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Racing Cathy Freeman at Scienceworks
June 7th, 2013
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If you grew up in Melbourne during the 1990s, you probably went on at least one school excursion to the Scienceworks Museum, located in the inner-western suburb of Spotswood. Located in the shadows of the West Gate Bridge and opened in 1992 by then-Premier Joan Kirner, the most memorable part of my primary school visit [...]
Remembering the other Queenscliff-Sorrento ferry
May 28th, 2013
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I’ve previous written about the history of the Queenscliff-Sorrento car ferry, but today I’m looking at a different ferry service that plied the same route – the passenger ferry that stopped off at Portsea on the way across Port Phillip Bay. Founded in 1953 by local brothers Jack and Harry Farnsworth, the pair commenced operations [...]
How Australia used to pay for infrastructure
May 15th, 2013
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With the 2013 Victorian and Federal budgets having been released in the past week, the spotlight is on funding major infrastructure projects across Australia. So how does the government pay for the big infrastructure projects we need to avoid choking on our own growth? And how did we do it in the old days?
‘Jaywalking’ in the Melbourne CBD
April 19th, 2013
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It seems that every second month the Victoria Police decide to hold a jaywalking ‘blitz’ in the Melbourne CBD – in the 2011-12 financial year they issued 5690 fines to pedestrians. So what actual offence do the infringement notices have written on them?
Exploring Ford’s former chassis plant
March 28th, 2013
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Geelong is a city that was built on manufacturing, and the Ford factory has been a large part of it since it commenced operations in 1925. But what happens when one of those factories closes?
