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Hardware Lane bistro French Saloon.

‘We’re back’: Beloved Hardware Lane restaurant French Saloon reopens for the first time since 2021

Morphing into a function space during the pandemic, Hardware Lane favourite French Saloon is back as an easy-breezy European bistro and bar.

  • Tomas Telegramma

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Hannah Fox is the co-curator of Melbourne’s RISING festival and she says the city is having a moment.

Melbourne’s moment: Eight keys to the future of the city

Hannah Fox knows all too well the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Melbourne after RISING festival, which she co-curates, was hit two years running.

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Sandra Foti, owner of Piccolina Gelateria, kept her faith in the CBD, but doesn’t think it will recover swiftly.

Melbourne at crossroads as it emerges from pandemic

Sandra Foti had waited a long time to open a gelateria in the heart of the CBD. Now she and others are waking from the long COVID sleep to a different city.

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Cafe Manager Jos Turner is ready for customers to return to Brother Bada Budan on Little Bourke Street.

Time to resurrect the ghost town as CBD workers head back to the office

Some workers will return to their offices for the first time in almost two years on Monday morning, and Melbourne’s baristas are stocking up on coffee beans in preparation.

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Victorian and Commonwealth public servants are preparing to return to Melbourne’s CBD.

Boost for CBD as public servants prepare for office return

Managers across the 58,000-strong Victorian Public Service are working on plans for a return to the office, with the state government’s work-from-home recommendation expected to end on Friday.

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Rebecca Yazbek, owner of Nomad restaurant says people are in a celebratory mood in Melbourne and Sydney.

Sydney is ‘back with a vengeance’ as Melbourne races to catch up

Shoppers, diners, theatre-goers and even some office workers are heading back into the CBD in Melbourne and Sydney, but Sydney looks to be out in front.

  • Cara Waters
Grade 5 Kangaroo ground primary school student Mollie McBride plays Simba in their production of The Lion King.

School production finally goes ahead in circle of pandemic life

Kangaroo Ground Primary School’s production of The Lion King suffered nine postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it was 10th time lucky.

  • Carolyn Webb
Standing MPs vote for the pandemic legislation in Victorian Parliament.

Pandemic laws pass upper house: Premier and minister to take charge of health response

After months of debate and protest, Victoria’s pandemic law passed the upper house and will take effect in a fortnight.

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Life upended, again, for travellers on the brink of reuniting with loved ones

“The entire process has been so deflating and heartbreaking ... I just broke down.” Readers’ lives have been upended, again, by border changes.

  • Ashleigh McMillan, Lucy Crock, Roy Ward and Marta Pascual Juanola

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