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Letter from Melbourne Issue 169

November 8, 2011

Creative Melbourne Edition

9 October –  5 November 2011


HEADLINES

  • Creative Melbourne
  • Vocational Learning funding pressure
  • ICAC (anti-corruption com- mission) on way
  • Fund raising protocols at last
  • New suburban water rules

Plus,

  • Queen Elizabeth in Melbourne
  • Melbourne Occupied
  • Manhattanizing Melbourne
  • Behind the scenes on Overland
  • Police IT not brilliant
  • Police pay up

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 159

November 20, 2010

The Big Election Edition

19 October TO  17 November 2010


HEADLINES

  • Who do you prefer? Preference deals dominate
  • Liberals prefer Labor. Greens in trouble for lower house
  • Money everywhere for everything, promises too
  • Health, education, law and order, transport, energy dominate debate
  • Tight finish looming
  • Our child protection woes
  • Gay friendly schools and not
  • Locusts make it to the city
  • Any port in a container storm

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 158

October 20, 2010

Pre-election Edition

12 September TO  18 October 2010


HEADLINES

  • Dirty campaigns developing well
  • Green opportunities
  • National Party concerns. Liberal preferences
  • Social housing demand
  • Water everywhere, even in the Murray. What to do next?
  • New police broom
  • Auditor’s important and detailed role
  • Additional Fire Officer
  • Gambling challenges
  • Melbourne Museum turns 10

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 157

September 17, 2010

Docklands Edition

10 August TO  11 September 2010


HEADLINES

  • No by-election for Brumby or Ivanhoe
  • Gillard factor improves Brumby’s election prospects
  • Bushfires response and costings
  • (Election) advertising over the top
  • How it rains… Desal site too muddy for work
  • Victoria: the wind energy stateMove the ports?
  • No Mildura casino…
  • Anti-corruption commission debate continues
Our Docklands cover photo comes landscape rather than portait, a bonus for hard-copy subscribers, because it wraps around the magazine. Soft-copy/electronic-only recipients of Letter from Melbourne may need sticky tape to bring this topical photo together.

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 156

August 12, 2010

Di Stasio Venice Biennale Ideas Competition Special Edition

4 July TO  9 August 2010


HEADLINES

  • Melbourne becomes broadband capital
  • Newest transport plan – Metro still struggling
  • More Myki
  • Bushfires report out
  • It’s raining – storages up – restrictions down
  • Mary Poppins and Robert De Niro in town
  • Brumby climate change moves
  • Roy Morgan ranks Federal electorates by concerns
Wow. The federal election campaign is a distraction, perhaps a drug for the really politically interested. So many words, written and oral, which say so little. All a long way from the world of the business and government interface which is the focus of this magazine.

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 155

July 8, 2010

Winter Edition

1 June TO  3 July 2010


HEADLINES

  • Labor’s election platform. Class warfare
  • The Proust Review. New anti-corruption body..
  • Population plan. Regional focus
  • Bicycle sharing with hats
  • Bushfire debate concluding
  • Bracks AO
  • Myki slowly arriving’ish
  • DLP in strife
  • The Windsor suite still in the news
  • Overland phone conversations

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 154

June 3, 2010

Budget/Early Campaign Edition

28 APRIL TO  31 MAY 2010


HEADLINES

  • Solid state budget starts the campaign
  • Branch stacking remains big issue
  • Plague of locusts in north-west Victoria affecting crops
  • Bushfire Commission: Strong conclusions soon
  • Local wind farm planning options
  • Pokie king Mathieson
  • Victorian government IT spend down
  • Metro rail difficulties continue
  • Anti-corruption commission on way
  • Planning. Planning. Planning

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