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Beggar déja vu By Meg Hill

“Police have arrested 77 city beggars this year, many of whom were either drug users or professional beggars.”

This is a familiar start to an article about begging in the CBD. But it’s not from the recent news surge. It’s a Herald Sun article from November 2000. This July a similar, but arguably smaller, police operation targeted a number of apparent “professional” beggars in the city. Police charged seven people with beg alms. It’s alleged those charged were Chinese nationals on tourist visas operating as part of an organised syndicate and are not truly homeless. Continued on page 7. Photo: John Tadigiri Council crackdown on motorbike parking By David Schout

The City of could install “no-stopping” signs on some of the CBD’s busiest footpaths in a bid to free-up clogged walkways.

As councillors step up their bid to “reclaim could install “no-stopping” signs on busy we may need to introduce motorcycle no- recent times, as research confirmed that footpaths” as a key pillar of council’s 10-year paths as a further way to curb congestion. stopping zones for part or all of the day in almost nine in 10 trips throughout the CBD transport strategy, motorbikes and food some high-activity areas.” are completed on foot. “Our goal is to improve our streets and make delivery bikes have been targeted. them safer for all users, including people Melbourne is the only capital city in Further surveys as part the transport strategy The strategy, a final draft of which is soon walking and riding motorcycles,” a council where you can legally park on the – which the council received a record level to go before the council, already includes spokesperson said. footpath. of response – confirmed that one of the most a plan to install 300 additional on-street common problems in the CBD was “crowded “This will be achieved by shifting Riders are merely required to park at least motorcycle parking bays as a way to remove footpaths”. motorcycles in high-activity areas from one motorcycle length out from the building them from busy walkways. footpaths by providing more on-street to allow free passage for pedestrians. But the council has now indicated that they parking. In order to achieve these goals, But this state law has caused headaches in Continued on page 5. 2 CBD NEWS ISSUE 56 Heritage push for Queen St By Sean Car

The City of Melbourne has welcomed a recommendation Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade to extend heritage protections PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 at the Queen Market Tel: 8689 7980 www.cbdnews.com.au (QVM) to include a 200-metre Advertising section of Queen St on the Tel: 8689 7980 Victorian Heritage Register. [email protected]

Reader contributions are welcome. The strip of Queen St dividing the market Please send articles and images to (between Therry and Victoria streets) is [email protected] the only section of the QVM precinct not The deadline for the September 2019 included on the state's Register. However, The northern end of Queen St looking towards the CBD. the same section is included as part of the edition is Thursday, August 22. A spokesperson for Heritage Victoria said on with delivering renewal and protecting market’s National Heritage Listing. that the current extent of registration for the market for future generations,” a council Follow us on Twitter Heritage Council Victoria publicly advertised QVM comprised two separate blocks and the spokesperson said. @CBD_News_3000 the recommendation from the executive inclusion of the northern portion of Queen “We do not expect that an extension of the director of Heritage Victoria Steven Avery on St was considered important for protection, Like us on Facebook heritage area, as proposed, will significantly July 19, in accordance with section 41 of the conservation and connectivity. cbdnewsmelbourne change the project timelines.” Heritage Act 2017. Follow us on Instagram The group’s spokesperson Mary-Lou Howie “The plans for delivery of market A council spokesperson told CBD News cbdnews said she hoped the move would help prevent infrastructure, as approved by council in that the recommendation would bring any inappropriate development from taking April 2019, included a new facility at the the market’s registration on the Victorian place on Queen St as part of the council’s northern end of Queen St where the heritage Heritage Register in line with the national Publisher: Hyperlocal News Pty Ltd plans to renew the market. nomination is proposed to be extended.” ABN: 57 623 558 725 listing. The City of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria “This building would provide centralised “As the custodians of , Editor: Sean Car Market Precinct Renewal Master Plan waste management and loading services for we are committed to protecting its unique [email protected] does earmark the section of Queen St to be the market and was a key recommendation heritage – that is why we applied for and Journalists: pedestrianised by removing parking and of the People’s Panel process.” secured National Heritage Listing of the Meg Hill vehicular traffic. A 2016 makeover plan also market,” the spokesperson said. “The 2015 Master Plan included key [email protected] included a proposal for a glasshouse pavilion improvements such as the enhancement “Through City of Melbourne’s $250 million to be constructed on Queen St, which has David Schout of public space on Queen Street between QVM renewal, we are protecting the been strongly opposed by Friends of QVM [email protected] the upper and lower markets and the very things the National Heritage Listing and many market traders. reduction of vehicular traffic on Queen 20,000 copies are printed and recognises including preserving the market’s Street for improved public safety and visitor distributed exclusively within long history, restoring its heritage buildings The City of Melbourne told CBD News that it experience.” Melbourne's CBD each month. CBD and securing its place as a traditional open- didn’t expect the heritage recommendation News works for advertisers because air market.” would impact its plans for renewal, which The recommendation will be advertised for people like to know what is happening included a new waste management and 60 days from July 19 and submissions can be The inclusion of the strip of Queen St on in their neighbourhood. loading facility on Queen St. made to the Heritage Council of Victoria via the state's Register has been pushed by The the following link: Views expressed by contributors are not Friends of QVM, who say the listing adds “We anticipated this process and, as with those of the publishers. another layer of protection to what is “vital every heritage and planning approval heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/registrations- to the traffic flow of customers across the process, we will work through any additional reviews/executive-director- market”. approvals required efficiently so we can get recommendations/

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Local businesses on Flinders and Degraves streets can Lord Mayor Sally Capp with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. expect a challenging few years ahead, with one side of Flinders St to close to traffic Ardern graces our city for up to three years as part of construction of the new Town New Zealand Prime Minister Hall Metro railway station. Jacinda Ardern was warmly established to the west of Degraves St to Minister for Transport Infrastructure enable pedestrians to cross to the south welcomed by leaders and Jacinta Allan announced the extended side of Flinders St and maintain access to Melburnians during her visit closure on July 21, which will enable major the tram stop. work to start building the new interchange to the CBD in July. Pedestrian and vehicle access will also under Flinders St, between Swanston and be maintained for local businesses and Degraves streets. As part of a brief Australian visit, Ms residents, and loading bays will be available Ardern met with Prime Minister Scott From September 2, both eastbound lanes east of Elizabeth St for deliveries and drop- Morrison, Victorian Governor Linda on Flinders St will be closed between offs. Jacinta Allan said the full footpath Dessau, Premier Daniel Andrews and Lord Elizabeth and Swanston streets. on Flinders St was expected to re-open to Mayor Sally Capp during a two-day visit to Ms Ardern meets with Premier Daniel Andrews. pedestrians in late 2020. Trams will continue to run in both Melbourne on July 18 and 19. directions throughout, except for a six-day “We know how disruptive this major Ms Ardern became Prime Minister of On July 18, she delivered a speech at period from October 2-7, when major construction will be so we’re doing New Zealand in 2017. Earlier this year her at an event hosted construction will be carried out close to the everything we can to minimise disruptions Coalition Government gained worldwide by the City of Melbourne and the Australia tram network. The footpath will also remain and impacts on local residents, businesses acclaim for its compassionate leadership and New Zealand School of Government, open along Flinders St past Degraves St. and people visiting the city,” Ms Allan said. in response to the terror attack in where she spoke of the importance of good A new pedestrian crossing will also be [email protected] Christchurch. governance.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 4 CBD NEWS ISSUE 56 Tax loophole finally closed Owners’ fight pays off By David Schout By Meg Hill

The state government has A retired couple have taken quietly closed a tax loophole the fight to both builders and that cost it hundreds of council over a gantry erected thousands of dollars and directly outside their CBD threatened hundreds of apartment window. thousands more. After months of letters and complaints about the structure’s impact on privacy and natural Since the start of the year owners of state- light, their persistence finally paid off when listed heritage buildings in the CBD have the structure was removed in July. used a loophole in the Valuation of Land Act 1960 to have their buildings valued at Judith and Michael McCann returned to just $1. their 131 La Trobe St building on February 13 to see the structure assembled on Bennetts The list included multi-million-dollar Lane for nearby building works. A view of the gantry from the McCanns' balcony and (below) the view from Bennetts Lane. buildings like the General Post Office (GPO) and the Block Arcade. The 15-year CBD residents rent out the affected apartment and live upstairs in the that followed, council officers visited the Following that, owners of locally-listed same building themselves. apartment in early June and agreed it would heritage buildings began to target the be difficult to lease. loophole – threatening a landslide of land “We didn’t even see the permit – we didn’t The following week a meeting was organised tax exemptions. have a chance. We arrived back and the gantry was in place. We didn’t get to ask why with both council site services officers and The State Government erased the it was that height or how long it will be there the builder, who informed them the gantry loophole from the legislation in an for,” Mrs McCann explained. could not be lowered. amendment passed on June 18, but it More objections followed, until finally it was seems the $1 valuations will still have to The permit, issued by the City of Melbourne, agreed the gantry would be removed. be overturned in court. was granted to builder Hamilton Marino for 12 months. However, there are conflicting reports as to A Department of Treasury and Finance how this decision was arrived at. spokesperson said the GPO case was still Soon after the gantry was erected, however, before VCAT. tenants decided to vacate because workers In a letter to the building’s OC, Hamilton were operating directly outside their Marino said the council had “asked us to “Heritage-registered commercial window, severely impacting their privacy. remove the gantry earlier than previously properties that generate significant arranged”. income should not receive an unfair As a result, the McCanns were out of pocket. advantage through reduced land tax “We’re good citizens, we pay our rates and Yet when contacted by CBD News, the liabilities,” the spokesperson said. do things by the book, and I just think this is council said it was the builder’s call. Mrs McCann said she was glad their resolve paid off. The amendment repealed both Section unfair,” she said at the time. “While the builder was entitled to leave the 2(8) and Section 2(9) from the Act, closing gantry in place until the permit expired in The builder had informed the building’s “We are confident that our persistence led to the loophole for both state-listed and February 2020, they devised a solution which owners’ corporation (OC) of the impending the removal of the gantry. It was a stressful locally-listed heritage buildings. allowed the gantry to be removed while structure, but the OC had failed to pass this experience but we are satisfied with the also ensuring suitable public protection is When the precedent case – the GPO – onto the McCanns. outcome. We now intend to pursue the maintained,” a spokesperson said. was decided at the Victorian Civil and builder for compensation for loss of rental They, therefore, had no opportunity to lodge income.” Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) and The council did not respond to questions an appeal against its placement. valued at $1, both the VCAT members and whether they had erred in permitting the She was, however, disappointed the saga the government expressed concern. After several verbal and written complaints gantry. dragged on for so long.

