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Victoria to weigh up elderly driver tests after Wantirna South crash
The government says there is a “valid question” over whether the state should make fitness-to-drive tests mandatory after fatal crash in Melbourne’s east.
- Patrick Hatch
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Wantirna South crash as it happened: Police probe whether speed a factor after one killed, two injured in crash near playground
A woman is dead and a man and a little boy have life-threatening injuries after they were hit by a car near a playground in Wantirna South.
- Hannah Hammoud, Grant McArthur and Alexander Darling
New health city for Melbourne’s east barely has a pulse five years on
A large wedge of state-owned land in Wantirna could be home to a new public hospital, homes and health services. Instead, vandals and squatters have moved in.
- Adam Carey
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Hypercolor tees, Stussy pants and Knox City: ’90s Wantirna was a white-bread affair
Wantirna, in 1990s local nightclub terms, was a $12 taxi ride to Jooce in “Ringers”, or a free courtesy bus home from Stylus in Ferntree Gully, after too many illusion shakers.
- Larissa Ham
The Melbourne suburbs that joined the $1 million club
Almost a third of Victorian suburbs now have a median house price of more than $1 million, and 11 middle- and outer-suburbs joined the club last year as the property market boomed.
- Elizabeth Redman
'I'm still shaking': Hot-air balloons crash minutes apart in Melbourne's east
Two hot-air balloons make unexpected landings in Melbourne's east, with one coming down in a suburban backyard.
- Erin Pearson and Robyn Grace
Blaze starts at second transfer station in less than 24 hours
A fire has started at Anglesea Transfer Station, the morning after another fire at a transfer station in Wantirna South.
- Nicole Precel
'We are truly devastated': Emily Bartley's family mourn after tragedy
Family of woman who died after rushing to the aid of a motorcyclist say she will be remembered as a 'loving wife, devoted mother and a genuinely caring person'.
- Melissa Cunningham & Simone Fox Koob
'It's an absolute tragedy': 'Heroic' mother of two killed in Wantirna crash
The woman's children were asleep in their beds when their mother was fatally hit after rushing to the aid of a motorcyclist.
- Melissa Cunningham & Simone Fox Koob
Magistrate 'concerned' over court delays for double fatal hit-run girl
Magistrate has raised concern about the potential delay in finalising the case against a 15-year-old girl charged over alleged hit-run that killed young couple
- Adam Cooper
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