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The Power of Pink
The workings of algae, salt and temperature have caused a visitor boom to Westgate Park. On 7 March, Parks Victoria posted on facebook Westgate Park’s salt lake has turned pink again this season: a...
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Behind the Wall
So much of what we consume – some say as much as 90% – comes through the Port, yet what happens behind the newly built corten wall on Todd Road is a bit of a mystery. Travelling west over the Westgate...
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Air Pollution at Station Pier
The cruise ship season extends into May. P & O’s Pacific Eden was in today. Station Pier is off limits to foot traffic on cruise ship days but the western wing pier is a more relaxed place to be...
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Piers Festival Adaptation
Princes Pier was to have come to life on Sunday for the 6th Annual Piers Festival but a severe weather warning means it will now be held at the South Melbourne Town Hall. In between events Princes Pier...
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1-7 Waterfront Place
A planning application will soon be decided by the Port Phillip Council for the blighted, fire ravaged site at 1-7 Waterfront Place, Port Melbourne. The site’s deterioration and dereliction following...
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Easter Exploration
It’s been a while since I’ve idled through Fishermans Bend. With not a soul out and about, and barely a car to be seen over Easter – Fishermans Bend was quiet. There is a pause about the place,...
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Jane’s Walk
Emerald Hill to Gasworks – the people and politics that shaped a landscape Sunday 7 May 2017 urban creek in South Melbourne Each year in the first weekend of May, walks are held in cities around the...
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Midden
Last stop on Jane’s Walk: from Emerald Hill to Gasworks A story of transformation Midden – a scattering of sculpture on the rain green grass responds to the Gasworks story. Matthew Harding’s work sits...
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They may not quite be the ridges that gave Sandridge its name but Port’s dunes are beginning to undulate – their soft forms covered with coastal grasses. Sand accretes in some places and decreases in...
View Article134 – 142 Ferrars Street, Montague
8 May 2017 After four years, a permit has been granted for this site. Down from the originally proposed 49 storeys, the building is now approved at 18 storeys and includes 17 three bedroom homes and 6...
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