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Walking group
Just In Time Personal Training is running a unique and free weekly walking group for the Southbank community.
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The Secret Garden at ACCA
Surreal and ultra-sensory, the world premiere of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s (ACCA) exhibition ‘The Secret Garden’ by Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg opens up a netherworld of strange delights and encounters.
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The Dancing Lord in Melbourne
What a treat to have the world-famous Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games” make its way to Melbourne.
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Businesses in Southbank
Extending round the clock care to Southbank
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St Johns Southgate
It has been a long and hard winter here in Melbourne. Just about everyone I’ve spoken to has been struck down at least once by some kind of bug – flu shot or no flu shot.
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Southbanker
Southbank Local News is excited and proud to be sharing the story of one of its dearest friends and one of the suburb’s first residents, David Beech.
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Whiteman St to undergo major facelift
The Normanby Rd Reserve in Southbank is set to be widened to help make way for a third tram track, at the expense of 25 car parking spaces in Whiteman St.
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Development height overhaul
Minister for Planning Richard Wynne launched the central city planning review alongside Lord Mayor Robert Doyle earlier this month, in what is the first overhaul of Melbourne’s CBD planning since the late 1990s.
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Southbank heritage ‘botched’
The Melbourne Heritage Action (MHA) activist group has called on the City of Melbourne to take immediate action to protect Southbank’s remaining heritage buildings.
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Car-theft crusade continues
Police continue to urge residents and members of the public to be more vigilant, following news of further car thefts being reported in Southbank and surrounding areas this month.
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Melbourne Men’s Shed unveiled
The highly-anticipated Melbourne Men’s Shed was officially opened on Monday, September 7 at Federation Square, in what is a first for residents of Southbank and the CBD.
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Bower earns bronze
After 14 years of operating his business out of the IBM building in Southbank, founder and CEO of Neo Technologies David Bower was deservedly acknowledged last month with a Bronze Lord Mayor’s Commendation.
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Schools Q&A
Deputy Premier and Education Minister James Merlino and Member for Albert Park Martin Foley hosted a “Q&A” forum on Monday, September 7 to speak with the community about new school projects.
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UpMarket a design delight
The highly anticipated inaugural UpMarket was an overwhelming success, as huge crowds flocked to the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) forecourt on Saturday, September 6 to experience Southbank’s new designer market.
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New life for police hospital
The former Victoria Police Hospital on the corner of St Kilda Rd and Southbank Boulevard, was officially re-opened by Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) vice-chancellor Professor Glyn Davis last month after a year-long refurbishment of the heritage-listed building.
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My days as a school teacher at Boyd
The latest home for the ‘Australian Book Review’ (ABR), that most literary of Australian magazines, is the building known as Boyd.
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Opera Australia site up for sale
Opera Australia (OA) has put its Southbank headquarters and rehearsal studio at City Rd on the market.
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