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■■ Doubt cast on ■■Editorial on waterways lord mayoral result Page 5 Page 9 Another blow to maritime industry By Shane Scanlan period with the possibility to consider an extension if the operation is successful,” the EoI, which closes on July 4, says. Docklands’ maritime Development Victoria development manager industry has been dealt Harry Polydurouo told the July 27 Docklands another blow with a South Community Forum (DCF) that a 2017 consultation had identified a shortfall of Wharf shed, which has long urban fringe sports. been earmarked for an on- “It’s basically sports like basketball, skating, shore facility, being given roller sports, climbing, etc,” Mr Polydurouo said. “So, there’s a real opportunity for those over to urban fringe sports for types of uses.” at least five years. Mr Polydurouo told the forum there was a future “opportunity” for a “working pier” From as early as 2009, the western adjacent to the site. section of Shed 21 has been designated in “In terms of the longer-term vision for planning documents as a “working quay the Bolte Precinct West, we see it as a area” for the maritime industry. mixed-use precinct – retaining the sheds, A 2016 draft amended precinct creating flexible spaces for community and development plan, which is currently recreation,” Mr Polydurouo said. before the state government for “There is an opportunity for a working pier endorsement, maintains this vision and to accommodate a maritime and waterways allocates almost half of the 1950s-built function for the City of Melbourne. There’s shed to a “waterways/working quay area”. also the opportunity for a new wharf and But a later 2017 “master plan” for the area promenade along the Yarra River.” evicts the boating community entirely in Mr Polydurouo said DV had spent $2.83 favour of fringe sports – at least for the life million so far removing lead paint, fixing the of the “temporary activation”. structure and demolishing the adajacent A current Development Victoria wharf. Let there be Firelight expression of interest (EoI) is offering The Docklands Waterways Strategy 2009-18 the entire 4200sqm shed to urban fringe earmarks the site as a maritime precinct for: Docklands erupted in a festival of flame over three nights at sports operators for at least five years and the start of this month. The verdict is a big thumbs up for the possibly more. Continued on page 4 Time to get serious on governance - page 5 organisers. For the full story, see page 7. “The opportunity involves occupancy of the space for initially up to a five-year Editorial - page 5

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Lord Maypr Sally Capp introduces the new Docklands Representative Group to the June 27 Docklands Community Forum. This is the future Lord mayor Sally Capp introduced 20 new local leaders at the June 27 Docklands Community Forum (DCF).

The new Docklands Representative Group Cr Capp said: “These people have provided Ahmed Masri, Alixx Ackland, Ben Ball, community. She also said creating (DRG) was selected by the City of Melbourne incredible energy, leadership and initiative Campbell Daff, Carolynne Venn, Dan community in Docklands had been from 40 nominations to drive the DCF into over the years.” Knaggs, Daniel Lim, Deepika Jaduram, challenging. the future. Filipe Paiva, Jacqueline Graham, Janette Retiring were Joh Maxwell, Janine Standfield, “We can look back with pride and there is Corcoran, Jason Ting, Jaynaya Winmar, Keith Rankin, David Wong and Andrew still lots to look forward to,” Cr Capp said. The forum was established in 2012 and Kebrasca King, Kelly Mercer, Sarah Kumar Ward. Mark Scholem and Phil Spender continues to meet every two months. DRG and Tessa Fisher. The Docklands Community Forum meets renominated, and were selected for the new members were honoured by Cr Capp every two months (generally at Library at 20-member DRG. and were presented with certificates of Cr Capp remarked that the new DRG the Dock). Look out for details of the next appreciation. Other new members are: Aditee Rawal, reflected the diversity of the Docklands meeting in the August Docklands News.

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And the Bolte Precinct West Addendum to the Yarra’s Edge Bolte Precinct Development Plan (November 2016) clearly shows two bays of Shed 21 reserved for a “working quay area”.

But the Mr Polydurouo’s EoI shows no future potential maritime use of the shed. In his document the marine industry has been pushed underneath the Bolte Bridge which, 2015 document showing two bays allocated for marine use (section 2). The current EoI shows the maritime precinct under the Bolte Bridge with no shed space. in earlier planning documents had been reserved as a parking and storage area. Boating Association, Jeff Gordon, said: “My industry as a second-class citizen, with the to support effective growth of maritime The 2016 document says: “An active working question for the government is does the head of security on Central Pier now the activities in Docklands.” quay is to be located at the western of the state government believe that the Yarra mouthpiece for Development Victoria, as “In the meantime, via an Expression of existing shed structure. This area will be deserves a healthy and vibrant water-based they don’t speak to us directly anymore.” Interest process, DV is seeking to activate directly accessed from Lorimer St via an industry?” Mr Polydurouo told the DCF that the EoI the site in the short term with sport and access road adjacent to Bolte Bridge.” “If the answer is no, then tell us all to bugger would close on July 4 with an operator to be recreation use. In line with the results of “The space has a ‘working quay’ flavour and off – take our boats and go elsewhere – but appointed by the end of the year. community consultation undertaken in is expected to accommodate maritime and if the answer is yes, then the government A Development Victoria spokesperson said: 2016, the preference is for urban fringe waterways functions, including council’s needs to get behind us and support the “Development Victoria’s long term vision sports. DV is committed to managing the waterways maintenance and water events industry. We are not going to survive for Bolte Precinct West includes provision evolution of the precinct to realise the long- operations. It could also include potential without properly-planned, shore-based for both community spaces and waterways term vision.” boat refuelling activities. The western edge of infrastructure and back of house facilities.” operations for the City of Melbourne (CoMs.” “DV and CoM are also progressing plans this area is expected to have close ties to the “Vessels operating in Victoria Harbour “Development Victoria is currently working for Harbour Esplanade that could include a use of the area below the Bolte Bridge.” continue to be squeezed out by developers, with stakeholders to progress planning and zone allocated for heritage vessels, as part of The president of the Melbourne Passenger with Development Victoria, treating the design for the precinct, including its ability the wider Stadium Precinct project.”

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edition, but they are essentially variations on government is giving the AFL 1500sqm of the same theme. waterfront at NewQuay West. How strategic At the end of my Parks Victoria rant (below), is that? Footballers need water as much as a Comment I conclude that the government might as well duck needs a bicycle. fill in Victoria Harbour and subdivide the Had the state acquiesced to industry Shane land. It might surprise readers to know that demands in 2015 and established a single, Scanlan this concept was actively considered not so independent, local waterways authority long ago. this pending disaster would probably have And this mentality lives on at all levels of been averted. The industry would have had government in Melbourne. someone in its corner to say: This site is reserved, hands off. They might have even It’s just so sad that no one in We see this clearly in the other story about had their onshore facilities by now. Shed 21 (page 1). Development Victoria authority cares about our local has effectively stolen this facility and gifted But they HAVE no one and there IS no one boating industry. it to the hip, young urban fringe sports supporting them. And they will leave. enthusiasts. It’s like telling a cancer patient Architect Keith Brewis’s 2009 concept to fill in Victoria Harbour. The commercial operators will leave and the The few operators who are left have hung to wait five years before treatment can begin. heritage fleet with leave too. on for decades now, encouraged by There’s no doubt these sports are cool. Rock And the government will proceed with its periodic but brief acknowledgements of Urban fringe sports can be located anywhere hopping and skating and climbing, etc. three new bridges to choke the life out of our their contribution and promises of better – from Dandenong, to Doncaster, to They’re great, right? We all agree. And they river and harbour. treatment in the future. should be supported. Diamond Creek, to Deer Park. And we’ll sit there looking at the water. And But they’re tired – worn down by a litany So some bright spark has thought it cool But onshore boating facilities can only be in it will be still, because there will be no boats of betrayals that now looks terminal and to give them water frontage at South one place, on the waterfront. You need water moving around. And waterfront restaurants spells the end of the dream – not just for the Wharf under the Bolte Bridge. That makes – a river bank or the edge of a harbour. The in Docklands will continue to close and re- individuals involved, but for Melbourne as a Development Victoria cool too. Uber cool. options are extremely limited and now look merge as storage spaces or offices, because whole. exhausted. The tragedy is that no one has defended the there will be no visitors because there is no There are two stories about this in this site for the boaties. On the other side of the harbour the buzz – no life on the water. It’s time to get serious on governance By Shane Scanlan

It’s ungracious to say “I told you so”. But Parks Victoria was always part of the problem when the state government three years ago gave it “one more chance” to fix our local waterways.

