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The University of Melbourne celebrated the official opening of the Ian Potter Southbank Centre on Saturday, June 1.

As a long-awaited addition to our world- class Arts Precinct, the occasion marked a significant milestone for both the university and for Melbourne, with the $109 million facility providing the new home for the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM). And as if the unveiling wasn’t enough, the university also announced on the day that it had struck a new $1 million partnership with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), in a move that gives staff and students unparalleled education and research opportunities.

Continued on page 11. L-R: Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley, ACO managing director Richard Evans, Bachelor of Music students Jim Millman and Georgie Hannah, University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Duncan Maskell and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Professor Barry Conyngham at the opening of The Ian Potter Southbank Centre, June 1. Wrecking ball development plans scrapped By Meg Hill

A 2011-approved Southbank development well out of accordance with current planning controls has had its plans revised to save a piece of heritage from demolition and wind back its impact on Boyd Park.

Since plans for two towers at 63-83 Australia, have been significantly revised in incorporates the façade of the double storey The City of Melbourne objected to the Kings Way and 127-129 Kavanagh Street an effort to bring the project closer into line building into the design for the base of the original permit issued by then Minister were originally approved, the land and with the new controls. towers. for Planning Matthew Guy on the basis of accompanying plans have been sold, while excessive height and wind impacts. The building currently occupying the site planning laws have changed and new Designed by architects Elenberg Fraser, the corner is the former Austral Otis Engineering heritage overlays have been proposed. towers have been shortened to 38 and 23 Speaking on the application at the Future Works office building. It is currently under storeys and re-oriented to keep the “visual Melbourne Committee meeting on May 21, The relevant planning amendment, C270, is heritage consideration. bulk” away from Kavanagh Street and Boyd the City of Melbourne’s heritage portfolio not retrospective, and the heritage overlay Under the previous plans the building was Park. chair Rohan Leppert said: “That corner that proposed under C305 has not been finalised. to be demolished to make way for 47- and is being retained is very important in this This, additionally, eliminates negative wind 38-storey towers. part of Southbank.” However, the plans, submitted by Run impacts the previous design would have had All International Pty Ltd and Hengmao But a revised $260 million proposal on Boyd Park. Continued on page 4.

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2 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 86 Josh Burns wins Macnamara Despite a loss to Federal Labor at the May 18 election, new candidate Josh Burns maintained his party’s hold on our local seat of Macnamara.

Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade Replacing retiring Labor MP of 21 years in passion and effort to campaign for a fairer PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 Michael Danby, who recorded a slender future.” victory at the 2016 election, Mr Burns Tel: 8689 7980 Fax:Fax: 9602 2929 “We offered a hopeful and positive plan managed to claim a more comfortable win www.southbanklocalnews.com.au for Macnamara and I am proud that it was that what many had anticipated on a near endorsed.” Editor: Sean Car five per cent swing. At the time of publishing the June edition “Across our country, it was a hard night Publisher: Hyperlocal News Pty Ltd of Southbank Local News, the Australian for the Australian Labor Party and its true ABN: 57623558725 Electoral Commission (AEC) had counted believers.” Tel: 8689 7980 Fax:Fax: 9602 2929 nearly 90 per cent of the vote. As expected, “Despite that result, those who helped put [email protected] Liberal candidate Kate Ashmor recorded forward our courageous and ambitious the most primary votes (37 per cent) ahead agenda of reform can – and should – hold Reader contributions are welcome. of Burns (32 per cent) and the Greens Steph their heads high.” Please send articles and images to Hodgins-May (24 per cent). Following [email protected] preference flows, Mr Burns had recorded 56 “Ultimately, though, we respect the decision per cent of the vote overall ahead of Ashmor of the Australian people.” Deadline for edition 87 is July 4. on 44 per cent. “I offer my congratulations to the Coalition, Mr Burns told Southbank Local News that and my best wishes to my opponents Kate CONNECT despite a hard night overall for his party, he Ashmor and Steph Hodgins-May. Both are CONNECT was pleased that the people of Macnamara people of integrity and talent, and I know Keep up to date with local news & events. had endorsed his own positive campaign for both will continue to serve our community.” a “fairer future.” Follow us on Twitter “To all the volunteers from all sides of @SOUTHBANK_News “To the people of Macnamara who placed politics who devoted their time and effort, their trust in me - thank you. This has been a you did our democracy proud.” New Labor MP Josh Burns and Father Bob Maguire at a local polling booth last month. FollowLike us us on on Facebook Facebook long journey and I am extremely grateful for “To my team, I will always be grateful for your support,” he said. Southbank Local News your tireless efforts and professionalism. “But the credit for our win does not belong You ran an outstanding campaign, and all “We act with humility. We rebuild. And we FollowLike us us on on Instagram Instagram to me. It belongs to each and every one of deserve to own our result. For now, we in the devote every day to working as hard as we @southbanklocalnewsSouthbankLocalNews hundreds of people who gave their time, Labor movement must regroup.” possibly can - our country deserves no less.”

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By Sean Car support planning and delivery across the priority precincts portfolio, and to leverage investment and activity of government and The state government has partners,” Mr Jennings said. included $4.5 million towards While the government wouldn’t disclose a tram link to Fishermans Bend how much of this would be directed towards Fishermans Bend, the funding will continue over the next two years in its to support the efforts of the likes of the Work has started on the first section of open space. latest budget. Fishermans Bend Development Board and the Taskforce.

With public transport the key component The blue dotted line highlights the proposed new tram The budget also states that the new routes through Fishermans Bend via a new bridge. to unlocking Australia’s largest ever urban Fishermans Bend Secondary School Access renewal zone and driving investment in Fishermans Bend Community Forum of the would be open by 2022, while it is also in the precinct, the absence of a significant year at Toyota Headquarters on May 14. the process of finalising a site for a new funding boost for a tram has led to growing community hospital, which is understood to In response to concerns such as those uncertainty within the business community. be in the Wirraway Precinct. granted raised by the FBBF, it was here that City of The two-year funding commitment for a Port Phillip CEO Peter Smith flagged the Despite plans to open its new engineering business case ($2m) and pre-construction concept of “match making”, whereby council campus in the “early 2020s” to around 8000 The City of Melbourne has works ($2.5m) means construction on works with property owners to pair them new students, the University of Melbourne’s the project, which includes plans for new with suitable tenants. Mr Smith said he vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell welcomed reopened vehicle access tram bridge over the Yarra River, won’t had already been actively working with a the $4.5 million investment towards the tram between St Kilda Rd and commence until 2022. The government’s number of owners on this basis to activate link. the precinct. Sturt St, as construction work 2018 Fishermans Bend Framework forecasts “This investment is strongly supported a medium-term delivery of the tram by 2025. With the Fishermans Bend Framework by the University of Melbourne,” he said. progresses on the Southbank With the precinct’s capital city zoning forecasting 80,000 jobs by 2050, the “Public transport will play a vital role in Boulevard project. resulting in landowners forking out growing state government’s 2016 purchase of the realising Fishermans Bend as a sustainable, 37-hectare GM Holden site in the future connected and thriving innovation precinct holding costs for sites, Fishermans Bend Having closed the section of Southbank Employment Precinct, as well as the delivery that the University of Melbourne is excited to Business Forum (FBBF) executive officer Boulevard to traffic since July last year of public transport, are central to making be a part of and help bring to life.” David Weston said the slow delivery of to make way for new open space and to good on its projection. public transport was of concern to business. A tram route connecting Collins St to Hartley move tram lines, the event marks a major “Businesses in Fishermans Bend are With the University of Melbourne St in Fishermans Bend via a new tram bridge milestone for the $47 million capital works concerned that the solution to public purchased 2.5 hectares of the site for its new is still understood to be the government’s project. Demolition and earthworks are transport access is making the business engineering campus, and RMIT University preferred option. Residents in Yarra’s Edge in now underway to commence the first of environment uncertain,” he said. understood to be in negotiations to follow Docklands, who are against the tram bridge, the open space areas, as well as street tree suit, the government has formally branded continue to lobby government to explore planting, in front of the Melbourne Recital “The State Budget only offers funding for a Fishermans Bend as a “priority precinct”. alternative routes. Centre and Southbank Theatre. business case and early stage works. A full With a focus on advanced manufacturing, City of Port Phillip Mayor Dick Gross said New bluestone footpaths between funding commitment to tram services is the area is earmarked to become a national that the $4.5 million would investigate between St Kilda Rd and Sturt St, and essential to maintain business confidence in employment and innovation cluster (NEIC). options for the potential tram route, the Fishermans Bend project.” pavement works on the western side of Minister for the new priority precincts including the possibility of a river crossing Sturt St have also been completed and “Until there is a commitment to funding, portfolio Gavin Jennings told Southbank and potential corridors along Turner and reopened to pedestrians. businesses will be considering their options, Local News that the budget also included Plummer streets. The state budget did not Detours will continue to be in place which in some cases may mean relocation.” $25 million for planning across all priority include any funding for Metro 2. around the worksite throughout June. precincts, which also includes Arden, The news follows a flurry of public activities The state government is expected to release For regular updates stay tuned to Parkville, Sunshine and the Richmond-to- in Fishermans Bend in May, with the City its neighbourhood precinct plans, as well as the City of Melbourne’s project page Docklands corridor. of Port Phillip, in partnership with the its finance plan for Fishermans Bend, within participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ Fishermans Bend Taskforce, hosting the first “The budget allocated $25 million to the coming months. southbankboulevard

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scrapped L-R: District Governor Bronwyn Stephens makes a toast and members of Southbank Rotary sing the song “Hey Jude.” Continued from page 1. “It will keep that legibility of the street and “I want to challenge Melbourne’s architects Southbank Rotary turns 20 human scale for the first four levels.” to do better than that.” The revised plans also include the Cr Leppert highlighted the tension between By Alex Dalziel This project was initiated following the Bali introduction of a five-star Marriot development, particularly height, and bombings in 2002 when Southbank Rotary residential hotel. There are also reductions heritage. raised over $100,000 in donations, and in gross floor area and plot ratio. Southbank Rotary Club established a trust fund to support projects “Obviously in this part of Southbank there’s over in Bali. City of Melbourne’s planning portfolio a lot of towers that have a very difficult celebrated its 20th birthday chair Nicholas Reece said there “is a world relationship with the heritage fabric that More recently, the club has lead a $15 of difference between what we have seen was there in the past,” he said. last month with a dinner million national fundraising campaign previously back in 2011 and what we have function at Eureka Tower. for Farmer Drought Relief. Locally, it also before us today.” “To be frank, this is no exception.” collaborates with Ray White Southbank as part of the annual Christmas Little “The community expects us to speak “There’s still a very large massing on top of The event took place on Tuesday May 28 at Ray of Giving present drive. The club also honestly about these things and the truth the heritage fabric, but there’s a bit more Eureka 89 with many Rotarians, dignitaries announced $6500 in community donations is the previous design and development three-dimensionality to the heritage fabric and past district governors attending the to local charities Shelterbox and Upbeat appraisal was pretty ordinary.” that is being retained even though it is just celebration. essentially a facadism.” Arts on the evening of its 20th birthday “Too often recently here at the Future Southbank Rotary was founded on May celebrations. Melbourne Committee we have seen With councillors having unanimously 26, 1999, and at the time, it was sponsored development proposals where there’s just endorsed the application, it will now go to by the Rotary Clubs of Albert Park and David Jones, a five-year member of the a plain glass cube put on top of a heritage Minister for Planning Richard Wynne for Melbourne. Southbank Rotary club, said that the building.” approval. club acted as a hub for people within the Over its 20-year history Southbank Rotary Southbank area. has contributed to several humanitarian projects both in Australia and overseas. “I think that the members have a connection to Southbank, either through Last year the chapter helped launched the the location of their work or their family,” Australian farmers drought relief appeal he said. with Channel Nine. Together with other chapters from around Australia the Rotary “We’ve always said it’s more of a clan than a club raised about $15 million for the appeal. club. We have a strong current membership and it’s the strength of the clan that will Members also travel overseas and initiate support the future.” community development programs. Recently Southbank Rotary Club conducted Southbank Local News thanks the a water provision and health education Southbank Rotary Club for its ongoing program in Nepal, drawing funds for the contribution to the local community and project from the wider Rotary community. congratulates it on its efforts over the past 20 years. The organisation also worked in partnership with the Rotary Club of Bali Taman to The club meets every Tuesday at 6.30pm at establish a women’s mobile health clinic to the Belgian Beer Café. For more information address the health concerns of women in or to become a member visit southbank. A render of the proposal looking from Boyd Park. rural Bali. org.au

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 86 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 5 A new dog park for Southbank

Southbank has received plenty of love from the City of Melbourne in this year’s draft budget, including $500,000 for a new dog park on Moray St.

While much of the excitement for Southbank on Alexandra Avenue in South Yarra, is centred around major capital works Kavanagh St and William St, which will take funding injections to Southbank Promenade cyclists from Swan Street Bridge through to and the continuation of works at Southbank Queensbridge St. Boulevard, the new dog park was a hidden The other link in this chain is the provision bonus for locals. of $11.9 million in this year’s budget to The new space will be located at the mouth continue the $47 million transformation of of Moray St next to the Kings Way overpass Southbank Boulevard, which acting Lord and is being delivered as part of the City Mayor Arron Wood said would be completed Road Master Plan, which council approved in 2020. back in June 2016. A new cycling path along Southbank The master plan only received its first round Boulevard is due for completion later this of funding in last year’s budget, which was year, providing the missing link in the also $500,000 towards upgraded crossings council’s plan for giving commuter cyclists between Alexandra Avenue and City Rd. easier access to the city. Outside of this, the council is yet to provide The council has invested $28.7 million any significant funding for the plan. The area next to Kings Way on Moray St will be converted into a new dog park for locals. towards public open space in this year’s draft budget, which totals $619 million. It also However, director of city design at the City of the coming months. growing conditions for existing trees and includes a record $453 million investment in Melbourne Prof. Rob Adams told Southbank green areas. programs and services. Local News that due to existing construction The budget also included huge boosts for at Southbank Boulevard and Boyd Park, any stage one of the Southbank Promenade As reported in the December/January With an underlying surplus of $15.03 million, further works in the area would place too renewal project, with $5.1 million to help edition of Southbank Local News, a key the draft budget proposes a 2.5 per cent much stress on Southbank. revitalise the section of the promenade objective of this project is to make the rate increase, which is consistent with the between Princess Bridge and Evan Walker promenade very pedestrian-friendly in Victorian Government’s rate cap. The small parcel of land adjoining the route Bridge. an effort to deter cyclists from using the 58 tram stop underneath the Kings Way For more information on the 2019/20 draft promenade. overpass, is to be transformed into a new dog This project will improve public open space budget, read the City of Melbourne’s two park and will complement the neighbouring on the promenade by replacing paving, Council has also set aside $1.8 million for page budget spread on pages 6 and 7 of this Boyd Park, which is due for completion in improving lighting and enhancing the the creation of new separated bike lanes edition.

