Bay Street is often said to be the heart of Port Melbourne. It can be hard finding that elusive heart on such a long street that runs all the way from the Bay until it curves towards the City. With Port's great transition over the last thirty years essentially complete, at least in the built form …
Port & South Melbourne
Remembrance Garden
It was the day after Hassan Khalif Shire Ali killed Sisto Malaspina and injured two other people in Bourke St and the eve of Remembrance Day. Sadness was close to the surface when people gathered to open a Remembrance Garden in Port Melbourne. The Garden is a community initiated, Council …
From Nature 2018
The heart and soul of this year’s From Nature exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park is Albert Park Pre-School’s exhibit The Butterfly Effect. It's in the foyer. The children have created an exhibit both disarmingly simple and deeply wise. In language of enviable simplicity, their project …
Bruce
A lean black cat has moved into our street. He throws himself into your path demanding to be known. Meet Bruce, the prompt for this post. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was Prime Minister between 1923 and 1929. Bruce was educated at Melbourne Grammar and at Cambridge. He served at Gallipoli. He …
PS – Sharing Stories
Since writing the post Sharing Stories, I have been reading Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian. I was attracted to the book by its cover which features that well know photograph of the HMAS Kanimbla at Princes Pier and the waving people on the train bound for …
Sharing Stories
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 …