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Continued from page 1.

While the council has no power to implement a blanket ban on footpath parking, it has the power to install no- stopping signage to restrict motorcycle parking from specific walkways. Several councillors have made no secret their desire to clear crowded footpaths.

Deputy Lord Mayor Arron Wood said in The new lanterns installed in Chinatown. a recent interview that it would also be Motorbikes and scooters cause congestion on Flinders St. tackling the steep rise in food delivery bikes looking at alternative places for them to parking on busy pavements. p a r k .” “We’ve got nearly a million people per day Transport portfolio chair Nicolas Frances coming in to use the central city which is Brighter lights Gilley said in December that feedback from fantastic – we want people to come in and survey respondents had struck a chord. enjoy the city. But it means footpath space is really at a premium,” he said on 3AW. “People are absolutely saying ‘give us the space to walk, to cross the road, to be safe, “It’s not one or two delivery bikes on the for Chinatown to enjoy the trees and the architecture’,” he pavement, what we’re talking about is said. when you’ve got four, five, or sometimes sought by both the City of Melbourne and upwards of that number all sitting in a row “They want a city they can get around and New red lanterns are being the Chinatown Precinct Association. essentially blocking pedestrian space from enjoy and drink coffee on the sidewalk. We trialled in Chinatown in what If successful, the spherical lights will replace that footpath.” heard it loud and clear.” the current red lanterns along Little Bourke Cr Wood stressed the value of bicycles In April the council announced that nine traders hope will further St. within the CBD, but said council needed to kiosks situated on CBD footpaths would be brighten the cultural precinct. It is hoped that 100 of these lanterns will be be smarter about where they could be left. removed by year’s end. installed in time for Chinese New Year 2020. “They are an important form of sustainable The stands, selling mostly newspapers and Two aluminium lanterns were installed In the 2019/20 budget, the council allocated transport. But it’s just about making sure cigarettes, were obstructing pedestrians at the corner of Heffernan Lane and Little $115,000 for new catenary lanterns for the as the city gets busier and busier that we’re according to the council. Bourke St in July, with feedback being Chinatown Precinct.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 56 CBD NEWS 7 Beggar déja vu Continued from page 1. limitations,” he said. “So, it becomes possible This ignited claims that those “fake” beggars for people to be flown to a place to beg.” were taking advantage of Melburnians’ It’s not, as some have suggested, that goodwill and ruining the reputation of the those concerned are not vulnerable or genuinely disadvantaged. experiencing poverty. We’ve heard this before. But the operation should give us pause A 1996 article from The Agereported a police to question the criminalisation of crackdown on “professional” beggars in the homelessness in the first place, and the City city: 93 people were charged with begging- of Melbourne protocols introduced in 2017 related offences. But begging is illegal that continued down that path. whether or not the beggar is homeless, no “I would say that homelessness was statistics were offered on how many of those effectively criminalised prior to that. The were deemed “professionals” or how. most explicit example is that begging is In 2015, The Agereported an apparent rising criminalised,” Dr Petty said. phenomenon of “professional beggars” “It’s not a behaviour that others take part in, in the city. Of 135 people caught begging it’s homeless people and really poor people.” in the city, only nine were alleged to be Photo: John Tadigiri. “professionals”. Then Lord Mayor Robert “But the new protocol that was introduced Doyle said they (“professionals”) “gave phenomenon. This typically includes living How the practice of begging in the in 2017, I guess, expanded the scope for that begging such an awful public image”. in overcrowded dwellings, couch surfing and Melbourne CBD could be lucrative enough criminalisation to occur. It went beyond In 2016, the Herald Sun referred to unsafe accommodation, to name a few. to warrant people who, it’s implied, could begging and started to include objects that a Elizabeth St as Melbourne’s “skid row”, and easily be working legitimate jobs, to sit person may or may not be responsible for.” alleged beggars’ behaviour threatened our The ’s Dr James outside in the Melbourne winter and beg, Petty, whose thesis focused on the regulation There are also types of legislation that are reputation as the world’s most liveable let alone to compel them to run their own less explicit, posed in neutral terms like city – not because the fact that part of the of criminalisation of homelessness in international syndicate, has never been Melbourne, said government regulatory public amenities or move on powers, but are community were resorting to begging explained. used to police homelessness. suggested inequality, but because the power and criminalisation was often And there’s another element of the narrative beggars were disturbing tourists and directed toward the most visible point But, according to Dr Petty’s research, it’s that’s gone unquestioned. encroaching on limited pavement space. of homelessness, partly thanks to media actually the criminalisation of homelessness coverage. It’s what hysterical claims of an organised that makes it more visible. In 2017, the Herald Sun described Chinese syndicate raking in money off our city beggars as a “growing sore” that “I think because of the media attention “If you make the city more accommodating streets means contextually within the rise of unfortunately “festered” during the that gets focused on that visible point of to homelessness, not having that really anti-Chinese racism recently in Australia. Australian Open: “Melburnians cannot be homelessness, and public anxiety about it, intense policing, the research suggests that held hostage to street takeovers and groups the government responds to that instead of The debate over Chinese influence in lessens the visibility of homelessness.” of sham beggars looking to supplement their the more invisible forms of homelessness,” Australia is ongoing and heated, and caused “Local governments can’t really decide or welfare cheques.” Dr Petty said. 80 academics last year to put their names to implement large-scale interventions, but an open letter that warned it was creating a Perhaps it’s not those deemed “professional” The 2015 article from The Age stated that a they can help determine how homelessness “racialised narrative of a vast official Chinese beggars who give begging such a bad significant portion of those begging who is engaged with in their city.” conspiracy”. reputation, but the consistent stream of were not technically homeless were “on a Dr Petty said the City of Yarra had a better hysterical and disparaging claims made disability payment but had more than 80 per Also, last year race discrimination approach to homelessness, recognising the about beggars in the Melbourne CBD. cent of this income taken by their supported commissioner Tim Soutphommasane right to be on the streets and engage with accommodation provider for housing and warned that the debate over Chinese What’s been left unexamined is the assertion public life and with public space, and a high food”. influence could spill over “into general that begging is only acceptable when threshold of police intervention. suspicion of Chinese-Australians”. practiced by the most utterly desperate Although details are lacking due to an “In terms of demanding action on – usually formulated as those who have ongoing police investigation, it’s clear that In this context, stories that frame homelessness and poverty, there are federal already lost the roof over their heads. those charged with begging earlier this “professional” Chinese beggars as one of scales and state scales that need to be month are far from privileged. the city’s biggest problems have a corrosive What about those on their way there? Where addressed: increases to public housing, subtext. do we draw the line, and what does it say Lord Mayor Sally Capp told a press increasing welfare payments above the about our society when we do? conference: “I think it’s clear now that Dr Petty said the seemingly peculiar case poverty line, increasing support services, they are part of an organised system but of the Chinese beggars is likely a logical emergency housing.” Only when it comes to begging is rough that many of those people are really quite consequence of globalisation. sleeping the accepted standard of “The City of Melbourne can’t really afford the vulnerable themselves and they’ve been homelessness – government authorities “Poverty and homelessness, because of large-scale projects, but it should definitely pulled into this situation”. in almost every other instance define that increased globalisation and mobility, be demanding that from the state and federal homelessness as a much broader Shouldn’t that be obvious? have fewer geographic restrictions and governments.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 8 CBD NEWS ISSUE 56 Government takes lead on cladding By Sean Car a single loan had been issued in Victoria The state government ended under the scheme since it was introduced last year. years of speculation last month when it pledged $600 The complicated scheme involves a three- way loan between owners, council and a million of taxpayers’ money to lender, which allows an owner to pay off a remove high-risk cladding from loan through their council rates. apartment buildings. Lannock Strata Finance CEO Paul Morton, whose company funded the Lacrosse Premier Dan Andrews and Minister building in Docklands to enable the OC for Planning Richard Wynne made the to commence rectification and pursue announcement on July 16, which followed litigation, said that the government’s scheme recommendations from the final report was never commercially viable. of the government’s Victorian Cladding “The market for lending to owners’ Taskforce. corporations is mature and The taskforce also recommended the competitive. There is no reason or Victorian Government seek a contribution justification for government intervention,” from the Commonwealth to help fund he said. “Lannock will lend 100 per cent rectification, mounting the case that of the amount required to fix all cladding cladding was a “national problem”. rectification on strata buildings in Victoria.” L:R: Richard Wynne, John Thwaites, Ted Baillieu and Dan Andrews at the cladding announcment on July 16. However, the federal government was quick “From a lenders point of view there are lots of practical problems with the CRA. to quash any speculation that it would pitch of Australia warned that a “700 per cent (VBA) to identify 15 buildings that will have It’s uncommercial. There is no arrears in, with federal treasurer Josh Frydenburg increase” in building levies would add their cladding fixed first. management process in place and council stating that his government would not be untenable costs to new construction projects The government has said that CSV would has to set up all of these new systems, which “picking up the bill” for what he labelled “a in Victoria. state responsibility”. soon start contacting OCs and property they don’t normally do.” The Property Council’s Victorian deputy owners, starting with those buildings that The government’s announcement was The Andrews government will instead executive director Matthew Kandelaars had been identified by the taskforce as the also followed by the news of a landmark directly fund half of the rectification works said he was “deeply concerned” about the greatest risk, while the VBA continues to agreement being struck between states, and will introduce changes to the state’s impacts of the proposed increase. audit buildings across the state. building permit levy to raise the other $300 territories and the Commonwealth on July million over the next five years. “The Government is proposing a 700 per The taskforce’s final report, released on July 18, which will see a new national taskforce cent increase in the levy for new buildings 16, stated that of the 2227 buildings audited funded to pursue nationally consistent The program will be overseen by a new valued at more than $1.5 million,” he said. in Victoria to date, 1069 were found to have building standards. agency, Cladding Safety Victoria (CSV), “For works as low as $800,000, it is proposed combustible cladding. Of those, 72 were which will manage funding and work directly the levy rate will double. These are not big deemed to be extreme risk, 409 high risk, 388 Held at the Building Ministers Forum held with owners’ corporations (OCs). building projects by any stretch.” moderate risk and 200 low risk. in Sydney, Minister for Planning Richard Wynne said the agreement would mean that The government’s decision to use tax-payer “The increases which are being proposed Federal Greens MP for Melbourne Adam the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) money to rectify buildings with high-risk for new projects are disproportionate and Bandt welcomed the government’s decision would be expanded, better resourced and cladding ends years of discussion in Victoria unreasonable when you consider that the and urged it to begin funding the removal of force greater engagement from the building around how removal should be funded, with buildings being targeted for rectification dangerous cladding immediately. industry. The ABCB will now be tasked with the government set to recoup costs from have previously been lawfully approved “This is a victory for all the residents who preparing a national framework to guide “dodgy builders”. under the Victorian building code.” have pushed for action. This is what happens implementation of recommendations from the Shergold Weir Building Confidence “This isn’t just about safety, it’s about “We understand and support the imperative when people speak up and demand that report. fairness for people who bought apartments to strengthen public confidence in governments act,” Mr Bandt said. in good faith and were let down by dodgy construction and building safety and address “Once this cladding is removed, the States and territories also agreed to work builders or dangerous building products,” the looming insurance crisis. However, government should pursue those towards a coordinated approach on Minister for Planning Richard Wynne said. a unilateral and massive increase in responsible in court and implement a new professional indemnity insurance. “The Commonwealth is shirking their construction costs is not the answer.” levy on developers to recoup the costs.” responsibilities when it comes to helping fix To view the Victorian Cladding Taskforce’s combustible cladding.” The government’s taskforce, headed by The announcement would also appear to final report: former Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu and draw an end to the government’s failed While it welcomed the government’s plan former Deputy Premier John Thwaites, has cladding rectification agreement (CRA) loan planning.vic.gov.au/building-policy/ for rectification, the Property Council worked with the Victorian Building Authority scheme. CBD News reported in July that not victorian-cladding-taskforce