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The City of Melbourne has announced its biggest ever budget of $619 million for 2019- 20, to help make our city more liveable and prosperous as it rapidly grows. The draft Budget includes a record $453 million for programs and services, a fully-funded $166 million capital works program, and an underlying surplus of $15.03 million. Among the major projects to be funded, the city will get on with the renewal of Queen Victoria Market, spending $15 million in 2019-20, including $6.5 million for the staged, on-site restoration of the historic sheds. A further $4.5 million has been assigned to create a master plan for the restoration of Melbourne Town Hall. The draft Budget also includes significant investments to build on the city’s ongoing commitment to families, arts and culture, greening the city and supporting people experiencing homelessness.

Here are 10 highlights of the draft Artist’s impressions of the city’s largest new community hub at the Munro site on the corner of Queen and Therry streets Budget for 2019-20, which will help us continue to create a city for people. Knowledge Business Waste Community facilities The city will invest $2.8 million for key The city will continue to bring the The city will continue its annual spend Families will see $9.3 million invested knowledge sector events and services community together by investing of $24 million on waste and recycling to complete the redevelopment of to bolster the growth and reputation $3.2 million in community events services, and will spend $900,000 to Lady Huntingfield Children’s Centre of the jobs of the future. and festivals. deliver the first year of its Waste and and deliver more early education and Resource Recovery Strategy. childcare places to make sure kids get This includes support for Melbourne A further $1 million will be spent on Over the last financial year, the city the best start in life. Knowledge Week, and for the small business, retail and hospitality, to provide grants, sponsorship, night- collected 30,000 tonnes of residential renewal of traditional and digital The city will also spend $1.8 million to time activations and events that boost waste and 11,000 tonnes of residential library collections across the City of progress the fit out of the $70 million the economy. recycling, emptied 2000 bins each day Melbourne’s six libraries. Munro development at Queen and and swept 312km of roads each week. Therry streets. Transport Urban forest, water and Melburnians will see $28.2 million spent Major events and arts Plus $1 million will go towards planning climate change and design for the $40 million renewal on capital works projects dedicated to Ratepayers can expect $18.4 million The city will invest $19.1 million in of Kensington Community Recreation walking, cycling and public transport invested in major events including Centre, and upgrade sporting capital works to respond to the impact as part of our 10-year plan to move New Year’s Eve, Moomba Festival, pavilions, courts and equipment. of climate change, manage parklands commuters and pedestrians safely and Christmas, Melbourne Fashion Week and urban forests, and conserve and more efficiently through the city. and Melbourne Music Week. recycle water. This will include streetscape A further $16.3 million will be allocated This will include infrastructure improvement works on the southern to the recurrent Arts Melbourne upgrades across 480 hectares of parks end of Elizabeth Street, where more program, which includes arts grants and gardens, and funding to plant at than 9300 pedestrians use footpaths programs and programs for children least 3400 trees and care for the more during the morning peak. and young people through ArtPlay and Signal. than 80,000 trees the city manages. Homelessness Safety Council will invest $1.9 million in homelessness services, including the HAVE YOUR SAY The City of Melbourne will upgrade, Salvation Army’s Night Time Safe maintain and install priority city safety Public submissions on the draft Early education and childcare Place cafe and the Melbourne City and security measures across the central Annual Plan and Budget 2019–20 Mission’s youth homelessness services city with an investment of $29 million. are open from Friday 10 May until Open space on King Street. Friday 7 June. This includes $26.6 million in Victorian Council will invest more than $29 million The centre provides free all-day Submissions will be considered at Government grants to undertake the to create more places for people to breakfast, shower facilities, toiletries, a special meeting of the Future exercise, play and relax in the city, Victorian Government’s $50 million underwear and socks, and helps Melbourne Committee on Thursday including two and a half hectares of central city security upgrade project people access doctors, dentists, 13 June. To have your say, visit open space on Southbank Boulevard and $2.6 million for key city safety legal advice, computers, iPads and participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au and a new park on Market Street. infrastructure. Centrelink support.

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BUSINESS, RETAIL AND EVENTS PROSPER The Firelight Festival will once again light up Docklands thanks to a $700,000 investment by the City of Melbourne. This key event, which generated $5 million for the local economy last year, continues to invigorate Docklands in the cold winter months. As Melburnians know, Melbourne is Australia’s events capital, with hundreds of events taking place across the city every year. These events, both big and small, add to the unique character of our city, offer enriching experiences Artist’s impression of the new park for Market Street and contribute significantly to our local economy. This is why the City of Melbourne has committed to investing in events around the City as part of Council’s draft Annual $29 MILLION INVESTMENT Plan and Budget 2019–20. Funding for other events, which have become significant to Melbourne’s IN PUBLIC OPEN SPACE business community over the years, includes $2.5 million for the Council’s Events Partnership Program and Public open space projects will which will create 2.5 hectares of new The draft Budget also revealed that Triennial Sponsorship Program. receive a $28.7 million boost over public open space and neighbourhood Seafarers Rest Park, on the north bank These programs have sponsored the coming year as part of the parklands on Southbank Boulevard, is of the Yarra in Docklands, will receive due for completion in 2020. a $1 million investment for renewal more than 500 events over 10 years. City of Melbourne’s 2019–20 works, in partnership with the Victorian This year, the City of Melbourne The draft Budget also includes draft Budget. Government and developer Riverlee. will also invest $3.4 million towards expenditure on Melbourne’s small The investment will focus on the a joint $7.53 million project with As backyards in the inner city are business, retail and hospitality sector, creation and renewal of public open CBUS to create a new 2000 square shrinking and more people are living including $500,000 for the annual space to cater for Melbourne’s growing metre public open space for Market in apartment blocks, Council’s plan to Small Business Grants Program population, including the densely Street alongside the Collins Arch expand open space will ensure that and $100,000 for the Business populated suburbs of Southbank development. residents and workers are able to Event Sponsorship Program. Small and Docklands. enjoy more open spaces for recreation, business makes up 80 per cent of This will be the first park created in the public gatherings and relaxation. the municipality’s businesses. The Council’s goal is to add more than central city since the City Square was 12 MCGs-worth of public open space developed in the 1970s. The new park Residents continue to have the Council will also fund $250,000 in to the city over the next 15 years. will provide open space in an area of opportunity to provide feedback marketing and promotion to support Collins Street that is used by 40,000 on the draft Budget until 7 June at our much-loved independent Southbank Promenade will receive pedestrians each day. participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au retailers across the city. a $5.1 million investment to revitalise a 300 metre section of the shared To keep up to date with the latest walkway from Princes Bridge in LOCAL INVESTMENT events, or to find vibrant small the east, to Evan Walker Bridge in businesses in your area, visit Southbank Promenade $5.1 million to revitalise a 300 m section of the promenade the west. This project will improve whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au public open space on the riverside Southbank Boulevard $11.9 million to finalise stage one of the $47 million project promenade with new paving, improved Market Street $3.4 million towards a $7.53 million project to create the first public lighting and enhanced growing central-city park since City Square was developed in the 1980s conditions for the trees. Seafarers Rest Park $1 million towards adding 3500 sqm of open space to Docklands

Southbank Boulevard will also receive Fawkner Park $1.2 million towards upgrading the Pasley Street North entrance to improve landscape health, drainage, safety and amenity as part of attention with $11.9 million to continue the Master Plan recommendations upgrade works from St Kilda Road Lincoln Square $2 million towards a new concept plan to add 3000 sqm to one of to City Road. The new Southbank Melbourne’s oldest parks, and create a new play space around 150 Boulevard cycle path will be complete year-old Moreton Bay figs by late 2019 and will provide a new JJ Holland Park $1.6 million for a new playground in Kensington route for commuter cyclists to access Firelight Festival the city. The full $47 million project, Spring Street $150,000 to create new public open space outside Princess Theatre

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St Kilda Rd will be the Strong leadership skills and beneficiary of new $27 critical thinking are giving million separated bike lanes Holmesglen learners a clearer thanks to the Andrews Labor pathway into the competitive Government. accounting and finance field. since employees are looking for research- savvy candidates.” The huge funding boost allocated in this The Master of Professional Accounting year’s state budget will see a combination (MPA) is one of Holmesglen’s industry- Graduate Sharmaine Leonora used the of new central safety zone bike lanes and back in 2017 when the proposed changes accredited courses, which is offered at its St course to develop her business insights, Copenhagen-style kerbside bike lanes, with were originally flagged by the state Kilda Rd campus. after moving from the Philippines. construction due to start this year. government. Cr Katherine Copsey had Designed to connect students with their “My studies paved the way for new said at the time that the transition from The central safety zone will see the two future business careers, the course provides experiences. It was very interesting to central cycling lanes to regular kerbside middle lanes of St Kilda Rd from the advanced theoretical and technical share knowledge with talented people and Copenhagen lanes at the St Kilda Junction National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) to the St knowledge in accounting disciplines. to work closely with people from other presented safety concerns for cyclists. Kilda Junction replaced with a dedicated backgrounds,” she said. This includes financial accounting and bike lane with a protective barrier. However, Mayor Dick Gross said it Holmesglen’s MPA graduates meet the welcomed the funding and that council reporting, taxation law and practice, requirements for associate membership Copenhagen-style bike lanes will also be looked forward to working with the state corporate governance, mergers and for the Institute of Public Accountants built south of St Kilda Junction from Carlisle government on finalising the design. acquisitions, management accounting and St. auditing. (IPA) Australia, Certified Management “Council sought these commitments in Accountant (CMA) Australia, Certified “St Kilda Rd is Melbourne’s busiest tram the lead-up to the State election, so we are Holmesglen’s course leader, Vasanthi Peter, Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia, and route and one of Melbourne’s busiest bike delighted this important project has been believes industry-related teaching gives Chartered Accountants Australia and New routes – that’s why these safety upgrades funded in the Victorian Budget 2019/20,” Cr learners greater career potential. Zealand. are so vital to separate cyclists from other Gross said. “With globalisation and labour being traffic,” Minister for Roads and Road Safety The course’s strong foundations across mobile, expert knowledge in accounting Jaala Pulford said. “St Kilda Rd is an important arterial for business and finance present learners with cyclists and council welcomes funding that and finance is increasingly in demand. a variety of career paths to consider on “We’ve carefully planned this new upgrade will dramatically increase usage.” This degree builds critical thinking, graduation. with all road users in mind – safely communication and leadership skills,” she “Council looks forward to working with Find out more about Holmesglen’s Master separating bikes and traffic for good while said. the Victorian Government in finalising the of Professional Accounting at holmesglen. having the least impact of travel times for design of the new bike lanes on St Kilda “Students complete two research papers, edu.au in time for the July intake or book drivers.” Rd to maximise the design outcomes and including a mini-thesis. There are several now for the St Kilda Rd campus Open Day The City of Port Phillip had raised concerns ensure the safety of cyclists.” career opportunities for MPA graduates on June 20. 2019 COURSES AT HOLMESGLEN CITY CAMPUS

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News 10 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 86 A true man of Melbourne By Sean Car

As a 14-year resident of the CBD, our community can rest assured that the City of Melbourne’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Justin Hanney has its best interests at heart.

