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Questions still loom over Fed Square By Meg Hill

to make sure it isn’t just an open-air Following Heritage ’s Chadstone in 17 years,” he said. decision to reject a demolition “We welcome a review of how is managed and enjoyed, but we do permit for the Yarra worry that everyday Melburnians won’t be Building, Apple and the state heard.” government conceded that The review will be jointly chaired by Victorian Government architect Jill Garner plans for a flagship store in the and former managing partner of Ernst and square had become untenable. Young Tim Eddy, and will be completed by the end of the year. The government has also announced a The state government said the review would review to examine the square’s financial work closely with the chair of Federation and governance arrangements. Planning Square’s board, Deborah Beale, and would Minister Richard Wynne called the square involve public consultation. “sad”, and told something had to be done to stop it from withering away. Mr De Hoedt said Our City Our Square would seek a seat at the table, but he thinks Federation Square CEO Jonathan Tribe told the narrative being set up was the wrong The Age the square needed government one. funding and, coming out of the Heritage Council of Victoria hearings over April 15- “We think the idea of Federation Square 17, it seemed that heritage status had been losing money is false to begin with. secured – it was just a question of which Federation Square is running at a deficit of criteria would be selected. four million dollars. That’s the cost of four average homes.” After more than a year of community activists yelling into the wind about the One line of the narrative has been the drop Snr Sgt Adam Tanner with the keys to the new holding cells at the CBD police station. Apple proposal, with no concessions from of visitor numbers by a million over four the government or Federation Square years. management, it seemed like everything was “It dropped from 11 to 10 million, how is 10 happening at once. million visitors a failure? Heaven forbid – New CBD police station But there are still major questions to be something not being 100 per cent capacity resolved. Our City Our Square spokesperson 100 per cent of the time,” Mr De Hoedt said. Brett De Hoedt said there was a new battle “The is empty The CBD has a new police station, with officers from Melbourne to be won. and locked up 99 per cent of the time.” East Police moving on April 17 from Flinders Lane to new “This review will influence Federation premises at 202 Bourke St. Read more on page 3. Square for the next 17 years, we want Continued on page 2.

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“The funding model has hurt it. Four million dollars is loose change for the government.” Suite 108, 198 Harbour Esplanade Federation Square is currently required to be PO Box 23008 Docklands 8012 “financially viable” on its own terms, which Tel: 8689 7980 means operating on a profit motive. But it www.cbdnews.com.au has only ever run at a deficit. Advertising But Our City Our Square rejects seeing this Tel: 8689 7980 as failure, and rather believes the profit [email protected] margin is an unhealthy metric for public Reader contributions are welcome. spaces. Please send articles and images to In the same article in The Age decrying the [email protected] drop of foot traffic, a restaurant proprietor The deadline for the June 2019 edition based in Federation Square said there had is Thursday, May 16. been a 75 per cent drop in events in the square over the past two years. Fewer events Follow us on Twitter meant less visitors and less money means @CBD_News_3000 less events. Like us on Facebook This seems a lot like a chicken and egg cbdnewsmelbourne scenario. Apple Store proposal protesters rally at Fed Square. Publisher: Hyperlocal News Pty Ltd Mr Tribe told CBD News management ABN: 57 623 558 725 would determine its position concerning visitation numbers to improve over time.” chairs Jill Garner and Tim Eddy. I encourage both operation and capital funding “in due Editor: Sean Car everyone to have their say on this important course” over the review. The public consultation aspect has been [email protected] public and cultural space.” welcomed, as the surprise announcement “The decrease in foot traffic over the past 20,000 copies are printed and of the Apple plans in 2017 and the lack of Tania Davidge, president of Our City Our few years is a focus for us. We operate in a distributed exclusively within consultation since was one significant source Square, said the group would like to see more competitive world now (Cato Square, Melbourne's CBD each month. CBD of criticism. representatives from “heritage, architecture Melbourne Quarter, Docklands, lawns of the News works for advertisers because and design, people from arts and culture, Library),” he said. But it is unclear what form this will take. people like to know what is happening and with events and hospitality experience, in their neighbourhood. “However, our event programming for the Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley and we’ll put ourselves forward as a Views expressed by contributors are not square is aimed at increasing the number of told CBD News: “The consultation program community representative”. those of the publishers. event-activated days so we would expect our is currently being developed with the co-

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 53 CBD NEWS 3 New CBD police station

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The move was particularly gratifying for Disabled access has been improved and, station commander Snr Snr Adam Tanner, best of all, the central location makes it so who had been working on the move for much more convenient for locals. about three years. “Look where we are. You can’t get a more Snr Sgt Tanner said the new station has iconic central location than here,” he said. been purpose-built for 21st century The new station comes with three vehicle police, accommodating the very latest in spaces on each side of Bourke St and, Out with the old (Flinders Lane)... technology. because there is little vehicular traffic “Policing has changed dramatically in the between Russell and Swanston streets, the past 20 years,” he said. “While many other focus is on pedestrians. police stations are retro-fitting to keep up, And, while the “shopfront” approach is Melbourne East is ready to go.” friendly and welcoming, the station is fully He said facilities for the “on-the-street” functional with “processing” ability and officer were “10 times better” than at the old holding cells. Flinders Lane building. “I won’t go into the security features,” Snr With more police in Victoria than ever, Snr Sgt Tanner said. “But what we have here is Sgt Tanner said there was so much more state-of-the-art.” room at the new Bourke St facility. There’s The new station is supported by new office more room for visiting police as well. accommodation a couple of doors down at “99 per cent of demonstrations in Victoria 206 Bourke St. happen in our patch, so we need to be able Melbourne East Police Station looks after the to brief and accommodate a lot of officers CBD east of Elizabeth St. The area west of here,” Snr Sgt Tanner said. Elizabeth St in handled by Melbourne West The public, too, was better catered for at the Police Station in Spencer St, Docklands. new police station, he said. In with the new! Workers unveil the station on April 17.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 4 CBD NEWS ISSUE 53 Council sees the light with solar bins By David Schout

The is getting smarter about its so-called Collingwood FC CEO Mark Anderson, Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, the Salvation Army's Australia Southern Territory (AST) Heritage Centre founder George Ellis, Lord Mayor Sally Capp and Salvation Army Melbourne “smart bins” and has recently moved a number of the solar- Project’s Major Brendan Nottle. powered units into the sunshine.

A number of the self-compacting bins, Salvation Army which hold around seven times the waste of a normal litter bin, have experienced power failures after their solar batteries failed to charge. opens new facilities As a result, the compactor and notification technology also failed. A collaborative project at the Salvation Army on Bourke St has “A selection of solar smart bins have built personal mailboxes and storage facilities for Melbourne’s recently been relocated to areas with greater direct sunlight to ensure their batteries homeless. stay charged,” a council spokesperson confirmed to CBD News. The initiative was led by Salvation Army, the the private sector can work together Collingwood Football Club, Australia Post with agencies to support people who are Without a notification, the bins remain “The majority of collections take place and the City of Melbourne (CoM) – resulting homeless or sleeping rough on the streets overflowed unless manually alerted by an overnight, resulting in almost all public in 171 personal mailboxes and more than of Melbourne. officer or passers-by. litter bin waste trucks removed from 150 storage boxes. “Many people don’t realise how difficult it When properly charged, the smart bin’s the central city during the day,” the The previous storage facilities at the space is to connect with services like Centrelink notification system sends an alert either spokesperson said. were limited and at capacity, and mail could and Medicare if you don’t have a fixed when the bin hits 70 per cent capacity, or Prior to this, bins in busy CBD locations only be received via a single PO Box. address when filling out the paper work,” when there is a blockage. were being filled as early as 8.30am, and the Lord Mayor said The new facilities were opened by Lord “Overflowing solar smart bins are caused by overflowed with rubbish for much of the Mayor Sally Capp, Australia Post CEO “A personal mailbox is a simple way of either a blockage in the disposal point (large day, before being collected. Christine Holgate, Collingwood FC CEO helping people reconnect with society.” item placed into the bin) or a fault with the While the new technology has resulted in a Mark Anderson and the Salvation Army bin,” the spokesperson said. “When there is CoM’s Deputy Lord Mayor Aaron Wood significant drop in daytime waste collection, Melbourne Project’s Major Brendan Nottle. a smart bin blockage, an alert is sent to our and “people city” chair Beverley Pinder noisy trucks continue to cause issues at waste contractor, Citywide, who respond Christine Holgate said the joint initiative were at the opening. night. immediately to clear the blockage.” was an opportunity to give people without a “Regardless of an individual’s In February, CBD News reported that trucks fixed address the chance to reconnect with Despite some of the bins suffering a heartbreaking circumstances, dignity and were illegally reversing up Hosier Lane in society. vitamin D deficiency, the introduction respect is what each of us needs,” Cr Pinder the early hours of the morning for waste of the technology in the city has been a “Personal onsite mailboxes enable people said. collection. success, with new figures revealing that bin- in special circumstances to re-establish “Storage lockers and mailboxes are collecting truck movements have dropped Lord Mayor Sally Capp flagged this as a connections with family and friends, practical solutions to the very real issues 85 per cent since their introduction. serious issue in October. government and financial services, and faced by some of our most vulnerable accommodation, in a safe and secure space,” Public collections have dropped from Within the last 18 months, the council has people sleeping on our streets, and their she said. 93,000 to 14,500 per month across the City replaced 772 litter bins in the CBD with 397 precious worldly goods and Centrelink of Melbourne, resulting in far fewer trucks solar smart bins following a successful two- Lord Mayor Sally Capp said the project notices are two key elements that this entering the CBD. year trial from September 2015. was an example of how government and initiative delivers on.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 53 CBD NEWS 5 Market vision rescued STAG ups By Shane Scanlan the ante the car park is a credit to the Lord Mayor’s something that is absolutely wonderful and Lord Mayor Sally Capp has political prowess. She has successfully really, really helps the market go in lots of ’s outmanoeuvred project critics and brought a new and exciting directions and I think it’s Stallholders and Traders brought the City of Melbourne’s divided council back inline behind her. a much better way to respect the dead [in reference to the remains of 6000 people Action Group (STAG) has Queen Victoria Market (QVM) In a half-hour Future Melbourne Committee under the car park].” project back from the brink. debate, little was said about losing the car pledged to reconvene and park. Market trader Leah Moore had earlier asked re-energise its advocacy on the committee: “Why are you moving the Cr Capp last year danced close to the In a brief acknowledgment, Cr Capp noted current car park from where it is and make it behalf of disaffected traders. precipice by instigating a “people’s panel” that the council’s alternative parking location hard for the customers and the producers to process to advise on critical infrastructure – underground in the yet-to-be-developed come and drop off their stuff?” Spokesperson Phil Cleary told CBD News, requirements and the project looked “southern site” – was 55 metres further away doomed when the panel last year the group had recently incorporated and than the current car park. “Every other large retail precinct is recommended keeping the existing car park. intended to pursue better outcomes for “I’m sure than in the operations of the increasing its car parking but you’re taking traders. This recommendation, however, has been market we can find ways to overcome some the car parking away,” she said. conveniently ignored and councillors He accused Queen Victoria Market of those needs of people who want to be Trader Marshall Waters remarked on the unanimously endorsed a new plan on April (QVM) management of being autocratic closer to the traders in terms of ‘click and irony that earlier opposition to a council 2, which repurposes the car park as public and high-handed, and this had resulted collect’ and other means,” she said. plan to develop a car park under Sheds A, B, open space, which the council is now calling in a number of legal cases against it. C and D would have been better for traders. “Market Square”. Cr Rohan Leppert, who has been influential Mr Cleary said market management had in Cr Capp’s strategic direction, said Market “It was the best solution and it was stopped “no idea” how to promote the market Excising the 1.5 ha car park for other Square had always been “sacrosanct” to him. uses has always been the council’s prime by unreasonable opposition with within and STAG was about to begin a series of motivation for stumping up $250 million He noted that the people’s panel has been the market and outside the market and promotional and marketing campaigns. to “renew” the market. It has also been the a “circuit breaker”. “I think that it’s paid off from Heritage Victoria,” Mr Waters said. “If He said STAG aimed to represent the major source of opposition from market now,” he said. everyone had have got behind that proposal, majority of traders at the market and traders, fearing a downturn in business I’m sure Heritage Victoria would have found “It’s not a duplication of . would “drag” Lord Mayor Sally Capp without it. a way to make it work for them and for us.” This is a multipurpose space that’s going to and City of Melbourne CEO “into the “Box hire” traders too have been behind absolutely enhance and attract people to the Market CEO Stan Liacos also took a shot at conversation”. organised opposition to the city’s ambition, market and allow those different market uses project opponents saying: “We take actions Cr Capp told CBD News that STAG and this is likely to intensify as the council to spill out and completely new uses that on behalf of the ENTIRE market community was welcome to feed into ongoing pursues storage options at previously complement the functions of the market,” Cr for the COMMON good of the market.” engagement with QVM management. temporary stalls under heritage open sheds. Leppert said. He said: “No change at QVM is not an That the council is back on track to take “This space has the potential to be option.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 6 CBD NEWS ISSUE 53 E-scooters line up to launch in city CBD kiosks By David Schout deactivated

