The residential areas increasingly became slums , and some parts were threatened with clearance . Well-known Melbourne criminal Dennis Allen owned about a dozen homes in Cremorne , which were used for a variety of illicit purposes . One was demolished in 1989 by police searching for evidence in the Walsh Street police shootings . It had earlier been seized by the Australian Taxation Office . Other shadowy businesses in Cremorne Street in the 1970s included a brothel , a door-to-door business selling fraudulent oil paintings , and clothing sweatshops
Walsh Street police shootings
Walsh Street police shootings
Cremorne, Victoria