Having started in the role in January, Mr “As I used to walk in and around the city, I’d “The way in which they work together and Hanney was given the nod for the city’s top look at the number of people living on the the quality of the governance; they really job from a field of more than 140 candidates streets. The role that I could play in a state work well together.” last year. Based on his glittering CV, it’s easy government department versus a role in to see why. local government are chalk and cheese.” “The quality of the staff that the City of Melbourne attracts is why I think it’s The City of Melbourne is incredibly well Justin also pointed to the extraordinary considered the best local government in served with Justin at the helm. With an amount of urban renewal areas on the fringe Australia. Some of them live an hour and extensive background working in state of the inner city, stating that, globally, it was a half away and commute each day in and government, his connections are sure to help unprecedented. With the likes of Fishermans out. They could easily work in their own get a lot of things moving for the city. Bend, E-Gate, West Melbourne and Arden- communities, but they choose to work here Macauley on the doorstep of the CBD, the Before joining the City of Melbourne, he because of the size of the city, what it can do opportunities to grow the city genuinely worked as the lead deputy secretary of and what it can represent.” excites him. the Employment, Investment and Trade Having permanently located to the CBD 14 Group at the Department of Economic Having played a central role to the state years ago, he said the city’s growing appeal Development, Jobs, Transport and government’s purchasing of the Holden site as a place to raise a family was what had Resources. in Fishermans Bend for the creation of an attracted he and his family to relocate from Having also previously overseen the likes employment and innovation precinct, he their former Malvern East home. of Regional Development Victoria, Creative said he was keen to use his connections to Victoria, Visit Victoria, Development accelerate such projects. High on his agenda From its green open spaces and creative Victoria, Agriculture Victoria, Trade and is getting a tram connected there as soon as institutions to its libraries and recreational Investment Victoria and Small Business possible. facilities, he has grown a special appreciation for everything our city has to offer. As a Victoria, there is no doubting his ability to “I think when you look at what could happen boating enthusiast, he said he and a friend get things done. on that space in such close proximity really also regularly travelled from Williamstown critical to that site is getting the tram into However, it’s his intimate knowledge of, and and moored their boat (or as he described Fishermans Bend,” he said. “Without the care for, his local neighbourhood as a long- it, their “tub!”) at Docklands; a waterfront tram it will be more challenging to get time Flinders St resident that places him in precinct that he described as “world-class”. extra good stead for what he described as Melbourne University and RMIT to fully “the best job in the world.” commit to their developments.” Through his strong networks at State Government, he said he hoped to use “I love it. I wake up every day with a spring “When you look at what could happen within his time as CEO to continue building on in my step,” Justin told Southbank Local that precinct and within Arden-Macauley it’s everything that made Melbourne one of the News. “I get to interact a lot with the city as very exciting. Both of these sites will be game New City of Melbourne CEO Justin Hanney. world’s most liveable cities. a resident and the danger is now whenever changers for Melbourne.” I walk the streets on the weekend, if we’re As technology advances and tourism “I have some excellent relationships with going off to a restaurant or the park or a footy extensive. He began his career as a youth continues to grow in Melbourne, Justin’s state government and that will continue,” he game you start to see a lot more.” worker in Collingwood, before working in background in growing employment and said. “I think it’s sometimes knowing not just “If there is a bin that’s not quite right or there senior roles at local councils in Dandenong, investment places the city’s economy in where to go and not just what department to is a bit of graffiti on a building that shouldn’t Bendigo and Wangaratta. He also previously good stead for being ready to adapt to go to but more specifically who to go to.” change. be there you start to take a lot more notice. served as a CEO of the City of Yarra. “I have this mantra with our staff here that I find that I’m taking photos every time I go Having interacted a lot with the City As for the team around him, he said he had we’re here to get things done and if we’re walking to put them on the system and my of Melbourne over many years in state been pleasantly surprised by the quality not doing things, providing great service wife tells me that I have to stop doing that!” government, he said the opportunity to make of staff at the City of Melbourne, which he and advancing on issues that matter than we While originally from Perth, Justin has spent an impact at a grassroots level was largely described as exemplary. He also praised shouldn’t be here.” most of his life in Victoria. Having met what had attracted him to his new role. his team of councillors, who he said had “Let’s get the basics and the service delivery his now wife in Melbourne as a teenager, rebounded incredibly well in light of the “One of the things in state government, and exceptionally good and then let’s continue to together they have raised four daughters governance challenges left by former Lord I had a stint up in Canberra for 12 months be the exemplary city throughout the world. here while he has worked in a range of Mayor Robert Doyle. as well on secondment, is that you’re really I want to take the baton and ensure that positions across the state. removed from what happens on the ground,” “The calibre and the quality of the whoever I pass it onto next that Melbourne His background in local government is also he said. councillors is quite exceptional,” he said. continues to be that exemplary city.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 86 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 11 Shrine Open for music! knockback From page 1. While staff and students moved into the The City of Melbourne new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in has refused a request for March, final works, including the completion of the new linear public park between Sturt increased funding from the and Dodds streets, have continued since. Shrine of Remembrance. The grand opening on June 1 saw Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley officially The Shrine was seeking a new five-year launch the facility in front of hundreds of memorandum of understanding (MoU) dignitaries, alumni and special guests. and a significant increase in the value of The event began with a traditional smoking the council’s annual grant from $317,006 ceremony and Welcome to Country in to $800,000, representing a 158 per cent the new linear park with Boon Wurrung increase. Elder N’arweet Carolyn Briggs. This was Under the Shrine of Remembrance Act accompanied by student performers from 1978, council is required to provided the university’s Wilin Centre for Indigenous secretarial and administrative services Arts and Cultural Development. The orchestra performs in the Kenneth Myer Auditorium in the new Ian Potter Southbank Centre. to the Shrine, payment for the supply of Master of ceremonies and ABC News water and improvement and maintenance Breakfast presenter Virginia Trioli later of parks and gardens. got formal proceedings underway in the In requesting additional funding, conservatorium’s Hanson Dyer Hall, which The Shrine proposed an expanded was broadcast via video link to more guests interpretation of council’s obligations in the Kenneth Myer Auditorium on the and identified up to eight full time ground floor. equivalent existing secretarial and Chairman of the Ian Potter Foundation administrative staff that it considered Charles Goode AC and University of should be funded by council. In a report Melbourne vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell from management to the May 28 council both addressed the audience, with Professor meeting, officers stated that the request Maskell using the occasion to announce the was “unreasonable”. new partnership with the ACO. “It’s management’s view that this is an The university will be recognised as the Welcome to Country in the new linear park. Charles Goode AC, Duncan Maskell, Virginia Trioli and unreasonable interpretation of the intent Martin Foley. official university partner of the ACO, with of the Act,” it stated. an investment of $200,000 a year over five As a trustee of The Shrine, Lord Mayor years. The Southbank campus, home of the new partnerships locally and internationally, Guests to the opening were then treated to a Sally Capp declared a conflict of interest Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, will become and help our cultural precinct partners celebration that continued into the evening on May 28. With deputy Lord Mayor the new Melbourne development and achieve the city’s vision for a thriving arts with every one of the building’s eight Arron Wood absent from the meeting, education home for the ACO. scene.” levels showcasing different performances, councillors nominated Cr Susan Riley to including jazz, solo piano, orchestras and “The ACO partnership, made possible Minister Foley said the building was a game- act as chair. chamber music, before finishing with a by the Sidney Myer University Trust, will changer for music education and a new string ensemble. Under an updated MoU, councillors provide our students at the conservatorium drawcard for the Melbourne Arts Precinct. unanimously approved an increased grant with exceptional educational enrichment “This partnership will foster important career The Ian Potter Southbank Centre was funded of $333,000, while pre-approving the same opportunities to engage and learn from the pathways for students and will welcome by the University of Melbourne, the Victorian amount for each year to financial year national orchestra’s musicians,” Professor another leading creative organisation to Government, and generous philanthropic 2023-24. Maskell said. the precinct, which is already home to the support, particularly from The Ian Potter The Shrine of Remembrance did not “These partnerships demonstrate how the highest concentration of arts and cultural Foundation, Martyn and Louise Myer and respond to Southbank Local News for Southbank campus transformation enables organisations anywhere in the world,” Mr The Myer Foundation. comment. us to expand community engagement, foster Foley said.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News 12 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 86 Brothel turned tower Timber proves a Local developer Crema Group has launched its new 18-storey stumbling block mixed-use development on the By David Schout site of a former brothel in the permit amendment process. Domain Precinct. Developers are opting against “Most developers will not go through another long, difficult and problematic The Eighth by Crema, situated at 8 “affordable and sustainable” amendment process just to change from Palmerston crescent, will comprise 36 timber frames in new concrete to timber. They will always take luxury apartments on what was formerly the the easiest route and stay with concrete,” Pink Palace brothel, which closed last year buildings because of inflexible Pradolin said. after being purchased by Crema Group and planning rules, a new report venture partner Geomax Capital. Timber structures were also beneficial for claims. local residents impacted by construction The Domain Precinct, which is directly noise, making its case “compelling” connected to Southbank’s low-rise As a result, there have been calls for the according to Pradolin. residential village, is ready to emerge as one Victorian planning minister to allow timber- of Melbourne’s newest and most sought- “Typically, when compared to concrete, constructed buildings to marginally exceed after locations. Within walking distance much of the structure is premanufactured height restrictions. to the Shrine of Remembrance, Botanic offsite,” he said. “This results in…increased Gardens, Albert Park and the future Anzac The report, by planning consultants Tract, neighbourhood amenity as fewer truck metro station, the area is flagged for wide- argued that developers currently opt for movements are required, significantly scale development and is also the subject of more expensive, energy-intensive, and reducing the impact to local residents a master plan currently being devised by the during construction.” A render of “The Eighth” by Crema Group. disruptive concrete and steel alternatives City of Port Phillip. because of the deeper floor systems Planning Minister Richard Wynne said required for timber structures. Representing the ongoing transformation café, lounge and meeting facilities. It will while his government made no apologies of the Domain Precinct, the 908 sqm also include a luxury day spa and wellness The additional height required per floor for strict adherence to height controls, he Palmerston Crescent island site is set to be studio. – approximately 250mm – can force a hoped to find a balance. transformed into a $150 million 18-storey building to be knocked down one storey to In addition to The Eighth Club, the “I understand height controls associated future focussed buidling, with every aspect fit inside the height limit, which impacted company’s director Nicolas Crema said it with the use of timber frames in buildings of the project rooted in a holistic approach on yield. would be retaining management rights of can impact proposals for new mid- and to living. the entire building to ensure it is run in line Robert Pradolin, former general manager high-rise structures, however these controls The Eighth has been designed by architect with its vision and expectations. for Frasers Property Australia and now are in place for good reasons,” he said. Peter Kennon of Studio Kennon, formerly affordable housing strategic advisor, said Mr Crema said that he and architect Peter “It is critical we strike the right balance of Elenberg Fraser, with the building’s this had negative flow-on effects. Kennon had bonded over their mutual between ensuring developers and builders interiors curated by Miriam Fanning of Mim frustration with building and residential “The loss of a floor due to using timber can can deliver sustainable and cost-effective Design. Openwork, who recently completed developments, which often claimed make it unviable for the developer and projects that service the community, while Doubleground, the 2018 winning design for to offer a superior lifestyle but lacked therefore the other benefits of using timber, at the same time meeting modern safety the annual NGV Architecture Commission, understanding for the way people really including affordability and sustainability, and quality standards.” is also engaged on the project. wanted to live. are lost to the broader community,” Mr Wynne said it was likely the issue would The Eighth is set to provide much Pradolin said. “Our shared vision has resulted in a be revisited. needed activation in the precinct as a building that has intuitive, easy living in its “The requirements to be more sustainable true destination, with its hotel-inspired “We’re always looking for ways to improve DNA,” Mr Crema said. “Each floor within in our built form will only increase. We have grand lobby flanked by two cornerstone planning and building controls and will the residential tower comprises no more a building material that captures carbon, is hospitality offerings including a 250 sqm continue working with town planners, than four generous corner residences, with cheaper to build and is sustainably grown. café, as well as a smaller European theme urban designers, developers, building every single residence having private lift It’s probably the ultimate renewable. And, restaurant and wine bar. designers and building practitioners to help access into curated private lobbies, which is what other building material has been them deliver quality projects that meet the The building will also feature 3000 sqm a first in Melbourne.” endorsed by Planet Ark?” needs and expectations of the community.” of boutique office space spread over four A full size replica sub penthouse is currently According to Tract, under Victorian levels. To complement this space and The issue is of particular interest as the open for viewing, with appointments planning provisions local authorities cannot to enhance the commercial experience, state government explores sustainable available directly with Nicolas Crema approve an increase in height to promote Crema will be retaining the fifth floor of development options in Fishermans Bend. and Peter Kennon. Construction is due to the use of more sustainable materials like the building to own and operate The Eighth The government has made clear its green commence later this year. timber. Club – a holistic lifestyle club which will intentions for the area, with sustainability feature an executive business lounge with theeighth.com.au Further, any height increase triggered a principles high on the agenda.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News ISSUE 86 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS 13 What’s climate change doing to Melbourne’s plants? By Meg Hill

There’s been some curious plant activity this autumn in Melbourne. Because plants are always changing, at different paces, it can be hard to monitor without conscious effort.

Cox Architecture director Paul Curry. Suddenly, you realise something is blooming when it shouldn’t be. Or vice versa. Skyscrapers “Plants never stay the same, they’re always changing, but within that process there are marked moments,” said Dimitri Bouzalas, a Summit guide at the Royal Botanic Gardens. “When buds form, when leaves start to By Rowan Webb fall, these are important moments. We’re capturing when those changes happen.” The Melbourne Convention She was guiding a Climate Watch tour of the and Exhibition Centre gardens, running to introduce attendees to the new initiative. (MCEC) will host the third The Climate Watch app facilitates a annual Australian Smart participatory kind of plant monitoring. Users Skyscrapers Summit from can focus on specific plants near their home or by their route to work and record when June 25 to 26. significant changes take place. The data is compiled, with reference to Cox Architecture director Paul Curry will geographical location, to create an in-depth present on effective design for multi- understanding of how different plants are tower precincts, with a focus on how Cox affected by climate change. Architecture’s $2.8 billion Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens guide Dimitri Bouzalas during a Climate Watch tour of the gardens last month. Square development in Southbank will In 2016, a City of Melbourne study found benefit the local community. that 19 per cent of tree species planted in like an organism, like a human body,” she reason they’re identified as a more adaptable the municipality were already vulnerable to The Kavanagh St development will consist said. plant is the way they can mate and spread to climate change, 35 per cent could become of four residential towers, one hotel and more conducive locations. more vulnerable by 2040, and 62 per cent by “If we know how a human body works, we one commercial tower upon estimated 2090. know when something makes someone This is hindered when one of the trees completion in 2027. sick, we avoid doing that thing again. The is grown in the middle of built up These results were found using projections Beulah International’s executive difference is we’ve only got one earth.” development. that scientists considered conservative at the director Adelene Teh will also present time. Predictions have only got worse since The City of Melbourne study found that There were worrying outcomes from the at the Summit. Beulah’s international then. jacarandas, native evergreen brush box’s and study for Dutch elms and some indigenous design competition last year for a $2 indigenous coast banksias coped better with eucalypts and acacias. billion tower on City Rd attracted a Dimitri, now retired, was a science teacher climate change. lot of attention, with UN Studio & Cox for most of her life. As the way she taught There’s always been changes in the earth’s Architecture’s project Green Spine about climate change changed with new, Dimitri included a jacaranda and a coast climate. When Dimitri took our tour to see emerging victorious. If planning and more dire, statistics, government banksia in her tour of the gardens, but also a firewheel tree she told an anecdote about permission is granted, Green Spine will inaction remained in place. noted that banksias especially are slow firewheel tree flowers being found as fossils become Australia’s tallest building upon growing trees, and the data was unclear on in Gippsland mines. She referred to Greta Thunberg, the Swedish completion. long term effects. student who started the international School The trees are tropical, which indicates Those wishing to attend the third annual Strike 4 Climate when she was 15, as an “Nature doesn’t give us immediate answers,” “Victoria was once much warmer”. Australian Skyscrapers Summit can inspiration of hers at the start of our Climate she said. But the rate of man-made climate change register their interest online. Watch tour. Coast banksias do, however, deal badly with makes it difficult to envision any living skyscrapersconference.com.au “Earth behaves like any other living thing, isolation caused by development. Part of the organism being ultimately able to adapt.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News 14 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 86 Drafting a career on the axis By Meg Hill Most of this is assembled in the CBD and the inner city. Unfortunately, the concentration of well-funded and supported literature The Emerging Writers’ Festival initiatives doesn’t stretch equally out to the (EWF) returns to Melbourne suburbs. in June, with over 300 artists But he had further cause to move to the centre of the city. participating in more than “I famously want to be close to things,” 70 events around the City of Alistair said, referring to his muscular Melbourne area. dystrophy condition which causes him to wear leg braces.

