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Below and above Williamstown Rd
Hot air balloon from Garden City Reserve photo courtesy of Sherrie Taylor Early on Monday morning, hot air balloons glanced over the roof tops of Garden City before coming to rest in Murphy’s Reserve....
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Linking Westgate Park & Royal Park
Small bush birds are disappearing from urban environments. Superb fairy-wrens persist at only seventeen sites in inner Melbourne, according to a recent report by Gio Fitzpatrick1. Two of those sites...
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The First Quarter 2023
Port Melbourne and Fishermans Bend In the first quarter global and national pressures have been felt oppressively. Inflation, the cost of living, volatility in the economy – all have made themselves...
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History and future of design at Fishermans Bend
A roof on the General Motors Holden site offers 3600 views of the 480 ha of Fishermans Bend. The markers: the River – the Port cranes and the cement silos the Westgate Bridge the city towers the Bay In...
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The Canopy on Normanby Rd
Construction is about to begin on the triangular shaped site on the corner of Normanby Rd and Johnson St. This site had intrigued me after seeing Graeme Butler’s photograph of the former Dunlops...
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Getting to school
Today is the last day of Book Week. Costumed characters made their way to Port Melbourne Primary School, their route made safer by a series of pedestrian crossings installed over time. Streets have...
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Destination Fishermans Bend
Buses 235 and 237 service Fishermans Bend. The 235 via Williamstown Rd, and the 237 via Lorimer St. Both services turn around outside Westgate Park, though at different places. Both of these services...
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Steps towards a water sensitive Fishermans Bend
We, that is Melburnians, use 50 GL more water each year than the rainfall that is captured in water storages, according to Water Minister Harriet Shing1. Fishermans Bend, in a phrase repeated so often...
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2023 – a year in Port places
January The newly installed floating wetlands anchored off Yarra’s Edge in Docklands. Floating wetlands at Webb Bridge, Yarra’s Edge February 24 February: anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
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Port Places: year in review 2023
This year’s words of the year – ‘rizz’1 and ‘hallucinate’2 do not resonate here at Port Places. Instead, I have chosen the word ‘consequential’, a word I have heard more often in 2023. In this post, I...
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