Over 10 dockless electric scooter companies are vying to enter the Melbourne market in a bid to Nine CBD kiosks will be replace the “last mile” transport void left by O-bike. removed by the end of the year after the City of But ambitious operators are waiting on the turn up at a demo event.” Melbourne announced state government, whose tough scooter laws Mr Morrison lamented the fact that “more remain unchanged. it would not renew the modern, progressive states” had more Despite big plans from companies to launch accommodating regulations in place and he leases when they expire in in Melbourne – including a recent demo wants a trial permit to prove they can work. November. event by Uber-backed Lime – the scooters “For us to not be operational – you can read are still illegal in Victoria. into that what you will. Ultimately the laws All the rectangular shaped kiosks in the Current legislation dictates that any electric should be revised, but in the short term city will be removed, but the circular scooter that exceeds a top speed of 10kmh we’re asking for a sandbox trial to be put up. kiosks will remain. The council’s Street is considered a motor vehicle, and must Our model is tried and tested.” Trading Team Leader Hugh Kilgower said be registered and ridden by a rider with a the kiosks, which sell newspapers and motorcycle licence. Lime even resorted to asking demo event small items, had become anachronistic. attendees to lobby their local MPs to lift the These laws essentially prevent the launch speed limit. “When I was a kid, newspapers were of all dockless e-scooter operators, whose sold at street corners. Council assisted vision is for anyone to ride the “last mile” Greens MP for Melbourne Ellen Sandell But the state government remains tight- newsagents back in the day with putting to their destination – that is, the distance confirmed she had received several lipped on any regulatory changes. structures in place,” he said. between their train or tram stop, to their inquiries, but said the issue needed to be “Be it cars, pedestrians, cyclists or e-scooters, workplace or meeting point. further investigated. “Over time, the city has changed and the safety of all road users is our highest evolved and there’s a lot more businesses Users unlock the scooter via a designated “The Greens are very supportive of looking at priority,” a government spokesperson said. around – 7-Elevens and supermarkets. app and are charged per minute. new, innovative ways of getting around our The need for those kiosks has changed.” city,” she said. “We continue to work closely with our road For months, operators have been lobbying safety partners to determine how e-scooters Mr Kilgower said when the kiosks were the state government to change the laws, “However, any bike or scooter share scheme may safely integrate with our existing installed 30 years ago the city was less which they say were designed for toy also needs to make sure it doesn’t repeat transport network.” active, but now they were creating vehicles. the mistakes of the past where we’ve seen, The City of Melbourne confirmed that more “bottle necks” for foot traffic. He said for example, abandoned oBikes clutter up this congestion was also a reason for the But thus far, the state government has footpaths and our rivers and creeks.” than 10 companies had been in contact with remained unmoved. it about launching in the city. decision. Mr Morrison said concerns a scooter rollout Council transport chairman Nicolas Most e-scooters can travel at around 25kmh would see a repeat of what he termed the But the council said it too was waiting and, while operators can speed-regulate for a regulatory framework from the state Frances Gilley told the Herald Sun the oBike “fiasco”, where bikes were found kiosks initially helped activate the city. them, they consider speeds below the 10kmh dumped on footpaths, trees and the Yarra government before it could proceed. threshold as impractical. River, were unfounded. One of the council’s key concerns surrounds “We have great respect for the historical Startups such as Lime, Bird and RIDE have and cultural value of the kiosks, so we Lime’s model involves independent the scooters impact on already congested been granted trials in other capital cities have begun reaching out for find new contractors, or “juicers”, picking up the footpaths within the Hoddle Grid. but Melbourne remains untouched, to their homes for the structures once they are scooters at around 10-11pm daily to charge Many dockless scooters are parked on frustration. removed,” he said. overnight, deploying them again between walkways. Lime general manager for Melbourne 5-7am. One of the kiosks is heading to “We are absolutely for efficiency of transport George Morrison told CBD News it was time Collingwood Children’s Farm. He said this eliminated the key issue in modes and helping people get around our the government changed the law. oBike’s “idealistic” rollout, which saw a city, but it’s got to be done in a way that’s Fatih Dicle, who has run a kiosk on “We hold great ambitions for Melbourne,” he large excess of unused bicycles. “If there’s respectful and that doesn’t create more Elizabeth St for two-and-a-half years, told said. “There’s clearly an appetite for micro- a scooter that’s sitting around, there’s clutter,” Lord Mayor Sally Capp said on ABC the Herald Sun he was “disappointed but mobility here. We recently had 500 people something wrong with it,” Mr Morrison said. radio. not surprised”.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 53 CBD NEWS 7 $1.5 billion 555 Collins proposal

Charter Hall Group has applied for planning permission to build a 35-storey office building at 555 Collins St.

If successful, the building will mark the first phase of a staged $1.5 billion development on a combined 4620 sqm, Luke Creasey - Labor Adam Bandt - Greens Lauren Sherson - Liberal which also includes 55 King St. The proposed design includes an activated ground plane with connections between Collins St, King St and Flinders Lane, a premium retail hub with food and Five candidates to choose from beverage outlets and a landmark health and wellbeing offering. On May 18 CBD voters have at least five candidates to choose between to represent them in the The building will be one of the city’s most House of Representatives in the next federal parliament. sustainable office buildings, targeting 6 Star Green Star, 5 Star NABERS Energy and Platinum WELL certification. Three-term Greens sitting member Adam “Lauren’s energy is her signature trait and to people,” he said. In 2016, Singaporean developer Fragrance Bandt, 47, again starts as favourite, with the acute focus is her approach. She uses the He told the radio presenters: “I am a Labor Group was granted approval for a 147m ALP and Liberal parties throwing up new science of entrepreneurship to catalyse leftie. I quite often agree with things that residential tower at 555 Collins St which candidates and minor parties also in the opportunity and applies context from her the Greens say. But I don’t just want to feel would have comprised 625 apartments. hunt for the federal seat of Melbourne. extraordinary life experience and life-long good about the words I say, I want to feel bonds to produce unimaginable outcomes,” It had earlier failed to gain approval for a Mr Bandt is a former industrial lawyer and good about the lives we can change and I do her profile says. 300m mixed-use building on the site. first was elected in 2010. In 2016, he won the think we can change lives through winning seat comfortably over the Liberal Party, with She lists five years’ experience as “chief government.” the ALP performing poorly in a seat which safecracker” at The Safecrackers Club and Mr Creasey lists his volunteering experience used to be one of its safest. two years as “director of opportunities” on LinkedIn as being co-convenor of for The Jade Lions. A company search This time around, the Liberals have Rainbow Labor Network Victoria and also shows that the Australian Securities and pre-selected self-described “global being a member of Victorian Labor’s LGBTI Investments Commission (ASIC) is in the entrepreneur” Lauren Sherson and the Affairs Policy Committee. process of de-registering The Jade Lions. Labor Party’s hopes ride on the shoulders He listed housing affordability, renters’ of gay-activist and high school teacher Luke Mr Creasey teaches health and food rights and the restoration of penalty rates Creasey. technology at Coburg High School. Before for hospitality works among his top political moving to Coburg High, he taught for four Ms Sherson, 39, summarises her LinkedIn issues. years at Princes Hill Secondary College. profile as: “Investigating unsolved problems He has a science degree and a teaching Both Ms Sherson and Mr Creasey failed through entrepreneurship, psychology and qualification from RMIT university. to respond to CBD News’s requests for politics.” interview. In August last year, the then 28-year-old told The profile also says she achieved a Master Joy FM it was his mother’s experience as a Other candidates are the United Australia of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at victim of Kennett-government education Party’s Tony Pecora and Enos Masonga of the Swinburne’s Australian Graduate School of cuts that inspired his political aspirations. Australian People’s Party. Entrepreneurship in 2007 and followed on with post-graduate qualifications in teaching “My mum was one of those teachers who and psychology. was out of work and I’ve seen what that does A render of the proposal for 555 Collins St.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 8 CBD NEWS ISSUE 53 New decking for Birrarung Marr By Rowan Webb

The City of Melbourne has acknowledged growing concern among local residents Queues a blurred line over the safety of the Birrarung By David Schout Marr boardwalk.

