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Crackdown on knife sellers

saves — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:20:41 +0000

Victorian retailers have been put on notice: sell illegal knives and you will be found.

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Push on to ban beer barns – The Age

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:01:57 +0000

Push on to ban beer barns The Age MELBOURNE'S beer barns are destined to go the way of indoor smoking in bars and restaurants and be regulated away, according to Lord Mayor Robert Doyle.

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‘No junkets’ lord mayor packs his bags for trips

betapur — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:01 +0000

Lord Mayor Robert Doyle will take two overseas trips in the next six weeks – a year after promising to end foreign junkets for Melbourne City councillors.

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‘No junkets’ Doyle packs his bags

AlbertoGuilherme — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:05:20 +0000

$61,000 Copenhagen trip on Lord Mayor’s agenda, despite vow to cut travel.

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Doyle backs all-night trams

inmelbourne — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:01 +0000

Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has begun lobbying Melbourne’s new tram operators for 24-hour services.

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Doyle backs all-night trams | Your say

saves — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:01 +0000

Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has begun lobbying Melbourne’s new tram operators for 24-hour services.

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Doyle wants Dees at Docklands

saves — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:45:00 +0000

LORD Mayor Robert Doyle has announced plans to develop a permanent home for Melbourne Football Club at Docklands.

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New homes, parks for Docklands

inmelbourne — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:17:00 +0000

UPDATE 11.10am: MELBOURNE will get new parkland as part of a massive $1 billion development at Docklands.

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HAVE YOUR SAY: Melbourne councillors to push for 24-hour trains

inmelbourne — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:55:51 +0000

LORD Mayor Robert Doyle is set for a showdown with Spring St after councillors voted to ramp up calls for 24-hour trains on weekends.

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Russia beckons

inmelbourne — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:27:38 +0000

“It’s a good commitment for me to make personally and to say to my councillors that they should be making no junkets. I may take the occasional day trip to Frankston. … I think we know what the problems are here. My job is to stay here and work on the solutions.”

Lucky he didn’t tear up his passport, because this was news out of Melbourne Town Hall last night: “Next Thursday, January 29, 2009, the Melbourne City Council will consider an agenda item seeking approval for Lord Mayor Robert Doyle to travel to St Petersburg, Russia, to attend the ‘Days of Melbourne’ 20th anniversary celebration of the Melbourne-St Petersburg sister city relationship.” In a written statement, Cr Doyle said the City of Melbourne had been working with St Petersburg since last year to “plan a three-day celebration of our two cities from February 16 to February 19, 2009″. “If council approves my proposed travel, which is being considered as an agenda item at our next meeting, I will undertake the first trip by a lord mayor to St Petersburg since 1991, with the clear goal of delivering benefits to the City of Melbourne, including a return visit and trade mission to Melbourne led by St Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko,” he said.