Clifton Hill should be high on your list the next time you’ve got a free weekend The suburb is just a short stroll across Alexandra Parade from its boisterous neighbours Fitzroy Collingwood and Abbotsford – it even shares a postcode with cool cousin Fitzroy North (3068 everybody) – but many of its excellent eateries townhouses and penthouses to suit families Get to know one of our favourite inner-city neighbourhoods: here’s our itinerary to help you uncover (or rediscover) some of Clifton Hill’s best bars shops and parklands – while skipping the crowds travel spots and more – curated by those who know seasonal produce and much more to take home skip and a jump from the Merri Creek and Main Yarra trails this is a great stop for those exploring the area’s sprawling parklands Melbourne brand Toorallie specialises in fine merino wool knitwear Toorallie traces its history back 200 years to a family sheep stud that was passed through the generations the family business had evolved into a fully fledged knitwear brand These days the flagship store is on Queens Parade in Clifton Hill and it’s well worth popping in to browse the range of premium merino knits Nat Schorer creates adventurous floral arrangements to suit those looking for something a little more special than your typical bouquet Schorer’s florals are in demand for weddings and blend the best flowers of the season with a contemporary design style You can find Wild Flos on Council Street in Clifton Hill’s quiet backstreets but there’s a catch: Schorer opens by appointment only Make sure you book ahead if you hope to head home with a true Clifton Hill souvenir – or make it a regular stop and fill your living space with blooms Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North draws the sunny afternoon crowds but Clifton Hill locals are happy to have Darling Gardens to themselves A respite from the bustle of its Hoddle Street border leafy park crisscrossed with tree-lined avenues and rolling lawns that are begging for a picnic blanket and a book Take a quick wander through or settle in for some serious dog watching Caulfield’s loss has been Clifton Hill’s gain, with Clinton and Karina Serex leaving behind their cult burger spot Tuck Shop Take Away to bring Clifton Hill some of the best ice-cream in Melbourne veering between simple riffs on classic vanilla (definitely go for sea salt if it’s on the menu) and even a few oat-milk-based vegan examples that tick all the right boxes It’s fast becoming a Clifton Hill destination – particularly when the sun is shining Choose from classics like the Nonna (topped with confit garlic mozzarella and braised greens) and the Boonie (an upgraded Hawaiian with caramelised pineapple Spensley’s turns your evening into a choose-your-own-adventure You could skip the pizza entirely and pick through the wine bar’s menu – think charred sugarloaf cabbage with almonds ricotta and sage – or stop in post-pizza for a glass of something special (You can even order to your table from next door.) If the weather permits grab a seat on the corner outside and choose from Spensley’s list of lesser-known Australian and international wine producers – a rotating selection that could include Beechworth semillon sauvignon blanc or crisp chardonnay from Chablis Order a few wine-friendly bites from the seasonal selection and you’re set This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with Prime Edition. Register for early access to 33 Queens Parade or book a VIP appointment at the display suite located at 7 Queens Parade here Bakeries and Restaurants That Opened or Closed in April 32 of the Hottest Dishes and Drinks in Melbourne Right Now Menu Reveal: Five Things To Order at Junda Khoo’s Ho Liao First Look: Filipino Pop-Up Palay Moves to Fitzroy for Good Prime Edition has kicked off 2025 with one of the first major projects of the year in Melbourne They’ve unveiled 33 Queens Parade, a new development offering just 32 exclusive residences in the heart of Clifton Hill The project is ideally situated between Edinburgh Gardens to the west and Darling Gardens to the east The design, created by renowned local architecture firm Cera Stribley comprising two and three-bedroom apartments as well as six townhouses and two luxury penthouses open-plan living and dining areas with floor-to-ceiling windows that maximise natural light At the heart of each home is a kitchen equipped with premium Miele appliances complemented by natural stone benchtops and splashbacks The master bedroom has been designed as a private retreat with its own opulent ensuite and walk-in robe while additional bedrooms are generously sized and have their own dedicated bathrooms The design has also focused on seamless indoor-outdoor living Every apartment and townhouse includes outdoor spaces whether in the form of a balcony or a landscaped courtyard the development incorporates thoughtfully curated amenities catering to the needs of modern urban living Once a working-class suburb within the City of Collingwood, Clifton Hill’s transformation was propelled by the expansion of Melbourne’s tram network and the industrial growth along the Yarra River it stands as one of the city’s most sought-after locales Residents of 33 Queens Parade will enjoy unparalleled access to these amenities The development also addresses a significant gap in the local property market, with fewer than 25 percent of Clifton Hill’s dwellings being apartments As the first new development in the area in years 33 Queens Parade represents a rare opportunity to secure a home in this tightly held suburb With 33 Queens Parade, Prime Edition continues its legacy of creating homes that redefine modern living while honouring the unique character of their surroundings We're on a mission to radically improve the quality of Urban communities being developed across Australia We aim to showcase every development in Australia to help you find the perfect new home Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time If you don’t live in Clifton Hill or know somebody who does you have no reason to ever visit – and that’s just the way we like it The Clifton Hill McDonald’s is technically not in Clifton Hill There’s really no hill in Clifton Hill just a slight rise that is only discernible if you are riding a bike; being the inner north It’s a suburb that hides its identity – the local swimming pool is confusingly called the Collingwood Leisure Centre even though it’s slap-bang in the centre of Clifton Hill while the athletics track on the Northcote border is the Collingwood Little Athletics Centre Even one of the most well-known buildings in Clifton Hill If we could build a moat around Clifton Hill but we have to make do with natural barriers in the form of the Merri Creek which encircles a large part of the suburb the Eastern Freeway and the Ramsden Street boom gates Other suburbs have campaigned to have their boom gates removed as part of the government’s level crossing removal project; in Clifton Hill we welcome anything that makes our suburb more difficult for others to get to The main gripe for most of us: the number of drivers who use Clifton Hill’s quiet streets as rat runs to get into the city Find me a Melbourne suburb with more speed bumps and traffic-calming devices than Clifton Hill and I’ll shout you a flat white at Uncle Drew Cafe sometimes called “Chillers” or “Clifton Hill Billies” are a well-organised lot There’s generally a King’s Counsel on hand, ready to mobilise the neighbours to advocate for slower traffic, fight to protect the local pub, The Royal, from being redeveloped into apartments or, more shamefully, to oppose an aged care home It’s no surprise, given that Clifton Hill sits in the middle of “solicitor land” one of five suburbs in the inner north where lawyers outnumber all other jobs The gentrification of Clifton Hill is a far cry from its early days and the area was filled with factories and tiny workers’ cottages A family member who grew up in Fitzroy 80 years ago tells me: “Fitzroy was a slum and Clifton Hill was a slum; they just thought they were a better class of slum than us.” a home for many Greek and Italian migrants with their lemon trees and white plaster garden statues the nonnas’ homes are being bought and renovated by young professionals driving up the median house price to $1.6 million I have seen the suburb come up in the world: old warehouses have become apartments the tattoo parlour turned into a gourmet pizza shop and the parks are overrun with cavoodles and rescue greyhounds One sign of the suburb’s new-found wealth was apparent during COVID lockdowns when bougie Queen’s Parade grocery store McCoppins put up a sign that struck fear into the hearts of locals: “Limited supply of D’Affinois.” The famed Fromager d’Affinois cheese.Credit: Lisa Maree Williams Forget fights over toilet paper; in Clifton Hill it was French soft cheese that was being stockpiled held by Labor’s Ged Kearney federally and the Greens’ Gabrielle de Vietri at a state level Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri.Credit: Justin McManus The suburb is part of the Yarra council, jokingly referred to as the People’s Republic of Yarra, which has just switched from a Greens council to one dominated by former Socialist Stephen Jolly and his coalition of independents the recycling centre is the pride of the suburb and many front fences have “climate action now” or “Yes” signs still hanging from the referendum It’s no surprise the area is in hot demand – Clifton Hill is spoilt with public transport links buses and a train station with two train lines running through it (Mernda and Hurstbridge) This means trains are so regular that I can just walk to the station without checking the timetable and a train will turn up within a couple of minutes letting me momentarily pretend I am living in a city with a reliable and high-frequency transport system like London or Paris helped by little book libraries on most streets an active “good karma” network and an annual Halloween lolly bonanza so generous that kids come from surrounding suburbs The parkland and trails around Clifton Hill make it feel like it’s the middle of the bush Sunrise brings hot air balloons floating overhead flying foxes swarm above our home from their colony by the Yarra on their way to the fruit trees of Carlton and Brunswick Even the flying foxes haven’t worked out how good life is in Clifton Hill The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. Sign up here If you don\\u2019t live in Clifton Hill or know somebody who does you have no reason to ever visit \\u2013 and that\\u2019s just the way we like it that\\u2019s something many of us like to do It\\u2019s a suburb that hides its identity \\u2013 the local swimming pool is confusingly called the Collingwood Leisure Centre even though it\\u2019s slap-bang in the centre of Clifton Hill Other suburbs have campaigned to have their boom gates removed as part of the government\\u2019s level crossing removal project; in Clifton Hill The main gripe for most of us: the number of drivers who use Clifton Hill\\u2019s quiet streets to get into the city and I\\u2019ll shout you a flat white at Uncle Drew Cafe sometimes called \\u201CChillers\\u201D or \\u201CClifton Hill Billies\\u201D are a well-organised lot There\\u2019s generally a King\\u2019s Counsel on hand ready to mobilise the neighbours to advocate for slower traffic and the area was filled with factories and tiny workers\\u2019 cottages A family member who grew up in Fitzroy 80 years ago tells me: \\u201CFitzroy was a slum and Clifton Hill was a slum; they just thought they were a better class of slum than us.\\u201D the nonnas\\u2019 homes are being bought and renovated by young professionals driving up the median house price to $1.6 million One sign of the suburb\\u2019s new-found wealth was apparent during COVID lockdowns when bougie Queen\\u2019s Parade grocery store McCoppins put up a sign that struck fear into the hearts of locals: \\u201CLimited supply of D\\u2019Affinois.\\u201D Despite Clifton Hill\\u2019s upward mobility held by Labor\\u2019s Ged Kearney federally and the Greens\\u2019 Gabrielle de Vietri at a state level jokingly referred to as the People\\u2019s Republic of Yarra which has just switched from a Greens council to one and his coalition of independents There\\u2019s a labyrinth down by Merri Creek and many front fences have \\u201Cclimate action now\\u201D or \\u201CYes\\u201D signs still hanging from the referendum It\\u2019s no surprise the area is in hot demand \\u2013 Clifton Hill is spoilt with public transport links an active \\u201Cgood karma\\u201D network and an annual Halloween lolly bonanza so generous that kids come from surrounding suburbs The parkland and trails around Clifton Hill make it feel like it\\u2019s the middle of the bush Even the flying foxes haven\\u2019t worked out how good life is in Clifton Hill The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge Dissected by Hoddle Street with the train station in the middle, there are really two Clifton Hills, says Nelson Alexander agent Roland Paterson. Browse Domain’s property and lifestyle magazines. “The city side has the big Queens Parade shops and the proximity to Brunswick Street and Smith Street,” he says. “It’s also got the Darling Gardens, which is like a quieter and more boutique version of the Edinburgh Gardens in North Fitzroy – and North Terrace, which is probably the best street in the whole suburb.” Across the train line lies the quieter village, where Victorian and Edwardian homes mingle with former warehouses and factories now renovated into homes and boutique apartments. This part of the `burb butts up against the Yarra River and thousands of acres of parkland. It’s an island of gentility locked in by the train line, but locals know the “secret” way out via the winding road under the Eastern Freeway towards Abbotsford. There are two primary schools, both hugely sought after by families within and outside Clifton Hill. Spensley Street Primary in the village is known for its arty community, which puts on a cracking fete each year, while Gold Street on the other side is similarly tight-knit.  The main Queens Parade shopping strip is home to what is highly likely to be Melbourne’s only Indian-Hungarian restaurant, Diamond, where mushroom masala and smoked kranskies rule. This glamorous neighbourhood is a regular in the social pages Three decades ago, this Melbourne suburb was a desolate brownfield site Why house prices are on the rise in this Mornington Peninsula pocket Across the road, you’ll find Italian cafe and patisserie Cavallini (visit Friday to Sunday for tiramisu cruffins) and worthy pizzeria Queen Margaret. The Clifton Hill Brewpub does what it says on the label: it brews beer on-site and chases it with 100 other craft beer choices and a pub classics menu.   