A council spokesperson confirmed a Footpath-blocking queues outside popular CBD restaurants contract had been awarded to replace the existing timber deck. and micro-shops has been described as a “difficult” and “no-win One local resident and regular boardwalk situation” by a City of Melbourne officer. runner told CBD News he had long held safety concerns about the boardwalk. And without a change to planning laws, it Constable Glenn MacFarlane, also in “On my run yesterday, I travelled along A CBD resident shows off a wooden splinter in his shoe appears the issue will continue. attendance at the meeting, said it was almost from the boardwalk at Birrarung Marr. impossible to enforce a long-term solution. the Birrarung Marr boardwalk and, At a recent meeting with residents’ group unfortunately, my runner was pierced by a East Enders, the council’s Street Trading “We, as the police, technically they’re The current timber deck will be replaced very large splinter. The boardwalk is in such Team Leader Hugh Kilgower said blocked obstructing the footpath and we can move with fibre reinforced polymer, more a total state of disrepair and requires urgent walkways was a tough issue to police. them on,” he explained. “But the problem commonly known as micro mesh. maintenance,” the resident said. is going to persist – police aren’t going to be “We’ve actually got a mismatch,” he said. there every day. So I think it then comes back “The most important thing is to make sure The works to upgrade the deck will start “Council don’t handle it, or provide an to the council to ensure they’ve got the staff it’s safe. Previous repairs haven’t lasted in early June and are expected to be ability to have queues, but on the other hand managing it.” long.” completed over four weeks. businesses are required to manage their crowds.” Another aspect of the issue is the rise in Under the Activities Local Law, footpath queues at popular cafes and restaurants queuing is not permitted. which, combined with outdoor seating, can completely block footpaths. 130 Little Collins listed Businesses are required to manage their crowds, but for micro-shops selling directly East Enders president Jenny Eltham used to foot traffic, blocked footpaths are largely the example of Liverpool St, where outdoor unavoidable. seating combined with queues frequently The Uniting Church Synod of meant pedestrians were forced to walk on Victoria and Tasmania has Mr Kilgower said a recent CBD case the road. highlighted the issue, where a micro- put its 130 Little Collins St shopfront selling doughnuts directly This was especially an issue, she said, for office building on the market. to footpath traffic put in place queuing those using wheelchairs or prams. structures to deal with demand. Mr Kilgower conceded this was an area that The building boasts a net lettable area of “Council went down there and got them to could be addressed. 3797 sqm, comprising eight levels of office, remove it. They (the business) turned around “There’s a few different examples around ground floor retail, and 15 car spaces, on a and put tape down because, how else are the city where we’ve issued outdoor dining 651 sqm corner site with 53 m of frontage to they supposed to manage their queue? (permits), and the business is attracting Little Collins St and Coromandel Place. They’ve got a queue, they can’t stop people crowds. So you’ve actually got the queue, coming to buy their products, and yet they’re The Uniting Church, which has occupied and outdoor dining, and there’s no room for getting in trouble for not managing their the building since its construction, has pedestrians. So we need to make a decision crowds.” decided to offer the property to market in in that situation where, if you’ve got queuing, anticipation of its move to the redeveloped “It’s a no-win situation. And with planning maybe you don’t have outdoor dining.” Wesley Place site at 130 Lonsdale St in 2020. allowing people to have a smaller footprint Mr Kilgower said the issue was largely and almost selling straight out onto the According to marketing agents, CBRE in a planning matter, and recommended footpath, it’s making it difficult.” conjunction with Colliers International, the an Elenberg Fraser-designed, 26-level hotel concerned residents write to the planning property will be offered with a permit for development. Crime prevention officer Leading Sen- minister.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 53 CBD NEWS 9 “Featureless” design atop heritage building slammed By David Schout

The City of Melbourne has criticised a “plain” design directive from Heritage Victoria for a development atop the heritage-listed former Melford Motors building.

An application for a nine-storey mixed-used After that project failed to materialise, plans atop the Elizabeth St building, built in 1928 for the site were scaled back. as a showroom for Ford vehicles, is set to be sent to the state planning minister after Cr Rohan Leppert said the smaller-scale receiving heritage approval. development far outweighed the previous proposal. But before it does, the council said it wanted significant changes to the building’s “This is a far superior scheme and there’s proposed facade. much to love about the application,” he said. “Melbourne does not need another The Greens councillor said while the facade featureless glass tower, and yet it seems that needed work, he admitted it was hard when is what is before us,” planning portfolio chair a new development sat atop a heritage-listed Nicholas Reece said at the April 2 Future building. Melbourne Committee meeting. “Their [Heritage Victoria’s] concern is the “I think for Melbourne, and I say this very same as ours – how do you distinguish that clearly to Heritage Victoria, I think we need A render of the proposal. building from the heritage place to make to set the bar higher than just requiring that it clear and legible that these are different heritage buildings have glass boxes built on “We would like to see a design that But despite criticism of the facade, Cr Reece places?” he said. top of them. I think we can actually do better references the rhythm, depth and detail said the new $80 million development was than that.” of the Harry Norris building, that art deco “very, very significant improvement” on the “Heritage Victoria doesn’t have the same building on the corner,” Cr Reece said. previous proposal. internal referrals process to design experts The site, now a Toyota dealership, is “of “Also one that references potentially the as we do, and different people will come to In 2017, planning minister Richard Wynne architectural and historical significance materials of that building and we think in different conclusions.” approved a $208 million, 1008-dwelling to the state of Victoria” according to the that way we’ll get a much more interesting development on the Toyota-owned site, The council has asked Heritage Victoria to Victorian Heritage Register. development on what is a highly visible stretching across four towers. consider changes to the facade treatment corner of the city.” It is significant for its association with that wouldn’t require a new heritage permit architect Harry Norris, who was one The council’s urban design team said the That proposal included 700 student units, to be issued. of Victoria’s leading designers of office proposed form did not reflect “the expected something Cr Reece said was not needed buildings, shops and showrooms in the level of design quality for a tower of this due to a “tsunami” of recent student From there, Planning Minister Richard interwar period. prominence and significance”. accommodation approvals. Wynne will consider the development.

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22 tonnes.” The waste is fed into a large Down a small alley off silver box known as an Orca, sprayed with an enzyme and mixed with little black Flinders Lane, tucked at the beads. After adjusting the pH, the mixture back of a car park, a modest eventually breaks down into water, which is environmental experiment returned to Werribee. is turning food scraps from Coffee grounds amount to 40 per cent of the food waste and start-up companies are now nearby cafes into water and turning them into fire logs for the barbecue compost. and compost for growing mushrooms. The compost looks like a cross between soil and coffee grounds. Niall Haran, the co-ordinator of the experiment, takes off in his mini electric “The new hipster collects coffee grounds and dump truck to collect the consumables. gets them to bag it up,” Niall jokes. “This is the highest concentration of cafes in of it is that we’re not just dealing with waste. His is not a glamorous profession but some the CBD,” Niall said. Rather than being the bad guy we offer to He was recently featured on an episode of see waste warriors like Niall as heroes. troubleshoot.” War on Waste as a solution to a problem. Many food scraps were ending up in general New ways of disposal have been forced on To save us from landfill overload, they waste before the crew set out to blitz them. The day begins at 6 am but they don’t have Citywide, the major contractor for the City of are cleaning up the laneways without Instead of zapping perpetrators, however, to worry about the locals and their sleep Melbourne, since China stopped accepting complaining, even if this means plunging the waste team is in the gutters and back because their electric vehicles are so quiet. our waste. their arms into vats of rotting food or kitchens of the laneways educating workers, There’s quite a line-up of choice vehicles clearing up spills left by nightly revelers. Niall in his little den down Royston Place has offering them green bins, washing the bins, at the depot, including electric bikes, sorting out cardboard, plastics, dealing his hands full. “Last year we took 442,000 It’s difficult for Niall to deny the heroics of electric trolleys, an electric forklift plus the tonnes away from landfill,” he said. The with polystyrene and generally firing up the Batmobile which only needs to be charged the job when the crew at the Degraves St population. trick is to get into places these “nasty diesel recycling depot calls their little truck the every three days or so for its regular journey trucks” can’t access. “We see this as the next out to the Dynon Rd transfer station. Batmobile and it’s designed to slip around “There are gross times such as sticking your generation of recycling. We want to take over corners and into grimy places. hand into oil or greasy curry,” Niall admitted. The aim of this project is to show how an the city.” “You need a strong stomach.” operation taking up just 10 car spaces can The first job each day is to buff the laneways The depot currently deals with the quarter keep an entire city block sustainable. so they’re looking good after the big swill Some 120 traders are now involved in the between Flinders, Collins, Swanston and of an evening when up to 100,000 people project. “They can call around the clock if “This time last year we were handling eight Elizabeth streets. converge on the area. their coffee machine breaks down. The thrill tonnes of food waste a month. Now it's

