James Halliday asked me to confirm if the Chardonnay wine grape was grown and made into wine in Victoria in the nineteenth century. This is my reply.
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Melbourne Wants for Authority
By David Dunstan
Metropolitan problems need metropolitan solutions, or so we are told by Roger Poole of the Committee for Melbourne (Age 7 March, 2008). He bemoans the absence of comprehensive planning for Melbourne and calls for a single planning authority.
We had one – the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. It was done away with in the 1980s and 90s by successive efforts of the Cain and Kirner Labor and Kennett Liberal administrations. Continue reading Melbourne Wants for Authority