Premiers and billionaires line up to farewell an ad industry giant

Premiers and billionaires line up to farewell an ad industry giant

Three former premiers and business magnates were among the mourners who gathered to farewell media businessman and philanthropist Harold Mitchell.

  • byStephen Brook

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Drivers are ‘fighting in the streets’ over a lack of parking spaces

Drivers are ‘fighting in the streets’ over a lack of parking spaces

Harriet has to move her car every two hours because her apartment complex doesn’t have enough parking spaces. She’s facing thousands of dollars in fines.

  • bySophie Aubrey
Aurora australis stuns Australian stargazers – and you can still watch it

Aurora australis stuns Australian stargazers – and you can still watch it

Don’t fret if you missed out on seeing the southern lights that dazzled Australians on Saturday night – you’ll have another chance tonight.

  • byAshleigh McMillan
‘There is trepidation’:Why business owners like Jared are worried about their future

‘There is trepidation’:Why business owners like Jared are worried about their future

Spiralling costs,high interest rates and lower spending are driving more businesses into insolvency.

  • byAndrew Taylor
The battle against the apps and algorithms driving suburban rat-runs

The battle against the apps and algorithms driving suburban rat-runs

Motorists are increasingly clogging up residential streets,directed by GPS apps such as Google Maps – all to save a few minutes.

  • bySophie Aubrey
Council car parks to make way for ‘affordable’ housing in budget plan

Council car parks to make way for ‘affordable’ housing in budget plan

Two car parks will be converted into 100 apartments under a plan to be outlined in the City of Melbourne’s budget next week.

  • byCara Waters
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Burwood was ‘the bush’. Now it’s a university hub with towers to come
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Burwood was ‘the bush’. Now it’s a university hub with towers to come

It was once conservative,culturally homogenous and rough in parts. These days it’s young,ethnically diverse and dominated by a university.

  • byMadeleine Heffernan
Pulped fiction:Thousands of library books removed as collection culled

Pulped fiction:Thousands of library books removed as collection culled

A truckload of books has been taken away under plans to reduce shelving at Melbourne’s City Library and replace it with meeting spaces.

  • byTom Cowie
The suburb stopping a developer from selling more homes

The suburb stopping a developer from selling more homes

A council has banned a developer from selling more home and land packages until it fixes a dangerous intersection in one of Melbourne’s fastest-growing suburbs.

  • byAdam Carey
Speed limit cut to 30km/h on almost every street in two suburbs

Speed limit cut to 30km/h on almost every street in two suburbs

The City of Yarra is also campaigning for limits on exempt roads in Fitzroy and Collingwood – including Hoddle and Nicholson streets – to be reduced to either 40km/h or 60km/h.

  • byRachael Dexter
Private school seeks 40-year lease over public sporting grounds

Private school seeks 40-year lease over public sporting grounds

Opponents of the idea argue a proposed new lease deal hands virtual ownership of a public park to a private school – for generations.

  • byTom Cowie