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 …
parks
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 …
Catalyst
Wednesday 8.45 am. Children and parents, many hand in hand, make their way from every direction to enter the wide open doors of the South Melbourne Primary School which opened in January this year. The bell rings, and parents gather outside for a while, before dispersing. The school precinct …
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 …
Port places
North Wharf, Docklands All is upheaval and keep out fences as work begins on the restoration of North Wharf between the Charles Grimes and the Seafarers Bridge - a condition of the approval of a new development on the sliver of land next to the Mission to Seafarers on Flinders St. When the Charles …
The Picture Tells a Story
Stories of transformation and transition are at the heart of Port Places. Sometimes I come across an image which really brings that home. This photograph shows the South Melbourne Gasworks and surrounding Albert Park and Port Melbourne in 1978 - forty years ago. This photograph was on the …