VCAT
‘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.
- by Adam Carey
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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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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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.
- by 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.
- by 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.
- by Henrietta Cook
After an eight-year fight, 12-storey Camberwell tower gets green light
The commercial and residential development will shoot up at Camberwell Junction, a move that could pave the way for more high-rises in the area.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Chemist Warehouse family’s proposed coastal compound draws ire of locals
The billionaire co-founder of the ubiquitous pharmacy chain is facing a battle over plans to build a luxury 16-bed complex with a pool, cinema and tennis court.
- by Tom Cowie
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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
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