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Councillors steam ahead on QVM By Shane Scanlan

Far from abandoning hopes for a three-storey basement under the Queen Victoria Market, City of Melbourne councillors have come out swinging.

At their May 15 Future Melbourne show that they can be done, to provide the Committee meeting, they were adamant that business case for them.” they weren’t backing down nor were they Cr Cathy Oke said: “It doesn’t necessary putting the project on ice. mean that the (new) proposal is any different Rather, they said, they were pursuing the because I believe the issues on the table are most practical path to achieve an outcome. very much the same in the same situation as we were five years ago.” Some councillors said it was even possible that the same application would be made to Councillors Phillip Le Liu and Susan Riley Heritage Victoria for a permit to remove and voted against lodging a new application, later replace half of sheds A, B, C and D to saying the council had been poorly treated dig a three-level basement. and advocating a legal approach. Heritage Victoria in March refused a “How do we respect someone who doesn’t permit for the works, saying the level of the really respect us?” Cr Le Liu asked. proposed change was not justified by the “I’m not in support of putting in a new council’s business case. application. I think we have very strong Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood was grounds for appeal or judicial review.” one of the most strident, saying he was Cr Riley said: “I think we were dealt a really “begrudgingly” prepared to abandon a raw deal by Heritage Victoria. I think they legal appeal only because lodging a new just railroaded us into this without the application was viewed as being more likely consultation or the respect that they should to lead to the right outcome. have shown the City of Melbourne.” Sally's so happy! But, he warned, a new application might not “I believe we should fight it. Truly, I still be much different to the one which failed in don’t get why they couldn’t consult with us the next placed candidate Jennifer Yang. March. before they came down with a refusal. I just Sally Capp has been After preferences were distributed, Ms “This doesn’t mean that we’re going to think it was totally unfair and unreasonable.” Capp won 53 per cent of votes, from Ms come back with an entirely new proposal. It provisionally declared Other councillors agreed with their Yang with 47 per cent. means a revised application,” he said. “So sentiment, but said a new application was Melbourne’s new Lord Mayor. Ms Capp told supporters and council staff it may mean that a lot of those things that more pragmatic, cheaper, quicker and more on May 21 when the result was declared I personally see as fundamental are in the likely to succeed. The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) she was "overjoyed" with her win. new application, but we work out a different on May 18 declared Ms Capp the winner over See voting analysis on page 6. way to go about them – to stage them, to Continued page 2

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While a sharp jump in city The latest budget delivered by parking was a headline act in the City of Melbourne aims to this year’s budget, some CBD tackle a level of population projects emerged as winners. growth faster than the council

The council reaffirmed its financial has forecasted. commitment to the Queen Victoria Market (QVM) renewal project, with almost $20 The budget draft released on Tuesday, million set aside for the next financial year. May 15 expects the city’s daily population to exceed one million by 2022, eight years Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood said the earlier than expected. budget commitment – which pledges to work with the community on the design of Last year’s budget predicted the one million the 1.5ha open space, restoration of heritage mark would not be reached until 2030. The sheds and improved customer and trader current number of residents, workers and amenities – reaffirms its support for QVM. visitors entering the city on any given day is around 800,000. Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood talks up the city's new draft budget. “(It) maintains our focus on that long-term thinking and paves the way for the largest As a way to ease congestion and a clear sign Wood said the level of growth meant it was Over 11,000 street lights will switch to investment in council’s history, the renewal the council is favouring alternative means of no longer sustainable for single-occupancy energy-efficient LEDs over the next three of Queen Victoria Market,” he said. transport into the city, CBD parking will rise vehicles to enter the city every day. years, which the council said will save over from $5.50 to $7.00 an hour. On the same day, Planning Minister Richard $1 million a year once finalised. “If we can get people onto foot experiencing Wynne announced approval for the $450 Conversely, cyclists are set to benefit from our city, what we know is that they spend Almost $2 million has been pledged to tackle million mixed-use Munro site adjacent to $1.1 million in improvements to networks, more,” he said. the city’s growing homelessness issues, the market. The council-owned site, which plus an additional 500 storage hoops across including a focus on youth homelessness it purchased in 2014 for $76 million, will the city. “It’s good for the environment, it’s good for initiatives and support. comprise dual 38 and 10-storey towers health and it’s actually good for the bottom Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood said the which will house apartments (including line.” decision on parking was necessary because The arts community was another budget affordable housing), hotel rooms, a childcare of a 22 per cent reduction in parking spaces Infrastructure-wise, the budget assigns winner, with $16.3 million pledged to facility, a gallery and retail shops. due to infrastructure projects. $141 million in capital works (up from $135 infrastructure and programs. The council announced in the budget that, million). “We don’t take these decisions lightly,” Cr The council has also gone to great lengths to alongside developers, it would deliver Wood said. “It hasn’t occurred for five years, A key aspect of this includes a $22.7 million firm-up Melbourne’s reputation as an events more than $70 million in community so an increase is well and truly justified. It pledge to create two hectares of open space hub, pledging a sizeable $17 million on infrastructure on the Munro site. brings us into line with Sydney, so we know at Southbank Boulevard and Dodds St in major events including Moomba, New Year’s There’s expected to be 22,000 more people the price is about right.” Southbank. Existed parks and gardens will Eve and Christmas. Almost $2 million has living around the area in the next four years. receive a $7.1 million facelift. been set aside for Christmas decorations. He also said the price-rise maintains the Other CBD projects to benefit from the city’s pledge to keep an hour’s parking Almost $20 million will be set aside for the Rates will increase by 2.25 per cent, up from budget include a $2 million streetscape around the price of a pot of beer. Queen Victoria Market redevelopment 2 per cent on the last budget. The number facelift at the southern end of Elizabeth St. project, including onsite restoration of the of council staff rose by 20 to 1440, with the The cost of parking outside the city centre heritage open air sheds and design of a new average council employee salary rising to Rectification works for Melbourne Town will rise by between 20 to 80 cents per hour. 1.5 hectare open space, of which the council $113,400. The council also announced a Hall have been assigned $3 million, while Parking revenue will fill city coffers by $52 is pledging community involvement. $14.9 million surplus. a council-owned block between Bourke million in 2018/19, a rise of $6 million on the St and Little Collins St will be redeveloped The council has committed $5.5 million Members of the public can comment on the current financial year. to the tune of $5 million for new retail and to road improvements and $4 million to draft budget until June 13, and a final version commercial tenancies. On the wider issue of population growth, Cr footpath renewal in areas of high foot-traffic. will be considered by the council on June 26. ISSUE 43 CBD NEWS 5 Change is needed at our market By Stan Liacos character, we must remember this is a since Birrarung Marr, an extraordinary working market and not a museum. Let’s not opportunity for Melbourne. CEO Queen Victoria Market confuse nostalgia with heritage preservation. This will occur once our 720 current spaces And as one of the world’s oldest continually are transferred to the recently-approved In my first four months as CEO operating markets, it is showing its age – “Munro” development immediately adjacent of Queen Victoria Market I not only in its physical facade, but in the to the market and, in part, underground or antiquated facilities which fail to provide elsewhere within the market precinct. have heard many and varied separation between dangerous forklifts and The new park will allow new community pedestrians, efficient storage for traders, views about how to “save our activities, events and gatherings that will power and water supply, hygienic waste bring new life and excitement, as well as market”. facilities and modern toilets. opportunity for peaceful reflection at other Making the business of the market work also times, on the doorstep of one of the world’s The one common theme that has come means shifting the way we do business. This great markets. through however is the need for some includes revisiting market trading hours degree of market upgrades and business And, upgrade of the market also provides a to meet contemporary consumer demand adaptation. This is what I have taken catalyst for the broader revitalisation of the and align with current and emerging retail from my conversations with our 600-plus, inner city by improving the connections and trends. It is imperative we trade into the increasingly-frustrated traders. vibrancy between the central CBD, North early evening, particularly, for instance on Market CEO Stan Liacos. Melbourne and West Melbourne. The task now is for traders, City of Thursdays and Fridays, to regain lost market Melbourne, market board and staff to the “business of the market” into the 21st share. We can preserve the treasured heritage decisively embark on this journey together. century. buildings and ensure the physical The market is a vital piece of living, And locking in a prosperous future for sustainability of the market into the future, No change is not an option for a market in breathing infrastructure at the centre of the our traders will only occur if we adapt but we must acknowledge that change is need of renewal and nor is standing still in revitalisation of the north and north-west of to better satisfy the modern demands of an important part of the story. Since its any way going to save the market for future the CBD. customers – be they locals or tourists. The inception in 1878, the market has gone generations. much-publicised restoration of the market’s Market renewal is not just important for the through continual renewal and evolved to heritage sheds is, therefore, only one part of Victorians love the cultural and physical market itself but to serve the inner city that change with the times. the vision for the market. heritage of the market and preserving it is a is experiencing high-density population All involved in the task of market renewal are must. But, unless we make improvements growth as Melbourne rapidly approaches a The many conversations that I have had to determined to ensure the voices of market to the operation and trading formats of population of five million. date reinforce to me that with much of the traders and customers are heard as we the market to meet current community broader public debate about the market so Renewal of the market car park will also assist the City of Melbourne with innovative standards and expectations, it will surely not far focused on its heritage status, what is allow its transformation into a fabulous renewal plans with Heritage Victoria, so our prosper into the future. often lost on people is that the real challenge 1.5 hectares of new public open space, the market will be prosperous and enjoyed by to “save” our iconic market is bringing As much as everyone loves its unique largest addition to public space in the city generations to come.