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 56 CBD NEWS 9 Council declares climate emergency

Cr Oke said that it was important to get on City of Melbourne councillors with delivering change. moved an urgent item of “We need to endorse the strategy and business last month by formally within that there are quite a few items that capture the urgency and the implementation declaring a “climate and required. I believe it does meet the ambition biodiversity emergency”. that we’ve been talking about,” Cr Oke said. Councillors also noted the challenges that Endorsed unanimously by councillors at the management had to consider in compiling Future Melbourne Committee meeting on the final version of the strategy, with July 16, the motion followed the adoption reference to the ongoing recycling crisis of the final version of council’s Waste and A render commissioned by the City of Melbourne showing a greener CBD. plaguing Australia at present. Resource Recovery Strategy 2030. Some key features of the strategy include “emergency” and how that would help curb in particular, to one section which Moved by environment portfolio chair Cr options to separate organic waste, a waste climate change in the municipality. acknowledged the action that young people Cathy Oke, the urgent motion declared that minimisation and innovation fund, a new were taking across the world in demanding climate change and mass species extinction “It’s not about scaring people but it’s actually expert and advisory service to support an more from their governments. posed serious threats to the people of about how you resource things and push improved waste system and more electronic Melbourne and should be treated as an towards targets. It sends a message to our “We are in a very dire situation. We have recycling options for residents. emergency. community that we take this very seriously,” an obligation to tell it how it is, and we In good news for CBD residents, the strategy Cr Wood said. While noting its ongoing commitment to are,” Cr Watts said. “This motion actually also aims to minimise garbage truck mitigating climate change through a range “We’re actually on track by 2030 to be shows respect for the young people who will movements by providing more centralised of initiatives such as the Melbourne Renewal responsible for 13 per cent of global actually have to deal with the mess that we compacting hubs, reducing the amounts Energy Project and the Climate Change emissions so that’s no longer the get out are fighting.” of rubbish bins in laneways and improving separation rates of organics and recyclables. Mitigation Strategy, Cr Oke said she felt of jail free card that people use to say that Earlier in the meeting, council adopted its frustrated that more wasn’t being done. ‘we’re not much of the problem’ and ‘we Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy – a Behaviour change, education and advocacy shouldn’t move on this’.” “We are on track to far exceed the 1.5 crucial document in its efforts to mitigate are key features of the strategy, with degrees increase that thousands of scientists Cr Wood also slammed the lack of leadership climate change. The strategy lays out the councillors noting that more action was acknowledge that, pass that point, and we from the federal government on the issue, vision for council to become a “zero-waste” required from federal and state governments are in dire circumstances. We need far more noting that if it wasn’t going to act then city by 2030. to implement initiatives such as extended action at all levels of government,” she said. it should not “stand in the way” of those producer responsibility, and container While many submissions questioned wanting to do so. deposit schemes. Deputy Lord Mayor Arron Wood said that whether some of the targets set in the all councillors had engaged in a “robust Cr Jackie Watts also gave an emotional strategy went far enough, such as a 20 per participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/waste- discussion” about the use of the word address in support the motion, but cent reduction of household waste by 2030, resource-strategy

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A $250 million upgrade on the CBD’s electricity infrastructure is nearing completion.