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News ISSUE 53 CBD NEWS 11 Change to busking rules 10 weeks at a By Sakshi Agrawal writer’s desk The City of Melbourne has By Meg Hill introduced new busking regulations under which The Wheeler Centre has just CBD’s tallest buskers need to publicly celebrated the announcement audition for a three-year of its 24 Hot Desk fellowships. tower tops out “premium” permit for the The 24 winners receive a Aurora Melbourne Central, Bourke St Mall. stipend and a workspace in the the city’s tallest tower, topped Wheeler Centre for 10 weeks to out at almost 300 metres high The first live auditions were held on April work on their writing projects. 10, when about a third of the 23 hopefuls on April 5 in a ceremony with failed to make the grade. This year there were three additional the Lord Mayor. Six of the 23 were existing permit holders, fellowships added for regional or interstate but only four were successful. The two writers – with accommodation for five weeks The mixed-use tower includes residential, unsuccessful candidates will be allowed to at the Norma Redpath Studio. Yvette Holt is psychoanalytical poetry, let alone poetry serviced apartments, retail and continue until the end of the year. one of the recipients. reflective of a First Nations’ experience. commercial space and has been partly occupied since October last year while The council’s Street Trading Team Leader “I spin from the chandeliers when I’m She has lived in Alice Springs for 10 years, construction continued at higher levels. Hugh Kilgower told residents’ group East in Melbourne,” she told CBD News over is originally from Brisbane and, as she said, Enders: “It was amazing to actually have the phone while on a road trip from Alice spends a lot of time in Melbourne. All of Lord Mayor Sally Capp welcomed the auditions out there in the mall versus in Springs to Brisbane. these experiences are “dispensed through city’s newest building. the council house. It was a totally different analysis and spat out in 3068”. environment.” During her residency, she will finish her “Melbourne is renowned for our stunning collection of poetry and prose, titled “It’s notes, arguments, disagreements. It’s skyline and we have an exciting new Mr Kilgower said the council was able to 3068, about her existence in and around going to be way out there, consolation of addition with Aurora Melbourne Central,” train and educate the buskers regarding Melbourne. childhood memory, finding oneself, working she said. appropriate sound levels. Under the new class beginnings in Brisbane, a day spa in the “I’ve been in and out of Melbourne since “This mixed-use development by UEM regulations, Bourke St Mall buskers need Mornington Peninsula.” to re-audition every three years and live I was an undergraduate. I’ve followed Sunrise and Probuild will see new auditions will be held quarterly. the literature scene, have appeared at the 3068 is the postcode of North Fitzroy. The residents and businesses move into the Wheeler Centre a few times, and I’m the title has a lot of layers. As an indigenous CBD and I look forward to welcoming “Ones who have a premium permit (or chairperson of the First Nations Australian person, Yvette said she was aware of the them into our new great city.” Bourke St Mall permit) can go through re- Writers Network,” she said. Koorie history and community there, but The celebration was also attended by audition,” Mr Kilgower said. also how the inner city has changed and “The collection is reflective of analysis, Probuild managing director Simon Gray, become gentrified. Bourke St Mall-accredited buskers go dream states, coffeehouses, women. I cover UEM Sunrise CFO Mohamed Rastam into a weekly draw for the opportunity to things around sexuality, my fetish with “I wanted to go with a numerical call, Shahrom and board of directors’ member perform in the mall. theological imagery, Greek mythology, and a which is a little bit outside the square for a Christina Foo (pictured). lot of it is reflective of psychoanalysis.” collection of poetry,” she said. Additionally, street performers such The tower is the only residential “There’s nothing more gratifying than tattoo artists, caricatures and other art In fact, Yvette was just in Melbourne for development in Melbourne to have seeing another Koorie person in the area performers have been reclassified and her performance at the comedy festival a direct underground connection to and putting out fists up in solidarity. I might will require a street trading permit in the – Queer as Muck. She was followed and Melbourne Central. be crossing the road and they might be future. filmed by NITV, which is putting together a getting on a tram, but it’s that two seconds Some 95 per cent of the development documentary on the show. of recognition with someone who shares the sold in just two weeks, and it is now Yvette said there was very little same heritage.” completely sold out.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 12 CBD NEWS ISSUE 53 Aboriginal history in the Hoddle Grid By Meg Hill

A recently-released City of Melbourne heritage review is likely the most extensive study of the inner city’s Aboriginal history ever conducted.

At the April 2 Future Melbourne Committee meeting, Cr Rohan Leppert described the effort as “completely new in local government”.

The meeting discussed volumes three, four and five of the six volume Aboriginal heritage review, part of the overall Hoddle Grid Heritage Review.

Cr Nicolas Frances Gilley said it was an “extraordinary piece of work”.

“We have in this country somewhere between 60,000 and 120,000 continuous years of a people living on the land – the oldest continuous culture in the world,” Cr Frances Gilley said.

“That’s extraordinary, and that now you might be able to better find and touch and understand how that culture was below the concrete that is now often on top of it is going to be really important for us in claiming that history and story.”

Cr Frances Gilley talked about The Falls, one of the places of significance highlighted by the review. An 1837 painting of the Falls, which is now the location of Queens Bridge. “I learnt today you can actually walk along the bank of the Yarra and look down and “We are proud to be working with the City its proximity to the West Melbourne Swamp, see some of the rocks that formed The Falls of Melbourne and Context Heritage on this which the review also highlighted as a rich that separated the salt water people from the project.” and important ecosystem. fresh water people,” he said. Parbinata Carolyn Briggs from the Boon Neither the hill or the swamp remains today, “It’s so sad that with such a rich culture, the Wurrung Foundation said the recognition but are sites of built up development around oldest culture on the planet, that we don’t and respect for their history by all peoples on Southern Cross Station and Docklands. know that, we weren’t taught that in school, their lands was vital for the harmony of our Similarly, the Yarra itself was of probably we don’t have it so readily as the history of broader community. the invasion of this land.” of unparalleled importance to Aboriginal “The Boonwurrung people are looking people since long before European “What’s amazing to me is that while we forward to making a further contribution to settlement in the area, and has had its haven’t acknowledged those cultures, the this ongoing project, which has a lot of merit ecology changed. people of the Kulin nation, the three groups to building the recognition of our traditional relevant to this land, contribute willingly to beliefs that all Melburnians have a stake in The Falls and the Yarra help us understand.” and can be proud of,” she said. The Yarra naturally separated salt water from “They don’t say: ‘You mean after 200 years Cr Leppert highlighted the success of the Pre-Contact fresh water by way of a waterfall at what is you’re interested? Get lost.’ They say: ‘Here, review on the question of shared heritage. The idea of uncovering pre-contact now the location of Queens Bridge. this is what we know, this is what we’ve Aboriginal history of Melbourne CBD, “These three volumes in particular, which The waterfall had long been the only crossing remembered’.” particularly through archaeology, has long explore not just Aboriginal histories but the point in the area. The review concludes it been neglected. The three traditional owner organisations way we look at shared heritage and how to was probably partially natural and partially involved in the review are the Boon Wurrung accurately reflect that shared heritage in New studies are rarely a requirement of constructed. Foundation, Bunurong Land Council our slightly fragmented heritage statutory developments, both because of the lack of For the Kulin nation, it was also an ancestral Aboriginal Corporation and the Wurundjeri framework,” he said. cultural heritage sensitivity and the built-up meeting place. The Falls had a Kulin song, a Woiwurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal nature of the CBD, according to the review. name and a creation story. Corporation. “The law kind of takes a rigid approach where you’ve got post-contact European But the review concludes against the The point was where settlers stopped in their Bunurong Land Council CEO Dan Turnbull heritage on one side governed by the common belief that prior ground expeditions – both John Batman and John said the review was extremely important and Heritage Act and Aboriginal heritage on disturbances had eliminated archaeological Pascoe Fawkner’s parties stopped at the part began to address the “current deficiency of the other side governed by the Aboriginal potential. of the river below The Falls. information, promotion and recognition of Heritage Act.” the rich cultural history that lies beneath our A review of pre-contact archaeological data There is evidence that Aboriginal people feet”. “But what do you do about all of those found that Aboriginal stone artefacts in the carried settlers over The Falls, and that the places that have so many important values area are found both in original as well as location – always crucially important to “Many people we speak to think that that meet so many different cultural values disturbed contexts. Aboriginal people in the area – also became Aboriginal heritage sites are away from the whether it’s European, Aboriginal or The review highlights the prior land and central to the settlers. city, as though they don’t understand that shared?” water forms that existed for thousands of only 160 years ago it was a well-maintained A sub-genre of Melbourne historical years, and their importance in considering open bushland and had been for tens of “Heritage is a continually-evolving practice illustration features The Falls and, according pre-contact life in the area. thousands of years,” he said. and that exploration into how you properly to most sources, John Batman’s son drowned recognise shared heritage values is For example, the review emphasised after falling off The Falls 10 years after “Today, the CBD is Melbourne’s business something that we’ve done here really well.” Batman Hill and Eastern/Parliament Hill as settlement. district but prior to 1835 it was the place important locations to Aboriginal people in where the Kulin Nation did their ‘business’ CBD News has picked out some highlights It was blown up in the 1880s to allow ships the early post-contact period with at least a and, as such, the space is rich with both from the review below, but we recommend further up the river, but you can still see pre-contact association. tangible and intangible Aboriginal cultural reading the whole document. It’s available some of the original rocks below Queens heritage.” online from the Future Melbourne website. Batman Hill was likely important because of Bridge.

