liquor licensing

'Lentils' shutdown

Lentil as Anything at the Abbotsford Convent is closing down. After years of serving vegetarian pay-what-you-feel priced meals to Melburnians, the inner-city eatery will be shutting its doors for good.

Panorama's Ally Bergamin reports.

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S.L.A.M - Save Live Australian Music

After months of media coverage on Melbourne's controversial new liquor-licensing laws and its impact on live music, thousands turned up outside the State Library on Tuesday, 23 February to march against the threat to live music. Panorama was there, as Paul Serratore tells Naomi Black.

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Fair go for live music

Melbourne's iconic music venue, The Tote, has closed its doors citing liquor-licensing laws as too costly a change for the pub to go on. "We Tote and we vote", was written on the placards that caught the eye of the Premier, as over 2000 protesters marched on the corner of Wellington and Johnston Streets.
 
Reporter Nick Toscano spoke with John Perry - owner of Bar Open and Pony - who's heading up the campaign against the changes.

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