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Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Women activists in Port

People, Port Melbourne HistoryMarch 19, 2021
This piece is assembled from material on the PMHPS website and publications. The authors are gratefully acknowledged. You will find links to the posts at the end of this article. In response to the call put out by organiser Janine Hendry, thousands and thousands of women (and supportive men) turned out to March 4 Justice on Monday 15…

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Olive’s Corner

News and NoticesSeptember 12, 2017
Olive's Corner - August 2017 The fences have come down at the revamped Olive's Corner. The small park at the corner of Liardet, Bay and Lalor Streets was opened in March 2002 in honour of the late Senator Olive Zakharov.  It was recently refurbished by the City of Port Phillip completing a large grassed area and adding more seating. Olive lived in Swallow…

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Pickles Street

Places, Port Melbourne HistoryMay 10, 2016
The earliest streets named on the Street Plan of Sandridge 1849 were those clustered around the foundation place of the early settlement - Bay, Dow, Rouse, Stokes, Graham. They were named from Sydney. Garryowen made this unflattering assessment about some of the later names:   ‘the nomenclature (street names) was distributed amongst a batch of local mediocrities.' He adds   ‘Certainly they have amongst…

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.