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The number of apartments to be added to your suburb revealed
Preston, Ringwood, Epping and Camberwell will get the most new apartment blocks as the state government seizes planning control over suburban activity centres.
- by Adam Carey and Sophie Aubrey
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How a rule tweak left hundreds of thousands of ratepayers unable to vote
Under a controversial council election change, non-resident ratepayers had to opt in by early August to be able to vote. Many missed the cut, or didn’t know about it.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Quiet, windswept, devoid of trees: The ‘disaster’ neighbourhood created by too much housing
The inner-west precinct is widely seen as one of Victoria’s worst examples of urban renewal. And it may not be the last.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Rundown corners of the city to become parks under lord mayor’s re-election plan
The historic riverside vaults and the area under the West Gate Bridge will be among the neglected parts of the city to become home to new parks if Nick Reece is re-elected.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Australia finishes with lowest medal ranking in 36 years after ‘funding neglect’
Paralympics Australia chef de mission Kate McLoughlin said the medal table didn’t tell the story of the many achievements, but she had long been warning that years of neglected government funding would result in a worse ranking.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Murky dam to silver lining: Woolies ad swimmer scoops medal after ‘rough couple of days’
Col Pearse, who shot to fame when his story was told in a Woolworths ad, is the first to admit it had been a tough few days, but he has now bounced back to seize silver in the last swimming session of the Paralympics.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Why Australia have fallen behind on the Paralympics medal table
With two full days of competition to go, Australia had 16 gold medals and sat behind nations such as the Netherlands, Brazil and Ukraine on the official table.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Burrito boy to sweet revenge: 10 best moments of the Paris Paralympics
Australian athletes have brought home plenty of medals, and they’ve also brought us tears, awe and laughter.
- by Tom Decent and Sophie Aubrey
The ‘Bench Queen’ almost died twice this winter. Now she’s bouncing back
Hani Watson is calling two recent anaphylactic episodes “the attempted assassination of the queen”. But they have rattled her.
- by Sophie Aubrey
No cheers, no chants: The football game plunging Paris into silence
Blind French captain Frederic Villeroux scored. Unable to see the magic he’d just achieved, it was only when the crowd erupted that he knew: he’d found the net.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Taylor felt rejected by the music industry, now she’s facing a different fight in Paris
The 26-year-old has 4 per cent vision, and she said her dreams of working in music were shattered when she was made to feel unwelcome because of her disability. She found the complete opposite in judo.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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