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Behind the glossy renders and ministerial press releases, the figures shaping Melbourne's two most contested precincts tell a more complicated story about who benefits and who gets left behind.
A closer look at the numbers driving the debate on Melbourne's housing future
A crucial week for Melbourne's housing landscape as the Victorian government pushes forward with reforms amidst community debate and concerns over affordability and sustainability.
As the Allan government touts its renewable energy targets and urban greening programs, community members in Melbourne's outer suburbs say the benefits are landing everywhere except where they live.
Transport planners, union figures and urban experts are clashing over how to modernise 250 kilometres of track without gutting a system that defines the city.
Decades of deliberate immigration policy, postwar necessity and shifting political winds have shaped the city we live in today, but the pressures of 2026 are testing that foundation like never before.
From Footscray to Fitzroy, families caught between rising rents and underfunded schools say the system is leaving their children behind.
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With $125 billion committed to transport megaprojects over the next decade, Victoria is spending at a pace that rivals London and Singapore, but delivery times tell a different story.
From Brunswick to Broadmeadows, community members living through Victoria's housing overhaul say the government's bold targets are colliding with the realities of life on the ground.
Network faults and housing policy shifts shaped events across the city from July 3 to July 9.
From the stalled Suburban Rail Loop to a contested tram network overhaul, Victoria's government faces a string of make-or-break calls on major infrastructure before the end of 2026.
A decade of political deals, cost blowouts and shifting priorities explains why the city's biggest rail and road projects are still unfinished, and why the pressure to deliver is now acute.
Experts and religious community figures are scrutinising whether Pauline Hanson's party can square its policy platform with the values of the Christian voters it is now aggressively courting.
The Defence-controlled island in Sydney Harbour, closed to the public since the 1800s, has moved a step closer to a sale that could reshape how Australians think about public access to government-held land.
With stage one of the Suburban Rail Loop pushed back and costs ballooning, residents across Melbourne's middle-ring suburbs are asking whether the project will ever deliver what was sold to them.
A surge in high-rise developments along Melbourne's major transport corridors has sparked debate about the city's future liveability and affordability.
The Victorian capital's targeted upzoning around transport corridors sets a measured pace against faster overhauls in places such as Vancouver and Manchester.
Residents and diaspora members connected to Norfolk Island say they feel unheard as a convergence of ecological threats closes in on reefs they describe as irreplaceable.
As AI-powered transcription tools become standard equipment in GP clinics and hospitals, regulators are sounding the alarm about what happens to the recordings once you leave the room.
A packed week at the Town Hall left councillors divided on mid-rise rezoning, inner-suburb development levies, and how to pay for the city's ageing community infrastructure.
Sydney's record-breaking winter heat has focused fresh attention on Victoria's own sustainability journey, a decades-long push that has reshaped suburbs, power grids and government budgets alike.
Residents in inner Melbourne suburbs share their concerns over proposed changes to housing density rules set to reshape local streets.
The death of a young child in a Wyong home has shaken parents and child welfare advocates across Australia, with Melburnians who work in family services saying the tragedy reflects gaps that persist nationwide.
Duplicate images are flooding Victoria's digital public record, and the numbers reveal a problem that's bigger, and more expensive, than most agencies will admit.
A surge in duplicate image errors across council and cultural institution databases this week has forced a reckoning with how Victoria stores and displays its digital heritage.
Duplicate image replacement has quietly become one of the biggest quality crises in Australian real estate advertising, and Melbourne's overheated market helped create the problem.
A trail of duplicated stock images, fragmented procurement and outdated content policies explains how local governments across Victoria arrived at a costly image management problem.
As Chris Minns admits holding power will be a monumental task, the fallout from a disrupted Labor conference reaches beyond NSW, with ramifications for Melbourne’s local politics and Labor’s national strategy.
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