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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?
This is Emma Knight (15). She is currently missing. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne and is likely to be in Fitzroy or St Kilda.
Emma is a friendly but vulnerable young person who will probably be happy to chat with you. She is likely to be around older unhoused men looking for her father.
Please call 000 if you see her
Critical Mass Naarm Melbourne
@CriticalMassMelb
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#CriticalMass #Yarra!
safe, bike lanes
Meet 5.30pm, Friday 31 January 2025, State Library, Swanston Street, #Naarm #Melbourne
Riding through #Fitzroy #Collingwood & #Richmond
#Art thanks to #SamWallman for adapting his Freedom Machine design. https://www.samwallman.com/store/freedom-machine-bike-poster
Ride together, stay safe: corking + massing up: link at https://criticalmass.melbourne/
Running late? Critical Maps to find us on the day: https://www.criticalmaps.net/
YarraBUG Jan 2025 Newsletter, hey it's a new year let's go
Announcing: @CriticalMassMelb Yarra Fri 31 JanPetition: Yarra Council: Don't risk our safety - tell council not to remove safe cycling lanesCall out for support & volunteers
https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=98353edfe14ed5b9ac6e619dd&id=1fad37fc6d https://form.jotform.com/yarrabike/yarra-council-dont-risk-our-safety
For over two decades, Yarra has been one of naarm Melbourne's best areas to walk & ride. A newly elected conservative Yarra council is eyeing up removing vital infrastructure
Get involved to keep our streets safe & support your right to move safely> https://www.yarrabug.org/yarra-for-safer-streets/
Something I like about Fitzroy and the other inner-north suburbs is the mix of people; because there's still big public housing bocks, it's not just a place for gentrified hipster folk. Keeps it real, and the crowd at the pool reflects that too.
Hooray for the Fitzroy Pool! It's 30 years since it was saved from closure by Jeff Kennett's unelected commissioners. I swim there often, has a great community vibe.
"It’s just gone 3pm, and the mercury has crept to 32 degrees.
"The concrete is baking hot underfoot. It’s a weekday, but Fitzroy Pool on Alexandra Parade is teeming with life: tanned bodies lounge in the stands with dog-eared paperbacks and hot towels; lap swimmers splash past one another in the lanes; a young child shrieks before bombing into the deep.
"This 116-year-old pool is baked into Melbourne’s inner north cultural psyche. It featured in Helen Garner’s novel and film Monkey Grip, and its famed misspelt warning to migrant children painted on the wall inspired singer Courtney Barnett’s song Aqua Profonda.
"But many young people here for a dip today are probably unaware of the pool’s alternative fate as a block of flats – and the Herculean community effort 30 years ago to save it."
LIVING WATER
River, Land and Sea Country of the West Kimberley
HERITAGE OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATION
Immerse yourself in this online interactive exhibition’s three themes:
Culture, Country, and Truth.
https://www.livingwaterheritage.org/
The Martuwarra - the mighty Fitzroy River - in Australia’s North Kimberley, is National Heritage listed.
By utilising the River as a connective thread, the ‘Living Water Heritage’ project intricately weaves together all 11 recognised National heritage values of Australia’s West Kimberley region.
Its globally unique waterways, plants, animals, rocks, and fire, carefully managed from the beginning are now becoming illuminated by Western Science.
Authors: Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council & University of Western Australia’s School of Social Sciences.
One more Fitzroy classic, the king of "distressed" facades - I give you the Provincial Hotel. Just look at that profusely peeling paint!
And here's another Fitzroy gem, the former Moran & Cato building:
Quite fond of the Perserverance Hotel in Fitzroy. I like that deliberate distressed look you see on old buildings around here.
Getting a spot of late afternoon sunshine at Black Cat in Fitzroy. Haven't been here for some time, but it's a local icon - I remember it from when I first visited Melbourne in 1991, and its retro mismatched furniture style was then very *in*. Naturally all my fellow patrons today are too young to remember those days - through not having been born then. :)
Seen in Fitzroy on Thursday - a nice stretch of 'iron lace' decoration on this 19th century building.
I enjoyed this one, taking in Fitzroy from the 1970s to today. I spend a lot of time there myself, visiting its library, pool, cafes and bars.
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Life in the ’burbs: On the mean streets of 1970s Fitzroy, even the trees looked like they wanted to die
(maybe paywalled) #Melbourne #Fitzroy https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/on-the-mean-streets-of-1970s-fitzroy-even-the-trees-looked-like-they-wanted-to-die-20240430-p5fnlf.html