Alistair Baldwin, a 23-year-old writer and “I did my Bachelor at VCA and I lived comedian, is appearing in three events at the like three blocks away, and then I did an EWF. He moved to Southbank just after his Honours degree there.” 18th birthday. “And the fifth year I started getting work at “I’m from Perth originally but I applied to do the ABC, and its Southbank studio was two a Bachelor of Screenwriting at VCA,” he said. blocks away.”

“Within the space of two months I graduated Alistair works writing, and sometimes high school, turned 18 and moved here to acting, for The Weekly and Hard Quiz, and “I wrote about moving to Melbourne and He said the idea of talent or genius is “kind Southbank.” previously for Get Krack!n. how so many of the opportunities I’ve been of bullshit”, and reality has more to do with fortunate enough to have, have been directly potential, access and luck. The Melbourne characteristics described While living in Southbank he was also because I made the move from Perth where when it was designated a UNESCO City of awarded a Hot Desk Fellowship at the “Because Melbourne is Australia’s City of it’s much smaller and there’s not as much Literature designation were a draw card for Wheeler Centre in the CBD, hosted Lemon Literature, does that mean that Melbourne opportunity, especially in TV,” he said. Alistair. Comedy at queer Fitzroy bookshop Hares owes something to all the other cities that Melbourne was the second city in the world and Hyenas, performed at various other “But then also sort of balancing that with the don’t have the arts infrastructure Melbourne to be listed. events and written for SBS, ACMI Ideas, thought ‘well I shouldn’t have had to move has?” Archer and more. to be a writer.’” The designation was made with recognition Alistair will be appearing in the EWF’s Work including initiatives, educational Last year he also participated in the City “There’s people who don’t have the luxury to in Progress, First Stage and Late-Night Lit programmes, the urban environment, of Literature’s mock parliament. He wrote moving interstate and having a family friend events. emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ libraries, bookstores, cultural centres and a speech about moving to Melbourne to with a Southbank apartment you can move writer/alistair-baldwin/ hosting festivals like the EWF. become a writer. i n t o.” Choir call out! By Sarah Bartlett

Southbank’s new community arts organisation Upbeat Arts is looking for new members.

Meeting every Friday at the Boyd Community Hub, the South Village Singers community choir supports marginalised communities through education and social inclusion.

The program offers tailored arts and cultural Physiotherapists Sophie Heywood and Elizabeth Villalta will host ‘Plunge Into Water’ this month at Boyd. programs that strive to engage, educate and empower people that are disadvantaged, marginalised or socially excluded.

The choir’s two leaders, Kerry Gerraty and Choir director Kerry Gerraty (centre) with members. Aquatic fitness Levi McGrath, are experienced musical artists and educators who are passionate bringing music to the younger generation. By Alex Dalziel about helping their local community, using the choir as their vehicle. Mr McGrath released his debut album Move in 2007. Other professional work Aquatic Physio Exercise Australia is running a free aquatic Having worked with the choir since its includes the release of his album Children inception, Kerry specialises in classical exercise event at the Boyd Community Hub on Monday, June 24. of War in 2009, which was inspired piano, choral music and arts event by work with former child soldiers management. Since 2011, she has worked in Uganda. The album promotes the Organisers Sophie Heywood and Five readers of Southbank Local News with Short Black Opera Company - message of social change and covers the Elizabeth Villalta said that the event can go into the running to win a free pool Australia’s National Indigenous Opera stories of suffering, hope and dignity. would be perfect for people who wanted assessment conducted by physiotherapists, Company. to stay fit over the colder winter months, if you live in the area and have a pool in your He has also toured Canada supporting especially for those who suffered from an building. She is also the manager of the Dhungala former lead vocalist of Newsboys, as well injury that impaired movement. Children’s Choir (DDC), which assists as supporting US rock bands Third Day Plunge into Water is will take place on June indigenous youth performers from around Plunge Into Winter will be an opportunity and Need To Breathe on their Australian 24 at the Boyd Community Hub from 5.30 to Australia with all components of rehearsal to get up-to-date research about aquatic tour. Mr McGrath frequently tours 6.30pm. and performance work. exercise and some practical tips on how to Australia, New Zealand and Europe. start. There will also be a discussion about For details on the event or to register your Levi McGrath is a social justice musician For more information or to join visit how to keep moving and motivated during interest visit aquaticphysioexercise.com.au from Melbourne. His work focuses on upbeatarts.org.au winter.

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Review by Rhonda Dredge Here were original earthenware soldiers ideas of impermanence, in contrast to the to the shoulders, curled hands and low made and buried near the Qin Emperor’s longevity of the Imperial warrior caste. slung belts of the unarmoured infantrymen, tomb over 2,000 years ago and no-one knew Several installations explore this theme the larger size of the general, a thumbs up The Winter Masterpieces about them. but the most memorable is the flock of gesture in a kneeling archer. Now, however art has a twist and mere starlings. That’s when the contrast recedes The warriors were made out of soft clay exhibition is eagerly awaited historical information about the size of a dig for it is pretty clear that Cai Guo-Qiang has that was pressed into moulds for the various each year for its insight into is not that exciting. similar interests to the Qin dynasty: how is body parts then assembled. They were The curators have solved the problem group mentality manifest in form? then fired in a big furnace at 1000 degrees global art culture. by combining the warriors with the The starlings have been superbly cast in centigrade but the furnaces have never been contemporary work of Chinese artist Cai porcelain in various poses then blacked with found. What will the NGV choose to bring out? Guo-Qiang who has been carrying out gun powder remains and suspended from Even though the site in Lintang Province Will the exhibition keep us talking over the experiments with gunpowder for 30 years. the ceiling in a flock that demonstrates the has yielded 2,000 warriors from reassembled long cold months? You don’t actually see the gunpowder in power of synchronicity. fragments only a small percentage has been At first the selection of the Terracotta action, although a group of gallery members A group of workers tied fishing line to evacuated. Warriors from China seems like a dull was present at a Williamstown warehouse more than 1,000 birds so they could be Terracotta Warriors and Cai Guo-Qiang choice. when the artist lay fuse lines over his large tilted at the right angle and their wings are is on at the NGV until October 13. Ngv.vic. After all, the warriors were discovered painted and sculpted works then ignited beautifully represented, as are their eyes and gov.au back in the 1970s and there has already been them. beaks. a huge buzz particularly when they were The explosive patterns have created visual A closer look at the warriors shows their shown here in 1982. texture, which serves as a metaphor for own synchronous markings, the slight bunch 16 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 86

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Science meets art By Sakshi Agrawal

Southbank’s Testing Grounds will be filled with pop-up installations in August as We can be heroes part of the Science Gallery Rhonda Dredge based on the novel The man who fell to earth with my life. I have a shitty personality. by Walter Tevis. It premiered in New York in Elly gets involved in a plot to rehabilitate Melbourne’s (SGM) third December 2015. Newton by emulating his lost love, Marylou, season of its public interactive Love doesn’t have a chance in Bowie had acted in the movie adaptation somewhere or other on a planet far away art and science series. of the novel and wanted to bring it to the with his child. Hello Marylou. Goodbye the abstract halls of New York stage. He approached script writer Enda heart. where disenchanted beings try Walsh with a four-page synopsis which Characters are caught between worlds or Returning for its third season, this year’s included three more characters, including pass like ships in the night. We spoke upon topic will be DISPOSABLE: Reimagining and enthrall each other with Girl, a mass murderer Valentine and a the stairs. This is a story about separation your waste. Presented as a mini-festival, their wayward tales. character based on Emma Lazarus, an from loved ones and self. it will feature a range of art and science American poet. Girl, a child woman, perhaps Newton’s pop-up installations, events, exhibits and “His lyrics often arrive cut-up and daughter, has been lying in a grave with experiments focusing on creative and Thomas Newton is an alien, landed on opaque,” wrote Walsh. “It was rarely about her eyes open, unable to die. We never lost innovative solutions to our war on waste earth some time ago, who drinks gin in his listening to the words and sticking it into the control. Oh no, not me. I never lost control. and the ever-growing culture of excess. apartment and dreams of the old galaxy. story. It was about the emotion, rhythm and The man who sold the world. “From consumer culture, fast fashion, I’m in danger. I’m so high. He’s stuck on atmosphere of those songs.” Some pedants are critical of the musical single use plastics and ways to recycle earth without a means of return. And how wonderfully the director Michael as a form because it can use a weak story human waste, DISPOSABLE will delve into Newton, played by Chris Ryan, is an Kantor and set designer Anna Cordingley line to link songs. But this is not the case our garbage bins and human digestive attractive fellow in the flesh, prone in capture the atmosphere with a two-storey with Lazarus, which manages to squeeze in systems to unwrap solutions to the often- his pyjamas in various states of disarray paned window in the centre of the stage 18 Bowie songs, sung in Bowie style with a overwhelming challenge of what to do with beneath a blue moon. that variously excludes and includes action seven piece band visible through the glass. our waste,” SGM director Rose Hiscock said. Several young women want to rescue him beyond Newton’s apartment. The lyrics of the songs intertwine with the Some of the highlights are Urinotron, but they, too, have their loads. Youth and Sometimes the window serves as a screen script and dancers with pink tassels bounce which turns human urine into a sustainable beauty are not enough to get them through. when scenes from outside New York’s grimy around the stage until they all cross over power source and Trash Robot, which is a This wonderful dystopian musical plays streets are displayed, mostly fragmented each other in the finale when Newton takes remote-controlled garbage collector. out through the songs of David Bowie in glimpses of a planet in overload. off in his imaginary rocket. New York might DISPOSABLE will also showcase works at a moving tribute to the great prophet of Intimate moments are difficult to support be edgy but it does have a soul. We can be University of Melbourne’s Parkville Campus alienation. in this crossfire of interplanetary influences. heroes just for one day. and the Footscray Community Arts Centre. It’s as if you haven’t lived unless you have A gang mentality prospers in the culture and Lazarus, The Production Company, Disposable will run from 1 August to 31 suffered and understood how puny life is in something as simple as a job comes fraught Playhouse, until June 9. August. Stay tuned for more details on the the grand scheme of things. with personal jealousies and pining. Artscentremelbourne.com.au event in our next edition. Bowie died in January 2016 and Lazarus, Elly, played by Phoebe Panaretos, is melbourne.sciencegallery.com on at the Playhouse, was his last musical, Newton’s assistant. I need to do something

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roles in the industry – now does some teaching at PSC. As a photographer of some 15 years, George has worked across a broad spectrum in the field. From more commercial ventures in graduation and wedding shoots, all the way to fine art photography, he knows the industry well. He also knows the difficulty in switching between the two. “Coming from a commercial background, everything needs to be perfect,” he said. “But as an artist, it’s a completely different world.” Switching from the precise world of real estate photography, for example, to using blur in more creative expressions, was difficult. “Letting go of that took some time, but I’m glad I embraced it and pleased to see where it’s taking me now.” George specialises in self-portraiture; a Image from the The Stranger. The Stranger is a contemporary graphic novel produced by George Poulakis. space he feels he can express himself best. His work varies from the dark and brooding GEORGE POULAKIS GEORGE to the humorous and absurd. “It kind of started out of necessity,” he explained. “I’m constantly up at 3-4am with my mind racing, and it sort of grew from that to begin looking at concepts of the self.” The preference of working with and by himself eventually shone through. “I’m quite a fun and energetic person, but then in the studio I’m quite introverted. I’ve worked with models before but it doesn’t feel as intimate as when it’s just me. I’m used to knowing how to work with myself.” Alongside some teaching at PSC, he also Both sides runs private “iPhoneography” tutorials teaching people how to use their everyday devices to take stunning snaps. The workshops show users how to get the of the lens most out of their smartphones, and reveals handy features that the average person isn’t By David Schout aware of. George said the idea began organically. Selected work from George’s Bodyscapes collection. “When I travel, it’s too much effort to take Already an experienced all my equipment,” he said. “Four or five years ago I travelled to Italy photographer, George And after a creatively fulfilling period course,” he explained to Southbank Local just with a phone and everyone was saying Poulakis had no real intention at PSC, he took a break from study News. how good some of my images were. So I just for a number of different commercial “It’s such a great environment with started developing the course while on that of completing a course at opportunities, with his advanced diploma of inspiring people who are constantly trip. It developed itself, really. It’s basically Photography Studies College photography still unfinished. bouncing ideas of each other. It’s actually about letting people know features on the But eventually, he says, he was “drawn tough to keep creatively motivated outside phone that they don’t know of, and getting (PSC) when he commenced it back” and kicked off where he left off. and keeping up the momentum.” the most out of their camera. They’ve got all some five years ago. “I went off to the big bad world but loved The photography freelancer will graduate this this software on the phone at disposal.” it so much so came back to complete the in a month and – among a number of other georgepoulakis.com.au

