Keeping up morale at Riverside Quay
People are anxious about the COVID-19 outbreak, making it difficult to get a true picture of how it is affecting those living and working in Southbank.
Architects, stockbrokers and professional workers have left the office towers to work at home.
And those left behind in the hospitality industries are forced to be creative.
Café managers are designing new services, such as selling bread and milk, and using home delivery apps to suit the changing demographic of customers.
The square at Riverside Quay, once the hang-out of Melbourne’s well-dressed design community, has become more casual and local since the lockdown.
Even the guilty pleasure of coffee has taken on new meaning as regulars, some in thongs, slip into their favourite places to help local...
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The uncertainty currently confronting our world is well understood and, like everyone, Southbank News is not immune to it.
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PSC stays ahead of the curve
Photography Studies College Melbourne (PSC) has adapted to the rapidly changing educational landscape by introducing new ways of creating an engaging live face-to-face learning experience for students off-campus.
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Dark times for our Arts Precinct
Southbank’s Arts Precinct, and Victoria’s creative industries more broadly, have been some of the hardest hit by COVID-19.
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Adapting to rapid change
While Southbank’s Arts Precinct has been shut down to the world, the next generation of students aspiring to fill these spaces from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) have too had their creative pursuits disrupted by COVID-19.
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Fed Square and City Library could converge
Before all of our lives, and all of the news, became dominated by coronavirus (COVID-19) there was news regarding a longstanding debate in the city – the status of Federation Square.
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Council extends construction hours
The City of Melbourne has temporarily adjusted the management of construction activity in “certain cases” in the municipality in a bid to fast-track construction projects, save jobs and help limit the economic impact of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Edition - April 2020
Council extends construction hours
The City of Melbourne has temporarily adjusted the management of construction activity in “certain cases” in the municipality in a bid to fast-track construction projects, save jobs and help limit the economic impact of coronavirus (COVID-19).
07 Apr 2020
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We’re still publishing
The uncertainty currently confronting our world is well understood and, like everyone, Southbank News is not immune to it.
07 Apr 2020
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Southbank on pause amid uncertainty
As businesses close, workers clear and events cease, Southbank is bracing for an acutely uncertain 2020 amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
07 Apr 2020
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Promenade works pushed back
The City of Melbourne is delaying the start of upgrades to Southbank Promenade to ease disruption with nearby projects and prioritise the completion of Southbank Boulevard.
07 Apr 2020
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How the virus has hit Southbank
The Southbank community and economy are, like the rest of the world, wading through an unprecedented experience.
07 Apr 2020
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Council well placed to support battling businesses
At a time when small business is getting wiped out by the coronavirus, it was good to see City of Melbourne councillors nimbly come up with a $10 million support package at the committee meeting held on March 17.
07 Apr 2020
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Fed Square and City Library could converge
Before all of our lives, and all of the news, became dominated by coronavirus (COVID-19) there was news regarding a longstanding debate in the city – the status of Federation Square.
07 Apr 2020
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A different crisis for the worse off
When society grinds to a halt, events are cancelled, businesses shut and most of us head indoors to self-isolate, but what happens to our vulnerable?
07 Apr 2020
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Green tower endorsed for “Cloudbank”
City of Melbourne councillors officially gave their unanimous endorsement of what will become Australia’s tallest mixed-use tower at the corner of City Rd and Southbank Boulevard last month.
07 Apr 2020
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Keeping up morale at Riverside Quay
People are anxious about the COVID-19 outbreak, making it difficult to get a true picture of how it is affecting those living and working in Southbank.
07 Apr 2020
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Council slams state, federal inaction on housing crisis
City of Melbourne councillors have slammed upper tiers of government for a “disgraceful” response to the housing crisis and said “business as usual” would no longer cut it for the city.
07 Apr 2020
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Gig economy grey area
In November last year, food delivery drivers working for platforms like UberEats in the CBD were targeted in a Victoria Police traffic operation. Two hundred infringement notices were issued, with at least a quarter of offences relating to delivery bike users.
07 Apr 2020
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Dark times for our Arts Precinct
Southbank’s Arts Precinct, and Victoria’s creative industries more broadly, have been some of the hardest hit by COVID-19.
07 Apr 2020
Read more >>
Adapting to rapid change
While Southbank’s Arts Precinct has been shut down to the world, the next generation of students aspiring to fill these spaces from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) have too had their creative pursuits disrupted by COVID-19.
07 Apr 2020
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Something to think about at the Guild
As flat-dwellers seek out new routes for their daily walks, there’s a small public space by the Guild building opposite the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) on Sturt St.
07 Apr 2020
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PSC stays ahead of the curve
Photography Studies College Melbourne (PSC) has adapted to the rapidly changing educational landscape by introducing new ways of creating an engaging live face-to-face learning experience for students off-campus.
07 Apr 2020
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