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Video shows a huge mudslide near Blatten, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.
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Swiss alpine village wiped out by collapsing glacier

Video shows a huge mudslide near Blatten, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.

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The cliff in McCrae experienced four landslides between November 2022 and January 2025.

Water company spent weeks looking for mains leak before McCrae landslide

South East Water admits failed leak detection methods allowed millions of litres of water to seep into the earth before a disastrous landslip upended lives.

  • Adam Carey
Retiree Paul Willigenburg leaves the County Court after giving evidence in the inqury into the McCrae landslides.

‘Glass in his head’: Retiree recounts plucking worker from McCrae landslide rubble

Paul Willigenburg ran for safety when a neighbour’s house collapsed down a hill, before helping in the miracle rescue of a man inside.

  • Adam Carey
The January 14 landslide in McCrae resulted in the evacuation of 19 surrounding properties.

Landslides occurred on McCrae cliff for 70 years, inquiry told

Poor drainage, natural springs, building works and inadequate erosion controls are all being probed as potential culprits in January’s landslide in McCrae.

  • Adam Carey
Gerry and Bronwyn Borghesi

Home owners don’t have to pay to fix McCrae landslide, court finds

Mornington Peninsula Council has been trying to force Gerry and Bronwyn Borghesi to pick up an estimated $1.25 million bill for earthworks on the cliff face since 2022.

  • Adam Carey
A landslide in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula damaged several homes on January 14.

A landslide left them locked out of their homes. Then, the burglars got in

The mayor declared the burglaries in McCrae “sickening”.

  • Lachlan Abbott
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The January 14 landslide in McCrae resulted in the evacuation of 19 surrounding properties.

Premier slams Mornington Peninsula council’s ‘inaction’ over McCrae landslide

Announcing an inquiry into last month’s landslide, Jacinta Allan says too many questions remain unanswered. She has demanded the council take back responsibility of the site.

  • Sophie Aubrey, Adam Carey and Lachlan Abbott
Retirees Paul and Denise 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
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

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