As a regulatory agency (read “ticket Parks Victoria) unanimously asked for at the Advisory Committee”. a group of angry boaties in May 2017 they inspector”) it lacked the vision, foresight, conclusion in 2015 of the Lower Yarra River should get over not getting their way with the capacity and general wherewithal to bring Use Future Directions Group (LYRUFDG). This committee finished up on June 30 LYRUFDG recommendations. the lower Yarra to life. and it is difficult to see that it has achieved Among other things, LYRUFDG asked anything since the conclusion of the “Everyone should get on board and see if we What was always needed (and still is) was that a new local port be established for LYRUFDG nearly three years ago. can make a good show of this. If we can, then a cut-through, nimble, single authority – a the navigable sections of the Yarra and the problem is solved,” he said. one-stop shop where people who shared Maribyrnong rivers (excluding the Port of Former Minister Lisa Neville said in April “What’s the problem we are trying to solve? the dream of a dynamic waterway would be Melbourne). 2016 that she was “not ruling out” the We need to activate the waterways, get the encouraged and empowered to give it their eventual establishment of a single waterways A list of other, quite pressing, practical investment in the waterways and those sorts best shot. authority but said more work needed to be necessities were called for to help prevent done to determine a long-term solution. of things.” Such an authority would be given the the immediate collapse of Melbourne’s “So we can work together and do that of we mandate and the power to get things done charter boat industry. “More work will be needed to get the long- can lament a recommendation that wasn’t – to achieve results and give Victoria the term management right, but these first Instead, Parks refused to let go and taken up by the government of the day.” economic return that is crying out to be steps get key groups at the table to ensure manipulated an outcome whereby another leveraged from such a down-trodden and consistent and clear decision making and “And, you know what? If it doesn’t work and committee was established (the 15th to underperforming asset. accountability,” she said. examine this issue in 20 years!) – this time This is what all the participants (including called the “Lower Yarra River Management Parks regional director Chris Hardman told Continued on page 6.

Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Docklands News 6 DOCKLANDS NEWS ISSUE 143 Time to get serious on governance Continued from page 5. Boating Association Jeff Gordon said the you’re not satisfied, then re-prosecute the LYRMAC had not been in touch with the case in the future,” Mr Hardman said. industry. So what has been achieved in the interim “We’ve been led up the cul-de-sac of good and what does the future hold? Docklands ideas and there they all sadly stay,” Mr News asked Parks Victoria what the Gordon said. “Many of us in the Industry Lower Yarra River Management Advisory feel we’ve given it our best shot and no one Mikhail Rogachevsky creating music out of chaos. Committee would be recommending. is listening.” “In particular, what is its recommendation “No one in government is in our corner and regarding an ongoing governance model fighting for us. We haven’t heard from Parks for the lower Yarra? The LYRUFDG Victoria or the reference committee, so I Making music at The Dock recommended a local port authority doubt they will report anything of worth to By Niccola Anthony be established and funded. the Minister.” “Melbourne is supposedly the best Ccty Other outstanding recommendations of A number of budding young music producers turned out at The the LYRUFDG when it was wound up in in the world, but I have been to many November 2015 include: great river cities that understand and Dock on June 21 for a musical production workshop. obviously support their vibrant water based ■ ■ A $2 million floating wharf for Southgate industries.” (with the cost to be recouped from the The City of Melbourne ran a “junior to encourage children to have a go at the industry itself); “It’s time the death grip of Parks Victoria was producer” workshop for Make Music Day, different equipment and to give them an ■■ 20-year leases for boat operators; removed from the waterway and an inner a worldwide celebration of music making. introduction into seeing how things work,” port proclaimed with an emphasis amd ■ he said. ■ Land and funding set aside for back of understanding of the maritime issues,” Mr About a dozen children and their mums house facilities; Gordon concluded. made “music” through their voices, “Every workshop is completely different, so ■■ Parks to complete a dredging study by hands and feet. I’m still learning a lot about producing with October 2015 and the government then The government has been playing other people.” political games with our waterways when Sound engineer Mikhail Rogachevsky fund a dredging program for the river; has been running his own workshops for Mr Rogachevsky says the space provided and our third-world charter fleet has been (metaphorically) sinking. a couple of years, using the production at The Dock has been a fantastic venue to ■■ Streamlined approvals process for events. software FL Studio to create music and conduct his workshops from. It’s time to tailor-make an organisation that experiment with sounds. Can you please tell me what progress has “It’s a great space by the water. I couldn’t ask can actually make the waterways work. Had been made on these items in the last two and “The goals of the workshops are really for anything better,” he said. an independent local waterways authority a half years?” been established at the end of 2015, it could A spokesperson for Parks Victoria replied: have advocated against further government “The Lower Yarra River Management plans to choke the river and Victoria “Secret” works at primary school site Advisory Committee (LYRMAC) is due Harbour with three more bridges. to wind up at the end of June 2018. The As it stands, no one in government, it Work has started on the committee will provide a report to the seems, attributes any value to the water. Minister for Environment at the end of their Docklands Primary School Docklanders know that our economic future term. Once the minister has reviewed the is directly commensurate with the numbers site, but the government is LYRMAC report, a public update will be of boats on the water. issued.” refusing to reveal its timeline. The ways things are going, the Victoria A more accurate answer would have been Government might as well announce that Preliminary earthworks are underway at Department of Education and Training “nothing”. it intends to fill in Victoria Harbour and the site on the corner of Footscray Rd and spokesperson Alex Munro declined to return The president of the Melbourne Passenger subdivide the reclaimed land. Little Docklands Drive. emails or phone calls from Docklands News.

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Docklands has always been subject to “18-and-a-half years later they told him he “The new space will be just an educational change. It was first hand witness to the had two years left. After that they said a year.” facility with boats that people can use in the water. The idea is that they’re happy for us industrial revolution – the Melbourne Eventually the move did take place, but a to keep building and teaching and passing gasworks were built in 1857 and a pollution similar situation looms over North Wharf. problem was reported in Docklands as early on the ideas behind the traditional boat as 1860. “In this precarious business that we’re under, building.” in the shadow of development, it’s hard to Victoria Harbour was once a swamp with a Patience is a virtue for small businesses get long term courses and projects going.” lively natural ecosystem. It was dug out in dealing with large developers. Luckily, it’s a Boat builder Nicholas Atkins. the late 1800s and filled with water for better Currently, Lendlease plans to start central aspect of the boat making tradition. boat access to Melbourne. development on the wharf sometime in 2019 “Boats are not instant gratification, they’re Central Pier. Brian Atkins ran the centre out ­– creating room for another 3500 residents Since then, water and boats have been self-development,” Nicholas said. of Shed 10 for more than 21 years. and workers with five new towers. central to Docklands’ identity, despite the technological development of container His 29-year-old grandson Nicholas took Recognising the significance of the Wooden shipping moving port activity away from over the business two years ago. He’d been Boat Centre to Docklands and the water Victoria Harbour. learning from his grandfather since he was front, Lendlease has offered to house the six. centre in one of its future towers. The shipping industry moved increasingly westward to docks like Appleton and “I spent after school and the weekends in The new space will be significantly smaller Swanston. By the 1980s the harbour was the workshop. He never told me specifically than where the centre is now in Shed 2, largely in a state of disuse. how to do something. He was more where Nicholas can fit around 30 clients at interested in teaching the process,” Nicholas a time. That decade also marks the boat centre’s said. birth. Before moving to North Wharf, it was “I won’t have the room in the future to help poised in the middle of Victoria Harbour on “If I was stuck he would give me options, but all these clients build their own boats, but I

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Docklands News ISSUE 143 DOCKLANDS NEWS 9 Doubt cast on lord mayoral result By Shane Scanlan

There is doubt over Melbourne’s recent lord mayoral by-election as up to 8313 enrolled voters were potentially denied a vote due to a known electoral flaw.

