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World Film Locations
World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as a guide to films set wholly or partially in one of Australia's most diverse and culturally important cities. Offering analyses of iconic scenes, essays on key directors, recurring themes, notable locations, photographs, film stills and city maps, the contributors examine the city's relationship to cinema.
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Melbourne & Victoria
Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover Melbourne's laneways and arcades, soak up spectacular scenery along the Great Ocean Road, or enjoy food, wine and the great outdoors in one of Victoria's goldfield-era country towns; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Melbourne & Victoria and begin your journey now!
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Transforming transport planning in the postpolitical era
The aim of this paper is to examine how the postpolitical era of planning has created both binaries and intersections in the reimaging of transport futures and how the latter precipitates a redefinition of democratic transport prioritisation. Focusing particularly on the point in the transport planning process when urban transport priorities are identified, the paper explores how citizens respond to the inherently political, yet not always democratic, aspects of setting transport investment priorities. This relationship is investigated through a single case study of Melbourne, Australia where a six km inner city road tunnel was deemed a 'done deal' by elected officials in the lead up to a state election, removing the controversial project from open public scrutiny. Drawing upon ethnographic research and semi-structured interviews with community campaigners opposing the proposed East West Link road tunnel, this analysis reveals how community-based groups and individual residents alike can evolve beyond NIMBY-focused agitation to garner a spatially dispersed re-politicisation of urban transport priorities. While the postpolitical framing of infrastructure delivery introduces a binary between state interventionist planning and citizen opposition, it is the mobilisation of action through the spaces of intersection where new political paradigms for transport planning are created.
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Melbourne
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city’s life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne’s oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to the comedy festival, she talks publishing and learns how to use a letterpress. Along the way she journeys deep into her own recollections of the city she grew up in, and tells stories from its history: the theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman, the Hoddle Street massacre, William Barak’s trek from Healesville, the Westgate Bridge Disaster, the high drama of the 1970 and 2009 AFL grand finals and the Market Murders of the sixties. She strolls by Melbourne’s rivers and creeks while considering the history of the wetlands and river that sit at Melbourne’s heart. She clambers through the drains that lie beneath. For it is water – the corralling of it, the excess of it, the squandering of it, the lack of it – that defi nes Melbourne’s history, its present and its future.
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Reassessing the impact of social media on healthcare delivery: insights from a less digitalized economy
Social media plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by promoting patient engagement, facilitating communication among professionals, and serving as a platform for health education and outreach. Its significance in healthcare delivery continues to grow as digital communication becomes increasingly integral to the industry’s efforts to improve healthcare outcomes. Nonetheless, existing studies have not adequately and empirically explored its impact in less digitalized economies. Thus, this study seeks to investigate the impact of social media on healthcare delivery systems in a less digitalized economic context. Leveraging the social media engagement theory, the study employs a partial least squares (PLS-SEM) approach to explore the impact of social media in Ghana’s healthcare system. Based on a purposely selected sample of 457 healthcare professionals from Ghana, the study found that using social media for crisis management, patient-doctor relationships, and information dissemination positively impacts healthcare systems. On the contrary, social media use for public relations activities did not have any significant impact on healthcare delivery. This study contributes to the growing literature on the affordances of social media in the circular economy towards improved healthcare delivery in emerging economies. The study offers a strategy for optimizing the use of social media within healthcare settings to foster enhanced healthcare outcomes, particularly a less digitalized economies.
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A Test of Character: Regulating Place-identity in Inner-city Melbourne
During the 1990s, urban planning in Melbourne changed from prescriptive regulation to a place-based performance framework with a focus on existing or desired 'urban character'. This paper is a case study of a contentious urban project in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy: a highly valued place characterised as an irregular and transgressive mix of differences: between building types, functions, forms, heights and people. Contrasting conceptions, experiences and constructions of 'character' are explored from the viewpoints of residents, architect/developer and the state. To what degree does the regulation of 'character' open or close the city to creative innovation? Can it become camouflage for creative destruction? How to regulate for irregularity? The paper concludes with a discussion of theories of place (Massey vs Heidegger) and the prospects of concepts such as habitus (Bourdieu) and assemblage (Deleuze) for the interpretation of a progressive sense of place.
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