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The CBD was ablaze in light and colour during the White Night Reimagined festival in August.

A record 718,000 people attended the event over three nights from August 22 to 24, as the festival celebrated its seventh year in Melbourne. Once again under the stewardship of artistic director David Atkins, the event featured more than 50 program items. “Over three nights in three uniquely programmed realms presenting outstanding international acts, breathtaking local works and with White Night’s largest ever crowds this new concept has clearly proven itself a success,” Mr Atkins said. Photo: John Tadigiri. For more head to cbdnews on Instagram. Police mark the city a "designated area"

By Meg Hill Victoria Police and the Brumby Government areas and control of weapons powers were five were called in response to protest events, justified this at the time with reference to an incredibly useful for protest events, where while at least three others were used for apparent rise in youth crime, particularly police have powers to search people without popular public events. Certain police powers have involving knives and other weapons. needing any reasonable suspicion,” he said. The data also showed escalating tensions expanded over the past Anthony Kelly, an executive officer at the As the CBD is the most popular location for between far-right and left-wing groups in the decade to become increasingly Flemington and Kensington Legal Centre protesters, this has meant that the use of the city. concentrated in the CBD, where a state-wide Police Accountability provisions became CBD-focused. At least four of the 2018 instances targeted Project is run, said the searches designed to clashes between groups at events like the Research by CBD News revealed that out of with policing focus shifting to target this rise had little success. True Blue Crew’s nationalist march or the 11 uses of the provision in 2010, only one anti-feminist “March for Men”. Data from protests. He said the initial designated areas and was located in the city. There was also very 2017 showed a similar trend. searches, often located at suburban little overlap of any location that year – nine Victoria Police were given the power to railway stations, found “very few weapons, different suburbs were represented in the The Act was expanded again in 2017 by the declare a “designated area”, within which despite comprehensive searches and metal eleven instances. Andrews Government to include anti- they have expanded search and move-on detectors”. masking provisions, which Mr Kelly said powers, in a 2009 amendment to the Control By 2018, however, nine out of 14 instances of Weapons Act 1900. “It became pretty clear that these gazetted had occurred in the CBD. Of those, at least Continued on page 2. 2 CBD NEWS ISSUE 57 Police mark city a "designated area" Continued from page 1

signified that “their main functionality had become protest control”. The added provisions allowed police to force the removal of face coverings, even if they were used as protection against the potential use of pepper spray in the area. Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade Mr Kelly claimed that, alongside a move PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 to protest control, the police had also Tel: 8689 7980 Fed heritage increasingly used biases and racial profiling www.cbdnews.com.au while exercising the powers. Advertising Federation Square has “The police were very concerned about risks Tel: 8689 7980 been added to the Victorian [email protected] and accusations of racial profiling in 2009, so they did a whole range of things like pick Heritage Register after a year Reader contributions are welcome. every 10th person or randomise searches in Please send articles and images to a variety of ways,” he said. under interim protection. [email protected] Photo: Julian Meehan. “Now there is far less care or concern about The National Trust recommended The deadline for the October 2019 how they’re being used in that way. They are likelihood that violence or disorder involving the Square be added to the register edition is Thursday, September 19. more likely to target activists they treat as the use of weapons will occur in the area”. in October last year in the midst of suspicious and therefore a whole range of “These laws are intended to respect the right a protracted battle of activists and Follow us on Twitter biases can be used.” of Victorians to engage in peaceful protest, community advocates with Square @CBD_News_3000 “They can be used in a very discriminatory while ensuring that police are able to deal management, Apple and the state Like us on Facebook way in these sorts of protests.” with those who seek to disrupt peaceful government. cbdnewsmelbourne protests and other events,” the spokesperson He said that this was also of concern where National Trust CEO Simon Ambrose said. Follow us on Instagram the provisions were used for public events said the National Trust welcomed the cbdnews like Moomba, White Night, or New Year “The consideration of human rights is a key news that its recommendation had been celebrations. part of our operation planning.” accepted.

Publisher: Hyperlocal News Pty Ltd “The risk is racial profiling, where police pick “While the number of searches under the “This comes after a year-long process ABN: 57 623 558 725 out for instance young African people from Control of Weapons Act [1900] has remained following the National Trust's the crowd to search them, and they don’t relatively steady in recent years, more nomination of Federation Square to the Editor: Sean Car need any reasonable suspicion.” weapons are being found. Our first priority is Victorian Heritage Register,” he said. [email protected] community safety.” A Victoria Police spokesperson told CBD “The inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Journalists: News the early weapons operations under But Mr Kelly said that when the anti-masking Register will not prevent appropriate Meg Hill the designated area legislation were located provisions were added a statement of future change and development at [email protected] around transport hubs “where the approach compatibility was made with the Victorian Federation Square. However, any David Schout included random searching of all commuters Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities future changes will need to consider its [email protected] similar to aviation explosive detection testing Act 2006 that was “highly inadequate”. architectural, social and historic values, conducted at airports”. and go through a process of public 20,000 copies are printed and “They usually say that the powers limit consultation.” distributed exclusively within “As these locations were narrow designated human rights but are justifiable for X Melbourne's CBD each month. CBD areas with a higher volume of youth using reasons,” he said. “As a direct result of the National Trust’s News works for advertisers because the public transport system this was an work to recognise what makes Federation “Any power or legislation, even archaic people like to know what is happening appropriate approach,” the spokesperson Square our state’s premier public space, ones, can be misused by police to shut down in their neighbourhood. said. the state government has announced a protests or to restrict or somehow deter major review to inform its future.” Views expressed by contributors are not The spokesperson said the Melbourne CBD protests, so legislators can easily allow or those of the publishers. operations “complement large events” and provide police powers that indirectly restrict You can participate in the review here: that where a declaration was made the Chief our democratic rights, and this Control of engage.vic.gov.au/federation-square- Commissioner must be satisfied “there is a Weapons Act is a good example of that.” review

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A $21 million upgrade to the CBD’s sewerage system will compound commuter delays within the Hoddle Grid for over Library assault 12 months. Police are appealing to From this September until late-2020, a witnesses following a sexual section of Lonsdale St (between Elizabeth and William streets) will be disrupted at assault at the State Library various times to, according to City West Congestion on Lonsdale St is expected to worsen this month. on June 27. Water, “help secure wastewater services for inner city, their combined impact on CBD “We are entering into a big and intensive people living and working in Melbourne’s congestion is likely to be significant. construction phase with the Metro Tunnel Investigators have been told a 20-year-old C B D ”. project,” she said. Melbourne woman was waiting outside General manager of infrastructure and Disruptions will include lane closures and the library at about 6.30pm. delivery at City West Water Maree Lang “Not just here at this site but indeed at all some parking restrictions. said the latest delays would be managed of our sites across the CBD as we get in An unknown male offender approached The news comes shortly after it was carefully. and build two nine-kilometre tunnels and her, struck up a conversation and asked announced both eastbound lanes on five underground stations and various to give her a massage before sexually “There’s no doubt Lonsdale St presents Flinders St (between Elizabeth and Swanston connections to the existing train network, in assaulting her. us with some logistical challenges given streets) would be closed for three years from a very busy capital city, of Melbourne, a busy its location and daily use by many city Shortly afterwards the man said he early September for Metro Tunnel works. international city. It’s a very big construction residents, businesses and visitors, however needed to catch a train from Melbourne job. It’s also a complex logistical task, as Further, the City of Melbourne plans to begin we’ve been planning for many months to Central Station and left the scene in an how all those phases of the construction pedestrianising parts of Elizabeth St from minimise disruptions throughout the works unknown direction. are carefully managed so we can get the city next year. period,” she said. moving.” The man is perceived to be of Indian Sub- The state government’s call to delay these “Importantly, no water or sewerage services Continental appearance, aged in his mid- Early sewerage works will take place along plans until tunnel works were complete will be impacted while work is in progress.” 20s to early 30s with a solid build, brown Lonsdale St from 9.30am to 3.30pm Monday in 2025 fell on deaf ears when the council or black curly hair and dark coloured Transport Minister Jacinta Allan conceded to Friday and will include some lane closures pushed ahead with its plans at a May eyes. He was wearing a red hooded in July that the Flinders St lane closures and temporary restrictions to street parking. meeting. jumper, dark pants, light-coloured would cause disruption, but said they were No work will be undertaken on weekends or sneakers and a watch at the time. While the various upcoming works appear an unavoidable part of large infrastructure at night. essential in future-proofing a growing projects. Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000