With Lord Mayor Sally Capp beating mail on their behalf.” candidate Jennifer Yang by just 4666 votes in But the City of Melbourne, which compiles May, there is every possibility that the wrong this section of the electoral roll, admits it woman is wearing the robes and chain. mostly has the residential addresses of non- The flaw results from the City of Melbourne’s resident owners on its rates database, but practice of nominating to the Victorian only uses it when an owner has more than Electoral Commission (VEC) the address of one property. third-party agencies rather than the actual address of many non-resident ratepayers. “With regards to absentee owners, where they own one investment property we At the recent by-election some 6889 ballots forward all correspondence to the real estate were posted “care of” real estate agencies Docklanders meet the candidates in April. agent, but record their residential address and further 1424 were sent “care of” law if it is provided on the system for reference firms. In the case of overseas non-resident Because there is no record of the signatures The agent said, because there was no purposes only,” a spokespersons said. owners, both the agents and VEC agree that for this category of voter, it is possible for the possibility of the ballots being returned in there is not enough time allowed for these agents to fill out and return the ballots. time, he emailed owners seeking their voting “The reason we send all correspondence ballots to be returned. instructions. via the agent is because we have found that Docklands News asked the VEC if it was the owner does not advise council when The VEC admits the flaw, but says Victorian willing to check how many of the “care Asked whether any took up the offer, he said: they move from their residential address. legislation dictates the timing of the postal of” votes were actually counted among “Yes they did. We only had four non-takers.” The agent, on the other hand, does advise voting. the 76,492 formal votes received. But Ms Ms Lang said: “Only the voter nominated/ council when they no longer manage a Lang said, again, legislation prevented Spokesperson Sue Lang told Docklands to whom the ballot pack is addressed property.” the commission checking for this type of News: “The timing is legislated and we may complete the ballot paper, sign the electoral fraud. The agents themselves would prefer not to have advised the Minister and Parliament declaration envelope and return to the VEC.” be involved, not just because of the postage (through submissions and reports) that mail “I’ve checked and it is now too late to Without a formal audit of this large cohort of cost burden it imposes but also because of delivery times are not adequate given the conduct this exercise as all ballot material votes (5.75 per cent of the total enrolment), the responsibility it foists on them for such changes to the Australia Post delivery model, has been sealed as required by law,” she said. the system is open to abuse. an important civil function. even within the Victorian context.” However, this response appears to be Among the larger allocations of ballots sent NPM managing director Sam Nathan Ms Lang said it was likely that Australian- inconsistent with an earlier comment from to third parties were: MICM – 1700; Apex summed up the response of many agents based non-resident owners did have enough Ms Lang that the VEC intended to generate a – 304; Ironfish – 258; Melcorp – 199; Ausin – when he told Docklands News: “It’s a time to return their ballots. “non-voters” list “in couple of months” time. 196 and Dingle – 145. fundamentally flawed system. The pure The way the electoral roll is compiled, there To audit for fraud, the VEC could count how inefficiency is staggering. Some 14 ballots were simply addressed c/- is no way of knowing which non-resident many ballots from overseas owners had been “building manager” at a street address and But, what’s worse, is the responsibility it puts ratepayers live in Australia and how many returned and included in the count. Given a further four were addressed c/- “managers on a third party. If someone wanted to, they live overseas. But, with the vast majority that it was not possible for overseas voters office”. could fill them all in and send them back.” being Chinese or of Chinese descent, it to participate because there was not enough is likely they would have voted for losing time allocated, it would be easy for the VEC Just why so many ballots were not sent “There’s two lots of snail mail involved, not to candidate Jennifer Yang. see how many had been illegally returned by directly to non-resident voters remains a mention relying on someone in the middle locally-based third parties. mystery, with different explanations offered doing the right thing,” Mr Nathan said. 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Chris Stewart found himself asking this question when he decided to finally file a complaint about the two D4 Docklands Park/Harbour Come out and get social Esplanade tram shelters, which have been sitting in the dark for The next Docklands Social Club event is on Wednesday July 11 at least over a year now. at the Woolshed, 161 Harbour Esplanade at 7.00pm. changed since the shelter was built. However, he soon found himself caught in a The “social club” is a monthly get together Last month’s event was held at Hooks bureaucratic mess as Yarra Trams directed Mr Stewart contacted Yarra Trams back in over a drink and dinner at a different venue. restaurant at Yarra’s Edge (pictured). him to the power supplier Citipower, which August 2017 and then contacted Citipower, It is open to all, so come on down. redirected him back to Yarra Trams. who advised him it was up to Yarra Trams to maintain tram shelters. He did not hear back Public Transport Victoria’s (PTV) 2015-2018 again from Yarra Trams. Accessibility Action Plan specifically aims Twitter user Justin Paraskevis (@justin_p) to improve shelter environment through had also tweeted at Yarra Trams in June 2017 enhanced lighting, but according to Mr complaining that the shelter was not lit, to Stewart, the tram shelters have missed out. which Yarra Trams directed him to lodge The D4 tram shelter is particularly hazardous feedback to PTV. without suitable lighting as it steps out into A Yarra Trams spokesperson told Docklands traffic when entering and exiting the tram. News: “All feedback received is investigated PTV told Mr Stewart the power was never by our infrastructure team, and action is connected when the shelter was built taken where required.” because it was too expensive. Yarra Trams believes that lighting is not However, according to PTV customer required because of street lighting, one of advocacy officer Simon Black, both shelter which is current not working – and is the builders and the tram franchise holders had responsibility of the City of Melbourne.

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The latest federal electorate redistribution has removed Flemington and Travancore – strong Greens areas – from the seat of Melbourne held by Green MP Adam Bandt. Richard Foster. Nicolas Frances Gilley. Brooke Wandin.

Mr Bandt said the changes wouldn’t affect the Greens’ margin in Melbourne, saying he opposed the changes on principle. Richard Foster “lied to us” “Some independent people have published analyses that the changes actually helped me,” Mr Bandt said. “I Melbourne councillor Nic Frances Gilley used the occasion of endorsement of the council’s was arguing for something that might not Reconciliation Action Plan 2018–20 on June 5 to accuse former councillor Richard Foster of lying. help me vote-wise. I’m disappointed that I won’t be representing Flemington and Speaking at the Future Melbourne Mr Foster subsequently reported Ms Wandin let off for good character with a reference Travancore.” Committee, Cr Frances Gilley said how sorry to the Victorian Electoral Commission for from one of my council colleagues, who’s Changes to inner-city seats were and ashamed he felt for letting down his falsely using his Kensington home address to actually not with us today.” necessitated by population growth, with former running mate, Aboriginal woman nominate. “I want to say sorry to her. I want to the transfer of Flemington and Travancore Brooke Wandin, at the 2016 election. Cr Frances Gilley said: “We were lied to by a acknowledge that I am the white guy. Who’s to Bill Shorten’s seat of Maribyrnong to Ms Wandin was elected to the council but former councillor who needed our votes – I six foot, two. Who actually got the job. And keep Melbourne within its quota of voters. was found to be ineligible and was brought didn’t understand that at the time – needed she didn’t.” It is still unclear whether or not the before the courts on electoral fraud charges. us to stand as lord mayoral candidates.” “I want to acknowledge that the court Liberal Party will run a candidate in She was not convicted and received a “As a consequence of that need, he lied to recognised – saw the good behaviour of the Melbourne after announcing a potential diversion order. her about her accommodation and she tried man involved – and not hers.” strategy of abandoning inner-city seats And, as much as he blamed himself, Cr several times to get clarity from him, to the late last year. “I want to acknowledge that the Herald Sun, Frances Gilley said none of it would have point where it was minuted and recorded.” every single time that they told that story, Melbourne councillor and former Liberal happened if Mr Foster had not lied to them. “And, as a consequence of that, she found that was leaked to them from that former candidate for Melbourne Philip Le Liu “I am only here (as a councillor) because herself in court. She was made ineligible. councillor, put her picture in the paper and said he didn’t think the redistribution I spent quite some time, energy and effort She had to stand down. Her family felt that not his.” was significant but supported running a to get an Aboriginal woman, the first she had let the family name down.” Liberal candidate. “So, I want to just acknowledge that I am Wurundjeri woman, elected to council “She had a whole period of time where it was part of the problem and acknowledge that “The result of the last federal election, – Brooke Wandin,” he said in a personal very difficult in her own community – and it has not changed enough yet because, if where the two-party preferred vote is explanation. “I encouraged her to stand and anywhere else. She couldn’t find a job and it had, the welcome to country would have now Green versus Liberal, shows we are she said ‘I’m only doing this because I feel actually feared going to get a job. That is not been done in Woiwurrung, by a Wurundjeri making in-roads into Melbourne,” he said. safe with you’.” where Brooke is right now.” woman who is a direct descendant of “I will be doing as much as I can to ensure Mr Foster enlisted Cr Frances Gilley and William Barrack.” “But I was the person who encouraged her. the Liberal vote in Melbourne is well Ms Wandin as lord mayoral candidates I was the person who stood behind her that “And that would have been historic!” Cr represented and will be working with the to channel votes to him in the councillor she trusted. And I then trusted somebody Frances Gilley concluded. party to increase that vote in state and section of the 2016 election. However, the else who was not trustworthy.” federal elections.” pair incorrectly nominated in the councillor Mr Foster declined an invitation from election and Ms Wandin was successful. Mr “What’s interesting is that she went through Docklands News to respond to Cr Frances Foster was not. the court system and so did he – and he got Gilley’s claims.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Docklands News 14 DOCKLANDS NEWS ISSUE 143 Geelong Councillors ferry trial attempt to Port Phillip Ferries is looking lift the veil to expand its Docklands ferry routes, with two free trial In the post-Robert Doyle dates being scheduled for era, city councillors are Geelong this month. attempting to make the City of Melbourne less secretive The service is inviting Geelong residents to take advantage of the free return-trip and more transparent. offers on July 24 and July 31. At the June 5 Future Melbourne Port Phillip Ferries says the success of the Committee, they unanimously resolved Geelong trial services will help determine to bring consideration of “discretionary if it is to consider central Geelong as a grants” into the public arena. permanent fixture on its schedule. The mover of the motion, Cr Arron Wood, It has been running a permanent daily said many of these grants were already service between Portarlington on the discussed in open council, but the motion Bellarine Peninsula and Docklands since would make this the “default setting”. November 2016. Cr Wood said: “With our discretionary funding and our grant applications, we’ve Port Phillip Ferries CEO Murray Rance been doing that in open session in recent said: “Port Phillip Ferries is thrilled times. By bringing it out of confidential, to be part of the first ferry services this will make it the default setting. I connecting residents between Geelong just note that it says ‘unless doing so and Melbourne, and we look forward is not appropriate’. So there would be to introducing an alternative means of certain instances where it would not be commuting to work.” appropriate to do that in open session.” “As witnessed on the Bellarine Peninsula, The other part of Cr Wood’s motion a ferry service in and out of central instructed officers to install cameras to Geelong will not only benefit daily allow live-streaming of meetings. commuters, and offer an alternative to “What we’ll probably see in this Future train and road travel, but it will provide a 839 Collins St is on track for completion early next year. Melbourne Committee room is three huge benefit for tourism, visiting friends locked-off cameras, so it won’t require an and relatives, business, education and operator, per se, to be here,” he said. other unrealised opportunities.” Final office tower tops out Cr Cathy Oke said: “I think it’s incredibly important and long overdue.” Cr Rohan Leppert said he didn’t want Mapping from Lendlease’s on June 15 celebrated the topping out of 839 Collins councillors self-consciously avoiding St, Victoria Harbour’s last major commercial building. making the difficult decisions. He warned the Star that if councillors avoided the difficult decisions, they would be made elsewhere On June 19, the Melbourne Map team Designed by award-winning architect Victoria Harbour has one of the highest – a reference to delegating decisions to took a flight on the Melbourne Star to Denton Corker Marshall, the building’s open concentration of Green Star-rated buildings officers. view the city from new angles. and flexible office plan integrates with a roof in Australia and a 6 Star Green Star As reported by CBD News in our February The (new) Melbourne Map project is the terrace and garden, setting a new design Communities rating by the Green Building edition, the City of Melbourne is the most re-invigorated version of the original standard in healthy work environments. Council of Australia, recognising world secretive of all metropolitan councils project completed in 1990. leadership in master planning. Lendlease General Manager for Building, ­– making 28.85 per cent of its decisions behind closed doors in 2016/17. Research for the new project began in Victoria, Bill Alexandrakis, said: “The ANZ will tenant 12 of the 20 levels of the 2014. While originally the team wanted topping out of 839 Collins Street represents building, with the top six floors available for Cr Leppert said: “I’m loving how easy this to use modern technology to overlay a significant milestone for Lendlease as lease. is and I congratulate the mover for putting new buildings onto the old map, they it completes a total of 270,000 sqm of this forward. This is what some of us discovered too much had changed and commercial space delivered in Victoria 839 Collins Street is on track for completion pushed for five years ago, but it is fantastic decided to start a new map. Harbour to date.” in early 2019. that we are going to do this now.”

