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The statue of Burke and Wills is removed from city square in 2017.

After eight years in storage, Burke and Wills are journeying to La Trobe Street

A statue of the explorers will not return to its prime location in Melbourne’s city square.

  • Cara Waters

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Rockback resident Donna Southern started the Leakes Needs Lights campaign.

It’s a suburb ‘on steroids’, but residents are forced to avoid its main road

Once a single-lane road between farms, this is now a major thoroughfare carrying 14,500 cars a day. But locals say crashes, bottlenecks and dangerous manoeuvres prove urgent upgrades are needed.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Donald Trump.

Melbourne council urged to ‘take a leaf’ out of Trump administration

The Donald loves to call Canada the 51st state but maybe he should consider annexing a couple of council areas in Melbourne’s south-east.

  • Tom Cowie and Kishor Napier-Raman
Residents have raised concerns about anti-social behaviour in St Kilda, prompting a proposal to issue fines to the homeless.

Surging crime prompts Port Phillip Council to consider fining homeless

The idea of fining rough sleepers raised concerns from some councillors about making homelessness illegal and possibly breaching vulnerable citizens’ human rights.

  • Tom Cowie
Gill Gannon and Bea Tomlin, who help co-ordinate the Keep Champion Road Open group.

Council staff refuse to sign secrecy deals over hated level-crossing plan

The council will now only communicate with the Level Crossing Removal Project in writing.

  • Sophie Aubrey
James Young, owner of iconic Melbourne live music venue Cherry Bar which is two doors down from the Parkade car park which was sold by City of Melbourne for $55 million this week.

Cherry Bar said no to Gaga. Now it’s threatening to stop Hemmes

Sydney billionaire Justin Hemmes is now in a showdown with Melbourne’s famed Cherry Bar owner James Young over a planned ‘hospitality wonderland’ development.

  • Rachael Dexter
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Guest says the council decision to sell the carpark is ‘like selling the farm to pay for the silverware’.

‘Selling the farm to pay for the silverware’: Car park sale to Merivale slammed

The Melbourne council has voted to sell a CBD asset to Sydney hospitality billionaire Justin Hemmes, but some councillors say it’s gone ‘for a song’.

  • Rachael Dexter
Artist’s render of Hemmes plans for 34/60 Little Collins street.

Mimi’s and a ‘sky garden’: Sydney billionaire Justin Hemmes’ grand plan for Melbourne CBD car park

Merivale Group has bought a City of Melbourne car park to build a precinct with restaurants, cafes, bars, a hotel and retail.

  • Cara Waters
Hume City Council’s Sam Misho is pushing for a cut in council rates for homeowners, to be paid for by raising rates for businesses.

Hume council is owed a record $47m in overdue rates. But there’s a radical plan to fix it

One in four home owners is behind in paying their rates in this municipality, with the council probing if they should target businesses making profits instead.

  • Adam Carey
Francesco Fontana, of Fontana Brothers, will be part of a strike of Queen Victoria Market fruit and vegetable stall holders on Tuesday.

Why Queen Victoria Market fruiterers will strike for the first time in 147 years

As a dispute over rising costs rolls on, the famed market’s fruit and vegetable traders say they will shut their stalls on Tuesday.

  • Cara Waters

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