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‘It all flows’: commuters celebrate as new Sydney Harbour Bridge bike ramp opens

First cyclists cross long-awaited $39m ramp, replacing notorious 55-step staircase and linking North Sydney to CBD

The Guardian - AU · Jan 6

Police liken it to random breath tests, but warrantless pat-down powers across Melbourne’s CBD are creating racial profiling fears

As the city braces for the impact of an unprecedented expansion of search powers, new research supports advocates’ concerns

The Guardian - AU · Nov 28, 2025

‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months

Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups

The Guardian - AU · Nov 25, 2025

Labor sides with uni over divisive city campus push

A move by Tasmania's university to move to the Hobart CBD has been backed by the opposition, defying a government pledge to block the sale or lease of land.

AAP · Jul 16, 2024

Medical groups push for promised CBD injecting room

The Victorian government has been called on to honour a longstanding promise to establish a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD.

AAP · Sep 26, 2023

NSW govt considered more tolls on Sydney drivers

New tolls on freeways and a congestion charge on drivers entering the Sydney CBD were under consideration by the former NSW government.

The New Daily · Jun 14, 2023

Melbourne earthquake 2023: are they becoming more common? A seismology expert explains

Last night at 11:41pm local time, the greater Melbourne region was shaken by a magnitude 4.0 earthquake – as calculated by the Seismology Research Centre – centred near Sunbury, approximately 30km north of the CBD.

The Conversation · May 29, 2023

Crown Princess Mary cycles through Sydney as part of Australian tour highlighting climate change

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has put Sydney's CBD cycle paths to the test this morning without even breaking a sweat as part of her climate change tour of the Pacific.

ABC News · Apr 28, 2023

Geelong development overhaul hopes to inject heartbeat into city that 'barely has a pulse'

Fewer car parks, more bike lanes and uninterrupted views are part of the development overhaul for Victoria's second-largest city, designed to drive population growth and inject colour into Geelong's "languishing" CBD.

ABC News · Mar 1, 2023

COP15's Global Biodiversity Framework must advance Indigenous-led conservation to halt biodiversity loss by 2030

In the early hours of Dec. 19 — the last day of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference in Montréal — the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted their new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

The Conversation · Dec 20, 2022