VCAT
Men-only clubs were hit with land tax for barring women. They aren’t happy with the bill
The Melbourne Club and Australian Club are fighting combined land tax bills of over $1 million claiming their heritage status restricts redevelopment of the land.
- Tom Cowie
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‘It’s quite unstable’, says expert of McCrae landslide site once known as Spring Hill
The landslide in McCrae happened in a part of the Mornington Peninsula locals once called Spring Hill, owing to the extensive underwater flows in the area.
- Adam Carey
‘Parasite’: The private school trying to eat a housing estate
Strathcona Girls Grammar School is offside with its neighbours after buying homes near its main campus and using VCAT to overturn a protective covenant.
- Adam Carey
- Exclusive
- Courts
Nurse to return $880,000 inheritance from patient she knew for 24 days
Disgraced nurse Abha Kumar ordered a will kit within three days of meeting 92-year-old Lionel Cox at a Collingwood aged care facility in 2015. The Supreme Court has ordered she return an inheritance of almost $1 million.
- Cameron Houston
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- Renting
Rent rage rising as complaints about ‘excessive’ increases surge
The number of tenanted properties in Victoria has also dropped by more than 6000 in a year, despite a Victorian government target to increase supply.
- Rachel Eddie
The inner-city site about to get 800 new homes
The Allan government is ramping up attacks on progressive parties across the inner-city, as it announces an 800-unit development in the inner north today.
- Kieran Rooney and Adam Carey
Minister intervenes to greenlight a ‘wellness utopia’, new prison apartment towers
Twelve-storey apartment towers at Pentridge and a high-rise lifestyle precinct in Docklands have been approved by the state’s planning minister – dismissing objections from local councils.
- Sophie Aubrey
- Exclusive
- Courts
GP found not guilty of raping pregnant patient did sexually assault her, tribunal rules
After the doctor was found not guilty in Victoria’s County Court, a civil tribunal has ruled that he did, on the balance of probabilities, sexually violate the woman during a consultation.
- Melissa Cunningham
A hair on the floor, $400 for sticky-tape residue: Inflated landlord bond claims hitting tenants
Over 80 per cent of landlord bond claims before VCAT have been found to be at least in part spurious, according to a new report.
- Jim Malo
Circumcision doctor accused of ‘amputation’ fails to have ban lifted amid appeal
One of Hershel Goldman’s newborn patients suffered an “amputation or partial amputation” of his penis, a tribunal heard, while another baby needed a blood transfusion.
- Henrietta Cook
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