Latest articles by Jackie Watts
All at Sea – books with a maritime flavour
The Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) invites you a free event aptly titled All at Sea.
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Where has the “vision” gone in Docklands?
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) often bemoans the fact that Melbourne has “amnesia” about the significance of its rich maritime heritage. We wonder – is a similar “amnesia” taking hold in relation to Docklands?
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City of Melbourne council: the good and the not so good
Let’s start with the good …
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Shipping Control Tower: questions remain
Until now this significant maritime infrastructure asset, the responsibility of state authority Development Victoria (DV), continues to loom as a degraded bastion of failed vision like the Wheel, Harbour Esplanade and Central Pier.
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Parks Victoria’s litter management under the microsope
People tend to be drawn to live close by to waterways, whether these be rivers, harbours or beaches. The Docklands community is evidence of this universal attraction.
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Celebrating Docklands’ maritime heritage in 2024
The Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) looks forward in 2024 to working with the Docklands community to grow public awareness of the precinct’s unique maritime heritage.
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Maritime freight matters
The community living in the Docklands precinct with large vessels and tugs on their doorstep are likely to be more aware than many in the wider community of the immense importance of maritime trade.
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Young people REALLY matter to MMHN!
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) is intent upon growing maritime heritage “awareness” among young people; that is, creating maritime enthusiasts of the future! We have hurdles to overcome.
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A busy month for boating and maritime enthusiasts
Many in the community may not recognise that they have a rich maritime heritage of significant social, cultural, and economic value – past, present and future.
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Action on the Control Tower
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) is happy to report Development Victoria (DV) action finally on the rapidly degenerating Shipping Control Tower on North Wharf. Hopefully, Docklands residents will be happy about this too.
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Waterways are a constant presence in the daily life of Docklands
Understanding the history of the waterways of Docklands is very rewarding. What we see now is indeed impressive and unique in Melbourne but the “back-story” of what you see now of today’s waterways warrants attention.
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Maritime opportunities for Docklanders during Rare Book Week
The Rare Book Week program, running from July 21 to 29, offers fascinating presentations of interest to maritime enthusiasts. Some notable events include …
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Two opportunities for Docklanders …
Firstly, anniversaries are always fun – 90th anniversaries in particular! Docklands residents and visitors are in for a treat in Victoria Harbour at 12 noon on Sunday, June 25.
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Opportunities for the Docklands precinct
There is plenty of maritime opportunities on offer for maritime enthusiasts in the Docklands Precinct in May – and all of it free!
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Looking at Docklands through a “maritime heritage lens”
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) notes that despite the publicity “hype” currently surrounding the state government’s “BIG BUILD” it is worth remembering one thing about Docklands …
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Brighter days ahead for Docklands
The Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) is optimistic about the Docklands Precinct in 2023.
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Time for action in Docklands
More wind and rain in Docklands – but hopefully less “hot air and more action” from Development Victoria (DV) and City of Melbourne (CoM) in their consultations with the community about how to revitalise the Docklands precinct.
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Victoria is awash
Flood water is causing havoc, breaking riverbanks – and hearts – on its way to the ocean via our rivers.
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Flying the flag for maritime at the Docklands Summit
Great to see Docklands residents and businesses represented in numbers at the recent City of Melbourne Docklands Summit at Marvel Stadium – and particularly heartening to hear such widespread alignment between resident views about the future of their precinct with those views advocated by the Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN).
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Maritime garden for Docklands?
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) proposes that Development Victoria and the City of Melbourne activate the languishing Docklands precinct with a maritime garden – a unique public open space designed to attract and engage the public, and in particular engage young people, with the maritime technological wonders which enabled centuries of exploration and trade across the vast oceans.
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