-bedroom apartments. hand from the Lord Mayor. parallel parking. While there is a year-on- Balston and Power streets was not part of its So, my logic tells me that the properties that It also showed the concerns and interest year reduction in vehicle ownership within proposal is that it was widely believed that would really benefit for parking permits are our Lord Mayor has for Southbank. Sally the built-up areas of Southbank and the the Melbourne Square developers would be the newer, post March 2010 properties, yet is often reaching out for updates on our number of unused car parks within towers using much of the southern side of Kavanagh they are not entitled to them. interaction with council and any new is constantly increasing (which together no St as part of its construction permit. This has SRA is a not-for-profit volunteer lead concerns in our community. We are truly doubt explains the increase in popularity of not eventuated and instead the developer community organisation. If you support the thankful to have such a close relationship the car share schemes which are scattered is using its land to construct its development. work we do to maintain the liveability of with our Lord Mayor and it was a real honour throughout our neighbourhood), I am not In August, a City of Melbourne traffic and Southbank through engaging with council to be hosting her at our first committee sure a 50 park reduction is beneficial to the parking officer contacted SRA to advise that and the state government, we would meeting for this new financial year. community’s needs. While I am in support works to install protected bicycle lanes were certainly welcome your support through Good news for some and not so good of a safer cycling experience for our cyclists, now progressing and soon council would be membership. It is only $10 a year. You can news for others … there have been some I would like to think there is another way reaching out to inform residents. However, sign-up at southbankresidents.org.au developments for our cyclists. During the forward. I am not sure how many of our in its proposal there is now an overall net consultation phases of the City Rd and street parks are actually used by residents for loss of 50 car parks, although apparently Southbank Boulevard upgrades, it was either their personal parking or their visitors none are residential permit parks. Earlier Tony Penna proposed that Kavanagh St would be a parking. this month, meetings were held with the cycling connector between the two. This I am cognisant that as Kavanagh St Tony Penna is the president owners’ corporation (OC) chairpersons would also assist with offering an alternative continues to develop, particularly after of Southbank Residents’ of the immediately affected buildings Association. for speeding cyclists that use the promenade, completion of Boyd Park, Melbourne and the SRA committee, where council southbankresidents.org.au which we know is a constant problem. Square and Southbank Boulevard, that we provided a briefing on the proposal and its Melbourne Bicycle User Group (MBUG) will probably start to see the ground floor implementation. used the public consultation opportunity apartments become spaces of boutique

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We Live Here Small print shrinks state cladding fund

Premier Daniel Andrews’ cladding fund might be able to help a tiny percentage of apartment buildings with dangerous cladding.

The small print in the recent Victorian wholesale approval of substandard and Many unconscionable contracts have to seek a ruling from Victorian Civil and Building Authority (VBA) report explained dangerous works by government-accredited, opaque costs, embedded commissions and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) on fairness that more than half the headline-grabbing private building surveyors. irrevocable terms of many decades. and equity principles for all existing $300 million fund would be earmarked to As a major beneficiary of the runaway The Financial Review reported this month contracts of more than three years, not just fix the cladding on the government’s own building boom, the government’s role in the a case of a 99-year embedded network new contracts signed since 2017. buildings. genesis of today’s cladding calamity is both contract! Many of these unfair "mates" deals for 25, Less than $150 million will be left over intimate and comprehensive. This type of inequity needs to be 30 and 99 years obviously still have many for ordinary folk living in combustible The state’s desultory oversight of a cavalier eliminated. years or decades to run. apartments. and corrupt industry over so many years The government has drafted a clause in Developers and building managers have At an average remediation cost of $5 is an unmitigated failure of duty of care the proposed draft legislation to prevent been prodigiously ingenious in forging new million per building, the fund is just enough that cannot be extenuated with a monthly, onerous long-term contracts that “benefit constraints to create generational, iron-clad to take care of the cladding on perhaps 30 hyperbolic sound-bite from Spring St. the applicant for registration of the plan of contracts, such as: buildings. We expect much more from our subdivision”, i.e. the developer. procedural restrictions imposed on the That’s about three per cent of the 1069 government than empty funding promises The huge loophole here is that the revocation of an appointment; buildings that the Victorian Cladding and animated blame-shifting. developer can offer a benevolent gift of a contractors renewing the appointment at Taskforce deemed a “risk to life”. Mr Andrews and Mr Wynne, how lucrative multi-generational contract to their option; This cladding fund seems to be scant about forgoing the false magnanimity a "mate" who happens to be in effective automatic renewal of the contract of propitiation for the government’s significant and confected indignation? Just accept control of an unrelated company or entity. appointment if the OC fails to give notice of role in this whole scandal – having overseen responsibility for the mess and do something Different company, different directors – too its intention not to renew; and the disastrous “self-regulation” regime. concrete. easy. restricting the ability of an OC to refuse And three per cent is long way short of Sadly, so many state governments This ruse would still be possible despite consent to the assignment of a contract. “half” the fire-risk buildings that the state around Australia are guilty of the same the draft reforms. Legally, or ostensibly, the To see the We Live Here submission to the government said it would help. monumentally incompetent supervision of developer does not benefit - a fairy tale that Consumer Affairs Victoria OC Act review, Meanwhile, another cladding fire in building standards. we lack the credulity to swallow, despite the search online for “Owners Corporations and Canberra this month, ignited by a discarded Again, we urge the federal government to legislators’ disposition. Other Acts Amendment Bill – Exposure Draft cigarette on a balcony, has once more call a Royal Commission into the building Many of the unfair contract examples consultation”. highlighted the issue. industry and the appalling multi-billion- we are being sent by disaffected owners We Live Here believes these contract And Minister for Planning Richard dollar legacy that ordinary Australians are corporations show that the developers and inequity issues must be addressed as a Wynne made the headlines in a case being now paying for. contracted companies are well known to matter of urgency before the final version of prosecuted against a building surveyor who each other but legally unrelated. the Bill is released. signed off on dangerous cladding for several OC Act reforms fall short The reform required is simple: just buildings. We are very concerned about loopholes in limit the term of all third-party owners’ Please remember that the state the state government’s exposure draft of the corporation (OC) contracts to three years, www.welivehere.net government was the architect and, for proposed reformed Owners Corporation Act. renewable at the OC’s option - regardless ive “we l emails to campaign@ decades, the arbiter and enforcer of the We Live Here has been campaigning for of who benefits. Otherwise the proposed here”TM welivehere.net disastrous building self-regulation regime. years against blatantly unfair building and reform will be just ludicrously simple to rort. This was a system that sanctioned the facilities management contracts. This legislation needs to allow owners

