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The McDonaldd’s drive-through in Kew and the surrounding houses.

Burghers of Kew v Macca’s burgers: 24-hour drive-through plan on the nose

Neighbouring Kew residents are taking on the fast food giant, fearing further disruption to their lives.

  • Tom Cowie

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The Australian Club’s grand facade.

Men-only clubs were hit with land tax for barring women. They aren’t happy with the bill

The Melbourne Club and Australian Club are fighting combined land tax bills of over $1 million claiming their heritage status restricts redevelopment of the land.

  • Tom Cowie
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
Residents of a heritage estate in Canterbury have lost a VCAT case against Strathcona Girls Grammar.

‘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.

  • Adam Carey
Abha Anuradha Kumar.

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.

  • Cameron Houston
Dan Jordan’s rent almost doubled within two years.

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.

  • Rachel Eddie
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An artist’s image of the future Fitzroy Gasworks housing project.

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.

  • Kieran Rooney and Adam Carey
A render of Tim Gurner’s Elysium Fields development in Docklands.

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.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Save Albert Park president Peter Goad, has just turned 100.

He’s just turned 100 – and he’s gearing up for the fight of his life against the Australian grand prix

For 22 years, Peter Goad, who turned 100 on Tuesday, has fought his good fight as the longest-serving president of Save Albert Park group.

  • Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Calum Jaspan
The Medical Board of Australia has banned a Melbourne doctor from performing circumcisions.

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.

  • Melissa Cunningham

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/victorian-civil-and-administrative-tribunal--1mw2