Electricity provider Citipower’s Metro and CBD Security of Supply project will help secure supply to homes and businesses in the CBD in the case of unexpected events, such as extreme weather, fires, traffic accidents or infrastructure failures. The new-look substation at Waratah Place. CitiPower CEO Tim Rourke said the project was one of the most intricate and substantial northern wall, while innovative light displays electrical projects to ever be conducted in on the façade are destined to become a Melbourne’s CBD. feature of the Chinatown landscape,” Mr Rourke said. “CitiPower is Australia’s most reliable electricity distribution network so it’s Victorian Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Lily D’Ambrosio tours the new facility last month. The process of connecting the zone not necessarily the risk of outages we’re substation to the surrounding area involves preparing for, it’s the impact of how long it Victorian Minister for Energy, Environment completed, the zone substation will have the CitiPower digging a four-metre-deep trench takes to restore power,” Mr Rourke said. and Climate Change Lily D’Ambrosio joined capacity for power to be diverted around the in a small laneway as well as connecting Mr Rourke on the first official project tour at grid so the duration of a significant power and replacing 10.5 kilometres of cables “Every day, almost one million people the beginning of July. outage becomes limited to no more than 30 that encircle the CBD. The final stages of and businesses generating 25 per cent of minutes. this project will work with gas, water and the state’s economic value depend upon Ms D’Ambrosio stressed the importance of sewerage utilities to enable numerous asset the continuity of electricity supplies to this project for the CBD during her tour. Currently, the CBD’s power supply is able relocations. Works will require temporary Melbourne’s CBD.” to endure one major outage on the 66kv “This upgrade will mean a more secure and closure of Little Bourke St between Russell network. The project is designed to assist the “There have been many cases where major reliable electricity supply for Melbourne’s St and Waratah Place and are due to start in CBD during two major outages. cities around the world have been severely CBD and highlights the importance of August for 11 weeks. impacted by power outages ranging from a modernising critical delivery infrastructure,” Mr Rourke said that the substation would The project has also included upgrades to number of hours to a number of days.” Ms D’Ambrosio said. also help revive the cultural heritage of the the Brunswick terminal station, Bouverie – laneway culture in Chinatown. “We are investing in our networks to do A major part of the project is the Waratah Queen zone substation and Victoria Market everything we can to prevent this from Place zone substation, which has been “The new Waratah Place zone substation zone substation as well as installing 21km happening in Australia’s most vibrant and reconstructed and is in the process of retains the character of the original building of electricity cables over 7km from the rapidly growing city.” being reconnected to the CBD grid. Once down to the circular portal windows on the Brunswick terminal station to Carlton. Space for the third age Flying eyes U3A is completely volunteer-run, from the for city cops Melbourne City’s University board to tutors to office staff. of the Third Age (U3A) was Each member pays an annual fee. The Victoria Police will soon the first to be established in Melbourne City membership fee is $90, three times the average membership fee because launch its first ever drone Australia and is the biggest of the rental costs. unit, with a focus on counter- in Victoria, but the volunteer- One short-term solution has been to give terrorism and crowd control run organisation is under U3A access to the largely state-funded Men’s Shed under . that could concentrate them increased pressure from rental Melbourne City U3A was established in 1984. around the CBD. demand. The world’s first was started in Toulouse in France in 1973. In a press conference on July 10, inspector U3As provide activity for those in retirement Craig Shepherd said the drones would be “The concept of university is taken from the – the “third age”. The Melbourne U3A has a boost to the capability of police across classical concept of university – a collection over 1500 members and offers 80 year-long the state – from public order response to of people with enquiring minds,” Mr classes that include current affairs, history, search and rescue. Huntingdon said. chess, crafts, cryptic crosswords, bike riding, “The drones we plan to use will have a languages and philosophy. “The purpose of joining is fundamentally Melbourne City U3A members. 24/7 ability, with high-end technology activity when you’re no longer in a There are 108 U3As in Victoria, but vice allowing for both day and night camera pay rent for all of them.” structured existence like at work.” president Russell Huntington said almost vision,” inspector Shepherd said. none offered the same comprehensive The Hawthorn U3A, for example, has Mr Huntingdon said while many of their The unit will be based at Essendon program as theirs did. purpose-built free accommodation provided members are city residents, they also have a Airport, but most crowd-related and by the Stonnington City Council. large number of people travelling in from the But Mr Huntington said the Melbourne U3A counter-terrorism work will conceivably suburbs. is also unlike most others because of the “I’m sure it’s difficult for Melbourne City occur in the CBD. rental pressures of the city. Council to come up with a whole building “We have a lot more ‘talent’ if you like that Inspector Shepherd downplayed because the land and the properties are too we can draw on, but secondly people like “We haven’t got any free accommodation concerns at the media conference expensive, they wouldn’t have something coming into the city from the 'burbs when and typically, but not always, U3As will have about privacy in crowd and public order like that available,” Mr Huntington said. they’ve retired.” space given to them by the local municipality situations. in some way or another,” Mr Huntington “But they have opportunities and that’s what “Many used to work in the city, and they Victoria Police aims to acquire up to 50 said. we’re pursuing.” miss having that purpose of coming in every drones over the next 12 months to be d a y .” “We must pay rent everywhere. We have 13 Mr Huntington said 75 per cent of the used by the new drone unit, as well as different locations around the city, and we organisation’s income went to paying rent. u3a.org.au specialist areas and regional officers.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 56 CBD NEWS 11 Hosier Lane apartments are only a facade By Meg Hill create a visual connection between the Opposition to a planned existing building and the new extension”. multistorey apartment Street artists are on edge about attempts to Hoarding commercialise the lane’s graffiti culture after building in Hosier Lane has street clothing chain Culture Kings moved forced the issue to debate at an into the lane last year. plan stalled upcoming City of Melbourne Tension turned into conflict when store management called the police on the long- A 2017 City of Melbourne meeting. accepted practice of street artists painting in the lane without formal permission. plan to beautify hoardings Bruce Henderson Architect’s $12 million Culture Kings commissioned artwork for is still waiting to be plans for 7 Hosier Lane attracted enough their walls in the lane, which further angered formal objections to trigger a review by the implemented amid the city’s street artists. Future Melbourne Committee (FMC). construction boom. MHA has expressed concern that the Eight additional floors are proposed atop an apartment proposal, which includes moving existing three-storey heritage-listed building. The two-year trial was announced by retail into the ground floor, would also It’s likely that Youth Projects, the youth council in June 2017 and was meant to involve a clampdown on non-commissioned charity and shelter currently occupying the mandate council-commissioned artwork painting. building, would be moved out if the plans on any hoarding in place for more than 12 proceed. Street artist Adrian Doyle told CBD News in weeks on council-managed land. January that the apartment proposal was $50,000 has been allocated to the Melbourne Heritage Action (MHA) said hypocritical. the proposal would dominate Hosier Lane, project since 2017. Design processes threaten its authenticity and was an example “Hosier Lane gets 10,000 visitors a day, it’s an and minimum standards were meant to of heritage “facadism” – reducing heritage economy in its own right,” he said. establish a low-cost method to “beautify” the structures. retainment to outside shells. “Would they want to set up their shops and MHA said the plans “mimicked” the develop it if there wasn’t street art? They’re A City of Melbourne spokesperson said street-level graffiti in its colour design in a using street art, even though it’s illegal and the delay was due to a “longer than threatening and disingenuous way. they don’t want to put any money into the anticipated” consultation process with the art, so they can make a quick buck.” property and construction industry and Part of the apartment plans read: “Coloured other stakeholders. A planning permit application for the horizontal and vertical steel frames are apartment building was submitted to council They said council anticipated the two- proposed around new openings and in January this year. year pilot trial to be implemented by the balconies to create a random façade end of 2019. composition that extends the artistic ‘graffiti’ There are currently 19 formal objections feel of Hosier Lane to the upper levels and against the plans. A render of the proposal for Hosier Lane. “We have been taking a collaborative approach with the property and construction industry since we initiated the project and have been working closely with a number of stakeholders,” the spokesperson said. Kinfolk wins The original plan was meant to alleviate significant challenges. The training program visual clutter and general appearance By Sarah Bartlett sees the involvement of hundreds of in the city, where masses of hoarding participants each year. Types of challenges accompany a boom in construction and that the participants might typically face renovation projects. Social enterprise café and include physical and learning disabilities, Heritage advocates and city planners mental health challenges, asylum seekers or caterer Kinfolk was awarded had expressed concern over the people with a migrant background, people city’s appearance, favouring creative twice at the Melbourne in transition from prison as well as people approaches to hoarding and construction who have been experiencing long-term Business Network’s Business as adopted throughout Europe. unemployment. 3000+ Awards ceremony in Of particular concern were heritage All profits are donated to the social buildings intrinsic to the CBD’s history June. enterprise’s two charity partners, The Asylum and aesthetic that were covered in Seeker Resource Centre and Cathy Freeman hoarding for long periods of time when Minister for Small Business Adem Somyurek L - R: Kinfolk's business development executive Dianne Foundation. Schmidtke, Kinfolk CEO Jarrod Briffa and Minister for development and restoration occurred. presented the organisation with the Business Small Business Adem Somyurek. Co-founder and CEO Jarrod Briffa said that 3000+ Award for Social Enterprise as well as President of CBD residents’ group East one of the intentions behind Kinfolk was to the prestigious Business of the Year Award. Enders Jenny Eltham complained this regular corporate workshops and private encourage “conscious consumerism.” month that the city was full of unsightly Kinfolk’s co-founder and CEO Jarrod Briffa events. The social enterprise also distributes “The aim with Kinfolk was to positively hoarding. spoke at the awards ceremony about the catering around the CBD from the well- promote conscious consumerism while development of the social enterprise since its known Donkey Wheel House, located on She said the corner of Collins and William creating more inclusive communities. We launch in 2010 and the pleasures that came Bourke St. streets were a particularly bad example. couldn’t be more humbled for our team, from working with and learning from its Several developments have covered In 2018, Kinfolk launched a new café site including our volunteers, for the recognition volunteers. the intersection in hoarding various and evening function space called Sibling by of both our social enterprise and business directions. Kinfolk was awarded Business of the Year in Kinfolk in Carlton North. This location will success,” Mr Briffa said. recognition for its efforts of making a social provide another 60 training positions for the This includes some of Melbourne’s most Since Kinfolk’s launch in 2010, there have impact in Melbourne as well as its overall extensive volunteer waitlist. valued heritage buildings. been over 700 community members that success as a commercial enterprise. Kinfolk aims to create an inclusive have volunteered in the hospitality-training The 19th century Olderfleet Building is The judges, in particular looked at the recent community, that counteracts social program at Kinfolk. Many of these people one example at the intersection. The development of Kinfolk, which has extended isolation through volunteer programs that have successfully secured paid employment building has been covered since last year operations into event management and concentrate on training, capacity building as well as gaining confidence and when Mirvac started construction on its catering, with its four CBD locations hosting as well as social inclusion for people facing friendships from the experience. 38-story Mirvac Olderfleet development.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 12 CBD NEWS ISSUE 56 The “gold rush jeweller” By Meg Hill

“Because of the publishing house pressures to meet a certain number of pages and edit out much of the history, we end up getting history books that give credit to prime ministers and kings and queens,” Dr Douglas Wilkie told the Docklands History Group last month.

“They make it out that those ‘big people’ made everything happen, when actually it was ordinary people who made things happen.” Dr Wilkie was presenting on Charles Brentani, who he described as one of those ordinary people pushing history along, Office sale submerged below the historical record. One of the few monuments to his name in By Sarah Bartlett Melbourne today is Docklands’ Brentani Way. The Uniting Church and Charles, born Carlo, is usually described as a developer BPM have sold gold rush jeweller. Born in northern Italy in 1817, he was sent to Van Diemen’s Land as an eight storey office tower a convict in 1835 after a stint in England to located at 130 Little Collins study silversmithing. St to a locally based investor. He stole silver instead of smithing it.

He was granted a certificate of freedom in With the deal negotiated by Colliers 1841 – “like today’s parole” – and ended up A painting depicting an exchange between a gold rush jeweller and his customers. Picture: The State Library of Victoria. International and CBRE, the property in Melbourne. was successfully transacted on “Melbourne was a brand-new settlement an unconditional basis after the made here was sent to Sydney,” Dr Wilkie digitalisation of historical records could and offered far better prospects than international expressions of interest (EOI) said. “So, they sat upon the story of the gold mean you had to sift through a lot of Tasmania,” Dr Wilkie said. campaign was closed. until Victoria was separate.” irrelevant references when searching names, He can tell you basically anything about you found the real gems. CBRE’s Mark Wizel said that the second So, Brentani, who became known as a Brentani thanks, largely, to the digitalisation round of the EOI process was extremely jeweller, silversmith and gold purchaser Like Frankenstein author Mary Shelley’s of history. competitive and drew bids that added operating on Collins St during the gold rush, account of staying in the Brentani Hotel at up to over $600 million, from local Dr Wilkie was researching his own family is much more a part of the history than given Lake Como in 1940 in her book Rambles in and international private investors, history in relation to the Victorian gold rush credit for. Germany and Italy. developers and institutions. when he stumbled across a few characters But, Dr Wilkie’s ordinary people exist below Charles Brentani was already in Australia, – Charles Brentani, Joseph Forrester and Brentani too. "The volume of offers in this campaign but his mother and brothers were still Alexandre Duchene. from a wide variety of investors and He was not actually a jeweller, or a running the family hotel. Shelley wrote that developers demonstrated the depth of They seemed more central to the period of silversmith, or any kind of tradesperson – he she hoped to see them again one day. capital seeking high quality offerings in history than their rare mention suggested. was a retailer. Brentani passed away from the effects of the Melbourne CBD,’’ Mr Wizel said. They went to a part of central Victoria – now “The retailer got all the credit,” Dr Wilkie delirium tremens – the most severe form Colliers marketing agent Daniel between Ballarat and Maryborough – to look said. “Brentani went down in history as of alcohol withdrawal characterised by Wolman said that while the property for gold. Hundreds of people rushed there being the silversmith responsible for making delirium and tremors. had the advantage of the approved after them and were chased away by the the original Melbourne Cup, for example, Mr Wilkie wrote: “We might assume that permit for hotel development, it was the police. and it was actually his employed silversmith Brentani suffered from both the delirium considerable improvements of the current Joseph Forrester.” A few years later Victoria became its own and the tremors for some time before dying. office tower that was the predominant state, and about a week later the gold rush Brentani died in Melbourne in 1853 a Perhaps he had thoughts similar to those of market attraction. began. wealthy man. But, despite his time as a Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein as he lay “The result reflected the very strong convict, he was actually already from a well- on what he believed was his death bed.” “The reason Charles LaTrobe, the Governor, demand for office investments in the to-do background. hushed it at the time is that when Victoria The Docklands History Group event was held nation’s tightest CBD office market,” Mr was part of New South Wales, any revenue Dr Wilkie said that although the on June 25 at The Library at The Dock. Wolman said. The current office space comprises of eight levels of office and ground floor retail, an auditorium, meeting rooms, a chapel and basement car park. The net Police operation nabs over 50 in CBD lettable area of current space is 3797 sqm. Of that amount, 605 sqm have corner By David Schout exposure to Little Collins St (16m) and Coromandel Place (37m). nabbed for a range of offences including we see a high volume of people daily,” Acting A recent targeted police using a mobile phone, a failure to indicate or Sen-Sgt Milliken said. The CBD office building was constructed driving while unlicensed. in 1967 and was refurbished in 1995. The operation in the CBD saw over Tragically, the following day a pedestrian property has a permit for an Elenberg 50 fines slapped on pedestrians, Three cyclists were also fined for failing to was killed after being struck by a truck Fraser-designed hotel that will consist wear a helmet, and two people were arrested turning a corner near Queen Victoria Market. of 27 storeys and 184 rooms. The site motorists and cyclists. for matters unrelated to the operation. was sold with a leaseback to the Uniting It is believed the truck was turning left from Church. Melbourne East acting senior sergeant Police issued penalty notices as part of Victoria St into Peel St when it struck the Robert Milliken said the operation was about The sale comes after numerous operation Don’t Do Your Dash on Thursday, female pedestrian. ensuring all road users were aware of their transactions have been completed in the June 27, in which they targeted all road users responsibilities on the road, and remained In May, Roads Minister Jaala Pulford eastern end of the CBD this year. This at the city’s most high-risk intersection. vigilant at the city’s more dangerous spots. convened a Road Safety Summit to address includes a property located on 85 Spring The majority of infringements (33) “These operations are ultimately about the state’s soaring road toll, which was up by St that sold for $112.25 million, as well as were pedestrian red-light offences, or improving safety on our roads, particularly more than 50 per cent when compared with a property on 45 Exhibition St which sold “jaywalking”, while 15 motorists were also at Melbourne’s busiest intersections where the same time last year. for $27.5 million.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 56 CBD NEWS 13 Woolf at fortyfive By Meg Hill