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In 2017 both CEL Australia and Colonial ease by year’s end The state government’s Range decided to sell the sites due to By David Schout protracted legal proceedings and cancelled adoption of new heritage contracts. approved in a two-year period under the protections has ruled out a The state government could amendment. CBUS Property bought all three sites, The Property Council said it had $1 billion project for Queen applied for a demolition permit and began soften restrictions on new “significant concerns about the pipeline of preparing a proposal for a $1 billion project. St – the third time plans for the inner-city developments by supply” of commercial developments in the property have been scrapped The new planning amendment: the end of the year, according CBD, where the vacancy rate of 3.3 per cent was the lowest of capital cities across the in six years. 140 Queen St holds a 15-storey '60s building to the Property Council of country. that’s been under scrutiny since 2004 when It has claimed the amount of office space a piece of concrete fell off the façade. Australia. CBUS Australia had submitted a renewed was not growing at a rate to keep up with demolition and redevelopment application Originally known as the Scottish Amicable At a recent Property Council luncheon, Melbourne's expanding workforce. for three neighbouring properties on Life Insurance Building, the site is an early Premier Dan Andrews confirmed that Victorian executive director Cressida Wall August 5, the latest in a back-and-forth example of precast concrete modernism. It changes to C270 planning controls were said that, as a result, changes to C270 were process that began in 2013. was designed by architecture firm Yuncken expected in the coming months. much needed. Freeman – who designed the Sidney Myer CBUS Australia planned to demolish 150 “Since C270’s introduction, commercial Music Bowl and BHP House. The C270 planning restrictions, which Queen St, 140 Queen St and 27 McKillop St include mandatory building setbacks CBD approvals have fallen dramatically and and create temporary open public space In their application CBUS Australia and restrictions to plot ratios and future supply has dried up, while vacancy while preparing plans for a 55-storey office recognised that, although different bodies shadow controls, were introduced by the rates are at historic lows,” she said. tower. accepted the building posed a threat to government in November 2016 after a spike “This position is untenable and changes to But the State Government’s adoption of the public safety, there was debate about in high-rise approvals under the previous C270 to support commercial development Hardware and Guildford Laneways Heritage whether or not it could be restored. Liberal government. are the release valve Melbourne urgently Amendment only 11 days later placed 27 McKillop St is currently a single level Then planning minister Matthew Guy needs.” permanent heritage protection on 140 restaurant and 150 Queen St is home to earned the nickname “Mr Skyscraper” on The government would not confirm Queen St as part of a new heritage overlay. a 12-storey building that’s been empty the back of excessive height allowances for details about changes to the planning developers, and C270’s implementation has The site had been subject to confusion since and covered in black shade cloth and controls when contacted by CBD News, but seen a definitive drop in approvals. a previous owner, CEL Australia, stalled scaffolding since 2014. reaffirmed its commitment to necessary restrictions on big developments. demolition of 150 Queen St in 2013 after a CBUS Australia didn’t respond to requests But earlier this year planning minister dispute with Colonial Range, which owned by CBD News for comment. Richard Wynne flagged a “tweaking” of “We’re continuing to speak to peak bodies neighbouring sites 140 Queen St and 27 the planning controls after just two new about C270 and whether any tweaks are McKillop St. CBD commercial office buildings were required,” a government spokesperson said.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 57 CBD NEWS 7 Future up in the air Mobile doc By David Schout rolled out By Alex Dalziel The future of the 136-year- old Hotel Windsor remains A mobile doctor service that uncertain after Planning provides free healthcare to Minister Richard Wynne put his homeless people living on foot down and rejected a fourth the streets of the CBD will planning permit extension for be expanded under a new its redevelopment. investment from the City of Developer The Halim Group has planned Melbourne. Laneway to build a 26-storey luxury hotel at the rear of the building since first being granted Cohealth’s street doctor mobile bus approval by the Brumby Government in clinic, which previously only operated protection 2010. on Wednesdays, will now also operate on Mondays. But work has remained in the preliminary A render of the former proposal for Hotel Windsor. stages for almost a decade, and despite The service provides a dedicated GP, The state government has being permitted three previous extensions, character of the Bourke Hill precinct.” nurse and social worker who provide the group had sought more time beyond the formally adopted new CBD Halim Group hotel director Adi Halim said in free health, mental health and drug March 31 deadline next year. heritage overlays proposed by a statement that the company still believed it counselling. Mr Wynne said that almost no progress had could find a solution for the hotel’s future. Last month, Lord Mayor Sally Capp the City of Melbourne in 2017. been made since the last extension three “We are disappointed with the minister’s announced the City of Melbourne had years ago, and that “enough was enough”. decision,” Mr Halim's statement said. invested $200,000 in the project. Planning Minister Richard Wynne “The developers have failed to secure finance approved the amendment on August 16. “It is an opportunity lost for the Hotel “The mobile bus clinic will provide or show a real willingness to get construction The protections emerged out of a 2017 Windsor and for Melbourne. We are services direct to rough sleepers where started despite having nine years to do so,” report by architects Lovell Chen that was determined to keep the hotel and work with they’re needed,” the Lord Mayor said. he said. accepted and advocated for by the council. Heritage Victoria to try to find an alternative “When a patient steps onto the bus they Now that has been declined, the developers solution. Meanwhile, it is business as usual.” Amendment C271 gives the Guildford and can speak directly to a doctor and access need to finish the work within the next seven Hardware Laneways precinct permanent Plans for the 26-storey tower have been free services such as flu shots, treatment months, which appears highly unlikely. heritage protection. The sites have been shrouded in controversy for almost a decade. for wounds or urgent mental health under interim protection since last year. Billed as Australia’s oldest grand hotel, referrals.” In 2010 former Labor Victorian planning the Windsor is on the Victorian Heritage City of Melbourne heritage spokesperson minister Justin Madden’s press secretary Register, which puts responsibility on an Cohealth interim chief executive Nicole Cr Rohan Leppert said the council was accidentally leaked plans to halt the owner to maintain the building’s integrity. Bartholomeusz said that Cohealth had “delighted” that the minister had gazetted development, including plans for a bogus long advocated for better healthcare for Council’s Guildford and Hardware Lanes The Indonesian-based Halim Group bought community consultation period to block the vulnerable people. heritage amendment. the hotel in 2005. proposal. “Rough sleeping creates serious health “This is the culmination of years of work Since being granted approval to redevelop Soon after the bungle, the Brumby problems, and yet people who are by City of Melbourne staff, heritage the rear of the site in 2010, major government approved the redevelopment. homeless have less access to health consultants and advocates, all for the amendments to the planning scheme have In 2016, the Halim Group applied for an services than the rest of the community,” cause of bringing our heritage controls been introduced to protect the Bourke Hill extension until 2020 on the project, but were she said. up to date and conserving the unique precinct. denied by Mr Wynne. character of this remarkable part of our “Stigma and discrimination is a barrier to As such, the proposal would have been ever-changing city,” Cr Leppert said. After an appeal at the Victorian Civil and accessing health services. People who are knocked back altogether in 2019. Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), the group homeless also struggle to afford medical Multiple sites neighbouring the laneways “If the same application for development was eventually granted an extra three years care and to travel to appointments and are also included in the overlay. was brought to me today, I would have to to finish the works. may find it difficult to maintain treatment Minister Wynne said the laneways had a reject it immediately – planning rules and regimes.” The government said in a recent press “rich and interesting history”. community expectations have changed,” Mr release that granting yet another extension The Lord Mayor also launched a Wynne said. “We want them to be protected so they would be “dragging the process out for 13 Handbook for grassroots organisations can be enjoyed by generations to come,” “The Windsor Hotel is a Melbourne icon years and defying industry and community that will guide volunteer groups assisting he said. and we’re protecting it – and the unique expectations”. the homeless.

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

Should he lose, he would no longer be able The owner of a quirky CBD to use the Notel name and could even be forced to pay opposition legal costs. caravan park has been taken to In July, Fry decided to represent himself in court by hotel giant Novotel for Canberra after legal fees continued to rack a name it claims is too similar up. to its own. “Novotel went in strong, they had a real crack,” he said.

