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Steam Packet Hotel
Steam Packet Hotel
A pint at the Packet has been a Williamstown rite of passage for generations.
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Hobsons Bay City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Hobsons Bay will choose nine people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.
- by Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
Former Kensington cop shop sells for $1 million at auction
The property was situated on an awkwardly shaped block and had once been used as a smoko spot for Kensington police officers.
- by Sarah Webb
Eleven of our favourite homes for sale in Melbourne right now
Looking for your next home? From a peaked-roofed entertainer to a fish-tank splashback, we’ve got you covered.
- by Jacqui Hammerton and Mary O'Brien
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
Comedian Rhys Nicholson’s ‘maximalist’ home sells for $842,500 after auction
The Coburg home passed in for $810,000, but soon sold to the highest bidders in post-auction negotiations.
- by Jim Malo
Test results are in on asbestos in parks as reports continue to rise
The environmental regulator has revealed more reports of potential asbestos, this time in Williamstown, Altona and Sunshine West, with priority testing under way.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Beaumaris house sells for $2,325,000 in just seven bids
Two bidders slugged it out during the ultra-fast auction for the four-bedroom home, which was over in just a few minutes.
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
Old Willy: The industrial sights and sounds that newcomers will never know
My sons’ enthusiasm gave me pause to think about my own happy childhood in Willy. But its newfound popularity comes with a dispiriting consequence.
- by Darren Dawson
Tobacco war: Five arrested over festive season firebombings
A police detective said the arrests hurt an unnamed criminal syndicate driving recent firebombings and claim police were “seeming to turn the corner” in combating the violence.
- by Lachlan Abbott
Updated
Crime
Tobacco war taskforce probes ice cream shop blaze
A suspicious fire has engulfed a Williamstown business just metres from another gelateria that a crime gang is suspected of repeatedly firebombing last year.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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