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The Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) is celebrating its 19th year of making music and is releasing a humorous and tenderhearted On vulnerability and doubt choral performance in commemoration this month. By Sarah Bartlett and animations of Tala Madani, alongside Cherine Fahd’s photographic depictions of personal fears in public spaces,” Mr Delany MRC presents The Spooky Men’s Chorale, ACCA’s winter season exhibition said. a show by an Australian male choir The exhibit this year is featuring new group that mixes comedy with acapella returns to Southbank in June commissions together with noteworthy harmonies. The group has had vast and will feature the works existing projects. The exhibit explores experience with over 680 gigs since 2001 role of Doubting Thomas and the art will to an audience of over 280,000 people. of many Australian and also engage with the roles of humour, The Spooky Men’s Chorale formed in the international artists to captivate “the minor” and “otherwise” in relation to Blue Mountains of NSW by “spookmeister” figures of authority. Stephen Taberner and is made up of 15 your interest. On Vulnerability and Doubt is curated male singers. They have enjoyed success by Max Delany and will feature the works at the folk festival scene and have toured at ACCA presents On Vulnerability and of Australian and international artists noteworthy festivals in the U.K and Europe. Doubt, which will explore questions of including Andrea Büttner, Cherine Fahd, The chorale will perform a combination modesty and desire, as well as awkwardness Brent Harris, Tala Madani, Lisa Marrinon, of Georgian table songs, ballads, and and love, through diverse artistic mediums Archie Moore, Charlie Sofo and Ambera lighthearted anthems such as Don’t stand such as painting, sculpture, printmaking and Wellmann. between a man and his tool. video. ACCA’s winter season each year has a The performance will also feature songs ACCA artistic director Max Delany unique conceptual and stylistic focus. This from the Chorale’s latest studio album said that the exhibit would look into year the exhibit is developed by ACCA’s Welcome to the Second Half. the intricacies that come with an artist curatorial team, and by guest curators, to Mr Taberner said that the latest album with a collection of new harmonies, man- displaying themselves and their work to the focus on the new developments and trends explored deeper topics but still contained chords and grand buffoonery,” Mr Taberner public. in contemporary art from around the their trademark humor. said. “This ranges from the acclaimed world. “The Spooky Men’s Chorale – your The Spooky Men’s Chorale will run on shrouded figures of poverty in Andrea On Vulnerability and Doubt will run from fearless investigators into all things June 20 at 7:30pm at the Elisabeth Murdoch Büttner’s woodcuts to the delicious sense June 29 until September 1 at ACCA. physical, metaphysical, and cheese-related Hall. of irreverence and the grotesque paintings acca.melbourne – is returning to inspire your ear-things melbournerecital.com.au Welsh Choir comes to Southbank uplifting music that offers hope and joy. in London in Les Misérables for two The Melbourne Welsh Male Songs such as You Raise Me Up do raise us years, played the lead role of Donna in up. Music keeps the choir young; it keeps the smash hit Mamma Mia! throughout Choir will mark the winter us all young,” he said. Australia and Asia, and performed in The solstice on Saturday, June 22 by Mr Ashton-Smith said that the choir King and I in 2010, in Chess in 2012, was delighted to be returning to the Recital and Jerry’s Girls in 2015. teaming up with Silvie Paladino Centre. Roy Best established his singing career and Roy Best in a concert at the “The Recital Centre is one of our in spectacular fashion after successfully Melbourne Recital Centre. favourite performing spaces. Its competing in ABC television’s Operatunity magnificent acoustics mean that the Oz. He performed the role of the Duke in sings best, including Welsh standards Sing Melbourne Welsh Male Choir can perform Opera Australia’s Rigoletto at the Sydney Rhondda, Calon Lân and Ysbryd y Nos. The choir’s musical director David Ashton- without amplification – the result is a much Opera House and was rewarded with a Paladino and Best will give individual Smith OAM said that winter solstice was richer, much more compelling sound. Silvie standing ovation from a packed house and performances, team up for songs in Italian traditionally associated with ceremonies Paladino’s soaring voice and Roy Best’s a television audience of over one million and then join the choir in singing the celebrating regeneration, renewal and the dynamic tenor are a perfect complement to viewers. popular Neapolitan song, O Sole Mio. rebirth of the sun. the choir’s four-part harmonies,” he said. The concert repertoire will include The choir will perform at Melbourne “But you don’t have to go to Stonehenge Paladino is best-known (and perhaps favourites from musical theatre (in several Recital Centre at 2pm, June 22. For tickets to mark this natural phenomenon. Just join best-loved) for her regular performances different languages), traditional choral and more information visit: us at the Recital Centre for an afternoon of at Carols by Candlelight. She performed pieces, and an array of songs that the choir melbournerecital.com.au

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ANGELA TIATIA BLAQUE SHOWGIRLS MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

Until June 29 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery June 21 - July 14 - Beckett Theatre Until June 9 - Various venues June 8 - 22 - State Theatre Angela Tiatia’s compelling video The Fall draws The entire world of Wake in Fright is conjured in a The 2019 Melbourne International Jazz Festival After sell-out seasons in 2017, Christopher from oral and written accounts of the survivors one-person show by the always-evocative Zahra takes place in concert halls, arts venues, jazz clubs Wheeldon’s madcap production returns this of the fall of Singapore in February of 1942. Newman (The Book of Mormon) accompanied and bars throughout the streets of Melbourne as the month. Experience breathtaking visuals from Commissioned by The Australian War Memorial by a sonic assault from art-electronica band, city comes alive with the spirit of jazz. Showcasing Tony Award-winning designer Bob Crowley and a and The National Museum of Singapore, Tiatia friendships. Under the direction of Declan Greene, the very best from the international jazz scene, the colourful, cinematic score by Joby Talbot. With all was asked to respond to the Battle of Singapore, a Kenneth Cook’s iconic work of Australian Gothic festival offers a range of free and ticketed events. To the scale and spectacle of Broadway, this ballet will military retreat described by Winston Churchill as horror is felt in the flesh. Bring sunscreen, buy a see what’s still on offer head online. transport you to the heights of your imagination. “the worst disaster” in British history. beer and wear your ear plugs. melbournejazz.com australianballet.com.au mlg.finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au malthousetheatre.com.au

AUSTRALIAN MUSIC VAULT ALEXANDER CALDER: RADICAL INVENTOR TOM NICHOLSON: PUBLIC MEETING NATIONAL ANTHEM AND A NEW ORDER

Ongoing - Arts Centre Melbourne Until Aug 4 - National Gallery of Victoria Until June 16 - ACCA Until July 7 - Buxton Contemporary The Australian Music Vault features a free, Radical Inventor presents approximately 100 Reflecting the complex dynamic between historical Buxton Contemporary, home to the remarkable immersive exhibition showcasing Australian sculptural and pictorial compositions made by traces and speculative futures in Tom Nicholson’s Michael Buxton Collections, marks its first birthday music, innovative digital participatory experiences renowned American artist Alexander Calder (1898– drawing, sculptural and social practice, this is the with two new exhibitions: National Anthem and iconic objects from our Australian Performing 1976), drawn from private and museum collections first large-scale exhibition to survey the scope of and A New Order, running until July. These free Arts Collection. in North America, including a substantial number the artist’s practice. Initially trained in drawing, exhibitions invite us to scrutinise crucial moments Tom Nicholson is one of the most prominent in the recent history of Australian art and the ideas australianmusicvault.com.au of works lent by the Calder Foundation, New York. ngv.vic.gov.au Australian artists on the international stage. that continue to shape the nation. acca.melbourne buxtoncontemporary.com

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Southbank Local News 20 SOUTHBANK LOCAL NEWS ISSUE 86 Getting better Local author inspired By Rhonda Dredge by Southbank Laneway culture is still By Sarah Bartlett evolving at Southbank. A narrow passage between Author Margaret Robson two buildings has been fitted Kett moved into her high-rise with cafes and a few hardy apartment on Queensbridge individuals are assessing their Street in 2012. options. Her apartment was located opposite to another apartment that was under The riverbank is more alluring but on a construction at the time. She would winter day the winds come in from the port observe the construction work that was and they’re icy. happening outside of her apartment block th Two men are making up their minds about from her window on the 16 floor. lunch. “Level with my window, just four car lanes Across the lane is a pho shop. There is a The men are hipsters with a twist. Their across, the cab of a tower crane stood at the large fire in a metal cone outside, where you clothes are made of microfibres that repel corner of the buildings skeleton. I noticed can warm the cockles of your heart while moisture and wind particles. that children, like me, looked up from waiting. The mood is pleasant. The two the street, or across from their balcony or Some might call them pioneers. They’ve diners are supporting each other in their window, to see the hook lowering at the learned how to fictionalise their lives and vision. end of a cable like a giant fishing line to a enjoy a bit of drama. Two steaming cardboard containers arrive waiting truck,” Ms Kett said. Both are standing outside the Thai café. It soon after. Perhaps they aren’t pioneers Ms Kett decided after many years of has the usual menu. Pad Thai is looking after all, even though they feel like it. buying, reading aloud and recommending good. A woman approaches wearing a padded picture books to children and parents The sun comes out and beams down a lane thermal jacket from Japan. She nods and at libraries, to return to school to study that points due north towards the river. smiles as she passes. professional writing and editing at RMIT University. On a cold day Southbank has it over the city Architects have been clever to create some because of these shafts of light and the men shelter and the sunlight bounces off the It was here where she met graphic designer Caitlin Ziegler at an editing class. Ms move over to a sunny spot while they wait. nearby towers in pleasing patterns. about. When a building right next door to Ziegler specialises in drawing, cutting, mine was finished and I was able to spend pasting, and folding paper cranes. Ms a day watching the crane being dismantled, Kett and Ms Ziegler made the decision to the simple rhyming text was finally polished enrol together in the subject writing for to perfection,” Ms Kett said. children. In this subject, they worked on a Boost for Town Hall picture book manuscript, The Daily Crane Ms Ziegler used a variety of both traditional Watching. and digital illustration and collage techniques for the book. By Alex Dalziel Ms Kett used her observation of construction in the Southbank area as “Discarded building plans from a skip even As part of the recent federal inspiration for her picture book. made their way into it,” she said. The title, A Construction of Cranes, takes its name from “A lot of staring out of the window became budget, former Minister for the collective noun for the birds, as well as legitimate research, and trying to work the machines,” Ms Ziegler said. Communications and the Arts out how cranes worked and grew with Mitch Fifield has committed the building. Even when I moved one A Construction of Cranes is now available block over, I could find plenty in the to purchase and can be ordered online at to helping restore the South neighbourhood to photograph and write kettlestitchpress.com.au Melbourne Town Hall. Chair of the ANAM board Ian McRae said: “ANAM is grateful to the Commonwealth Government for joining with us and our Before its collapse last year, the heritage other stakeholders to realise our vision for South Melbourne Town Hall was home to ANAM’s future in the South Melbourne the Australian National Academy of Music Town Hall, and to significantly upgrade the MCEC lights up (ANAM). opportunities for community use of this The budget will see $12.5 million go toward important building.” By Sakshi Agrawal the restoration and refurbishment of the “The catastrophic events of last October building, which is expected to cost a total of and November brought us to a profound The Melbourne Convention $30 million. realisation: this beautiful but broken and Exhibition Centre “The academy is both an internationally- building requires significant financial recognised training institution and a investment in order to ensure that ANAM (MCEC) lit up on the night of jewel in the community. This funding will may have a home that supports its current May 16 as it hosted 550 guests spectacular national and international secure the academy’s vision and place in leading Victorian chefs. Melbourne for the next 50 years,” Minister trajectory. With the Commonwealth’s for the Starlight Foundation’s Fifield said. commitment, we can now begin to plan”. Five Chefs Dinner. “This is the eighth year we’ve been involved in the Starlight Five Chefs Dinner and it’s On October 18 last year, a large section The federal contribution is contingent always a privilege to be able to support of the roof in the office area of the South The event raised enough funds to support on matching funding from the Victorian Starlight’s programs in Victoria and knowing Melbourne Town Hall suddenly collapsed, Starlight Children’s foundation’s hospital Government. In addition, ANAM has raised that every meal we serve contributes towards narrowly missing two staff members programs at the Royal Children’s Hospital $5 million of its own for the project and has putting another smile on a sick kid’s face,” working at their desks. and Monash Children’s Hospital for four partnered with the City of Port Phillip to Peter Haycroft said. complete the restoration. months. In addition, it also granted 15 This was followed three weeks later by Starlight children wishes. Starlight CEO Louise Baxter said that the another section of the roof in another Directors at ANAM plan to use the money dinner played a significant role in the part of the building collapsing onto a staff The guests were served canapes by to modernise the venue into a hub for live hospital program. performances and community and cultural member’s workstation, which forced the MCEC’s executive chef Peter Haycroft and events. building’s closure. a five-course degustation designed by starlightfivechefs.org.au

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Southbanker Vantage points By Meg Hill the fact that he’s lived in South Melbourne, in the same house, for over 40 years – with a decade long interval to work overseas. On one of the walls of the new “When we bought it wasn’t very popular to live in South Melbourne, there was a lot of South Melbourne “vertical” derelict buildings,” he said. primary school in Southbank “The house we bought had a demolition order on it and we renovated it and spent a sits a massive two-by-three lot of time putting it back together.” metre painting of Albert Park “It was built in 1884 originally and a cow shed at the back of the property ran as a lake. dairy.” The prolific sketching habits mean Ted can The bean-shaped lake rests next to Queens put together a show on any kind of landscape Lane, painted as if a long exposure shot of if he’s had a chance to sketch it. Two years busy traffic heading to-and-from the city. To ago, his Australia Rocks showcased volcanic the far left are ships floating in Port Phillip rock formations in rural Victoria. Bay. But there’s a level of critical reflection in It’s a lofty piece, more than three times tracing cumulative man-made development. bigger than its creator planned. “I’ve always had an interest in architecture “I originally asked for a canvas two-by- since art school, so I guess there was that three feet, and they came back with this distant relationship with architecture even massive thing,” said artist Arthur “Ted” ground. Ted doesn’t use photographic night I made my own little post-cards with though I get sort of frustrated with what’s Powell. reference either. watercolours and painted them and sent happening and some buildings that aren’t The painting did fit in Ted’s apartment at He prolifically creates panoramic sketches, them to my family,” he said. very interesting,” he said. the time, when he was living overseas, but absorbing visual information about an “That progressed into sketch books, A few years ago, Ted had a show on the not when he moved back to his house in environment and the way it’s arranged. wherever I was and if we were filming TV Eureka Tower, which he has a “personal South Melbourne. This allows him to “put the sketches away” commercials or something, in the downtime interest” in. It sat in storage for years until it was and paint from that memory – even from a I’d spend scribbling in sketchbooks and “The design of the tower is based on the eventually homed at the primary school. vantage point he’s never physically occupied. filling those up.” Eureka Stockade. The surveyor’s measure The lake, the sea, shore and the city in the He began sketching while working Now, some of his panoramic sketchbooks gives you the window structure.” background are painted from above. overseas in advertising, rediscovering his art are held by the State Library’s rare book “The gold glass at the top is a reference to Lots of his paintings, which over the school self from years before. His first job, collection, and by the City of Melbourne and the Eureka gold fields and the red stripe is a past decade have focused largely on the long before his career in advertising, was Port Phillip councils. symbol for the blood that was lost.” development of Southbank and the city, are working part-time on the animated Beatles’ The perceptive lens into detail of “It gives the building a whole different painted from above their subjects. movie Yellow Submarine. development comes not only from Ted’s story. Most of them are just glass boxes.” But all his sketches are drawn from the “Rather than going out and eating every knack for moving around perspectives, but