The costly legal battle has led James Fry to “It was a pretty intimidating day up there in self-represent at the Intellectual Property court but I tried to find the funny side from Court in Canberra, the result of which he is it and take a light-hearted approach. You anxiously awaiting. know, embrace the David versus Goliath Notel owner James Fry at his Flinders Lane rooftop caravan park. Fry owns Notel on Flinders Lane, the name battle. But on the day, God, it was pretty of which is intended to convey that it is “not hairy.” a hotel”. a $750 to $1000 turnaround to read and business and the people of Melbourne Fry was thankful for the citywide support he respond to an email. You get 20 emails in, love us. The concept will stay, if we have to The trendy rooftop, atop a car park Fry had received throughout the legal process and all of a sudden you’ve flushed all this change the name it’s a disaster but it’s not himself owns, contains six refitted 1970s and was unsure which way the October money down the toilet and you’re no closer crippling, it’s not going to close us down.” Airstream caravans that for three years has judgement would fall. to a resolution.” operated as a popular alternative overnight A long-time owner of Fry’s Fast Park, for experience in Melbourne. “I feel honestly like it’s a toss of the coin. I After protracted emails back and forth, Fry years Mr Fry wondered how best to utilise feel I had a really strong case with the public offered to meet with Novotel in person to his unique, low (the car park itself is just two Guests reach the rooftop via a speakeasy weight behind it, and overwhelming support “stop the bleeding”, something he said they storeys) CBD rooftop. style entrance in a downstairs café and refused to do. that Notel had that this was just a ridiculous He eventually settled on the caravan idea, eventually reach a red astro-turfed roof case gives me confidence. But this is not While he hopes to avoid changing the name, shipping them over from the US and refitting surrounded by cacti and the distinctive about what people think, or the general his hand may be forced. the interiors, a process that altogether cost caravans that were shipped in from the US consensus and common sense – this is law. in 2016. around $1 million. And when it comes to law, the best case and “I haven’t put my mind to a name change But Novotel’s owner Accor, one of the case law often dictates the outcome.” yet, but I have contemplated the worst-case Fry said being able to meet and chat with world’s largest hotel groups, has lodged scenario, that being if we do lose I’ll have to clients staying on his unique rooftop for Fry described the hotel group as “bullies” court documents that claim the Notel name change the name. What that name will be, their birthday, anniversary or other special with “endless pockets”, deploying deliberate is “deceptively similar” and would cause I don’t know. I’m very hopeful that I don’t occasion was something he loved. tactics to have him change his name. consumer confusion; something Fry denies. h av e t o.” “We’re a little niche in the market and people are loving it. It’s a really enjoyable business.” “We don’t want to be a hotel,” he said. “This was always death by a thousand cuts,” Fry said that whatever the ruling, the CBD he said. business would remain. Accor Hotels did not respond to questions “We’re Notel, we’re not a hotel, we’re posed by CBD News. caravans on a rooftop. As if there’s any “They bombarded me with paperwork, “There have been some reports that we’re confusion to the general public? As if we’re bombarded me with emails. And every time going to close down – that’s not the case. The court ruling is due to be handed down in ever going to be anything like each other?” my lawyers responded to their emails, it’s We’re not going anywhere, it’s a great little early October.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 57 CBD NEWS 11 90-year neighbours unite for garden By Alex Dalziel elevator, so it’s been really fantastic in getting The Immigration Museum and to know people who live here.” the Port Authority Building “Some are interested in gardening and some are just happy in getting to know the other have collaborated to deliver a people that they live with.” community garden to residents. The gardening association plans to divide the boxes between each floor, with one or August 24 marked the beginning of a two floors getting a box to themselves, which 12-month trial community garden in the they can grow whatever they want in. Immigration Museum’s rear courtyard. “It’s creating a sense of community with the The trial will allow Port Authority Building immigration museum, and it’s healthier to residents to use garden planter boxes in the be out in the fresh air. A lot of people already courtyard, providing green space to residents use the court yard so they can go out and get who otherwise have none. their hands dirty,” Nene said. The boxes were handed over to the residents Immigration Museum spokesperson Anna after their use in the Immigration Museum’s Quinn said that the boxes made the concrete Grow, Gather, Share exhibition in 2018/19, courtyard more vibrant and inviting for which showcased the diversity and history of visitors and residents. gardening and food culture in Australia. Residents in the community garden at the Immigration Museum’s rear courtyard. “When we proposed it, the Port Authority The Immigration Museum hopes the Building residents saw the project as an She said that the inspiration for the garden garden’s second life will help facilitate “We’ve been neighbours for almost 100 years opportunity to forge relationships with other came from her daughter, who started the human connection and social cohesion but it’s taken this long to work together on residents, which they don’t often have the North Melbourne community garden “the among the local community as well as build something,” she said. opportunity to do,” she said. North West Patch”. a connection with the neighbouring Port “Apparently we’re already seeing some Nene has lived in the Port Authority Building Authority Building. “The building as built originally as office unlikely friendships forming.” for over 10 years, and said that the building spaces in the 1920s so it doesn’t have any Port Authority Building resident and suffered from a lack of shared and outdoor The boxes were officially handed over to the outdoors or shared spaces, and you can’t the garden’s association president Nene spaces. She, along with other residents with residents on August 24, with a number out tack on balconies,” she said. Machwhirter said that residents welcomed similar concerns, led the development of the of a hat lucky dip determining who received the collaboration. community space. “You would only see other people in the which box. Residents pine for quiet Start-up gets $25,000 By Rhonda Dredge A council grant will give a city- Bible House is on the front based start-up the chance to line of excavations for the develop smart technology in new Town Hall Metro station its quest to provide consumers and its residents have learned with zero-waste grocery to deal with the noise and baskets. vibrations. When the apartment came up for sale this Unpackaged Eco won $25,000 from the City year for about $500,000 Jemma wanted Jemma Thomas lives on the top floor with of Melbourne’s Small Business and Social to buy it but there was no guarantee that her pet and partner and the balcony of their Enterprise Grants which will go toward a multi-storey complex would not abut it studio apartment overlooks the site. radio-frequency identification (RFID). when the station is redeveloped. “Sometimes I can reach out and almost “The dispenser of the bin and the packaging The drilling was loud when CBD News touch the drill,” Jemma told CBD News. start talking to each other and we collect visited last month. The apartment is modest Irene Chen. “The last one-and-a-half years have been some really interesting data on refills,” said with a fold-out bed, a fold-down desk and a quite full-on.” founder Irene Chen. shower in the middle in a copper cylinder. to supply other products. Workers are beginning early and finishing Unpackaged Eco is a package-free system The balcony used to look over the roofs of “The goal for us is to grow to make sure the late, she said. Jemma rented the apartment that enables customers to shop, refill and McDonalds, Hungry Jack’s and the Port grocery basket is as complete as possible. two-and-a-half years ago because of its return containers that are cleaned, refilled Phillip Arcade. We want to expand to food soon,” said Ms European feel. Down below is Scott Alley, with product and returned back to shelves. Chen. a cute little lane with a French creperie, a “The rooftops were so simple. There was “The technology will let us detect how many barber and a travel agent. a view of the Arts Centre and Fed Square. Ms Chen is one of three founders. She said times a container has been returned back, Now I try not to look down. It was once a she moved toward a sustainability start-up measuring impact at a granular level. It “I immediately felt a sense of community,” sanctuary,” Jemma said. from a career in retailing about a year ago. the branding specialist said. will also help us troubleshoot – if we’ve got “There’s a common misconception of stations in two suburbs and one is refilling “I heard about the size of the plastic waste Until recently there was also a small living in the city of being alone, living in a more than the other we can figure out why.” issue and I was concerned about it like menswear shop. Now Metro Tunnel has concrete jungle or it being for people with everyone else and I realised when I tried to taken over the lease for the shop and has busy corporate lives. This building is full of Unpackaged Eco currently has stations at reduce my waste it was nearly impossible,” been trying to “jazz up the alley”. artists and makers and people who work a number of independent supermarkets in she said. from home.” the inner north and more should be coming First there was astro turf which attracted to the CBD soon. “There weren’t any options to refill or reuse backpackers who partied all night. Now the Gemma runs a niche internet business from my containers. I felt like I was forced to hoardings at the end of the lane have been the apartment called COAT Label – two The stations are currently supplying throw my plastic away.” painted with a carnival scene. stylish merino wool ranges for greyhounds cleaning product – dish liquid, handwash, Ms Chen said Unpackaged Eco would like and whippets. multi-cleaner and laundry liquid – that are “The small businesses are what make the largely Unpackaged Eco’s own. to thank the City of Melbourne and invite laneways of Melbourne,” Jemma said. “It See Pet’s Corner on page 20 for a full report any brands and retailers to reach out for could be a great communal space.” on Stevie’s modelling career. But they also do partnerships with brands partnerships.

