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Happy new year? Not for me, unless we ban these annoyances

The world is full of problems, but we can make it a little better by outlawing a few nuisances.

  • Dan Kaufman

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Melbourne’s western suburbs.

Growing pains in Melbourne’s booming west

In a series, The Age explores what makes the western suburbs the place to be and what’s holding them back.

Marie and Brian Long have suffered the effects of pollution in Brooklyn for decades.

‘It’s beautiful, but we’d like fresh air’: Life inside Melbourne’s most polluted suburb

The Age explores why the western suburbs are Australia’s fastest-growing region, and what’s holding them back from realising their full potential.

  • Sophie Aubrey
The increase in the congestion levy is designed to reduce the amount of traffic in inner Melbourne.

Parking to get more expensive as congestion levy rises 79 per cent

A hike in the levy to deter motorists from Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs has been lashed by a peak lobby group as ineffective.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
Arnold Vitocco.

Billionaire developer charged over asbestos-in-mulch crisis

Developer Arnold Vitocco is among those facing charges brought by the NSW Environment Protection Authority in relation to the asbestos-in-mulch crisis that saw parks, schools and hospitals closed across Sydney this year.

  • Ben Cubby
Exposure to microplastics has been linked with lung cancer.

‘One of the great human crises’: Warning after microplastics linked to lung, colon cancer

A major review led by a Sydney expert has sounded the alarm on the health effects of the tiny, ubiquitous pollutant.

  • Angus Dalton
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Children playing in toxic firefighting foam in the backstreets of Kellyville, circa 2001.

Fears for schools, daycares: The 500 sites yet to be tested for forever chemicals

It could take 50 years to investigate all the potentially contaminated sites across Sydney and the rest of NSW, an inquiry has heard.

  • Carrie Fellner
A new mobile water filtration plant will be installed at Katoomba to remove cancer-linked PFAS contaminants from tap water supplies.

‘This is a great win’: Forever chemicals to be filtered from tap water

A mobile filtration plant will clean up tap-water supplies tainted by a plume of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in the Blue Mountains.

  • Carrie Fellner
How bureaucrats worked to keep ‘forever chemical’ finds secret.

The test results Seqwater tried to keep secret, and how they came out

Brisbane residents were asking the government-owned water authority for information on “forever chemicals” in order to protect themselves. Seqwater kept quiet.

  • William Davis
PFAS in Brisbane drinking water.

‘It’s hot data’: Alarm over ‘forever chemical’ found in Brisbane drinking water

Previously unreleased water test results reveal a cancer-causing chemical has been detected at seven times the level deemed dangerous by US authorities.

  • William Davis

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