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Separated by distance only, Melbourne’s Lady Mayoress Committee (LMC) celebrated the royal wedding in style with a high tea at the Windsor Hotel on May 14.

The official proceedings for the local celebration were heralded by a town crier greeting guests and ushering them into the grand ballroom of the Spring St hotel. The spectacular setting was further enhanced by Amore Duet, opera singers Stephen Coutts and Samantha Robertson, who presented some of their favourite wedding repertoire. Guests were given a mini-tiara to get into the royal wedding mood and life-sized cardboard cut-outs of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle added an authentic touch. The idea for the high tea, supported by Hotel Windsor, gathered momentum following a letter to Prince Harry penned by Cr Susan Riley as co-chair of the LMC inviting Prince nuptials.” A large card was signed by all guests and Cr Susan Riley (left) and Prince’s Trust Australia CEO Harry to the High Tea, only five days prior to have been sent to the newly-wedded couple. Janine Kirk toast the royal couple. As imagined, there has been no response his big day. from the Prince, but instead, the CEO of And, as always, the charity component will Congratulating the much-loved prince on the Prince’s Trust Australia, Janine Kirk comprise a donation, and this time it is his decision to marry, Cr Riley said: “We presented a keynote on the wonderful work $5000 to the Lighthouse Foundation’s Mums would be delighted if you were to join the of the charity established in honour of the and Babies Program. Lighthouse Foundation Lady Mayoress Committee of the City of bridegroom’s father. founder and former Melburnian of the Year, Melbourne in honour of your forthcoming Susan Barton also attended. . 8 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43 More visitor hubs for CBD A new purpose built visitor hub at the Town Hall will replace the Federation Square visitor information centre as the new hub for tourists.

As part of the Metro Tunnel project, the Volunteers dressed in the signature red Melbourne Visitor Centre will be closed in coat provide information, guidance and August to make way for the new Town Hall maps for visitors. Station. Around the same time, the new visitor hub at the Town Hall will open, along Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood said the with another one at Queen Victoria Market. two new locations would increase the service coverage in the city. The hub at Queen Victoria Market will be Students tell story on stage constructed at the end of String Bean Alley “It makes sense to establish these by mid-2018. centres at Melbourne’s most popular international tourist attraction which The City of Melbourne visitor hubs are also A group of international students from countries such as China, welcomed 9.1 million visitors last located in Bourke St Mall, Fitzroy Gardens, year and on Melbourne’s civic spine, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Iraq and Australia delivered a sell-out Station Pier and Melbourne Convention and Swanston St, which is traipsed by more Exhibition Centre. theatre performance at Victoria University on May 4. pedestrians than London’s Regent St,” Cr A pilot program that featured a pop-up Wood said. The Act of Translation Reaches Out program The stage play revolves around the visitor booth in front of Southern Cross “The new service centres will be staffed follows the overwhelming success of the untold stories of international students in Station and another at the Arts Centre’s by our passionate ‘red coat’ City original Act of Translation student theatre Melbourne and their living, studying and Hamer Hall concluded earlier this year, Ambassadors. They are true champions project created in collaboration of RMIT cultural experiences. having collected feedback from more than of our city, with more than 400 volunteers University, Study Melbourne, the City of 200,000 visitors. selflessly giving their time every week to Melbourne, Federation of International A documentary about this program was More pop-up booths will be available during greet and provide information to visitors,” Students and artistic director Catherine launched at the Immigration Museum in major events. he said. Simmonds. March.

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VISIT US ONLINE! WWW.STOPNOISE.COM.AU Call today to organise a free assessment of your windows & doors 1800 880 844 [email protected] Office & Showroom- 15 Industry Blvd, Carrum Downs 3201 10 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43 Eating cheaply and healthy in the CBD By David Amaya a student from India, found bananas for 65 I just weight the bag to sell it really cheap.” cents per kilo. Rice, pasta, milk and some cereals for Students who live in the CBD “I bought five kilos of bananas that I will breakfast are the only products that can be eat during the next two weeks”, he said and cheaper in the big supermarket chains. I face more than academic added that he preferred cooking at home have bought two kilos of rice for $2.50, pasta challenges. because restaurants meals are between $10 for 60 cents a bag and milk for 90 cents. and $15. Although there are many expensive products There are other stalls too where the like cheese, eggs, ham, meat, chicken, or Eating well, for example, can be harder than purchasing can be done per unit-product. fish, shopping around will help students save studying for the next test. Noodles and tuna A big eggplant can cost 55 cents and a bell money. Then, the benefit of a good diet will are for many, the basic products of their pepper or a cucumber can be had for 30 be seen in academic performance. diet. But, is it possible to eat healthy on a cents. A good idea for this season is to make low budget in the centre of the world’s most pumpkin soup by paying $1.50 for a big one. liveable city? Also, 100 grams of quinoa, beans, lentils or Photos: Juan Francisco Boada Bautista. According to the 2016 Census, around chick peas can be purchased for 50 cents. 15,000 university, technician and vocational Don’t be afraid to ask for the minimum Moreover, if the idea is to find the best students live in the CBD. This figure price. Hassam a trader who just wanted bargains, the best time to arrive is after 2pm, represents around 39 per cent of inhabitants. to give his first name, said: “I always try to especially on the weekends. As one of them, who every day tries to help the customer, especially those with low survive on a minimum spend, I decided to budget such as students. They just take a bag give you some tips on how to get a healthy The one-dollar fare and fill it up with different products and then diet on a small budget. Although some stalls manage the same high First of all, I surveyed 32 students. On prices of the big chains, there are others average, they spend between $50 and $100 where plenty of products can be found dollars a week on food, but some of them for just per $1 per kilo. Examples include also said their budget didn’t allow them to bananas, oranges, pears, mandarins, apples buy all the products they considered vital to and melons. ensure good nutrition. Also, tubers such as potatoes and sweet potatoes can be bought for the same price, as Regarding fruits and vegetables, I suggest to well as onions, tomatoes, spinach, broccoli avoid the big shopping chains where a kilo of and lettuce. Some types of bread and tortillas anything costs more than $4. A better option can be found as well for $1 per bag. is the Queen Victoria Market ,which offers affordable prices. Currently, many products With a bit of persuasion, it is possible to find are cheaper due to the winter season. some products even cheaper. Virendra Zen, History of protest on show

“WE PROTEST! shows how Melbourne’s A free exhibition showcasing streets, parks and open spaces have been open to anyone with a barrow to push, Melbourne’s history of street placard to wave or slogan to shout,” Cr protests takes over Town Hall’s Louey said. City Gallery until August 11. “With countless demonstrations taking place every year on all manner of social and political issues, this free City Gallery The WE PROTEST! Exhibition features exhibition will appeal to anyone who has photos, posters and flyers from Melbourne’s ever taken to the streets for a cause they are rallies dating back to as far as 1916. passionate about.” The demonstrations on display range from The exhibition curator Malcolm McKinnon social justice issues to international causes interviewed activists, a police officer and a and to farmers’ welfare. dairy farmer for a short film. Cr Kevin Louey said the exhibition put on WE PROTEST! runs at City Gallery on show Melburnians’ passion for democracy. Swanston St until August 11. Entry is free.

Thursday 7 June 2018 Night That 6pm—11pm Changed the World Free with museum entry Celebrate the power of personal transformation with spoken word, readings and discourse from community voices, thought leaders and change makers. Book now: museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum ISSUE 43 CBD NEWS 11 Residents hear from Metro Tunnel The Rail Projects Victoria team presented to Residents 3000 on May 3 about recent progress on the Metro Tunnel project.

