Port Places welcomes this week's contribution from Brendan Baxter. A photograph in his family's collection leads to reflections on housing policy and provision in Victoria. Brendan is an architect and urban designer living in Port Phillip. Brendan Baxter 14 August 2019 Monument to a …
Port & South Melbourne
The olive harvest
They arrive at about 8 am - swirling, screeching flocks of little corellas. There's such a carry on that curious children come to their front doors to see what's going on. Corellas in an olive tree There are so many birds that they weigh down the already heavily laden olive trees on the …
Princes Pier to Bonegilla
Anticipating Refugee Week 2019, 16 to 22 June HMAS Kanimbla tied up at Princes Pier on 7 December 1947. On board were 839 people from displaced persons camps in Europe: 727 men and 112 women. All of them had all been carefully chosen, hand picked, for their youth, vigour …
A story of urban change
Port Melbourne Baseball Club Premiers 1961 Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society This photograph tells a big story. In the foreground, the Port Melbourne baseball team of 1961 on Lagoon Reserve (and doesn't the woman with her face obscured invite curiousity?) In the background, the …
Loss
On Saturday, at the Lagoon Reserve community planting, I found out that Chris, who lived opposite the park, had died six months ago. His neighbour told me. I didn't know Chris's surname until that news was shared - Stefanidis. I used to meet him often because he was always out walking. After …
Federal election in Macnamara
Some Port houses wore their colours on the fence in the lead up to the election on 18 May. The four polling booths in Port Melbourne - Bubup Womindjeka, Fishermans Bend Community Centre, Albert Park Arts & Environment Hub and Port Melbourne Primary School - were busy from poll opening at …