Portland
Sea-change and tree-change towns with deepest property price discounts
Sellers who expect boom-time prices are finding they need to cut back their expectations to meet the market.
- Tawar Razaghi
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- Tony Wright’s Column
- Publishing
Across much of western Victoria the local news, more than a century in the making, slips quietly away
The slow death of local, rural and regional newspapers continues. Portland, Hamilton and Casterton will lose their old and reliable newspapers by Christmas.
- Tony Wright
New deal to power up Alcoa’s Portland smelter until 2035
Aluminium giant Alcoa has locked in a new electricity deal to power its Portland smelter in Victoria’s south-west, strengthening the outlook for the plant’s future.
- Nick Toscano
My ancestor knew more about atrocities against Aboriginal people than he let on, inquiry told
Atrocities during the Frontier Wars must be honestly acknowledged, a writer and a landowner have told the state’s truth-telling commission.
- Tony Wright
- The Last Word
- Climate crisis
We’ll be stuck like shags on a rock when sea levels really surge
The sea rises, and having witnessed a preview years ago on my own beach, I am here to report that the future is ugly.
- Tony Wright
Costs down on the coast: Where to buy a beach house on a budget
Budget-conscious buyers can find holiday homes in a range of locations across Victoria at different price points – provided they know where to look.
- Jim Malo
Search for teen swept out to sea by ‘surprise’ wave paused for night
Two teenagers were snorkelling at a swimming hole in rock pools near Cape Bridgewater about 7pm on Tuesday when they were swept into the ocean.
- Alex Crowe, Lachlan Abbott and Tony Wright
- The Last Word
- MH370 disappearance
Trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions
Six months after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared, Kit Olver and his crew hauled up what they were convinced was the wing of a jet airliner.
- Tony Wright
- Tony Wright’s Saturday column
- Biodiversity
Sammi the elephant seal has taken a wrong turn, and so have we
A gas exploration company seeks permission to blast continuous noise into a seabed from which a rich chain of life explodes in glorious style every day.
- Tony Wright
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Indigenous
In the eyes of others: Visiting a distant past captured in a covered wagon
Thomas Hannay set off on a horse-drawn covered wagon to photograph Victoria in the 1850s. One picture he took tells its own powerful story.
- Tony Wright
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