Rail Project Victoria and the Cross Yarra Partnership’s communications team, engineers and technicians updated local residents on how the project is progressing at Town Hall and State Library stations. Demolition will start at Town Hall Station’s Federation Square site in September and will start at State Library Station’s Little LaTrobe site in mid-2018. Since the reference design of the stations and tunneling was released late last year, there have been some changes, including the addition of the Campbell Arcade connection from Flinders Quarter site to Flinders Street Station, a new shaft at Little LaTrobe St, a new trinocular station cavern and one main entrance at City Square. Jazz to take over the CBD Station Jazz Club, Southern Cross Lane, St James and West African rhythm, Yemeni culture Jazz melodies will fill the 170 Russell. and melodies of jazz and funk, this upgrade Having taken over Southbank’s Arts Precinct performance is set to evoke a connection streets of the CBD in June with last year, one of the festival’s biggest to places many may have never visited. the return of the Melbourne attractions is Jazz Massive – a free giant jazz Led by Jewish Yemenite vocalist Ravid The Degraves St and Elizabeth International Jazz Festival jam session for musicians young and old Kahalani, with a soaring three octave St subways to Flinders Street – will take place out the front of the State range, his mesmerising vocals alongside a Station will get a major facelift running from June 1 to 10. Library on June 3. superb lineup of talented musicians from One of the performances drawing a great New York, Israel and Uruguay make this to improve safety, accessibility A variety of amazing local and international deal of excitement ahead of this year’s one of the most engaging and exuberant and comfort. performers will take to a range of CBD festival is Yemen Blues­, which will take place acts on the world music scene. stages throughout the course of the festival, at 170 Russell on Wednesday, June 6. For more information or tickets visit The upgrades include cleaning and including at Federation Square, Paris Cat Described as an intoxicating merge of melbournejazz.com restoration of the heritage tiles, lighting improvements and replacement of the metal partition fencing down the centre of Elizabeth St underpass with a glazed STREET LIFE pedestrian screen. The number of myki readers will double at the Degraves St exit to allow for additional passenger flow. Each train line will have its own colour for easy navigation at Flinders Street Station, a first in Melbourne. A new Yarra River Entrance will be opened to provide direct access from Southbank’s Riverside Walk to Platform 10. “The new Yarra entrance and upgrades to the subways will help ease congestion and improve access for all Victorians,” Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said.

CBD security boost The CBD has received a security boost in the recently-released 2018-19 state budget. The state government has allocated $41 million to install additional security bollards and CCTV cameras across the CBD, which has almost tripled from previous years’ funding. Some $10 million has been spent from last year for the installation of temporary and permanent bollards and barriers Photo by Barry C. Douglas @ BarryTakesPhotos.com and an alarm and loudspeaker system for 2 pm. Queen St. emergencies. 12 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43 Transport discussion for the future

The City of Melbourne continues to release transport discussion papers to engage residents and workers about developing a contemporary transport strategy.

The latest document of a series, released on Driverless cars, one of the most recent In its City Space discussion paper, the experience for travellers to the CBD. May 8, explores some of the technologies developments in transportation, is also council has identified that 61 per cent of The tram network could also be greatly that can contribute to easing congestion in discussed in the Emerging Technology street space in the city is taken by roads and improved by creating tram-only routes the city. document available on the Participate on-street car parking, and only 26 per cent is that can supercharge service delivery and Melbourne website. taken by footpaths and 9 per cent by trams. The council has proposed that a “Mobility punctuality. as a Service” notion might be used in the The council says it is possible to integrate Therefore, the council hopes to create So far the transport discussion papers future to provide a comprehensive platform driverless cars with public transport and designated new areas to be shared by released are Walking, City Space, Public for people to use public transport and ride lower the overall speed limit in the CBD to different modes of transport, which will Transport Network and Emerging share. 30kmh. eventually evolve into superblocks of car-free Technology, and papers still to be released zones. Mobility as a Service, a concept already in The discussion papers aim to involve are Cycling, Parking, Motor Vehicles and use in countries like Finland, combines the local community to help develop The council also wants the government to Transport Pricing. private and public transport services into new strategies to build a city with better invest in developing high-capacity, efficient The public can contribute their thoughts and one integrated app that creates and manages transportation that encourages walking, bus and tram orbital routes to connect feedback on participate.melbourne.vic.gov. the trip, with users paying a monthly fee. cycling and public transport. train lines and improve the commuting au/transportstrategy Cbus to Hotel demolish 150 alliance Queen St Two hotels are set to join forces in revitalising the Walk By Stephanie Zhang Arcade in Bourke St Mall as part of the building’s $200 Cbus Property is planning to million redevelopment. demolish the former Tower Melbourne project site and Intercontinental Hotels Group has open up a temporary 500sqm announced it would bring Hotel Indigo and Holiday Inn in the Walk Arcade on public open space while a Bourke St as a dual-branded hotel. fresh application is prepared The hotel operator has achieved a long- and considered. term agreement with the property owner to occupy the Bourke St Mall building that connects Bourke St to Little Collins St. The property on the corner of Queen and Bourke streets is currently a 12-storey Due for completion in 2022, the hotel building and has been unoccupied and project includes 272 rooms for the covered with black shade cloth and Holiday Inn on the Bourke St side and scaffolding for the past four years. 181 rooms for Hotel Indigo on the Little Collins St side. The state of the building has attracted public criticism and Cbus’s announcement has been welcomed. Participants from the May 11 conference. The demolition and public space project CDB arrests is estimated to cost $4 million. Cbus Property bought out three International student Melbourne West Divisional connecting properties of close to 3000sqm Response Unit detectives in March in the heart of the CBD after the end of a lengthy property dispute between seized more than $7000 in two Singaporean owners. conference a success cash, firearms and drugs in The deal involved two properties owned international students in Melbourne the CBD early on May 14. by Colonial Range and one property The Melbourne International establish their purpose and find out how owned by CEL Australia, which, together, they can bring about change. Detectives executed a warrant at an were sold to Cbus Property for around Student Conference (MISC) The MISC committee invited keynote apartment in Collins St just after 6.30am. $170 million in March this year. saw hundreds of overseas speakers such as Cr Philip Le Liu, Two firearms, drugs and This follows four years of legal wrangling sustainability advocate Dr Kaushik Sridhar, students and graduates methamphetamine were seized and a between the two developers that community co-ordinator Gayertree man and a woman were arrested. ultimately led CEL Australia to abandon converge at RMIT on May 11 Subramaniam, social entrepreneur Julian its $350 million Tower Melbourne project. to discuss issues that matter to O’Shea and business consultant Liz Lor, A 23-year-old Melbourne man has most of whom were once international been charged with numerous offences The dispute started after Colonial Range them. students. including drug trafficking, firearms sold its 150 Queen St property and after offences and theft. acquiring the property, CEL Australia The conference offered valuable learning The annual MISC is organised by Meld began its project for a 71-storey tower sessions, speeches and networking A 20-year-old Melbourne woman has Magazine in partnership with the City of with 579 apartments. In September 2012, opportunities for international students, been charged with numerous offences Melbourne and RMIT. CEL Australia submitted an application who are an important part of the city’s including drug and firearms related for a planning permit but began selling This year’s conference theme was Purpose community. offences. They have both appeared at apartments before approval. Change Impact, with the aim to help Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. ISSUE 43 CBD NEWS 13 Where better to learn about food and wine than Melbourne? By David Schout

Melbourne’s restaurant industry has played host to one William Angliss Institute student’s rapid rise through the ranks.

Working as a young pastry chef in his native Malaysia, Yeoh Xiu Chorng (preferred name “Chorng”) knew there was something missing. He was creating specialist desserts – something he loved – but he had other career goals. “My aim was to make people happy,” he said. “After a year in the kitchen I figured that wasn’t something I really wanted. I was making people happy but I couldn’t see them because I was at the back of house, secluded from the rest of the restaurant.” Determined to secure a role at the front, he enrolled in an Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Management at the William Angliss Institute. Less than a year into his course, the 22-year-old has surpassed all his expectations, securing a role at an exclusive Northcote restaurant and waiting on VIP tables at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. “Melbourne is great to understand food culture, and especially food and wine pairing, which is something you don’t get in Chorng in the William Angliss restaurant in Little Lonsdale St. Malaysia. It’s great that I can learn especially people happy. I love front of house since Asian people, people from South America about wine." the operation worked. From there I learned I’ve come here as it’s a lot of exposure to the more and more, and now I’m a section and all other the place, which is great “I didn’t know how to drink it (laughs). I customer, and lots of interaction between me waiter there,” he said. and something I didn’t expect. Food and thought it was pretty awful, and didn’t enjoy and them.” beverage is all about meeting people from all it. But after I came here I started trying white Chorng said the chance to wait on VIP tables over the world who have different stories.” After exclusive Northcote restaurant Estelle wines and learnt about their background, at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in by Scott Pickett ran a workshop at William He was initially sceptical about whether how it’s made and how it should taste. Now I March was also a “great experience”. Angliss, Chorng used the opportunity to he could recreate his favourite Malaysian love it, there’s so much to learn here.” ask the manager if they had any upcoming He plans to study a bachelor of tourism and dishes in this part of the world, but those The CBD resident credits the course vacancies. Soon after, they posted a job, a hospitality management when his course fears were quickly allayed when he saw what at William Angliss for giving him the role he secured in October. concludes this year, something he hadn’t Melbourne had to offer. confidence to not only inform patrons of planned before arriving in Melbourne. He “At first I started as a ‘glassie’ at the back of “It’s pretty good actually. I didn’t think I menu items, but also converse in any other has quickly fallen in love with the city. house, maintaining the bar and other small could get the spices here that makes the food general chat. things. But after that, the manager trained ‘The city is really diverse, more than I could authentic and taste like Malaysia, but you “That’s where my skills are and food makes me up and put me on the floor to see how think of. When I came here I saw lots of can. There are lots of Asian markets.” 14 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43

SKYPAD Living SurroundSound in vertical villages

Sleep is not a trivial issue – though the design and diversity within our vertical villages can make it scarce.