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The Hoddle Grid in 1838. Making a case William Cooper, the Australian The first people hanged by the new Aborigines League and the former for a love triangle government in Melbourne were referred to German Consulate at the time as Bob and Jack. By Rhonda Dredge William Cooper is best known for leading Their real names were Tunnerminnerwait a protest to the German Consulate in 1938, and Maulboyheener, two Aboriginal condemning the treatment of Jews in Nazi He is able to say with some authority that freedom fighters from Tasmania. After Germany after Kristalnacht. Most people are scared of the Australia’s most famous song was penned witnessing the destruction of their legal profession but inside to impress Christina Macpherson, who communities in Tasmania, they were The act of solidarity from an Aboriginal was plucking a pretty Scottish tune on an brought to Victoria and witnessed it a activist to another persecuted community many a crusty barrister or autoharp, while staying at the station with second time. is striking. It is often highlighted that, at this Paterson’s fiancée Sarah Riley. time in history, most governments were stern judge beats the heart of They escaped to the bush and, with some turning a blind eye to the treatment of Jews a romantic. Paterson had travelled to meet his fiancée of others, fought back, stockpiling guns and in Germany. seven years and flirted with her friend. He burning down settlements. wrote the words on the verandah “to impress The Consul General to the Third Reich Benjamin Lindner, counsel for the the musical, attractive, well-to-do Christina They were hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol refused to see the delegation. defence, has just launched the 21st book Macpherson.” after a trial in which they were deprived of on Australia’s theme song: Waltzing Seventy-four years later, Cooper’s a defence. Matilda: Australia’s Accidental Anthem. The love serenade theory was accepted by grandson, Alf Turner, delivered a replica of Benjamin after he examined, among other There is now a memorial to the pair at the letter to the consul-general of Germany, Benjamin claims that Waltzing Matilda things, the transcripts of coronial inquests in the location of their hanging outside accompanied by Aboriginal and Jewish is, arguably, not about the 1894 shearers’ 1894 about the so-called heroes of the song, RMIT University. Their bodies are buried community members. strike but a love triangle involving its a swagman, troopers and a squatter. somewhere beneath Queen Victoria lyricist Banjo Paterson. Mr Cooper became the honorary secretary Market. “I saw a play in Port Fairy,” he said. “There, I of the Australian Aborigines League in 1935, The author was young, he could write learned of the theory that the swagman had The review tells the stories of a number campaigning for an end to discrimination, clever verse and two women were vying a name and the squatters and police could of other Aboriginal prisoners at the the granting of access to land, education for his attention when he first penned the be named. All of the names were grounded gaol, including the Wurundjeri elder and parliamentary representation. words 120 years ago. in the shearers’ strike of 1894 at Dagwood Tullamareena who escaped from his The heritage review recommends that The book was launched by Boolarong Station and the burning down of its shearing imprisonment in the first Melbourne gaol the former German Consulate building, Press at the Essoign Club, in Owen Dixon shed.” and subsequently burnt the building down. where Cooper walked to from his home Chambers, last month and the legal “I thought it would be an easy task to look at The act is immortalised in an 1840 painting 10 km away with friends, family and other profession gathered to assess the case for a the evidence to support the theory.” But he by Wilbraham Liardet, owned by the State members of the Aboriginal community, be love serenade. found that treating the song as an allegory Library. placed under further heritage protection. One barrister said he was writing a book was flawed. about terrorism, a judge had lessons from There weren’t three policemen present, fiction writer Carmel Bird so she could the swagmen didn’t die by drowning in a write “all the things I can’t say on the billabong and the squatter, who was meant bench.” Another had written a book on bail to be present, wasn’t present when the law. shearer died. “We’re all wordsmiths. It’s what we do. It’s Banjo Paterson arrived at the station eleven what we are. Words are our tool of trade,” and a half months after the strike. It was said Benjamin, acknowledging the talent probably a topic of discussion. Benjamin of the legal profession present. “All of us says the words “waltzing matilda” are are becoming more and more written colloquial, Queensland terms, meaning to wordsmiths nowadays.” “carry a swag” or to sleep with your blanket. Barristers like to get things right and that “It was an innuendo for sleeping with your takes research. Benjamin’s argument loved one,” he said. The result was that the is based on examination of transcripts engagement was broken off. “It is claimed of inquests, private letters held by the that both women present were in love with Australian National Library, shipping Banjo.” Banjo Paterson was 31, a lawyer by records and documents, and visits to key day and a versifier by night. sites, including Dagwood Station where Judge Howard Mason launched the book. the song was composed in 1895. He said that Benjamin, who has been at the “I judge a book by its footnotes, or, at least, Melbourne bar for 35 years, was known for its endnotes,” Benjamin told CBD News. his attention to detail. “There are 10,000 words of endnotes. “He doesn’t do things by halves. He gives 150 I’m an analytical type of person. I work per cent.” as a criminal barrister. I sift through the evidence. And so I sifted through The launch finished with a singalong to the evidence on the origins of Waltzing the original tune by Christina Macpherson Matilda to learn about its origins and to and the original words penned by “Banjo” separate history from folklore.” Paterson.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no CBD News 14 CBD NEWS ISSUE 53 Ashes urn coming to State Library By David Schout

Australia has reclaimed the Ashes, quite literally.

While the men’s cricket team reclaimed a series played between Australia and England secretary, Guy Lavender said. replica urn after a 4-0 drubbing of England every one to two years. “The story of the Ashes Urn is one that during last summer’s test series, the real urn Just weeks later, England set off to tour captivates so many people around the world is leaving its London home later this year for Australia and pledged to bring back “the and the State Library’s exhibition is a very the first time in 12 years. Ashes of English cricket”. fitting place for its story to be told.” From December, the State Library will host After defeating Australia at Rupertswood These days a replica urn is given to the Ashes the precious urn, a symbol of sporting rivalry Estate on the outskirts of Melbourne, a small winner and, at just 11 centimetres high, it is between England and Australia. red terracotta perfume jar was filled with the smallest trophy in world sport. For three months it will be the centrepiece of what’s believed to be the ashes of a burnt CEO Kate Torney said Velvet, Iron, Ashes – the first exhibition to hit cricket bail and was presented to winning the library was honoured to feature the urn the library’s brand new Victoria Gallery. England captain Ivo Bligh. Former Australian captain Steve Waugh speaking at a at the upcoming exhibition. launch event for Velvet, Iron, Ashes at the State Library. The urn’s history is a quirky one, and dates After Bligh’s death in 1929, the urn was “We are thrilled to have the chance to bring back to 1882. donated to the Marylebone Cricket Club and to life the wonderful stories surrounding the was eventually housed in the Lord’s Cricket Then, the touring Australian cricket team Ashes tradition, which of course, began here Ground museum. defeated England to the dismay of locals in Melbourne. The history of the urn is very fans and as a result, the following day’s press From there, it became the public image and much woven into the history of this state,” included a mock obituary of the “death” of symbol of England and Australia’s rivalry. she said. English cricket. Since 1929, the urn has remained at the The Ashes Urn will be on display from The ensuing article determined that “its “home of cricket”, and returned to Australia December 2019 - February 2020. body will be cremated and the ashes taken to just twice (in 1988 and 2006). For more information about Velvet, Iron, Australia”. “We are delighted to loan the Ashes Urn, Ashes, visit slv.vic.gov.au/velvet-iron-ashes This was the first reference to the “Ashes”, a symbolic and special treasure, to State the word eventually used to describe the test Library Victoria,” MCC chief executive and The Ashes Urn at Lords. Caught out White Night By Rhonda Dredge expands in 2019 Who was that sitting By Rowan Webb enigmatically at a table trying to look anonymous? Was it a Victoria’s annual White Night will return to Melbourne across celebrity author working on three nights in August. her next book? Returning August 22-24, the festival will Degreaves St is full of colour and you can be re-imagined and expanded to new see local celebrities out and about that precincts. , Birrarung Marr tourists might miss. and the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase live performance, installation and On a Tuesday last month a famous artist projections. came out of Senior’s art shop wearing a long casual shirt over baggy pants. “White Night Reimagined will make Melbourne come alive during the quieter He headed south towards Flinders St. He winter months, bringing us the best didn’t have a shopping bag in his hands. entertainment, art and culinary experiences A few minutes later a famous comic actor modernist style with great brushwork and from Victoria and across the world,” said walked in the opposite direction towards a feel for paint. He was also a war artist at Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major the CBD. His step was more hesitant, bold some time this century. Events Martin Pakula. yet circumspect at the same time. He swiftly disappeared without giving an Having been traditionally held in warmer The actor has been on TV for many years interview. So did Kim Gyngell. months, the festival’s move to winter has and he is memorable for his part in Very been welcomed by local business owners. Small Business, a spoof on the hazards of The reveal is one of journalism’s greatest President of the Business taking yourself too seriously when you’re tools, not that a very small newspaper such Association John Forman was thrilled with trying to make a dollar. as CBD News would want to make a song the announcement. and dance out of a tool of the trade. No-one wants to take themselves too “Extending over three nights and expanding seriously these days. That’s why they love There were a few other significant people the program and changing the date to to get away from the PR people by merging around complaining about the train service winter is what needed to occur and the White Night artistic director David Atkins into the crowd in the city. to Frankston. “It takes two and a half days,” majority of traders are very supportive of and his team said they had been “elated Bad Luck! CBD News had spotters out and said one but he didn’t want to go on the the change in direction,” Forman said. and energised by the new undertaking”. it can be revealed that the famous artist record. The festival’s mix of music, visual and “Having the event as a centrepiece of an who was seen coming out of an art shop on performing arts is aiming to help the city How pleasant it is to work undercover in expanded winter creative campaign is very Tuesday, April 14 at about noon was Lewis come alive during the quieter period. the city looking for stories. 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Planning Contrasting commercial projects

In this month’s column we look at a couple of contrasting commercial projects in addition to the City of Melbourne’s plans for a new public square as part of the $250 million Queen Victoria Market renewal project.

