Footscray
Grand ale for Footscray as brewery gets council’s green light for old Franco Cozzo site
Maribyrnong council has reversed its previous decision, and now allows Moon Dog brewery to convert the old furniture showroom into a bar and music venue.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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Matsu
Melbourne’s smallest restaurant serves a ‘transfixing’ set menu to four guests at a time
If you thought Taylor Swift tickets were tricky, try booking a seat at Footscray four-seater Matsu.
- by Dani Valent
How virtual reality is helping hospitals deal with soaring rates of violence
Andy Tagg says being an emergency physician can feel a bit like being a nightclub bouncer. You learn to read the crowd and remain alert for signs of danger.
- by Melissa Cunningham
No grand ale in Footscray: Council rejects brewery’s proposal for Franco Cozzo site
A proposal to turn the iconic former furniture showroom into a three-storey Moon Dog venue with a grandiose baroque fountain has been rejected by Maribyrnong City Council.
- by Jewel Topsfield
If you build it, we will swim: Footscray residents would dig a new lake
A small group of residents has proposed a plan to turn the current Footscray hospital site into an urban oasis with beer gardens and a man-made lake.
- by Najma Sambul and Rachael Dexter
Local soccer club fears for its future after Western Bulldogs move in
A soccer club in Melbourne’s inner west is concerned for its future – and the future of other community sporting clubs – after the Western Bulldogs began training at a newly refurbished oval.
- by Najma Sambul
Now that’s a facelift: How new hospital site is celebrating local heroes
Unremarkable scaffolding at the new Footscray Hospital construction site has been transformed into something more significant, highlighting diversity in the western suburbs.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
From the Archives, 1995: Mr Football, Ted Whitten, dies aged 62
In 1995, Ted Whitten, one of the legends of Australian rules football died. The prototype of the modern footballer – fluid and graceful, a beautiful kick with either foot, capable of filling any position on the ground - Whitten is the only person in the history of the game to have become known as Mr Football.
- by Martin Flanagan
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Melbourne
Ras Dashen's fitfit will warm your winter-brittle bones
Head to Footscray for a bowl of this Ethiopian-style beef soup that's soulful, fortifying and supremely comforting, writes Dani Valent.
- by Dani Valent
RSL branches cast net wider to reverse membership slip
The Victorian RSL is losing members and branches are looking to turn that around.
- by Najma Sambul
Investigation widens after skulls stolen in Footscray grave robberies
Skulls have been taken from two graves at the cemetery and it now appears at least three others have been damaged in recent days.
- by Erin Pearson