Eltham
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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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‘Feeling of serenity’: Melbourne’s most profitable suburbs for home owners
There are some areas where home buyers risk reselling their property for less than they paid – but not here.
- by Elizabeth Redman
Beach cottage smashes its reserve and changes hands for $3.9 million
A large crowd defied the cold to watch four bidders vie for the two-bedroom Williamstown home, which had been in the one family since it was built 60 years ago.
- by Sarah Webb
‘Love it out here’: What it costs to live in Melbourne’s top suburbs for wellbeing
The wellbeing factor of suburbs has been measured on indicators such as health, environment, jobs and income. But it comes at a price.
- by Elizabeth Redman and Alexandra Middleton
Merrick Watts’ simple rule during Eltham pub fights: ‘Grab the till and run’
Once Eltham was an “amazing dichotomy between ruthless bogans and the arts”. Nowadays, the leafy suburb is fighting not to look like everywhere else.
- by Clay Lucas
Coburg house clears price range with one bid, sells for $850,000 at auction
Young couples vying for the Berry Street home didn’t mess around – the first bid was $20,000 more than top of the quoted price range.
- by Jim Malo
Future of Victorian Premier’s History Award in doubt
A top history prize bearing could soon be a thing of the past, as historians raise alarm over the loss of grants they say will endanger the future of record-keeping, heritage overlays and genealogy research.
- by Broede Carmody
Special Series
Life in the ’burbs
Naked hippies in the Yarra? Eltham was a great place to be a teenager
What I like about Eltham is how resistant it is to change. Everyone leaves eventually, but most of them come back.
- by Doug Hendrie
Review
Little Drop of Poison
Eltham tapas bar Little Drop of Poison has good vibes on tap
How do you take your poison? I’ll have mine here, at this intimate Latin bar in the ’burbs, writes Dani Valent.
- by Dani Valent
Road to nowhere? Roundabout revamp could be a waste, say angry locals
The Andrews government will build an oversized intersection in the bushland suburb of Eltham to solve a traffic problem that locals say is already being fixed by building the state’s most expensive road.
- by Timna Jacks
'It’s a feeling like we’re home': Eltham tree-lined gateway to be bulldozed
Plans to chop down hundreds of trees in the bushland suburb of Eltham to make way for an 11-lane intersection have horrified locals, who say it will destroy the green gateway into their community.
- by Chloe Booker
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