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Docklands News 16 DOCKLANDS NEWS ISSUE 143 Docklands Container-inspired crime rate apartment block soars The crime rate in Docklands Digital Harbour Holdings continues to soar, with the has applied for planning latest figures showing a permission to build a new jump in the overall crime 25-storey apartment tower on rate of 23.5 per cent in the Harbour Esplanade. year to March 31, 2018.

With a 60-metre frontage at 218 Harbour The latest rise in the crime rate is a Esplanade, the proposed building will continuation of a trend that shows a sit between the LifeLab building and the rise of 281.5 per cent in the number permitted-but-yet-to-be-constructed “Altus” of reports crimes in Docklands since tower on the Dudley St corner. 2009. In that year, only 492 crimes were Digital Harbour director David Napier told reported. The 2018 Crime Statistics Docklands News, the Jackson Clements Agency (CSA) data reveals 1877 crimes Burrows architectural design was inspired were reported in Docklands in 2018. by a vision of containers stacked on a wharf. The biggest crime-category rise since Wharf-type timbers will also be employed last year was in “drug offences”. In 2017, on the lower podium levels to complete the 85 drug offences were reported but in metaphor. 2018 this number has risen to 139 – a jump of 63 per cent. Some 183 apartments are planned for the 82m structure and 117 car spaces are “Crimes against the person” were also included – a very generous allocation by up steeply, with a 28 per cent rise since today’s standards. Also “very now” is a 2017. The number of reports jumped 111-space automated car stacker. from 257 last year to 329 in 2018. Mr Napier said future owners would drive The largest number of crimes continues into a loading area, collect what they wanted to be in the “property and deception to take with them, walk out and touch a offences” category where 1101 incidents button to activate automatic parking. were reported in 2018 – up 20 per cent on the 917 which were reported in 2917. The apartments are generously sized too. Six will have three bedrooms, 44 will have “Public order and security offences” two bedrooms and a study, 74 will have were up 23 per cent in 2018 – from 143 two bedrooms and 55 will have a single to 176 reports. bedroom. “Justice procedures offences” also rose Also in the mix will be four, two-storey offices Effectively, the “half-size” downstairs unit The complex also features a gymnasium, 16.6 per cent between 2017 and 2018 – and four “home offices” on the ground floor. is the entrance, with the entire upstairs pool (12.5m x 5m), function room, 60 bicycle from 108 – 126 incidents. There will not be any retail. component straddling the width of the spaces and each until will have a six square The number of “other offences” fell from building. metre storage locker. nine to six in the same period. Most of the larger apartments will, in fact, have water views to the front and The target market is squarely owner Single bedroom units will be 52sqm, two- And, while the crime rate soars in city views to the rear. This has been occupiers, with a covenant on the title of bedders will range between 80 and 95sqm Docklands, it is still relatively low achieved by making them double-storey each property to protect against short-stay and the three-bedroom apartments will be compared with the CBD, where 16,364 and an ingenious use of corridor layouts. rentals. up to 200sqm. incidents were recorded in 2018. An exhibition by photo journalist Places Shane Scanlan by During the last two decades, Scanlan has captured the Faces essence of 17 disparate nations with his candid portraits Launch: 4.30pm, Sunday, July 8 Showing July 5 - 21 Magnet Gallery, The District Docklands, Thurs to Sun, 12 noon to 4pm

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Consultation with the local Run Melbourne, a health community for usage of Ron and fitness event held Barassi Snr Park started on on Sunday, July 29, will Not just walking June 27. cause some road closures “What we’d like to find out is how we can throughout Docklands. work together to activate Ron Barassi Snr the talk Park to the benefit of the local community,” All road closures will occur from 4am to City of Melbourne recreation planner Dale no later than 9am. Premier Yachting put on Stewart, told the Docklands Community Westbound access into Docklands its own mini-boat show at Forum on June 27. precinct via Flinders St will be closed, as Ron Barassi Snr Park opened in October will Spencer St access northbound from Yarra’s Edge from June 28 to 2015 as a key part of the Docklands Flinders St into Collins St. July 1. Community and Place plan and includes Moving west, Collins St access formal sports facilities and even sports westbound from Spencer St to Docklands While Jim Sismanes and crew talked lighting for night time activities. City of Melbourne recreation planner Dale Stewart Park, as well as northbound traffic for all the talk at the Melbourne Boat Show at However, it does not seem to have reached of Harbour Esplanade will be closed. the nearby Melbourne Convention and the level of engagement the council had Westbound traffic from Harbour Exhibition Centre, they were displaying possibility of some forming as a result of this hoped for. Esplanade to Pearl River Rd will also the real thing back at the office in consultation process. be closed but local access will be Docklands. External sports clubs have been denied maintained. access to the park due to the City of He emphasised that the park could be A small fleet of vessels were displayed Melbourne’s initial decision to reserve the suitable for a variety of activities. In addition, those heading south should for sale at Marina YE opposite Premier park for local community use. be aware that Spencer St bridge, Queens Yachting’s new office at 52 River “We’re open to a broad range of activities. Bridge and Princes Bridge will be closed Esplanade. The business recently moved “There’s been a deliberate approach by We’d love to see it activated. More until 9am, and should opt instead for from St Mangos Lane in NewQuay. council to see a degree of flexibility in that importantly we’d love to see it activated for King St Bridge or Charles Grimes Bridge space and to ensure external clubs don’t take the local community,” Mr Stewart said. Topping the price chart was a 2007 model in the west. over the space,” Mr Stewart said. Sunseeker 50 at $795,000, while the The consultation will be open until August discerning buyer could navigate away in a While no current Docklands-based sports 8 at participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ 2007 Mustang 35 for just $195,000. clubs exist, Mr Stewart suggested the ronbarassi.