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Mirka Mora was one of the city’s most famous artists. Her career tracked with Melbourne’s development Producer Ben Anderson Writer and performer Cameron Taylor – her murals and studios appearing in key locations at Fringe in search of truth prime moments. The Mirka Mora Tram She moved into Collins St’s Grosvenor Girls is a character comedy from that Chambers in 1951 as Melbourne’s world, Somebody’s Somebody is a drag Melbourne Fringe has turned bohemian moment began. She then Apparently, Fred Williams would arrive performance which obviously partly comes opened Exhibition St’s Mirka Café a few with drawing ink in his pocket and sketch to truth 37 years into life. out of the world of masks, and WRATH years later, where Joy Hester had her first Mirka, her children and her cat Napoleon. is a very absurd high energy heightened major exhibition. For its truth-themed year the Hub has realism,” he said. Mirka moved to St Kilda in the late '60s, relocated from North Melbourne to the This was followed by moves to East where she opened the Tolarno Hotel. PISCA is showing from September 21 to “People’s Palace” Trades Hall – while the Melbourne, St Kilda, back to the city Her murals are still scattered around the September 29. It’s a mix between clowning rest of the festival branches out to 140 and Richmond and the development of suburb in restaurants and by the foreshore. different venues, 2718 participating artists and French cabaret. Writer and performer Melbourne’s subculture seemed to follow and 455 events. Cameron Taylor sings, dances, clowns and her. In 1978 she moved back to the city into an improvises with the audience all while apartment studio on Rankins Lane. That Ben Anderson, an independent producer playing the role of a newborn duck. And for 23 years of that career she also same year she was one of the artists chosen living in Southbank’s Arts Precinct, taught at the Centre for Adult Education to pioneer Melbourne’s first art tram “When you’re clowning, the show is has produced four shows in this year’s (CAE) on Flinders Lane. project. Fringe – PISCA, WRATH, Just Us Girls and completely about the audiences you get, Mirka passed away last year aged 90. CAE Somebody’s Somebody. and with a fringe festival you get an eclectic The tram - coloured a rich red and white crowd – there’s so many different things that and the City Library celebrated Mirka’s life scheme and covered in Mirka motifs like He said a fringe festival was a particular can happen,” said Cameron. this August with an exhibition, a talk and a moths, serpents and flowers – operated space in the arts. walking tour. through the streets of Melbourne before “The interaction between the character and being auctioned in 1986. “A Fringe Festival allows people to try the audience is more exciting.” Mirka was born in Paris in 1928. She narrowly escaped the Holocaust with her more experimental work, but it also allows The exhibition at the City Library was This will be Cameron’s third Fringe of the family while in transit to concentration. people to try new work that might still have compiled from Mirka’s and her students’ year, after Perth and Sydney. The show has After the war she moved to Melbourne with a really wide appeal,” he said. art. The centrepiece was a mural also from been in a process of development since her husband George. “It can be a really good platform to 1978 – Mirka and 300 people. 2014. showcase a new and upcoming artist After a short stint in the south-east they Mirka collaborated with 300 of her CAE like I think PISCA is, and then shows like “It started originally as a performance piece moved to Grosvenor Chambers on Collins students to make the mural’s six panels WRATH – which is kind of an absurd play I created just after Robin Williams passed St – Australia’s first custom-built artist – each at a different station that the – is by a writer who is very new but I think away,” Cameron said. studio complex. She had exhibitions in “CAE art train” stopped at on the way to will one day be writing for Malthouse and their living room. “The original piece was based on Castlemaine. Melbourne Theatre Company.” comedians having anxiety – and the original “Her exhibitions there would open with a A note from a student, Edith White, read: Ben originally moved to Melbourne from character was a depressed clown and it was three-day party,” said Isabel Simpson, who “During my first CAE painting course with Auckland to go to clown school. He said the his job to go to work and be a duck.” ran CAE’s talk and walking tour. Mirka, I accidentally spilled paint onto the shows he’s produced for the Fringe Festival “Every time I do the show it changes. Every “Nobody ever bought anything, but picture I was creating, but Mirka cried out all shared some commonality with that night there’s sections of improvisation and celebrities like Anthony Perkins, Katharine ‘Quick! Capture that into your painting!’ background. with different audiences, different things Hepburn and Stanley Kramer would arrive which was a lesson to me on how one “PISCA is clowning-based, Just Us work, so it’s constantly changing.” between 11 and midnight.” could deal with a ‘disaster’ creatively”. Contracts for bookseller By Rhonda Dredge important to me,” she said. Getting a publishing contract Her book of essays Between the Word is like winning a lottery for a and the World tracks her extended walks, observations and thoughts about the CBD writer. To get two at once is and part of her novella The Weight of Water is enough to make you feel like a set at the bookshop. millionaire. “In terms of a sense of the city, I know how Anna Macdonald just before her Sunday shift. much memory is invested in this particular Anna Macdonald has a book of essays area. So many people came in as kids to the Her work is influenced by European writers reveal any back stories about herself or her coming out next month and a novella next bookshop.” such as Sebold and deals with the way an work. interior monologue connects a character to year. The Paperback building is one of the oldest “Writing … I think it’s part of my personality. a place. She has signed the contracts with Splice and shopfronts in Melbourne, she said, with If I don’t have time on my own to think … can relax in a rare moment of sunlight. original walls in Liverpool and Crossley Writers are shy about describing or writing for me is a way of finding out what I streets from 1847. interpreting their own work. That job is up to think about something.” Anna has worked for eight years at The the reader. “For me, there’s fun when something works. Paperback on Bourke St and she’s known for Even though she has a history degree, Anna When words come together in a mysterious her ability to match reader with title. has not written a literal account of the city. Anna includes first-person grounded She likes books that include digressions, responses to the novels she reviews, a way … I don’t understand how that came Now the book whisperer is being recognised curiosity and attention to detail. method perfected by Janet Malcolm in The together.” for her own ability to put words to landscape, New Yorker. She is primarily a literary critic, writing The novella moves between contemporary particularly Melbourne’s CBD. online reviews for Splice, a publishing It is easier, however, to get her to comment Melbourne and London and London of 1919 “Walking as a way of being in a place is company based in London. on the craft of writing than it is for her to and that’s all she’s revealing.

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bring together emergency service workers, The School of Displacement is academics, activists, and the result is the an alternative place to learn program we’ve got coming up.” As part of the School of Displacement talks about Indigenous history and will be held on topics like homelessness, future and how they relate language, culture, water rights – all through an uncompromising lens when it comes to to displacement. Its third climate catastrophe and Indigenous rights. iteration is about to open in “What partly makes it different is that we Melbourne. approach these issues by trying to deal with the future crises, not contesting whether A blessing The school is held within an enormous or not they’re going to happen in the first patchwork tent that’s previously set up shop place,” Emily said. in Redfern and Newcastle, but from August “It’s an empowering project in that way even Blissful bridge in disguise 31 to September 12 will be housed at the though at time it can feel sort of grim. One Arts House at 521 Queensberry St in North of the answers is that listening to Indigenous By David Schout By Rhonda Dredge Melbourne. communities and about how they dealt with Both the physical structure and the more climate change for thousands of years is Evan Walker Bridge is noisy obviously a really useful thing to do.” Art students at the Box Hill metaphysical school are pieces of art. no more, after the footbridge Indigenous artists Keg de Souza and In addition to various different First Nations Institute’s city campus are Claire G. Coleman led the process which communities, speakers also include a connecting the CBD with learning how to get viewers intersected smoothly with the Arts House’s Palestinian and emergency service workers Southbank was finally fixed own Refuge project. and fields of expertise range from the arts to to connect both emotionally by the City of Melbourne. Arts House artistic director Emily Sexton said all parts of academia and activism. and intellectually with their the program was the result of a collaborative For In a Strange Land: How Does Culture The half-a-million-dollar upgrade conversation. Survive When You Can’t Go Home, work. included the installation of new support Palestinian performer Aseel Tayah will join “Refuge is a five-year project we’ve been blocks and steel fasteners to quieten Professor Omid Tofighian from the Amerivan Daniel Matina’s grandma Maria died six working on where each year we look at how what was colloquially known as the University in Cairo and Noongar writer Casie weeks ago and he’s memorialising her in a art and emergency relate to each other – “noisy bridge”. painting of her last walk in the park. particularly in relation to climate crisis,” Lynch. Users had become accustomed to the Emily said. Check out the rest of the program here: The view, which is from the back, is both click-clacking on the pedestrian passage artshouse.com.au/events/north- sad and amusing. Themes have included flood, heat, pandemic – named after the former Victorian – and now displacement. melbourne-school-of-displacement/ Artists rarely paint little old ladies out for planning minister – which was caused by a stroll. Old people with their walking “We do a lab at the start of the year where we a flaw in the design. frames are familiar but often overlooked. The noise produced by the bridge’s Daniel, who is enrolled in a diploma of decking had become particularly loud visual arts, said he had lived with his at the northern end near Flinders Street grandmother since he was six. Station. “For me there’s a lot of fond memories The Evan Walker Bridge is just one of walking with her,” he said. His mum died three footbridges the council recently when he was 11. “It was just one of those announced it will upgrade. things.” Nearby Sandridge Bridge also received Daniel and other diploma students have $165,000 worth of waterproofing access to well-equipped studios on the upgrades, while Cr Capp announced seventh floor of the CAE Degraves St $390,000 to replace timber decking with building. fibre reinforced polymer decking on the Birrarung Marr footbridge between Art teacher Toby Dutton is enthusiastic Flinders Street Station and Melbourne about the location. “There’s an art shop Park. down below and 50 galleries within a five- kilometre radius,” he said. “It beats taking a mini-bus.” Artists need to learn how to disrupt the everyday thoughts of viewers to get Czech and Slovak film festival them to look at their work. Toby had an exhibition at the City Library in 2013 the Roof, an uplifting story that explores called Back and Beyond in which all the This September Melbourne’s universal themes of compassion, loneliness portraits were also from the back. and friendship, depicted through the eyes of iconic, and newly restored, a stoic senior citizen and young Vietnamese “They challenge the perception of the Capitol Theatre will host the migrant.” viewer walking into a gallery,” he said. “It’s almost as if the subject is walking annual Czech and Slovak Film Bringing the lighter side of Czechoslovak away.” Festival of Australia (CaSFFA). films is Radek Bajgar’s Shotgun Justice, the same director as CaSFFA’s 2016 hit Tiger The method works well for depicting Theory and Benjamin Tucek’s sci-fi comedy people in the CBD as they hurry past, or With a jam-packed four-day schedule, western, Trash on Mars. street people who may not want to be running from September 19 to 22, viewers identified. Anonymity is preserved yet the can expect a rich tapestry of films, from CaSFFA President Marcel Mihulka said the presence of a person is still recorded. historic screwball comedies to insightful represented the people unlocking the doors festival presented a window into the unique documentaries. to power and taking back control of their cultures and landscapes of the Czech and One portrait was of Marcus The Big Issue heartland. Slovak republics. seller, who was a popular personality 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the at the corner of Flinders Lane until he famously peaceful “Velvet Revolution” when “This kind of defiance is perhaps best CBD News is a proud media partner disappeared two years ago. 500,000 people took to the streets to demand captured in our closing night film Jan Palach; CaSFFA for the 2019 festival. Readers can an end to the one-party communist rule of the story of the Czech student who famously win tickets by visiting facebook.com.au/ Daniel is coming to terms with his what was then Czechoslovakia. self-immolated to protest the Soviet cbdnewsmelbourne memories of Maria as he paints. occupation of his country,” Colla said. “Whatever time I was able to have with CaSFFA artistic director Eleanor Colla said For festival ticket sales or to learn more, visit her was a blessing in disguise.” this year’s festival theme, Keys to the City, “This is in stark contrast to our opener, On casffa.com.au

