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.
Locals started filtering back into town late on Thursday to survey the damage caused by a blaze that destroyed at least 44 of its 187 houses.
Twenty-four homes were destroyed by a bushfire in Pomonal and another was razed further north at Dadswells Bridge.
About 20 properties are reported to have been wiped out by the blaze,but on Wednesday afternoon many residents of Pomonal were still in the dark about whether their homes had survived.