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Pro-Palestine activists block major CBD intersection

Crowds of Pro-Palestine activists have blocked a major Melbourne intersection to demand a stop to the war in Gaza.

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'Brazen' CBD crime wave shakes business confidence

Police will be out in force in Adelaide's CBD as businesses hold a summit into retail crime after a series of shoplifting incidents and assaults on staff.

AAP

Injecting room study still under wraps as order ignored

The Victorian government has thumbed its nose at a parliamentary order to release a long-awaited report into a possible Melbourne CBD injecting room.

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NSW Health Issues Alert For Legionnaires Disease For Anyone Who Visited Sydney’s CBD Over NYE

Seven people have already been hospitalised.

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Latest Legionella case sparks Sydney health warning

NSW Health is warning people visiting Sydney CBD to watch out for Legionnaires' disease symptoms after a seventh case was recorded in the past three weeks.

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Landmark site at gateway to Newcastle deserves a show-stopping plan

I COMPLETELY agree with Bradley Perrett's vision for the remaining Honeysuckle development ("Honeysuckle idea simply sucks", Newcastle Herald, 10/11), the supposed centrepiece of the city's waterfront development. No one would deny the need for more social and affordable housing, but not on the remaining section of Honeysuckle. There is an…

Newcastle Herald

Lifestyle blocks challenge historic CBDs for top- end buyers

Here's some of the best now for sale.

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'If I was a tourist I may as well go to Charlestown Square': call to clean up city

Newcastle councillor Jenny Barrie says CBD property owners need to clean up their act.

Newcastle Herald

Neo-Nazis clash with anti-racism campaigners in heart of Melbourne

Neo-Nazis have clashed with police and counter-protesters at an anti-immigration rally on the streets of Melbourne's CBD

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In Melbourne's CBD, drug outreach workers say need for a supervised injecting room is rising

Public health workers say the Victorian government can't ignore the evidence supporting a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD, in submissions to a state review into the controversial proposal.

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Heroin overdoses surge in Melbourne as health services struggle to cope

Victorian capital’s CBD recorded most fatal heroin overdoses in country between 2020 and 2022, with 12,000 syringe kits now handed out each month

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Cask wine sales ban trialled at Adelaide CBD bottle shops to curb alcohol-fuelled violence

A trial ban on takeaway cask wine sales at Adelaide CBD liquor outlets is being closely monitored by authorities including police and the state government, with authorities to meet this week to determine if it remains in place.

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Calls for drug rehabilitation centre in Broken Hill grow amid concerns over dirty needles in public spaces

Calls are mounting for a Broken Hill drug rehabilitation centre after complaints from local residents about dirty needles being left in the CBD. Council workers say they're finding hundreds every day.

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Police investigate stabbing of security guard at City Cross Arcade in Adelaide's CBD

SA Police says a security guard was stabbed when he tried to stop four suspected thieves at a sports store at City Cross Arcade on Friday.

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Experts urge Victoria to provide promised CBD safe injecting room or risk further harm to vulnerable people

Andrews government bought a Flinders Street site for $40.3m in 2021 but it has sat empty since

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Melburnians hanging onto hybrid working routine

More Melburnians are coming back to their CBD offices two or three days a week, but the number of people working on-site five days has dropped significantly.

ABC News

Western Sydney council's developer deal paves way for Charlie Teo-backed hospital

Blacktown Council agrees to sell a large part of its CBD to developers, with plans for the site including a private hospital and research centre backed by controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo.

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Revitalising Perth's CBD a 'team game' amid calls to lower commercial rents in empty spaces

There is widespread agreement that the city centre needs more residents, businesses and foot traffic but considerable disagreement on the best way to encourage people to come back.

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Ongoing high levels of alcohol intoxication and harm in Newcastle's CBD can't be whitewashed

What has the government got to hide?

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Kiwi tech success story becomes the face of Chris Hipkins' workforce crisis

Never mind the chief executives and TV cameras in the CBD – it was a small business grouping in west Auckland that had the new Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister as a captive audience, to talk through the challenges for struggling employers. Jonathan Milne reports.

ABC News

City CBDs were hammered by COVID-19. Will they make a comeback as life returns to normal?

Three years since the pandemic began, the centres of our big cities are still struggling to find a new identity and business model amid the boom in working from home.

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Melbourne’s injecting room delay puts lives at risk as heroin overdoses spike in CBD

Stalled progress on the city’s second safe-injecting facility is heaping pressure on community health professionals

ABC News

NT Attorney-General says government is listening to desperate calls for Alice Springs crime action

NT Attorney-General Chansey Paech says his government is discussing a range of "realistic ideas and solutions" with the community to "reclaim the CBD at night".

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Darwin CBD retailer Paul Arnold installs panic room in his store as others report being punched, grabbed by drunken itinerants

Retailers in Darwin's CBD say crime among drunken itinerants is "out of control", prompting calls for a stronger police presence.

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The night Ipswich CBD lost its department-store heartbeat through a massive fire

In August 1985 Ipswich suffered one of its greatest losses when a fire ripped through department store Reids. It was a blow that the city's CBD has struggled to recover from.

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