Shakespeare’s sister was named Judith and she died young – “alas, she never wrote a word”.

Virginia Woolf wrote Judith, a device to symbolise female exclusion from literature, into her narrative essay A Room of One’s L-R: Ben Quinn, Ian Symmons (cohealth) and Simone Bursey (Frontyard Youth Services, Melbourne City Mission) at Own. the Inner Melbourne Connections Program (IMCP) launch. The term "Shakespeare’s sister" was donned as a statement. A song by The Smiths and a British pop band both took it Photo credit: Tommy Holt T6 photography Catching those falling as their title. Shakespeare didn’t have a sister, but he women in society, she’s interrupted and did have a daughter named Judith. Woolf’s loses track multiple times. In the essay, this niece shared the name, as does an unused only serves to enhance the emphasis on a through the cracks gospel, the Book of Judith, which is also room of “one’s own”. considered the first historical novel. But what solution is it for a woman to be By David Schout alone in her own space if she interrupts “If I was to dare change the name of but even after just a few months into the herself. Is there a statement here on the Shakespeare’s sister, I would have all the program, the early signs have been really impossibility of isolation? The way society A pilot program providing Virginia Woolf aficionados on my back I promising. We now have a group of people exists inevitably within the mind as well as suspect,” Peta Hanrahan told ABC Radio mental health support for that are in regular contact with the IMCP outside it? National in an interview about her stage vulnerable people not covered team.” adaptation of the essay. The play’s stage layout means the audience While the introduction of the NDIS has at is split in two on each by the National Disability The production ran a sold-out premiere provided comprehensive support for people side of the performers, who the audience season in 2016 and is back until July 28 at Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has with mental health-related disabilities, watch along with the reactions of the fortyfivedownstairs at 45 Flinders Lane. some people suffering from severe mental “opposing” audience section. made big strides in its first few Peta said the name of Shakespeare’s sister health issues are still ineligible for support. Some in the audience are taken by the months. was one of things you just couldn’t change The program looks to catch these vulnerable humour in the performance, others by the from the 1929 essay. people falling through the cracks. sorrow. Launched in April, the Inner Melbourne It’s surprising, given the essay’s age, that Connections Program (IMCP) – a Ms Boyle said that despite the 12-month “A woman must have money and a room only a few words had to be replaced collaborative program between health, pilot being in its infancy, wider community of one’s own if she is to write fiction” is because they were too tied to the period community and charity networks – aims awareness was forming. and not the message. declared early, just like in the essay. to provide psychosocial support for those “Interest from other services and It’s Woolf’s counter to the arguments experiencing homelessness. But by and large, Woolf’s writing still says organisations about what we’re doing is she finds researching at the British what it was meant to, and by and large Research has shown that mental health also growing rapidly, with many seeing this Museum. Most explicitly, that women are Peta’s adaptation lets it. issues are significantly higher in the initiative as one of real importance as it “intellectually, morally and physically homeless community than in the general targets a group that is often seen as hard to The production rests largely on Woolf’s inferior to men”. population. words, spoken by four different actors reach and engage.” It’s not hard to find a repeat of that back- who each embody a different part of her As such, the joint program between North The $700,000 pilot supports people and-forth in 2019, the argument still hasn’t psyche. Woolf’s thought process and Western Melbourne Primary Health Network experiencing homelessness in the City been won. The debate over equal pay in stream of consciousness are presented as (NWMPHN), cohealth and Melbourne City of Melbourne and Yarra, where teams at women’s sport has to be one of the most dialogue between three women and one Mission has looked to address issues these various key locations will be based. obvious. man, because “a woman also must have people have in accessing help. Support ranges from practical help to intercourse with the man in her”. Woolf was adamant that, one day, “The Inner Melbourne Connections Program mental health support. Shakespeare’s sister would be born “if we The different parts of Woolf’s psyche cut (IMCP) is doing exactly what we hoped for: worked for her, and that so to work, even in “La Trobe University is evaluating the each other off, giving an edge of self- connecting with people who are extremely poverty and obscurity, is worthwhile”. program and we are learning and adapting sabotage to the sense of interruption from disengaged and have traditionally missed along the way with the aim of developing the essay. Can we say she’s been born yet? out on services,’’ Lee-Anne Boyle, lead of a model that will hopefully be rolled out psychosocial supports at NWMPHN, said. Woolf, like most women, is constantly Do her birth pangs ring out from Peta’s play, across the region and can be replicated by interrupted. While she tries to answer or the continued experience of poverty and “Building relationships and having positive other community organisations,” Ms Boyle her own questions about the position of obscurity? encounters with this group takes time, said. Overdue greening for Davisons Place planter boxes installed on the western side of working on that for the last 12 months, so the “Two of the planter boxes will be drilled into A City of Melbourne project the laneway at Davisons Place with climbing money is there, it’s just waiting to be done,” the existing bluestone kerb on the ledge next plants, would be ready for installation in he said. to the La Trobe Gardens carpark that fronts aimed at greening Davisons 10-12 weeks. onto Davisons Place. This will ensure safety Place, which has been in the “Where we’ve got to with that now is that and stability for pedestrians and vehicles It comes after City of Melbourne council the materials have been ordered and using the laneway,” the spokesperson said. pipeline for more than a year, officer Gordon Harrison told an East Enders manufactured, as in the planter boxes, so “A further two planter boxes will be installed residents group meeting in June that he was as I said I’m embarrassed that it’s taken so is still more than four months on a private balcony in the middle of “embarrassed” at how long the project was long. You can expect that it will happen but Davisons Place to provide vertical greening. away from completion. taking council to finish. unfortunately it’s just taking way too long.” This will be visible to everyone in the “I’m really embarrassed about that. There A council spokesperson said that fabrication immediate area and provide additional A council spokesperson told CBD News in is budget for it, the budget has been made of the planter boxes had begun and that greening without taking up limited kerbside July that the project, which will see four available. Our sustainability branch has been climbing plants would be added shortly after. space.”

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Unrivalled inner-city living By Jack Hayes

Nestled impeccably between city and sea, the streets of South Melbourne are set to welcome Lenny – a unique six-level luxury development in the heart of the buzzing South Melbourne.

Marketed by Eton Property Group, dining area and two roomy terraces that get a really good sense of space. This is what fitted robes, and luxe bathrooms complete Lenny will stand at 161 Buckhurst St, an capture sunlight with ease. Each residence inspired us to believe one apartment per with modern innovative tapware. easy walking distance to South Melbourne has two car spaces. floor was the path to go.” With construction beginning in Market, Bay Street shopping precinct, South Richard Newling-Ward of Bayley Ward Each home’s glamorous, eye-catching September, Eton Property Group’s James Melbourne Primary School and the nearby Architects said the kind free-flowing attitude form enjoys an entire level. “When you go Burne, said this boutique development Montague light rail station. to space was rarely seen in South Melbourne through the apartment, there isn’t a need for was going to gain immense interest from The development is the first of its kind and was perfect for those looking to any more space than what you have already buyers from the South Melbourne area and for the suburb, with five full-floor boutique downsize. “The inspiration for Lenny was to got,” Mr Newling-Ward said. surrounds. residences, boasting unbridled views of design something targeting a sophisticated Lenny’s location is recognised with a “Right now, we are taking expressions both the city skyline and nearby bay. Each buyer. The owner-occupier market really Walkability Rating of 94 per cent, which of interest in our soft launch phase, and residence has direct and secure private lift understands what South Melbourne has to means all the essential amenities such as it won’t be long before we have our grand access. bring,” he said. transportation, shopping, schools, medical launch,” he said. With ceiling heights ranging up to nearly “From the living room you have clear and more are all located within close For all enquiries visit etonproperty.com.au three metres, the spaciousness of each views of the city, and as you walk through proximity. or contact Bradley Dean on apartment is complemented with three the apartment to the master bedroom, Style and luxury have been a keen focus 0413 508 866 or Barbara Giannarelli on bedrooms, two full bathrooms plus a powder you have a terrace at the back which looks on the design of these five apartments, with 0421 666 447. room, a substantial open plan living and towards Port Melbourne beach where you lavish bedrooms, superbly serviced by fully String Bean Alley opens at QVM

Queen Victoria Market (QVM) has unveiled Melbourne’s newest laneway experience, with String Bean Alley officially opened on July 19.