The Merri Creek and Yarra River are nature’s arteries in Clifton Hill, delivering parkland and bike trails in spades. Quarries Park is a favourite for youngsters thanks to its enormous fort playground, teens for its skatepark and dog walkers for its magnificent city skyline views. The manicured pocket square of the Darling Gardens, opposite the train station, is ringed by some of the suburb’s finest real estate. A five-minute walk away you’ll find the shot tower lording it over Alexandra Parade.  3 Baths2 ParkingView listing Live large in Clifton Hill with this generous-sized art deco home close to the train station. There’s a low-maintenance paved rear yard with a laneway access garage for two cars and two great upper-level balconies big enough to entertain. The information on this website is intended to be of a general nature only and doesn't consider your objectives, financial situation or needs. where we are privileged to live and operate Credit: FacebookHundreds of people have gathered to farewell young Melbourne model Elise Hodder a month after she was struck by an allegedly drunk drug-affected driver in southeast Melbourne and work colleagues spoke to the congregation of close to 500 people at Leonda by the Yarra to pay tribute to the “beautiful” 24-year-old Clifton Hill woman Ms Hodder was killed when she was struck by a car shortly after she arrived at a rave at Sir Zelman Cowen Park in Kooyong in southeast Melbourne on October 13 Get the first look at the digital newspaper curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox Get the NewsletterBy continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.The outpouring of grief that followed immediately after her death in devastated tributes echoed at the funeral on Friday as heartbroken loved ones spoke of their loss and shared fond memories of the “graceful” According to The Herald Sun Ms Hodder’s family were overcome with emotion when speaking about their beloved daughter The funeral director spoke on behalf of her father grieving “Today above any other is a day that a father a mother and brothers should be able to speak about a loving daughter and sister,” Mr Hodder wrote 24 was killed hen she was struck by a car in Kooyong Facebook Credit: Supplied“But simply we do not have the strength to do this who was also struck by the car that killed Ms Hodder he said meeting Ms Hodder was “like meeting someone I had known my whole life” beautiful and down-to-earth person I have ever had the pleasure of calling a best friend.” who was also struck by the car that killed Elise was another who shared some words Elise Hodder was killed by an allegedly drunk who was struck by the car but could not attend the funeral due to other injuries prepared a statement to be read for her “irreplaceable” friend caring and sweet in your mid-twenties is so rare and something I will cherish forever,” the statement read A contingent of emergency service representatives were also in the large crowd to pay their respects Ms Hodder shared images of her debut in a New York fashion magazine a major milestone for her budding modelling career But her life was cut tragically short when she was struck by a quickly reversing car at 1.10 am on Sunday Ms Hodder had arrived at the Kooyong park to attend the party just moments before the fatal incident is charged with culpable driving causing death dangerous driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury drunk and under the influence of cannabis when he got behind the wheel of his car He is alleged to have hit one pedestrian while reversing before accelerating and striking Ms Hodder and another person as he tried to leave the carpark He allegedly recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.178 and tested positive for cannabis, the Herald Sun reports Latest EditionEdition Edition 5 May 20255 May 2025All-powerful Anthony Albanese says give me some R.E.S.P.E.C.T Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon The best of Melbourne straight to your inbox We help you navigate a myriad of possibilities Sign up for our newsletter for the best of the city By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news Sign up for our email to enjoy Melbourne without spending a thing (as well as some options when you’re feeling flush) Our newsletter hand-delivers the best bits to your inbox Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Melbourne Housed in an ornate building with beautiful leadlights and floor-to-ceiling windows Cookshop Rotisserie doesn’t look like your average chicken shop and it isn’t – former Mamasita head chef Andrew Logan is its passionate founder Nominate if you want leg or breast meat and be rewarded by your choice of La Ionica or Bannockburn free-range chicken that falls off the bone Cookshop has ample bench seating inside as well as outside if you feel like enjoying your chicken in the sun But the likelihood is that you'll be tempted by a whole lot more than just chicken Think whole corn on the cob served with smoked paprika butter tasty stuffing and perfectly fluffy roast potatoes with veggies cooked over the Japanese hibachi grill There are also salads and rotating soup specials so you can head in for an all-out feast if you please Alongside a refreshing range of drinks (think housemade lemonades and iced tea) there's also a solid selection of pre-packed meals and desserts to take home with you – so if you're after more of a takeaway moment than a full sitdown affair and great news: their house fermented pineapple and mixed chilli hot sauce is back so you'd better get your hands on a bottle for the pantry It's made from an assortment of chilli peppers from the owner's backyard (stocks are limited) We're jealous of Clifton Hill locals for living so close to a such a gem We'd happily rack up the kilometres to get our hands on a Cookshop Rotisserie fix.  Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! twitterinstagrampinterestAbout us Contact us Where to Find Australia’s Best Inner-City Bakeries By Katya Wachtel By Katya Wachtel By Matheus “We decided it would be best to listen to our community and noticed that dining trends have changed,” co-owner Willow Humphreys tells Broadsheet became more of a destination or a special event restaurant We wanted to bring it back to its roots of being a really local community venue and a place that everyone could just come every night and have a fun time.” The team will be knocking down the wall between both venues to create one big space slated to open mid-March 2025 While the Pizza Shop kitchen will remain as it is – slinging back 72-hour fermented sourdough slices – the Spensley’s kitchen will become an à la carte version of Pizza Shop serving fresh pastas Pizza Shop’s much-loved tiramisu cheesecake will become a permanent menu item along with other old-favourites and new additions village-y part of Clifton Hill bounded by the Eastern Freeway timber- and brass-clad wine bar a real anchor for the local community their owners frequently stopping for chats or waving to friends through the site’s generous windows bentwood-filled room acquires a more clandestine cast with the soundtrack shifting a few gears up from Beach House and other dream-pop bands Head chef Alessandro Cristiano’s (Da Noi, Neighbourhood Wine) menu includes snacks and a clutch of larger plates You might start with oysters and accompaniments followed by patatas bravas croquettes and a bowl of the daily pasta you might run into roasted cauliflower with sumac almond cream and charred onion; and pork belly Spensley’s has something of an egalitarian streak It’s the kind of place where you can pop in for a quick tap beer at the handsome timber bar (say hi to the business’s mascot Larry the brass lobster) or stick around and explore the single-page wine list Natural and skin-contact wines are favoured here alongside as aromatic whites such as riesling and pinot gris and leaner reds such as pinot noir and gamay Website: spensleys.com.au We do not seek or accept payment from the cafes bars and shops listed in the Directory – inclusion is at our discretion Venue profiles are written by independent freelancers paid by Broadsheet By Angus Delaney and Josh Gordon A cyclist rides through Darling Gardens in Clifton Hill.Credit: Justin McManus Nigel Davies knows Clifton Hill is a suburb caught between the past and present The managing director of Melbourne’s oldest surviving funeral parlour looks on as young families join the suburb’s long-term there’s been a sale in the blocks behind Queens Parade and a couple of weeks later there’ll be an old ’70s or early ’80s kitchen out on the front lawn,” says Davies “Because the old ladies have all had to go into care or have died managing director of Melbourne’s oldest surviving funeral parlour outside the historic building on Queens Parade in 2022 The confluence of the old and young in Clifton Hill has impacted the local housing stock medium-density apartments sharing the street with historic terrace homes The stark reality of the suburb’s two main constituencies is clear on Gold Street – opposite the local primary school is an aged care home has lived in Clifton Hill for more than 50 years and has witnessed the influx of young professionals an enormous population of lawyers and judges.” there are more solicitors in Clifton Hill than any other profession (108 to be precise) Locals jokingly refer to the suburb as “the People’s Republic of Clifton Hill” but its residents are also typically both well-educated and well-remunerated Remy Van de Wiel has lived in Clifton Hill for more than 50 years.Credit: Justin McManus The median weekly household income in the suburb is $2755 far higher than the Victorian average of $1759 About 63 per cent of Clifton Hill residents have at least a bachelor’s degree more than double the state average of 29.2 per cent Before it made its mark as an enclave for the well-off and well-educated Van de Wiel says Clifton Hill housed “largely immigrants who’s presided over thousands of funerals in the area also remembers the colourful characters of the area’s past He held the service for Chopper Read’s funeral which was originally going to be held in Lonergan and Raven’s chapel on Queens Parade but had to be moved to a larger venue due to huge media interest in the notorious criminal I did the funeral for a Supreme Court judge and the family were amused to point out that this judge had actually put Chopper away a couple of times,” says Davies “But Clifton Hill being the sort of area it was their houses were actually only about half a block apart “Their wives have seen each other in coffee shops on a regular basis.” Clifton Hill personifies Melbourne’s coveted liveability It has easy access to just about everything: public transport hipster cafes and bars and the bushy tranquillity of Merri Creek and the Yarra There is a public primary school at each end: the more freewheeling Spensley Street on the eastern side and the more traditional Clifton Hill Primary with low-rise public housing strung along its southern flank some crusty blocks of flats from the 1950s and 1960s plenty of smaller cottages mostly built during the boom years of the 1880s when the area was still relatively sparsely populated Crown land Clifton Hill was spawned out of the muck of the Collingwood river flats which by the middle of the 19th century had degenerated into a planning and public-health disaster Mortality rates around the river flats had soared as diseases such as dysentery As an 1881 editorial in The Argus described the situation: “Almost every street lying upon the Flat has its green and stagnant gutter while the backyards of many of the dairymen Victoria’s Central Board of Health – set up by the government of the day to provide public-health advice – blamed the crisis on “miasma theory” the misguided notion that disease was spread by foul vapours or bad air anxious to improve the local area with better streets successfully annexed a chunk of Crown Land to the north that was initially simply known as North Collingwood It was to be an exercise in restrained urban planning professionally laid out streets and plenty of open space The Collingwood annexation was not popular with the locals “the freeholders of Clifton Hill have no desire to depreciate the value of their property by suffering it to be annexed to a swamp which to drain itself would drain our resources” There is some debate about how the suburb got its name It has variously been suggested it was named after a local property a town in England of the same near Bristol or perhaps a villa known as “Clifton Grange” The word “Hill” was inserted by a local land developer John Knipe as a sort of marketing tool The suburb is indeed partly located on a small hill breezy location was seen as particularly desirable for a prospective buyer poorly drained and foetid Collingwood river flats says the western half of Clifton Hill was laid out by the Victorian assistant commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey “Most of the eastern part of Clifton Hill was done also in a rather piecemeal fashion but it is certainly less chaotic than most of Collingwood and Abbotsford,” Cummings says there was also industry in the area (including a number of boot-making factories) along with a drain running down what is now Alexandra Parade offered opportunities for industrial drainage A prominent landmark from Clifton Hill’s industry past is the shot tower on Alexandra Parade a 78-metre building resembling a chimney built to manufacture lead shot It held the title of Australia’s tallest structure from its construction in 1882 until 1930 the area has fallen in and out of favour over the years but it has retained a strong local identity being buttressed by Alexandra Parade and the Eastern Freeway to the south Queens Parade and Heidelberg Road to the north and Merri Creek to the east the Greens state MP for the seat of Richmond (which includes Clifton Hill) and a former City of Yarra mayor says there is a stark difference in feeling when you cross from Collingwood to Clifton Hill “It is a ridiculously liveable suburb,” di Vietri says “It is such a beautiful place to spend time in that is obviously very well planned But di Vietri says the area is not without its issues including a lack of investment in public housing as well as the cost of housing more broadly di Vietri highlighted the shocking state of the housing estates in the area Emeritus professor of history at Monash University Graeme Davison says the northern extension of Collingwood provided the area with “a very different kind of clientele” “It has a sense of enclosure,” Davison says It is a pretty intact 19th-century streetscape.” The sense of enclosure remains to this day has become a stalwart of the suburb since setting up his business in 2017 He says locals are “very community first people” George Tsagouris’ Dirty Apron cafe has become a local favourite “It’s a stone’s throw away from the hustle and bustle of Richmond and Fitzroy and Northcote,” says Tsagouris but [residents] still live in a quiet spot.” It’s one reason Sarah Langlet left Fitzroy last year moving her young family to neighbouring