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 14 CBD NEWS ISSUE 57 Bartenders score a grant By Alex Dalziel it’s almost like ‘hey come and try this for a to Melbourne, having opened their first few months, come see if it takes off and we’ll location in Collingwood in February last support you’.” year. Melbourne’s first commercially- Beyond providing a space for clients to “One of the really good things about the available bar laboratory has work, Worksmith also runs a number dynamic between Michael and Roscoe is been awarded a $15,000 grant of hospitality-focused events and that Michael has the food and beverages masterclasses. Most recently Worksmith experience and network, and then Roscoe from the City of Melbourne hosted a masterclass with World Class has the property development background,” as part of the council’s small Global Bartender of the Year winner Orlando Robert said. Marzo. business and social enterprise “They are finding this sweet spot. That’s one The business started as a collaboration of the hardest things for people in the food grant scheme. Michael Buscetta and Robert Weston. between high school friends Michael and beverages industry is trying to find a Buscetta and Roscoe Power. Michael has space and talk to property managers, and well as meet like-minded individuals. Worksmith ELLA is a bar laboratory and a history in hospitality and owns Capitano actually build a relationship.” co-working hub located in a sleek industrial “Your average bartender who is starting out Carlton and Bar Liberty in Fitzroy, while The small business grant will help space in Melbourne Central’s new ELLA food is not going to get access to these facilities Roscoe started his career in property Worksmith pay for a rotary evaporation district. until they move to a bar or restaurant that development. system, a device used in chemical is top-end,” operations manager Robert The space, which opened in June, provides In 2017 they travelled the world together laboratories that has become popular among Weston said. those new to the hospitality industry a place looking at co-working spaces. The three inventive bartenders to prepare unique to experiment and sharpen their craft, as “The idea is that it is a safe entry point, so started Worksmith when they returned drinks.

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cuisine, culture and traditions. Wednesday nights at Step under the Market’s iconic sheds and Queen Victoria Market feast on authentic street food from Thailand to India, Vietnam to Korea, and Malaysia to (QVM) will continue to be a Japan with more than 20 food stalls. Melbourne hotspot for food To complete the experience, the sounds and colours of Asia will fill the Market Awards winners (third from left) Jason Fischer, (fourth) Dr Stephan Muller and (fifth) Derek Scott with Haileybury and entertainment, with sheds with live music and entertainment, executive staff on August 16. the springtime return of the including traditional dancers and performers taking centre stage. Expect Hawker 88 Night Market. everything from a traditional Chinese lion dance, to martial arts and K-Pop. The Hawker 88 Night Market will fill The Hawker 88 Night Market is location New year, the oriental buffet-sized void left between between sheds K-L (Queen St to Peel St) winter and summer night markets every and entry is free. Wednesday night from September 18 to With the flavours of the Orient taking October 23. over the Market, Wednesday August 28 is same success Over six weeks, visitors can explore the last chance to get your mulled wine and different regions of the Orient through winter feasting fix before the Winter Night By Jack Hayes the five senses to learn more about their Market disappears for another year.

Professional Learning Program. Haileybury College has No stranger to the podium at the AEA, Mr Scott said the awards recognised continued its winning ways, Haileybury’s world-class people and with another impressive programs. “This outstanding result reflects the showing at the 2019 Australian enormous effort that Haileybury’s staff, Education Awards (AEA) at students and parents make to ensure that Dockside Sydney. our school offers exceptional educational opportunities,” he said. “As one of Australia’s most successful As industry-wide leaders in innovation, schools, we work hard to ensure that our school programing and international programs are second to none but also vision, the King St school capped off ensure that every child matters every day.” another successful year in the non- Haileybury will need to make there is government school system by taking home some space in the trophy cabinet following three awards. a 2018 awards night which saw it take home Principal Derek Scott was Australian School of the Year, among other named Australian Principal of the Year, awards. with Jason Fischer taking out Department For information on school tours and Head of the Year. The school also won Best enrolment visit haileybury.vic.edu.au

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Residents 3000 Augmenting your reality in Flinders Quarter

Flinders Quarter, you will also discover, or re- Following the formal part of the meeting, Just in case you didn’t know, the discover, the precinct’s diverse independent we will be entertained by composer/pianist/ businesses. There are plenty of places to stop jazz singer Monique diMattina who, apart Flinders Quarter in Melbourne’s for coffee and a bite to eat mid-walk and from being a Fulbright scholar, is a regular CBD, is the area bordered by the quarter is home to some of the coolest performer on Australian and international local designers, makers and labels. You stages. Monique is known for her ABC Collins, Flinders, Elizabeth and could easily lose an hour or two in the iconic radio segment in which she composes and Swanston streets. Nicholas Building and reacquaint yourself performs bespoke songs to listener requests. with the famous Chloe painting in the Young She has released seven albums on the Head and Jackson building. record label. Find out more about her at The precinct is famous for its street art, moniquedimattina.com cosy laneways and arcades, eclectic small As usual, refreshments will be served businesses and heritage buildings. It is a Residents 3000 annual general towards the end of the event. special part of the city loved by residents and meeting (AGM) Be aware that the Residents 3000 AGM is tourists alike. As with last year, Residents 3000 is pleased the time when a new committee is elected. But now, from mid-August until to welcome Lord Mayor Sally Capp to If you are interested in city affairs and would September 14, you can wander the area do is point your device at one of the artworks address our members and guests. This is a like to volunteer, please let our president to view a collection of 12 new and existing with the EyeJack app activated, press the wonderful opportunity to be updated on the Rafael ([email protected]) artworks that are brought to life with white button and you will be amazed to see progress made since Sally has taken over know or nominate on the night. augmented reality (AR). The magic is made the art come alive with animation, seemingly leadership at the City of Melbourne. There possible with an AR app called EyeJack moving away from the wall, turning into a will be time for residents to ask questions that you download to your mobile phone 3D image that changes in many ways in time and to give our Mayor feedback about the or digital device. The guided tour and app with accompanying music. Delightful! good and not so good aspects of life in the presentation has been sponsored by the The walk encompasses a diverse collection CBD. Susan Saunders Metro Tunnel project. of artworks over multiple sites, featuring The event will be held on Thursday, vice president To start your tour, you pick up a map from works by celebrated Australian artists September 5 at 6:30pm. We suggest arriving Ph: 0412 566 606 the Metro Tunnel HQ on Swanston St or including Vexta, The Huxleys, Adele Varcoe, at 6 for registration and to enjoy a chat and email: sue@residents3000. com.au from selected Flinders Quarter businesses, Alex Mitchell, Chelsea Gustafsson, Jacob a drink from the Kelvin Club’s extensive Melbourne cafés and shops. Then off you go Leary and Sutu (Stu Campbell). bar. Details to be posted on our web site at to enjoy a new experience! All you have to As you travel up, down and around residents3000.com.au