26 independent traders in bespoke “This is the latest project we have shipping containers now call String Bean delivered to improve the experience for Alley home, providing a uniquely Melbourne customers, traders and visitors to the shopping experience in the heart of the city’s market. We’ve also installed new seating, favourite market. fruit trees and umbrellas in the new With a history dating back to 1936, the pedestrian plaza on Queen St, along with name String Bean Alley pays tribute to the our red coat volunteers at the Visitor Hub.” laneway where green string beans were once QVM CEO Stan Liacos said the sold. rejuvenation of String Bean Alley was crucial 12 new businesses have joined existing to encourage new visitors to the market traders to offer a variety of locally designed, while celebrating its rich history. sourced or produced fashion, vintage, “The String Bean Alley precinct represents jewellery, art, craft, skincare, toys, books and a new era for the market,” Mr Liacos said. more. “This section of the market is now acting From indie bookshop Mary Martin Books as a small business incubator, providing to handmade cards and gifts from The a platform for specialist traders offering Paper & Wood Co., unique clothing from products and services that are locally Miss Brown Vintage, and artisan chocolate designed, sourced or produced.” Queen Victoria Market (QVM) CEO Stan Liacos, acting QVM board chair Jane Hodder ,Cr Susan Riley and Lord Mayor makers Melbourne Cocoa, String Bean Alley Sally Capp cut the ribbon on July 19 String Bean Alley marks another part of offers something for everyone. a series of crucial market improvements Lord Mayor Sally Capp said the revival of creators, designers and artists,” the Lord for traders.” as identified in the QVM Precinct Renewal String Bean Alley, located between L and M Mayor said. “More than nine million visitors come Master Plan. sheds, was part of the City of Melbourne’s “We expect the unique shopping to the Queen Vic Market each year for its String Bean Alley traders are open on $250 million renewal of the QVM precinct. experience and facilities to attract more traditional open-air market experience, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and “String Bean Alley is the new place to customers to this part of the market, as well and this magnificent new precinct will be a Wednesday evenings during The Night find Melbourne’s best independent makers, as provide weather protection and storage drawcard for new and existing customers.” Market event series.

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Residents 3000 City gardens, trees and street trees

The City of Melbourne has developed several well thought out policies to progressively ensure our city becomes greener. But can there be a better way to improve the fate of street trees?

You may recall that Victoria was referred to manage the issues of climate change, This is where the City of Melbourne could to as “The Garden State”. In fact, previous population growth and urban heating and take the initiative and ask for volunteers Victorian licence plates proudly displayed to protect the longevity of Melbourne’s - maybe ask people from the nearby cafés the fact. The total area of forest in Victoria is urban forest. The greening of roofs, walls and or residents to be “tree mothers”. Perhaps about 7.9 million hectares (35 per cent of the facades is yet another means to green the equip the “tree mothers” with a watering can state) across both Crown and private land. city. and fertiliser. It is just for the first few years If we look closer to our backyard, the City But there are still things that can be that the small, new trees need extra care and of Melbourne is blessed with a multitude of improved. attention. Maybe this is a job for the citizen parks and gardens on its edge and within, If you are one of the long-term residents foresters? including Royal Park, Domain Gardens, of the CBD, you will be able to point to areas With all the projects and programmes in , , Flagstaff around your neighbourhood where there effect, residents can easily take an active Gardens and a few smaller ones. And the city used to be trees, but those trees have never role close to where they live and work to will be adding eight new or revitalised parks been replaced. Take Russell St for example help develop the tree canopy in their local to the group by 2021. There have even been (see the photo). Sadly, the trees that were streets. Just one small part of the greater additions such as the “parks in the sky” in there in the centre strip have gone. All that picture but being responsible for just one or the new Melbourne Quarter precinct. remains are little patches of grass and a few two trees is doable for most people. Maybe Plants and trees provide clean air, weeds where once there were quite mature, the City of Melbourne should think up a new increased oxygen, clean water (acting as a elegant trees. promotion? filter) and increase the city’s resilience to the The trees have been missing for several “Adopt a tree. Become a tree mother”. impacts of climate change by cooling the years. Were they diseased? Why have they atmosphere. They also provide habitats for not been replaced? City of Melbourne animals, birds and insects. (Think - waking have developed new techniques to provide up in the morning to the sound of birds technically superior soil wells for street trees, Susan Saunders chirping!) but are they being implemented? Trees are vice president The City of Melbourne recognises trees often removed for construction. How can we street? There is the issue of “after care”. Trees Ph: 0412 566 606 and other vegetation as a critical urban be sure that they will be replaced? It takes struggle to survive through lack of water, email: sue@residents3000. infrastructure. They run multiple projects time to return to the mature trees that were especially in the hot, summer months and com.au to encourage innovative methods to green removed. unfortunately, they are often subjected to the city. The Urban Forest Strategy aims What about new trees planted in the vandalism.

We Live Here State government follows UK lead on cladding

Daniel Andrews’ pledge of $600 million to fix half of the 1000-plus buildings in Victoria with flammable cladding is welcome news for some “lucky” owners.

The policy shift by the state government What rating is your building? Good luck rectify apartments? set up. We recommend funding.” follows the lead set by UK Prime Minister trying to find out, because the webpage Instead, the Premier has made a media- We look forward to seeing how much of Theresa May earlier this year when the UK of the government’s newly established release appeal to the federal government the budget relieves affected owners - watch government allocated 200 million pounds to agency Cladding Safety Victoria gives scant for matched funding. It seems to be a bid this space! address the flammable cladding issue in that information, saying simply: to cover the tens of thousands affected Finally, to put the cladding disaster in a country. “To be eligible for assistance from apartment-owners who, as it stands, will community context: an apartment resident The UK cladding fund, announced in Cladding Safety Victoria, your privately miss out. in an “extreme risk” building told ABC radio: May this year, is estimated to pay for the owned [sic] apartment building must “There needs to be a true national “The great Australian barbeque is under rectification of half of Britain’s affected first be assessed as part of the State-wide partnership to put community safety first, to threat…we’re concerned that one wrong apartment buildings. Cladding Audit, led by the Victorian Building rectify these most dangerous buildings,” the move and you might burn down all your The U-turn by the Victorian government Authority. Was this page helpful? Yes, No.” Premier said. friends.” follows the release of the final report of the That’s the site’s whole page on eligibility… However, federal industry minister Karen Victorian Cladding Taskforce, headed by So you’ll have to go into the lottery to find Andrews flatly rejected Mr Andrews’ long- Campaign donations former Liberal premier Ted Baillieu and out if you win a prize. distance supplication. As a not-for-profit organisation, donations former Labor deputy premier Prof John Mr Andrews expects his Cladding Safety “The Commonwealth is not an ATM for the from individuals and buildings keep our Thwaites. Victoria fund to remediate the cladding states. So, no, this problem is of the state’s campaigns going. To register as a supporter The state government now has plans for issues for the top 500 dangerously clad making and they need to step up and fix the of We Live Here or to donate please visit our “risk-tiering” to be applied to determine buildings in Victoria. problem and dig into their own pockets,’’ Ms website at welivehere.net. who gets the golden tickets to have the Of these buildings many are hospitals, Andrews told Radio National. We Live Here does not accept donations rectification costs covered. schools, aged care or other government- It seems to be a clever buck-passing move from commercial tourism interests. The Cladding Taskforce deemed 1,069 owned facilities. The Taskforce report says: by Andrews, promising to fix 50 per cent of buildings as having cladding that is a “risk “The 2019-20 Budget provides $150.3 for the problem and blaming Canberra for not to life”. the rectification of State-owned buildings. being able to fix the whole problem. Of the 1069 buildings classified as We are reasonably certain Ted and the At least the ill-fated Cladding Rectification dangerous by the Cladding Taskforce: professor meant to say $150.3 million. That’s Agreement loan scheme seems to have been www.welivehere.net ■■ 72 are rated as an extreme risk a big chunk of money that would retrench put to rest. With its voluble silence on the ive “we l emails to campaign@ ■■ 409 are rated a high risk the $600 million somewhat. concept, the Cladding Taskforce effectively here”TM ■■ 388 are rated a moderate risk and To be accurate, should Dan have damned the loan scheme. The Taskforce welivehere.net ■■ 200 are rated low risk announced a budget of $450 million to report essentially said “A loan scheme was

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History Too thick to drink and too thin to plough

In the early 1970s, when I was a student at La Trobe University, I joined a folk club briefly where I was introduced to a number of modern versions of the traditional Australian folk songs that I’d always loved.

I don’t remember too many of them now, a light coat, perhaps a raincoat. There is a but the song about the "Muddy Old Yarra", puddle on the ground just in front of her. too thick to drink and too thin to plough, My guess is it’s either spring or autumn and comes to mind every time I get off the tram Melbourne is experiencing its typical four- at Flinders Street Station and walk across seasons-in-a-day. Princes Bridge to the Arts Precinct. The woman’s feet are just about touching The Yarra, an essential player in the the ropes of the Beaumaris, the vessel development of Melbourne’s character, has moored behind the featured boat. Beyond always symbolised a perceived north-south that a curious dog looks out, front paws on divide, once based on class (the wealthy the edge of the embankment. Under the lived to the south, the working class to the arch of the Princes Bridge (it’s the northern north) but now the divide is a bit harder to arch that you see here) you can see more pinpoint. There’s still that sense of affluence boats and ferries and Flinders Street Station. to the south and perhaps it’s a bit showier, Almost central under the arch is Signal some might even suggest brash these days. Box A (now a youth arts centre) which was The north’s definitely lost its working-class where the switching engineers presided edge, replaced now by a different sort of over the railyard. It was important for them edge. Home to artists and a much younger to have a clear view of this yard and the line and more aware demographic, I read crossing the Sandridge Railway Bridge to Port recently that the north likes to think of itself Melbourne. Beyond that is the distinctive as Berlin. I’ll leave that with you. All I can tell silhouette of the Corporation Markets (also you is that in 22 years since I moved back known as the Fish Market), built further into the northern suburbs there have been Looking west along the from below Batman Avenue, 1906. (G. Attwood, chemist, 64 Bourke Street, along the river in the early 1890s at the many changes, not all of them welcome Melbourne, photographer.) Image courtesy Royal Historical Society. RHSV D-397.002. Spencer St end of Flinders St. (large scale apartment developments at And looking down on the photographer the forefront), but I love the energy that mere 55 years earlier there had been only a among the park’s open-air indigenous art and his subjects are a line of a dozen or surrounds me every time I take my tram into wooden trestle bridge crossing the river at works. so pedestrians, who have stopped on the CBD from my tiny corner of the “north”. this spot. For now, though, take a closer look at their journey across the bridge to observe As you look at this image of the Yarra, For thousands of years before that the this photograph taken looking downstream something on the river bank, presumably the you could be forgiven for thinking that the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation on the northern bank. The master of the photographer at work – still a rarity in those photographer was actually in Paris, and knew this as Birrarung, “the river of mists”. vessel, pipe in hand, cap slightly askew, pre-smartphone days. that this was the River Seine. Or maybe he’s There is much to explore along the river just leans casually on the top of his vessel and in London and it’s the embankment along east of Princes Bridge. If you want to get a looks straight at the photographer. Seated the Thames. It’s doubtful that you’d believe feel for the indigenous history of the area, on a deck chair on the bank is a woman – his Dr. Cheryl Griffin that just 71 years earlier the first European for example, walk along Birrarung Marr wife, perhaps? She’s looking at him, leaning Royal Historical Society of settlers had arrived from Tasmania and a (“Riverbank on the river of mists”) and roam slightly forward. She appears to be wearing Victoria