Montague Community Alliance Montague – an agreeable neighbourhood? culture that would need to change as new Interestingly very few of the legacy enjoyment of our homes too. Agreeable definition: If people arrived into the neighbourhoods. residents have left the area, I can only think I am not sure we can blame them for not This column is often about all the things of one family, but they only moved across really paying attention to how many of us something is agreeable, it is that are problematic with living and working City Rd to another part of South Melbourne. live here but we can hope that maybe we pleasant and you enjoy it. in Montague and the challenges faced from We love our Montague Precinct. We can change their mindset in the future. the huge influx of new people arriving here. don’t want to be anywhere else and there Montague was an agreeable, community- However, before you think we’re just being is virtually no one (okay, maybe one or minded village when we moved in. I so look I was thinking about the definition of this nimbies, let’s examine all the great things we two) who don’t understand that. Yes, we forward to the day, somewhere in the future, word as it related to agreements. If we, in already have that are agreeable: will be developed, and many, many more that another resident and business owner the Montague Precinct of South Melbourne ■■ We are a close-knit community. E.g. those residents and businesses will move in. And can write the same thing. are already an agreeable neighbourhood, of us who have lived here – precinct wide yes, we also understand that new residents Change is always difficult especially one that is pleasant and enjoyable, how do – before 2012 (the legacy community), and businesses don’t know about us or the to those who have no control (or third- you create neighbourhood agreements that know the names of the operators of the history of the area and that, from time to party rights) over their living or working integrate new neighbours, both residential small businesses. We know where people time, might create challenges. Indeed, I’m environments. I hope that we can all work and businesses, with those already enjoying need to park to assist them with their sure some Montague newbies (post 2012) together with warmth and thoughtfulness, the area? How do we create a relationship children, or elderly relatives. And we try will not understand why I write this column, to create the very thing that I am sure we with developers and builders that could be very hard not to disrupt anyone. or why we even have a community group. all want – for Montague to be an agreeable considered agreeable? ■■ We have a strong connection with our The reason is that I write it on behalf of the neighbourhood. The reason I pose this question is that neighbours across the road in Port Montague Community Alliance because we Thank you for reading this. As usual, if recently, in an informal discussion with a Melbourne. We know the names of their believe it is incumbent on all of us, the new you have any ideas or want to offer any senior state planner about the uniqueness dogs! and the legacy communities, to create an feedback to us, we have a twitter account @ of developing the Montague Precinct, this ■■ We are walking distance to the South agreeable neighbourhood. MontComAlliance and a Facebook page @ point arose. How do governments and Melbourne Market, surrounded by public The legacy community needs to accept MontaguePrecinct, or you can contact me councils engage with existing residents transport and only a couple of tram stops that we do have building works on our at [email protected] and businesses who were in place before from the city and the beach. doorsteps. And that we will have businesses the change of zoning to a Capital City Zone ■■ There is no doubt about it: we have a that don’t realise there is a two-year old, or occurred, and life as they knew it changed? It fabulous location with lots of open space a resident with the flu, or that their weekend turns about to be a dilemma for both council Trisha Avery and bike tracks. cleaners and workmen are a challenge for and state planners, as apparently, there is ■■ We are also mindful of the history of the those residents needing downtime on the Trisha Avery is the convener little or no precedence or reference for this of the Montague Community area and we have the lived experience of weekends. And we would hope in time, that type of integration either in Victoria or other Alliance. that history in the hearts and minds of they (the post-2012 businesses), know as [email protected] parts of the country. Particularly as these the existing communities. We are proud they leave at the end of their business day neighbourhoods already have a community of that. and go to their homes, that we need quiet

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A new South Melbourne business is promising better health through a simple way to grow bone density.

OsteoStrong, at 378 Clarendon St, is the choose not to accept that growing older first Australian franchise of a business which means growing weaker. You can choose to started in the US and has spread to Europe. continue doing what you love and maintain The system safely put bones and the independence.” joints under a proper amount of pressure Mr Oparkcharoen also said OsteoStrong and more than can be achieved by other helped with balance, joint and back pain as means, such as running, jumping or jogging. well as long term blood glucose (HbA1c). According to Franchisee and director “What we do at OsteoStrong is increase Wutti Oparkcharoen, research shows that we muscle density, rather than the size. When need to apply load equivalent to 4.2 times you have more muscle density, it allows your our body weight to trigger bone growth in body to process blood glucose better.” the hip and femur. “Research shows that when joints are This means that a 60kg person would need OsteoStrong owner Wutti Oparkcharoen with staff members Shannon and Andrew at the Clarendon St business. subject to compressive loads, tendon and to apply force equivalent to about 250kg biomechanical expert, Dr John Jaquish, who “Most people don’t know that after the age ligament become stronger. Members from through the lower body and this cannot be became interested in bone density after his of 30, you start to lose 1 to 2 per cent of bone overseas living with joint pain such as safely achieved in typical modalities such as mother developed osteoporosis. density per year and up to 5 per cent per osteoarthritis have reported that they had weight bearing exercise or jogging. He observed that gymnasts had the year for women during menopause. We now substantially reduced or eliminated pain.” Mr Oparkcharoen told Southbank strongest bones of any athletes, although know that your central nervous system will He said OsteoStrong helped professional Local News members could increase their too much stress on their joints often meant not allow you to have a muscle strength that athletes by increasing strength, power, bone density through a single 10-minute an early retirement from competitive sport. your skeleton cannot handle,” Wutti said. agility, balance as well as injury risk supervised session each week. “So he invented these machines “As we get older, and our skeletal system reduction through stronger bones and joints. “There’s nothing else like this out there,” to emulate such impacts, but without the becomes weaker, our muscles also become “Locally, we work with professional he said. “There’s no sweat, there’s no pain, risks that come with it,” Mr Oparkcharoen weaker.” athletes such as Taylor Adams from you can come in your normal clothes and said. “That’s why we call it a high-impact “Because your central nervous system is a Collingwood AFL and Natalie Medhurst from minimum effort gives maximum results.” emulation and it triggers osteogenesis or smart engineering team, it is trying to protect the Magpie Netball club,” he said. Four proprietary, robotic musculoskeletal bone building.” you. You cannot have too much muscle OsteoStrong South Melbourne opened development machines are at the heart of He said OsteoStrong internationally strength that your bones can’t handle. A on May 29 and Wutti and his staff are OsteoStrong. One is for upper skeleton, worked with members ranging from 10 to 95 good analogy would be that you can’t put a offering Southbank Local News readers a one for lower (femur and hip), one for core years old. Ferrari motor engine in a Corolla because it complimentary first session, which includes (upper pelvis and lower rib cage) and one But, he said, some 90 per cent would shatter the chassis.” a bone density scan. machine for postural and spine. OsteoStrong members renewed their “We’ve always accepted that we are going 378 Clarendon St, South Melbourne. The machines are designed to allow memberships year after year because to get weaker as we get older but now, with Phone: 7004 1284 Email: sthmelb@ members to safely exert pressure on different it works and because it is easily this new OsteoStrong technology, it is the osteostrong.com.au Web: osteostrong. parts of the skeleton and were invented by accommodated into their busy lifestyles. first time in human history that you can com.au

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Business Season’s Harvest at The Langham

It’s widely regarded that fresh is best. The Langham Melbourne’s

Images from Ray White Southbank | Port Phillip’s In-Room Auction night on Saturday, May 29. Melba Restaurant here in Southbank has introduced Season’s Harvest at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Season’s Harvest shares with diners where what they are about to eat comes from. Inner-city auction “We’re thrilled to announce that 70 per cent of produce served at Melba Restaurant is from Victoria. From basil from a farm in Bendigo to tuna that swum off the shores of Portland to honey from Beechworth specialists to cheese made just 45 minutes away in the Yarra Valley, Melba Restaurant is sharing with guests the provenance of the At a time when some inner-city real estate agencies are shy of restaurant’s hero ingredients,” The Langham conducting auctions for apartments, Ray White Southbank | Port Melbourne’s director of food and beverage Anthony Ross explained. Phillip has just cleared 100 per cent of its auction stock in the last “Our guests are astute diners from around two months. the globe. The Langham Melbourne hosted over 25,000 guests from overseas in 2018. Season’s Harvest is the perfect platform Principal Andrew Salvo said most agents completed under the hammer, with four to showcase Victoria’s local produce were fearful when listing apartments for more selling just prior to clear seven from and sensational beef, fish and fruit from free-range pork belly from near Mt Mercer, auction as they believed units were not eight units in one night. interstate,” The Langham Melbourne’s every ingredient has a story to tell. traditionally sold this way. Mr Salvo said that the energy generated managing director Andrew Jessop added. And the same goes for seafood! Port Phillip “Open for inspections can be a lonely from the style of auctioning was “truly “In 2018, Melba Restaurant served over Bay provides an abundance of mussels, 30 minutes and an onsite auction can amazing” with the company wide effort 200,000 meals. We felt that it was time to snapper and scallops throughout the season be awkward and embarrassing when the of getting deals done helping to ease the share with our guests where our ingredients while blue swimmer crab comes from auctioneer is calling the auction to very few pressure on individual agents. come from. Our chefs have enjoyed meeting Westernport Bay, bluefin tuna from Portland, people. Other people believe that inner city He said the support and confidence with local farmers, fishermen, cheese- pippies from Venus Bay and Hiramasa apartment auctions lack atmosphere,” Mr created a culture where his team was makers and bakers and finding ways we can kingfish from Port Fairy. Salvo said. prepared to challenge itself and push work together.” It’s not just edible produce that has a But not this office. Not only did this the boundaries in a traditionally difficult “Diners will be able to see where many of Victorian focus at Melba Restaurant. The Ray White office sell 100 per cent of its marketplace. the ingredients come from by reading the popular dining venue’s wine list shines auction stock over the past two months – Ray White Victoria and Tasmania CEO labels at Melba’s open kitchen and all of a light on local Victorian wine and local some 16 units for a combined sales total Stephen Dullens congratulated Ray White Melba’s team members have learned where mineral water from Hepburn Springs. of $8,448,333 – they can boast an average Southbank | Port Phillip on their fantastic ingredients are grown or reared and are Melba Restaurant is open every day for days-on-market of 27.5 days. results for their vendors. able to talk to diners about different areas of breakfast (from $49.00 per person), lunch Speaking of his group’s auctions held “Across Victoria, Ray White consistently Victoria.” (from $67.00 per person) and dinner (from at their office at 111 Clarendon Street, Mr call more than 20 per cent of the auctions Anthony Ross said he hoped local and $97.00 per person). Salvo said auctioneering via an in-room in the state,” Mr Dullens said. “We invest international diners would enjoy learning Children under the age of three dine for style was the secret to their success. significant time and resources to ensure more about how Melba Restaurant was free, seniors enjoy a discount and children “The auction process cuts through the this process is as successful as possible, committed to a “fresh is best” and “local aged between four and 12 dine for half the awkwardness. It is a fun night with multiple where we know that a strong auction wherever possible commitment.” price making Melba Restaurant an ideal auctions and a full room of people. There campaign will result in lower days on For instance, B&B Basil, located 133km choice for families. is genuine tension and mystery in the market and stronger results for our away, supplies the hotel with basil and fresh Breakfast includes juices made-to-order, air. That’s the atmosphere that successful vendors.” edible flowers. Meanwhile, Hawkes Farm, eggs made-to-order, fruit, pastries, Asian auctions need,” he said. Apartment Collective Auction Event at located an hour and 20-minute drive (67km dishes, yogurt, waffles and more. Lunch and “We get so much efficiency out of this Ray White Southbank | Port Phillip away), supplies Melba Restaurant with dinner includes a crustacean bar, a sushi process as we can fully utilise weekends The Apartment Collective Auction Event, potatoes, Dutch carrots, beetroot, spring and sashimi station, an antipasto table, to get as many people through properties to be held on June 20, is the first of its kind. onions, parsley and strawberries and corn roast dishes, Indian curries, dumplings, as possible. We simply have more time to See several Ray White businesses located when in season. stir-fries, steaks and pasta dishes all made to prepare buyers on weekends so they can in capital city markets across Australia Hawkes Farm is not only a supplier to order from Melba Restaurant’s grill and wok purchase property mid-week.” and New Zealand collectively focus on five-star hotels. It is also open to the public section plus incredible Indian dishes and “When it comes around to our usual apartment sales in one international (seven days a week, 8am to 5pm) and hosts more. Wednesday or Thursday evening time slot, campaign. farm tours where visitors can pick their own And there’s a chocolate fountain, dessert the whole business is geared up for a fun This event is being launched following produce. More information is available at showcase, ice cream and plenty of Victorian night of auctioning properties. We have our the huge success of the in-room auctions hawkesfarm.com.au cheese! salespeople, administrators, receptionists that Ray White Southbank | Port Phillip Melba Restaurant’s antipasto table is a Melba is ideal for groups and can cater for and property managers trained and on have been running in recent months. magnet for those who love cured meats and up to 240 guests at a time. deck ready to help.” The night is an opportunity for savvy cheese. The restaurant is popular for families as “This creates tremendous support that buyers to bid confidently in an open and All of the hotel’s charcuterie, including there is always something for everyone, even we wouldn’t be able to leverage from on transparent environment surrounded by prosciutto, mortadella and salami comes the fussiest of eaters. weekends without having to pull resources astute vendors ready to sell. from a local supplier in Daylesford. Bookings can be made by visiting away from showing properties and assisting Thanks to Gavl, you can also watch and As well as organic French-style cheese melbarestaurant.com.au, contacting tlmel. buyers.” bid for these properties online. For more from L’Artisan Cheese, Persian-style fetta [email protected] or by calling Earlier this year on February 27, the Ray information contact Andrew Salvo. from Yarra Valley Dairy, tomatoes from 1800 641 107. White Southbank | Port Phillip hosted its raywhitesouthbank.com.au Bacchus Marsh, clover-fed Angus beef from @melbarestaurant #MelbaHarvest @ first in-room auction, which saw three sales O’Connors Farms in Pakenham or Birchley langhammelbourne

