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The community councillor
An educator, publican, family man and proud member of the Flemington-Kensington Bowls Club – you’d struggle to find a more community-minded councillor than Davydd Griffiths.
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Conflicting speeds
One particular 40km/h speed limit sign, recently erected on South Wharf Drive, had become the source of confusion among locals living at Yarra’s Edge.
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Secret solved: Docklands’ apocalyptic public art
Last month we asked readers to help us solve a Docklands secret: why 757 Bourke St is donned with a big, Vegas-styled “ON THE BEACH” sign.
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The building at 757 Bourke St, filled with apartments, beauty parlours and restaurants is crowned with an oversized, Vegas style sign that reads “On the beach”, but no one seems to know why!
The real estate agent told Docklands News he didn’t know off the top of his head, and workers in restaurants had no idea. One of them said she wasn’t even aware it was there.
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Hello Brindabella
One might be forgiven thinking it odd to find Australia’s most famous maxi yacht Brindabella living in Docklands.
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Go figure!
Mixing cyclists with pedestrians is always testing fate, so why does the crossing at the corner of Harbour Esplanade and Docklands Drive insist on this?
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Politician disrespects us
Docklanders interested to learn what our Federal Member of Parliament thinks of us can gain insight from the winter edition of Flemington-Kensington News.
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Tram bridge or underground tunnel?
Private road mapping company Melway has included a proposed “underground tunnel” in Yarra’s Edge in one of its past Melbourne map editions.
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Docklands is not sinking
The City of Melbourne has assured Docklanders that our suburb is not sinking.
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Not very helpful
A Yarra’s Edge reader has pointed out that this sign has been sending cyclists in the wrong direction for at least six months now.
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The case of the missing dinosaur
What the?
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