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Boroondara Bulletin - October 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - September 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - July / August 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - June 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - May 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - April 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - March 2021
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Boroondara Bulletin - December 2021/January 2022
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Boroondara Bulletin - February 2022
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Boroondara Bulletin - November 2021
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Improving playgrounds
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Improving parks and sportsgrounds
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Current planning scheme amendments
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Recently completed planning scheme amendments
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- Amendment C294 - Kew Heritage Gap Study
- Amendment C284 - Hawthorn Heritage Gap Study
- Amendment C312 – Specific Controls Overlay
- Amendment C321boro - Redevelopment of the Markham Avenue Public Housing Estate
- Amendment C340boro - 13 Strathalbyn Street, Kew East
- Amendment C341boro - 12-14 Tannock Street, Balwyn North
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Member kindergartens
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Boroondara Kindergarten Central Enrolment Scheme
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Add life to your years
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Recreation & arts
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Boroondara Arts
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Art activities
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- Make a pompom. Make a wish. Make an APOMAWISH.
- Open House Melbourne online children’s activities
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- ‘Last Days of Summer’ colouring sheet
- Continuous canopy art
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Online exhibitions
- 50 Years as a Sculptor by Michael Meszaros
- A Family Album
- Community Exhibition: 'Nature within 5km' by Joe Blundell
- Community Exhibition: From Muddy Roots, Beauty Grows
- Community Exhibition: Out Back by Lyn Guy
- Community Exhibition: Resemblance by Hawthorn Artist Society
- Community Exhibition: The Good Cups
- Community Exhibition: ‘Boroondara Faces in Everyday Places’ by the Boroondara Visual Art Teachers Network
- Community Exhibition: ‘Natural Constructs’
- Community Exhibition: ‘Nature in Art’ by the Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre
- Community Exhibition: ‘Portraiture in Black and White’
- Community Exhibition: ‘Renaissance Goes Surreal’ by John Ashcroft
- Community Exhibition: ‘Working Under the Shadow of Happiness’
- Community Exhibitions: Creepy Crawlies and Coffee Zombie
- Community exhibition: 'Residential' by D.M. Ross
- Community exhibition: ‘Let’s Go!’ by John Romeo
- Do I have to spell it out for you?
- Kylie Stillman: Not fully or properly either of two things
- Light Gestures: Samara Adamson-Pinczewski
- Local Summer
- Material Reverie
- Portraits of Boroondara
- Reconfigured/Rediscovered
- Shelter in Place
- Tracing Her Steps
- You Are Here
- John Young Zerunge: The Lives of Celestials
- Louise Saxton: The Linen Project
- Sounds Like.
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Parks and gardens
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