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Local News & Issues
Going
hungry, the unlucky Australians
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PLANS
to scrap the Chapel St Festival this year
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Protesters
divided over street prostitutes
St
Kilda police have increased the number of street patrols in an effort to
crack down on the growing number of sex workers and "sex
tourists" in the suburb and to allay rising community tension over
street prostitution
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Rage
in streets of 'open-air brothel'
Anne Peterson remembers when Elwood had none of the
street prostitution of its northern neighbor, St Kilda. But after raffish
Fitzroy Street filled with cosmopolitan restaurants and lost its status as an
unofficial red-light zone, the suburb's sex workers needed somewhere to go. |
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Festive
St Kilda
With bare midriffs, painted toenails and
the shimmer of face glitter, it wasn't difficult to tell where the giggling
teenage girls on tram 96 were heading yesterday.
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Council
in red light talks
Representatives from the City of Port Phillip will meet with state
Attorney General Rob Hulls today in a bid to secure a red light district
in Melbourne.
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State
to consider red-light districts A
State Government panel will consider proposals to decriminalise street
prostitution in designated red-light zones. |
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Melbourne
faces grim dry future
Melbourne faces chronic water shortages and the
Great Barrier Reef could be killed off by rising sea temperatures within
50 years, according to predictions in the latest United Nations report
on climate change.
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