Over the prolonged lock down the Graham St underpass in Port Melbourne has become an outdoor gym. The concrete supporting pillars create discrete spaces occupied by a moving parade of personal trainers and their clients. But most steady of all, and always present, has been the boxer. From early …
Port & South Melbourne
Through the gate
Artist Benjamin Storch was glad to create a work especially for the Park where he has his studio. He has been at work in the studio for some time hammering those leaves into subtlety so they'll catch the light and fabricating the tree. It is quite different from his other work as a tour of his …
The local election
Postal voting for the 2020 local government elections has begun. This will be the first time a Port Phillip election has been conducted by postal ballot. It's hard to gauge the level of engagement with the election from the smattering of posters and letter boxes stuffed with damp how-to-votes. …
Bay Street, Port Melbourne
I'm running late this week because I was preoccupied with preparing for a Port Talks panel discussion hosted by Port Melbourne Rotary1 Can Bay St recover? The topic was suggested, or perhaps thrust to the fore, by the confronting number of vacant shops on Bay Street - twenty seven shops up for …
The mask makers
From midnight on the 22nd July, wearing a mask became compulsory in metropolitan Melbourne. Ahead of the deadline, queues formed outside Darn Cheap Fabrics - a store in Port Melbourne usually only frequented by fabric, trim and haberdashery aficionados. A rush on elastic led to a national shortage. …
The plaque on the wall
In this hyper-local 5 km radius world, I've noticed things for the first time that have been in plain sight all along, like this plaque on the wall of the housing estate between Beacon and Barak Roads, Port Melbourne. I am not sure whether people still refer to the estate by this name. The …