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Property developer Tim Gurner outside the Jam Factory.

Gurner’s Jam Factory demolition jars with South Yarra locals

Residents and the council are annoyed at after-hours demolition work on the multibillion-dollar redevelopment.

  • Tom Cowie and Kishor Napier-Raman

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Nick Leys is joining Lord Mayor Nick Reece’s office.

Goodbye Aunty, hello Town Hall. ABC spokesman takes up job with lord mayor

ABC head of communications and former News Corp journalist Nick Leys is leaving the public broadcaster to take up a job as chief of staff for Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece.

  • Tom Cowie and Kishor Napier-Raman
Artist Mirka Mora seated at her mosaic chair at St Kilda Pier circa 2010. Now a statue is planned in her honour.

Plans for a Mirka Mora statue come with space for selfies. She would have heartily approved

The late, great French-Australian artist could soon be honoured with a St Kilda monument.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Ricky Nixon during a previous appearance at Melbourne Magistrate’s court.

‘My legal rights’: Ricky Nixon brings the beef to Melbourne Magistrates’ Court

Plus: ABC v News Corp round 753; Council Watch spares Lord Mayor Nick Reece and deputy Roshena Campbell; Albanese scrupulously ensures everyone gets a piece of the pie.

  • Stephen Brook, Melissa Cunningham, Kishor Napier-Raman and Lachlan Abbott
Lawyer Rebekah Giles.

Rebekah Giles accused in court of witness coaching in cavoodle case

Barrister Gina Edwards is in dispute with her former lawyers Giles George, who represented her in her defamation case against A Current Affair.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Lord Mayor Nick Reece and deputy lord mayor Roshena Campbell.

Councillors are lining up to attack this website – the lord mayor granted it an interview

There are complaints aplenty from the city’s municipal chambers about the site’s pointed attacks.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Bruce Hales (front left), the global leader or the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, preaching in the US.

Do they mean us? Secretive church launches website to counter ‘media misinformation’

Recent coverage seems to have stung members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, once known as the Exclusive Brethren.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Good times. Michelle Ananda-Rajah campaigns with Anthony Albanese in 2022.

Election soon? This Labor MP has switched on her out-of-office

There’s no date for the federal election as yet, but it doesn’t hurt to be prepared.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Bruce McAvaney

How Bruce McAvaney helped Adelaide snare the AFL Gather Round

McAvaney had a hand in the event going to South Australia, although he tried to play it down at Channel Seven’s big reveal of its expanded football coverage.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
The mansion is on the desirable north side of St George’s Road, Toorak.

Quick turnaround! A year after sale, Smorgon family Toorak mansion back on the market

Stephen Arvanitis, son of aged care mogul Peter Arvanitis, is selling up the mansion he recently bought from the Smorgon family for about $30 million.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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