Dinner Data
By Mantis Kane Dinner Data is new section where every month, we will convince a local chef to share with our readers their secret recipe for a popular dish. This month, Earth, Wind & Flour’s head...
View ArticleSacred Heart Mission buildings to get a complete overhaul
By Brittany Dupree, Sacred Heart Mission In 1982, Fr. Ernie Smith opened the doors of the St Kilda Presbytery to those in need of food and shelter, and Sacred Heart Mission was born. For the next 34...
View ArticleRevenge Porn: Know Your Rights
By St Kilda Legal Service Victoria was the first Australian state or territory to introduce specific revenge porn legislation. South Australia introduced laws in October and New South Wales is...
View ArticleThe failed Port Phillip Council elections
By The Hon Michael Danby MP The recent Port Phillip Council elections were a failure. There is no other way to look at it. While some may be celebrating their success there is absolutely no doubt that...
View ArticleThe end of the independents
By Serge Thomann Former Councillor and Deputy Mayor St Kilda News has kindly asked me to write an article as a wrap up of the Council Elections. I originally declined, but changed my mind – I have...
View ArticleCr Tim Baxter reflects on the US elections and right-wing politics in Australia
By Cr Tim Baxter Well readers, it’s been quite a ride getting here, and the ride’s not over yet. I’m very happy to be writing to the readers of the St Kilda News in my new capacity of the Councillor...
View ArticleWhen positive politics prevails
By Cr Ogy Simic This year’s local government election was a hotly contested and respectful contest of ideas, and I would like to firstly thank and congratulate successful and unsuccessful candidates. I...
View ArticleWorking together for our local democracy
By Cr Katherine Copsey, Lake ward representative and Deputy Mayor of the City of Port Phillip Hello to the readers of St Kilda News – it’s a pleasure to write to you in my new role as your Greens...
View ArticleNow I am back
By Cr Dick Gross AM Paul Keating got one thing really wrong. When he observed that “a soufflé never rises twice” he was correct about the particular soufflé he referred to (Andrew Peacock). He was dead...
View ArticleHow clutter clearing your home can clear your mind
By Henry Shires Back in June, I dragged my wife Louise to a De-Clutter Workshop at St Kilda Library by NLP Practitioner and De-Clutter Guru Michele Tocci. As at all these things Michele’s succinct...
View ArticleSydney’s “robbing hoods”
By Michael Danby MP, Federal Member for Melbourne Ports In 2014 the former Liberal Federal Treasurer, LNP’s Joe Hockey, announced a $5 billion Asset Recycling Fund in that year’s federal budget. The...
View ArticleSex work and the Law
By St Kilda Legal Service The First and Second World Wars pushed sex work into the inner city suburbs including St Kilda with reports of sex workers on Acland Street dating back to 1886. It is...
View ArticleAddiction convictions
Written by St Kilda Legal Service In the last 12 months, one in seven people have used illegal drugs. According to the Crime Statistics Agency there was a 13.4 per cent increase in drug use and...
View ArticleNew: Acland Street Plaza
By Daniel Wilson Over September and October workers have gone about pedestrianizing the Barkley Street end of Acland Street. As we are going to print construction is almost complete. Over the last...
View ArticleMel Van Dyk: Independent candidate for Lake Ward
My name is Mel Van Dyk and I am standing as an independent candidate in Port Phillip’s Lake Ward. I feel a strong connection to this particular area of our community and I believe that the decisions...
View ArticleParliament, not a plebiscite, for marriage equality
By the Hon Michael Danby MP Marriage equality is a right whose time has come. But a plebiscite is not the way to bring it to fruition. In this I am only referring to civil marriage, i.e. what the state...
View ArticleEditor’s note:
Welcome to the October issue of our community newspaper. The US presidential election is just around the corner on November 8. It is the best slow motion car crash this political junkie has ever seen....
View ArticlePort Phillip Council election 2016
By Kanika Sood On October 22, the City of Port Phillip will vote for a new Council. This election is particularly exciting because it is the first time the voters will elect nine councillors across...
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