We Live Here Small print shrinks state cladding fund

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

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

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History Outside Nott’s confectioners some wearing boaters, some bowlers, some Queen Victoria Building, diagonally opposite This photograph was taken smoking, one leaning on his bicycle, were the site of Nott’s confectionery shop, outside the shop of confectioner patrons of Damman’s rather than Nott’s. where today you are greeted by high fences Perhaps it’s lunchtime and they have around the construction site of the CBD Thomas Nott in about 1900. congregated there for a quick lunchtime South Station, part of the Metro Rail Tunnel He’d been in business for about smoke and chat before heading back to scheme. business. The young man in the boater, Travel in the opposite direction, and a 50 years by then and boasted leaning on a cane in the centre of the little further west you will find one of my that he made the best sweets for photo has a drawstring bag at his feet, so favourite places in the CBD – The Block it’s possible he’s a member of the legal Arcade. In the early 1970s as a young adult, children in Melbourne. profession and this is his robe bag. There my friends and I headed there for an elegant were many legal chambers in Collins St, so morning tea at the Hopetoun Tearooms They were “thoroughly wholesome, perhaps the men are members of the legal when we wanted to treat ourselves, then absolutely pure”, according to his fraternity enjoying a little summer sunshine. strolled through the arcade marvelling at its advertisements. And at first glance, if If you follow Collins St east and up the style and splendour. We’d make sure we were you go by the crowd outside his shop in Outside 222 Collins St, 1900. GS-CS-17 from the Royal hill beyond the Town Hall, you will reach its at the Royal Arcade as Gog and Magog struck Historical Society Victoria collection. this summertime photograph, they were “top end”; the “Paris end”. With its elegant the hour on the clock near the Bourke St end thoroughly welcomed by adults, as well as buildings and exclusive shops such as of the arcade. This was one of my favourite children. so perhaps my mother should have been George’s Emporium, it was considered the childhood memories. When we visited from It’s probably just as well for me that Nott’s even stricter on the sugar intake. It’s ironic, most fashionable street in Melbourne. The Ballarat, where we lived in the 1950s, we Confectioners closed its doors in the 1920s. I then, that the site of Nott’s is now part of the closest I ever got to shopping in this part of always visited Gog and Magog then walked a would definitely have been among the crowd Manchester Unity Building, a marvellous Collins St was when I bought a pair of shoes little further east along Collins St, crossed the you see here outside the shop, probably modern Gothic structure on the corner of at Hermann’s (near the Baptist Church and road and had lunch at the Wild Cherry Café. walking alongside the girl to the left of the Collins and Swanston streets and the home only a short distance from where this photo To me, as a six or seven-year-old, this was photo with her waist-length hair tied back of my dentist, so I know that building quite was taken) and blew several weeks’ pay but the height of sophistication! Today, I rarely in a ribbon, boater on head and almost well. they were worth it! Across the road from find anyone else who remembers the Wild ankle-length summer dress; the only female In the days when the photograph was the Baptist Church is the Regent Theatre Cherry, but occasionally I stop and watch among a sea of men of varying ages. We were taken, Nott’s next-door neighbour was with its magnificent interior. It wasn’t there Gog and Magog and notice someone of a not huge consumers of lollies in our family, Gustave Damman, a tobacconist located when this photo was taken. The Regent, similar age to me standing back and quietly although I seem to recall that my threepence on the corner of Collins and Swanston then styled a “picture palace”, arrived on watching the two giant figures at work. pocket money was largely spent on the streets, just across the road from the the scene in 1929, just at the start of the biggest, most glamorous sweets I could buy Melbourne Town Hall, which you can see 1930s Depression. Next door to that was for my money. I also recall that my first visit in the background of this photo. It seems City Square, but not until the late '60s, early Dr. Cheryl Griffin to the dentist was when I was about seven, likely, then, that the men in the photo, '70s. It was constructed on the site of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Trader Profile Farm gate goodness in the heart of the city “The health aspects and medicinal uses for Queen Victoria Market’s (QVM) honey have been going through the roof in the last few years,” Luke said. “People have go-to man for milk, eggs and really been starting to understand it now so honey Luke Graczyk has been that’s great.” “Health wise it’s great for cold and flu, providing locals with the immune and gut health and people are using essentials for more than 10 it a lot for external topical stuff now. People often use it for treating infections, tinea on years. feet, scarring.” “I actually had one customer who had a Market regulars would be well familiar huge cancerous tumour hanging off her face with the Eggporium under Shed I near the and no conventional medicine could get corner of Queen and Therry streets with rid of it. After about of year of Manuka on it, its vast range of produce from some of it fell off. It was ridiculous and she swears Australia’s best farms. nothing else worked like it.” Luke’s family has been in the egg industry “With natural stuff that will work with for more than 20 years and had been some people, but others’ makeups are supplying the Eggporium for a long time Luke Graczyk at the Eggporium. different, and it won’t work as well for them, before Luke took over the business in 2012. but the right product on the right person Since then, it has truly transformed into a while containing less cholesterol and couple of interstate farms but most of them honey can do absolute wonders.” QVM institution, offering eggs of all varieties, saturated fats. are pretty local.” While Luke said that the uncertainty and milk fresh from the farm gate and more than Whether you’re after organic, free-range, While eggs might take centre stage at lack of security surrounding the forthcoming 200 different product lines of honey. brown, white, duck or even quail eggs, the the Eggporium, it’s the stall’s incredible renewal of QVM made operating his “Our main focus is just providing really Eggporium only offers the freshest range of range of honeys that have been attracting business somewhat of a challenge at present, good, fresh stuff, right in the city which you eggs from local farms across Victoria. growing attention from customers based on he said there was no greater place to work or can’t get most of at the supermarkets. You’d “Eggs, in terms of nutrients, you’re not increased awareness about their amazing community to be a part of. have to go to farm gates to get it so to have going to get much better than anything that health benefits, according to Luke. “It’s the social interaction with traders access to that sort of produce right here in size; good protein and they provide heaps of The stall stocks honeys from Australia and customers I love the most. It’s not like the city is a real point of difference,” Luke different vitamins,” Luke said. and New Zealand with all the varieties any other workplace,” he said. "It’s a massive said. “All of the milk and eggs come from small you could imagine, such as leatherwood, community here.” The Eggporium specialises in providing family owned suppliers. There are quite a Manuka, organic, organic, red gum, stringy The Eggporium is located at stall 43- certified organic and free-range eggs, which few out in Gippsland and Western Victoria bark, yellow box, local flora, banksia, clover, 45 under I Shed on Queen St. For more compared to their caged counterparts, are and some closer from Cranbourne, Devon jarrah, honeycomb chunks … and the list information or to order online visit packed with more vitamins and nutrients, Meadows, Lara, Werribee and there are a goes on! theeggporium.com.au

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Metro Tunnel Flinders St eastbound lanes closure of the interchange, which will enable your Android or iPhone – download the free in Campbell Arcade. As works to build the new passengers to transfer from Town Hall EyeJack augmented reality app and watch art The Flinders Quarter Augmented Art Walk Station to Flinders Street Station without come to life with movement and sound. is a Metro Tunnel Project business support Town Hall Station ramp up, the pasting through ticket gates, the east bound The walk starts at Metro Tunnel HQ, 125 initiative. eastbound lanes of Flinders lane closures will halve the number of – 133 Swanston St, where you can pick up a Get involved and share your truck movements on Swanston St during map, then find your way to Vexta’s The Rising #flindersquarter #metrotunnel experience. St, between Swanston and peak construction, boosting safety for Orb: Hope mural in Degraves Place. Find out more on Facebook and Instagram Elizabeth streets, will close from pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists. From here follow the map, keeping an eye by following @flindersquarter @ For more information on Town Hall out for Flinders Quarter stickers at artwork metrotunnelvic September for up to three years. Station visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au locations around the Metro Tunnel Project’s For more information visit metrotunnel. Town Hall Station construction site near vic.gov.au The closure will enable construction of an Flinders Quarter Augmented Art Flinders and Swanston streets, including the underground passenger connection from Walk Nicholas Building and Scott Alley. the new Town Hall Station to Flinders Street See Melbourne’s CBD and its public art At the Young & Jackson Hotel, on the Station, between Swanston and Degraves like you’ve never seen it before, as part of the corner of Swanston and Flinders streets, streets. Metro Tunnel Project’s Augmented Art Walk. iconic nude portrait Chloe becomes Trams will continue to run in both This month, you can interact with 14 animated when viewed through a phone directions, except from October 2 to 7. artworks as they are animated with virtual screen, with images of envelopes containing Pedestrian and vehicle access will reality technology when seen through a love letters from soldiers floating around be maintained for local businesses and phone or iPad. Chloe. residents, with a new pedestrian crossing Take the self-guided walk around Flinders Artworks can also be discovered at the built near Degraves St. Quarter and discover a diverse range of City Library, DoubleTree by Hilton, Bared In addition to facilitating construction artworks by local and Australian artists using Shoes (Manchester Lane) and underground

Heritage Protecting our sacred laneways

While some buildings were excluded in the for heritage values. As reported earlier in this issue study area which we thought were worthy Areas like Hardware and Guildford lanes of CBD news, after a two-year of protection, such as the Duke of Kent are the lifeblood of Melbourne, hosting all Hotel, which currently lies derelict and has sorts of creative practices, cafe culture and long process, Minister for been flipped for sale by the developer who niche businesses. They are a great example Planning Richard Wynne signed closed it as a pub and successfully applied of what happens when cities protect their to demolish it. Another is Melbourne House, small heritage buildings, with oddly shaped off this month on one of the City a 1920s office building in Little Bourke St layouts and quirks. It is proof of one of of Melbourne’s most ambitious which may also soon face demolition. MHA’s foundational assertions: that heritage Debate continues over Chart House in is not about creating museum pieces to heritage protection studies in Little Bourke St, which the study erroneously sit alongside a modern city, but about decades. labelled as non-contributory to the heritage allowing a modern city to thrive through streetscape. MHA has provided evidence both old and new, with more than one use proving the building is intact and built or demographic inhabiting it, and with a The move sees heritage overlays now earlier than the study found, which has memory as well as a diverse future. extending over Guildford Lane, the subsequently been accepted. However, with Hardware/Little Bourke area and much of a live application for demolition, it will be Elizabeth St. up to the City of Melbourne to negotiate a The protection of a myriad of laneways compromised development which hopefully Rohan Storey and buildings in this study area has been retains at least the facade of this unique Vice President a key focus for Melbourne Heritage Action paying off, with the new heritage precincts 1940s building with its original shopfronts Melbourne Heritage (MHA) since our group was founded in 2010, almost mirroring suggestions we’ve been and early modernist design. Action and it’s fantastic to see years of lobbying making since 2014. Overall, however, the study is a huge win

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Lunch Break Critic

Casual encounters Alex ordered a beer with the past Kirk’s Wine Bar. Hardware Lane By Rhonda Dredge

Radical families are inspiring and the van Schaiks are a name when it comes to the CBD, in architecture and now art.

