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Wyndham City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Wyndham will choose 11 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
Melbourne property values are falling. Here’s which areas are strongest and weakest
High interest rates and increased property taxes are taking their toll, but not all suburbs are affected equally.
- by Elizabeth Redman
Biplanes once took off from the RAAF’s birthplace. Now it faces the wrecking ball
The Point Cook base, which was essential to Australia’s WWII efforts, trained the country’s first pilots and sent them to war. Conservationists are fighting to save its “irreplaceable” buildings.
- by Cara Waters
Killer of mother found in wheelie bin may have fled abroad, police say
Friends of Point Cook woman Chaithanya “Swetha” Madhagani said her dignity had been stolen by the horrific circumstances of her death.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
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Behind the Headlines
Why one small detail in my story about a murdered woman still haunts me
Some of the hardest things I’ve done as a reporter have involved conversations with mothers. But there was one mum I let down.
- by Melissa Fyfe
Woman admits lighting fire that killed couple and their baby
Jenny Hayes has pleaded guilty to three charges of arson causing death over a fire at a Point Cook property in 2020.
- by Adam Cooper
Two men charged over ‘shocking’ Point Cook home invasion
Two men have been charged over a home invasion that resulted in a Point Cook couple being hospitalised on Tuesday morning.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
'Hug your children': Young Point Cook family who died in fire remembered
Family and friends of 19-year-old new mum Abbey Forrest, partner 28-year-old Inderpal ‘Indi’ Singh and baby daughter Ivy joined together to release balloons on Sunday after a fatal house fire on Wednesday.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
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Tragedy
Mother 'in a rage', son says, but unaware of sleeping family when she allegedly lit fatal fire
Jenny Hayes, who is charged with three counts of murder over a Point Cook fire that killed a young couple and their newborn baby, allegedly texted her son, telling him, 'I think I did something stupid.'
- by Simone Fox Koob, Rachael Dexter and David Estcourt
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Tragedy
Woman charged after couple, newborn daughter die in Point Cook fire
The woman, 46, was arrested on Thursday morning in Airport West. She has been charged with three counts each of murder and arson causing death.
- by Rachael Dexter, Simone Fox Koob and David Estcourt
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