The Town Crier

News Updates

INVASION DAY MOURNING
CEREMONY
From 9:30am-10:30am on
26 January, behind the Coburg
Town Hall, a mourning ceremony
has been organised. Welcome to
country will be done by Elder
Uncle John Gardiner.

CATALYST UPDATE
Incendium Radical
Library (IRL) moved from
its Braybrook location into
Coburg’s Catalyst Social Centre
last May. Membership to IRL
requires a deposit.
Members can borrow
two books at a time, generally
for three weeks unless the book
is ‘high demand’.
IRL host regular reading
groups, post-protest debriefs
and letter writing sessions.
IRL is open on Sundays
between 1-4pm at Catalyst
Social Centre (144 Sydney Rd,
Coburg)

CARPE CARP
Jason (pictured) shocked
the online fishing community
with the size of the carp he
pulled from the Merri Creek
near Murray Rd on New Years
Eve.
Jason caught the carp
using sweet corn, and uses the
fish as fertiliser in the garden.

COBURG STRATEGIC PLAN
Coburg is well-known for
its sea of car parks. The Merri-
bek Council has released a
number of plans over the years
to revitalise the area around
Coburg Library, and is giving it
another go this year!
Recently the Council
invited people to contribute
ideas for how they would like the
space to be used. Some of the
options they proposed included
parks, community facilities,
shops and housing. Council
hopes to release details of their
initial consultation in March.
If the Council does
end up devoting significant
resources into revitalising the
space, this will be an incredibly
important project to get correct.
Whatever the plans may be, we
hope that public land won’t be
sold to achieve it

HARDING ST BRIDGE
Merri-bek’s annual
report from 22/23 was released
in September. It was revealed
that the Council has already
spent $17,414 on the Harding
St footbridge project, however
this is only 4% of the projected
costs…that’s right folks – it’s not
too late to save the bridge.

SYDNEY RD STREET PARTY
The annual Sydney Rd
Street Party takes place on Sunday
3 March, which triggers our yearly
rant to extend the party into
Coburg