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Big birds and little birds
For many years I have woken each morning to the call of the wattlebird in the coast Banksias that line our street. In August last year, I recorded this taken for granted call for the way it stood out...
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The Future of Transport and Fishermans Bend
When the heritage listed murals in the GMH Social Centre were painted in 1945 by employee Eileen Robertson, the first all Australian car had not yet been built at Fishermans Bend. By early 1948, Port...
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Transformation in Montague
On a grey day in June 2015, I walked down Ferrars St when the gloom was lifted by the sight of a single strawberry outside CAPI’s (then) warehouse. That memory was triggered when I saw a green wall...
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Changing Habitats
The prompt for this post was seeing a photograph on instagram of Westgate Park in its early years when flocks of White Ibis frequented the Park in large numbers. In October this year, only one White...
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Year in Review 2021
Diving right in to Fishermans Bend The sections below are arranged by precinct, as per the Fishermans Bend Framework. Montague In Montague, several projects came to completion this year, including the...
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Flagship College in Fishermans Bend
Port Melbourne Secondary College opened this Monday, 31st January 2022. Deputy Premier James Merlino cut the ribbon in the company of Martin Foley, member for Albert Park, foundation principal, Anne...
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When General Motors Holden moved to Fishermans Bend
In 1934, Lawrence Hartnett came from England to Australia to lead the newly merged General Motors-Holden. He moved the factory from its crowded, rat infested premises in City Rd, South Melbourne to...
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The salt lake at Westgate Park
Is the lake at Westgate Park pink at the moment? No, not this year. In this La Nina year, the combination of factors that cause the lake to turn pink are not present. The lake turns pink when there is...
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Sand and cement in Fishermans Bend
This post was prompted by a stop on the walk Destination Fishermans Bend. Cement trucks park neatly along the River’s edge on Lorimer Street near where it parts from Todd Road. Cement Australia...
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The First Quarter 2022
January 2022 On Saturday the 1st January the maximum temperature was 37.1 degrees. COVID testing processing services had wound down over the Christmas break. Cases of the highly transmissible Omicron...
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The Kirrip Park cluster
Delta is preparing the site at 15 to 85 Gladstone St in Montague for development. Delta at work on 15 – 85 Gladstone St. View from Kirrip Park, Gravity Tower in the background Planning for the huge...
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Shed 21 – a gateway hub
You’ll find Shed 21 on the south side of the Yarra River, on the city side of the Bolte Bridge. Shed 21 is a steel framed shed with a concrete deck and a river frontage. Every Wednesday, at 12 noon, a...
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Fishermans Bend update, August 2022
Innovation, and creating the optimum conditions for stimulating it, is at the core of planning for, and thinking about, the former General Motors Holden site1 in Fishermans Bend. The City of Melbourne,...
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Celebrating Holden at Shed 21
Celebrating Holden in Fishermans Bend image Liana Hardy (Long Story Short) On Sunday 4 December, Shed 21 came into its own. The huge shed had plenty of space for line upon line of carefully placed,...
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2022 – a year in Port places
January How the year began . . . Queuing on Johnson St to access the Montague PCR testing facility, 11 January 2022 In early January, people queued for PCR tests at the Montague St testing site....
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Port Places: year in review 2022
Here goes. Diving right in . . . A round up of what’s happened in Fishermans Bend and Port Melbourne in 2022. Fishermans Bend Lorimer 150 – 188 Turner St Acciona’s application for a five-tower project...
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360 degrees on Lorimer St
For two hours on Tuesday, the 7th March, I counted bike riders as they passed a point where Ingles St meets Lorimer St. It was part of Bicycle Network’s long running Super Tuesday count of bike riders...
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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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