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The Alfred Hospital.

‘Turn the lights off’: Hospital staff offered cost-cutting tips in budget crackdown

Workers at three major Melbourne hospitals have been told that simple things can save money, as Alfred Health reviews costs in a desperate bid to cut spending.

  • by Jewel Topsfield and Broede Carmody

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The State Library could be turned into a ‘third place’ in the evening.
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State Library should stay open at night for booze-free chats

Melbourne needs more third places. After 6pm, the library should say “laptops away” and turn the space from study zone into a place for booze-free conversation.

  • by Simon Taylor
Bard’s Apothecary owner Matthew Moloney and architect and co-founder of Six Degrees Architects James Legge at the Crossley St laneway venue.

It closed twice and was reborn. How Melbourne’s first laneway bar was resurrected

When Meyers Place closed in 2017, it was the end of an era. It has since been reborn in replica form, with every detail perfectly preserved – but one thing is different.

  • by Cara Waters

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