Minutes from July 2013 general meeting
The minutes for the July general meeting are now available here. At the meeting, Joseph Connellan, Di Missen and Caz Healy from the Doutta Galla Health Centre spoke about the current operation of the Doutta Galla Health Centre which is providing critical and ongoing health services to those at the margin, including the homeless, poor, refugees, and people with ongoing mental health concerns. The Doutta Galla Health Centre is merging with two similar inner city health groups. More information about their work, is on their website http://doutta.org.au. We thank them for their ongoing efforts to the community.
Agenda for July 2013 general meeting
July's meeting will be tomorrow night, the 16th, in the Dewey Room at the Bastow Institute, 601 Queensberry Street North Melbourne. The agenda is here.
NWMA Planning Committee -June 2013
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2013 Annual General Meeting
The 2013 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Association is to be held on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at Dewey Common Room, 601 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne (Enter off Union Street). Please arrive at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. At the conclusion of the official business of the AGM, Association member, Thomas Shearer will give a presentation of the changes in the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 and the new Model Rules affecting the Association.
AGM 2013
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Agenda for April 2013 general meeting
The April General Meeting is to be held at 7.30pm on Tuesday 16th April 2013 in the Dewey Common at the Bastow Institute at 601-603 Queensberry North Melbourne. The agenda can be viewed here. [gview file="https://nwma.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013-04-16-nwmaagenda.pdf"]
Invitation to the Health and Homelessness Community Forum
A community forum to discuss Health and Homelessness will be held on Wednesday 1st May in The Meeting Room at the North Melbourne Town Hall. Registration is from 9.30am, the forum is from 10am-12pm with refreshments afterwards. Adam Bandt, Federal MP for Melbourne, and Jennifer Kanis, State MP for Melbourne will be two of many speakers on the day. The full invitation can be seen here.
Series: Ideas for Melbourne: Ending homlessness
Last month, as part of the series "Ideas for Melbourne: Ending homelessness", Lorraine Siska took notes of a discussion between Alan Attwood (founder and editor of The Big Issue), Heather Holst (manager/spokeperson of Homeground), Suzy Freeman-Green (journalist for The Age) and Spike Chiappalone (advocate for homeless persons on Council to Homeless Persons (CHP)). The notes can be downloaded from here.
NWMA Planning Committee -March 2013
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Agenda for March 2013 planning meeting. Guest speaker is David Mayes
A quick reminder that, David Mayes, Manager Strategic Planning, City of Melbourne has been invited to talk and to answer questions about Planning Scheme Amendment C207/207 Arden-Macaulay Heritage. This is a very important issue as it is dealing with the Arden-Macaulay Structure Plan area. Heritage has been very important in the past for the Association and members will see this meeting as crutial. Information on this amendment is available at http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/BuildingandPlanning/Planning/planningsch emeamendments/Pages/AmendmentC206C207.aspx Date: Tuesday 5th March 2013 Time: 8PM Venue: Dewey Common Room, Bastow Institute, 601 Queensberry Street,North Melbourne (Enter off Union Street on the West side of the Institute)