Trader Profile Satisfying a footy-mad town By David Schout previous seasons’ merchandise for a reduced Repeat business, he said, was one of the After Terence Port’s parents price. joys of the job. Often people return to buy immigrated to Melbourne from Terence’s parents, both in their 70s, work a new footy scarf or beanie, and any given from the Victoria St store while he operates weekend will see a healthy dose of interstate South Africa, their first business within the market itself. fans keen to update their club colours. move was to set up a stall at “What I love most about the market is the While his passion for the place shines customers. I’ve always been around people, I through, business struggles are also Queen Victoria Market (QVM). can’t be sitting around in an office.” apparent. While the Ports have always been a sporty Terence said he was unsure how many Combining a love of sport and an family, after moving to Melbourne they soon years he could continue his stall given the entrepreneurial spirit, they opened a shop learned that one sport dominated the city’s difficulty to sell stock. that catered to Melbourne’s sports-loving fabric. “I love it to bits but it is getting harder.” public. “Yep, definitely Aussie Rules is number Some stalls, he noted, had a presence for a And now, 39 years on, their presence at one,” he confirmed. matter of weeks before realising profits were the CBD institution remains. Terence is “Hawks through and through”, difficult to come by, and shortly after left. “It’s been a lot of hard work and money something he says will “never change”. He feels traders should have a greater involved,” Terence told CBD News. So footy-mad is Market Sports, you’ll hear say in the future direction of the historic “But we’ve built the family business from the sound of the 18 AFL teams’ club songs establishment, given many have a wealth of nothing to something.” playing on loop in the background. experience in the day-in, day-out operations That business is Market Sports, which Despite his strong bias to Hawthorn, he under the sheds. operates both a stall in D Shed laneway and doesn’t dislike the other now all-too-familiar Whatever the case, it’s clear the market, a permanent store on Victoria St. tunes. which has made up the bulk of his life, holds As the name suggests, they sell a range of “Nah, I love them all. Although I seem to a special place in his heart. sports gear and merchandise, from beanies hear them when I’m sleeping, too,” he said, You can find Market Sports at 123-129 to balls, and stubbie holders to scarves. smiling. Victoria St, or at the following QVM stalls: The Victoria St shop stocks a range of “It gets the atmosphere going. People hear Tuesday D 81-84, Thursday D63-66, Friday in-season stock, while the market stall sells Terence Port. their song and walk in.” D61-64, Sat D99-102, Sun D69-72.

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Metro Tunnel State Library Station breakthrough

Three massive machines – each weighing more than 100 tonnes – have met 30 metres underground, in the first tunnel breakthrough on the Metro Tunnel Project.

The breakthrough occurred under the built over the City Square site for the Town northern end of Swanston St, near Franklin Hall Station. Construction of an acoustic St, where the new State Library Station is shed started last month with framework being built. installation and wall panels being lifted into The road headers – which are 15 metres place. long and can smash through rock three The acoustic shed will minimise noise and times harder than concrete – are operating dust impacts on the surrounding community deep under Swanston St as they mine out and maximise construction productivity. the caverns and underground passenger While the shed is being constructed, the connections for the new state-of-the-art deck is also being installed which will give station. truck access from Collins St to Flinders Lane, A fourth road header will soon join them, as they pass through to remove excavated as they work together to excavate around soil during construction of a shaft for the 500,000 tonnes of rock – the equivalent of clock to complete approximately 20 per cent new Town Hall Station. almost 70 Olympic swimming pools – with of the overall excavation for the State Library Shed construction at City Square The shed and deck are expected to be 1500 tonnes of rock and soil removed every Station caverns. If you have taken a stroll down the completed in the coming months. 24 hours. For more information on State Library southern end of Swanston St lately you For more information on Town Hall To date, crews have worked around the Station visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au would have noticed a large shed is being Station visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au

Heritage Corkman will not be rebuilt remain confidential) resulted in a deal that The latest news is that Raman only the developers would be happy with. They have to turn the site into a park Shaqiri and Stefce Kutlesovski, (which they are doing now), and only if they the developers who illegally don’t start a development by July 2022 do they have to reconstruct the pub. So, expect demolished the 1856 Corkman a proposal soon that will have 12 levels and Irish pub in Carlton, are some vague reference to the old pub. This is an even worse result than if they had just removing the debris from the kept the façade, and built a development as site (which contained asbestos), allowed for in the first place. The only punishment the developers Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) other cases, and in each one the lost façade and are disposing it. will bear is the $1.3 million loss in fines for hearings, court cases or the behind-the was reconstructed, though only one of the doing something without a permit, and not -scenes mediation, so we don’t know why four is a good reproduction of what was lost. disposing of the asbestos properly – this will They are not keeping any elements, not these developers could not be forced to Instead, the Minister for Planning eat into their profits, but they will still come even the bluestone blocks that formed at least reconstruct the façade though an Richard Wynne at first tried a site-specific out winners and we will be the poorer. the window surrounds. These would have “enforcement order”. amendment mandating reconstruction been salvageable and able to be reused, This has happened to a number of other with no taller development, but this was even if a bit broken, and would have been places in Melbourne in the last 15 years, challenged all the way to the Supreme Court. Rohan Storey an interesting graphic reminder of what whereby a permit was issued to retain Local objectors and the City of Melbourne Vice President happened. a façade as part of a development, but started an enforcement action at VCAT to Melbourne Heritage Melbourne Heritage Action (MHA) has was demolished, usually due to “safety require a rebuild, but this was never heard. Action not been involved in the various Victorian concerns”. There have been at least four Instead, a mediation (the details of which

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Critic When the press performs well By Rhonda Dredge

Way above the CBD in a lovely little apartment hidden within a hotel on Highlander Lane, two thinkers work on articles for publication in the academic press.

Leonie Huddy and Stanley Feldman are various teaching posts and Melbourne’s whether citizens like going to war, the Nazi political psychologists and they like the quiet CBD. commander Herman Goebbels said: “Why, of a high-rise location. Their analysis showed that democrats of course, the people don’t want war. Why But a haven in Melbourne’s CBD does not and independents who read investigative would some poor slob on a farm want to protect them from the fact that Trump is reports in newspapers tended to oppose risk his life in a war when the best he can get threatening war in Iran. the war whereas the response by the actual out of it is to come back to his farm in one One of their collaborative ventures was a Democratic Party was weak. piece?” book on the lead-up to the Iraq war which Political psychologists have to be sure When the psychologist suggested that in a showed how President Bush misled the before they are willing to go on the record. democracy people have some say, Goebbels public. They first had to negate the null hypothesis replied: “Oh, that is well and good, but, “The concept of information flow is central that people who opposed the war tended to voice or no voice, the people can always be to whether the public is led by elite opinion,” be newspaper readers anyway and weren’t brought to the bidding of the leaders.” they said in Going to War in Iraq. actually influenced by what they read. The book concludes that the public is They claim that newspapers played a Analysis of the data showed that a capable of engaging with complex policy major role in uncovering misinformation non-elite Knight Ridder newspaper issues when the press performs well. about Bush’s claims whereas TV channels in group was prominent and critical in its the United States tended to be governed by regional coverage of President Bush’s elite information flow. false information about weapons of mass Leonie grew up in Edithvale, studied destruction. psychology then moved to the US in the The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Miami 1970s where she did a PhD on political Herald, the San Jose Mercury News and the opinion polling. Detroit Free Press were more critical than the She met her partner Stanley, they married elite New York Times. and they’ve worked together at Stonybrook This analysis has given the couple an University on Long Island ever since. Going to War in Iraq, Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy important anti-war message. Rhonda Dredge They are now commuting between their and George E Marcus, University of Chicago, 2015. When asked by a psychologist about [email protected]

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CBD Local One of the mob By Rhonda Dredge

The buildings are grander and more institutional if you approach the CBD from the north. Even the houses on the northern fringe have arched verandas.

These classical forms speak clearly of an early Melbourne that took itself seriously. on Russell St was the place you ended up if you were a “have-not” and the State Library was where the “haves” hung out. Writer Peter Mares lives in a high-rise apartment on La Trobe St in the CBD legal district. That makes him a “have” and he feels guilty about having made money during the property boom at the expense of others. He comes to the State Library to do research and meet friends. You could say that elitist self. Anyone can enter and find a spot, “These days I’m more of a writer. Working ideas into a book No Place Like Home. the library is his lounge room. even a homeless character from the street in radio can be quite useful because in radio When he tried living in Torquay he missed He needn’t feel privileged because who might have been arrested as a vagrant in you have to write directly. People have to the city and has moved back with his partner, the Russell St end of the library, recently the past and thrown into gaol. understand you the first time. It’s a very artist Julie Shiels. revamped, is full of millennials also treating Government by the people for the people active language.” You’ll sometimes see him sometimes the place as home. is a catch cry and the city is undeniably He owns two properties, one in Torquay, chairing sessions at the Wheeler Centre. The crowd is friendly and noisy. People a place where public intellectuals like to and that gives him a generational advantage. “I don’t regard myself as part of the are constantly uploading documents, doing gather. “We feel incredibly lucky,” he said. “People literary establishment. I do think we have a deals, eating chocolate, moving up to create Peter worked for 25 years on current affairs like me have done well out of the property responsibility as residents of the CBD and as room for others and ordering lattes with programs such as The National Interest boom without trying.” citizens to get engaged.” almond milk. for ABC radio and was a correspondent in He thinks he should pay more land tax to He has written four books about social The library has evolved since its former, Hanoi. fund community housing and has put his issues and works in ethical leadership.

