Ballots close in just a few days,but fewer than 40 per cent of City of Melbourne residents have voted as lord mayoral candidates battled it out in a last-minute pitch in a live debate on Tuesday.
Melbourne lord mayoral candidates Nick Reece,Arron Wood,Roxane Ingleton and Anthony Koutoufides debate their policies ahead of the election.
Developers have welcomed the Allan government’s stamp duty concession but say Melbourne apartment values must rise or projects will remain financially unviable.
A candidate is hatching a plan to add another top-flight fashion festival to Melbourne – by stealing it from Sydney.
The Greens candidate would likely be elected Melbourne’s lord mayor next week if the city operated on a standard electoral system of one vote for every voter.
In 1981,12-year-old Carl Powell was presumed dead after he went missing while wading in fountains on Swanston Street. As The Age turns 170,we revisit the firemen who risked their lives to save him.
In her upcoming cabaret show Life in Plastic,the musical theatre triple threat reveals intimate details of her life.
An annual festival honouring famous local sisters Kylie and Dannii Minogue proved a hit.
Critics of the proposed Arthurs Seat development say it’s “inappropriate” for a state park and that there is already plenty to do there.
You might have a drink at the tavern,or take in a circus show of dance and swordplay on horseback. As The Age celebrates 170 years,we look back at the city’s cultural life in 1854.
The inner-west neighbourhood has a tiny population but it has claims to fame:It is the birthplace of Melbourne’s modern sewage system and the subject of a movie starring Oscar-winners Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins.