Melbourne community fights to save 90-year-old youth centre from sale in Australia
The Catholic Salesians organization is selling Don Bosco, an inner-Melbourne youth centre on Sydney Road in Brunswick that has provided accommodation and free entertainment for nearly 90 years, according to ABC News Australia. Parents and community members are organizing to find an alternative solution to preserve the facility.
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- ✓Don Bosco is located on Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne. (Source: ABC News Australia)
- ✓The facility has operated for nearly 90 years. (Source: ABC News Australia)
- ✓Don Bosco offers accommodation and free entertainment. (Source: ABC News Australia)
- ✓The Catholic Salesians organization operates the centre. (Source: ABC News Australia)
- ✓The centre is being put up for sale. (Source: ABC News Australia)
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- ~Community members are rallying to find a solution to preserve the centre. (Source: ABC News Australia framing of parent activism)
- ~The sale reflects broader pressures on community institutions from rising property values. (Contextual inference from reported facts, not explicit source claim)
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