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Letter From Melbourne Issue 170

2011 December 7
by Alistair Urquhart

Letter From Melbourne – Christmas Edition

6 November  –  6 December 2011

HEADLINES

  • Baillieu’s First Year
  • The Reform Agenda
  • ICT Project Paralysis/Analysis
  • Bushfire Awareness
  • Police Business
  • Docklands
  • High-rise development
  • Wind Power Plays
  • Murray-Darling Interests
  • Water Issues
  • Industrial Relations
  • Transport 2030

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 169

2011 November 8
by Alistair Urquhart

Creative Melbourne Edition

9 October –  5 November 2011


HEADLINES

  • Creative Melbourne
  • Vocational Learning funding pressure
  • ICAC (anti-corruption com- mission) on way
  • Fund raising protocols at last
  • New suburban water rules, plus
  • Queen Elizabeth in Melbourne
  • Melbourne Occupied
  • Manhattanizing Melbourne
  • Behind the scenes on Overland
  • Police IT not brilliant
  • Police pay up

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Hey Hey! Events of interest

The inaugural Deakin Policy Forum breakfast.

An Invitation from Deakin University: The State of the Economic Policy Debate

When: Thursday 2 December 2011

More details (PDF).

Letter from Melbourne Issue 168

2011 October 18
by Alistair Urquhart

Melbourne’s Birthday Edition

3 1 September to 8 October 2011

HEADLINES

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  • Queen Elizabeth Visit in October
  • State Debt on Rise
  • Federal/Victoria Energy Relationship Low
  • China Wine Focus
  • Taxi Review Progressing
  • Public Transport Ticketing
  • What is VAGO?
  • Victorian Human Rights Charter

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 167

2011 September 1
by Alistair Urquhart

Melbourne’s Birthday Edition

3 August to 30 August 2011

HEADLINES

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  • Industrial Relations
  • Factory Job Losses
  • Tough on Crime
  • Human Rights Charter, Again
  • Green Wedges, Again
  • Naughty Cops
  • Victoria meets China
  • It’s a Dog’s Life
  • Cycling Safety
  • Three Departmental Appointments
  • Hastings Port Independent
  • Wind Power Slow Down

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 166

2011 August 3
by Alistair Urquhart

Another Winter Edition

28 June 2011 to 2 August

HEADLINES

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  • Green wedge plan
  • Some planning approvals
  • A higher Melbourne
  • Bike city
  • Electric city parking
  • Wurundjeri Way development
  • Hazelwood under the magnet
  • Tabcorp win
  • Human Rights Charter
  • Sentencing survey critiqued

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 165

2011 June 29
by Alistair Urquhart

Winter Edition

24 May to 28 June 2011

HEADLINES

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  • myki Yes
  • Overland Out
  • Unsafe Bikes
  • Basin Plan Includes Victoria
  • Victoria Bets Against Canberra
  • Sportsbetting Challenge
  • Bushfires Not Yet Safe
  • Ambulances Waiting
  • Hasting Port Activity
  • Clarke New Urban Head

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Letter from Melbourne Issue 164

2011 May 29

Post Budget Edition

19 April to 23 May 2011

HEADLINES

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  • The Victorian Budget
  • Senior police inquiry
  • Public prosecutor steps down
  • Teacher pay critique
  • Religion in schools
  • Wind farm, Yes
  • Hazelwood, yes, longer
  • AFL TV smorgasborg
  • Health intervention focus
  • New VECCI boss
  • Perceptions of justice survey
  • Beach butt-out growing
  • Mulder raildog challenge
  • Bitumen for Omeo Highway
  • Vale Geelong’s Bobby Davis

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