According to the World Health others. owners’ corporation committee and then headphones – to cancel external noise. The Organisation (WHO), poor sleep is So, while next door’s war game session others who might be similarly impacted. device uses eight watts of power and several associated with a doubling of heart attack might be OK during working hours, when The Dispute Settlement Centre of units are placed together to form a grid – an risk and a possible four-fold increase in they battle from 11pm till 3am (maybe Victoria (DSCV) is handy resource. As part “anti-noise array”. the risk of stroke. Along with smoking, because of shift work), there is a problem. of the Victorian Department of Justice According to Prof Gan Woon Seng, lack of exercise and poor diet, the WHO Added to this, changing work patterns have and Regulation, it provides free dispute director of NTU’s Centre for Infocomm believes poor sleep should be considered many more people working from home. So, resolution services to all Victorians and Technology (INFINITUS), “Compared a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular what used to be unheard day-time noise, can help resolve disputes without having to to noise cancellation headphones, what disease. now impedes productivity. resort to legal action. we have achieved is far more technically And the Supreme Court in India appears In the experience of Australia’s Owners There is, however, a fourth source of noise challenging as we needed to control the to have taken this to “heart”. In a nation Corporation Network (OCN), the most referred to as “external disturbances” which noise in a large open area, instead of just known for hubbub, citizens there now have problematic sources of apartment noise are: includes sounds generated from outside around the ear.” a right to sound sleep. In deeming this Neighbourly noise emanating from living the strata complex such as noise from local While still at the prototype stage, it is fundamental to life, the Supreme Court has activities such as TV, music, children, pets or celebrations, licensed premises, traffic and believed that the device could reduce up broadened the ambit of “right of life” to late night parties – and (in my experience) outside machinery. to 50 per cent of noise coming from nearby include a citizen’s right to sleep peacefully. “war gaming”; This category differs to the previous ones environments (e.g. roads, rail or construction In terms of impediments to sleep, noise Flooring and increasingly, new hard as it typically is not under the control of the activities). In addition to this, as windows remains a key culprit and grievances flooring installed with poor insulation, owners’ corporation. In fact, external noise can be left opened, there is the benefit of a about noise are the fastest growing area of means that downstairs neighbours can is a vexed issue for many new high-density reduced need for air-conditioning. Along complaint and disputes in urban Australia. hear your every footstep, the scrape of your precincts as they may be subject to specific with the possibility of sleep. This is true for vertical living where the chairs, your children running and playing – regulations (such as Docklands ZONE 2) For links to the research or organisations sources of noise are manifold and their and they aren’t happy; and which permit activities “as of right” within mentioned, please visit and like SkyPad impact acute. This is because we are literally Building noises such as chugging water the zone, leaving residents exposed. Living on Facebook. surrounded by neighbours ­– upstairs, pipes, slamming doors due to worn out And it is here where Prof Gan Woon Seng downstairs, on the left and on the right. And door closers, rubbish disposal, after- from Nanyang Technological University, let’s also include across the hallway! hours cleaning, lift operation, central air Singapore (NTU Singapore) offers some And it is here that poor construction conditioning and, the always funny, late hope. Researchers from NTU have Janette Corcoran couples with residential diversity to make a night intercom buzzing. developed a device that can reduce noise Apartment living expert potentially round-the-clock cacophony as Advice for dealing with these internal pollution entering buildings – even when https://www.facebook. differences in culture, age and ways of living noise issues is to start by investigating your windows are open. com/SkyPadLiving/ mean that neighbours literally live in/at OC by-laws to know where you stand. Then It is designed to be mounted onto window different times. This means that what is “late “talk” – ideally nicely - with your neighbours grilles and uses “active noise control” night” to some is “I’m just getting started” to and progressing to your building manager, technology – found in many high-end

Fashion From runway to checkout international investors. Chinese visitors hold “See now buy now” first place for largest expenditure. One of the other major trends is polarisation in the retail market, which Periodically we all have occasions where involves consumers buying the majority of we consider if what we wear reflects our their clothes and accessories from the fast personality. All valid inquisition but what fashion segment and then complementing does being a trendsetter really mean in the this with pieces from the luxury high-end CBD with the growing demand of the “see market. now buy now” trend? I enjoyed a recent conversation with What is “see now buy now”? It means retailer American Tailors on Bourke St runway styles are available for purchase (Spring St end) who have been operating immediately after fashion shows instead of for more than 25 years showcasing some of the customary six-month wait. world’s best fabrics and craftsmanship when Greg Petro recently wrote a piece for it comes to suiting. Their insight into the forbes.com where retailers like Victoria trends and retail growth simply came down Secret and Zara talk of gaining a 264 per cent to “quality over quantity”. increase in revenue as consumers no longer “Our clients are well educated on quality want to wait months on end for trends to hit fabrics and are often after durability. We retail stores. have used the same suppliers for decades Melbourne’s iconic GPO Building which allows us to have the best of the best,” occupant H&M is celebrating five years since they said. its first Australian debut in 2014. They joined As a result, most retailers are now top league competition in Zara, Cotton On changing their marketing strategies and and COS to name a few. producing ranges which allowing their But everything comes at a risk according customers to have access to everything to H&M chief executive Karl Johan who has trending. shared that sales are down 4 per cent. Profit American Tailors 68 Bourke St. Image Source: americantailors.com.au is still a healthy $800 million but 34 per cent down on last year. Competitor Zara was up now welcoming Versace, Fendi and Bottega IBISWorld senior analyst Kim Do says 11 per cent. Veneta to name few European luxury brands “luxury” in Australia is expected grow by $2.1 Simoñ Phillay The Paris precinct of Melbourne (top end that are opening flagship boutiques – one the billion in sales. Tourism is doubling in our Freelance creative of Collins St) is rapidly expanding and is few places in Australia to do so. city and is delivering our largest source of Email: [email protected] ISSUE 43 CBD NEWS 15

CBD Local Just keep walking! By Shane Scanlan has come back out of retirement to be the general manager of Wendy’s business. The business has doubled in size every year for the past four years and now employs On May 25 CBD local Wendy 20 staff. Brooks is walking 30km for a Wendy said being polar opposites on the Myers Briggs personality test ensured a good cause – impressive, but successful relationship – at home as well as not totally extraordinary until at work. you consider that, five years ago, Her serious illness and subsequent recovery has given the Brooks family a she was wheelchair bound with heightened sense of the value of good health multiple sclerosis (MS). and appreciation of life. Eldest daughter Catherine has also been diagnosed with MS. Wendy says being symptom free doesn’t The dynamic managing director of a necessarily mean she is cured. She said MS Collins St consulting firm says she regained could return at any time. her health through exercise and sunshine. Youngest of four, Andy, was only about 10 “For 15 years I needed a wheelchair years old when Wendy was first struck down or some other aid to help me walk,” she with MS. said. “But for the last five years I’ve had no “It really gave the whole family a sense of symptoms.” what it is like to be disabled,” she said. “But, Ms Brooks said she took advantage Wendy Brooks pictured with her husband Rod. you know, I only felt disabled when I struck of her unexplained respite from the a barrier.” neurological disease by undertaking “serious Beach to Point Nepean was just another step Wendy and her husband Rod moved to the In a case of extreme irony, Wendy rehabilitation”. in her road to recovery and new lease on life. CBD about five years ago, downsizing from was asked to speak at the University of “I walked my way back to being fit,” she The trek raises funds for The Fred Hollows Port Melbourne property when their four Melbourne about access and diversity said, adding that sunshine, swimming and Foundation’s work to restore sight for some children were off their hands. but could not access the stage with her yoga also played a role in her remarkable of the world’s poorest people – a cause “We just love the CBD. It’s so vibrant and wheelchair. turnaround. which connects well with Wendy’s business so close to everything,” she said. “I sat at the back and everyone had to turn Wendy now aims to take 15,000 steps every interests. And, living on the 29th floor of her building, around to listen to me,” she said. day and, of course, living and working in the Her company, Wendy Brooks and she has great views and a terrace garden. Now that she has a new lease on life, CBD means she can put away the car and Partners, helps not-for-profit and charitable The couple have enjoyed diverse careers. Wendy is making the most of every minute. only use it on weekend commutes to her enterprises become financially sustainable Wendy has been a lawyer, a teacher and a You may see her walking around the city. beach house at Fairhaven. and has worked with the The Fred Hollows chamber violist in the past. Rod has been She’s the one with the big grin on her face! Tackling the 30km Coastrek from Koonya Foundation. a vet, a software product manager and

