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NT Police sending 40 additional officers to Alice Springs on Wednesday night as crime continues to rise

Residents urged to stay out of the Alice Springs CBD on Wednesday night, as stolen cars cause mayhem in the main streets.

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How superblocks can free up and improve CBD space for the people of Melbourne – a step-by-step guide

For 185 years, Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid – the ordered layout of CBD streets and blocks designed in 1837 – has dictated the flow of people and vehicles in the city centre. But how well does the grid serve 21st-century needs?

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Fair Work Ombudsman recovers $400k in underpayments from Brisbane businesses

Of the 77 businesses inspected across South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley, Sunnybank and the CBD, 75 per cent had breached workplace laws.

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COVID covers to be removed from Sydney pedestrian buttons, but CBD traffic lights remain automated

The COVID safety measure has been scrapped, but pushing the button won't necessarily make the lights change faster.

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Auckland: The shape of midtown to come

The City Rail Link is just one of many developments over the next few years that could stand to utterly transform Auckland’s CBD.

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Outback mining city Mount Isa struggles to deal with public drunkenness

Drained wine casks and broken glass litter this outback town's CBD. While personal incomes are well above average here, beneath the facade lies an insidious social problem.

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Brisbane CBD changes over next decade to change the face of the city

A "collision of challenges and opportunities" is facing Queensland's capital as new projects and vision for the city's heart begin to roll out with gusto.

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Freaky Folks Were Creepily Smiling At People In The Syd CBD This Week Why Didn’t I WFH?

Don't smile because it's over, cry because it happened.

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Skipping meals, doctors appointments and moving back home, Anti-Poverty Network backs calls for rent freezes

When Adelaide student Chanel Trezise moved from regional SA to the CBD for her studies, she didn't ever imagine forgoing medical appointments or fresh food to keep a roof over her head.

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Holy Shit: Two People Have Been Hospitalised In Sydney After A Fire Truck Collided With A Tram

Two people are receiving treatment in hospital after a tram collided with a fire truck in Sydney's CBD on Monday morning.

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WTF: Melburnians Have Taken To TikTok After Being Approached By Cult Recruiters In The CBD

“This is not a drill.”

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Geelong CBD renewal plans at standstill as residents await government approval

Residents are becoming increasingly frustrated by the delay of a long-awaited framework to revitalise the CBD.

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Hong Kong’s CBD industry faces wipeout as government ban looms

CBD products have become popular in recent years among Hong Kongers seeking relief from anxiety, depression and stress.

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Brisbane's Queen Street Mall celebrates 40 years of attracting visitors in their droves to the CBD

What started as a dirt strip hosting horse and carriage traffic in the 1800s had long attracted fashion conscious shoppers — but it wasn't until 1982 that the mall was created.

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What is a 'void' and how did it bring Brisbane's CBD to a standstill?

The Brisbane CBD was shut down yesterday "out of an abundance of caution", but experts agree it's not every day a hole appears unexpectedly beneath a busy city street. Here's what we know about the "void" and the chance of another one appearing in the future.

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Transport chaos in Brisbane CBD as 'emergency roadworks', accidents cause huge traffic delays

Brisbane City Council says a "void" was found below Adelaide Street during excavation works for the Brisbane Metro tunnel which caused major delays and traffic congestion.

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E-scooters to be banned from NSW footpaths as key Sydney councils shun trial

Residents and tourists in Sydney's CBD and inner-city suburbs will have to wait for e-scooters to be available as trials are launched in other areas of NSW.

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Potential Burnie courthouse CBD sites announced after backlash at out-of-town move

After community backlash to a plan to move Burnie's courthouse to the outskirts of town, the Tasmanian government reveals two new proposed CBD sites — including one next door to a childcare centre.

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Footage of Lismore CBD break-in shows thieves targeting business

Businesses in Lismore's CBD say they are struggling with repeated break-ins as footage shows some of the cunning and potentially deadly lengths to which thieves are willing to go.

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Central, but no oven: what can you afford on Australia’s median weekly rent of $508?

A house with a yard in East Launceston is in reach, but if you want to be close to Sydney’s CBD, you’ll have to skimp on quality

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Adelaide man seriously injured after falling from King William Street building

The 22-year-old is believed to have climbed a downpipe on the side of a building in Adelaide's CBD, before the pipe snapped and he fell more than two storeys.

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Adelaide City Council votes against purchasing facial recognition software for city security cameras

Police refuse to speculate on whether they will invest in facial recognition software after Adelaide City Council voted unanimously not to include the technology in new security cameras being installed across the CBD.

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Murdoch University axes plan for Perth CBD campus and pulls out of City Deal project

Murdoch University scraps a planned $250 million inner-city vertical campus that had been a central plank of the Perth City Deal, with the Premier saying "they couldn't make it work".

Newcastle Herald

Push to cut the red tape to make Charlestown the city's next boomtown

Stumbling blocks to development in Charlestown's CBD could be knocked over as Lake Macquarie City Council looks to open the flood gates to growth.

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Clown who offended police during protest has disorderly conduct conviction thrown out

A woman who offended two police officers when she pulled up her skirt and pressed her buttocks against a Perth CBD office window during a protest has her conviction for disorderly behaviour thrown out by a judge who ruled she had only been trying to amuse a crowd.

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