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St Johns Southgate Southbank Residents Association Loosen up! Winter is here required tension to hold it together without what is more exciting is that it is on time! A few months ago, I officiated at it choking me to death. Winter is certainly upon us We are hoping to arrange a launch event I made it to the reception in time, as it and many would argue winter sometime in spring. a wedding at St Johns Southgate. happens, and even *blush* received the odd Our committee also met with the project compliment on my outfit! But what was I to brings out Melbourne’s best. managers for the City Rd upgrade and we are excited to learn we will begin to see It was a ceremony full of warmth, love learn as I looked around at the other sharply some tangible works in the coming months and even a few laughs. The couple looked dressed men? Most of them had opted for In my opinion, Melbourne has a real particularly focusing on the parks around stunningly beautiful and didn’t break from ready-tied bow ties – ones that you can slip charm and eloquence about her that the City Road tram stop and the Kings Way their smiles the whole afternoon – except to on in about five seconds flat. Why didn’t I is certainly unrivalled to any other city undercroft. shed the odd tear. get one of those? It would have saved me so in Australia. A good time to enjoy the This is just a small part of the whole There was a really relaxed atmosphere, but much torment. many shows the arts institutions will be City Rd upgrade, but considering we have afterwards, once everyone had gone and I’d All of this got me thinking about what we presenting right here in our backyard. been fighting for many years for this to finished packing things up, I found myself in call “God’s grace” in the Christian church. Firstly, I would like to congratulate our commence it will be interesting to see just a panic. When we talk about grace we’re not referring new representative from the Labor party how much will make it into the 2019/20 I’d been invited to attend the reception, so to looking graceful, as one might slinking Josh Burns for his success at winning budget. We will be scrutinising the budget I needed to quickly finish up at the church across a wedding reception dancefloor in a the seat of Macnamara following the over this month, as we always do, and will then catch up with the guests to be at the beautiful flowing dress, we’re talking about retirement of Michael Danby, who held the make any representations where we think venue before the happy couple arrived. grace as a theological concept. It’s the idea – seat since 1998 representing us for some 21 are necessary. It hasn’t been uncommon Ordinarily, I would have had plenty of or truth, as I would contend – that God loves years. I would like to extend a big thank you for Southbank Residents’ Association to time, but this wedding had a black-tie dress and accepts us completely free of any need to Michael for his commitment to serving have some budgets wins in years gone by. code, which – as I discovered – requires to fulfil requirements. In other words, we the community during this time and wish Finally, it is approaching that time of the wearing of a bow tie. It’s not that I was don’t need to fit the dress code to get in the him all the best with his retirement. year and SRA will be holding its AGM in unprepared. The weekend before, I’d bought door of God’s house – God, in Christ Jesus, Josh represented the party well at July. As usual, we will be voting in a new a bow tie. I had all the ingredients, but could comes to us in our half-dressed panic and our Meet the Candidates event in April committee. I intend to nominate to remain I bake the cake? How hard could tying a bow says, “You look perfect!” and wasn’t afraid to answer the tricky on the committee, along with a few of our tie be? What would have happened if I couldn’t questions. But without his government current committee, but I am hoping a few As it turns out, tying a bow tie, especially get my bow tie on that night? What if I was being in power, I am not sure how far of our community might like to also offer if you’ve never done it before and you’re in a asymmetrical and unravelling? Would I have his reach can go. In any case, Southbank to join and assist us with representing hurry, is like trying to hit a hole-in-one with made it through the front door? Would I Residents’ Association is looking forward to the interests of our residents. If you are the first swing you’ve ever given a golf club have died of embarrassment? Who knows? engaging with him during his term. interested and would like to find out – it ain’t gonna happen! Near enough, with But in the Christian tradition, there are Commiserations to Steph Hodgins-May, more, please contact me at president@ bow ties, simply isn’t good enough. Either no prerequisites, no dress codes, you are representing the Greens, and Kate Ashmor southbankresidents.com.au you get the length and tension just right, or welcome, and you are loved – just the way from the Liberal party. They both put in you don’t. you are! a great effort and certainly held Josh to So, there I was, in the church bathroom, account for his comments. Tony Penna looking from the instructional video on my Tom Hoffmann How exciting is Boyd Park! The basketball phone to the mirror in front of me and then courts are now open and certainly being Tony Penna is the president Tom Hoffmann is the pastor at down at my watch as I fumbled failingly used and the community garden is of Southbank Residents’ St Johns Southgate Church. Association. with the piece of material around my neck, established and taking shape, thanks to www.stjohnssouthgate.com.au southbankresidents.org.au until finally (divine intervention?) it just the Southbank Sustainability Group. The clicked. The bow tie slid into place with an development is obvious in its progress and acceptable amount of symmetry and the one can see it beginning to take shape. But

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Taxi chaos collectively by Crown, police and the Taxi to sort this out. Firstly, a great monthly publication. As Directorate. Police fining taxi drivers for several road new residents to Southbank in the past 12 As can be seen in the attached photo rule breaches would solve this as word would months it’s highly informative. (2am on a Saturday) taxis block all lanes, spread quickly with drivers. Living high on the corner of Whiteman St pedestrian crossings, tram lines and Regards, and Clarendon St and diagonally opposite oncoming traffic. Garth Wisher Crown, the increasing issues with taxi Police patrol every 30 minutes or so and Southbank behaviours on Friday and Saturday nights with sirens, lights and horns move them on intersection. This is then further amplified has become ridiculous. and within five minutes it’s jammed again. by general vehicles blowing horns. This all The congestion, noise and safety issues Trams will simply stop, ring the bell combines to make a nightly cacophony from Send your letters to news@ at this intersection must be addressed for minutes at a time and also block the 10pm to 4am. There must be a solution found southbanklocalnews.com.au

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Metro Tunnel Owners’ Corporation Law Anzac Station OC chair wins $120k construction defamation payout A court in Sydney has awarded damages of $120,000 to the elderly update chairperson of a Manly apartment block, after a female tenant sent an email to him and the other owners in which she asked him to stop emailing her about locking her mailbox. Works to build the Metro Tunnel Project’s Anzac Station on St

Kilda Rd reached a new milestone in May with the completion of The court heard the chairperson had sent The judge found those meanings were the station walls in the southern section of the site. a number of emails to the tenant noting that conveyed and the tenant had failed to her mailbox in the building had been left establish a defence to any of them. This open and requesting that she keep it locked. included defences of truth and honest On the northern section of the site, the This included an email on May 24, 2017, opinion. new station roof is nearly complete and in which he said: “As your mailbox has again “It would be fair to say that every excavation will soon begin. As the station is been open for the last few days it is obvious sentence of the defendant’s email in reply being constructed from the top down, the I have not been able to convince you of the struck a blow at the plaintiff, and was walls are built first, followed by the roof. A seriousness of this issue.” intended to ridicule and humiliate him in void is then left in the roof, through which The court heard there had been reports of every way,” the judge said. excavation can be undertaken, minimising gangs stealing mail in the area. Mailboxes in She found that the tenant’s evidence noise and dust. the building were broken into twice, starting was “coloured by exaggerated language, The start of major excavation will see in April 2017. groundless suspicions and hostility”. works move into the next phase, as the The chairperson believed the culprits As a lawyer who practices in owners’ excavated station box will serve as the may have been able to cut a “master key” by corporation matters, I am not shocked by launch site for the tunnel boring machines. examining the lock on the tenant’s unlocked this decision, even though the facts of the At Edmund Herring Oval, works are also Tetris. The software is used for education mailbox. matter may seem trivial. progressing to prepare for the installation purposes in more than 100 countries. In her email on May 25, the tenant said: Defamation law is complicated and of a treatment plant that will support Mini Melbourne was launched by Minister “Your assertion/s that a single unlocked convoluted, however it is best practice that tunnelling works next year. for Transport Infrastructure Jacinta Allan mailbox has allowed a criminal milieu to one should avoid ever having to get mixed and Education Minister James Merlino in stalk the ... [apartment complex], and spend up in a defamation case. Virtual world brings Melbourne’s the CBD in May. the time necessary to copy barrels/locks Owners and committees in Melbourne past and present to life Students at the launch demonstrated in order to then construct a master key is should reflect on this judgement. I have Budding archaeologists can delve into the educational benefits of Minecraft by farfetched (sic).” seen many emails over the years that Melbourne’s past thanks to an innovative unearthing the city’s history as virtual She described the chairperson as having a have been sent by owners to committee creation for world-famous computer game archaeologists. Using trowels and brushes, “fixation on this issue” and suggested that, in members and vice versa that are far worse Minecraft. they searched online for items dating back light of his “email hobby”, he might consider in language and imputation. The Mini Melbourne virtual world features to Melbourne’s European settlement. getting sensitive documents such as banking It will only be a matter of time before a an archaeology adventure set among the The archaeology adventure then involves statements sent via email rather than in the similar judgment is made in Victoria. Metro Tunnel Project’s dig sites. researching objects found such as post. My advice: best to go to bed and see how It’s a Minecraft world-first – the first “virtual medicine bottles, a corkscrew and even Lawyers for the chairperson said the email you feel in the morning before sending city” built as an educational resource for teeth – evidence of a dentist working on defamed him by implying he was a “small- that email to the committee at 9.30pm at students. the premises in the early 1900s. minded busybody who wastes the time of night. Calmer heads and more carefully Minecraft enthusiasts around the Minecraft Mini Melbourne was fellow residents on petty items” concerning chosen words seem to prevail in these world can immerse themselves in Mini developed by the Metro Tunnel Education the building, and that he “unreasonably circumstances ... Melbourne, which features familiar sights Program and Victoria’s Department harassed” and “acted menacingly towards” such as Flinders Street Station, St Paul’s of Education and Training to develop the tenant by “consistently threatening her Cathedral, Melbourne Town Hall and students’ skills in STEM subjects (science, by email”. Federation Square. technology, engineering and maths). They also alleged the email from the Tom Bacon Minecraft – now owned by Microsoft – is a For more information on Mini Melbourne tenant suggested the chairperson was a Tom Bacon is the principal global phenomenon with more than 154 and the archaeology adventure, visit: “malicious person who sent threatening lawyer of Strata Title Lawyers. million copies sold, making it the second metrotunnel.vic.gov.au/library/ emails to the defendant and copied in other [email protected] best-selling video game of all time behind resources-for-teachers/minimelbourne residents” to publicly humiliate her.

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Southbank Sustainability Group A community that gets involved

It’s phenomenal and a bit touching seeing the community rally around a communal green space with such passion, interest, curiosity, and appetite for gardening. Connecting the community: this was May’s theme.

It’s a theme we are broadening beyond gardening this month by inviting the wider community to participate. We want your input on which event you’d like to see from the Southbank Sustainability Group (SSG) next and ideas that will contribute to the garden’s look and feel. With the community garden in its infant stages, a makeshift pop-up plant nursery in the back orchard and the first round of harvesting all happening simultaneously, gardening has been the focus of our volunteers, old and new, this past month. We saw new community members, novice and experienced in gardening, excitedly join our meet-ups to tend to Southbank’s new veggie and herb garden. It’s wonderful to see so many neighbours from diverse and different backgrounds connect through the joy of gardening. With many veggies either ready or near- Calling for community input ■■ b) it can be placed or stand alone in garden sitting area. ready for harvesting, it’s hard to believe that Group volunteers are coupling up to the soil. Email us your ideas, using the About the group: A solutions-focused we’re already starting the second planting creatively source sustainable labeling and subject: “Labelling idea”. Entries close on community group of Southbank residents cycle just eight weeks since the first cycle. In signage, in collaboration with the Men’s 22 June. working to bring positive change in our last two meet-ups alone we’ve harvested Shed. We’re also preparing a kids’ creativity Another sustainability education day sustainability practices and education to our approximately 3kg of veggies and leafy day to help with a colourful harvesting is also coming soon. The top three topics neighborhood, while building a wonderful greens! Swiss chard, spinach, beetroot, signage system. We also want to hear from of interest are zero waste lifestyle basics, community of like-minded people. lettuce, and bok choy will be harvested next. all of you on ideas for sustainable labelling, mindful consumerism or balcony gardening Reach us at southbanksustainability@ Not all veggies are harvest-ready and not signage, and mini-notice boards to inform basics. We want to hear from you on which gmail.com or facebook.com/ all veggies are harvested in the same way. If what’s planted in each garden bed, what’s of these three topics you prefer to catch. SouthbankSustainabilityGroup you have your eye on a veg or leafy green, or ready for harvesting, and other general info, Email to let us know, using the subject: want to know what’s harvest-ready, email us while adding some colour and flavour to the “Education Day topic”. Entries close on 24 for harvesting instructions. This is a garden garden beds. June. Artemis Pattichi open to the community and we do want The only requirements are that: If you’re interested in getting involved the community to help itself to the garden’s ■■ a) the idea uses 100 per cent sustainably with SSG, you can message us or come join Southbank Sustainability Group organic goodies. However, we need to make sourced materials (think circular lifecycle, us at an upcoming meet-up. Upcoming southbanksustainability@gmail. sure they are harvested sustainably in a way upcycled materials, zero waste endlife); meet-ups are Saturday June 22 and July com that maintains the plant’s longevity. and 6, 10am at the Boyd foyer or community

Health & Wellbeing Worrying? Here’s why and what to do about it than it really is. You may struggle with what instance say, “I/you must… I/you should…” of what you’re feeling and put things into Worries, doubts, and anxieties psychologists call cognitive distortions. .These statements put undue pressure on perspective. If your fears are unwarranted, Here are some examples of cognitive you, and on other people to meet your high verbalising them can expose them for what are a normal part of life. distortions that might be getting in the way personal standards and expectations in they are-needless worries. And if your fears for you (there are many and this is just a specific situations. are justified, sharing them with someone It’s natural to worry about an upcoming snippet): else can produce solutions that you may not job interview, a big performance or a first Black and white thinking: is a cognitive Some tips to let go of worrying have thought of alone. date. It can in fact be helpful when it spurs distortion where we tend to see things as Postpone worrying and create “worry Ask yourself: “Can I control this situation you to take action or to solve a problem. all-or-nothing and only see the extremes of time.” Instead of worrying thoughts or not?” If you can control the situation “Normal” worry, however, becomes the situation. In order to successfully work distracting you and dominating your brain which is causing you to worry, use your a problem when you’re preoccupied through this cognitive distortion, you must space all day, choose a set time and place for above mentioned “worry time” to find with “what ifs” and worst-case scenarios get into the habit of challenging yourself worrying. It should be the same every day some solutions for what is causing you to persistently and uncontrollably. In this case, to take into account other viewpoints and (preferably long before bed time). During worry. If you have no control over it, simply unrelenting anxious thoughts and fears can interpretations of the situation. this time you’re allowed to worry about acknowledge the thought and let it pass like be paralysing, affecting your daily life by Catastrophising: is a cognitive distortion whatever’s on your mind. The rest of the day, a leaf on a stream. sapping your emotional energy and the way where we tend to blow circumstances out however, is a worry-free zone. Do you have a question or comments you function from day to day. of proportion. Once a problem seems larger Write down your worries. If an anxious for Rajna? Feel free to contact her on But chronic worrying is a mental habit than life, it makes it incredibly difficult to thought or worry comes into your head [email protected] that can be broken. You can train your brain overcome. In order to successfully work during the day, make a brief note of it and to stay calm and look at life from a more through this cognitive distortion, question then continue about your day. Go over balanced, less fearful perspective. whether things are truly as bad as you make your “worry list” during the worry period. them out to be. As you examine your worries in this way, Rajna Bogdanovic Why do I worry so much? Should-ing and must-ing: This is a you’ll often find it easier to develop a more If you suffer from chronic anxiety and cognitive distortion where we tend to make balanced perspective. Clinical psychologist worries, chances are you look at the world unrealistic and unreasonable demands Talk about your worries. Saying your in ways that make it seem more threatening on ourselves, and on others. You might for worries out loud can help you to make sense

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We Live Here Pet’s Corner Bill defects need to be fixed As we sifted through the exposure draft of the Owners Corporations and Other Acts Amendments Bill released by Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) we found quite a few issues.

We Live Here has submitted a response and led to calamitous damage to at least five to CAV. In it we have detailed substantial floors. deficiencies in the Bill that need to be A large party was held in a luxury resolved. penthouse with a sauna being used for an extended period, ultimately causing the fire Tiers of owners corporations' – sprinklers to flood the party apartment and excluded clauses several floors below. Now, if there are two more floods caused The new legislation will allow for different by the same short-stay apartment within regulatory requirements based on the two years, the reformed Bill will entitle the number of occupiable lots. hapless residents who have been flooded to We Live Here has campaigned for Pablo is learning to be the grand sum of $2000. And who pays? The this since the review of the legislation Bill says the “short-stay provider”. commenced in 2016 so at first we were very Moreover, the affected occupier would pleased. But we do have issues is in the way an inside dog have to take action “within 60 days of the it is being implemented. blonde coat that turns ginger around the breach” but the occupier will not be entitled Put simply: there will be four tiers: two flaps of his ears and tail. to a single cent unless the identical breach Pablo the cavoodle is taking lots, three to nine lots, 10 to 50 lots and over Beau takes the growing puppy on laps happens three times in two years. This 50 lots. an afternoon stroll through around their Southbank apartment. means that there must be three identical In other jurisdictions internationally, “He likes causing trouble. He likes chewing incidents in 60 days for an affected occupier Alexandra Gardens. the tiers have dedicated legislation – a stuff up and making a terror through the to qualify for a paltry $2000 in damages. far superior approach. This Bill has a house,” he said. The whole philosophy is upside-down. cumbersome, prose-expressed list of Accompanying him in the unusually “He’s getting there though, we’re just There is no prevention strategy, it is all about exclusions that will confuse the average sunny May weather is Beau, who walks trying to teach him on how to be a good forcing disaffected parties to take arduous citizen and delight the legal profession with him during the weekdays while Beau’s inside dog.” legal action for the slim prospect of a tiny its complexity. sister-in-law works. Tired from an afternoon of walking, Pablo sum of money. Pablo is roughly five months old and sits there as Beau tries to make him shake Another “Bazinga” clause gives short-stay Beau’s family has had the cavoodle for his paw but Pablo just kind of throws his “Mates” contract reforms must also operators a get-out-of-jail-free card. All a four months. The fluffy boy has a nice paw forward. apply to building managers and short-stay business operator needs to do must be retrospective is provide the invited guests with a copy of One long-overdue reform is to prohibit the OC rules – and just like magic – no more onerous and unfair terms in owners’ liability! Everything becomes the guest’s corporation (OC) management contracts fault. Then anyone affected only has the and gives more power to the Victorian Civil option to chase the tourist who just flew back and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to to the other side of the world! rule generally whether other terms in OC Toopf CCollinlsa Stsreset management contracts are unfair. Some How did these deficiencies arise? terms slated to be banned are those that: A lot of legislative “experts” have Impose procedural restrictions on the invested countless hours drafting this Bill revocation of the manager’s appointment; – so how did it get to this stage with these Enable the manager to renew the contract deficiencies? of appointment at their option; We believe the initial consultation period Provide for the automatic renewal of the in 2015 to 2016 was flawed. Who was contract of appointment if the OC fails to consulted? Developers? Strata managers? give notice of its intention not to renew the Airbnb? One thing is certain: representatives contract, and of owners and residents were not consulted Must not restrict the ability of an OC properly. to refuse consent to the assignment of the contract of appointment to a person What’s next with the draft Bill? Follow us on twitter appointed as the manager, other than one We have submitted our concerns to the which provides that such consent, must not CAV in the interest of all Victorians living in @paramourescort be unreasonably withheld. strata developments. for FREE lingerie pics These proposed reforms in the Bill only The Bill is expected to be introduced apply to OC manager contracts. Unfair into Parliament later this year, subject to everyday to your feed! contracts for building management are not satisfactory resolution of issues raised during addressed! this latest consultation period. Tens of thousands of Victorians need relief from blatantly immoral building manager Retirement of Shane Scanlan contracts with obscene, irrevocable terms of We Live Here would like to say a big thank up to 25 years. you to editor Shane Scanlan for providing We Live Here will be lobbying to ensure a voice for owners and residents living in that sensible prohibitions on contracts will high-rise communities, through our monthly also apply to building manager and facilities columns in the three local newspapers which manager contracts and will be retrospective. commenced from the time we launched almost three-and-a-half years ago. Damage caused by short stays must All the very best Shane, we hope there are be addressed lots of exciting, new adventures ahead. Neither this OC reform Bill nor the so- called Airbnb Bill already enacted, protect www.welivehere.net high-rise owners and occupiers from a range live of property damage issues. “we emails to campaign@ here”TM A high-profile case in Docklands right welivehere.net now started with a short-stay party booking

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History Daring robbery at City Rd

The former City Road Post office, on the corner of Hanna Street (now Kings Way), was a substantial red-brick building that was part of the State School grounds. It is gone now, another victim of the massive changes to the road network in the 1980s.

It served the community well for many The post office staff, both badly shaken, years – as a post office, telegram centre (from couldn’t ring the alarm as the window to where telegram delivery boys operated) and the room they were locked in was stuck as a branch of the Commonwealth Bank. It after a recent paint job. But they hammered often carried a substantial amount of cash furiously on it and soon attracted the from the sale of stamps and money orders. attention of a passing blacksmith from a But post offices were generally peaceful nearby business. places and nothing prepared the staff for A few minutes later, local police arrived the events one Wednesday morning in on bicycles and motor cycles, followed by January 1936. The office had just opened a car load of detectives who sped towards and Postmaster J. Evans and his assistant the city in the direction taken by the bandits’ W.J. Fielding were behind the counter when car. The daring (and well-planned) robbery a man entered. With his face masked by a took place with such precision that few handkerchief, he jumped on the counter and people were aware of it until the detectives pointed an automatic pistol at the shocked and patrolmen arrived. Some months later staff, keeping them covered and telling them a young man was charged with the robbery to put their hands up quick. but was acquitted. “Before we realised what was happening Like many of the other armed robberies in he had leapt across the grille and was a very violent mid-1930s Melbourne, it was menacing us with a gun” recounted the never solved. postmaster. He was then joined by an accomplice (also masked and armed) who had been guarding the door, before ransacking the office drawers and forcing the Former City Road Post office. Image from State Library of Victoria postmaster to hand over the keys of the safe and removing the cashbox. Threatening to Robin Grow shoot them both if they made a sound, and But the crooks weren’t done yet! As they Witnesses described how they then jumped President - Australian Art Deco to come back if they raised the alarm, they exited the post office they encountered a onto the running board of an already- and Modernism Society were then locked in a rear room overlooking youth who was headed into the building moving car and took off rapidly towards the [email protected] Hanna Street. with mail and relieved him of seven shillings. city.

SkyPad Living High-density cycling to a legitimate and mainstream form of cyclists themselves, by the regulators (and carparks located on the CBD fringe. The City of Melbourne’s transport in Melbourne. enforcers), by other transport users and by Turning our heads homewards, once Transport Strategy discussion designers. This requires holistic thinking. again the car spaces of our vertical villages What has this to do with vertical are candidates for change. Over the last paper is open for comment – but villages? Take the issue of bike parking. few months, this column has mentioned how might a bike-filled future Answer – our viewpoints. The discussion paper identifies the need several ideas for the future use of our car We, of the vertical villages, typically for more bike spaces to keep pace with the spaces and this month will not disappoint. suit our vertical villages? live in areas that are also major work and, uptake of cycling and suggests underground While newer builds have dedicated and therefore, transit destinations. Docklands, parking and more parking in buildings. easily accessible bike rooms, storing the We are reminded that “When people for instance, greets 65 000 workers daily. However, taking a leaf out of the car hand growing number of residents' bikes is proving choose to ride, they reduce emissions, noise, This means that quite different mindsets are book, might there also be scope for more challenging for older buildings, which is congestion and free up public transport concurrently operating in our precincts. For mainstream and centralised facilities – a bike further compounded by out-of-date building capacity.” Added to this are the mental and example, there is the mindset of the strolling hub? This is the approach taken in Tilburg regulations which do not permit bike storage physical health benefits that come from tourist (unfamiliar with their surrounds), in the Netherlands, where a bike parking in car spaces. cycling – and with the right infrastructure, it the mindset of local residents (walking along facility is being built as an integrated part There are, however, an ever-growing can also be great fun! their footpaths with children and elders), the of their new transport hub (and by current range of innovations designed to help the In terms of our vertical lifestyle, our office worker mindset (dashing in search of reports, it will outshine their new bus space-poor, such as the “Hide-a-Ride”. The proximity marks us as prime candidates for caffeine) and let’s also include the mindset station!). This bike hub offers space for over offering here is for a bike rack that allows the uptake of cycling. By swapping those of pets and their walkers (notable for their 7000 bikes, is equipped with a service room easy sideways mounting of your bike and short car trips for even shorter bikes trips, we unexpected reactions). for minor repairs and will be guarded – and, its secure storage on your ceiling (including can arrive more quickly at our destination - Now add a transiting cyclist en route either also, free for the first 24 hours. your car park). though possibly less directly as we weave in to work or home. Their mindset is more In offering this type of facility, cyclists But to end, there is one emerging issue and out of those congested car lanes. focused upon safe and efficient passage. can park their vehicles in a secure central for our regulators to consider regarding our However, disappointingly, this document This means that shared areas with variable location and then complete their journey bike-filled future. This is, as bikes become is less a discussion paper than advocacy for speed limits, such as the 8km zones on on foot or tram. In so doing, the plethora more entrenched as a mainstream mode cycling and the infrastructure needed for its South Wharf, are often treated as unhelpful of bikes adorning the front of our streets is of transport, and their commercial use increased adoption. suggestions, while cutting through New reduced. Admittedly, this goes against our also grows – might, too, the need for these Missing is a deeper consideration of Quay Promenade brings the promise of a few current trend towards free-range cycling (ie. vehicles to be identifiable? the current status of cycling as a form of saved minutes as well as less stop-starts. a rider can go wherever their bike can). But a central cycling hub at, for instance, Southern transport in our city – and in particular, Calls for greater mutual consideration and Janette Corcoran Cross, could cater for impending cycling how it is regarded by different groups. Only “sharing of space” miss the point. Apartment living expert through understanding these different If cycling is to be adopted as a legitimate traffic due to exit the Western Distributor https://www.facebook. perspectives can cycling move from its mode of transport, then it must be so daily - worth a thought! As might the com/SkyPadLiving/ current status as an ad hoc means of travel recognised and treated by all parties – by the conversion to bike hubs of other multi-storey

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