History Melbourne’s first “respectable” theatre Later in the year, the famous actor and Queen’s Theatre dropped but Smith kept Early theatrical performances in impresario Mr George Coppin and his going by engaging a range of visiting company arrived in Melbourne. Promising companies. Melbourne usually took place in “the greatest combination of talent ever His business wasn’t helped by the temporary or makeshift venues witnessed in any of the colonies”, on June actions of some Melburnians who objected 21, 1845 Coppin and his actors performed to Smith opening on Saturday nights, and were often of a rowdy and The Lady of Lyons. Other successful plays as this “... leads to the desecration of the disorderly nature. followed and eventually Smith leased the Sabbath, and induces many of the lower Queen’s Theatre to Coppin. orders to absent themselves from their Smith had hoped to attract a “better class” homes ...” As a result of this objection, John Thomas Smith was a publican, of patron to his theatre but he still had to Smith’s new licence, granted in May 1847, councillor and several times Lord Mayor of cope with diggers in from the goldfields permitted performances only on Mondays, Melbourne, and wanted to raise the tone of for a good time. The writer William Kelly Wednesdays and Fridays. the theatre in Melbourne. describes an audience for a performance of In 1856 Coppin returned to the Queen’s In May 1843 he applied to the magistrates Hamlet thus: Theatre, which by then had been renovated, for a licence to build and operate a “The dress circle was crammed beyond with a new frontage added. However, the theatre on land that he owned on the sitting posture with florid-looking women centre of Melbourne’s theatrical world south-west corner of Queen and Little in too low satin dresses … Their lords- gradually moved towards the eastern end of Bourke streets. In June he was granted the in-waiting were habited either in tartan the city and by the 1880s the Queen’s Theatre licence, on condition that he entered into The Queen’s Theatre following renovations in the 1850s. jumpers or red worsted shirts, smoking short had closed. The building was used by a “recognizances to furnish the six special pipes and indulging in indelicate attentions.” succession of coach builders and then by a constables required to keep order”. The third act of the play was enlivened company that manufactured billiard tables. Smith also obtained a licence to build by “a most amusing colloquy between the It was demolished in 1922. Thus passed the and run a tavern on the corner of his block. with a benefit performance for John Davies, Danish grave-digger and the gold-diggers last trace of Mebourne’s first permanent While construction of the theatre proceeded a newspaper writer and amateur actor. from Eagle Hawk, made up of mutual theatre. slowly, Smith concentrated on finishing the The show began with a “drama of intense enquires about the depth of the sinking pub. St John’s Tavern opened in 1844 and interest” entitled “The Bear Hunters, or the ... which so tickled Hamlet that he gave with the resulting income Smith was able to Fatal Ravine”. Patrons were assured that up the soliloquy and joined in the joking.” complete the theatre by March 1845. the entertainments were of a “chaste and At the end of the play the players were David Thompson Described as a “plain, substantial, brick, moral nature”. Also, “regulations for the showered with gold nuggets –“a substitute David is the senior shingle-roofed building, with no attempt good management of the theatre have been for bouquets”. researcher of the Royal at exterior ornamental ornamentation”, the established, and six special constables will In August 1846 Coppin and his company Historical Society of 900-seat theatre opened on April 21, 1845 be in attendance to enforce the same”. moved to Adelaide. Attendances at the Victoria 16 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43

Residents 3000

Why do you choose to live in the CBD?

What is it that makes people reject a leafy suburb or an area close into the city like Southbank, East Melbourne, Docklands or North Union rally Melbourne?

After all the CBD is generally a noisy Restaurants and live entertainment are place. Traffic, construction, road works, everywhere. Such a selection to enjoy. stopped CBD buskers. Noise 24 hours per day. Often the What about the arts scene? Theatre, footpaths are so crowded with people it is film, opera, ballet and orchestra. World- hard to make your way. class events are held in the city not the It can be really windy and cold when you suburbs. Walk to all the events. No parking A massive workers union rally brought the CBD to a standstill on walk down narrow streets due to the tunnel problems for city dwellers. Exhibitions, May 9, with tens of thousands of advocates taking to the street to effect. Sometimes there is rubbish piled up museum not far away and then there is a in laneways. What about the building next world class art gallery. It is the richness of rally for better wage and welfare. door that impinges on your privacy or the life in the city that attracts us to want to live neighbour’s noisy air conditioning system? here. Melbourne has been voted the most The protest, which travelled from Trades The rally aimed to lobby for an overhaul Taverns and pubs may annoy when they liveable city in the world for seven years in Hall to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, of Australia’s workplace laws to protect are open well into the early hours of the a row. shut down roads and tram services across workers. morning. Apartments can be small when What about the small apartments? There the CBD. crammed into a tall building. are currently 25,321 private dwellings in the Melbourne CBD. Doesn’t worry a Why do you live here, then? city dweller. These people are masters at When you look at the things that appear squeezing their lives into small places. to be wrong about living in the city, they Ingenious ways to store things, minimal are not serious problems. All the goings on furniture and clutter, making good use of are part of the vibrant pulse of life. The city vertical spaces. It is a challenge, but city Top Class is buzzing with activity. This is a place that people are living their lives with a small encourages ideas to blossom. It is a place footprint that is good for the environment. where people gather, neighbours meet and Life is easier and less complicated when things happen. That is why we, with 44,000 you live in an apartment. others, are attracted to the Melbourne city Ah, but you say, it’s not a place for kids life. Life in a grid of streets with an area of and dogs! Well actually, no. Children just 1.61 km by 0.80 km. thrive in the city and as time goes on more Melbourne’s famous trams are either day care centres and schools are becoming the new, sleek and shiny type or the old available. As for the dogs, people love their traditional ones, that rattle along and animals. Dogs, cats, rabbits and other small were badly designed – not catering for the creatures adapt well to apartment living. disabled and parents with children. But Owners benefit from the regular walks to passengers help. Problem solved. When parks and run into their doggy-owning out and about you may see a huge fire neighbours on the way. truck, with sirens blaring, tearing down the We live in the city because it is a tram line to answer a fire alarm. Amongst charming, lovable place, that is full of life all this, you could see a Chinese Dragon with continuous events and culture to snaking down the street or you come enjoy. And let us not forget the bustling across a person standing on a laneway commercial centre where you may actually corner, playing a beautiful violin. This is do some work! Walk to work each day – Melbourne’s secret charm. another possible benefit of living in the Or you may find some people doing a city. morning Tai Chi lesson in Fed Square. So, to those of us who are lucky enough Hop on a free tram and it can take you to to be residents of postcode 3000, maybe open 24/7 | the fascinating QV Markets where you can we should stop and reflect occasionally purchase, amongst other goods, really about how lucky we are to live in such a sexy & wild | fresh, best quality food for all tastes. wonderful place as the Melbourne CBD. If you live in the CBD, you do not need a car. As people often say: “Everything you genuine escorts | would ever want to live happily is found within 100 metres of your home.” There are endless large shops and charming Susan Saunders small ones for the connoisseur. Tourists vice president sometimes stop you in the street and Ph: 0412 566 606 ask where they can get a coffee. Coffee email: sue@residents3000. in Melbourne is a grand tradition. CBD com.au residents are discerning and that keeps the standard high. ISSUE 43 CBD NEWS 17

Metro Tunnel Heritage Big digs ploughing on

The state’s biggest ever archaeology digs are ploughing on as round-the-clock excavation continues.

