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Matt JohnstonMajor Projects Editor

Matt Johnston is major projects editor at the Herald Sun. He is a former state political editor who has covered local, state and federal politics since 2008. He is a three-time Quill award winner and a Walkley Awards finalist.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY 5 2025: Premier Jacinta Allan is seen prior to a press conference at the SRL Clarinda construction site. Picture: NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

EXCLUSIVEVictoria

Renders showing a proposed $140m Pakenham development that includes social housing and a residential hotel with affordable housing. Source: Particular Architects

Allan government push to fast-track Aboriginal housing project

The state government is set to intervene in a “groundbreaking” social housing project in Pakenham after claims a First Nations group had been silenced during the planning process.

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Thousands will flock to the West Gate Tunnel to participate in a fun run ahead of the project's official opening.

Here’s your chance: See inside the finished West Gate Tunnel before it opens

Thousands of Victorians will head underground next month to see the $10.2 billion West Gate Tunnel in a community fun run and open day event ahead of the project’s official unveiling.

Police & Courts

Deputy premier says violent kids ‘should face time’ as pressure grows over crisis

Ben Carroll has declared his government should take a “zero tolerance” approach to crime as the crisis escalates, while business leaders have called on Jacinta Allan to “stop quoting the statistics” and put a cop “on every corner”.

Victoria

Kingswood Golf Course at Dingley Village has been stained with chemicals.

Green light for 900-home ‘mini suburb’ on former Kingswood golf course

A contentious plan to tee up 941 new homes on a former golf course in Melbourne’s southeast has been ticked off by Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny, despite a 10-year fight from neighbours’ who fear the development will turn their suburb into a “ghetto”.

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