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New social housing for rough sleepers in city’s CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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A vacant building in Melbourne’s CBD will be repurposed for social housing, providing accommodation to dozens of rough sleepers in the heart of the city.
The $24.9m Make Room site will house up to 50 residents for up to 12 months in studio apartments and is scheduled to be completed in late 2024.
The project will repurpose a vacant six-storey council-owned building at 602 Little Bourke St and will be delivered in partnership with the Labor government, City of Melbourne, Unison Housing and philanthropic donors.
The site, which was formerly used as an electricity supply building, also has a basement and rooftop.
Make Room will repurpose a vacant council-owned building in the CBD. Google Maps Credit: Supplied 
602 Little Bourke St was previously used as an electricity supply building. Google Maps Credit: Supplied City of Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp said the project would set a “new standard” for transitional supported accommodation in Victoria.
“The whole community benefits when we work collaboratively to help people out of homelessness,” she said.
“We’ve seen that people can take back control of their lives when housing and support is available.”
Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp has welcomed the Make Room project. NCA NewsWire / David Crosling Credit: Supplied The Allan government has provided $9m in capital funding for the project under the Building Works stimulus package and the Sustained Solutions for Housing First to end Rough…
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Zain Khan: 26-year-old man charged with murder over horror Melbourne CBD death – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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A man who allegedly drove a car into several people before causing a deadly crash in Melbourne’s central business district has been charged with murder.
26-year-old Melton West man, Zain Khan, allegedly drove his white Toyota sedan through three pedestrians at a tram stop near the Bourke Street and Swanston Street intersection on Friday night.
It is further alleged he then caused a three-car collision at the corner of Bourke Street and Russell Street about 6.20pm.
A 76-year-old man driving a Hyundai car died during the collision while two people inside a Mazda — which was an Uber — suffered minor injuries.
All three people who were struck by the car suffered minor injuries.
On Saturday police said they had handed Mr Khan nine charges over the deadly incident.
Victorian police charged him with one count of murder, three counts of attempted murder, three counts of intentionally causing serious injury and two counts of endangering life.
During a press conference on Friday evening, Superintendent Zorka Dunstan said the incident is not suspected to be linked to a terrorist organisation.
A man who allegedly drove a car into several people before causing a deadly crash in Melbourne’s central business district has been charged with murder. Credit: Facebook/Facebook “We understand it’s a person with mental health issues,” she said.
Police say that once the man’s vehicle came to a stop, he sat on top of his wrecked Toyota before he was arrested a short time…
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Mystery ‘spray’ prompts tram evacuation in Melbourne’s CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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Police are investigating after an odd incident resulted in the evacuation of a Melbourne tram.
About 60 people were on-board the tram at the Bourke St Mall at 2.20pm on Friday when an unidentified woman entered, spraying an “unknown substance” before leaving.
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Factory fire breaks out in Southbank in Melbourne’s CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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Firefighters have battled to contain a blaze that broke out in Melbourne’s CBD on Thursday afternoon.
Emergency services rushed to the factory fire on Clarendon St between Crown Casino and the CityLink in Southbank at about 4pm.
They arrived to find one factory fully engulfed in flames before it quickly spread to a neighbouring factory.
The fire spread to another factory. Credit: Supplied 
Clarendon St is closed in both directions. Credit: Supplied Video of the incident shows the factory’s roof fully engulfed in flames at the most intense point of the blaze.
A group of 35 firefighters battled the blaze for about 50 minutes, with some crews donning breathing apparatus to begin an “internal attack” on the fire.
It has now been brought under control.
It’s unclear how the fire started, but it is being treated as suspicious by Victoria Police.
“No one was inside at the time of the fire and the exact cause is yet to be determined but is being treated as suspicious at this stage,” a Victoria Police spokesperson said.
“There were no reported occupants; however, FRV will do a thorough search when able,” a Fire Rescue Victoria spokesperson said.
The fire is expected to cause traffic chaos, as Clarendon St has been closed in both directions as well as the Line 12 tram that runs through South Melbourne.
Melburnians are urged to avoid the area.
FRV have urged residents in Albert Park, Docklands, Melbourne, Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, South Wharf and…
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Crown boss joins call for more workers to return to CBD, less working from home – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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The head of Australia’s largest casino group says CBDs are facing a crisis, as he called for workers to return to the office.
Ahead of an Economic Outlook forum to be hosted by Sky News and the The Australian at Sydney’s Crown on Friday, Crown Resorts chief executive Ciarán Carruthers said he wants workers out of their homes to boost consumer and business confidence and revitalise CBDs.
His plea came as new ABS figures this week reveal Australia’s economy slowed to just 0.2 per cent in the March quarter, coinciding with the RBA’s decision to hike rates to its highest figure in decades.