First up, development partners Perri its revised vision for the Queen Victoria Projects and Pellicano are proposing a $150 Market renewal project based on feedback million 21-storey boutique office building and recommendations made by the Queen next to Bennett’s Lane. Victoria Market People’s Panel. Spanning a 1500sqm site at 11-21 Bennetts In its revised vision developed with Lane, the project dubbed simply “Bennetts NH Architecture, City of Melbourne has Lane” would introduce a unique mixed-use proposed the transformation of the existing tower comprising two levels of retail and at grade car park into much needed public F&B tenancies, co-working spaces, A-grade space to service the city’s north. office space, a function centre and rooftop To counter the loss of parking 500 bar totalling 12,000sqm. car spaces are included in the southern The development team says the project development site, which was always has been inspired by the international earmarked for development in a deal struck concept of a “vertical village” and will between the state government and council. include first class end-of-trip facilities, This is in addition to the car parking within a rooftop bar and is designed to set a the Munro development. benchmark environmental standard meeting For the state government to transfer 5-star NABERS and 5-star Green Star. ownership of the southern development site According to Perri Projects, Bennetts Lane Bennett’s Lane development. Image: Perri Projects 555 Collins Street. to the City of Melbourne which would then is targeting a completion date of Q2 2022. on-sell the site to a developer (or developers) For those unfamiliar with the site, it is 35-storey tower and 32-storey tower atop a targeting 6 Star Green Star, 5 Star NABERS it would need to deliver a public space on the situated directly opposite Charter Hall’s shared podium with a sloped roof profile to Energy and Platinum WELL certification. existing at grade car park by 2026. Wesley Place development currently under respond to overshadowing controls. The tallest of the two towers along Collins construction. Charter Hall has engaged local architects St will be developed first with construction to Speaking of Charter Hall, the developer Cox Architecture to partner with global begin in October and completion expected Laurence Dragomir has lodged an application for a dual tower design and architecture firm, Gensler on the in mid-2022. This coincides with VCAT’s Laurence is an Urban development of $1.5bn across two sites it project. lease at 55 King St ending, allowing for the Melbourne director with owns at 555 Collins and 55 King streets. 555 Collins Street is set to become one of construction of the smaller 32-storey tower. expertise in the CBD The two-stage development will feature a the city’s most sustainable office buildings, And lastly, the City of Melbourne endorsed urbanmelbourne.info

SkyPad Living Vertical village parcel delivery But we are told that there are actually as yet, largely unappreciated. involve drone drop-offs or robot deliveries – Mail types and volume have increases in several categories of parcel For instance, there are customer issues though both of these options bring their own changed but how are our delivery: such as failed or redirected deliveries, which raft of issues. ■■ Business-to-consumer: This is the main are particularly annoying for apartment Other options include greater use of “click mailrooms coping? category and includes such popular items residents who do not have concierge services and collect” where the customer orders as online ordered clothes; to sign and receive. This means that we will online but collects from the outlet, but this ■■ Business-to-business: This is a growing either have to stay at home to await delivery assumes a local physical store. Recent years have seen a rapid decline category with many small businesses or collect our parcel after hours from a And then there is another trend which in the number of letters delivered to our operating from their apartment home; secure drop-off point. Not really the purpose is being adopted by many new apartment vertical villages, while the amount of sent ■■ Consumer-to-business: In terms of of parcel home delivery! builds – the smart locker solution. This parcels has soared. This change is inline our apartments, this category includes However, a more critical and wider felt is where an array of secure lockers are with the national shift towards parcel the many “returns” which wait in our issue emanating from these increased, designed and installed into our apartment delivery as Australians continue their love mailrooms for courier pickup; and repeated and often failed deliveries is blocks – possibly replacing our mailboxes affair with online purchasing. ■■ Consumer-to-consumer: Such as when the growth in traffic congestion, which is or as an additional facility in a common This change may be most evident in our we send a parcel, such as a gift. exacerbated by these deliveries being made area like our car park. These lockers come traditional deliverer of letters, Australia And accompanying this rise in the volume predominantly (and repeatedly) during in various sizes and configurations and can Post, where since 2008 (when Australian and variety of parcels, are the expectations of business hours. include “refrigerated and frozen lockers” – letter volumes reached an all-time high), the customers for timely receipt. Retailers now While bicycle couriers may not take up catering for those home meal kits! number of letters it delivers has declined by say that two out of three shoppers expect to too much space, an army of delivery trucks Utilising a system of pre-approved more than 50 per cent. place an order at 5.00 pm for next-day (seeking spots to unload and hand deliver authorisations, it allows deliveries to be However, it is not a case of doom and delivery and three out of five believe orders parcels) will certainly impact upon the traffic made out-of-hours to secure but accessible gloom as Australia Post has reoriented its placed by noon should be delivered the flow surrounding our apartment blocks. units. business to focus on Australian’s preference same day. Another issue raised by Shay involves So, here’s another item to add to your for online channels and home delivery. However, there are several issues arriving security and theft – both of our goods and owners’ corporation list for future-proofing! Indeed, according to the Parcel Shipping with our parcels – and mailrooms strewn our identity. This is a concern shared by the Index, parcel volume in Australia grew 8 per with parcels too large to fit into standard Australian Federal Police whose first piece cent last year to 841 million parcels. And our letterboxes may well be the least of our of advice on protecting yourself is to “secure parcel market is expected to grow to more challenges. your mail”. than 1 billion parcels a year by 2021. So says Shay McQuade from My Parcel What to do? But just what is being delivered to our Locker, an Australian-owned business Once again, this is a multi-faceted vertical villages? specialising in intelligent mail systems. challenge requiring the involvement of our Janette Corcoran One visually notable category is the Shay sees the emergence of the parcel transport and traffic regulators and well as Apartment living expert home meals kits, which arrive in their white delivery sector as a genuinely interesting our more innovative minds. https://www.facebook. styrofoam boxes and wait for their owners on space but one where the broad impacts are, Some of the more creative solutions com/SkyPadLiving/ the floor of our mailrooms.

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CBD Local Emotionally attached to the art world hard slog. Every week there’s something I The Flinders Lane Gallery has haven’t seen. I’m constantly bombarded with new images.” occupied a special place in Art is sometimes seen as a luxury item so the streetscape for 30 years there’s a whirlpool of romance, delusion, cynicism and aspiration around the question and many collectors have of taste and that’s without even adding the fond memories of coming to political dimension. Claire has 17 reasons why people do and openings then going out dining should invest. The dynamic businesswoman nearby. has them listed on her website and challenges anyone to come up with more. Sales come naturally to her. Nothing Claire Harris has been in the gallery for 20 seems to faze her. Landscape – “it’s a bit of of those years, greeting collectors, making escapism.” She has her hard edge artists, her them feel comfortable, the last 12 as director. indigenous ones, her mechanical drawings, “I think galleries get a bad rap because even line works based on the pheromones of of the way they can be portrayed,” she said. a spider orchid. Some view them as elitist. It was so noisy. It was 85 decibels in here. questions. Now I’ve got doors to my office so She says it’s cheesy but she loves phoning The gallery is now one of a dwindling There were heritage issues and sleepless I can have a hissy fit in private.” up artists and telling them that she’s been group in the CBD but Claire resisted the nights. But the community of the building Claire is a hard worker. She’s open five able to sell their work. impulse to move to the new art hot spot in attracted me.” days a week and is often in on Mondays “Some artists don’t talk. They need to Collingwood when the lease came up. She now likes the quiet of her new as well. “I’m very practical and pragmatic. be asked particular questions to get to the “We did think about Collingwood,” she location, a large and multi-roomed A fundamental part is having good truth.” said, but she lives nearby in Swanston St so renovated space that was formerly a bead relationships. I don’t like being stressed out.” One thing is for sure – artists love sales. she’s committed to the city. Her son goes to shop and began as several individual shops. She likes the conditions in the new They don’t need to know why an unknown a school on the fringe and there are other The evidence of its past uses has been building better. She has fashioned a small purchaser has believed in them. parents living nearby. retained in sections of the walls. kitchen for herself in the refit so she doesn’t “Collectors are more like supporters,” “I was looking for character. I’d been “It’s calm and peaceful in the gallery now,” have to eat el-desko. Claire said. They’re emotionally attached to looking [for gallery space] for over two years. she said. “When you go out you have to face “I was constantly eating at my old desk. the art world. There was just one other contender.” the onslaught of the streets.” Now I can sneak out the back and have a When a space came up on the first floor of The hardworking gallerist with a feel for sandwich,” she said. the Nicholas Building, she was undecided for people also has an office for the first time. She runs the kind of business that Rhonda Dredge six months. “It’s opposite the Metro Rail dig. “Sometimes my head explodes from so many promotes old-style aesthetic values. “It’s a [email protected]

History Charles Troedel – a great Melbourne lithographer The images provide a valuable record of the including the Victorian Master Printers’ Charles Troedel was one of appearance of Melbourne in the 1860s. Association. Amongst the other artists that Troedel Troedel had married Julia Sarah Glover Melbourne’s foremost printers worked with was Nicholas Chevalier. in 1869 and they had five sons and three in the latter years of the 19th Together they produced chromolithographs daughters. When Troedel died in 1906 three in which images from stones carrying of his sons continued the business. century. different colours were overlaid. This allowed In 1910 the company became Troedel colours to be combined to produce a much & Cooper in a partnership with Edward As a lithographer he was responsible for greater range of colours than could be done Cooper, a long-time colleague of Troedel. producing many high-quality images of early in the earlier tinted lithographs and the In 1953 Troedel & Cooper produced a fine Melbourne. results had the appearance of a painting. set of reproductions of the Melbourne Album He also employed and mentored several Twelve prints in An Album of prints to celebrate the 90th anniversary notable artists and developed lithographic Chromolithographs produced by of the original firm. Over the years, the techniques which allowed high-quality Bourke Street in 1863. Artist: François Cogné. Chevalier and Troedel were the first company went through a number of changes Lithographer: Charles Troedel. Reproducton of artworks to be made available to the public ‘Melbourne Album’ print by Troedel & Cooper, 1953. chromolithographs produced in Australia and amalgamations but finally went into at reasonable prices. (RHSV Collection) and both men won medals in the 1866 liquidation in 2013, 153 years after Charles Johannes Theodor Carl (Charles) Troedel Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition Troedel first set up in business. was born in Schleswig-Holstein, then a part which is then chemically treated so that for “successfully introducing chromo- Charles Troedel was probably the most of Denmark, in 1835, the son of Carl and when ink is applied to the stone it adheres lithography to Melbourne”. distinguished of Melbourne lithographers. Maria. only to the drawn design. When a sheet of Other artists who worked with Troedel His earliest works have left us with a Carl was a lithographer and Charles paper is pressed on to the stone the image included such well-known names as Eugene beautiful record of Melbourne in the 1860s became his apprentice. Later, to gain is transferred to it. By using different stones von Guerard, , Blamire Young and he later went on to make high quality experience, Charles went to Norway where it is possible to add different colours to the and Lionel Lindsay. affordable artworks available through the he met A.W. Schuhkraftt, a Melbourne image. Through the medium of colour lithography medium of chromolithography and to printer visiting Norway and who was on Troedel’s first great success as an it was possible to make high-quality artworks produce a huge range of commercial art. the lookout for skilled young lithographers. independent lithographer was his Melbourne available to the public at reasonable prices In 1968 Troedel & Cooper assembled a He recruited Troedel and his friend Robert Album. Published in 1863, this was a set of and the demand for lithographic prints was large collection of the company’s lithographs Wendel. The two arrived in Melbourne in 24 lithographic prints of Melbourne and large. and this collection is now lodged with the 1860. the surrounding districts. The artist for Although it was pictorial art which State Library of Victoria, a fitting memorial After working with Schuhkraftt for three many of these prints was François Cogné, launched Troedel, he later turned to more to a famous printer. years Troedel set up in business for himself whom Troedel had met while working commercial lithography, specialising in in Collins St, where Wendel joined him. with Schuhkraftt. In fact the first two prints labels and advertising for food, tobacco and Troedel imported a lithographic printing were produced while Troedel was still with drinks. David Thompson press from Germany and this was used by Schukraftt, the remainder coming after he He also produced letterheads, bank David is researcher his company for many years. had set up his own business. cheques, share certificates and posters. at the Royal In the lithographic process the artist draws The Melbourne Album was published as a He became a leading figure in the printing Historical Society of directly on to the surface of a flat stone subscription series and was very successful. industry and served in many organisations Victoria