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History Fashion and Southbank Among the many galvanised iron factories along Sturt St in the 1930s was a stylish new factory for Lucy Secor fashion designers.

The firm got its start in 1922 and became area during its transformation from South so successful that by the mid-1930s it needed Melbourne to Southbank. a new factory to keep up with demand But who was Lucy Secor? It appears that and to maintain quality. A new factory was no one with that stylish name actually commissioned at 35 Sturt St not far from existed and the name was created to give Princes Bridge; one of many new factories on a European/French cachet to the clothes, this street. generally copied from overseas designs. Lucy Secor was one of Melbourne’s better- Although advertisements in 1937 stated known fashion houses from this period, that Lucy Secor herself was in constant specialising in striking, beautifully crafted touch with the fashion centres of the world, garments sold from highly fashionable shops it seems likely that the key figure was Mr in Collins St. Noted for quality and attention W.C. Cann - the managing director for many to detail in workmanship, this was a firm that years. cared about its staff and took great pride in its training programs over a number of years (typically four). Staff members were paid well and conditions were good, unlike many of the sweatshops in the clothing industry at the time. For those seeking a job in the industry, The Art Deco ‘Lucy Secor fashion house’ factory. Wittners Shoes occupied the building from 1980. being trained at Lucy Secor was almost a guarantee of success, and most people weeks after the opening. the doors and windows could be closed seemed to have enjoyed working there. On the inside, the delicate nature of without admitting dust and dirt from other Designed by prominent architects Alder the fabrics and textiles employed in the local factories. and Lacy in 1935, the styling of the factory manufacture of frocks required a high As well as the stylish Melbourne shops, was decidedly Art Deco, with the streamlined standard of hygiene throughout. Large Lucy Secor had branches across Australia building of simple but pleasing design. The amounts of natural light were admitted and New Zealand and by 1950 the company Robin Grow swampy ground requiring strengthened via a saw-tooth roof, lined with insulation, boasted 50 selling departments. The firm President - Australian Art Deco foundations and the firm constructed while mechanical ventilation and an air- closed in 1980 and Wittners Shoes occupied and Modernism Society gardens facing Sturt St. Regrettably the conditioning plant ensured the constant the building before it was demolished in [email protected] garden was destroyed by local vandals a few supply of fresh or treated air, meaning that 2007 as part of the massive changes to the

Pet’s Corner TopClass of Collins Street A seasoned traveller By Edward McLeish

Students Sarah Nikolayson (25) and Liam Butler (32) are proud owners of Skadi – a two-year-old purebred red brindle whippet.