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Please support our advertisers because without them we would have no Docklands News 18 DOCKLANDS NEWS ISSUE 143 Pet projects Open House Docklands guide show allegiances Four Docklands locations will be opening up over the weekend of July 28 - 29 for Open House 2018. The festival features a series of talks, events, government grant. The building is significant Banksia By Shane Scanlan tours, screenings, performances and more, for operating with its original purpose as a all celebrating architecture and history. mission to the welfare of seafarers for 100 Saturday, 25-minute tours from 10am years. The historical mission complex is Banksia continues the award-winning As the City of Melbourne Port of Melbourne Boat Tours architecturally significant as being a fine collaboration between MAB and celebrated urban example of the arts and crafts-style in in June moved closer to Saturday July 28, 40-minute tours from 10am Melbourne architects McBride Charles Ryan Melbourne. (MCR). adopting its 2018/19 budget, The tour will start in Victoria Harbour and www.openhousemelbourne.org/ councillors negotiated extra move west to the Swanston and Appleton. Banksia’s circular floorplan allows for each melbourne/buildings/mission-to- apartment to view water, city or park, while Around 36 per cent of Australia’s trade moves seafarers-victoria nautical-inspired designs have brought the spending on some “pet” through Melbourne and around 3000 ships facade to life. Circles and organic shapes can projects. which visit each year. Medibank Place be found throughout the building. www.openhousemelbourne.org/ Saturday, 30-minute tours from 10am With an operating revenue of $470.6 melbourne/buildings/port-of-melbourne- MCR’s signature use of colour is on display million, the additional spending is small boat-tours Tour this award-winning building, designed here with purple walls, lime-green lounge, change, but it is interesting to note what in partnership with the architects at Hassell multi-coloured tiles, and magenta kitchen. particular councillors were prepared to Mission to Seafarers Victoria – who created a space that represented Marking the entrance to Bankisa is Robert fight for. Medibank first, before looking at how to Bridgewater’s art installation, Beaded Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 4pm, self- enable greater collaboration, engagement Samphire. Leading the charge was new lord mayor guided and productivity. Sally Capp who took the opportunity to The specially curated piece continues the The Spanish mission/arts and crafts-style extend the olive branch to disaffected The vibrant headquarters is an oasis – with Australian flora theme, with pillars modelled building complex was designed by Walter traders with a $770,000 maintenance its sweeping white curves and brightly on a local indigenous plant know as Beaded Butler. It was constructed in 1917, with the “blitz” at the Queen Victoria Market. coloured accents set amidst the drab greys of Samphire or Beaded Glasswort, which can addition of the Norla Dome completed in busy urban life. be found along the Moonee Ponds Creek. Cr Capp had another dip with $200,000 1919. The funds to build the complex came to “prepare concepts” for the “HighLine- from fundraising by the Ladies Harbour www.openhousemelbourne.org/ www.openhousemelbourne.org/ like project of public space connecting Lights Guild (established in 1906) and a melbourne/buildings/medibank-place melbourne/buildings/banksia Flinders Street Station to Docklands” she promised during her election campaign. Hopefully, potential costings will be at the centre of this exercise so she can effect an expedient and dignified about- Government buys face should the “does-she-know-the- real-costs” critics of this idea be proven Seven building correct. Cr Jackie Watts’ successful extension Development Victoria (DV) of this exercise – all the way to Ron now owns the Channel Barassi Snr Park in the shadow of the Bolte Bridge – certainly won’t help Seven building in Harbour the numbers. But her advocacy for Esplanade, having last Docklands will be appreciated by harbour-side locals. month bought it from Cr Watts didn’t stop there though in her motoring body NRMA. support for Docklands. She successfully put on the agenda a serious look at a The purchase (reported in the Australian “maritime commercial heritage museum” Financial Review as worth about $100 for Docklands as part of the long-overdue million) gives the government developer Harbour Esplanade upgrade. more options as it collaborates with the AFL to redevelop Etihad Stadium and Deputy Lord Mayor Arron Wood had the Harbour Esplanade precinct more earlier put Harbour Esplanade in the generally. spotlight, successfully securing $200,000 to: “Partner with Development Victoria A DV spokesperson said: “The purchase and the AFL to develop a Stadium of 160 Harbour Esplanade presents Precinct Masterplan to deliver exemplar an opportunity for the Victorian connected public spaces in Harbour Government to develop long-term Esplanade, Bourke and LaTrobe streets, strategies to revitalise the Docklands integrated with the future direction of Stadium and waterfront.” Etihad Stadium, Southern Cross Station “The Victorian State Government and Central Pier.” is funding $225 million towards the Cr Rohan Leppert was also active, going redevelopment of Docklands Stadium so into bat for both the Southbank and the it can continue to bring Victorians world- LGTBI communities. class sport and entertainment events for the next 30 years.” He secured $500,000 to kick-start the long-promised City Rd transformation The AFR reported that the 8237 sqm project and $75,000 to help All The building was fully leased to Seven, with Queens Men produce and present this about seven years remaining on the lease. year’s Coming Back Out Ball. Cr Philip Le Liu, on the other hand, was content to bind the council to create a “property portfolio plan” in the future.

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Children under 3 OR under 80cm in height June 30 to July 15 are not permitted on the ice slide. Children under 4 must be accompanied by an adult on the ice slide – so mums and Library at the Dock dads, we hope you’re ready! Beauty and the Beast screening Don’t forget your beanies, scarves and gloves July 11, 10.00am - Midday to keep you warm! Get comfy as we watch and sing along with The Lost Forests Belle as she discovers that there’s more to the Toy making workshop: $25 a child, no charge angry beast than meets the eye. for adults. Movie fun for all the family. Free Join The Lost Forests expert storytellers and Bookings: eventbrite.com.au/e/beauty- their fabulous toy maker Bridie for a 1.5 hour and-the-beast-tickets-46788312101 creative toy-making session. Learn the art of fabric manipulation in a safe and welcoming Flip book animation environment. Let your creativity flow and July 5, 2pm - 3.30pm design your very own abstract Lost Forests Let’s make a short animation using a flip creature. Will it have one eye or five? Who book. Draw your cartoon, slowly changing knows, it’s up you! with each page until it starts to move! Session 1: Friday, July 6, 11am Great fun for kids, ages 8 to 12 years. Session 2: Friday, July 6, 2pm Free Session 3: Friday, July 13, 11am Session 4: Friday, July 13, 2pm Bookings: eventbrite.com.au/e/flip-book- Free craft activities – Where the kids can BOOK: www.puggle.com/shop/ animation-tickets-46748845054 take a break from the ice and let their crafty Star Struck Stompers side take over. Winter Warmer Movie Night: $15 a child, no charge for adults. July 9, 10.30am - 11am Under 8s Ice Fun – Between 9am to 11am Get ready for your time in the spotlight! daily. Toys, games and music, plus snow play 5.30pm arrival to The Lost Forests for a 5.45pm movie screening start. We’re singing and dancing and reading in areas for children to enjoy a totally different this special Stompers! toddler experience with ice ambassadors to Join The Lost Forests Storytellers for a cosy make sure both parents and children have night in! With everyone dressed up to the Ages 18 months to 3 years. some cool ice fun. nines in their PYJAMAS! They’ve got lots Free, no bookings required. Free lessons – Beginners. Free with entry of cosy cushions, bears, toadstools and and designed to give non-skaters the skills lily-pads for everyone to get comfy during a O’Brien Group Arena they require to enjoy their experience. Every movie screening. Inter Skate hour from 11am to 2pm daily. Session 1: Monday, July 2, 5.30pm Visit O’Brien Group Arena these school Meet our Mascots - The Yeti and Skater The District Session 2: Thursday, July 12, 5.30pm holidays to experience live performances Dude on the ice. BOOK: www.puggle.com/shop/ from state and national champions skating Winter Slide to iconic family soundtracks including The Slide into the winter school holidays at The Wizard of OZ, Singing in the Rain and Disney Melbourne Star District Docklands - literally! classics. Spy in the Sky Challenge Jump on The District Ice Slide and hurtle on The winter school holiday program will Do you have the sharpest eyes in the sky? a tube down the whopping 15m-long slide, include: Live skating performances every day Find out these school holidays! sure to be a thrilling experience. of the school holidays between 11am to 3pm. With the special Eyes in the Sky binoculars Even better, you’ll be sliding for a fantastic All day unlimited public skating - From at the ready, all kids will need to do is to cause, with a gold coin donation collected 9am to late every day, skate with DJs listen out for clues and act fast to identify from every slide donated to not-for-profit playing your favourite music across the two landmarks from the Melbourne Star! Who organisation, Kids Under Cover, to help Olympic-sized ice rinks. will be first to spot them all? combat youth homelessness. Docklands growth is “hot” ANL Maritime Art Awards By Niccola Anthony population growth must be greater than the ■■ $2000 – DP World Emerging Artist national average. The 2018 ANL Maritime Art Award (Acquisitive) Docklands has been named Docklands came in at seventh on the list, Awards Exhibition is open for ■■ $2000 – VIVA Energy People’s Choice with almost $200 million worth of building Award and as a national “hotspot” in the works approved in the 2016/17 financial entries. ■■ $2000 – Nevile & Co Runners-up Award Housing Industry Association’s year, and an annual population growth rate of 14.7 per cent. The exhibition is staged by Mission to Key dates: (HIA) 2018 report on Seafarers Victoria (MtSV) in Flinders St, ■■ Entries open: June 1 Population and Residential Docklands also made the Building Docklands. Momentum Shortlist in the report, which ■■ Entries close: August 31 Building Hotspots. identifies areas that are likely to qualify as It follows the theme of maritime and hotspots in next year’s HIA report. seafaring subjects and calls artists to ■■ Exhibition Opening and Awards respond either thematically or literally to The report identifies Australia’s fastest Ceremony (invitation only): October 4 “The Docklands is still drawing in additional “the relationship of humanity to the sea”. growing towns, cities and regions for the ■ population growth as the mix of housing in ■ Exhibition: October 5 – October 26 at 717 2016/17 financial year. Previous award winners include Jamie the area changes to higher density living,” Flinders St, Docklands. Preisz, who MtSV congratulates on his win Hotspots are defined as those areas the report’s summary states. Further information can be found at of the 2018 Archibald Packing Room Prize. currently enjoying “a combination of strong missiontoseafarers.com.au/artprize “With a large volume of work still to be population growth as well as high levels of commenced, no downturn evident in Julian Bruere, vice president of the residential building”. 2018 Maritime Art Awards: approvals and population growth still Australian Society of Marine Artists is a ■■ $15,000 – ANL Maritime Art Award For an area to qualify as a “hotspot”, there exceeding 2 per cent, Melbourne and its participating artist and an award winner (Acquisitive) must be more than $150 million worth surrounding areas are still likely to produce from 2016. He said: “The award and of residential building work approved in many Hotspots for building activity going ■■ $5000 – ASP Best Traditional exhibition gives relevance to the niche the financial year and the area’s rate of into 2019.” Maritime Art Award (Acquisitive) subject of maritime art.”

