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19 October 2014 – First Convoy Embarkations Commemoration

News and Notices, Port Melbourne HistoryOctober 5, 2014
One hundred years ago, thousands of Victorians embarked from Port Melbourne bound for the battlefields of World War One. By the end of October 1914,  17 troopships had left Victorian shores carrying almost 8,000 troops as well as nurses, technicians, horses, supplies and weaponry. This was Victoria’s First Convoy. To mark the centenary of this historic departure, the State Government of…

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Birthday photos

News and NoticesJuly 31, 2014
  Calling for entries to Station Pier photographic competition - due 22 August To celebrate Station Pier’s 160th birthday in September, the Port of Melbourne Corporation is holding a photo competition. Capture your vision of Station Pier in its context on the Port Melbourne foreshore and send it in - note those words "in its context on the Port Melbourne foreshore". Or, if…

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Notices

News and NoticesSeptember 26, 2013
Its blowing a gale on the Bay as PMHPS prepares this post. A bit of a change gale is happening in Port's environs. Major Projects Victoria is inviting Expressions of Interest for Princes Pier. Submissions are invited that activate the pier as a high quality place on the waterfront and contribute to the broader revitalisation of Beacon Cove encourage Melburnians, local…

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PMHPS acknowledges the generous support of the City of Port Phillip.

 

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.