The Greensborough couple take Skadi Follow us on twitter wherever she’s comfortable going, and this time, their journey passed through @paramourescort Southbank on the way to Melbourne’s Royal for FREE lingerie pics Botanic Gardens. everyday to your feed! “She just comes with me wherever I go - on the trains and stuff like that,” Sarah said. “She’s not shy, she’s pretty bold.” Usually known as mild-mannered and friendly, whippets are polite with strangers, other dogs and noise from a young age, but Skadi picks and chooses whom she spends her time with. “If there’s anything she’s uncomfortable with, it’s cars and poodles,” Sarah said. But, when it comes to socialising, Liam said there is nobody better than his and Sarah’s young pup. “If there’s a new person [at our front Liam and Sarah with Skadi their purebred red brindle whippet. doorstep], she’ll be there straight away,” Liam said. “The thing about her is that she knows But, as all puppies do, Skadi has had her when she’s doing something naughty.” naughty moments. “You can hear it in her steps because she’s “She once stole an entire cutlet from the kind of quick and when those steps speed up table and then left,” Sarah said. you can hear she’s excited about something.”

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Safety & Security Business Travelling safely in Southbank

After a record low road toll in 2018, when 214 people lost their lives in Victoria, there have already been 192 lives lost, an increase of 56 compared to the same time last year.

This is a shocking statistic. What steps make eye contact with drivers as they can you take to keep yourselves safe on the approach to make sure you are seen. roads in your local area? Many residents of Southbank may Cyclists: not own a car and the main method of ■■ Wear a helmet – all bike riders, their transport is walking or riding a bicycle. passengers and scooter riders are However, pedestrians and cyclists are required to wear a bike helmet in vulnerable road users, as they have little Victoria. or no protection in the event of a collision. ■■ Keeping visible – crashes between cars Pedestrians and bike riders are examples and bicycles are more likely to occur of vulnerable road users, the young and when light is poor. Wear a bright top day Golden Fleece elderly also fall into this category. and night. At night reflective strips on So, what steps can you take to keep a vest or backpack will make you more yourselves safe when travelling away from visible. your homes in Southbank? ■■ Use lights at night – this is the law. The front and rear lights must be visible enters a golden age Pedestrians: from 200 metres and the bicycle must By Jack Hayes ■■ Be predictable – follow the rules of the also have a red rear reflector visible road and obey signs and signals. from 50 metres. Using flashing front and ■■ Cross the road safely – plan where you back lights in the daylight too helps you will walk and always choose the safest be seen on the road. It was an eleventh-hour bid that landed, now co-owners Sam place to cross. If there is a pedestrian ■■ Bicycles are vehicles – under the law, Austen and James Robbins, the keys to a South Melbourne icon – crossing with lights available use it and bike riders have the same rights and the historic Golden Fleece Hotel. obey the traffic signals. responsibilities as car drivers. This ■■ Keep alert at all times – don’t be means stopping at traffic control signals. distracted by electronic devices that Mr Austen was sick at home on the take your eyes and ears off the road. Mornington Peninsula when he was told Many fatalities have occurred when “The Fleece”, one of the longest standing pedestrians have not heard traffic noise Senior Sgt Alex O’Toole buildings on Montague St, was being listed and warning signals due to the volume Station Commander at for sale. level of earphones. Texting while Southbank Poilice Station The Fleece has been pouring drinks and walking is an unsafe practice. [email protected]. serving food for locals and travellers for ■■ Never assume a driver sees you - gov.au almost 150 years. Now Mr Austen and his team are looking to bring The Fleece back to its former glory. Lunch Break “For me, it was too good of an opportunity to miss. I’ve run a country pub. I’ve also run a coastal pub, so now it’s time to have a crack up here,” Mr Austen said. “It is a pub that I, and many other people have known for a long time. I used to have a drink here 20 years ago. Back then, it was pretty rough – a real drinkers’ pub.” Since assuming control of the pub in mid-June, Mr Austen had a clear direction in which he wanted to take – bringing industry-leading food and service while paying homage to a century-and-a-half of Montague hospitality. The Golden Fleece has partnered up with Clamms Seafood and Flinders+Co for market-fresh seafood, with Cape Grim and Bass Strait Beef. “We aren’t trying to be a five-star restaurant; we just want to exceed people’s Left to right: Massimo Vasturzo, Sam Austen and James expectations,” he said. Robins. “We can see a great opportunity to re- engage the locals. That is what it [The Golden You will find walls adorned with floor- Fleece] has lost. We have great support to-ceiling wine racks, a second-storey beer from all the commercial businesses around garden upstairs, a revamped bar and bistro, Montague, but hadn’t been seen as a great and even an entire room dedicated to eight dinner destination.” refurbished pinball machines. “We want to be renowned for great food “Sadly, we can’t claim credit for the and service, we want to know people’s renovation; that was carried out by the names, and ultimately drive a lot of repeat previous owners, who did an incredible job,” business through that.” he said. If you step into The Fleece today, you “If it weren’t for them, I feel this pub Betty liked her ginger won’t find an aging watering hole that was, wouldn’t still be here today.” less than a decade ago, on the brink of For more details and reservations, and lemongrass tea closure. visit goldenfleecehotel.net.au Café Godot Southbank-based businesses wishing to be profiled in this section should email: Sturt Street [email protected]

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