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Denise and Paul Willigenberg are caught in a three-way legal dispute and cannot return to their retirement home in McCrae.

McCrae residents snared in ‘three-way legal game’ with council over landslip

Home owners in McCrae are in a legal battle with the council over who is responsible for a landslide that has forced them out of their houses.

  • Adam Carey

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Gerry and Bronwyn Borghesi at the bottom of the hill where a landslide destroyed the home below theirs.

‘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
The landslide scene on Wednesday.

‘We can’t put our head in the sand’: High-profile local’s urgent plea after landslide

Former Monash Uni chancellor and Australian of the year Simon McKeon lives uphill from the McCrae house destroyed this week. He hopes the landslip finally spurs authorities to act.

  • Adam Carey
landslip in McCrae

Surgery for injured worker as unsafe landslide homes remain off limits

The Age has obtained a recording of a meeting the Mornington Peninsula Shire council held with affected residents, at which authorities said work to identify the source of the landslide was ongoing.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Sarah Danckert and Angus Delaney
An aerial shot of the landslide in McCrae.

‘Bloody lucky’: Owner of house destroyed by landslide tells of family’s near miss

Seven homes have been evacuated in the area near Penny Lane in McCrae amid warnings other properties could be in danger.

  • Adam Carey, Sarah Danckert, Lachlan Abbott and Angus Delaney
Funicular has been proposed for Jenolan Caves.

Paris, LA and now Jenolan Caves: Funicular railway plan revealed

With the roads to Jenolan Caves closed for 18 months, one option being explored is a technology dating back to the 15th century.

  • Julie Power
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Grieving villagers in the devastated the village of Yambali.

More than 7800 impacted by PNG landslide as bridge collapses on rescue route

Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the remote scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster.

  • David Rising
Villagers search through a landslide in Pogera village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Australia to send aid to PNG after up to 2000 people buried alive in landslide

The death toll in Papua New Guinea is expected to rise following a catastrophic landslide that destroyed a village in remote Enga province.

Villagers search the site of a landslide that struck villages in the Southern Highlands mountainous region of central Papua New Guinea a few years ago.

Hundreds believed killed by landslide in Enga Province, PNG

More than 50 homes, many with people still asleep inside, were buried when the landslide hit Kaokalam village around 3am.

  • Lewis Jackson and Renju Jose
Rescue workers deal with the aftermath of a landslide in Yunnan province, China.

Landslide in mountainous south-west China buries 47 people

A landslide in south-west China’s mountainous Yunnan province has buried at least 47 people and forced the evacuation of 200 more amid freezing temperatures and falling snow.

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