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‘We’ll cop the full brunt’: West Gate Tunnel to pump out toxic fumes near homes
Campaigners push for filters to be installed on the project’s enormous vents in Melbourne’s inner west as pollution fears grow.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Patrick Hatch
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More Melburnians are moving into apartments. But many are missing this basic feature
Apartment-dwellers want to cook and eat at home, but say cramped, impractical spaces aren’t cutting it.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Heartbreak after young pilot, teen boys die in fiery Gippsland plane crash
Two teenage boys and a 20-year-old pilot who died in a crash involving an amateur-built light plane on Saturday have been described as “beautiful human beings”.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Victorian council election results 2024 LIVE updates: Suspected postal vote tampering in council elections
All the updates on the results in Victoria’s local government elections.
- by Rachael Dexter, Tom Cowie, Adam Carey, Sophie Aubrey, Benjamin Preiss, Patrick Hatch and Cara Waters
The train station car parks being sold off for hundreds of new homes
The state government has called on developers to submit their interest in acquiring the sites to deliver new homes close to public transport.
- by Sophie Aubrey
‘They have to be held responsible’: Almost 200 young trees destroyed in vandalism spree
Trees were found snapped, cut at the base with a hand saw or uprooted in an act of vandalism across eight parks in Melbourne’s south-east.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Goodbye flats, hello mansion: Apartments demolished despite state’s housing goals
The government may have big ambitions for increased housing density in Melbourne, but in some inner suburbs, blocks of flats are being bulldozed to make room for a single luxury home.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Fears for apartment quality as government sits on new design standards
Apartments built in new activity centres risk being too dark and too small as the state government charges ahead with housing but stalls updates to minimum design standards.
- by Sophie Aubrey
After Brighton bust-up, Footscray residents wary of high-rise haste
The reaction in the inner west is of a vastly different temperature to what was seen in Brighton, where about 100 people protested and heckled the premier.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Rachael Dexter
‘I’m really outraged’: Brighton’s fury as premier avoids locals over high-rise plans
As Premier Jacinta Allan launched her signature plan to fast-track high-rise developments in Melbourne’s suburbs, angry Bayside residents confronted her about the lack of community consultation.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Kieran Rooney
‘Yes, I’m young’: The gutsy teenage candidates in Victoria’s council elections
They might not have the life experience of most other candidates, but these plucky teens reckon they’ve got plenty to offer as city councillors.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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