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10 Years On

June 2008 Issue 32: DOCKLANDS FASHION Search is on for Docklands Primary The need for a primary school here in Docklands has been identified in study on the area’s community infrastructure needs.

Other priorities revealed by the study include: ■■ Lifelong Learning Hub (e.g. containing facilities such as a library); ■■ Social and Recreation Hub (e.g. indoor courts); ■■ Community Boating Hub; ■■ Neighbourhood Hub (e.g. community classes/activities); and ■■ Functional outdoor community meeting spaces. The study was conducted by Coomes Consulting on behalf of VicUrban and the City of Melbourne. VicUrban and the council say they will now work together to identify possible locations and develop funding on and delivery strategies for each of the the identified priorities. streets The consultants analysed demographics Fashion of Docklands and projections and also sought stakeholder input. They spoke to a number of service providers to gauge their Alex Shearer, 27, Victoria Harrington, 25, William Tang Felman, interest and commitment to providing community services in Docklands. Moonee Ponds South Yarra 30, Malvern East The final report has considered current LOCATION: Bourke St LOCATION: Bourke St LOCATION: Bourke St Government policy directions and best practice case studies to inform its DESCRIBE WHAT YOU’RE DESCRIBE WHAT YOU’RE WEARING: DESCRIBE WHAT YOU’RE recommendations. WEARING: I’m wearing tan boots I’m wearing a pair of Dolce Firma boots WEARING: I’m wearing a Burberry The report can be downloaded from which I’ve dyed crimson, blue chinos, that I love, Ginger & Smart trousers, a trench coat that I bought second-hand the City of Melbourne’s website www. a maroon Ted Baker jacket and a scarf I Zara jacket with a Witchery trench coat on eBay. It came at a really good price melbourne.vic.gov.au. found on the floor at a pub. over the top. so I had to snatch it. The pants and the shirt are tailored from Oscar Hunt. I’m WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PIECE WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PIECE also wearing Happy Socks. OF CLOTHING: The jacket – I bought OF CLOTHING: My Chanel “Boy” it when I was in London, its pure wool, bag would be my favourite item in my WHAT BRINGS YOU TO it fits really nicely and it’s really warm. wardrobe. I got it as a gift in Europe. DOCKLANDS: I work in the Lego building (NAB head office at 800 WHAT BRINGS YOU TO WHAT BRINGS YOU TO Bourke St) as a business banker. DOCKLANDS: Blended Beard’s coffee DOCKLANDS: I work here. Lendlease Letters to the Editor – they do a really good decaf! Also their is my office. I work in sales and WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE PIECE chicken schnitzel burgers are really settlements. OF CLOTHING: I’ve got a Canada Here’s an idea good. Goose puffer jacket. Its goose hair – DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE: I like to An idea crossing the river, rather basically, the “winter buster”. than using a tram bridge. Has any DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE: I like clean- be really classy and elegant. I don’t consideration been given to a simple cut – like tailored jackets, fitted chinos. like to have everything on display. I DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE: I used to be ferry boat from one side to the other? You A lot of the stuff I wear is a bit like this. think fashion-forward pieces are really pretty indie, I was a “Brunswick Boy”. important and I try and be really smart could charge $2.50 each way, or if you use WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES A WHAT MAKES A GOOD OUTFIT: Not with my purchases and strategic, to Myki, free? Could it run each 30 minutes? GOOD OUTFIT: A good outfit is an to complicate things. Colour-matching make sure that they’ll all match my I think we should be making more use of expression of someone’s personality, wise, always try to have opposite wardrobe and that I’ll be able to get a lot the river, more smaller water taxis, more so I don’t think people should wear shades. Where there is pattern on the of good wear out of them long-term stop/pickup points. clothes which they don’t feel express lower-body you should try to keep Neil Hubbard who they are. A good outfit can WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES A it plain on the upper-body and vice completely change your mood. GOOD OUTFIT: Being honest to who versa. you are and feeling confident and Send your letters to owning it. It’s not really about the piece news@docklandsnews. of clothing, but who is wearing it and com.au the attitude they bring to it.

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We Live Here Chamber Update Uniting against proxy Upcoming events in Docklands Another Firelight Festival has come and gone but that’s not the farming and rorts end of the winter events in Docklands. We have winter storytelling in Buluk Park, Cruises on the Harbour and a selection of luscious with the City of Melbourne and have made dinners. You can stay up to date here – www.docklandscc.com. Corruption, secret deals, contacts with a number of key politicians. The We Live Here seminar was well au/blog intimidation, blackmail – no, received and successful. We Live Here will we are not talking about a new organise more of this type of forum in the future. Watch this space! School holidays Docklands Chamber continues to TV series – we are talking about There are a multitude of activations in produce for its members owners’ corporations across Congratulations Sally Capp Docklands over the July school holidays. Stay informed and get involved – our The District Docklands are hosting their Melbourne. We Live Here was honoured to meet Facebook profile has over 160 000 followers with mayoral candidate Sally Capp before very own Ice Slide for the kids. 15m of and always has the latest information the election and we had the opportunity freezing fun, whilst the Melbourne Star regarding events and offers –www.fb.me/ Strata owners at a recent We Live Here to establish rapport. Now that Cr Capp is continue to offer Kids to Fly for Free over MelbDock. seminar heard extraordinary tales of rorts Lord Mayor we will be following up on the the school holidays. You’ll also need to It’s also available to advertise on as is our and rip-offs. A number of high-profile election commitments that she made. keep an eye out for their special “Eye in the website. Recent promotions have resulted owners corporations, from St Kilda Rd, Last month we noted that plans for the Sky” binoculars for the kids as well. in excess of 1000 click throughs to members South Melbourne, West Melbourne, renovation of the Queen Victoria Market, such as The Lady Cutler Melbourne Southbank and Docklands shared their heavily promoted by the previous Lord Le Tour de France Showboat, Bike Force Docklands and The incredibly agonising stories. Mayor, may have to go back to the drawing Did you know Docklands has its very District Docklands. The May seminar was organised by We board because of Heritage Victoria’s refusal own specialty bike shop? Bike Force is Best of all it’s free for our members to do so. Live Here to allow owners’ corporation of a key element of the proposal. With the perhaps the biggest and best in Victoria – Contact us at [email protected] committee members to share their election of Cr Capp, we anticipate a radical stocking all the major brands you are going knowledge and experience about proxy rethink that will preserve the precinct as the to see at this year’s Tour de France, right farming, price fixing and rorts. premier tourist attraction in Melbourne. We down to your basic get to work variant. Shane Wylie The seminar was opened by one of the They sit right at the front entrance to The will keep a close eye on this issue. Media Director We Live Here directors, Barbara Francis, When we met, Cr Capp told We Live Here District Docklands. Pop in and say hello, who was very pleased to announce that the that short-stays must be regulated – the even take a photo of your dream bike, www.docklandscc.com.au attending committees came from a diverse same message that We Live Here has been they’ll be only too happy to oblige. group of apartments from all around promoting. Cr Capp showed that she was Melbourne - the support base of We Live very well informed about the short-stay Here is growing! issues and the problems that needed to be The horror stories we heard included: addressed. ■■ Proxy farming on a grand scale; At the meet-the-candidates forums in ■■ Proxies held by real estate company the run-up to the election, Cr Capp made clerical staff to mask the true extent of it clear that, in her view, there was not a the farming; level playing field because hotels were ■■ Sacking committees who dare to complying with all the regulations, paying question the incumbent contractor; their staff properly and meeting workplace ■■ Essential services and fire safety ignored; safety standards. ■■ Developers spreading false stories about Cr Capp talked about there being a lot of whistle-blowers; security issues, damage and noise issues, ■■ Building managers skimming millions of general interruption and wear-and-tear on dollars in secret electricity commissions; buildings, and a lot of uncertainty around ■■ Common property leased to developers’ safety. mates for no fee; We are pleased to have a mayor who ■■ High maintenance costs without proper has indicated she is willing to engage with maintenance being carried out; and We Live here on an ongoing basis. We ■■ Defects not addressed. look forward to the Lord Mayor following We Live Here is very grateful for the through on her commitments, taking action courageous speakers who stood up and told and escalating the short-stay issue to the their stories for others to learn from their state government. |Dinner Companions experience. We will not reveal any names Cr Capp has an open-door policy and has |Social Escorts or identify any properties because of the said she would organise community forums potential recriminations. Conscientious to gain first-hand knowledge. We Live Here |Sensual Ladies owners are fighting powerful, vested will keep you informed so that all owners interests and there is a lot of money at stake. and residents can come along and be heard. Melbourne’s exclusive Another director of We Live Here Helina entertainment service. Marshall, the moderator of the seminar, Campaign donations said the purpose of this type of seminar As a not-for-profit organisation, Highly recommended was to allow committee members to speak donations from individuals and buildings for our interstate and freely and exchange ideas about solutions keep our campaigns going. To register as overseas visitors. to the problems facing strata communities. a supporter of We Live Here or to make “When there is a problem, we are not a donation please visit our website at alone. Other committees often have the welivehere.net same or similar issues. 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SKYPAD Living Luv thy NABERS (for apartments)

