IF done properly (and tastefully), street art can be a wonderful way to instil culture and colour into the City.
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All it takes is one walk around inner-city Melbourne to be convinced of that.
Vibrant alleyways filled with intricate art pieces, bold murals and everything in between weave between the CBD.
Melbourne City Council, after an extensive research and consultation process, now recognise the importance of street art in contributing to a vibrant urban culture and have developed the city into an art piece in itself.
Property owners can apply for a permit to have street art on their buildings and urban artists can express themselves legally. They remain to have a strict graffiti policy and take a strong stance against illegal name tagging, however.
Now, we aren’t condoning illegal graffiti and we aren’t saying Council should open the flood-gates for a street-art takeover but there must be a better way to tackle the situation than simply clearing the drawing board for the kids to start again.
$10,000 each year to the regular removal of street-art in the Skate Park will see artists flock from across the City to lend their skills to the blank canvas.
For those involved in the skate-scene, graffiti is an integral part of the culture and it will just keep happening.
Council now has the opportunity to put their heads together to come up with something quite unique for a regional hub like Goulburn.
Why not spend the money on a mentoring session with an Australian street-artist? Why not spend the money on harnessing the talent and bringing a modern edge to the Skate Park facility?
Why not teach the kids to do street-art within the skate park properly and without offence? Or hold a one-day anti-tagging program in schools?
The opportunities are endless.
Anzac 100
THE recent immortalisation of three local diggers on the honour roll is another reminder of the region’s men who answered the call in WW1.
For the descendants of William Chisholm, William Leggett and Charles Dalglish, there will be comfort in knowing that they are no longer lost to history.
The three men were among the very first to have answered the call in 1914, enlisting with the British Army, and sadly were among the first to fall in the Great War.
With ANZAC Day centenary commemorations some nine months away, community groups are already throwing themselves into preparations.
In the last week the Post revealed the fantastic upgrades to the Rocky Hill War Memorial. We have also heard from the Mulwaree High School Remembrance Museum seeking information and have received an update on the organisation of next year’s Kangaroo March.
Not to mention in the past two editions we have published history-making news on a local sailor in France as well as the three local veterans from WW1.
Goulburn’s history is so thoroughly engrained in the history of the ANZACs that next year’s commemorations are sure to be both exciting and humbling.
Lest We Forget.