Letter from Melbourne Issue 155
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
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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Letter from Melbourne Issue 153
ANZAC Edition
26 MARCH TO 27 APRIL 2010
HEADLINES
- Health, a state and federal issue
- Bushfire fallout
- Smart meters being installed despite suspension
- Salary cap storm for Melbourne
- Madden (Windsor/planning) furore continues
- Melbourne still in drought
- Government discouraging interstate gaming
- Parliament’s powers being tested
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 152
Pre-Easter Edition
25 FEBRUARY TO 25 MARCH 2010
HEADLINES
- New housing on the outskirts, and related tax
- High-density and social housing closer in
- Planning minister Madden tackling the Windsor
- Docklands next gen
- VCAT liquor planning win, for the moment
- Bushfires still being fought at the Commission
- The weather. Hot. Wet. Hail.
- Election results to the South and West of Victoria
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 151
First Edition for 2010
14 DECEMBER 2009 TO 24 FEBRUARY 2010
HEADLINES
- Cabinet mini-shuffle
- Our train/tram/bus tickets
- Water relief
- Bushfire conclusions seeping out
- Coastal planning challenges
- Geelong councillor conflict of interest
- New Altona MP supports Bulldogs
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 150
Christmas/Summer Holidays Edition
MID-NOVEMBER TO MID-DECEMBER 2009
HEADLINES
- Anti-corruption commission, maybe
- The Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne
- Brown coal off the agenda (for now)
- 150 new tables for Crown, $10m for problem gamblers
- Victoria’s most vulnerable not protected
- Alcohol fight long term
- Robert Doyle one year on
- Goodbye Connex/Yarra Trams, hello MTM/KDR
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 149
Issue 149
MID-OCTOBER to MID-NOVEMBER 2009
Early Summer Edition
- Baillieu reshuffles frontbench, introduces policy
- Fire season started
- Romsey’s gaming win
- Victorian coal in spotlight
- 3a to stay
- National government coastal planning focus
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 148
Issue 148
MID-SEPTEMBER to MID-OCTOBER 2009
Good Spring Rain Edition
Good rains. Dams filling- Spring Racing Carnival kicks off
- Melbourne Business School avoids merger with Melbourne Uni
- Brumby gives Queen Victorian tartan
- Hurried preparations for upcoming fire season
- ‘Fully automated gaming tables’ for Crown
- Madden the state builder
- Rialto getting a makeover
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 147
Issue 147
MID-AUGUST to MID-SEPTEMBER 2009
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Royal Melbourne Show / Grand Final Edition
This month Letter from Melbourne has a special insert for ‘The Green Business’, a half-day Forum on Tuesday the 13th of October presented by the Australian Greens.
- Brimbank council out
- Bushfire revelations continue
- Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Business School at Melbourne Uni
- Yarra Park (non)debate
- Dams low. More Thomson river water extraction. What?
- Gaming grows
- Many suggestions but no answer to alcohol problems
- Sprawl debate continues
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Letter from Melbourne Issue 146
Issue 146
13 JULY to 12 AUGUST 2009
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Another Winter Edition
- Desal tender awarded
- Birth of a new health department
- Melbourne’s Big M
- The normal City violence
- Small Business Month
- Melbourne Recital Centre struggling
- Our Windsor Hotel
Plus VIEWPOINT: State of Disaster.
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