SkyPad Living Vertical village voting

Vertical villagers’ voices might now be better heard, but voting remains vexed.

The key, we are told, to growing our Together, these engagement activities special resolutions) also often attract states are considering this option with the sense of vertical village community lies feed a growing expectation that residents’ significant costs. Legal fees, printing ACT leading the pack, followed closely by with our willingness to participate – both voices should be taken into consideration and distribution expenses, along Western Australia. inside and outside our residences. Current when decisions are made about their vertical with management time for follow up Also helping are advances in areas such as wisdom holds that we should keep ourselves village. communications, mean that these digital voting, with products like StrataVote informed about our residential and However, this is when the reality of our undertakings are both time consuming and coming onto the market. These are tools neighbourhood (or precinct) issues, express strata title regulatory system comes to the expensive (especially when a significant that support (among other things) online our opinions about these and also be open to fore. portion of lot owners live interstate or voting, which is conducted in a manner that responding to requests. On a more convivial According to Consumer Affairs Victoria, overseas). satisfies the requirements of the respective note, neighbourly exchanges also go a long there are strict requirements around certain According to Christine Byrne, Green state. Once set up, these systems can reduce way to creating a sense of belonging, like decisions in our vertical villages, including Strata president, it is these types of legacy the time and cost associated with voting. being tipped off about forthcoming events – who can make what decisions and how these regulations that are severely impeding Together, these changes may make easier like fun runs. And in this vein, many vertical decisions can be made. the ability of vertical villages to undertake our path to sustainable innovation in our villages have established active social media For example, only lot owners can elect an sustainability retrofits – regardless of vertical villages – but acknowledging that groups, specifically to share these hyperlocal owners’ corporation (OC) committee, the resident support. care must also be taken to ensure that titbits. key decision-making entity within (most) This means that despite claims that our additional costs do not become burdens Of more recent times, purpose-built vertical villages. common areas can use up to 60 per cent forced on those that cannot bear them. engagement systems – like CommunitiLink™ Also, it is only lot owners who can vote of the entire energy consumption of our - have entered our villages. These systems upon resolutions affecting common apartment building, our ability to reduce offer more timely ways for building property, which include many sustainability these levels can be thwarted if the solution management and residents to communicate, improvements. Added to this, some requires significant changes to common as well as platforms for selling items and decisions require unanimous resolutions property. booking facilities. (i.e. they need 100 per cent agreement by all And increasingly these systems are being owners or their proxies). Such is the case for Janette Corcoran used to survey resident preferences – do you key decisions like selling common property, But there are moves afoot. Apartment living expert like grey or dark grey for the carpets? Should buying land, and altering boundaries, lot One solution involves lowering voting https://www.facebook. the plants be placed here or there? Would entitlement or lot liability. thresholds – generally from a 75 per cent com/SkyPadLiving/ you support this recycling program? These types of resolutions (in particular, majority to a 50 per cent majority - and many

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Music Bird Sounds Prolific Melbourne singer/songwriter Emma Russuck's fifth albumWinter Blues will be launched at The Jazzlab on Wednesday August 7.

Russack will bring to the stage her full Lacey, and Liam Halliwell. song launches into the stratosphere at the Lane on July 28. This is the best chance to band line-up. The title track of Winter Blues Touring UK and Europe at the moment chorus, with a great mix of trumpet acoustic catch Heinous Hounds on the basement is a plainspoken moody song underpinned is the very talented Didirri, who is playing guitars and rolling drumming lifting the feel. stage at Cherry Bar before The Cherry Bar is by some beautiful, subtle piano playing, songs from his catalogue. Didirri has the At the end, the song returns to Didirri’s vocal relocated. which is reminiscent of John Lennon’s piano vocal delivery of someone like Tim Buckley; upfront with the piano further back. It’s a Archie Roach will be performing at the playing on Imagine. Russack singing about intelligent and heartfelt. His electric guitar great production by Hayden Calnin. This National Indigenous Music Awards on winter at the start of summer. playing has the taste of Ry Cooder and his song would be great towards the end of a August 11. Also appearing will be Mojo Juju, Russack has the knack of writing catchy crisp acoustic guitar playing has the folkloric set. Formaldehyde is from the Measurements Dan Sultan, Thelma Plum, Briggs, Jessica pop tunes. Opening track Horses is a snappy vibe of Bert Jansch. You can hear this in vinyl record, which is available at all good Mauboy, Tasman Keith and Baker Boy. tune to kickstart the album. The fourth track Didirri’s amazing cover of The Monkees’ record stores in the CBD. Didirri performed on the album that precedes the title track, I Randy Scouse Git. In this version Didirri has a great version of Formaldehyde at a TEDx Gigs/Shows Could Say, is a very uplifting song. Be Real is scaled back the Monkees’ large music hall Talks Sydney conference, sitting at the piano. ■■ Boy And Bear - , Friday, a jaunty pop song that opens the second side vibe, slowed down the tempo and delivered After performing in New Zealand, Didirri August 16 of the record. This song has received airplay a subtle, sublime version of this song. His will be back in Melbourne on the Tea Stains ■■ Didirri - 170 Russell, Friday, August 30 on RRR and PBS. vocal delivery is brilliant, investing in totality Australian Tour performing at 170 Russell ■■ Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Her The show at The Jazzlab should be well the spirit of the song. on August 30, with special guests Ro and Kat Majesty’s Theatre, August worth catching. Winter Blues, engineered Didirri has an old school element to his Edwards. Didirri and Ro have written a duet ■■ Heinous Hounds - Cherry Bar Blues and produced in a crisp manner by John performance. This is evidenced in the film together called Tea Stains, and no doubt they Sessions - Sunday, July 28 Lee at Phaedra Studios is the album that clip of Didirri performing Blind You on a will be performing this song together on the ■■ ACDShe - Cherry Bar, Sunday, July 28 follows 2017’s dreamy pop album Permanent punt on the lakes of Melbourne’s Royal night. ■■ Respect The Rock - Thursday 2pm, 3RRR Vacation, with the highlight song from that Botanic Gardens. This was Didirri’s debut Sensational flamenco heavy rock group 102.7 album being the ethereal All My Dreaming, single from 2017 and it also appears on the Malcura have a great film clip for their track which has a brilliant looping coda. Russack Measurements vinyl record. In the film clip Palais filmed at the Palais Theatre and it has also delivered a couple of albums with there is Didirri all nonchalant sitting back is worth catching on Youtube. The trio is a Lachlan Denton from The Ocean Party. playing his acoustic guitar as the punt he is busking legend of Bourke Street Mall and Denton has an album out with Studio Magic on glides along the serene waters. play gigs regularly around the city. Chris Mineral entitled A Brother, and it is a tribute to his Formaldehyde has the vocals way up One of the best bands playing around email: brother Zac. Musicians who appear on this front in the mix with plaintive piano playing Melbourne at the moment is the mercurial [email protected] tribute to Zac are Lachlan Denton, Ambrin beneath the vocals at the start of the song. Heinous Hounds. They will be performing Hasnain, Anila Hasnain, Rose Kean, Dainis Then with subtle brass entering the mix, the at the final Sunday Blues Sessions at ACDC

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Baci is Italian for “kisses”, he is the eldest area for a while now. He said he usually of the two at 15 years, his younger brother walked the dogs at least three times a day, Enzo is 13. sometimes more. The two brothers are similar in size and Their special trick is eating on command, share a similar coat, the thick, tight curls which Roger said was just about the only you would expect on a poodle that gets wavy trick they had. around the ears. Baci is grey and Enzo is “They are very depressing to own because black. they are usually smarter than their owners. It Rodger is a teacher and has lived in the is very annoying,” Roger said.

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Display suite & apartment available to view, contact us for further Information www.theevermore.com.au or call 1300 383 766 24 CBD NEWS ISSUE 56 Big awards for small businesses

The City of Melbourne recognised the contribution of small businesses to the city on June 27 through the 2019 Lord Mayor’s Commendations.

Lord Mayor Sally Capp said small businesses were the lifeblood of Melbourne’s economy.

“The City of Melbourne is home to 13,700 small businesses whose creativity, vibrancy and flair are central to our economy,” Cr Capp said.

“Small businesses make up more than 80 per cent of all the businesses operating in our city, employing almost 80,000 people.” L-R: Lord Mayor Sally Capp, Nick Karagulidi of AA-Nika Engraving, owner of Erika Hilda Simonds and Cr Susan Riley. Angela Louca from La Deli at the Queen Victoria Market.

Awards were given to 58 people representing 41 small businesses. Simonds said her vision is to dress women There were four recipients of the 40-plus And the generational award, for family in unique pieces and she prides herself on years category, including Nondas and businesses that have operated continuously Hilda Simonds was one of 22 recipients of styling outfits and matching accessories. Maria Konstandakopoulos of Stalactites in the city for at least three generations, went the 10-plus year award for small businesses Restaurant. to Prosser’s Family Seafood. that have operated continuously within the There were 14 winners in the 25-plus years City of Melbourne. category. Stalactites was established in 1978 and is Damien, Geoff and Neil Prosser have famous as a part of the city’s transition to been selling fresh seafood to the people of Mrs Simonds is the owner of Erika, an Nick Karagulidi of AA-Nika Engraving was a nightlife destination – the café is open 24 Melbourne from Queen Victoria Market independently-owned fashion boutique one of the winners of the 25+ category. Mr hours. It was also the first restaurant in the (QVM) since 1931. housed in Collins St’s historic Stalbridge Karagulidi has been operating his traditional hand engraving techniques in the city since city to serve souvlaki. Chambers. The recipients list featured eight other stores 1992. The four recipients of the 50-plus years from QVM, including The Apple Corner, Erika will be celebrating its 10th year in the Mr Karagulidi studied wood carving and award include Bob van der Toorren, the Tribal Tastes African Deli, The Chicken CBD this August. metal craft, the techniques of his Russian owner of the prestigious Block Arcade Studio Pantry Shop, Bellerby Shoes, Wei Qiang Xu The boutique offers a range of clothing, forefathers, at the University of St Petersburg where he’s been practicing photography men’s fashion, the Corner Chicken Shop, La jewellery, millinery and accessories. Mrs before moving to Melbourne. since 1978. Deli (pictured) and The Hat Project.