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Ruth Eyakem, a resident of the Racecourse Road housing towers for over 20 years, spoke at the parliamentary inquiry.

‘A cash grab’: Tower residents say they are being coerced into leaving

Residents of Melbourne’s public housing towers have told a parliamentary inquiry they have been coerced into relocation and do not wish to leave their homes. 

  • Cara Waters

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Holmes Hall co-owner David Bartl says the pub has been the target of hundreds of complaints.

Inner-north bar ‘relentlessly targeted’ with hundreds of ‘petty’ complaints from residents

The owners of Holmes Hall say they’re exhausted by the “obsessive behaviour” of just two neighbours.

  • Cara Waters
Sara Borowiak with children Freddie, 5, and Luna, 8, near their home in Yarraville.

Cement facility fights to expand just 85 metres from Yarraville homes

Residents say their health will be at risk from dust and truck traffic if a cement manufacturer is allowed to boost production despite contravening usual buffer-zone rules.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Hawa Del has been living at 33 Alfred Street, North Melbourne for 34 years.

State quietly buying city homes for tower tenants as inquiry looms

A former judge and the CFMEU have slammed the Victorian government’s tower plan in submissions to an inquiry that is to start next week.

  • Rachael Dexter
Nicholas Jackson looks up at the towering tree in Toorak that he is in a fight with Stonnington Council about.

The tree in Nicholas’ front yard has cost him thousands. But council won’t let him cut it down

Councils across Melbourne are increasingly blocking residents from removing trees on their private land to combat a long-term decline in urban canopy, but debate is raging about who should pay for it.

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

Mornington Peninsula in belated push to protect homes from landslides

A coastal council whose management of landslide risk has come under the microscope is moving to add new planning controls in areas prone to erosion.

  • Adam Carey
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Hailey Pham says old, high-floor trams are difficult to use for people with disabilities.

Fares aside, Hailey pays a ‘physical cost’ for each trip on Melbourne’s old trams

The majority of tram stops across Melbourne’s vast network are not level-access, proving a barrier for many.

  • Patrick Hatch
Vive la France: Paul and Marie-Louise Thornton-Smith met at Alliance Francaise de Melbourne as teenagers in 1971.

The French institution where Marie-Louise and Paul learned irregular verbs – and fell in love

They met as 16-year-olds at Alliance Francaise de Melbourne and will return 54 years later to celebrate their union – and the school’s new home.

  • Carolyn Webb
Birrarung Marr opened in 2002 and was the last Yarra-side park to open in Melbourne before the opening of Seafarers Park.

The future for Melbourne’s new parks is small and strategic

Soaring land values and increased residential density are forcing the City of Melbourne to look at innovative ways to create more green space.

  • Cara Waters
Members of Heidelberg West community outside the Olympic Leisure Centre rallying against the closure of the centre’s pool.

Heidelberg West rallies against council plan to close its run-down pool

The disadvantaged community of Heidelberg West faces the imminent closure of its public swimming pool, which has been left to deteriorate for decades.

  • Adam Carey

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