A bushfire wiped out one-third of the tiny Grampians town of Pomonal 12 weeks ago. The town knew about resilience before the fire hit,and now it’s putting it into action.
Awil Hussein and his two daughters call the North Melbourne public housing towers home and say their community will be destroyed if a plan to demolish them is allowed to go ahead.
Once Eltham was an “amazing dichotomy between ruthless bogans and the arts”. Nowadays,the leafy suburb is fighting not to look like everywhere else.
The groups behind Monday’s global A15 Action protests have threatened to blockade “major choke points in the economy”,aiming to cause maximum economic impact.
In this series,The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.
Dandenong South businesses are banding together to fight the removal of boom gates on an industrial street,which they claim is putting political spin before common sense.
The former VicRoads headquarters next to Xavier College sits unused,but the government has been silent on the site’s future.
No other Australian jurisdiction is as dependent on fines for cash,but the state government faces pressure to scale back its punitive approach to revenue-raising.
The genteel demographic of Hawthorn is slowly being replaced by apartments,young people and chain stores. But some question what the suburb could lose as a result.
Alfred Deakin’s seaside estate is being readied for sale as some of his descendants desperately seek funds to stop it being auctioned.
A program trying to harness AI to radically change how skin cancer is detected is being considered by the Albanese government.