Clifton Hill “We came here because it was still close to everything that we loved but we have a bit more space of three bedrooms and there’s a backyard,” says Langlet Langlet says Clifton Hill feels distinctly different “It has quite a lot more older people and more families.” Although she doesn’t think she’ll stay in the area very long public transport and sense of community provide “everything you could need” Sarah Langlet moved to Clifton Hill with her young family from Fitzroy Langlet is part of the changing demographic of Clifton Hill And as the demographic changes so too has the need for more housing the Victorian government announced housing targets for all Melbourne council areas earmarking the City of Yarra for an additional 48,000 houses by 2051 nearly double the 52,600 homes already there Development is a delicate topic in Clifton Hill with long-time locals wary of tarnishing the area’s historic charm “It’s fair enough that if you live in the inner city that there will be a greater level of intense development there,” says Van de Wiel “But it could be done with a greater sense of appropriateness there’s just massive developments of high-rises that are quite ugly former executive director of Heritage Victoria Tonkin says he’s “happy to accept more development” and cites recent medium-density development of the industrial and warehousing sites to the southern end of the suburb as a success However, Tonkin has successfully fought against development, opposing the redevelopment of the Royal Hotel in Clifton Hill whose owners submitted a plan in 2019 to turn the historic building into a five-storey block of flats Roy Tonkin successfully campaigned against the redevelopment on Clifton Hill’s Royal Hotel.Credit: Luis Enrique Ascui “The real concern was we were going to lose an iconic building the biggest iconic building in Clifton Hill and have it replaced with essentially a new development These issues are not unique to Clifton Hill with many inner-city suburbs preparing for uncertain futures and booming populations For all the changes set to hit Clifton Hill at home among all the comforts of the area Why has Tonkin never moved after nearly 50 years living in the suburb Get the day’s breaking news, entertainment ideas and a long read to enjoy. 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The managing director of Melbourne\\u2019s oldest surviving funeral parlour looks on as young families join the suburb\\u2019s long-term there\\u2019s been a sale in the blocks behind Queens Parade and a couple of weeks later there\\u2019ll be an old \\u201970s or early \\u201980s kitchen out on the front lawn,\\u201D says Davies \\u201CBecause the old ladies have all had to go into care or have died The stark reality of the suburb\\u2019s two main constituencies is clear on Gold Street \\u2013 opposite the local primary school is an aged care home an enormous population of lawyers and judges.\\u201D Locals jokingly refer to the suburb as \\u201Cthe People\\u2019s Republic of Clifton Hill\\u201D About 63 per cent of Clifton Hill residents have at least a bachelor\\u2019s degree Van de Wiel says Clifton Hill housed \\u201Clargely immigrants [the] working class with some tradies\\u201D who\\u2019s presided over thousands of funerals in the area also remembers the colourful characters of the area\\u2019s past He held the service for Chopper Read\\u2019s funeral which was originally going to be held in Lonergan and Raven\\u2019s chapel on Queens Parade I did the funeral for a Supreme Court judge and the family were amused to point out that this judge had actually put Chopper away a couple of times,\\u201D says Davies \\u201CBut Clifton Hill being the sort of area it was \\u201CTheir wives have seen each other in coffee shops on a regular basis.\\u201D Clifton Hill personifies Melbourne\\u2019s coveted liveability As an 1881 editorial in The Argus described the situation: \\u201CAlmost every street lying upon the Flat has its green and stagnant gutter teem with decomposed matter \\u2026\\u201D Victoria\\u2019s Central Board of Health \\u2013 set up by the government of the day to provide public-health advice \\u2013 blamed the crisis on \\u201Cmiasma theory\\u201D \\u201Cthe freeholders of Clifton Hill have no desire to depreciate the value of their property by suffering it to be annexed to a swamp which to drain itself would drain our resources\\u201D or perhaps a villa known as \\u201CClifton Grange\\u201D The word \\u201CHill\\u201D was inserted by a local land developer John Knipe as a sort of marketing tool \\u201CMost of the eastern part of Clifton Hill was done also in a rather piecemeal fashion but it is certainly less chaotic than most of Collingwood and Abbotsford,\\u201D Cummings says A prominent landmark from Clifton Hill\\u2019s industry past is the shot tower on Alexandra Parade It held the title of Australia\\u2019s tallest structure from its construction in 1882 until 1930 \\u201CIt is a ridiculously liveable suburb,\\u201D di Vietri says \\u201CIt is such a beautiful place to spend time in that is obviously very well planned Darling Gardens has pride of place.\\u201D Emeritus professor of history at Monash University Graeme Davison says the northern extension of Collingwood provided the area with \\u201Ca very different kind of clientele\\u201D \\u201CIt has a sense of enclosure,\\u201D Davison says It is a pretty intact 19th-century streetscape.\\u201D He says locals are \\u201Cvery community first people\\u201D and that Clifton Hill is \\u201Ca quiet suburb\\u201D \\u201CIt\\u2019s a stone\\u2019s throw away from the hustle and bustle of Richmond and Fitzroy and Northcote,\\u201D says Tsagouris \\u201CIt\\u2019s five minutes from everywhere but [residents] still live in a quiet spot.\\u201D It\\u2019s one reason Sarah Langlet left Fitzroy last year \\u201CWe came here because it was still close to everything that we loved but we have a bit more space of three bedrooms and there\\u2019s a backyard,\\u201D says Langlet \\u201CIt has quite a lot more older people and more families.\\u201D \\u201CIt does have a bit of a community vibe I think everyone seems really friendly.\\u201D Although she doesn\\u2019t think she\\u2019ll stay in the area very long public transport and sense of community provide \\u201Ceverything you could need\\u201D with long-time locals wary of tarnishing the area\\u2019s historic charm \\u201CIt\\u2019s fair enough that if you live in the inner city that there will be a greater level of intense development there,\\u201D says Van de Wiel \\u201CBut it could be done with a greater sense of appropriateness there\\u2019s just massive developments of high-rises that are quite ugly Tonkin says he\\u2019s \\u201Chappy to accept more development\\u201D Tonkin has successfully fought against development \\u201CThe real concern was we were going to lose an iconic building \\u201CWhy would we?\\u201D he says simply entertainment ideas and a long read to enjoy Jack Burton and Jo Crago have announced their day-to-night Smith Street favourite will close after service on Sunday November 24 The owners made the announcement via an Instagram post: “We’ll forever cherish the memories and are proud to have been a part of the Naarm/Melbourne food “We are going out with two weekends jam packed with DJs If you want to spin one last track or cook up some food please reach out :) “We will be opening a little earlier on Fridays and Saturday (from 2pm) so we can squeeze in as many last drinks with you all while we still can “This isn’t the end for the Quiet Time crew so keep an eye out for what we’re cooking up next!” Quiet Time is an all-day to late-night cafe where comfort food It’s the first joint venture from couple Jack Burton and Jo Crago – who are originally from Perth and clearly have a knack for hospitality By day, it’s a great spot to read or work, with a pastry and a hot chocolate on hand – especially if you snag the window bench at the front. Breakfast might include overnight oats topped with stewed fruits; triple-smoked ham and gruyere croissants; and a butter bean breakfast stew. You’ll also find Ovens Street pastries and house-made sweets it’s mostly bar snacks (think dips and crispy flatbread there will likely be cheese toasties on offer (loaded with extras like marinated eggplant and tomato or triple-smoked ham with bread with butter pickles) Candles are propped in water glasses and lamps glow softly in different nooks It’s easy to spend hours around candlelit wooden tables or in the fairy light-strewn courtyard good drinks and music humming from Klipsch speakers Quiet Time is also the home for the online radio station Skylab Radio which means you hear see local DJs playing soul and funk Website: quiettime.cafe What: A stately Victorian home renovated with pastel interiors Angie Rehak and her husband Nick purchased a home in Clifton Hill marking their return to Melbourne after an eight-year stint in Sydney The home was a run-down Victorian house built in around the 1890s with a 1960s extension that only detracted from the overall design Angie and Nick engaged architect Alex Lake of Therefore to design a comprehensive renovation which would restore the original rooms and create new northern living spaces to replace the outdated addition “That whole extension was removed,” says Angie, who is the co-owner of the grazing and event styling business Blossom. “It ran along the back of the house with a tiny kitchen, laundry and another bathroom. No windows for that glorious north-facing sunshine!” The original house was entirely retained and reconfigured for modern family living. “All of the original floorboards remain, except in the new bathrooms,” says Angie. “We sanded them back from dark wood to light and added a slight whitewash to brighten up the house.” An extension now hosts all the living spaces, which are open plan but subtly defined by changes in floor level (creating a sunken lounge) and colour. New glass doors running the width of the rear facade provide a broad connection to the backyard, allowing the children to run between the house and their separate playroom (once a small free-standing structure) at the back of the block. Gardens of the Sun has landscaped both the front and back gardens, which are in keeping with the architecture and reference the garden of Angie’s childhood Castlemaine home. “With over 300 different types of roses, it was pretty magical! I hoped to recreate that on a much smaller scale in our garden,” Angie says. The restored facade provides the perfect backdrop for the cottage-style landscaping, complete with a pastel pink front door. “We chose pink as it matched the faded colour of the corrugated roof, suited the pretty Victorian features, and I have always wanted a pink door!” says Angie. “We receive many lovely comments about it from everyone who walks past!” Angie’s colour selections for the interiors are whimsical. The patterned tiles in the bathroom invite a playful energy, and the kitchen features a fresh shade of green, which is accentuated by a skylight behind the cupboards. The entire renovation was completed by Appetite for Construction in a speedy 10 months during and around the COVID lockdowns. Coming home to her dream home every day is never lost on Angie. “Every single time I arrive home, our pink door, pretty house, and gorgeous garden makes my heart sing,” she says. “I am reminded of how lucky we are to have such a beautiful home… Incredibly cheesy, but true!” We tend to think of a soft palette as feminine or best reserved for children’s spaces. In fact, pastel colours can be the perfect alternative to white – injecting personality and warmth into a space without being too overbearing. showing the new house set at an angle to the existing property The arbour at right leads to the new house One of the bedrooms in the attic space of the old house The kitchen and dining area of the new house is at first floor level with stairs at right leading up to the roof terrace Stairs at left lead from the open plan kitchen/diner to the stepped roof terrace garden This staircase leads from the new addition to the attic bedrooms in the old house Scarborough and Welkin with the Melbourne skyline beyond a residential puzzle box in Melbourne’s Clifton Hill Located in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill a new double home by Justin Mallia Architecture transforms an existing two-storey building into a series of courtyards and interlocking spaces The square plot was previously home to a traditionally styled two-storey bungalow surrounded by a garden that had been hemmed in by neighbouring extensions Mallia was tasked to build over the overshadowed garden and create a new separate dwelling manages to eke out new pockets of outdoor space together with improved amenity and privacy Careful planning and sun modelling allowed for the creation of angled new structure that appears to intersect the original house the new addition doesn’t read like a separate structure more like a deconstruction addition to the existing house Mallia’s intervention allowed the client to keep trees from the original garden while roof gardens and terraces provide new – and much lighter – spaces for planting and growth All this is linked with what the architect describes as a ‘complex circulation network’ manifesting in a series of paths and walkways that weave through the site provide a separate and private first floor access to the second house and span multiple levels to create dynamic and vivid living spaces The set back of the new house preserves the heritage character of Clifton Hill without compromising its modernist credentials To the right of the traditional wooden garden fence is a route leading to covered parking whilst pushed up at the edge of the site is timber and steel arbour that slopes up towards the new house’s front door The ground floor of the original structure has been repurposed to include four bedrooms and an open plan kitchen and living area The original entrance porch has been preserved while later additions at the rear have been removed to accommodate the new house ‘The building mass is permeated with cracks and fissures,’ Mallia explains ‘these allow natural ventilation and filtered northern sunlight to penetrate throughout a vastly varying arrangement of spaces that are a delight and surprise to encounter.’ the original attic has been transformed into two bedrooms a bathroom and utility space to serve the new house Reached by a wood-lined staircase that marks the junction between old and new the attic rooms are connected to the two levels of the main house one of which serves as the kitchen diner and the other the living room and principal bedroom suite The roofscape of both houses appears to blend together with separate terraces for each dwelling that step up and down across the site The original chimney remains as a brick totem amidst the new planting seating areas and steps that criss-cross the site A solar array takes up the whole upper roof area of the new house while the original terracotta tiles have been left as a backdrop to the roof garden escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox rainwater recovery and storage for irrigation and EV charging points ‘Scarborough and Welkin creatively reinvents a flexible approach to modern housing infilling a compromised gap in the urban fabric and achieving a balance that is bold and innovative while engaging respectfully and modestly with its surroundings,’ Mallia concludes JustinMallia.com Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999 covering everything from architecture and transport design to books He is now the magazine’s Transport and Technology Editor He is also the host of Wallpaper’s first podcast Clinton and Karina Serex seem to have a flair for American classics. The duo previously ran beloved, now-closed burger joint Tuck Shop Take Away in Caulfield East Sundae School is their ice-cream shop that specialises in US-style scoops (which are typically creamier and less custardy than French ice-cream or Italian gelato) Lemon creamsicle – a blend of vanilla bean ice-cream and lemon sorbet – is a near-perfect combination of creamy and tart; the mango lassi – the classic Indian drink reimagined into a scoop – blends thick yoghurt and mango with a splash of orange blossom and a pinch of salt Vegan offerings have included a Pina Colada sorbet and an apple pie which is oat milk and plant-based cream mixed with apple compote and a sprinkle of cinnamon There are also nostalgic spiders – vanilla ice-cream topped with your choice of soda – or ice-cream sundaes served with three scoops of vanilla ice-cream topped with salted chocolate fudge The shop keeps with the theme of school and church (it’s named Sundae School after all) The interior is scattered with school charts and books religious adornments and a cross perched on top of the perfectly shaped schoolhouse window at the entrance Pastry chef Karina has worked at some of the world’s top restaurants She’s also staged at institutions like Thomas Keller’s California restaurant The French Laundry and Charlie Trotter’s self-titled restaurant in Chicago But it was her stint with Sam Mason at Oddfellows in New York that solidified her passion for ice-cream Website: instagram.com A Melbourne driver accused of killing a 24-year-old model when he crashed his car into pedestrians while drunk and high has been granted bail died after she became trapped under Connor Mathiasson’s car while he was allegedly attempting to leave an illegal rave in the south-east suburb of Kooyong in the early hours of Sunday driving while unlicensed and dangerous driving causing serious injury Magistrate Donna Bakos found on Tuesday that Mathiasson did not pose an unacceptable risk to the community but imposed strict bail conditions including regular reporting to police an evening curfew and that he does not drive or use drugs Elise Hodder died after a man allegedly reversed into her near a rave on the weekend His father had agreed to a $100,000 surety and promised to supervise his son with Mathiasson also agreeing to undertake mental health treatment The court heard that Mathiasson “accelerated heavily” while attempting to reverse his Holden Commodore out of the Malvern City Football Club carpark about 1am when he struck three pedestrians The impact killed Hodder and seriously injured another woman who was taken to The Alfred hospital suffering numerous injuries including fractures to her legs and ankles She remains in a serious but stable condition The court heard that Mathiasson recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.178 and tested positive for cannabis told Nine News: “He reiterates his deepest condolences to the Hodder family “I remind the community of the presumption of innocence.” Connor Mathiasson covers his head as he leaves Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.Credit: Nine News There were three passengers in Mathiasson’s car at the time of the incident two of whom have provided statements to the police Members of Victoria Police’s public order response team had been responding to noise complaints about the illegal rave in Sir Zelman Cowen Park and were about 100 metres from Hodder when she was struck and killed The court heard Mathiasson had developed a cannabis addiction as a result of his mother’s death when he was a teenager and was self-medicating for “significant and unresolved” mental health issues Hodder has been remembered as a “beautiful Mathiasson was ordered to return to the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in February his alleged victim was remembered as a “beautiful caring and supportive woman” by her father “We will cherish every memory and support all your friends as you always did for others but your smile and heartbeat will always be with us,” he posted on social media the 23-year-old driver accused of killing Elise Hodder said she was “a delight to work with” and was “always showing up with a bubbly “It is with deep sadness to have received this news Our condolences go out to her family and friends,” the agency said in a statement “Her presence and place in our hearts will never be forgotten Hodder had recently appeared in a dedicated six-page spread in the New York-based fashion publication Get the day’s breaking news, entertainment ideas and a long read to enjoy. Sign up to receive our Evening Edition newsletter. died after she became trapped under Connor Mathiasson\\u2019s car while he was allegedly attempting to leave an illegal rave in the south-east suburb of Kooyong in the early hours of Sunday The court heard that Mathiasson \\u201Caccelerated heavily\\u201D while attempting to reverse his Holden Commodore out of the Malvern City Football Club carpark about 1am when he struck three pedestrians told Nine News: \\u201CHe reiterates his deepest condolences to the Hodder family \\u201CI remind the community of the presumption of innocence.\\u201D There were three passengers in Mathiasson\\u2019s car at the time of the incident Members of Victoria Police\\u2019s public order response team had been responding to noise complaints about the illegal rave in Sir Zelman Cowen Park and were about 100 metres from Hodder when she was struck and killed The court heard Mathiasson had developed a cannabis addiction as a result of his mother\\u2019s death when he was a teenager and was self-medicating for \\u201Csignificant and unresolved\\u201D mental health issues Mathiasson was ordered to return to the Melbourne Magistrates\\u2019 Court in February his alleged victim was remembered as a \\u201Cbeautiful caring and supportive woman\\u201D by her father \\u201CWe will cherish every memory and support all your friends as you always did for others but your smile and heartbeat will always be with us,\\u201D he posted on social media said she was \\u201Ca delight to work with\\u201D and was \\u201Calways showing up with a bubbly \\u201CIt is with deep sadness to have received this news Our condolences go out to her family and friends,\\u201D the agency said in a statement \\u201CHer presence and place in our hearts will never be forgotten The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. Sign up here. If you don\\u2019t live in Clifton Hill or know somebody who does, you have no reason to ever visit \\u2013 and that\\u2019s just the way we like it. Tucked between the cooler, more high-profile suburbs of Collingwood, Northcote and North Fitzroy, Clifton Hill flies under the radar. There\\u2019s really no hill in , just a slight rise that is only discernible if you are riding a bike; being the inner north, that\\u2019s something many of us like to do. It\\u2019s a suburb that hides its identity \\u2013 the local swimming pool is confusingly called the Collingwood Leisure Centre, even though it\\u2019s slap-bang in the centre of Clifton Hill, while the athletics track on the Northcote border is the Collingwood Little Athletics Centre. Even one of the most well-known buildings in Clifton Hill, the art deco McDonald\\u2019s, is technically in North Fitzroy. If we could build a moat around Clifton Hill, we would, but we have to make do with natural barriers in the form of the Merri Creek, which encircles a large part of the suburb, the Eastern Freeway and the Ramsden Street boom gates. Other suburbs have campaigned to have their boom gates removed as part of the government\\u2019s level crossing removal project; in Clifton Hill, we welcome anything that makes our suburb more difficult for others to get to. The main gripe for most of us: the number of drivers who use Clifton Hill\\u2019s quiet streets to get into the city. Find me a Melbourne suburb with more speed bumps and traffic-calming devices than Clifton Hill, and I\\u2019ll shout you a flat white at Uncle Drew Cafe. Clifton Hill residents, sometimes called \\u201CChillers\\u201D or \\u201CClifton Hill Billies\\u201D are a well-organised lot. There\\u2019s generally a King\\u2019s Counsel on hand, ready to mobilise the neighbours to advocate for slower traffic, , The Royal, from being redeveloped into apartments or, more shamefully, . It\\u2019s no surprise, given that Clifton Hill , one of five suburbs in the inner north where lawyers outnumber all other jobs. I can hardly complain, I used to be a lawyer as well. The gentrification of Clifton Hill is a far cry from its early days. Quarries Park was a working quarry, and the area was filled with factories and tiny workers\\u2019 cottages. For a long time, the suburb was working class, a home for many Greek and Italian migrants. There is still public housing in the area, and some of the nonnas and nonnos remain, with their lemon trees and white plaster garden statues. But gradually, the nonnas\\u2019 homes are being bought and renovated by young professionals driving up the median house price to $1.6 million. In the 11 years I have lived here, I have seen the suburb come up in the world: old warehouses have become apartments, the tattoo parlour turned into a gourmet pizza shop, and the parks are overrun with cavoodles and rescue greyhounds. Forget fights over toilet paper; in Clifton Hill, it was French soft cheese that was being stockpiled. Despite Clifton Hill\\u2019s upward mobility, it is still left-leaning, held by Labor\\u2019s Ged Kearney federally and the Greens\\u2019 Gabrielle de Vietri at a state level. The suburb is part of the Yarra council, jokingly referred to as the People\\u2019s Republic of Yarra, which has just switched from a Greens council to one and his coalition of independents. There\\u2019s a labyrinth down by Merri Creek, the recycling centre is the pride of the suburb, and many front fences have \\u201Cclimate action now\\u201D or \\u201CYes\\u201D signs still hanging from the referendum. It\\u2019s no surprise the area is in hot demand \\u2013 Clifton Hill is spoilt with public transport links. It has a tram, buses and a train station with two train lines running through it (Mernda and Hurstbridge). This means trains are so regular that I can just walk to the station without checking the timetable and a train will turn up within a couple of minutes, letting me momentarily pretend I am living in a city with a reliable and high-frequency transport system like London or Paris. There\\u2019s a real sense of community, helped by little book libraries on most streets, an active \\u201Cgood karma\\u201D network and an annual Halloween lolly bonanza so generous that kids come from surrounding suburbs. The parkland and trails around Clifton Hill make it feel like it\\u2019s the middle of the bush. Sunrise brings hot air balloons floating overhead, and when the sun sets, flying foxes swarm above our home from their colony by the Yarra, on their way to the fruit trees of Carlton and Brunswick. Even the flying foxes haven\\u2019t worked out how good life is in Clifton Hill, and that suits us fine. The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. . which lend the classrooms a soft and inviting feel Large windows capturing trees in the landscape to the north amplify the sense of calm and engagement The project creates a joyful and intriguing new building that speaks to the heritage and lineage of the existing 1800s campus buildings Underpinned by functional honesty while also bringing a contemporary feel it is a future-looking design that respects where it comes from while providing students with engaging ways to learn and connect You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email The Clifton Hill Passive House Primary School prioritises sustainability and health meeting Passive House standards with energy efficiency Paarhammer’s custom wood-aluminum windows and doors feature low-VOC finishes 07 Feb 2025 • 1m read • View Author Paarhammer-Case-Study-Clifton-Hill-Passive-House-Primary-School-Hero.jpgPaarhammer-Case Study Clifton Hill Passive House Primary School Hero The Clifton Hill Passive House Primary School prioritises sustainability and health, meeting Passive House standards with energy efficiency, sound protection, and safety. 