State Library Station These activities include excavating test Archaeological digs are underway on the pits for upcoming piling works at the site. corner of Swanston and La Trobe streets These test pits will help with confirming with the first stage now complete. existing ground conditions and the location This stage involved the removal of of underground assets. existing concrete slabs within the site and Once the investigations are complete, establishing test pits to determine the piling works for the station are expected ground conditions and digging approach. to start mid-year. These piles will create The digs have already discovered the perimeter structure of the station thousands of items, including highly entrance. The final phase of the Port Phillip decorative pottery, clay tobacco pipes Arcade demolition is underway and is and other items that reflect domestic life scheduled to be fully complete in late June. throughout the 19th century. The demolition of the former McDonald’s building is complete. Demolition works to Heritage Victoria steps up You can follow the progress of the state’s biggest ever archaeology digs on the Metro knockdown the former KFC building have Tunnel’s social media channels. begun and will continue throughout June. Some recent decisions affecting CBD heritage have affirmed that At Franklin St, the excavation of the Archaeological digs are also underway on 11-storey access shaft is progressing on the corner of Swanston and Flinders streets. Heritage Victoria (HV) no longer wants to be seen as a rubber schedule, with the first internal support The area has undergone tremendous stamp – as many involved in heritage activism have thought it had level now in place. Major 24/7 excavations change since Melbourne’s founder John are continuing at this site to build the Batman paid £100 for part of the site in 1837 become over the past decade. massive shaft. to build a timber cottage and it promises to Further round-the-clock excavations reveal a treasure trove of early Melbourne Readers of last month’s MHA column intervention and potential loss of much of inside the acoustic shed at A’Beckett St are life. will know of Victoria University’s plans to the original timber fabric and construction also continuing throughout June. It is hoped the digs, being overseen by demolish large parts of the Queen Street method of the sheds which, whatever one’s Service relocations are now complete at Heritage Victoria, will help tell the story Titles Office, one of our most intact public views on the wider market re-development Franklin St, between Swanston and Stewart of this transformation and improve our buildings, for a 17-storey tower. are, was just a step too far from a heritage streets. Vehicle access on Franklin St west understanding of the everyday lives of the While some previous Heritage Victoria perspective. has been reinstated, with the eastbound people who settled and developed the city. decisions gave us concern (it may approve The City of Melbourne now needs to and westbound lanes on Franklin Street Flinders Lane and Scott Alley businesses of such drastic changes under the guise of go back to the drawing board as well, and west reopened. This current traffic remain open and can be accessed using “compromise” between heritage values and perhaps use Heritage Victoria’s rebuff as configuration on Franklin St is expected to either Degraves St or Swanston St. commercial or institutional growth), we can a chance to think about a better heritage be in place until mid-year. gladly now share with readers that HV has solution on the Munro Site. Installation of groundwater monitoring Thanks for your support agreed with our objections and refused a We hope this new-found attitude at stations along Victoria St, between The Metro Tunnel appreciates your permit for the plans. Victoria Uni now has Heritage Victoria continues into the future, Swanston and Elizabeth streets, and in support while we undertake these vital to go back to the drawing board, hopefully and we look forward to more proactivism Bouverie Street are making progress. works in the city and urge caution around for a better proposal of adaptive re-use and and heritage-positive decisions for our city. our sites. heritage sensitivity. Town Hall Station Please help us support local businesses Also featured heavily in news coverage Tunnels and Stations contractor, Cross affected by construction by continuing to this month was HV’s rejection of council Tristan Davies Yarra Partnership, has begun moving visit them while works take place. plans to remove heritage sheds at the Queen President into the City Square site and has started Visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au for more Victoria Market for car park excavation and Melbourne Heritage t site investigations for the new Town Hall information about works in your area. reinstatement.s S Action llin Station. The plansCo would have involved a drastic

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We Live Here More large-scale proxy farming the apartments it manages in the complex. residents’ and visitors’ car parks between Although it won’t be an easy time for In our April column we reported The single glass front door opening into what was approved in the original building the successful candidate to take over an the glamorous foyer is also the sole means permit and what was provided at settlement. incumbent council, we are confident that on two apartment buildings of access for residents moving goods into After hundreds of hours of research, being residents will have a greater voice than in where owners were suffering and out of the building; whilst a short denied a position on the OC committee previous councils. distance down the street a huge loading-bay by three of the current five members who Already we note that plans for the after proxy farmers stitched up connecting the residents’ car park to the between them hold proxies for hundreds of renovation of the Queen Victoria Market, lucrative contracts. floors where their storage cages are located, absentee owners – a blatant case of proxy heavily promoted by the previous lord via a very large goods lift, is off-limits to farming – issuing complaints about breaches mayor, may have to go back to the drawing residents. of the model rules which have been ignored, board because of Heritage Victoria’s refusal Another story has come to the notice of In 2008 when the building permit was the intrepid owner is taking the management of a key element of the proposal. This will We Live Here of one strata owner’s lone issued the loading zone was approved for company to VCAT to obtain a ruling that hopefully open the door to a radical rethink fight to take on the might of developer and both residential and retail use. However by residents can use what is legally theirs. that will preserve the precinct as the premier the management company appointed to 2012 when settlement took place residents If she succeeds she will be benefitting all tourist attraction in Melbourne. administer the common property for the were informed by the management company 505 owners despite having to do it all on her owners’ corporation (OC). Between them that the loading bay was now for retail own with the only assistance available being Campaign donations they have blatantly ignored the rights of use only and their security swipes were provided by Consumer Affairs and Freedom As a not-for-profit organisation, donations owners who are virtually powerless to do programmed to prevent use of the goods lift! of Information. Legal Aid doesn’t handle from individuals and buildings keep our anything about it. An average of more than one furniture such matters and one needs $6000 before campaigns going. To register as a supporter The mixed-use development in the City delivery arrives each day for people moving even getting to talk to a lawyer. of We Live Here or to make a donation please of Stonnington includes 505 residential in and out; delivery vans are required to With the weight of the developer and visit our website at welivehere.net. apartments above a shopping mall. The illegally double-park and unload their management against her it is going to be We Live Here does not accept donations apartment complex comes with a tennis goods in the street just metres from a tough going and we hope other owners from commercial tourism interests. court and a swimming pool and on first major thoroughfare; the glass front door is will come out and give her the support she We welcome your comments and glance looks like luxury-living on a grand jammed open and beds, fridges and entire deserves. We wish her well. feedback, and invite suggestions for topics scale. However look a little further and households are wheeled through the foyer. you would like us to address in this column. another picture emerges. Drivers are booked, residents are shamed The by-election for lord mayor In the ground floor entrance foyer, an area and the property becomes less desirable, Voting for the new lord mayor ended on designated on the original plans as common not to say reduced in value when the onsite May 11 and the result should be announced property for the use of residents and their by the time this column is printed. www.welivehere.net building manager tells everyone who enters live guests as a recreation area, has been leased the building that there is no loading zone. During the campaign period We Live “we emails to campaign@ here”TM (or sold) to a real estate agency. This real There also appears to be other Here attended three “meet the candidates” welivehere.net estate agency holds hundreds of proxies for irregularities, e.g. in the allocation of sessions and met with a number of them.

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Street Art Making money by destroying culture

So, it seems that people have taken to advertising on street art hot spots. Paste up advertising or street advertising is killing much of the important lanes in the CBD and inner city.

Take Duckboard Place. This lane way which I guess the council sells to the street to tell people for years that they are all the was part of the hottest street precinct advertisers. same. People hate being told that. It’s weird in Melbourne. Linked to AC-DC Lane, This is a very poor decision by the that the more we strive for individualism Duckboard Place had some of the best art Melbourne Council as much of the street the further away from it we seem. And that’s from artist such as: Banksy, Blek Le Rat, precincts are already under threat by poor what happens when street advertisements Everfresh, Ash Keating, Ha-Ha, Ghostpatrol, city planning and commercial and not pretend to be street art. It’s not good for Junky Projects and many more, plus cultural interests. What is happening in street art aesthetically or intellectually and Melbourne’s best collection of random shoes Duckboard Place is happening all over inner it’s destroying important art areas. So, I say, thrown over the power line. Melbourne. This is becoming common go away street advertiser, you bring nothing When all the artists started painting in that practice. to the table! lane it wasn’t called AC-DC and it was full I read that the average person in Anywayz, I hope all you punkz have an of the best hidden bars and night clubs that Melbourne sees well over 4000 adverts a awesome month. Melbourne had to offer. But like the shoes day. I believe we are forced to have enough Come see my show which opens at and the art, the night clubs have gone and advertisements in our life. I don’t see why Darkhorse Experiment on July 6. been replaced by commercial interests. Melbourne’s urban art needs to be destroyed And follow me on Instagram: doylesart The people that sell advertising space for to make room for more. Stay kool, stay in skool paste ups always try and put their advertising I can’t imagine how much the street Cheers, Doyle in places where people will see it. This had advertisements are making for the council, led to them putting adverts in the most company owners and advertisers, but I’m famous and hidden street art precincts. So not sure it would be as much as these great like some horrible bacteria, the adverts and important street art precincts earn in have slowly eaten away at the urban art in the form of tourism, back drops for car ads, Melbourne rendering much of it unsightly education and a space for artists to mess and ugly. with your head without trying to sell you Adrian Doyle Duckboard Place is a good case study, something other than their weird ideas and Street Artist as some of the important artworks were bizarre propaganda. Blender Studios founder and destroyed by construction and gentrification, the council, as all the art has been removed It’s not like I don’t like paste-ups. I think director but much of it must have been a decision by and replaced with street advertising zones that they are great. I have been using them

