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Melbourne dad pays $680,000 to buy house for school-aged daughter
In a bold bid to secure his daughter’s future, worried she wouldn’t be able to afford a property later on, the dad outbid two other buyers.
- by Sarah Webb
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.
Frankston City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Frankston 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 Rachael Dexter and Cara Waters
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City life
Where we live: The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods
In this series, The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.
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Healthcare
‘He shouldn’t be dead’: Families sue Frankston Hospital over suicides
Michael Abeling was desperate for help when he presented to the emergency department. But he was refused admission and died a few days later.
- by Henrietta Cook
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Crime
Murder accused fronts court after fisherman’s pier death
A homeless man will receive urgent medical treatment after he was charged with murder over the stabbing death of an angler in Frankston on Saturday.
- by Ashleigh McMillan and Holly Hales
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Planning
‘Watershed moment’: 14-storey tower in Frankston’s ‘Great Wall’ gets green light
A contentious high-rise apartment building, part of Frankston’s “Great Wall” overlooking Port Phillip Bay, has been approved.
- by Benjamin Preiss, Ashleigh McMillan and Lachlan Abbott
How rising sea levels could sink a grand plan to transform Frankston
Melbourne Water will not back a masterplan to densify Frankston’s city centre over a lack of consideration of flood risks and coastal inundation caused by climate change.
- by Rachael Dexter
Dunkley’s beaten Liberal Conroy to return to council night-mayor
The byelection didn’t go the Frankston mayor’s way, and things are looking awkward for him now at the council.
- by Noel Towell
Labor vows to keep cost-of-living focus after swing to Liberals in Dunkley
Voters delivered a warning to the prime minister on the cost of living – and a rebuff to Peter Dutton and his goal of winning the suburban electorates needed to retake government.
- by Lisa Visentin and Annika Smethurst
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