Tom Cowie

Melbourne

Senior Journalist at The Sunday Age

Senior journalist in The Age's city team. Contact me here: https://t.co/BAudXrLlwZ

Articles

No fines for the homeless, but Port Phillip Council mulls camp crackdown

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Tom Cowie

By Tom Cowie May 22, 2025 — 7.45pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A proposal to fine homeless people within the City of Port Phillip has been scrapped as the council investigates changes to local laws that would give it powers to disband encampments.
No fines for the homeless, but Port Phillip Council mulls camp crackdown

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Tom Cowie

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Gay pub among several Yarra venues to get LGBTQ heritage protection

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Tom Cowie

By Tom Cowie May 19, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A long-running gay pub in Melbourne’s inner suburbs is among three venues to be given heritage protection after a world-leading City of Yarra study into the history of the LGBTQ community.
New sex club Pineapples Lifestyle Bar has South Melbourne locals up in arms

3 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Tom Cowie

By Tom Cowie May 15, 2025 — 6.59pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On its website, the Pineapples Lifestyle Bar promises a club designed to “elevate hedonistic events” to a never-before-seen level of “sophistication, arousal and titillation”.
Giant Ralph Lauren ad plastered on heritage-listed landmark attracts criticism

3 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Tom Cowie

By Tom Cowie May 14, 2025 — 11.44am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A large advertisement for Ralph Lauren plastered across the Atrium at Federation Square has sparked criticism that Melbourne’s most prominent public space is being commercialised in a “desperate” chase for revenue.
Greenline funding scrapped as City of Melbourne grapples with financial pressure

4 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Tom Cowie

By Tom Cowie May 11, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Greenline, the ambitious $316 million linear park proposed for the north bank of the Yarra River, will not be completed by the City of Melbourne, which is pulling funding from the troubled project.
‘Finding new ways to fail’: Liberals set to lose seats to Labor in Melbourne

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Tom Cowie

Michael Sukkar, the shadow housing minister, was defending the tightest seat in the country, with Deakin sitting on a razor’s edge margin of 0.02 per cent. Liberal MP Keith Wolahan is in danger of losing Menzies.Credit: Alex EllinghausenIn a recent Age profile, Sukkar said he was as “close as you can get in politics” to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. And like Dutton, Sukkar was set to be on his way out of parliament.
‘Finding new ways to fail’: Liberals set to lose seats to Labor in Melbourne

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Tom Cowie

By Tom Cowie May 3, 2025 — 11.09pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A seat defended after a once-in-a-century byelection. A seat named for the longest-serving Liberal prime minister. A seat held by a close confidant of the opposition leader.
Crumbling facade, no balconies: The push to turn a ’60s concrete bunker into homes

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Tom Cowie

Crumbling facade, no balconies: The push to turn a ’60s concrete bunker into homesWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. By Tom Cowie April 20, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For 60 years, the brutalist office building with pebbledash exterior has loomed over Kew, with bureaucrats from the state’s road authorities working away inside.
Crumbling facade, no balconies: The push to turn a ’60s concrete bunker into homes

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Tom Cowie

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