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It’s surrounded on the other three sides by Princes Park Melbourne General Cemetery and a strip of green where the Inner Circle railway once cut across the city And if you don’t call it “Princess Hill” or confuse it with Clifton Hill In fact, it’s so under the radar that I believe it is one of the few parts of the inner north that never featured in an episode of Offspring My small suburb is not somewhere people come to visit Our only residential tower is a retirement village the busiest traffic route is the bike path cutting through the suburb’s north It’s quiet but close to places that aren’t like Sydney Road and Carlton’s coffee strip Colonial central planning of the 1870s gave Princes Hill narrow terraced houses but bizarrely wide streets. Were the roads laid out this way due to concerns about sanitary conditions, or on the expectation of gold-rush fuelled growth? If it was the latter, those planners might be a little disappointed that the suburb has in recent decades been firmly preserved as a NIMBY heritage district Those wide streets are now dominated by tentative L-plate drivers The older houses date back to when Princes Hill was a self-contained neighbourhood on the city fringe A few red brick factories in the back lanes and a mix of modest cottages and mansions lining Princes Park The factories are now residential and the only manual work being done is tradies popping second storeys onto those modest terraces In the 1970s, residents fought hard to keep that vibe. In a battle against developers and Kleenex manufacturers, they were aided by the Builders Labourers Federation, which blackbanned work on a factory planned for disused railway land in the suburb’s north. Punches were thrown, BLF head Norm Gallagher got arrested and the land is now a linear park and bike path residents tried unsuccessfully to stop much-needed public housing from being built next door Since then the suburb has stayed out of the political news, except in 2012 when then-opposition leader Bill Shorten was involved in a misunderstanding about a pie at our local convenience store Princes Hill’s low profile was preserved when media coverage of this storm-in-a-pie-warmer referred to it as a Carlton North convenience store stroll through the asphalt and bluestone back lanes There’s the thriving community centre where Paul Kelly played one of his first Melbourne gigs and the 1970s brutalism of Princes Hill Secondary College where 800 students are packed into a compact Tardis-like building with a smaller footprint than the average primary school the park and surrounding streets fill with casual-clothed students chattering like parrots at lunch and break times Climb the gentle rise of the hill to the cemetery gates and the avenue of elm trees Look out to the city skyline and the Fitzroy high-rises and get a sense of peace and space a world away from the constant traffic a couple of blocks over We moved here in 2007 when houses were cheaper Princes Hill is now firmly part of the inner-city “woke belt” and one of the highest Greens-voting areas in Melbourne local Labor member Lindsay Tanner was replaced by Adam Bandt and “Yes” to same-sex marriage signs were replaced by signs urging “Yes” to the Voice but there has been demographic change here There is almost no trace of the suburb’s pre-war past as a Jewish neighbourhood and only fading traces of its post-war Italian population The under-used bocce court by the former railway station is now a community garden Despite being a lovely place to raise kids, having two school-aged children puts us in the minority. Families either want more space than what’s on offer here, or have been priced out into Brunswick What’s left are young professional couples and downsizing Boomers who wear puffy jackets and walk fluffy dogs and zip down to Carlton for coffee on Italian scooters Rising property prices mean few new migrants now settle here and even the University of Melbourne’s students are being pushed out The population is gently declining – dropping by 5 per cent between 2016 and 2021 And while renters still make up almost half the suburb I can’t remember the last time I was kept awake by a noisy party Princes Hill has several communities living alongside each other: drop-offs at the school young people picnicking and flirting on the median strips in summer People don’t knock on the door with cakes when you move in but you gradually begin to recognise faces and exchange nods When I head home at the end of the day and watch the sun setting over the park and the circling joggers or see the magnolias flowering in August and the roses blooming in spring You’ll never leave (unless a downsizer makes your landlord an offer they can’t refuse) Ben Ruse is a former journalist who now works in communications If you\\u2019re not familiar with Princes Hill It\\u2019s surrounded on the other three sides by Princes Park And if you don\\u2019t call it \\u201CPrincess Hill\\u201D or confuse it with Clifton Hill it\\u2019s so under the radar that I believe it is one of the few parts of the inner north that never featured in an episode of But it\\u2019s nice to live under the radar the busiest traffic route is the bike path cutting through the suburb\\u2019s north It\\u2019s quiet but close to places that aren\\u2019t like Sydney Road and Carlton\\u2019s coffee strip Colonial central planning of the 1870s gave Princes Hill narrow terraced houses but bizarrely wide streets Were the roads laid out this way due to concerns about sanitary conditions or on the expectation of gold-rush fuelled growth those planners might be a little disappointed that the suburb has in recent decades been firmly preserved as a heritage district In a battle against developers and Kleenex manufacturers they were aided by the Builders Labourers Federation which blackbanned work on a factory planned for disused railway land in the suburb\\u2019s north Since then the suburb has stayed out of the political news except in 2012 when then-opposition leader Bill Shorten was involved in at our local convenience store Princes Hill\\u2019s low profile was preserved when media coverage of this storm-in-a-pie-warmer referred to it as a Carlton North convenience store and you\\u2019ll get a couple of surprises There\\u2019s the thriving community centre where Paul Kelly played one of his first Melbourne gigs Princes Hill is now firmly part of the inner-city \\u201Cwoke belt\\u201D and one of the highest Greens-voting areas in Melbourne and \\u201CYes\\u201D to same-sex marriage signs were replaced by signs urging \\u201CYes\\u201D to the Voice There is almost no trace of the suburb\\u2019s pre-war past as a Jewish neighbourhood it would have been the end of Carlton\\u2019s AFL games at in 2005 While they had been winding down for a while the brief Saturday afternoon invasions filled the streets reminding residents they were part of the broader fabric of Melbourne and its working-class history Many long-term residents were relieved to get their quiet suburb back When the first-ever match of almost 25,000 to Princes Park in 2017 Despite being a lovely place to raise kids having two school-aged children puts us in the minority Families either want more space than what\\u2019s on offer here What\\u2019s left are young professional couples and downsizing Boomers who wear puffy jackets and walk fluffy dogs and even the University of Melbourne\\u2019s students are being pushed out The population is gently declining \\u2013 dropping by 5 per cent between 2016 and 2021 I can\\u2019t remember the last time I was kept awake by a noisy party People don\\u2019t knock on the door with cakes when you move in You\\u2019ll never leave (unless a downsizer makes your landlord an offer they can\\u2019t refuse) 20 Mar 2020 • 2m read • View Author Bates-Smart-designs-The-Foundry-1732011104.png Bates Smart has designed The Foundry, its site located on 592-600 Smith Street in Clifton Hill, Melbourne for $32m. The site will be redeveloped as a commercial and retail space and construction will commence in Q4, 2021. Named The Foundry after the historic use of 612-614 Smith Street as a foundry, the 37,000sqm mixed-use development will support the revitalisation of the Clifton Hill area. Construction is expected to be completed in Q1 2024, and will house commercial and retail space, including a casual dining precinct across three levels. The development will comprise three portions, each made up of four, nine and 12 levels respectively. “The Foundry Clifton Hill is a prominent city-fringe site, and the largest being developed by Pallas Group in Melbourne. The $120m new build has the potential to create a thriving landmark that will elevate the area as a whole. With an expected end value of $300m, it will be transformed into a unique community hub generating connective experiences for Clifton Hill and greater Melbourne itself,” says Charles Mellick, Director, Pallas Group. Designed by Bates Smart, The Foundry will feature five different facade types that break up the commercial, retail and market hall into unique buildings. With two towers offering a combined commercial space of 23,000sqm, including a state-of-the-art fitness and wellness centre, the development will also feature a 7,000sqm food and beverage offering and fresh food markets, and three levels of basement parking. Located 3.5km northeast of Melbourne CBD, The Foundry is located directly opposite Development Victoria’s Fitzroy Gasworks site which has a masterplan for 1,100 apartments as well as childcare centres, schools and sports fields. Rooted, resilient, resonant: Off-grid family living amongst the rugged Australian landscape Picture by Adam TraffordSTATE LEAGUE 1Ballarat City Men v Clifton Hill @ Morshead Park All articles from our website & appThe digital version of Today's PaperBreaking news alerts direct to your inboxInteractive Crosswords Sudoku and TriviaAll articles from the other regional websites in your areaContinueBallarat City is back at Morshead Park for the first of three consecutive home games as it looks to consolidate its position near the top of the State League 1 ladder City this weekend hosts Clifton Hill a team that knocked them off earlier in the season one of a number of early season games that City could rue later in the year But on the back of an impressive win over Western Suburbs last round City should be confident it can produce the goods back at home to get a valuable three points Ballarat City is fourth on the State League 1 table with seven wins and one draw The three successive home games starting this weekend followed by games against Geelong and Whittlesea United will be crucial to pick up as many points as possible as City chases a top two finish Saturday's match at Morshead Park starts at the slightly earlier time than usual of 4pm The women's State League 1 has a bye round this weekend with Ballarat City to face Kings Domain on the road next weekend Bailey Burgess of Ballarat City controls the ball against Westgate STATE LEAGUE 3Sebastopol Vikings v Diamond Valley @ Diamond Valley The Sebastopol Vikings will be chasing more points against one of the sides they are battling against in the middle of the State League 3 ladder Both Diamond Valley and the Vikings go into this weekend's clash with exactly the same win-loss ratio with both teams locked on four wins four losses and five draws on the season to date The only difference is Diamond Valley's slightly better goal percentage These two sides have already clashed once this season and on that day it was a 2-1 win to the Vikings at St George's Reserve with goal scoring duo Lachlan Wright and Pat Karras each getting on the board for the home side You can expect another tight contest as the teams look to jostle their way out of the bottom half of the ladder Saturday clash at Diamond Valley kicks off at 3pm The tough contests keep on coming for Ballarat SC who will this weekend travel to face Maidstone United It's been a horrendous run of tough games for Ballarat who have gone down narrowly to the two top teams in the past fortnight This weekend's clash is up against the third ranked side in State League 5 Ballarat will be desperate to get some points on the board with just two wins and one draw to show from its first 12 rounds While the fixture will get easier in the remaining weeks they will be keen to put their best foot forward here This match provides the opportunity given Ballarat picked up a 2-1 win when the sides met back in round three Saturday's match at Maidstone kicks off at 5pm Ballarat North United meets up with old foe Vikings this weekend in the BDSABDSAThe men's competition takes a break this weekend however the Ballarat District Soccer Association will continue with the women's competition with games to be played on both Friday night and Sunday The clear feature of the round sees Vikings at home to Ballarat North United The traditional powerhouses of the league sit third and fourth on the table with both Ballarat and Forest Rangers occupying the top two spots When these sides met earlier in the season it was a thumping win to Vikings who dominated from the start in a 7-0 win Other matches across the weekend include Ballarat White at home to Creswick while Forest Rangers were due to face Victoria Park on Friday night Newsletters & AlertsView allDaily Today's top stories curated by our news team Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening Get the editor's insights: what's happening & why it matters tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert Your digital replica of Today's Paper Test your skills with interactive crosswords Let’s be real – getting up early to pound the pavement before work or when you’ve just logged off for the day can be tiring, especially when you’re doing it on your own. Enter: running clubs. They’re social, inclusive and a great way to be held accountable when Melbourne unleashes its typical 'four seasons in one day' weather we’ve rounded up 12 of the best running clubs on offer around the city with options perfect for those just starting out (we see you half runners/half walkers) all the way through to those training for a marathon There are even groups tailored for families LGBTIQ+ communities and people with a disability Have a scroll, and if you still can't find your tribe, check out Athletics Victoria’s recreational running groups and the Melbourne Marathon Festival’s partner run clubs to find others on offer around Melbourne Saturdays at 8amWhere: various locations across Melbourne When: Weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm and Fridays at 5.30am Where: Clifton Hill locations When: Weekly on Wednesdays at 6pmWhere: Corner of Gleadell Street and Highett Street This running club is stationed at one of Melbourne’s most iconic exercise spots, the Tan Track. The dedicated members of this group meet at 12.30pm twice a week, using their lunch breaks for group training, sprints, races and paced circuits. Some members also meet on weekends for longer runs. For a yearly fee of $30, city workers really can’t go wrong with this group. Find out more here.  When: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.30pmWhere: The 'Pillars of Wisdom' at the Tan Running Track This South Melbourne club claims to be “Melbourne’s most social running group” – and with each run followed by a sponsored drink from the Limerick Arms Hotel, it’s easy to see why. All abilities are welcome to join the 3.5km or 5km timed circuit around Albert Park Lake. The first run is free and then costs $5. Find out more here.  When: Weekly on Tuesdays from 6pm for a 6.30pm startWhere: Meet at Limerick Arms Hotel in South Melbourne before walking to Albert Park Lake.  