The Melbourne Snap⚡- Friday 6 June, weekend edition
RISING Festival takes over city, $195m private school mega campus, Melbourne's latest chocolate trend, best spots for mulled wine and heaps of events over the long weekend.
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Here’s the bumper long weekend edition.
🚧 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Premier Jacinta Allan in Melbourne to highlight progress on the $26bn North East Link project yesterday.
➡️ Attention among the press pack quickly shifted to the true cost of the Metro Tunnel and questions over Senator Dorinda Cox’s move to Labor. - Anthony Albanese (X) / Press Conference Transcript
Weekend weather
🚖 Victoria’s taxi association backs fixed fares for Melbourne Airport trips to stop fare gouging and ride refusals after nearly 1300 complaints last year. - Ainsley Koch, 7 News (Instagram)
🛍️ Most major retailers in Victoria - including Woolworths, Coles, Kmart, Bunnings and Westfield centres - will be open on Monday for the King’s Birthday public holiday, trading from around 10am to 5pm. - Mikala Theocharous, 9 News
🚢 Melbourne’s cruise economy is set to lose $37.6m as more than 100 ship visits are cancelled over four years, after Carnival pulled key cruise lines in response to a state government port fee hike. - Adam Carey, The Age
📊Earlier this week I reported on the new powers Victoria’s principals will now have to take action against pupils for bad behaviour outside school. Here are the results from Wednesday’s reader poll…
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