Many elements combine to make the corner of Raglan and Station Streets in Port Melbourne an especially pleasant place. The Station Street Trading Company cafe is a warm focus during COVID-19 restrictions. People can safely distance from one another in the spacious Railway Reserves. The cafe's …
Port & South Melbourne
Succession planting
The fatal yellow dot and formal notices appeared on the aged elms in Port Melbourne's Railway Reserves last week announcing their imminent removal. No argument - the remaining trees in the avenue are in terminal decline. On Tuesday 28 July, the slow work of dismembering the trees, limb by limb, …
Naming
In a recent interview on ABC Radio, writer Bruce Pascoe reminded us that we can't just keep on relying on the Australian history learned at school and that we all have a responsibility to learn, and to keep on learning, about our history. Port Melbourne's history has been a bit of a side show to …
The local paper
The Caulfield and Port Phillip Leader will move online from June 29 and readers will have to pay for the privilege of scouring the Leader website for some scrap of Port related news. Plunging advertising revenues led Newscorp to cease publication of 36 local newspapers around the country and move a …
From isolation to emergence
This is a time marker post - marking where we've been and where we might be heading. On 16 March a State of Emergency was declared in Victoria. From Monday 25 May, restrictions have gradually been eased with playgrounds re-opening and schools going back. From 1 June, there will be further easing …
The Spirit
familiar, daily scene The daily comings and goings of the Spirit of Tasmania from Station Pier will be a thing of the past when TT Lines move their operation to Corio Quay near Geelong when their lease runs out at Station Pier in 2022 - if not earlier. TT Lines ordered two new, and larger, …