Awareness of our vertical living lifestyle is slowly growing, but unfortunately, one key characteristic is that we are “energy guzzling”.

According to City of Melbourne, more than building’s particular situation and use This involves supplying past utilities coating, 1000 times thinner than a human 83 per cent of its residents live in apartments this information to craft building-specific bills and a site visit by Ausnviro to confirm hair, that automatically lets in heat when it’s and each year, vertical villagers account for ways of your improving energy efficiency. operations. This information is then cold and blocks heat when it’s hot – self- 22 per cent of the city’s water usage, 9 per This is the rationale underpinning the analysed and comparisons run against regulating smart windows! But how can cent of greenhouse gas emissions and more introduction of NABERS (National Australian similar buildings in order to calculate your owners’ corporation committees know about than 20,500 tonnes of waste. Perhaps more Built Environment Rating System) into the building’s rating (on a one to six scale). these types of innovations? alarming is that compared with detached residential apartment sector. However, while this is a significant step Added to this, navigating the range of dwellings, we of the vertical villages NABERS has been operating in the forward, in reality, it is only the beginning of relevant funding programs is not for the faint consume 25 per cent more energy. commercial sector for over 10 years and an ongoing improvement cycle. hearted – and many of these funds remain The question is: where does this usage is managed nationally by the NSW Office The next critical step is to interpret your firmly focused upon “households” rather occur? of Environment and Heritage, on behalf rating and understand what it can (and than apartment buildings. Currently CSIRO is finalising its of Commonwealth, state and territory cannot) tell you about your building’s To my thinking, NABERS presents an Apartment Energy Use Survey which will governments. NABERS is being introduced performance. This is important as it opportunity for owners’ corporation reveal apartment-based patterns of energy into the residential apartment sector with underpins all subsequent action. Indeed, committees to connect with each other consumption. the aim of realising similar order reductions there are some quiet conversations already and begin collaborating around practical But being strata, energy is also used to in energy and water consumption as has occurring at owners’ corporation level about innovations suited to our vertical village operate and maintain common property been achieved in the commercial building what can actually be done with a rating (be it lifestyle. which, apparently, can account for sector. good or bad). This goes to the issue of design If you are interested in starting up to 60 per cent of a building’s total In the City of Melbourne, Ausnviro has and the ability to craft appropriate technical this discussion, please contact me at energy consumption and 25 per cent of been selected to undertake Australia’s responses, as well as deliver them in ways [email protected] administrative fund levies. first NABERS for Apartments energy and palatable to both residents and investors. However, as our vertical villages differ water ratings. And the managing director In fact, retrofitting for environmental in terms of size, number of lifts, external of Ausnviro, Jay Gualtieri, is impressed sustainability within Victoria’s owners’ lighting fixtures and facilities such as gyms by the robustness of the new NABERS for corporation environment is a complex and pools, the percentage of energy usage Apartments tool. undertaking and, currently, there is little Janette Corcoran for common areas varies across buildings. “There is no doubt in my mind this guidance available to help. Apartment living expert This means that we can’t rely on the new system will dramatically improve This is the situation despite our https://www.facebook. aforementioned averages when designing environmental efficiency in the residential universities having a growing array of com/SkyPadLiving/ ways to improve (and save) through more apartment sector … but first they need to technologies that could greatly assist our efficient energy usage. know how their building is performing,” he retrofitting our vertical villages. For instance, The starting point is to find out your said. RMIT has developed a self-modifying

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Health and Wellbeing Corporate health and wellbeing

It’s no secret that great companies invest time, energy and resources into providing opportunities for their employees and teams to improve themselves.

Improvement is not just through learning, any) are typically static. With Pilates, growth and development, but also through movements and stretches are mostly individual or team-based wellbeing dynamic and there is a focus on both programs. shortening and lengthening the muscles. Here are some reasons why your company 3. Relaxation and stress relief should be driving improvements in your Pilates methods incorporate a strict focus health and wellbeing: on deep and regular breathing which ■■ Build the company’s reputation and brings on a sense of calm and wellbeing. improve culture in the workplace; 4. Muscle tone and strength ■■ Reduce direct and indirect health care Pilates is not easy. Hard work costs that can be linked to sick, stressed or and excellent execution of moves demotivated staff; and sequences will bring with it ■■ Increase individual, team and company improvements in strength without outputs and business performance by creating bulky muscles. Better muscle achieving higher levels of resilience, tone, especially around the thighs, hips engagement and team work between and waist is readily achieved with time. levels of fitness. It can be adapted to perform these movements every day employees; and 5. Improved physical and mental anyone’s level of fitness or goals. If you when we move lift and carry things. ■■ Demonstrate an authentic “care” for endurance. are just starting out, the intensity and Training functionally with life in mind, employees that will help with staff Pilates is a true mind and body workout. repetitions maybe lower. As you increase daily tasks can become easier, we can retention. Body weight exercises and sequences your fitness levels, you might add speed, perform them better and we will reduce ■■ Maybe strike up some conversations challenge the physical capacity and power, more repetitions or advanced the likelihood of injury. in your work place and get something ability. Completion of repetitions, movements to the activity. Take an 5. Improvement in cardio fitness, strength organised to kick off in spring 2018 – it’s combinations and sets with targets exercise like the squat for example – a and flexibility. Your bodyweight training less than two months away now! for achievement will engage and will new exerciser might do 8-10 reps of a half will and can cover all three of these key challenge the mind. squat and rest for 30 seconds, whereas a exercise components. Make sure you take Make time for Pilates! Pilates is a wonderful way to exercise for more advanced participant might squat time at the end of each workout to stretch. Whether you take Pilates for men and women of all ages. deeper, do more squats, add a jump 6. You will get results. Many of the improvements in fitness, wellbeing or for and have less rest, all resulting in higher bodyweight exercises use compound rehabilitation purposes, Pilates works and, Bodyweight training – Try Metafit! intensity! movements. Compound exercises with consistency, you will be rewarded with Have you taken a Metafit class before? Our 2. The variation is endless. There are a like a lunge, squat or push up include the results you strive for. Here are some of members love Metafit and refer to it as the couple of foundation exercises like the movements of more than one joint the great benefits of the exercising using the hardest class on our program. Metafit is a squat, lunge, crunch and push up, but and involve many muscles and large Pilates method: high intensity bodyweight training program for each of those there might be 10-20 movements. If you go to a gym, a good 1. Improved posture and alignment and it is fantastic. It is known as the original variations. These variations provide a trainer would have you completing Pilates helps correct imbalances in 30-minute metabolic group fitness class range of challenges and benefits to the compound exercise as a preference. posture and alignment by training muscle that delivers results. A coach will lead you exerciser. 7. Its free! Once you know how to execute a groups equally and evenly. When the through a structured class that will definitely 3. It’s portable. You don’t need any few of the key exercises and movements, body is out of alignment, excessive stress test your limits. equipment for bodyweight training – you are ready to go. You can work out is placed on the joints, ligaments and Like Metafit, bodyweight training all you need is your own body! Look anywhere at any time and there are no spine. 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EMMA CHU, 20S, COLLINGWOOD, ART DIRECTOR TRACEY WANG, 50, DOCKLANDS, HOME DUTIES JOHN ALATERAS, 42, CHELTENHAM, PROJECT MANAGER

No. I’ve seen it around and I saw yesterday that Yes, a lot. I’ve been supporting Iceland – they Yes I have. I’ve had many late nights, let’s say that. South Korea beat Germany, and that’s about as far don’t have many people, but they play really good Especially watching the Australians play as well. as I know. soccer.

