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_DID YOU KNOW?
Melbourne's oldest hotel is reputedly the Duke of Wellington Hotel (corner Flinders and Russell Streets) built in 1850 and licensed in 1853.
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_MOONEE PONDS CENTRAL OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Collie was closely involved in the planning and development of the new ‘Moonee Ponds Central’ shopping centre which opened recently. The centre consists of approximately 10,000 square metres of retail floor space (including a K-Mart), approximately 2,300 square metres of...
_CONSIDERING NATURE STRIPS
nature strip n. (plural nature strips) (Australian) An area of grass beside a roadway, possibly with a few trees or shrubs, lying in between the footpath and the roadway proper. On a public road this is public land but by...
_DID YOU KNOW? A GROWING POPULATION
By the end of 2009 the population of Melbourne is expected to have passed 4 million people. When the first census was conducted in 1836 the population was just 177!