Tag: community
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Council Meeting: 17 September 2025
Tonight’s Council meeting has several considerable items including the Council’s Draft Homelessness and Affordable Housing Strategy, the Draft Community Safety Plan and commenced engagement on the Community Infrastructure Plan. I also lodged a petition in relation to reviewing parking within Fishermans Bend. Petition: Review of Council Parking Policy – Parking Restrictions on Thistlethwaite Street, South…
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Southport Community Centre: AGM 2025
Southport Community Centre, based on Liardet and Nott Streets in Port Melbourne is a pivotal community facility, providing meeting spaces and services for our community. I meet with Southport Community Centre on regular basis and attended tonight’s Annual General Meeting to speak with incoming members of the committee. Southport Community Centre provides a range of…
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Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society: July 2025 Meeting
The Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month at Port Melbourne Town Hall and features guest speakers discussing Port Melbourne and other relevant historical topics. Tonight’s meeting incorporated a question and answer format featuring Judith Mackenzie as a guest speaker. Judith not only grew up in Port Melbourne,…
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BeachPatrol: Port Melbourne Beach Clean
BeachPatrol 3207, is a local community group, dedicated to cleaning our beaches of litter. The group meet on a monthly basis with today’s cleanup involving students from Port Melbourne Primary School. I joined the beach clean up crew, where alongside students and community, I helped in picking up over 18kg of rubbish. While the beach…
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Tabletop RPG Open Day
The Tabletop Open Day is a celebration of our local table top roleplay gaming community organised by the Australian Roleplay Community. The event featuring locally made board and roleplaying games bringing together both content creators and players into an event based at St Kilda Town Hall. Tabletop gaming is not only a growing hobby, but…
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Neighbourhood Conversations – Port Melbourne and Montague
The City of Port Phillip’s Neighbourhood Conversations incorporates pop-up sessions to encourage community engagement with the Council. Today, I attended two of these sessions, Port Melbourne in the morning and Montague in the afternoon. Both sessions provided an opportunity to discuss Council’s waste management strategy, as well as the progression of new dog parks envisaged…
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Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society: An Aviation History of Port Melbourne
The Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation which meets each month at the Port Melbourne Town Hall. I attended tonight’s meeting which featured local resident Mike Gahan an aviation specialist and former RAAF pilot, who not only documented his journey to Port Melbourne, but also the extensive aviation history within Fishermans Bend. As Fishermans Bend evolves…
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Port Melbourne Football Club: 2025 Season Launch and Jumper Presentation
Port Melbourne Football Club (the Borough), based at North Port Oval on Williamstown Road, is one of Australia’s oldest football clubs competing in the VFL, VFLW and the Victorian Blind Football League (VBFL). Tonight, the Port Melbourne Football Club held its jumper presentation in recognition of the start of the 2025 Football season, as well…
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Touring the Jewish Museum of Australia
This afternoon Councillors continued their exploration of cultural facilities across the City of Port Phillip with a tour of the Jewish Museum of Australia (JMA) located in St Kilda. The Museum is currently exhibiting A Secret Chord, celebrating the connection between music and Jewish culture, including musical instruments, soundscapes, photographs and artworks. The exhibition which…
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Port Phillip Bicycle Users Group and the Bicycle Network
This evening I joined Cr Justin Halliday in attending a public meeting of the Port Phillip Bicycling Users Group which featured a speaker from the Bicycle Network discussing the sustainable transport improvements required to provide genuine transport choice across the City of Port Phillip. Fishermans Bend, as an example, is on the precipice of two…