Monday August 28, 2006

• Stop wrecking the shipwreck, says council
• Slow motion gets residents going
• Market failing on child care, council tells minister
• Snake in the grass
• Spring - and the smell of freshly mown grass - is in the air

COMMUNITY RELEASES

• The World's Greatest Pram Stroll
• Come meet Orphan No. 48062
• Chrisfern Foundation presents "Homebase" tsunami fundraiser
• Chrisfern Foundation presents "Homebase"
• St Kilda Music & Poetry Community Festival 2006

• Major Port Melbourne redevelopment gets go-ahead
• Car-free development in East St Kilda "not open slather"
• Trading places: Principal and mayor swap for the day
• Costly dog attack
• Make your own comic workshop

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE WITH THE STATE GOVERNMENT

New adventure for South Melbourne high-rise families

COMMUNITY RELEASES

• Friends of Napier St - annual spring luncheon
• Brightspace - Trevor Hoppen exhibition
• Afterlife: Cutting the garment to suit the cloth
• Julie Shiels "afterlife" invite
• September Events @ Readings Books & Music
• Gasworks play - A New Brain - a musical
• Gasworks - Hardcopy: Digital Art
• Still so important to acknowledge the suffering an overdose can bring

• Street-wise shopping strips under Melbourne 2030
• There's no place like home - or the Mary Kehoe Centre
• On the beach: Spotlight on life saving in South and Port
• Bringing the Port Melbourne neighbourhood to life
• To dream 'The Impossible Dream': A house made of cardboard and plywood

COMMUNITY RELEASES

• Get wild about reading
• Children's Book Week Festival - Sunday 20 August
• A creative boost for the South Melbourne Mission Kindergarten
• South Melbourne Mission Kindergarten fact sheet
• U3A: Why I took up a life of crime (fiction)
• Bowl Up: Open day at Albert Park VRI Bowls Club
• Port Melbourne Neighbourhood House introduces new website
• Sisters in Crime - frontiers of crime fiction
• Sisters in Crime - Program to October
• Lunatic Park
• Sunday lunch with the girls
• Live at the Nash September program
• Theatreworks - Top Girls and A Handful of Rain
• Take a Short Cut to St Kilda
• Bright Gallery - Rohan Robinson exhibition
• Gasworks - Roomphase performance installation

• Council confirms child care commitment despite delay
• "A clean start for Elwood," says deputy mayor
• A pier into the future
• Don't waste your e-waste: Electronic goods recycling underway at the depot
• Middle Park festival - to say no to plastic bags
• (sub)cultured presents - Singing in the library

COMMUNITY RELEASES

• Children's Book Week - library events
• Brightspace - Ben Laycock exhibition
• Yenny - 48 stunden
• 48 stunden image
• Top Melbourne musicians to assist asylum seekers with "Music from the heart"
• A great Gasworks day for all the family
• Black & White Printmakers Group 6th Annual Exhibition
• Your Life, Our Life = Community
• The Habib Show: A documentary live-on-stage
• Launch of South Port UnitingCare's new name
• Survival at sea - a personal experience
• Free lecture - on safe coastal navigation in Victoria
• Gasworks - Jean-Francois Rogeon
• Once upon a story festival program announced
• Get it? Rob McKinnon exhibition

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