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It’s Historical
The last Toyota made in Australia rolled down the line at 12pm on Tuesday 3 October 2017. This real and symbolic moment in our local and national history was overshadowed by mass murder in Las Vegas....
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draft Fishermans Bend Framework
In this season of callistemons and roses, the draft Fishermans Bend Framework was released. It is just over a year since the Vision for Fishermans Bend and each of its precincts was adopted. While it...
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River crossings
Melbourne from the south bank of the Yarra in the 1850s Put yourself in the picture where those two men are standing between two bridges looking across the Yarra River – the Sandridge Bridge to the...
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Managing Density
An explainer kind of post A laissez faire approach to height was one of the major criticisms of the early planning for Fishermans Bend. The draft Fishermans Bend Framework, out for consultation,...
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Review of 2017
Living with the Port The year opened with Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) receiving its first vessel, the ANL Woomera, at Webb Dock East on Friday 6th January 2017. It closed with a...
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New Year 2018
I stepped out into the new year looking for the fresh in the familiar. Port Melbourne was looking dry and weary from Saturday’s 41 degrees. It was disquietingly dormant. ‘New trees step out of old’...
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The Minister for Planning, Richard Wynne, has caused a stir by ‘calling in’ 26 Fishermans Bend planning applications. His intervention is necessary. The release of the draft Fishermans Bend Framework...
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Munro St, Fishermans Bend
Road Portraits: Munro St Munro St is an unremarkable street spanning the Montague and Sandridge precincts of Fishermans Bend. From the Port Melbourne Football ground on Ingles St it peters out in the...
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Boundary Street
Road portrait: Boundary Street Boundary Street separated the cities of Port and South Melbourne when that boundary meant something. Boundary St is yet another straight and purposeful street heading...
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Talking trees
The yellow dot and official notice only confirms what we know. The tree is dead. And so are two others in Cruikshank St, Port Melbourne. The Bureau of Meteorology confirms what we feel. February was a...
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A Planning Panel is reviewing the draft planning controls, Amendment GC81, for Fishermans Bend. The hearings started on 1st March and the Panel will sit for a marathon 56 days to hear all submissions....
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Politics in the Pub
Do you use Trove? Trove makes it as easy to read the newspapers of yesteryear as to read the newspapers of today. And there’s no paywall either. Through Trove we have easy access and insights into...
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The First Quarter
Easter Explorations in Fishermans Bend 2018 The next wave of development is beginning with several sites in, and on the edge of, Fishermans Bend being prepared for construction. In Montague The new...
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Fifteen85
There’s a new wave of development activity in Montague and Fishermans Bend as permits granted several years ago enter the marketing phase. View from Gladstone Street with the new South Melbourne...
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Winter sun
This solstice week has been mid-winter cold with a low of 30 on the 19 June. When the sun comes out, it’s like a magnet. The shaded bench is ignored in favour of the sunny one, and the cafe with...
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Fishermans Bend planning update
The Fishermans Bend Review Panel ended its marathon hearings on Amendment GC81 on 22nd June – the longest running hearing in the history of Planning Panels in Victoria. Amendment GC81 is the planning...
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6-78 Buckhurst St, Montague
August 2018 On 23 August around 6pm, a blaze engulfed the former Carlins showroom on the corner of Buckhurst and Kerr St. More than 20 firefighters brought the fire under control by 7.08pm. image: 1826...
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Focus on Ferrars
Update A fire engulfed the former Carlins showroom (corner Kerr and Buckhurst Sts) in Montague about 6pm this evening, Thursday 23 August. 20 firefighters attended the blaze which was brought under...
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Destination Fishermans Bend
My journey began on Liardet St, Port Melbourne. The bus stop stands on the former Sandridge Lagoon. With the 606 only running every 40 minutes, I was unduly early for the timetabled bus arrival time....
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Catalyst
Wednesday 8.45 am. Children and parents, many hand in hand, make their way from every direction to enter the wide open doors of the South Melbourne Primary School which opened in January this year. The...
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