Port Places is devoted to stories of the transformation of places of the lower Yarra - from streets and parks to Fishermans Bend, the biggest urban renewal area in Australia. The imperative for transformation at every scale and in every facet of society and the economy has been given added …
Port & South Melbourne
The first post, 2020
The last post for 2019 led with the climate emergency. Perhaps when you read it then, it seemed somewhat abstract, catastrophising even. But as the old year made way for the new, catastrophe seemed more apt than emergency. For a time life in Port continued in uneasy comfort insulated from …
Year in Review 2019
This week Australia is painted red with extreme andd prolonged heat. Victoria anticipates its hottest December day ever. Bushfires have raged and ravaged drought stricken New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. Climate Emergency was chosen by Oxford Languages as the word of the year. …
Folly and Modesty
21 Alfred St, Port Melbourne I believe that Grand Design aired the episode that featured this house recently. This is the post I wrote about it five years ago, on 21 August 2014. H House in Port Melbourne was featured in The Age on Saturday 16 August. It’s tucked away in a corner of Port Melbourne …
The reporting season
In a cycle more predictable than the erratic seasons, community organisations account to their members at the annual general meeting. Since the annual meeting must be held within five months of the end of the financial year, usually 30 June, the latter half of the year is thick with AGMs. Every …
Family tree
In November 1839, one hundred and eighty years ago, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet, his wife Caroline and their nine children arrived in Hobsons Bay on board the William Metcalfe. Rather than passing through as so many others did, they settled on what was then known only as 'The Beach'. Over …