When: Fortnightly on Wednesdays at 7amWhere: Maap LAB in Collingwood When: Weekly on Sundays at 8.30amWhere: Janet Lady Clarke Rotunda at the Tan Running Track When: Weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9.30am and 5pm Wednesdays at 6am Saturdays and Sundays at 8amWhere: Various locations across Edithvale When: Weekly on Wednesdays at 6.30am and Sundays 7:30amWhere: 140 Rathdowne St Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 8.30am Locations: Various across Melbourne When: various timesWhere: Harold Stevens Athletics Track When: Daily, various timesWhere: 98-100 Chestnut Street, Cremorne When: Wednesdays and Saturdays at 6am, Sundays at 6.30am Where: Princes Hill Tennis Club and Inner North Brewing in Brunswick Where: Meet at Into Coffee in Collingwood. A Box Hill South house with a brick pyramid roof and central courtyard that turns the home into a sundial has been crowned Australia’s best architectural residence home for 2024 The unusual residence received the top prize for a residential house at the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Awards as Victorian buildings scooped up 13 awards in total AIA awards national jury chair Stuart Tanner said it was an “extraordinary” result for the state RELATED: Undervalued Australian suburbs about to take off Why $57m royal mansion is falling into disrepair 15 homes, $200m+: racing gurus’ true wealth revealed was named the nation’s best new home in the awards and was built with a masonry roof in an unusual pyramid shape It was also designed around a central courtyard that Mr Tanner turned into a sundial throughout the day An Anglesea home built out of torn clay bricks as a beach home for Wardle Studio boss Rob Wardle also won a gong in the new residential housing category as Victorian entries squeezed out contenders from every other state or territory Naples Street House by Edition Office took out the award for residential house of the year Mr Tanner also lauded the success of South Melbourne’s Ferrars and York building which turned a disused patch of dirt between a main road and the suburb’s light rail into the kind of urban housing the city now needed to embrace The Naples Street House becomes a sundial throughout the day “Higher density is a contentious issue in Melbourne at the moment but I do feel that being receptive to projects like this that are designed right is the absolute go,” Mr Tanner said “Otherwise it would have been an empty site on the edge of a railway that people would just drive past.” Ferrars & York by Six Degrees Architects The six-storey project earned Six Degrees Architects the nation’s highest accolade for a multi-residential building — and despite it’s busy location — had used clever architectural design and materials to make the residences silent within Clifton Hill Primary School by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects Geelong’s Arts Centre by ARM Architecture won a national award for interior architecture an urban office complex dubbed T3 Collingwood earned Jackson Clement Burrows the nation’s top prize for commercial architecture and Clifton Hill Primary School won an award in the education category Mr Tanner said while Victoria’s population ensured it regularly vied with NSW for the state with the most award winners this year’s results had been “extraordinary” Geelong Arts Centre Stage 3 won an award for interior architecture “It points to the fact that there is a very very strong school of design in Melbourne,” Mr Tanner said “It is one of the most liveable cities and it’s worth taking note of any city or region that is investing in or supporting good design.” – The Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture T3 Collingwood | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects | VIC | Wurundjeri Country – National Award for Commercial Architecture Openwork & Finding Infinity | VIC | Wurundjeri Country T3 Collingwood by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects won an award for commercial architecture – National Award for Educational Architecture Clifton Hill Primary School | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects | VIC | Wurundjeri Country – The Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture Burnt Earth Beach House | Wardle | VIC | Eastern Maar and Wadawurrung Country – National Award for Interior Architecture Geelong Arts Centre (Stage 3) | ARM Architecture | VIC | Wadawurrung Country Berninneit Cultural and Community Centre | Jackson Clements Burrows Architects | VIC | Bunurong Country – National Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) Mansard House | Studio Bright | VIC | Wurundjeri Country – The Robin Boyd Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New) Naples Street House | Edition Office | VIC | Wurundjeri Country – National Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New) – Six Ways House | Kennedy Nolan | VIC | Wurundjeri Country – The Frederick Romberg Award for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing Ferrars & York | Six Degrees Architects | VIC | Wurundjeri Country – National Award for Sustainable Architecture Powerhouse Place | Public Realm Lab | VIC | Millewa-Mallee Country Sign up to the Herald Sun Weekly Real Estate Update. 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The fireworks and laser display in Melbourne are set to dazzle this year Don't miss out on this New Year's experience by securing an excellent vantage point We’ve found some spectacular places around Melbourne for you to see the New Year’s Eve fireworks from the official inner city Celebration Zones The four official Celebration Zones are free to attend These spots will also have family-friendly fireworks at 9:30pm The other lookout points might be a bit quieter than the Celebration Zones but they’ll still offer a fantastic experience This garden is one of the four official Celebration Zones Perfect for viewing fireworks in Melbourne Flagstaff Gardens will also have live entertainment on New Year’s Eve Just in front of the Shrine of Remembrance you’ll find another official Celebration Zone this spot will have live entertainment from 6pm to 1am take part in a Bollywood dance workshop and grab a bite to eat from one of the food trucks Enjoy fireworks and festivities by the water at the official Docklands Celebration Zone these gardens in East Melbourne will feature splendid city views you’ll count down to the new year with plenty of entertainment and activities Take a stroll from Fed Square and head to Birrarung Marr This park by the Yarra River should provide plenty of skyline views all you’ll need to do is look up and enjoy the show Head a little further out and enjoy views of the fireworks by the beach Stand on the iconic pier and watch the dazzling display from afar with the added bonus of the little anchored boats bobbing along the waves Williamstown is a wonderful place to be for New Year’s Eve you’ll find plenty of green spots with lovely views of Port Phillip Bay and see the majestic fireworks reflect in the lake you’ll enjoy incredible views of the fireworks relax on one of the open-grass areas and enjoy excellent views of the city skyline This high lookout spot on Yarra Boulevard is great for sunsets views of the Melbourne fireworks on New Year’s Eve This high spot in Northcote provides endless views of Melbourne’s skyline grab a drink or a bite to eat from a nearby restaurant This Hawthorn haven features plenty of wide open spaces Take in the terrific sights on New Year’s Eve in this urban oasis This elevated lookout spot in Elwood is gorgeous any time of the year but is particularly special on New Year’s Eve Head up the hill and watch the curving coastline with the city skyline glimmering in the distance This park by Brighton Beach features views of Melbourne’s skyline as well as the iconic Brighton Beach Bathing Boxes A long-running battle over the redevelopment of a historic pub in Melbourne’s inner north has ended with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal rejecting plans to turn the pub into apartments The owners of the Royal Hotel in Clifton Hill abruptly called last drinks in 2017 and submitted plans to redevelop the pub in 2019 into a five-storey apartment complex galvanising local residents to begin a years-long fight Plans to redevelop The Royal Hotel in Clifton Hill have been rejected at VCAT The plans received more than 270 objections Residents were upset at the loss of their local pub and concerned by the proposed demolition of significant parts of the heritage building The Royal Hotel, built in 1889, is one of a string of Melbourne pubs which have become a battleground between developers and residents following the illegal demolition of the Corkman in Carlton. Last year unions and residents joined forces to fight to save the John Curtin Hotel in Carlton, and a campaign to retain The Tote in Collingwood as a pub and live music venue continues VCAT rejected the owners’ redevelopment proposal for the Royal Hotel last week on the basis that it would not result in a net community benefit “I don’t think it’s NIMBY [Not In My Backyard] nobody has objected to the brand new doctor’s surgery opposite the pub.” “We acknowledge that the proposal is consistent with the identified policies which seek to increase residential densities in well-serviced locations such as this,” VCAT found we find that these benefits do not outweigh the detriment to the significance of the heritage place (and to this individually significant heritage building) that will be a consequence of the proposal.” said locals were “quite outraged” by the plans as the pub had played an important role in the community “It was where the local school teachers met every Friday; it’s where people had their parties and celebrations and so on “For 120 years it’s been the focal centre of this little area.” Plans submitted to VCAT for the proposed redevelopment of the Royal Hotel in Clifton Hill into apartments Levin said locals were not opposed to development but were concerned about heritage destruction “I don’t think it’s NIMBY [Not In My Backyard] nobody has objected to the brand new doctor’s surgery opposite the pub,” he said “All people were saying was you shouldn’t destroy the essential historic fabric of the area and try to build five storeys plus on the roof.” Levin said although the redevelopment had been rejected it was unclear whether the Royal Hotel would ever return to operating as a pub “I’d love to think that it would become a pub,” he said “I think it could be a very successful pub and it would be well-supported in a local Facebook group devoted to discussing ideas about the redevelopment of the Royal Hotel “The good news is that the community is winning more than we are losing so far.” “Five storeys isn’t bad considering a lot of other proposals,” one resident wrote “The more and more expensive it is to live around here the more amenable I feel towards apartment developments Clifton Hill is becoming too much of an enclave for the wealthy.” City of Melbourne deputy lord mayor Nicholas Reece said the case was a huge win for the community campaign to save Melbourne’s heritage pubs “These pubs are part of the fabric of Melbourne they are one of the things that make the inner city so special,” he said “But they are under development pressure like never before as developers look to buy corner sites and convert them to a ‘higher value use’.” Reece said the community campaign to save the Royal Hotel was similar to those to protect the John Curtin and The Tote “The good news is that the community is winning more than we are losing so far,” he said “But the pressure to redevelop these sites is only growing and we are going to see more pubs at risk.” Reece said Victoria needed better planning protections for heritage pubs “They need to be recognised for their historical social value not just for their architectural significance,” he said “We also need local councils across Melbourne to do more to gain heritage recognition for their local pubs like we have been doing in City of Melbourne.” A Yarra City Council spokeswoman said it had refused the development application prior to the VCAT hearing on a range of grounds including the impact on local heritage “Protecting and enhancing Yarra’s heritage is integral to planning and development in Yarra,” the spokeswoman said The owners of the Royal Hotel did not respond to a request for comment made through their solicitors The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up here A long-running battle over the redevelopment of a historic pub in Melbourne\\u2019s inner north has ended with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal rejecting plans to turn the pub into apartments is one of a string of Melbourne pubs which have become a battleground between developers and residents following Last year unions and residents joined forces to and a campaign to retain as a pub and live music venue continues VCAT rejected the owners\\u2019 redevelopment proposal for the Royal Hotel last week on the basis that it would not result in a net community benefit \\u201CWe acknowledge that the proposal is consistent with the identified policies which seek to increase residential densities in well-serviced locations such as this,\\u201D VCAT found that will be a consequence of the proposal.\\u201D said locals were \\u201Cquite outraged\\u201D by the plans as the pub had played an important role in the community \\u201CIt was where the local school teachers met every Friday; it\\u2019s where people had their parties and celebrations and so on \\u201CFor 120 years it\\u2019s been the focal centre of this little area.\\u201D nobody has objected to the brand new doctor\\u2019s surgery opposite the pub,\\u201D he said \\u201CAll people were saying was you shouldn\\u2019t destroy the essential historic fabric of the area and try to build five storeys plus on the roof.\\u201D \\u201CI\\u2019d love to think that it would become a pub,\\u201D he said \\u201CI think it could be a very successful pub and it would be well-supported There\\u2019s very little to compete with it \\u201CFive storeys isn\\u2019t bad considering a lot of other proposals,\\u201D one resident wrote \\u201CThe more and more expensive it is to live around here Clifton Hill is becoming too much of an enclave for the wealthy.\\u201D City of Melbourne deputy lord mayor Nicholas Reece said the case was a huge win for the community campaign to save Melbourne\\u2019s heritage pubs \\u201CThese pubs are part of the fabric of Melbourne they are one of the things that make the inner city so special,\\u201D he said \\u201CBut they are under development pressure like never before as developers look to buy corner sites and convert them to a \\u2018higher value use\\u2019.\\u201D \\u201CThe good news is that the community is winning more than we are losing so far,\\u201D he said \\u201CBut the pressure to redevelop these sites is only growing and we are going to see more pubs at risk.\\u201D \\u201CThey need to be recognised for their historical social value not just for their architectural significance,\\u201D he said \\u201CWe also need local councils across Melbourne to do more to gain heritage recognition for their local pubs like we have been doing in City of Melbourne.\\u201D \\u201CProtecting and enhancing Yarra\\u2019s heritage is integral to planning and development in Yarra,\\u201D the spokeswoman said The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the day\\u2019s most important and interesting stories \\u201CI don\\u2019t think it\\u2019s NIMBY [Not In My Backyard] nobody has objected to the brand new doctor\\u2019s surgery opposite the pub.\\u201D \\u201CThe good news is that the community is winning more than we are losing so far.\\u201D Australia — Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists dressed as koalas have climbed an iconic McDonald’s store in Melbourne kicking off a campaign highlighting the fast food giant’s failure to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain “Right now the beef industry in Australia is killing native wildlife and the big beef purchasers are corporations like McDonald’s whose customers would be shocked to learn their Big Mac is fuelling the deforestation crisis and pushing globally-iconic animals like the koala to the brink of extinction,” said Gemma Plesman Senior Campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific “Our Deforestation Scorecard assessed 10 of Australia’s biggest beef purchasers against their commitment towards being deforestation-free by 2025 and every single one failed.  “Given deforestation has been a persistent issue in Australian beef supply chains for decades this seriously calls into question the environmental performance of companies like McDonald’s who can not say with certainty their products are not linked to forest destruction.” A senior McDonald’s executive recently confirmed the company does not monitor deforestation down to a property level and does not exclude purchasing beef from deforested properties He also confirmed McDonald’s is using a weak definition of deforestation to monitor forest destruction “Australia has one of the worst rates of deforestation in the world, driven primarily by the bulldozing of forests for beef cattle grazing. Australian beef supplies 65% of McDonald’s stores globally meaning that customers around the world could be eating burgers from threatened koala habitat that was bulldozed for beef production As global markets including the EU move rapidly towards deforestation-free beef Australia’s big beef purchasers will need to prove there is no deforestation in their supply chains “If big corporations like McDonald’s take action to change their practices we can stop the destruction of our native wildlife and the places they call home — a vital step towards achieving the government’s election commitment to ‘no new extinctions’ in Australia,”[1] said Gemma Plesman Greenpeace Australia Pacific are calling on McDonald’s to publicly aim for, and achieve, conversion and deforestation-free supply chains by 2025, using global best practice definitions which includes protecting important regenerated forest and threatened species habitat High res images and interviews of today’s activity can be found in the Greenpeace Media Library and B Roll of the action before 4.30pm AEST For more information, visit: act.gp/mcdonald’s Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s 2024 Deforestation Scorecard and Full Report [1] Australia announces plan to halt extinction crisis and save 110 species For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact Kate O’Callaghan on +61 406 231 892 or Kimberley Bernard on +61 407 581 404 A firefighter describes the horror of witnessing the Amazon being consumed by wildfires What happens when the world’s biggest meat company brands itself as a climate saviour a mega-corporation making billions while its supply chain sets the Amazon on fire From elusive jaguars and to playful river dolphins every creature from the Amazon relies entirely on the rainforest for food Please select which cookies you are willing to store These cookies are required for technical reasons so that you can visit our website and use the functions we offer These cookies are used to recognise you between successive visits and thus provide you with a better experience storing your consent preferences and the last Greenpeace.org website visited We use tracking and analysis tools to ensure continuous optimisation and demand-oriented design of our website These cookies will allow us to collect statistical and anonymised data such as how visitors use our website or which pages are accessed most frequently to ultimately improve Greenpeace.org and provide you with a better experience of our website In addition to the Performance cookies mentioned above we may also place in your browser cookies from third-party services (e.g Facebook or Google) to track the effectiveness of our online marketing strategies and to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests These cookies may also be used to serve advertising to you after you have left our site (retargeting cookies) a Big Mac and a banner drop have in common fuelling the biodiversity and climate crisis In fact, independent research commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific found that a staggering 668,665 hectares of threatened koala habitat was bulldozed for beef production in the last five years alone — that’s 2,400 times the size of Sydney city.  McDonald’s is reportedly the world’s single largest purchaser of beef and one of the biggest buyers of Australian beef, which supplies a mind-boggling 65% of McDonald’s stores globally Unwitting McDonald’s customers would be shocked to learn that their Big Mac could have been sourced from threatened koala habitat that was bulldozed for beef production Major global markets like the European Union are already introducing legislation to block products linked to deforestation — leaving McDonald’s in a bit of a pickle We’re all sick of the PR spin and greenwashing from large corporations seeking to exploit nature for profit Greenpeace Australia Pacific is calling on McDonald’s to publicly aim for conversion and deforestation-free supply chains by 2025 which includes protecting important regenerated forest and threatened species habitat.  For too long the beef industry has hidden behind watered-down definitions and weak nature laws If big corporations like McDonald’s take real action to change their practices we can stop the destruction of native wildlife and the places they call home It’s time McDonald’s takes deforestation off the menu and supersizes its commitment to eliminating deforestation from its supply chain.  Greenpeace Australia Pacific has launched its ‘Take Deforestation off the Menu’ campaign accusing McDonald’s — reportedly one of Australia’s biggest beef purchasers — of driving deforestation and nature destruction and pushing iconic Australian species like the koala to the brink of extinction Sign the Greenpeace Australia Pacific petition Kate O’Callaghan is a Senior Communications Advisor at Greenpeace Australia Pacific Residents of an inner-Melbourne public housing estate say raw sewage flowing under the building and into a shared courtyard has been making people sick on the corner of Rutland and Noone streets wads of sodden toilet paper and a flood of sewage were visible beneath a flat partially hidden by a loose board at ground level Clifton Hill residents Luke De Nittis and Aunty Tracey Briggs.Credit: Wayne Taylor “It’s been years like that,” said Aunty Tracey Briggs The courtyard was awash with sewage for weeks before The Age sent queries to Housing Minister Danny Pearson’s office on Wednesday Black mould covers the ceiling of one of the flats in the Clifton Hill estate workers arrived at the estate to clean up the sewage using pressure hoses to remove the worst of the sewage from the courtyard and departmental officers arrived to speak to residents Three residents said they had complained for years about maintenance problems at the estate cracked ceilings and broken sewerage pipes Black mould covers the bathroom ceiling in Briggs’ apartment who has lived in the flat above for five years said he could only shower for a few seconds at a time because water leaked from his bathroom into her flat below “I wonder what the kids growing up here think – is that what the government thinks of us?” he said De Nittis said that in all the years he had lived in the estate there had never been an inspection of his apartment “One phone call to Pearson and there’s five plumbers here,” he said we’d still be breathing in shit every morning.” The issue was highlighted in a social media post by Greens candidate Gabrielle de Vietri De Vietri said she had been shocked at what she found there “You literally have to step over shit to get to the playground,” she said get an education or have a sense of self-worth when their basic needs aren’t being met And you can imagine what impact it’s had on people’s mental health.” Greens candidate Gabrielle de Vietri at the estate and to the other is the area beneath the building that filled with raw sewage.Credit: Wayne Taylor De Vietri is running for the state seat of Richmond which covers Clifton Hill and has been held by Labor’s Richard Wynne for 23 years a Fitzroy resident and associate director of First Nations programs at the Arts Centre Housing security is a major election issue in the electorate where more than 53 per cent of residents rent their homes The dilapidated Rutland Street estate is nestled in one of the wealthiest suburbs in Victoria Clifton Hill’s median weekly income of $2755 in 2021 was almost one-third higher than the median weekly income of $1759 across Victoria declined to respond to questions including whether he believed it was acceptable for public housing residents to be living with raw sewage pooling beneath a building and in open spaces Fairness and Housing spokesman said contractors were engaged on Wednesday to fix the sewer blockage and “it was urgently cleared that day” “The department is working with the water authority to resolve any issues that may be causing blockages at the site,” the spokesman said He said the issue appeared to have been rectified but further investigation and works would be done as required sewage continued to pool beneath an apartment on Thursday The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up here A children\\u2019s playground is metres away \\u201CIt\\u2019s been years like that,\\u201D said Aunty Tracey Briggs People have been getting sick here.\\u201D The courtyard was awash with sewage for weeks before The Age sent queries to Housing Minister Danny Pearson\\u2019s office on Wednesday Black mould covers the bathroom ceiling in Briggs\\u2019 apartment \\u201CI wonder what the kids growing up here think \\u2013 is that what the government thinks of us?\\u201D he said \\u201COne phone call to Pearson and there\\u2019s five plumbers here,\\u201D he said we\\u2019d still be breathing in shit every morning.\\u201D The issue was by Greens candidate Gabrielle de Vietri \\u201CYou literally have to step over shit to get to the playground,\\u201D she said get an education or have a sense of self-worth when their basic needs aren\\u2019t being met And you can imagine what impact it\\u2019s had on people\\u2019s mental health.\\u201D which covers Clifton Hill and has been held by Labor\\u2019s Richard Wynne for 23 years and Labor has preselected Lauren O\\u2019Dwyer Clifton Hill\\u2019s median weekly income of $2755 in 2021 was almost one-third higher than the median weekly income of $1759 across Victoria has one of the largest proportions of renters in the state and both Labor and the ahead of the November 26 state election Fairness and Housing spokesman said contractors were engaged on Wednesday to fix the sewer blockage and \\u201Cit was urgently cleared that day\\u201D \\u201CThe department is working with the water authority to resolve any issues that may be causing blockages at the site,\\u201D the spokesman said 128 Spensley Street, CLIFTON HILL VIC 30682 Beds1 Bath− ParkingHouseInspectionThu 8 May 1:00pmNewJohanna DohertyJellis Craig Fitzroy$550,000 - $590,000 6/57 Caroline Street, CLIFTON HILL VIC 30682 Beds1 Bath1 ParkingApartment / Unit / FlatInspectionWed 7 May VIC 3068From $895,000UpdatedPrivate outdoor spaces10 mins to Melb CBDBiophilic 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Vickerman remembers when a lean and still-growing lad by the name of Johnny Furphy was invited to training United had their eye on the emerging teenager and star shooter from Clifton Hill but it soon became apparent Furphy was destined for US college Now the 19-year-old is set to become Australia’s latest star basketball export when the NBA draft is held in Brooklyn on Thursday and Friday Johnny Furphy explodes to the hoop against BYU earlier this year.Credit: AP “It was right before he went to the CoE [Centre of Excellence] we invited him to a couple of practices … He then went over to Perth for an NBL1 tournament That was where the NBL pathway kind of stopped,” Vickerman said we thought he would be a pretty good development player … He was gone That opportunity ultimately led to the 206-centimetre guard flourishing this season with US college team Kansas Jayhawks under esteemed coach Bill Self not only as a draft prospect but one who is expected to be taken between the 10th and 25th picks The Ringer has him going at No.24 to the New York Knicks Provided he is taken inside the first 30 picks Furphy will pocket at least $3 million as a rookie and $10 million through his first three seasons Not bad for a kid who was 17 when he first represented Victoria – and even then it was the state’s seconds team – at the under 20 national championships in 2020 work ethic and great temperament are the reasons why he has had such a rapid rise to the NBA,” Australian under-17 coach Ash Arnott said from Turkey where his team is preparing for the World Cup Furphy has been busy doing the media rounds this week describing his excitement at the challenges ahead “It’s something that I have dreamed about for a long time I can’t really imagine it,” Furphy said of life in the NBA While his brother Joe is a rookie-listed AFL ruckman for Geelong Furphy’s focus has been on basketball since a growth spurt in his mid-teens having been involved in state basketball development programs under the watchful eye of Arnott winning a premiership in 2019 under former Lions VFL/AFL player Paul Broderick basketball and footy were his two passions He could certainly take a ‘hang’ [high mark] which was probably [from] his basketball background,” Broderick said he certainly could play a good brand of AFL footy.” Furphy attended Maribyrnong Sports Academy and told his parents in grade five he wanted to pursue a college scholarship in the US Johnny Furphy drives to the basket against Samford in a college basketball game in Salt Lake City.Credit: AP “That [AFL] was my second sport growing up I stopped playing before I hit my growth spurt so I was never really thinking about it too seriously But it was something that I tell people; if basketball wasn’t a thing Furphy’s father Richard was a former captain of VAFA club University Blues playing alongside former AFL chief Gillon McLachlan Daughter Holly is playing soccer at Santa Clara University in California has been granted personal leave by the Cats and travelled with his parents to Brooklyn for the draft The family arrived in New York on Tuesday [Melbourne time] Richard revealing with pride that Johnny was coping well under the spotlight created by his stunning rise “He is pretty calm; that’s probably helped him a lot If you ask him what he is doing in a day or two He is pretty in-the-moment; he doesn’t look too far ahead,” Richard told ABC Radio on Tuesday Furphy’s major break came on Basketball Australia’s CoE 2023 tour of the US when at the NBA Academy Games college scouts were excited by his length and ability to catch while there was a monster dunk in one game which highlighted his hops Furphy had had only one college scholarship offer CoE head coach Robbie McKinlay had warned Furphy what may happen if he excelled on that trip this thing is going to blow up when we are away’,” McKinlay also an assistant with the Paris-bound Boomers but he has got the skill set for this to happen moves extremely well off the ball; the ball doesn’t stick when he does have it To play major minutes with Kansas is probably something he didn’t expect straight away but it was something you could forecast in the future.” Furphy had a brief workout with NBL club South East Melbourne Phoenix before heading to Kansas After shifting into a starting role with the Jayhawks including a healthy 35.4 per cent from three-point range 6.