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‘A defiant stand’: histories of Australia’s frontier wars are revealing their true complexity, but there’s more to be done

Historian Stephen Gapps’ latest book, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, describes a coordinated Aboriginal military front across more than 20 different Aboriginal nations and language groups. The front extended for thousands of kilometres, from Port Phillip in the south to Moreton Bay in the north.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2025

Street traffickers busted in year-long police operation

Street-level drug traffickers in Melbourne's south have been put on notice after police arrested on average one person a day for a year for drug offences.

AAP · Aug 1, 2024

Captain Cook to return as council reinstates statue

A Melbourne council will return a Captain Cook statue that was vandalised after voting down a motion to consult the community on a new location.

AAP · Feb 7, 2024

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Australian authorities once embraced privately operated prisons. But some governments are taking back control

With Queensland, WA and NSW pulling back on the ‘marketised approach’, they could be leading a national charge

The Guardian - AU · Dec 23, 2023

Melbourne council to remove mural it says unintentionally offended local Jewish community

Port Phillip council received ‘large volume of complaints’ over figures painted in Carlisle Street, Balaclava

The Guardian - AU · Nov 17, 2023

Eliza Batman, the Irish convict reinvented as 'Melbourne's founding mother', was both colonised and coloniser on two violent frontiers

On June 8 1835, 188 years ago today, pastoralist John Batman crossed the Bass Strait and arrived on the shores of Naarm (now Melbourne city), on Kulin lands. His Irish-born convict wife, Eliza Batman, and their seven daughters arrived at Port Phillip the following year.

The Conversation · Jun 7, 2023

Scarlet Runner sets Melbourne-Hobart pace

New boat Scarlet Runner led the field out of Port Phillip in the 50th Melbourne to Hobart and is setting the pace through Bass Strait.

AAP · Dec 27, 2022

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‘Dying is normal in this jail’: teenager held in Port Phillip prison for four months

Sentencing judge feared that the life of young man held in an adult prison and not offered rehabilitation would become ‘a disaster’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 8, 2022

Female footballers at Port Melbourne SC devastated, local council ends dream of FIFA World Cup legacy

Female footballers at Port Melbourne SC had been looking forward to an upgrade in facilities at the club as part of the 2023 Women's World Cup bid, only for City of Port Phillip council to withdraw the site.

ABC News · Aug 13, 2022

Port Phillip Bay shellfish reef project a first step in restoring Australia's underwater kingdoms

Divers in Port Phillip Bay carry live shellfish down to an artificial reef, taking another small step in an ambitious restoration project that is the largest yet undertaken in Australia.

ABC News · Apr 8, 2022

Victoria's first seaweed farm aims to reduce livestock emissions

At the depths of Port Phillip, a perhaps unlikely aquaculture project could hold the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Australian cattle.

ABC News · Feb 11, 2022

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