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• Melbourne's most expensive park: public pays $19m to developer who paid $4m

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.Fly through a reimagined Fishermans BendPlanning experts at RMIT have released an alternative vision for the Fishermans Bend urban renewal area that could be rolled out across Melbourne - and there's not a skyscraper in sight.PT2M9S620349Welcome to Melbourne's most expensive park: a one-acre playground to be created in South Melbourne that, thanks to Opposition leader Matthew Guy's rezoning of the Fishermans Bend urban renewal area, will cost taxpayers $14 million mor..

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• Dead body found in the Yarra River near Melbourne Aquarium

  

  Dead body found in the Yarra River near Melbourne AquariumMelbourne Aquarium on the north bank of the Yarra river.Photo: Andrew De La RueA dead body has been discovered in the Yarra River near the Melbourne Aquarium.A police spokesperson said the body was found just after 11.30am on Thursday.The body is believed to be a missing 20-year-old Hawthorn man.The man was reported missing to police about 1am on Monday.AdvertisementThere were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the person's death, a ..

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• High winds cause damage across Melbourne - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  High winds cause damage across MelbournePostedNovember 26, 2015 07:54:47 High winds overnight in Victoria kept the State Emergency Service (SES) busy with 700 calls for help across the state.Most of the damage was in Melbourne where the SES responded to 550 calls for help.Wind gusts of up to 107 kilometres per hour were recorded at Fawkner Beacon, in Port Phillip, and there were gusts of up to 96kph at the airport, in Melbourne's north.Wind speeds across Melbourne were around 90kph.Crews wer..

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• Weird Weather: Why Sydney And Melbourne Are Sizzling One Day, Freezing The Next

  

  Why is it so hot and then so cold? Is the weather broken? Is this a climate change thing?If you live pretty much anywhere in Australia’s south-east, and especially in our two most populous cities Sydney and Melbourne, you’ve heard people asking these sort of questions all week, right?Right. In fact you’ve probably been wondering about the wildly fluctuating weather yourself.Example. In Sydney last week, temperatures hit 41 degrees on Friday. Then on the weekend it was a comparatively chilly 22 b..

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• Melbourne rocker Dave Larkin releases Dallas Crane album Scoundrels, creates new Demons logo - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Melbourne rocker Dave Larkin releases Dallas Crane album Scoundrels, creates new Demons logoPostedNovember 26, 2015 12:58:57 It's been a busy month for Melbourne rocker and designer Dave Larkin.Tomorrow the singer is to bring out a new album called Scoundrels with band Dallas Crane, but his day job has just seen an even higher-profile release.Larkin is the graphic designer behind Melbourne Football Club's new logo which was launched earlier this month.He started at the club 18 months ago, ju..

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• Melbourne landmarks light up to raise awareness about family violence | HeraldSun

  

  Parliament House lit up bright orange for the launch of the State Government's Victoria Against Violence campaign. Picture: Jay Town.THE Egyptian Pyramids and the Sphinx have done it, as have the Empire State Building, Times Square, Carnegie Hall and Niagara Falls.And now Melbourne is joining some of the world’s most stunning landmarks in turning orange to shine a light on family violence.AAMI Park will tonight be illuminated as part of the State Government’s inaugural Victoria Against Family Vi..

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• Plans lodged to restart Melbourne's Nylex clock with green energy as part of $1b development - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Plans lodged to restart Melbourne's Nylex clock with green energy as part of $1b developmentPostedNovember 26, 2015 10:10:01 Developers plan to restart Melbourne's famous Nylex clock as part of a $1 billion precinct proposed at the former maltings site near the Yarra River in Melbourne's inner north.The heritage-listed clock in Cremorne last flashed from the silos in 2009 when the Nylex Plastics company went into liquidation,apart from a brief moment where trespassers are understood to have ..

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• Lloyd Williams sues clinic over Melbourne Cup horse Amralah

  

  The writ says HCR purchased Amralah in 2014 for the purpose of competing in races in Australia, with its main mission to win the Melbourne Cup.Photo: Vince CaligiuriFour-time Melbourne Cup winner Lloyd Williams has launched legal action over the alleged negligent veterinary treatment of his horse Amralah, which had to be scratched from this year's race.In a writ filed in the Supreme Court, Mr Williams' Hudson Conway Racing (HCR) revealed it was suing the Ballarat Veterinary Practice Equine Clini..

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• Car hit by lightning in Melbourne: Is footage real or fake?

  

  Latest In lifestyleA POLYGAMOUS Mormon town is slowly opening up to the outside world after decades of being controlled by sect leaders.BULLETPROOF blankets are being rolled out across America, in a bid to protect children from weapons that have been used in previous school shootings.15:29 PMBRUCE MOUNSTERTHE worst of the wild weather that lashed much of southern Tasmania over the past 24 hours is largely over, the weather bureau says.14:47 PMVanessa BrownIF YOU thought your bowl of porridge was..

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• Melbourne councillor stripped of transport responsibilities over unpopular car-free plan

  

  Lord Mayor Robert Doyle and councillor Richard Foster haven't always seen eye to eye.Melbourne's Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has ousted outspoken councillor Richard Foster from the council's transport portfolio in a closed-room decision, after the Labor maverick surprised his colleagues by briefing the media about a CBD car-free day.Other councillors were angry that Cr Foster had given an interview to media proposing that cars be banned in a one-day experiment without consulting them.Cr Foster was r..

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