The City of Melbourne was determined to shut down controversial floating nightclub ATET and ignored reasonable suggestions by its owner to deal with noise issues, a council whistleblower has claimed.
An Anzac memorial honouring fallen soldiers has been doused with red paint while a statue honouring John Batman has been destroyed and graffiti sprayed across a citizenship ceremony in the latest attacks leading up to Australia Day.
The state government and Melbourne City Council are refusing to deviate from existing Australia Day policies this year, despite an uptick in public support to celebrate the national day.
Chocolate shop Koko Black has been forced to turn to private security to protect staff from anti-social behaviour, with Victoria recording the highest number of serious retail crime incidents in the country.
Lord Mayor Nick Reece is fond of referring to Melbourne as the “best and fairest” city — but has he seen these dreadful eyesores making a mockery of our best landmarks?
Nick Reece has been accused of accepting a $20k campaign donation from a company at the heart of a multimillion dollar apartment project.
Hundreds of thousands of Victorian households with solar panels will miss out on generous feed-in tariffs after a proposed slashing of energy rebates.
After falling off a horse while on holiday, Brendan Thompson started teaching himself how to work in hot iron. Now he’s looking for new people to learn the old craft.
The morning-after clean-up has been carried out after hundreds of thousands of revellers partied in Melbourne to celebrate New Year’s Eve, although festivities were marred by two stabbings on the Mornington Peninsula and close to 300 incidents of illegal fireworks.
A man was taken to hospital after suffering a suspected overdose on the first day of Beyond the Valley festival where pill testing is being trialled for the first time in Victoria.
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