Saturday's Piers Festival centred on Station Pier. Twenty years ago, storyteller and refugee advocate, Arnold Zable wrote about Station Pier 'If there is a site in our city that I would call sacred, it is this pier ... It was here, in January 1933, that my mother stepped ashore from the French …
Port & South Melbourne
Station Pier
A recurring complaint in Port Melbourne is that Station Pier is off limits to locals - even though that is only partly true. It is open except on cruise ship days - the number of which increase each season. But like a restaurant that is closed on the day you visit, the impression lingers. This is …
Elections
Writer Gideon Haigh warns that "fossicking in the basket of past events"1 is not history. Through making old newspapers available online, Trove2 makes such fossicking an almost irresistible temptation. Precision search combinations enable arrow like targeting of the subject. It's easier, and often …
Trugo?
David Nicholas is a filmmaker and facilitator. He has supported, taught and enabled people in Port to film and edit documentaries. This is one of a series of films made about community organisations in Port in a programme supported by SHIP (Social Health and Inclusion Port). He made a film …
Unease in the village
Over the last twenty years Albert Park shops became 'the village'. Albert Park has been the poster child of a successful neighbourhood shopping centre. It was the place to go for coffee long before other places developed their own coffee cultures. Its anchors over all those years have been the …
A Port place
North Port is stop 127 on the 109 tram service. Not just a tram stop - a place. Could it be the best on the Melbourne tram network? Step off the 109 at North Port straight into Port Melbourne's Railway Reserves - the hugely generous legacy of parkland set aside when the first railway line was …