LUCIANO VITIELLO, 48, MCKINNON, PROJECT MANAGER JANE SOFRA, 29, MOONEE PONDS, MARKETING MANAGER UNA O’BRIEN, 32, ELSTERNWICK, MARKETING MANAGER

Yes I have. I’ve been a little bleary-eyed and tired, Yes I have, because of my husband. He’s really into Yes, I have been forced to watch all of England’s but it’s been worth it. it. I might watch the Aussie games, and the Italian matches because of my husband, and I watched games if they were in it. Spain vs Portugal as well.

Pet’s Corner Top Class

Wonder dachshund By Stephanie Zhang said, “Because we live in a house full of males, she likes female attention.” Nicholas also said that the two sleep open 24/7 | Wonder Woman was spotted in together, and Lola is very gentle and doesn’t bark or stink. The two go on a couple of walks Docklands in disguise as a little a day, as Lola doesn’t like to be cooped up in sexy & wild | dachshund named Lola on a their Docklands’ apartment. walk with owner Nicholas. “We’ve walked all the way from the city genuine escorts | today,” Nicholas said, “For those little legs that’s a long way.” Usually, they like to walk Lola is a white piebald American import around at Ron Barassi Park and get some dachshund, and attracted many passers-by food under the Melbourne Star. as Docklands News spoke to the pair. Lola will be having her first birthday in Lola has many other costumes, like August, and the two have been together for Batman, the Riddler, and a big woollen coat over half a year. for cold days, but Nicholas says her favourite As passersby stopped to pet Lola, Nicholas is still the Wonder Woman one. watched happily. “It grabs the most attention,” Nicholas “See? She makes everybody smile,” he said.

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Docklander A great place for a new-born By Shreya Devaki “You think you’re prepared before the baby arrives, but with each day, you need 100 new things to make the baby as After spending a little over a year comfortable as possible. Honestly, stores in a quiet suburb of Victoria, in and around Docklands are god’s send! Whatever you need is like two minutes Docklands was a refreshing away!” experience for Sanjana when Almost every parent is nervous about bringing their kids up in an apartment. You she moved here five years ago. fret about them not getting enough fresh air and them not being able to play in open She loves how the area is always buzzing spaces, not Sanjana though! with activity and swears by the multitude She prefers apartments: “Open spaces is of cafes whose coffee makes every morning definitely not a problem! Docklands has so brighter! many gardens and parks that are perfect for a As a mother to a week-old, beautiful baby child to play around in.” girl, she was initially hesitant to bring her “And believe me, when you’re a new daughter up in Docklands, where office parent, you’ll be extremely grateful about buildings are in abundance and looming living in an apartment! It just makes life skyscrapers are the first thing you see when easier!” she said. you glance out of a window! As a “clean freak”, Sanjana needs What convinced her to stay put however, everything to be spick and span and, since was the community in Docklands and the apartments are smaller, they’re easy to various activities that it offers, for adults as maintain. well as toddlers. Most of us are well aware “Also, since my baby girl is a winter-born, that having a baby when both the parents it’s extremely important for me to keep her work is a Herculean task! surroundings warm. That’s easier to do in “Both of us work in Docklands and after an apartment, when compared to an actual doing some research into playschools in house.” the area and stuff, it made perfect sense “You would think parenting gets easy once to continue living here. Did you know that you figure out the sleep and feed schedules the playschools here are few of the best in of the baby. It didn’t end there for us though! the city? Never thought I’d be researching We’re back to square one as the entire family playschools!” she laughed. seems unable to agree upon a name for her.” When questioned about how she felt Here’s a tip for all the new parents out there: about this new and exciting phase in her life, Don’t give your relatives the chance to veto she said: “It’s all very overwhelming, being a baby names. Sanjana sure has learnt her new mother.” lesson!

Sanjana with her baby girl.

Owners’ Corporation Law Taking the plunge on defect claims

serious plumbing defects, ranging from upper limit of $50,000 per apartment or up to heard in court. So it seems that insurers are Victorian consumers of pan siphoning and water pressure issues, $5 million in total. However, the Ministerial reluctant to seek guidance from the court to crushed pipes and installation of faulty Order makes it clear that any monetary about the application and interpretation of plumbing services might be metering, through to roof guttering and limit on the indemnity is prohibited for loss the ministerial guideline. surprised to learn that they defective designs and / or installations of or damage, error of design and the costs of As always, committees should “plumb downpipes. inspecting and repairing the plumbing work. to new depths” by seeking advice from a are protected by the most There is a strict time limit of six years The Building Act also confirms that the lawyer on these matters and should consider comprehensive statutory to bring a claim under these warranty Ministerial Order trumps the terms of whether they might have a claim against a insurance provisions, and consideration any insurance policy, to the extent of any plumber for either faulty workmanship or protections in Australia. and advice should be taken from a lawyer to inconsistency. design issues. ascertain the exact date the policy coverage What this means is that consumers have I would also recommend “fauceting the The Victorian Building Authority (VBA) started. access to an unlimited liability insurance issue” by engaging a properly qualified requires that plumbers cannot be licensed One of the advantages of this warranty policy for the rectification of defective forensic plumbing consultant on these to carry out any work unless they hold system over the other schemes in Australia is plumbing work. issues, as it tends to be a highly specialised insurance coverage against defective that the plumber does not have to be dead, But does all this sound too good to be field. plumbing work, trade practices liability, the disappeared, insolvent or not practicing true? Well, yes. Yes it does. The insurers non-completion of work as well as public anymore before any claim can be made would certainly never have offered these liability insurance. against the insurance policy. insurance policies to plumbers in the first The General Insurance Order 2002 that True enough, the insurer has rights to place if it thought they were exposed on an applies to these matters (known as the compel the plumber to rectify any defective unlimited basis. “Ministerial Order”) also provides full plumbing work, but that doesn’t limit or However, there may be a reason why the coverage for legal and expert costs incurred stop the claim from being accepted if the Ministerial Order has never been challenged Tom Bacon by a property owner in making a claim plumber refuses to do so. in an open court or tribunal decision, against a plumber. The interesting part about all this is that despite the order being around for 20 years. Tom Bacon is the principal Multiple occupancy dwellings such as many of the insurers that offer these policies Insurance claims in these matters are mostly lawyer of Strata Title Lawyers. apartment buildings can suffer from quite seek to limit their exposure by setting an settled well before the proceedings are [email protected]

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Sign up for spring sports

By Stephanie Zhang anyone regardless of previous experience. “It’s a great way for colleagues to get out of the office, have fun, be active, and play a Docklands workers who are sport they love,” AMCS co-ordinator Claire interested in playing sports or Picone said. staying active can register for The spring season includes netball, held during Thursday lunchtimes, 3v3 basketball, Active Melbourne City Sports’ held during Wednesday lunchtimes, and (AMCS) spring season up until twilight soccer, held during Tuesday and Friday evenings. Games take place in Monday, July 16. Docklands Sports Courts. Seasons are 14 weeks long and are followed AMCS is a program that aims to encourage by two weeks of finals. Round one for the DAM Busters on Victoria Harbour. physical activity for those who often cannot upcoming spring season begins in the week find time to do so. of Monday, July 30. It holds its games during lunchtimes and Registrations are open for teams or Preparing for big stage evenings, and encourages participation from participants at amcs.melbourne.vic.gov.au. By Niccola Anthony step it up a level. We’ve been doing Saturday and Sunday training now for four months,” DAM Busters president Local dragon-boaters DAM Caroline Mulcahy said. (Dragons Abreast Melbourne) Ms Mulcahy attributes the friendly Busters are gearing up for an community atmosphere of Victoria Harbour with the team’s competitive international event in Italy this success. month. “It’s the best place for us to be training down at The Hub,” she said. The team, made up of 24 breast cancer survivors and supporters, will travel to “We always go to the cafes after training. Florence for the International Breast Cancer The whole area is just perfect for us.” Regatta held from July 4 to 6. “The community actually supports us. The DAM Busters have been training every They come along to training and wave Saturday and Sunday morning on Victoria at us, they’re whistling and clapping Harbour near their base at Community Hub sometimes.” at The Dock. “They love it. They love to see us out “When we do an international regatta we there.”

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