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Metro Tunnel Heritage Melbourne is Construction update – so lucky A recent visit to Sydney revealed Town Hall Station how lucky Melbourne is to have so much anti-landmark heritage Works to build the new Town Hall Station are ramping up, with major construction underway at all in our CBD. three work sites at the southern end of Swanston St. Both cities sadly demolished many incredible heritage buildings in the 60s Visitors to Federation Square will notice and 70s, but it can be argued Sydney came large piling equipment in operation behind out worse off not for what was considered the hoarding, as piling works get underway. heritage at the time, but all the things More than 60 piles will be constructed up to dismissed entirely, such as laneways and a depth of 30 metres before an acoustic shed small industrial buildings, the kind that now is built over the work site to minimise noise make up some of Melbourne’s most vibrant and dust during major excavation works later precincts. this year. Piling is also underway at Flinders Melbourne really hit an accidental gold Quarter, adjacent to the Young & Jackson mine when it retained its retail core and then Hotel on Swanston St, where over 200 piles ignored precincts such as Hardware and will be constructed. Flinders Lane by virtue of height limits and At City Square, piling is now complete and economic downturn, leaving space in the work is underway to build a temporary deck future for a CBD made up of so many uses over the site. The deck will be constructed and types of people, as opposed to Sydney’s using steel, forming an area around the generally more monocultural corporate city. site that can support machinery as major As impressive as many of Sydney’s excavation gets underway. heritage buildings are, from the grand From mid-year, an acoustic shed banks and post office of Martin Place to will be built over the City Square work opulent government buildings on Bridge site to minimise noise and dust during St, the iconic bridge itself, and impressive construction. Queen Victoria Building, the harbour city’s For more information on Town Hall landmark heritage building lacks anchorage Station works, visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au Works are carried out at Federation Square. in human scale character, leaving visitor Indigenous artefacts on show craning the neck up for want of anything interesting to see at the street level between A new layer of Melbourne’s history archaeological program in the state’s history corporate lobbies and grand columns. is on show at Metro Tunnel HQ. – uncovered more than one million artefacts While Sydney re-activates the few Indigenous artefacts in the form of flaked in the CBD. A selection of pub-related laneways it has with bland commissioned stone tools found during the Metro Tunnel objects is also on display at Young & Jackson art and upscale restaurants, Melbourne is so Project’s archaeological investigations are Hotel, located on the corner of Flinders and lucky to have a wealth of historic lanes and currently on display. Swanston streets. little buildings right in its heart where street The artefacts were uncovered on Swanston To view the latest display at Metro HQ, art and venues for all kinds of people could St, adjacent to the Young & Jackson Hotel, visit the Project information hub at 125-133 spring up organically over the past three where an entrance to the new Town Hall Swanston St Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, decades. Station is being constructed. and Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm. It’s important to remember that heritage Flaked stone tools could be made quickly protection isn’t just about retaining and were used for many everyday tasks, impressive landmarks of wealth, but also the including shaping objects made of wood, little “mundane” places that collectively give bark and bone. They were used as spear-tips our city spaces for diversity and creativity. in hunting weapons and as knives to butcher, and were also used to scrape and prepare Tristan Davies animal skins for making cloaks, containers and decorative items. President Melbourne Heritage The Metro Tunnel’s big dig – the largest Action Indigenous stone artefacts on display.

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We Live Here Letters to the Editor Keep politics out of it The CBD News article by Kevin Jingga, refers to the City of Melbourne presenting to More support for OCs major parties issues, of which one is “climate change”. As we know that label comprises of a bunch of world political issues, which are being fought out with real vigour. in the new Bill As a resident we do not pay rates for the council to act politically. The long-awaited exposure draft of the Owners Corporations and Other Acts Amendments Bill has It’s very worrying if, as you say, the councillors were amazed at school children now been released by Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) for public consultation. having a day out marching? To indoctrinate children into politics is The exposure draft can be accessed at 2(a) In relation to developers the new managers in buildings that are governed a sad situation. (I just recalled, the council www.consumer.vic.gov.au/OCBill legislation provides for the expiry of any by owners’ corporations. consults children with traffic problems.) Submissions emailed to cav. contract appointing a third party manager (a Future columns will review more of As residents, we simply need [email protected] will be person who is neither an initial owner or a the Bill – the good and the not-so-good concentration on CBD issues and to redress accepted until May 10, 2019. lot owner) entered into by the applicant for proposals. the drastic decline in CBD liveability. Soon Subject to the satisfactory resolution of registration of the plan of subdivision at the We encourage as many of you as we will be vying with Amsterdam as the any issues raised during the consultation first meeting of the owners’ corporation. possible to review the Exposure Draft and world’s worst western nation city. There is process, the Bill should be introduced into Provision is also made that any other provide us with your feedback. no noticeable monitoring by MCC of what is Parliament later this year. contract entered into that relates to the happening on the streets. It has taken more than three years since owners’ corporation and benefits the Campaign donations I have attached PDF file, or continue submissions to the Issues Paper closed applicant for registration must not exceed As a not-for-profit organisation, to read below the same an email to our in 2016 and at first glance the proposed three years in duration. Further it will be donations from individuals and buildings political leaders and relevant organisations new Bill does seem to give more support a provision of the new legislation for the keep our campaigns going. To register as reminding the pollies of what has got us for owners’ corporations than previously, minutes of the first meeting be kept. a supporter of We Live Here or to make into this mess, and if decisions are made in indicating that our voice is at last being 2(b) For owners’ corporation managers a donation please visit our website at ignorance we will be cooking and reading heard. the current registration system will be welivehere.net under candle light. The introduction to the Explanatory strengthened to improve the quality of We Live Here does not accept Or buying battery lights from China which Memorandum states: The proposals that owners’ corporation managers. donations from commercial tourism is so-so happy at the political pressure onto have emerged from the review seek to make Other proposals relate to additional interests. western nations to scale down economies. buildings governed by owners’ corporations obligations placed on owners’ corporation Emil better governed and more liveable taking managers regarding procurement of www.welivehere.net Send your letters to into account stakeholders’ experiences and goods and services on behalf of owners’ live “we emails to campaign@ [email protected] industry developments since the Owners corporations (including disclosure of any here”TM welivehere.net Corporation Act 2006 commenced in beneficial relationship with a supplier, December 2007. commissions, payments and other The amendments seek to: benefits received), influencing voting on ■■ Rationalise the regulation of owners’ owners’ corporation matters and owners’ corporations; corporations’ access to their financial ■■ Enhance protection for owners' records. corporations by improving the quality One long-overdue reform is the insertion of owners’ corporation managers and of a new section in the Act that relates to expanding and improving developers’ the appointment of an owners’ corporation duties to the owners' corporations they manager, prohibits certain terms in owners’ create; and corporation management contracts and ■■ Improve the governance and financial gives more power to the Victorian Civil administration of, and internal relations and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to in, owners’ corporations. rule generally whether other terms in management contracts are unfair. Some significant features of the Terms that will be prohibited in owners proposed new legislation corporation contracts of employment Four tiers of owners’ corporations to include those that: replace “one size fits all”. ■■ Impose procedural restrictions on the The current legislation fails to distinguish revocation of the manager’s appointment; between 50-storey skyscrapers and ■■ Enable the manager to renew the contract suburban blocks with two units. The new of appointment at their option; legislation will allow for different regulatory ■■ Provide for the automatic renewal of the requirements based on the number of contract of appointment if the owners’ occupiable lots. corporation fails to give notice of its Follow us on twitter This is a huge step forward and one that intention not to renew the contract, and @paramourescort “We Live Here” has campaigned for since the ■■ Must not restrict the ability of an review of the legislation commenced in 2016. owners’ corporation to refuse consent to see x3 free lingerie The four tiers are: to the assignment of the contract of pics everyday to your feed! Tier Composition appointment to a person appointed Tier one 51 or more occupiable lots, as the manager, other than one which and not a services only owners’ provides that such consent must not be corporation unreasonably withheld. Tier two 10 to 50 occupiable lots, and We Live Here has previously expressed not a services only owners’ concern that the government has been corporation consulting in private and only with Tier three Three to nine occupiable lots, commercial groups – businesses that make money from buildings that are governed by 96546011 and not a services only owners’ corporation owners corporations, and not the owners’ Subscribe to our mailing list Tier four A two-lot subdivision or corporations themselves. via our website and a services only owners’ However, it seems submissions and corporation campaigning by us and others have not been Limiting the powers of developers and in vain, and we welcome the proposals that owners’ corporation managers to determine are aimed at creating a clear distinction how buildings operate to enhance protection between the role of owners’ corporations for owners’ corporations. and the role of owners’ corporation SWA113E