Music Gough Music Spark

By Chris Mineral in 1973. It produced huge animosity from the awesome angular and atonal riffing, Every Breath You Take with Sting, you realise Philistines, shall we say. Gough thought that Spiderbait-esque in places in its eclecticism. what an incredible voice and talent the man Blue Poles was Pollock’s masterpiece. In this Yet rougher and readier. Some regard TFS had. Jack Ladder surveyed the scene light, Jack Ladder may be at an apogee with as better than the Drones. They have a His song Gurrumul History (I Was Born his music. The Rocksteady Records show polarisation factor of 500, not everyone’s cup Blind), won a Deadly Award. He sang at Rocksteady Records, Mitchell was a more than a charming performance, of tea, all the more reason to listen. Music to Amazing Grace with Paul Kelly. If ever there House, Lonsdale St, CBD. White Flag being a highlight. The posse listen to whilst driving a speedboat along a was an Angelic voice on earth it would be comprehended the sublimation of it all. mighty river with a Tohatsu outboard motor Gurrumul. A very talented musician. humming along. Gurrumul’s Djarimirri (Child Of The Blue Poles, his new album was on the TFS ‘cause Gough was tough till he hit the rough Rainbow) Skinnyfish Music/MGM shelves. Vinyl. That is what matters. And he Tropical lightning, and TFS are ready Uncle Sam and John were quite enough is available now, presenting a selection of was there to launch it. to roll with their debut album A Laughing Too much of sunshine too much of sky the best of this genius musician. Cognoscenti, arms folded anticipated Death In Meatspace (TFS Records/ a stellar performance. Ladder put on his Mistletone/Inertia). Oils Gigs / Shows shades, the Brown Fox turned off his phone. Two of their best songs bookend the Midnight Oil have been recognised ■■ Sunday Arvos in June - Cherry Bar Blues Blue Poles (Barely Dressed Records) has album. Opening with You Let My Tyres by winning the Ted Albert Award For Sessions, ACDC Lane, CBD White Flag – anthemic baritone balladry, self Down and closing with Rubber Bullies. TFS Outstanding Services To Australian Music, ■■ Astral Glamour - 3RRR Mondays 2pm deprecation, total clutch cargo chorus, very feature members of The Drones and they put 2018. There is a great installation at The ■■ Brian Jonestown Massacre, Forum 30th century. in a polished performance at the 10th year Australian Music Vault, Melbourne Arts Theatre, Melbourne - Thursday, June 14 Ladder had been opening shows for The celebrations of Simon And Lauren’s radio Centre that with great faith chronicles the ■■ Black Wax - Adam Rudegair - Monday Killers on their stadium/ arena tour, playing show Breaking and Entering. When Simon trajectory of this great band. Their journey 11am , 3PBS to thousands and thousands of punters. Yet and Lauren were reminiscing before the TFS to Central Australia and their respect and ■■ British India, 170 Russell, Melbourne – the Rocksteady records show had a raw and set they looked like two characters from a recognition of Aboriginal tribes songlines, Friday, June 15 real resonance for the Sydney singer. John Hughes film. culture, traditions and relation to country is ■■ Sarah Blasko, 170 Russell, Melbourne – This was to be a true action performance King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard essential and is discussed. Friday, June 22 to a dedicated gathering. Almost a plucked TFS from the Tote stage and Midnight Oil would have discovered benediction. Au Go Go Records stalwart Pat elevated them to a support slot on a recent Gurrumul when they played shows with M was there, with the ensuing posse. Ladder American tour. Yothu Yindi. Gurrumul was from Elcho has done a great job producing this most Dual guitar duels bass and drums, TFS Island, Arnhem Land, 330 miles east of recent album. He once sang with Sharon play like Giancarlo Stanton of the Yankees, Darwin. Van Etten on To Keep And To Be Kept. He has hitting lasers into left field, and then hitting it He was in Saltwater band as well. He sang Chris Mineral sung at Rocksteady Records. long, high and far gone into right field. songs in Gälpu, Gumatj or Djambarrpuynu email: Blue Poles, Number 11, 1952 is an abstract, Gareth Lydiard is a major league lyricist as well as English. English was his fourth [email protected] expressionist painting by Jackson Pollock and singer, mixing things up very well. language and he was a reticent interviewee. that Gough Whitlam and his team purchased Inventive in their song constructions, In the film Gurrumul, when he performs 20 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43

Critic Did the earth move for you? Rhonda Dredge

The façade is light brown stone with chiaroscuro in the monumental sunken windows at the top, which peek out above the trees of Swanston St like an alien intelligence.

Five galleries are hidden within the A sense of belonging is worth more than The dynamic marketplace demands fresh bunker as are other altruistic groups a dollar. Down the street at the café Journal products. World Food Books on the third dedicated to romancing culture. the writers are on their laptops, creating floor is open just two days a week and a This month demolition began on the beautiful mysteries for the people of constant stream of visitors comes looking annex of this besieged building for the metro Melbourne. for the shop even when it is closed. What tunnel. There’s a difference between culture and is unavailable or hard to find can be just as “The foundations shook,” said one business. One aims to hook a buyer, the cool or even more so than products with tenant, who has stayed rather than flee the other evolves regardless. You can’t really branding. crumbling urban landscape that now holds suppress it. You can catch up on the latest art books the Nicholas Building in its embrace. The Nicholas Building was built before from Europe here and discover a penchant The days of tenants’ groups and threats the advent of internal dividers. That makes for fantasy that has not yet penetrated the of resistance have passed as the building 20 solid little display cases on each floor for Australian market. holds onto its unique culture of start-up showing off goods. Space for imaginative play is hard to find companies and creative collaborations. Vertical retailing has been slow to take off in an over-thought, ironic market such as Such is the kudos of the Nick that one in Melbourne. ours where every little whim is immediately gallery Caves is funded by a sponsor, the The pundits predict future growth. There given a dollar value. creative director of a local architectural firm. was a 30 per cent increase between 2014 Take a hike through the Nicholas Instead of pandering to capitalists, the and 2016 in above-ground retail spaces. Building one Friday and fill in the details for gallery can experiment with art styles and is Low vacancy rates and increasing rents yourself. Visitors are encouraged here. If the currently indulging in the wicked line of Tim are putting pressure on ground floor foundations shake don’t let them go to your McGonagle. opportunities. head. Caves is manned by volunteers. Other While agents and outsiders might talk of Pioneers such as Kimono House, Harold & galleries in the building are funded by the dollar values, it’s who you know that counts Maude and L’Uccello are doing well on the City of Melbourne, enabling them to survive at the Nicholas. When a desk comes up, a second floor, relying on regular customers rather than submit to the ruling financial piercing intelligence radiates out from the and tourists keen to discover hidden corners Rhonda Dredge imperative of the city. edifice and you’re in. of the city. [email protected]

