After the Spirit
What’s next for Waterfront Place? On Saturday 22nd October a crowd gathered along the Port Melbourne foreshore to bid farewell to the Spirit of Tasmania. The rain held off. A
After the flood
On Friday 14th October, the Maribyrnong River flooded, peaking at 4.18 metres. On Saturday, commercial shipping, including the Westgate Punt, was suspended at the direction of the
The conditions
One of the intentions of the Port Places project is to follow over time how aspirations, visions and plans for the future are expressed in planning documents, then translated by pl
The Local Paper
In the lead up to the 2020 council elections, I wrote about the closure of our last, and very diminished, local paper, the Port Phillip Leader. Now a new (online) local paper with