Crown is one of the country’s biggest employers, and the biggest single site employer in Victoria. With its $2.2 billion VIP casino and resort in freshly developed Barangaroo in Sydney, and its operations in Perth, the company employs more than 23,000 staff.
“We are still behind where we were pre-pandemic and part of that is the CBD hasn’t returned to full vibrancy as yet. Work from home has certainly given us a challenge,” Mr Carruthers told The Australian.
Crown chief executive Ciaran Carrathurs said the quiet city was having an impact on domestic and international tourism. Picture NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard Credit: News Corp Australia “From Thursday afternoon through to Tuesday the city’s significantly quieter and I think that’s also having an impact on both domestic and international tourism.
“The city is just not as vibrant as many of our tourists have…
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Extinction Rebellion protests halt peak hour traffic in Melbourne CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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A climate protest has caused chaos for commuters with traffic brought at a standstill on a busy motorway.
Extinction Rebellion protesters sealed off the Kings Way exit from the West Gate Fwy in Melbourne’s CBD from about 8.45am on Tuesday.
Victorian Department of Transport spokesperson Andrew Crooks said the blockade brought traffic to a standstill for about 45 minutes.
“The protest caused a big disruption after initially blocking the ramp for about 15 minutes,” Mr Crooks said.
“We saw delays around 45 minutes for city bound traffic on the freeway.”
A climate protest has caused chaos for commuters with traffic brought at a standstill on a busy motorway. 9NEWS Credit: Channel 9 
A climate protest caused chaos in Melbourne after blocking a major freeway exit during peak hour. 9NEWS Credit: Channel 9 Mr Crooks said police began reopening lanes shortly after 9am, with traffic “rapidly getting back to normal”.
“However, there were still a couple of lanes blocked off until about 10.30am,” he said.
The road has now been reopened to all traffic.
Police were on the scene and had reopened one lane by about 9.30am, but activists remained. 9NEWS Credit: Channel 9 
Climate activists blocked off the Kings Way inbound exit ramp from the West Gate Freeway at about 8.30am. 9NEWS Credit: Channel 9 Extinction Rebellion are a climate-focused action group whose protest action is targeted at public disruption.
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Thieves stealing designer handbag in CBD David Jones stab worker in arm – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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An employee at a luxury fashion shop in Melbourne has been stabbed in the arm by an opportunistic thief, fleeing the scene with a designer handbag.
Police said the male staff member confronted a man and woman at David Jones at Emporium Melbourne on Little Bourke St just before noon on Tuesday.
The male thief stabbed the employee in the arm before he and his female accomplice fled the scene.
The stabbing occurred on Little Bourke St in Melbourne’s CBD. NCA NewsWire / Daniel Pockett Credit: Supplied The staff member was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Investigations into the incident are ongoing, though no arrests have been made as of Tuesday afternoon.
Anyone who witnessed or has vision of the incident has been urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
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Neo-Nazis clash with police as rally in Melbourne’s CBD heats up – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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Police and neo-Nazis have clashed on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House ahead of a planned “peaceful” anti-immigration rally in Melbourne.
Footage of the conflict has emerged on Twitter, showing items being hurled during the confrontation in Melbourne about 11am.
Members of Melbourne’s National Socialist Network had planned the event from midday on Saturday, but ralliers and counter-protesters began arriving on Spring St from 10am.
“We are organising in opposition to the system’s importation of 715,000 immigrants … further exasperating the housing crisis and ethnic replacement of white Australians in their own suburbs and towns,” a flyer for the event reads.
“This will be a peaceful and legal demonstration.”
Police have made several arrests. NCA NewsWire / David Crosling Credit: News Corp Australia 
Protesters clash in Spring st in Melbourne and police moved in to make arrests. NCA NewsWire / David Crosling Credit: News Corp Australia Prior to the clash with police, members could be seen unfurling a banner reading “living space for whites: stop immigration”.
In response, Victoria Police declared the CBD a “designated area” from 7am to 7pm, granting police stop and search powers.
“Police officers and protective services officers are empowered to search a person and any thing in the possession or control of the person, or a vehicle for weapons,” Victoria Police said in a statement.
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West Australian woman hit and killed by Adelaide bus in CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection
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A West Australian woman has died after being hit by a bus in South Australia.
Just after 7.30pm on Monday, emergency services were called to Grenfell St in the Adelaide CBD after reports a pedestrian had been struck by a bus.
The 68-year-old woman from Western Australia died at the scene.
A woman has died after being hit by a bus in Adelaide. Supplied Credit: Supplied Major crash investigators were on the scene from 9pm.
Images from the scene show emergency services holding up green tarps next to the bus.
Grenfell St in the city was closed for some time but has since reopened.
Witnesses on the bus, brothers Teejay and Matthew Size, told The Advertiser that it looked like the woman had been crossing the road and didn’t see the bus coming.
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