Latest articles by Southbank News
Transcending gender
Final year Photography Studies College (PSC) student Aaron Walker has been making waves in the international LGBTI community through his first major series on drag artist portraiture.
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July at MRC
There are two wonderful performances by young musicians coming up in July at the Melbourne Recital Centre, featuring a myriad of instruments including violin, viola, clarinet, oboe, flute, double bass and piano.
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Kimbra to play Supersense
New Zealand-born songbird Kimbra has been announced as the latest addition to the impressive 2017 Supersense: Festival of the Ecstatic line up, taking place at Southbank’s Arts Centre in August.
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Double the fun
Southgate restaurants and retailers have teamed up with the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) to provide theatre fans with a series of fantastic offers as part of MTC’s current performance “Noises Off”.
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A tremendous trio
St Johns Southgate’s resident trio of pups Casey, Coco and Ella love life in Southbank.
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Body awareness, lower back pain and goal setting
Poor body awareness Nearly every new client I see and take through a health, fitness, posture and body composition assessment has very little understanding on some simple things that they can do to move more freely, feel better, reduce pain and poor mobility and to generally improve their posture.
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What cocktail are you?
Waterslide Bar at Southgate has recently launched a revolutionary new cocktail menu that matches cocktails to a host of identities one might meet at the bar.
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Military health in Southbank
The former Repatriation Commission clinic on the corner of St Kilda Rd and Coventry St, beautifully placed opposite the Botanic Gardens, has played a remarkable role in the health of war veterans in Victoria.
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Breaking up is hard to do
When most of us enter into personal relationships, there is a fairly evenly-distributed balance of power and autonomy, at least to start with.
Read MoreThe vertical war on food waste
The month of May played host to International Compost Awareness Week – and if we lived in San Francisco, this would mean a great deal more to us as vertical dwellers.
Read MoreSo depressed
Seldom have I been so depressed after reading a newspaper.
Read MoreSouthbank residents dealt a joker
A proposal by casino operator Crown to build Australia’s tallest building, Queensbridge Towers is set to bypass all normal planning processes and Southbank residents and owners are outraged.
Read MoreWe need action…
Thank you to everyone who came along to our first Montague Community Forum.
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Turnbull cuts to Catholic education
“… now Education Minister Simon Birmingham, sounding like an Australian Teachers Federation official from the early 1970s, is aligned with the green-left activists of The Age to demomise the Catholic education authorities.Oyvey!”
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The intriguing mystery of the errant Hoop Pine
My favourite season, autumn, is now behind us and winter has kicked in right on cue.
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Boyd to celebrate five wonderful years
Southbank’s civic heart the Boyd Community Hub has come a long way since opening to the community in July 2012.
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Master plan imminent
The City of Melbourne will release its draft master plan on the future transformation of Southbank Boulevard and Dodds St for community engagement this month.
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‘Give us a chance’: river committee
The Lower Yarra River Management Advisory Committee (LYRMAC) has asked locals to withhold judgement on its success until July next year.
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Delay on Southgate floating landings
More than a year since former environment minister Lisa Neville announced it, Parks Victoria (PV) has achieved a “public consultation” stage for floating landings at Southgate.
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