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Residents 3000 Residents connect with local business of business areas to celebrate, councils and Residents 3000’s motto is to other local government bodies also hold major festivals and community events. “Connect, Inform and Support”. Neighbour Day has now been endorsed by the prime minister, state premiers, lord The last regular monthly event was turned mayors and local government ministers. into a marketplace where residents were In 2008 founder Andrew Heslop spoke able to connect with some City of Melbourne at the United Nations in New York about (CoM) agencies and Melbourne’s wonderful the development of Australia’s annual small businesses that contribute a special celebration of community, Neighbour Day. something to life in the city. Neighbour Day Ambassador – Hugh The event, held at the Kelvin Club in Mackay said: “We all want to lead a good life, Melbourne Place, offered participants at the heart of a thriving community, among the opportunity to (for example) taste people we trust and within an environment local honey made in the city, discuss the of mutual respect. Neighbour Day gives us restoration of their old but much loved an opportunity to reach out to connect and jewellery pieces, investigate the magic world to become more engaged with our local of hobby construction kits, see the nearly community.” finished colour version of the Melbourne “Neighbours don’t have to be best friends Map, taste locally grown tea or find out about – but the role of neighbour is a distinct and projects run by CoM agencies. precious one.” Exhibitors included from the CoM Next month at Residents 3000 were: It’s the popular Trivia Night again. Come Melbourne is famous for its laneways and connections between a diverse community along with your thinking cap and your best, ■■ Participate Melbourne; quirky little corners where you can find local of residents, small businesses and CoM most knowledgeable mates to join your ■■ Library Services; brands. agencies, projects and departments. team. ■■ Green Money; and Melburnians love to shop for the quality The concept of Neighbour Day was Prizes are awaiting the best team, followed ■■ Busking and Street Trading. and uniqueness found in these small local conceived by a Melbourne resident Andrew by the usual refreshments after such hard stores. Prices can still be competitive, but it Heslop (see neighbourday.org) with the first work answering all the questions. From the city’s small business is the extra value in a product being made event being observed on Sunday, March 30, Keep up to date with happenings in sector were: locally or one where the design cannot be 2003. Melbourne through the Residents 3000 web ■■ Balthazar Jewellery; found elsewhere, that attracts. Since that time, Neighbour Day has site: www.residents3000.com.au ■■ Clementine’s; The marketplace event was inspired by progressed from a reminder to connect with ■■ Gray Reid Gallery; Australia’s Neighbour Day which is held elderly neighbours to an annual celebration ■■ Hearns Hobbies; annually on the last Sunday in March – the of strong communities and friendly streets – Susan Saunders ■■ Laneway Learning; weekend preceding the Residents 3000 including in our case, vertical streets. ■■ Marea Bright Milliner; event. People of all ages participate because Vice President Ph: 0412 566 606 ■■ Melbournalia; Neighbour Day is Australia’s annual everyone, everywhere is a neighbour no celebration of community, encouraging matter where you live or your personal email: sue@residents3000. ■■ Melbourne Athenaeum Library; com.au ■■ Melbourne Men’s Shed; and people to connect with those who live in circumstances. Not only do residents and ■■ The Melbourne Map. their neighbourhood. office colleagues hold barbecues and street For CBD residents, it is about building parties on front lawns and in the car parks

Critic Moments of cruelty exposed magazine then when he died she married CBD-based company Text Publishing Cruelty to animals will touch the editor, so she could be called an insider is noted for the imports on its publication but she never smacks of privilege. list and translations of international titles the nerve of most readers and The book includes profiles of New Yorkers, that might not otherwise make it into the Janet Malcolm uses it to great accounts of political events and more country. traditional essays on literary history. Most Malcolm is well-known to those who read effect in her latest book of essays, appeared in the New Yorker or the New York biography for her book on the poets Sylvia Nobody’s Looking at You, just Review of Books. Plath and Ted Hughes. The Silent Woman One essay on the confirmation of a was taught in universities here and it rewrote released by CBD company Text Supreme Court judge looks at the rhetorical the rule book for biographers. Publishing. approaches of the questioners and Malcolm This collection of Malcolm’s shorter is able to show how cleverness can be a cover magazine pieces is just as reflective. for lack of soul. Malcolm is a considered writer. She takes In a profile of New York fashion designer The losers are those in court where the care before rushing in to use the nominative Eileen Fisher, known for her simple yet judge consistently favoured the big guys over case, preferring to load up her writing with elegant styling, Malcolm noticed that a pet the small. detail that she picks up in a grounded, non- Janet Malcolm, Nobody’s Looking at You, Text Publishing, cat was forced to live outside in the snow. 2019 Moments such as these in which judgmental kind of way. Malcolm used this chilling observation to potentially cruel practices are examined are Her points are large but they appear to be challenge the designer. designer about her cat and gave her space to the most memorable in this essay collection small. Biographers like to pick up telling details explain why she didn’t allow it inside. and even though they occurred in the The tactics of the Republicans in the and use them to pierce the defences of their Some readers find the New Yorker style too political maelstrom of New York they are confirmation meant that the judge never had interview subjects whereas hacks will use ponderous and descriptive. Conflict is often relevant here. to account for the actual decisions he made clichés such as “woman of steel” to portray played down in the service of a longer yarn As a staff journalist for the New Yorker, in court. those who do not succumb to their jibes. that takes time to unfold. Malcolm is the envy of many professionals Malcolm works as a staff journalist for the Malcolm began her writing life as a fashion in Australia. She has time to write her pieces, New Yorker and instead of jumping to any columnist and this shows in her approach often returning again and again to talk to her Rhonda Dredge conclusions she returned to question the to style. She was married to a reviewer at the subjects. [email protected]

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Street Art On the nose The other day I was walking down Bourke St and I was busting to go to the toilet and all I could find was one of those self-washable silver toilet blocks.

I had to wait out the front whilst someone rooms where concreted in and in their place was finishing up. When I finally got my turn, I came these self-cleaning smell boxes. went in and shut the door. Why would we choose to use these horrible A voice came over the speakers to tell me toilets when we have awesome and historic that I had 10 minutes before the door would toilets all around the city from the front of open. Classical music turned on as the the Vic Market to the back of Flinders Street pungent stench infected my nostrils. The wet Station and everywhere in between. When I dirty moist wall had a number of unpleasant was a kid some of these bathrooms even had smears and the toilet was filled. bathroom attendants. I tried to find the flush button but when I As this city grows and changes there are did I realised I wasn’t going to touch it. If I some things that we need to hold onto wasn’t busting I would have ran. and these toilets are an important part of But I was in a bit of a state so I close my Melbourne and its history. eyes, aimed and tried not to make a colourful These beautiful and historic toilets need yawn. to be re-opened and put back to their former As soon as I finished I got out of there not glory. As for the silver self-cleaning smell even attempting to wash my hands. machines, I wouldn’t even go into one to do I walked away feeling dirty. I wondered graffiti. what girls do. Believe it or not these facilities Have a beautiful month. are unisex. I’m all for unisex toilets, but I feel Stay awesome. that, more often than not, the females often Doyle get the short end of the straw. (Inst: doylesart) When I was younger I spent most of my days walking around the city. And I know where some of the best toilets in Melbourne This got me wondering why all the horse manure and urine smell throughout Adrian Doyle are located. So, I normally don’t have any beautiful heritage-listed underground toilets the city, these underground toilets are Street Artist issues, but I feel sorry for the tourists that have been covered over. Built about 110 historic, clean and beautiful. However, Blender Studios founder and have to use these amenities. years ago to try and control the smells of about 10 years ago most of these historic rest director

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The Paperback bookshop at the top of Bourke St has been going 50 years and it celebrated last month with a bit of fiction.

Christos Tsiolkas read a scene from his latest here, was available in a brown paper wrap, manuscript about a woman with a bag over said Rosie Morton, who bought the store 23 her head 2000 years ago. years ago.

He invited the assembled readers to enter a “The book was at the centre of a long- fantasy world that he has been creating over running court case but if you came here the past four years. and went to the back counter … there’s still Each generation rewrites history and writing on the window that says American Tsiolkas’s imagination was honed locally books.” Bill Morton at The Paperback peddling fiction to the populace. on the streets of the CBD where he and his The bookshop has since become an family went looking for entertainment. institution, a place that attracts riff raff fiction and crime with glasses of cheap red in and old-world values. “My first memory of the place was as a little and city slickers, where you can bounce their hands became boastful. Paperbacks brought fiction to the population boy. We lived in Richmond and walked into around ideas, disagree with staff, criticise at large. Bill Morton who currently spends the city. My parents could go and have a their choices but also be matched with new One reader plucked a book from general most of his days in the shop said there drink at the Southern Cross and they let us authors. fiction and declared it a must read. It was one of those clever books, set in Paris, with were several boxes of books he had not yet kids wander,” he told birthday guests. “In the big city, this is a small place but with 155 chapters in a mysterious order. unpacked owing to the festivities. “I remember the first time I entered. My a sharing of ideas and discovery,” said Rosie. “We live in a bit of a bubble here,” he first novel was Russian, Novel with Cocaine. “The language of books is about inner lives Another responded with an obvious choice, conceded. Some books that do well overseas There was also the music section. It was my and how they meet the larger world.” an Agatha Christie from the murder mystery still don’t make it to Melbourne. Customers nourishment.” shelves which he vowed to read over Easter. You get the sense that while other cities have order books in and they, in turn, become In the early days, the bookshop specialised moved on and become dominated by world The girlfriend of one of the sales staff broke part of the stock. in imports, particularly American politics, a little modesty and serendipity still a glass and attention was focused for a while “David was on a Cortazar binge,” he said, paperbacks which were difficult to get here. prospers at the Paperback. on the ruby-red, threadbare carpet. naming the reader who recommended The owners Pippa Grey and her daughter When readers got together for the birthday Paperbacks were revered in their day Hopscotch, the book that emerged as if by Gail travelled to the US and brought back party the mood was convivial as they tried because they were so much cheaper than magic from the fiction section at the back supplies. to outdo each other with their knowledge hardbacks which could cost up to a week’s of the Paperback during their birthday Portnoy’s Complaint, which was banned of books. Those huddled together between wages and became associated with pomp celebrations.