The billionaire co-founder of the ubiquitous pharmacy chain is facing a battle over plans to build a luxury 16-bed complex with a pool,cinema and tennis court.
To some,it’s an eyesore that needs a fresh coat of paint or even bulldozing. But for the fence’s owners,it’s just a mix-up over 14 square metres of dirt.
Architects and students have dozens of ideas of how Melbourne’s public housing towers can be revitalised and saved.
Classes in one building have been cancelled for a third day,but authorities have held off from calling for support to remove pro-Palestinian protesters.
The University of Melbourne says campus protests against the war in Gaza have been infiltrated by outside agitators,but students reject the claim.
Melbourne,Monash and Deakin universities continue to grapple with defiant students staging protests over the war in Gaza despite requests to leave and dismantle their camps.
It was one of those ideas families talk about but don’t often carry out. If they could make it work,it would end years of regret.
Ben Carroll’s Niddrie office was defaced in a spate of vandalism that also targeted Seven and the ABC,before protesters halted Melbourne’s peak-hour traffic.
A truckload of books has been taken away under plans to reduce shelving at Melbourne’s City Library and replace it with meeting spaces.
Opponents of the idea argue a proposed new lease deal hands virtual ownership of a public park to a private school – for generations.
Planning disputes between neighbours can often descend into bitterness,name-calling and rancour. But in Toorak,things are done differently.