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Victorian local elections 2024: Greater Melbourne candidates speak out
Local election candidates across Greater Melbourne have responded to The Age’s survey. Read what the candidates in your area plan to do if they are elected.
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Maroondah City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Maroondah will choose nine people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.
- by Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
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City life
The number of apartments to be added to your suburb revealed
Preston, Ringwood, Epping and Camberwell will get the most new apartment blocks as the state government seizes planning control over suburban activity centres.
- by Adam Carey and Sophie Aubrey
Ringwood keeps its feet on the ground as lofty future takes shape
The clock tower remains an icon but also serves as a yardstick to measure the scale of change and development in the suburb.
- by Patrick Hatch
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Private schools
Private school boys expelled over list ranking female classmates on appearance
The principal of Yarra Valley Grammar said the school was characterised by respectful relationships “most of the time”.
- by Robyn Grace and Madeleine Heffernan
The high stakes school fetes being supersized for $100,000 profits
Carnival rides, licensed bars and silent actions are joining sausage sizzles and face painting as school events become festivals to raise much needed funds.
- by Robyn Grace and Cara Waters
Andrews shoots down exiled MP’s hopes of returning to Labor
The premier poured cold water on Will Fowles’ hopes of returning to the party room, as pressure mounts on the Ringwood MP to resign as the chair of a high-profile committee.
- by Broede Carmody
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Victorian Parliament
Labor MPs say assault allegation will end Fowles’ career
Ringwood MP Will Fowles says he will fight to clear his name as the premier slaps down any suggestion he regrets giving his Labor colleague a second chance after an infamous 2019 incident in Canberra.
- by Broede Carmody and Annika Smethurst
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Healthcare
No ‘gold standard’: Two Victorian public health sites to close as job cuts bite
Public health leaders say Victoria is under-investing and falling well short of NSW’s system, leaving the state vulnerable to future health crises.
- by Aisha Dow
Hot Melbourne suburbs where the property market is defying the downturn
A handful of neighbourhoods are attracting keen competition at auction and property values are starting to inch higher, but will it last?
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
‘Unconscionable’: Aquinas leaves staff hanging over unpaid super
Aquinas College, one of Melbourne’s largest Catholic schools, is yet to rectify the unpaid superannuation it owes to hundreds of staff members, past and present.
- by Adam Carey
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