Your City: Your Space online forum
If you are aged 12 to 25 you can help make the city safer by posting your ideas on the City of Melbourne's Your City: Your Space online forum. By contributing to the forum you can also go in the running for some great prizes. Visit Your City: Your Space to share your thoughts, submit a video or vote on others' ideas.

Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards winner announced
The City of Melbourne and Melbourne Library Service are proud to announce that Barry Thompson has been awarded the Lord Mayor’s Prize in the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2009 for his work Randy. Visit Melbourne Libraray Service for details.

Unwrap Christmas in the City
Unwrap Christmas in the City and join in the calendar of free events. Events include Santa’s carols and concerts, Christmas markets and the lighting of the Christmas tree in the City Square. For more information visit That's Melbourne, our website for everything to see and do in the city.

More news stories

• Big thinking to keep Melbourne’s retail heart beating, 19 November 2009
• Cyclists give Melbourne’s first bike pod the nod, 11 November 2009
• Melbourne City Council trials CCTV patrol vehicles to enhance city safety, 10 November 2009
• Lord Mayor advocates for cities at Copenhagen climate change conference, 2 November 2009
• Climate, community and collaboration a feature of mayors forum, 28 October 2009

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