Planning Bold proposal for the city's tallest capacity into Melbourne’s CBD. The Royal Society of Victoria has IHG has also confirmed a new dual- presence Holiday Inn and Hotel Indigo as floated a bold proposal for what part of $200m redevelopment of The Walk would become Melbourne’s Arcade. Upon completion in 2022, the tallest skyscraper on one of the development will become the first Australian city’s smallest land plots. dual-branded hotel, consisting of 272 keys for Holiday Inn Melbourne Bourke Street Mall and a further 181 keys for Hotel Indigo Dubbed “Magic”, the tower would extend Melbourne Little Collins. to a height of 330m, surpassing Eureka Onsite amenities will include food and Tower at 297m and the approved, but yet to beverage outlets, a gym, meeting spaces and be built, 1 Queensbridge at 323m. Decibel a unique guest lobby and room experience Architecture has joined forces with the Royal for each brand. Society of Victoria and Grocon to champion And finally, the Minister for Planning has the project. approved the City of Melbourne and PDG If realised, Magic would become the Corp’s $450m development of the Munro Site nation’s and the southern hemisphere’s opposite the Queen Victoria Market. tallest skyscraper, on a triangular vacant plot The approval allows for the development approximately the size of a tennis court. The Decibel Architecture’s ‘Magic’ Proposal for the Royal Society of Victoria of a 38-storey tower known as QVM site is located on the corner of LaTrobe and Residences rising to a maximum height of Victoria streets, directly opposite Carlton enabling the RSV’s purpose, projects and sqm former Age site, a new laneway will 125m accommodating 300 apartments and Gardens and the Royal Exhibition Building. awards programs to be supercharged for be developed connecting Lonsdale St and an 80-room boutique hotel. The development would also serve to the next 160 years. Little Lonsdale St, providing restaurants and A smaller 10-storey building will allow Royal Society of Victoria to: To the CBD’s western extremity and as an extensive number of retail sites focused provide build 56 affordable housing units, ■ ■ Support citizen science, technology, and construction progresses on stage 1 of Far around a central landscaped public realm. a 120-place childcare facility, family and science clubs across Melbourne and East Consortium’s West Side Place multi- In further hotel-related news, Little children’s services centre, a community Victoria; tower development, the fourth and final Projects will develop a Hyatt Centric branded centre, and a 503-bay car park. ■ ■ Enhance and upgrade the heritage- tower has been released, dubbed The Park hotel at 9-27 Downie St after acquiring the Construction on the Munro site is listed home of the RSV to meet modern Release. site with a development permit in mid-2017. expected to get under way within weeks. accessibility requirements and be fit The 70-storey, mixed-use tower will rise for Hyatt Centric Melbourne will include 278 for the 21st century public engagement a total height of approximately 235m and will guestrooms and suites and is expected to be Laurence Dragomir required; accommodate 684 apartments and a 4-star open for business during 2020. ■■ Develop a science engagement centre Laurence is an Urban 312 room Dorsett-branded hotel, offering Hyatt Hotels Corporation’s take up Melbourne director with and science cafe; and views across the Flagstaff Gardens. of the Downie St project continues the expertise in the CBD ■■ Create a perpetual endowment fund, As part of the redevelopment of the 12,000 unparalleled flow of new hotel brands and urbanmelbourne.info ISSUE 43 CBD NEWS 21 垃圾车噪音 预算拨款 市政无对策 CBD项目 撰稿 Shane Scanlan 撰稿：David Schout

CBD居民为寻求缓解夜间垃圾 虽然市中心停车的大幅上涨是 车噪音，将对墨尔本市政最新 今年预算的一个主要举措，但 的垃圾处理策略感到非常失 一些CBD项目却获益不少。 望。 墨尔本市政重申了对复杂的维 5月15日，在墨尔本未来委员 多利亚女王市场重建项目的财 会会上，市政提出了2030年废 政承诺，为下一个财政年度预 品和资源回收策略草案，取代 留了近2000万澳元。 了先前的计划策略以及原先的 副市长埃伦•伍德( Arron 三年计划。 Wood )表示，预算承诺将与社 这个策略草案显示了这个问 区合作，设计1.5公顷的开放 题并无改进，而越来越糟糕。 空间，修复遗产大棚，改善客 目前在市政注册的废品公司约 户和交易商的便利设施，再次 有40家，在CBD用大卡车收集 保证对该项目的坚定支持。 垃圾。2016年注册的此类公司 他说:“我们会继续专注於 为36家。 长远的考量，并为市政有史以 刚过期的《2015-18年废品和 来最大规模的投资，即维多利 物资回收计划》的作者，前市 新市长莎莉·卡普 亚女王市场的重建，铺平道 政工程师杰夫•罗宾逊( Geoff 莎莉·卡普(Sally Capp)正式补 Jennifer Yang )而获胜。 路。” Robinson )至少试图要解决这 选为墨尔本市新市长。 在偏好投票分配完之后，卡普 同一天，州规划厅长理查德• 个问题。他的计划似乎永远都 维多利亚州选举委员会( VEC 女士获得了53%的选票，杨女士 韦恩( Richard Wynne )宣布 不够充分，但他至少提出了六 )于5月18日宣布，卡普女士得 获得了47%的选票。 批准该市场附近价值4.5亿澳 个垃圾压实机“试点”，居民 票数超过其次的候选人杨千惠( 元的蒙罗(Munro) 场地的混合 可以免费使用这些压实机来堆 使用。2014年市政以7600万元 放垃圾。 购买并拥有了这块场地，将建 以这些能覆盖CBD所需的数百 造包括38层和10层的两个大 台压实机的成本，即每台10万 市政议员坚持女王 楼，其中有公寓(包括经济适 元和每年每台15万元的运营成 用住房)、酒店客房、儿童保 本，就注定该计划会泡汤。 育设施、画廊和零售店。 但是罗宾逊的计划至少包括 市政在预算中宣布，与开发 了明确的成本计算和实施时间 市场改造计划 商一起在这个蒙罗场地上将建 表。 造7000多万元的社区基础设 新的2030年废品和物资回收 撰稿 Shane Scanlan 改的方案”。“因此，这可能意 施。 策略草案几乎没有确认这个问 味着，许多我个人认为很重要的 该区域预计在未来四年内还 题的严重性，而提出了一个更 墨尔本市政议员非但没有放弃 因素都会在新申请之中，只是我 会增加22000人居住。 为渺茫的解决方案。 维多利亚女王市场修建地下三层 们寻找一种不同的方法来实现-- 从市政最新预算中获益的其 市政在关于社区参与的总结 的希望，反而更坚定了原来的计 对其进行分析和分阶段操作，表 它CBD项目还包括一个耗资200 报告中提到，据告知:“有大 划。 明其可操作性，并提供业务案 万元伊丽莎白街南端的街景翻 量废品公司卡车仍在市中心运 在5月15日的墨尔本未来委员 例。” 新工程，这是一个行人流量很 营，造成大量噪音问题。” 会会议上，他们坚称自己没有让 凯西·奥克(Cathy Oke)议员 多的区域，该工程将减轻行人 其答复是:“草案承认废品 步，也没有搁置这个项目。 说:“这并不意味着新方案有任 的负担，特别是在交通高峰 管理对环境的影响，并力求 他们说，他们正在以最实际的 何不同，我认为现在摆在桌面上 期。 通过一系列措施来减少这些影 方式来实现所期望的结果。 的问题与五年之前非常相似。” 墨尔本市政厅的整修工程已 响。” 部分议员表示，市政甚至可能 议员菲利普•刘乐(Phillip Le 获拨款300万元，在柏克街与 如果在找到草案中的所谓“ 会向维多利亚文物保护署申请同 Liu)和苏珊•莱利(Susan Riley) 小柯林斯街之间的一块市政拥 一系列措施”之前，这可能是 样的许可证，即拆除及更换半个 投票反对提出新的申请，说市政 有的地域，将以高达500万元 一个令人鼓舞的答复。 顶棚A、B、C及D，以挖掘建造地 受到了不公平的对待，并主张采 重建，开发新的零售及商业租 市政把“减少垃圾收集对市 下三层。 取法律手段上诉。 赁。 容的影响”列为四个优先解决 维多利亚文物保护署( 刘乐问道“我们怎么去尊重那 北岸开放空间项目也将得 事项之一。但在提出解决办法 heritage Victoria )今年3月拒 些并不真正尊重我们的人？”。 益于预算的210万元的资金注 时，却差之甚远。 绝了该工程的许可证，称所提出 “我不支持提出新的申请。我 入。 在这个优先解决事项的“措 的改造级别并不符合市政的业务 认为我们有非常充分的理由提出 市政还提到了本市无家可归 施”标题下，市政表示将: 案例。 上诉或进行司法审核。” 者日益增多的问题，承诺提供 “执行 -- 审查现有的垃圾 代理市长埃伦•伍德( Arron 莱利议员说:“我认为维多利 180万元，来处理CBD和周边地 收集许可证制度及‘限制出入 Wood )是争议最强烈的人士之 亚文物保护署作出了一项非常粗 区的露宿者。 区’，以找出进一步改善市容 一，他表示，他“不情愿”地准 拙的处理。我想他们只是在没有 的潜力； 备放弃法律上诉，只是感到新的 征求我们的意见或尊重墨尔本市 合作 -- 会同废品行业和其 申请更有可能实现所期望的结 政的情况下，硬逼着我们这么 他利益相关方审查市中心垃圾 果。 做。” 收集情况；以及 但是他指出，新的申请可能与 她说：“我觉得我们应该与之 执行 -- 扩大现有的市中心 3月份被拒绝的申请没有太大区 抗争。说实在的，我仍然不明白 垃圾压实机和回收中心网络， 别。 为什么他们在拒绝之前不能和我 重点放在咖啡馆和餐馆数量多 他说：“这并不意味着我们会 们沟通一下。我只是觉得这是完 的区域。” 提出一个全新方案。这是一个修 全不公平和不合理。” 22 CBD NEWS ISSUE 43 WHAT’S ON COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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