In fact, Leon van Schaik, Emeritus making, such as the tableau of jewellery Professor of Architecture at RMIT could be pieces in Haeckel, while there are traces named a CBD hero. of Matisse in the red figurative building Back in the '80s when heritage remakes depicted in Tropic. were the rage, he was responsible for In all there are 19 paintings, drawn commissioning some of RMIT’s wild together more by size and method than buildings, such as the bright green content. deconstructionist Storey Hall. To be in this small modernist Neon “I supported local creative talent,” Leon Parc gallery with the work and a crowd of told CBD News, but he also protected RMIT’s architects come to show their respects was a iconic red brick buildings and laboratories. rare pleasure. “They wanted to pull them down,” he said. The paintings, which are small, portable Standing up for your principles is a van and priced under $1000, fit neatly into the Schaik ideology that has been passed down contemporary painting scene while creating in the family to Leon’s daughter Andrée. casual encounters with the past. Her exhibition of paintings at Neon Andrée van Schaik features at Neon Parc, Park off Bourke St is a clever, enigmatic 1/53 Bourke St until August 31. and stubborn exploration of primarily abstract forms in what might be called Follow us on twitter “metamodernism”. @paramourescort The paintings have visual postmodernist references but are mostly derived from to see x3 free lingerie collages, a form invented in the early 1900s pics everyday to your feed! by the Dadaists and Surrrealists and made famous by Braques and Picasso. The shapes in the paintings are random, freeform, loosely painted with soft hard edges and don’t extrapolate beyond their visual references. Andrée appears to relish the privilege of modernism to be relaxed about meanings or to eschew them altogether. 96546011 “I think the pieces reflect pastiche,” she Subscribe to our mailing list said. “They have an internal charge. It’s kind via our website and of subtle. I can’t put my finger on it and I don’t want to.” She uses the collages as a design guide then focuses on the pleasure of painting. “I don’t think about philosophy while I’m doing it. It’s all there in the back of my head.” SWA113E Some of the works move into picture- Artwork: Skin, Top: Train.

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CBD Local To teach is to listen In 13 different spaces within the City of Melbourne, 1500 retirees regularly congregate for classes as part of the University of the Third Age (U3A).

Charles Klassen teaches a short course home in Canada. Three years later they’d on the Literature of Power, Law and Justice moved to Sydney and they stayed there until that begins with the Epic of Gilgamesh, 2017. moves through Greek and Egyptian justice, “We moved to Melbourne to be with our the Middle Ages, and David Williamson to children and grandchildren. We have four Aboriginal justice today. sons, two of them are in Melbourne with five And all in just six weeks. grandchildren here.” “A lot of people have a lot of experience One of his sons is in Brunswick, the other with justice,” Charles – whose career was in North Melbourne, so he said he and his spent as a high school English teacher – said wife got an apartment in the CBD to be as as he pointed out that the art of teaching close as possible to both at the same time. mature age students was listening. His wife is involved with U3A’s film, “What impresses me is that the teachers museums and historical walks courses. are open – it’s totally different to teaching For Charles, adult life has been all about young students because they don’t have teaching. He retired as a high school teacher much background,” he said. 15 years ago and moved into teaching the “When you’re teaching mature students, card game bridge full time. sometimes they have expertise and He said of all U3A events he’s been knowledge that you don’t have.” involved with his favourite was a reading of “It’s not just lecturing; it’s listening to the World War One poets – like Wilfred Owen them.” and Rupert Brooke – at Deakin’s Edge. That’s why Charles starts his class with “It was read by a number of different Charles Klassen. an informal discussion, initiated but not men who got up and were really well dominated by his Canadian accent. His class choregraphed and developed. It was really discusses experiences with the tax office and His U3A experience began as a student, ago from Sydney. moving.” the power of bureaucracy. too, when he moved to Melbourne two years In 1969 he met an Australian nurse at

SkyPad Living Letters to the Editor Vertical living style But things are about to change bespoke works of art.” Customers choose the Our apartment layouts might be Swedish furniture giant IKEA is teaming colour and design of pieces which fit over uniform, but our interiors need up with US start-up, Ori, to create such a existing IKEA furniture. robotic furniture product. Reform’s offer is more a swap-out of not be! Ori’s current collection includes a “pocket kitchen fronts and countertops which they closet” (an expanding and concealable promise are easy to combine with IKEA’s basic and popular modules. Advice abounds about how we, vertical wardrobe) and in conjunction with IKEA, Ori Hølte, a London-based studio, provides villagers, can decorate our small spaces. is developing the ROGNAN solution which Congratulations a high-end version of this aftermarket We are advised to delineate areas, go enables a bedroom to transform into a living I would like to congratulate journalist alteration service, offering an array of vertical with storage, choose a light colour and working space. Meg Hill for her article “Beggar déjà coloured handles, countertop surfaces and palette (or alternatively) go bold, add layers “More IKEA …” I hear you sigh. vu”. A well-constructed and researched hand-finished cabinet fronts. for depth – and most important of all – invest And it is a common lament that in being piece which turned over the rocks of the Deviating from this refit approach, Panyl in appropriate furniture. one of the few retailers that offer reasonably “beggar narratives” that have dogged our and our own LUX offer more accessible ways But just what is appropriate for our space- priced furniture suited to our space, that community for years and will no doubt of customising - no screw drivers needed! challenged apartments? many small apartments can look like a page continue. Panyl is a do-it-yourself furniture wrap Scanning the many guidelines offered by from an IKEA catalogue. I appreciated Meg’s analysis and deeper which comes in multiple colours and wood small space stylists, current advice cautions delve into the various issues. Thanks for grain textures. us not to take the “dollhouse approach”, Enter the IKEA hack guiding and clarifying. I will continue to Meanwhile LUX offers a range of overlay meaning that we should not simply shrink As many know, IKEA hacking has been support these people whenever I can. panels along with a selection of handles, our furnishing and outfit our abodes with growing in popularity for some time with Thanks Meg! legs and feet which can be combined for a tiny furniture. entire sites now dedicated to sharing tips. Katharine “designer look on a flat-pack budget”. LUX’s According to course director of interior Early on, the Swedish retailer “disliked” this products are Australian designed and made, architecture at Swinburne University Kirsten idea but they have changed their tune, even and LUX is Australian owned and operated Closure a no-go Day, the best types of furniture to use in offering ideas themselves. As a trader in Elizabeth St for a number – which could mark the beginning of an small spaces are simple open-framed chairs IKEA hacking started with the of years, I have objected to the permanent interesting OZ-scandi fusion! and tables, furniture with light frames, steel re-engineering of IKEA pieces to serve closure of Elizabeth St southbound in So, before you send your IKEA unit to or timber, and open backs. She further another purpose but increasingly, these the block between Little Lonsdale and landfill, think about “hacking out” a second advises that fitted living room furniture with hacks focus on customising the appearance Lonsdale streets. Along with the closure life. built-in side tables that hug the wall is better of the skandi furniture – the decorative hack. of Elizabeth northbound in the block to than large single units and isolated tables. In recognising this desire to customise Latrobe St, I believe this will cause traffic And Kirsten is also an advocate for flexible one’s IKEA, the past few years have seen chaos in Little Lonsdale; a street which is space (i.e. multi-purpose arrangements). several start-ups emerge which offer overtaxed as it is. To date, flexible space in Australia has different ways of doing this. Among these are David focused on transforming furniture - sofas Norse Interiors, Reform, Panyl, Hølte and Janette Corcoran which turn into beds, coffee tables which even our own Australian LUX. Apartment living expert Send your letters to change into dining tables, etc. The more At Norse Interiors (USA), they offer https://www.facebook. [email protected] “luxurious, custom-made replacement radical options, such as moving robotic com/SkyPadLiving/ walls, were the stuff of futuristic design fairs. pieces to turn IKEA furniture storage into