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists across his final 18 games while averaging more than 30 minutes per game Johnny Furphy quickly settled in at the Kansas Jayhawks.Credit: Getty Images comes the chance to join basketball’s ultimate show where he could emulate the likes of fellow Victorians Josh Giddey Andrew Bogut and Ben Simmons as high draft picks who grew up idolising Los Angeles Laker legend LeBron James is one of 23 players invited to the “green room” at the draft a strong – but not guaranteed – sign he will hear his name called out at the two-day event he completed pre-draft workouts with about 10 franchises I knew I was such a late addition,” Furphy said “I knew it was going to take time to find my rhythm and find my feet It was more of a ‘maybe in a couple of years’ But I didn’t have a set timeline in my mind.” News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport sent every Monday. Sign up for our Sport newsletter. Melbourne United championship coach Dean Vickerman remembers when a lean and still-growing lad by the name of Johnny Furphy was invited to training. United had their eye on the emerging teenager and star shooter from Clifton Hill, but it soon became apparent Furphy was destined for US college. Now the 19-year-old is set to become Australia\\u2019s latest star basketball export when the NBA draft is held in Brooklyn on Thursday and Friday, Melbourne time. \\u201CIt was right before he went to the CoE [Centre of Excellence], and we heard about this kid, and he was doing well. So, we invited him to a couple of practices \\u2026 He then went over to Perth for an NBL1 tournament, we followed his box scores, and he did well in those games. That was where the NBL pathway kind of stopped,\\u201D Vickerman said, with a wry smile. \\u201CLooking at this kid, we thought he would be a pretty good development player \\u2026 He was gone, that one little opportunity came, and he grabbed it.\\u201D That opportunity ultimately led to the 206-centimetre guard flourishing this season with US college team Kansas Jayhawks under esteemed coach Bill Self. His shooting ability saw him emerge, not only as a draft prospect but one who is expected to be taken between the 10th and 25th picks. The Orlando Magic, with pick No.18, are tipped to take him, according to ESPN and The Athletic. The Ringer has him going at No.24 to the New York Knicks. Provided he is taken inside the first 30 picks, Furphy will pocket at least $3 million as a rookie, and $10 million through his first three seasons, under the NBA\\u2019s rookie scale salary. Not bad for a kid who was 17 when he first represented Victoria \\u2013 and even then, it was the state\\u2019s seconds team \\u2013 at the under 20 national championships in 2020, and forged his junior career at Hawthorn, Collingwood and Bulleen, and played Big V for Melbourne University. \\u201CHis coachability, work ethic and great temperament are the reasons why he has had such a rapid rise to the NBA,\\u201D Australian under-17 coach Ash Arnott said from Turkey where his team is preparing for the World Cup. Furphy has been busy doing the media rounds this week, describing his excitement at the challenges ahead. \\u201CIt\\u2019s something that I have dreamed about for a long time. Just to think that it will be happening, just to picture myself doing it, I can\\u2019t really imagine it,\\u201D Furphy said of life in the NBA. While his brother Joe is a rookie-listed AFL ruckman for Geelong, Furphy\\u2019s focus has been on basketball since a growth spurt in his mid-teens, having been involved in state basketball development programs under the watchful eye of Arnott. He did play junior football for Fitzroy, winning a premiership in 2019 under former Lions VFL/AFL player Paul Broderick, whose son Harry was in the team. \\u201CJohnny was a really athletic young bloke. Even back then, basketball and footy were his two passions. He played half-forward flank, on-ball at times, for us. He could certainly take a \\u2018hang\\u2019 [high mark], and he had good sideways lateral movement, which was probably [from] his basketball background,\\u201D Broderick said. \\u201CWhen he turned it on, he certainly could play a good brand of AFL footy.\\u201D Furphy attended Maribyrnong Sports Academy, and told his parents in grade five he wanted to pursue a college scholarship in the US. \\u201CThat [AFL] was my second sport growing up. I stopped playing before I hit my growth spurt, so I was never really thinking about it too seriously. But it was something that I tell people; if basketball wasn\\u2019t a thing, that would be my sport,\\u201D Furphy said. The Furphy family are high achievers. Furphy\\u2019s father Richard was a former captain of VAFA club University Blues, playing alongside former AFL chief Gillon McLachlan, and later was Broderick\\u2019s assistant coach. Furphy\\u2019s mother, Liza, was an elite diver. Daughter Holly is playing soccer at Santa Clara University in California, while Joe was a promising basketballer, who had the chance to head to college, before forging his own path with the Cats. \\u201CThey are a great family,\\u201D Broderick said. Joe, who is injured, has been granted personal leave by the Cats, and travelled with his parents to Brooklyn for the draft. The family arrived in New York on Tuesday [Melbourne time], Richard revealing with pride that Johnny was coping well under the spotlight created by his stunning rise. \\u201CHe is pretty calm; that\\u2019s probably helped him a lot. If you ask him what he is doing in a day or two, he doesn\\u2019t really know. He is pretty in-the-moment; he doesn\\u2019t look too far ahead,\\u201D Richard told ABC Radio on Tuesday. Furphy\\u2019s major break came on Basketball Australia\\u2019s CoE 2023 tour of the US, when at the NBA Academy Games college scouts were excited by his length and ability to catch, shoot and cut, while there was a monster dunk in one game which highlighted his hops. To that point, Furphy had had only one college scholarship offer, from Sacramento State. Suddenly, he had about 30, including from the Jayhawks. Furphy\\u2019s path was set. CoE head coach Robbie McKinlay had warned Furphy, who finished year 12 by correspondence, what may happen if he excelled on that trip. \\u201CJust before we left, I spoke to Johnny and his parents, and I said, \\u2018Look, this thing is going to blow up when we are away\\u2019,\\u201D McKinlay, also an assistant with the Paris-bound Boomers, said. \\u201CObviously, he [Furphy] played really well, and it did blow up.\\u201D \\u201CIt has been a rapid rise, but he has got the skill set for this to happen. He is a six[foot]-nine guy who can shoot, moves extremely well off the ball; the ball doesn\\u2019t stick when he does have it. To play major minutes with Kansas is probably something he didn\\u2019t expect straight away, but it was something you could forecast in the future.\\u201D Furphy had a brief workout with NBL club South East Melbourne Phoenix before heading to Kansas. After shifting into a starting role with the Jayhawks, the freshman averaged 11.8 points, including a healthy 35.4 per cent from three-point range, 6.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists across his final 18 games, while averaging more than 30 minutes per game. \\u201CJohnny has a natural feel for the game, just with his movement, offensive rebounding and cutting, and he does listen to coaching very well. He is a quiet kid by nature, but he is always thinking. He doesn\\u2019t rush to things. He does take it all on board, for sure,\\u201D McKinlay said. Now, having rapidly risen up the draft boards, comes the chance to join basketball\\u2019s ultimate show, where he could emulate the likes of fellow Victorians Josh Giddey, Dyson Daniels, Dante Exum, Andrew Bogut and Ben Simmons as high draft picks. Furphy, who grew up idolising Los Angeles Laker legend LeBron James, is one of 23 players invited to the \\u201Cgreen room\\u201D at the draft, a strong \\u2013 but not guaranteed \\u2013 sign he will hear his name called out at the two-day event. After impressing at the NBA draft combine, he completed pre-draft workouts with about 10 franchises, including the Lakers, according to his father, Richard. \\u201CThe NBA has always been my motivation. When I got to Kansas, I really had no expectations. I wasn\\u2019t putting pressure on myself. I knew I was such a late addition,\\u201D Furphy said. \\u201CI knew it was going to take time to find my rhythm and find my feet. It was more of a \\u2018maybe in a couple of years\\u2019. But I didn\\u2019t have a set timeline in my mind.\\u201D It\\u2019s been a whirlwind year, but Furphy has timed his run well. News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport sent every Monday. . According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol The incident occurred on a private road just west of Clifton Hill Authorities reported that the boy was operating a Yamaha Grizzly ATV traveling westbound when it skidded on an ice-covered roadway and overturned was not utilizing any safety equipment at the time of the accident He was transported by Randolph County Ambulance to University Hospital in Columbia for treatment of minor injuries The vehicle sustained no damage and was driven from the scene The Randolph County Sheriff’s Department and Westran Fire Department assisted at the site Former detective Kel Glare was driving home when the call came through that there had been a mass shooting in Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs in 1987 witnesses and first responders are still haunted by the horrific attack that would later be known as the Hoddle Street Massacre Glare arrived at the scene in Clifton Hill on the evening of Sunday where seven people were killed and 19 more were seriously injured Former detective Kel Glare shares an eye-witness account of the Hoddle Street Massacre on the Crime Insiders podcast: “One of the first things I saw was a car at the curb with the passenger door hanging open There was a young woman sitting there with a horrendous head wound and obviously dead,” Glare said “The street light was glinting off the diamond of her engagement ring Something that I never got never got out of my head,” he said recalls tracking and arresting the offender “I jumped out of the car when he stopped shooting and [Knight] leapt up from behind the brick fence Knight was a 19-year-old army cadet at the time and had been discharged from the Royal Military College at Duntroon 16 days earlier I’d never heard anything so ridiculous in my life Subscribe to Crime Insiders, taking you beyond true crime. In groundbreaking interviews, explore the world of policing and forensics through stories from the world’s most experienced and decorated experts.   Get the latest updates direct to your inbox ABC News News HomeABC Rural the world's second-largest farm sells to Australian pastoralistsLBy Lucas Forbes Link copiedShareShare articleTwo Australian families have bought what is considered to be the world's second-largest farming property Australian farmers and businessmen Viv Oldfield and Donny Costello have bought Clifton Hills under the banner of Crown Point Pastoral Company is about 4,000 square kilometres larger than the greater Sydney region Mr Oldfield is a prominent race-horse trainer who owns property in the Northern Territory and South Australia and also owns outback trucking company Tanami Transport South Australian and Northern Territory pastoralist Viv Oldfield (right) says Clifton Hills came on the market at the right time for him He says Clifton Hills was just the right property to buy at the right time "It just happened to be that it came available," Mr Oldfield said Mr Oldfield is no stranger to large pastoral purchases Clifton Hills has been bought by Crown Point Pastoral Company which is comprised of pastoralists Viv Oldfield and Donny Costello In April, he bought Maryvale Station in the Northern Territory for $15 million. Subscribe for the national headlines of the day In 2016, he and three other pastoralists shot to national prominence when they put in a bid for S Kidman and Co properties which was ultimately bought by Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting Mr Oldfield says he does not have any plans to make any drastic changes to the properties' infrastructure Outgoing Clifton Hills managing partner Dave Harvey says the public may be distracted by the power and wealth of foreign investors and S Kidman and Co entities like Kidmans had tended to capture the limelight about large holdings of land and cattle by a family," Mr Harvey said Clifton Hills Station managing partner David Harvey says it was mainly pastoral families who were interested in buying the property "There are a lot of families out there that have really substantial holdings of land and cattle and do it really well Mr Harvey thinks Australia's pastoral families are the ones really interested in pastoral properties more so than corporations or foreign investors "I think it is these family-based businesses that are the ones out there looking for cattle properties at the moment," he said "There's not so much interest from the corporate sector in fact I'd stick my neck out and say that the corporate sector is on a little bit of a divestment phase if anything "We see Terra Firma trying to sell their Consolidated Pastoral Company somehow, somewhere, and other corporates, which have been in the cattle business in the past 10 years, some of them are withdrawing." Mr Harvey and Mr Oldfield declined to reveal how much Clifton Hills sold for. CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Raise a glass – or a two-litre flagon – of wine to celebrate four years of Viino (formerly known as Viino Quarantino) The Victorian wine label is hosting a warehouse sale and pop-up wine bar event at Modulr Studios in Clifton Hill from Friday May 17 to Sunday May 19 you can bring your own one-litre (or larger) vessel and fill it up with Viino wines The team will also debut its first 750-mil bottle a 2023 skin-contact pinot gris named Shabby Chic Plus, on Saturday and Sunday there’ll be DJ sets and a food pop-up by local chef Princess Chicken Shop and became known for selling two-litre flagons of wine but there’ll be some final stock available at the sale