City life
What happens if you don’t tap off? The answers to your Melbourne public transport questions
Ever wondered why the City Loop changes direction in the middle of the day? Or what happens if you forget to tap off your myki? These are the answers to Melbourne public transport’s biggest mysteries.
- by Najma Sambul
Latest
Port Phillip council pulls the plug on kerbside car charging
A trial of private EV charging stations outside residents’ homes will be abandoned over concerns about costs, flood risk and the use of public space.Â
- by Cara Waters
The X-rated truck that is probably illegal in Melbourne
A brothel is using a mobile digital billboard on a truck to advertise its services around Melbourne with explicit sexual imagery.
- by Susannah Guthrie
Push to reuse graves as cemeteries run out of room
European countries and some Australian states have been recycling graves for years. But in Victoria, they last forever, despite some cemeteries running out of space.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
In my suburb, a bypass was meant to fix the traffic. But people still pour in
The shops are now bigger and brighter in Greensborough’s beehive of development – and no longer owned by people whose names I once knew.
- by Martin Galvin
The controversial plan to revive Melton’s ailing town centre
Public parks in Melton could be sold to property developers and the main road replaced with bike and walking lanes in a plan to revive its run-down town centre.
- by Adam Carey
Exclusive
Brighton
Rich lister’s mansion downsize takes shape on Brighton foreshore
It’s dominating the skyline near the Middle Brighton Pier, but the new build by philanthropist and Brighton fixture Patricia Ilhan is no longer a traditional family home.
- by Stephen Brook
Thousands march in Melbourne rally against gendered violence ‘national disgrace’
Protesters have taken to the CBD’s streets in a rally demanding an end to the killing of women.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
Brighton isn’t all Karens and mansions – but it would help if they locked their doors
Locals love the Bayside bubble, but police say locals leaving homes unlocked is allowing young offenders to get inside and steal car keys.
- by Stephen Brook
In Melbourne’s famous laneways, there is life – and death
In one laneway, people sip wine at a table under a heater. In another, someone is crouched behind a bin on the hard ground ready to inject. Their drug of choice is illegal, and without a safe injecting room, they have nowhere else to go.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Cara Waters
‘A ticking time bomb’: Family’s plea on battery fires after their home is charred, pets gone
Jim and Maria lost their pets and a lifetime of memories as a result of a lithium-ion battery fire. Victorian firefighters are battling one such fire every day.
- by Rachael Dexter