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Music Pet’s Corner Planet B Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones. The Steve Lucas and Friends EP They have developed a fine sense of playing together, and Jerome Smith has it locked By Request launched this winter down solid in the pocket. Dave Hogan adds is an impromptu selection of fuel to the fire with sharp, succinct and gutsy blues harmonica playing. Cherry Bar will be songs dedicated to the memory relocating to a new central location in the of legendary blues musician city in the next month. Plum Green will be having its Lions In Chris Wilson. Darkness EP launch happening at The Curtin on Sunday, September 8. Plum Green has a Steve Lucas, the mercurial muso who grungy noir gothic sound. Its previous album founded the punk band X travelled to San featuring Baby Bird is available at record Shy fashion model Diego, California to team up with a bunch of stores around Melbourne. Supporting on the sensational Mexican musicians, recording night will be Sam Haven and Rach Brennan By Rhonda Dredge four songs. The bass player from The Zeros and The Pines. Hector Penalosa is in the band that plays CASEY Bebenek, the dynamic ambient on the By Request EP and Before The Next instrumental duo of Adam Casey (cello) Stevie is a shy whippet more at home snuggling into a couch Teardrop Falls has singing in both English and Julia Bebenek (drums) have been than living in the limelight as a model. and Spanish. The full album cover is a great performing, recording and releasing every picture of a snowy vista that includes a sign month a series of long form nature inspired But in the last month she has been on COAT Label. for The Joshua Tree Inn by the roadside. atmospheric improv concerts that are very the Today show and in the Herald Sun “Whippets feel the cold big time,” Jemma There is a distinctive twangy Americana treasureworthy. Their music is available on modelling a skivvy. said. “They have low body fat and short feel to this project, and there is a piano the CASEY Bebenek Band Camp page. She prefers a fashionable black when hair. They need to be snug and warm.” accordion bright and prominent in the mix. On Tuesday, August 6 classical piano she’s at an art opening but light grey or She designed the coats because she He’ll Have To Go has some fine south of the player Jonathon Xian performed at the Music charcoal suits on other occasions. couldn’t stand the gimmicky products border guitar strumming and again we have Matinee at The Scots Church, situated on “I take her everywhere, shopping available. the multi-lingual dimension of Spanish and the corner of Collins and Russell streets. down Little Collins, wine bars and cafes, “Denim jackets shrunk down for dogs! English. A sweet and succinct song. Sad Days Jonathon Xian won first prize in the fourth exhibitions,” her owner Jemma Thomas There was nothing firm-fitting, sleek or Girl is a poignant vignette sung with vim and series of The Talent on 3MBS in 2018, a live said. sophisticated.” brio by Lucas, and again one of the verses is music performance opportunity on radio A thoroughly urban dog, Stevie lives in Her Merino wool jersey coats sell around in Spanish. that helps artists develop their performing a fourth-floor studio apartment on Scott the world and her latest product is a Snoot, This four track EP is a ripper and should skills. Also, to his credit, Jonathon was Alley and works in the city, modelling two a cross between a hood and a scarf. be available at all good record stores in selected to perform in the Lev Vlassenko fashion ranges for Jemma’s online business the CBD as well as at the Steve Lucas Band Piano Competition. On the menu at The Camp page. The four songs were recorded Scots Church was Bach’s Chaconne in D at Earthling Studios in San Diego and were minor, BWV 1004, Brahms Intermezzo in A mixed by Mike Kamoo. You should also be major, Op 118, No. 2 and Franck’s Prelude, able to hear selections of these songs on Chorale and Fugue, FWV 21. Denise Hylands’ Twang radio show on 3RRR. Xian had performed Franck’s Prelude, There is also a full album of 10 tracks that Chorale and Fugue on a previous occasion TopClass concludes with a snappy Heartbreak Hotel, at the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition of Collins Street a staple in The Heinous Hounds sets. Down and it was the highlight performance at his By The River is a great song reprised on the music matinee performance at The Scots full album with a full flavoured band sound. Church. Franck wrote this music in 1884 The remaining six songs on the album were and it comprises three movements. 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墨尔本市政的一项新投资将扩大 为生活在中央商务区街头无家可 归者提供免费的流动医疗服务。 联合医疗(Cohealth)公共流 动汽车诊所以前只在周三运营， 现增加在周一也运营。 该服务提供全科医生、护士 和社会工作者，提供免费的保 健、心理、药物和咨询服务。 上个月，市长萨利·卡普 (Sally Capp)宣布墨尔本市政已 经在这个项目上投资了20万澳 元。 巷道获得正式保护 市中心成为“指定区域”了 市长说:“流动公共汽车诊 所将直接为街头露宿者提供他们 维州政府已经正式批准采纳了 撰稿Meg Hill 所需要的服务。” 新中央商务区遗产保护覆盖修 过去十年来，维州警察在中央商 发现“尽管有全面的搜查和金属 “当病人登上流动公共汽车 正案，该法案是墨尔本市政在 务区的权力已越来越大，因为他 探测器，但武器发现很少”。 诊所时，他们可以直接与医生交 2017年提出的。 们的警力重点已转移到反抗议活 他说：“很明显，警察所指 谈，并获得免费服务，如流感疫 州规划厅长理查德·韦恩 动上来了。 定区域和武器控制的权力对于抗 苗注射、伤口治疗或紧急心理健 (Richard Wynne)于8月16日批 在2009年的“武器控制法 议活动非常有用，因为警方有权 康转诊。” 准了该修正案。这个保护措施 1900”修正案中，维多利亚州警 在没有任何合理怀疑的情况下进 Cohealth的临时首席执行 建议来自建筑师洛弗尔·陈 察有权宣布一个“指定区域”， 行搜查。” 官妮可·巴塞洛梅乌斯(Nicole (Lovell Chen)在2017年提交的 在该区域内，他们有权扩大搜查 由于中央商务区是抗议者最 Bartholomeusz)表示，cohealth 一份报告，该报告被市政接受 力度和行使进一步的权力。 受欢迎的地方，这意味着CBD成 长期以来一直倡导为弱势人群提 并得以提倡。 此举是当时的布伦比 了这些措施的行使重点。 供更好的医疗保健服务 。 这个c271修正案给予吉尔 (Brumby)政府和维多利亚警察厅 “都市新闻报”的研究显 她说：“睡眠不佳会造成严 福德(Guildford)巷道和哈德威 为了应对青少年犯罪明显增加， 示，在2010年实施该条款的11次 重的健康问题，然而无家可归的 尔(Hardware)巷道区域永久的 尤其是涉及刀具和其他武器的犯 实例中，只有一次是在市中心。 人比社区其他人获得的医疗服务 遗产保护。自去年以来，这些 罪而制定的。 那一年任何地点的重复实施也很 更少。” 遗址巷道一直处于临时的保护 负责全维州警察问责项目的 少， 在11次的实例中有9次都在 “无家可归者感觉耻辱和歧 之下。 弗莱明顿(Flemington)和肯辛屯 不同的城郊。 视是他们寻求保健服务的一个障 墨尔本市政遗产保护发 (Kensington)法律中心的执行官 然而到了2018年，14次实例 碍。他们也难以负担医疗费用和 言人罗汉·莱珀特(Rohan 中有9次发生在CBD，其中至少 赴约就诊，也难以维持治疗上的 Leppert)议员说，厅长在政府 安东尼·凯利(Anthony Kelly)表 有5次警察被召集来应对抗议活 要求。” 公报上公布了本市政的吉尔福 示，旨在应对这一犯罪增长的搜 动，还有其他3次用于人流众多 市长还为基层服务组织发行 德和哈德威尔巷道的遗产保护 查力度收效甚微。 的公共活动。 了一本手册，以指导志愿者团体 修正案，我们对此感到高兴。 他说，最初的“指定区域和 如何帮助无家可归者。 莱珀特议员说：“这是墨 搜查”通常位于城郊的火车站， 尔本市政工作人员、遗产顾问 和倡导者多年工作的成果，所 有这些都是为了更新我们的遗 产管理，保护我们这个不断变 化的城市中这一显著部分的独 特性。” 哈德威尔巷道曾是墨尔本 赛马训练业的中心，如今因鹅 卵石路面和伞篷而在这座城市 工程施工 拥挤增加 中脱颖而出。 撰稿David Schout 吉尔福德巷的东西走向和 连接小巷营造出了红砖村的氛 耗资2100万澳元的中央商务区污 (Swanston)街道之间）的两条东 城西水公司的基础设施和交 围。它原来就有工厂、仓库和 水系统的升级工程将使赫德尔 行车道将因Metro地铁隧道工程 付总经理玛丽·朗(Maree Lang) 有影响力的新剧院。 (Hoddle)交通网络内的通勤延误 于9月初关闭三年不久后才发布 说，近来的延误将得到认真处 这个覆盖修正案中还包括 加剧12个月以上。 的。 理。 巷道附近多个地点。 自今年9月至2020年年末， 此外，墨尔本市政计划从明 她说：“鉴于朗斯代尔街的 韦恩厅长说，这些巷道有 朗斯代尔(Lonsdale)街(在伊 年开始对伊丽莎白街部分作为步 位置以及许多城市居民、企业和 着“丰富有趣的历史”。 丽莎白(Elizabeth)街和威廉姆 行街。 游客的日常使用，毫无疑问，它 他说:“我们希望它们受到 (William)街之间)的一段将在不 州政府呼吁这些计划推迟到 给我们带来一些物流方面的挑 保护，以便后代能够享用。” 同时间被中断，根据城市西部水 2025年隧道工程完工后，可是市 战，但是我们已经计划了好几个 。 公司的说法，这是为了“帮助确 政置若罔闻，在5月份的会议上 月了，来尽量减少整个工程期间 “像很多维多利亚人一 保在墨尔本CBD生活和工作的人 却推进了该计划。 的中断影响。” 样，我在哈德威尔巷也度过了 们提供污水处理服务”。 尽管即将到来的各种工程对 “重要的是，在工程施工过 一些美好的夜晚，这些新的遗 这些中断还包括车道封闭和 于一个不断发展的中心城市之未 程中，供水或污水处理服务不会 产保护法案意味着我们的后代 一些停车限制。 来似乎至关重要，但它们对中央 受到影响。” 也能有同样的美好经历。” 这一消息是在宣布弗林德 商务区拥堵的综合影响也可能是 斯街（伊丽莎白和斯旺斯顿 显著的。

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