Citizens struggle to engage in the planning process for various reasons, says Tania Davidge, the president of the Our City Our Square campaign that overturned the proposed Apple store in Fed...
Victory. A proposal to demolish part of Melbourne’s Fed
Square to build a flagship Apple store is dead. The relentless and creative
campaign against the proposal––led by a nine-member, non-profit, non-political
group, Our City Our Square––has lessons for all citizen...
Standing in front of a white board in the weeks before April 5 this year, architect Tania Davidge was diagramming worst-case scenarios with her team: The Citizens for Melbourne. Davidge and her group are behind a successful...
Early on a Sunday 14 April, I rose and set the GPS for Dudley's café in Olinda, a village in the Dandenongs, the low mountains east of Melbourne. There, at 8.30am, I met Di Percy and...
I was riding to work several weeks ago down Little Bourke Street
when a passenger decided it would be quicker for her to walk than wait in the
traffic. Without a second thought she opened her door of her...
Today, I sat glued to the radio listening to the sentencing
of George Pell, the convicted sex offender who remains a cardinal in the
Catholic Church. I felt revulsion. The description of his offences was both
believable and disgusting. As...
