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Cara Waters

Cara Waters

Cara Waters is the city editor for The Age.

Melbourne Airport has installed spikes at the exits to its car parks to stop thieves stealing cars.

Car thieves targeting Melbourne Airport can soon expect a nasty surprise

A new $3.5 million installation has already helped cut the number of thefts.

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MP Jeff Bourman with his Ford Ranger in the parliamentary car park. Bourman has launched a parliamentary inquiry to consider why larger utes are charged more on toll roads.

These polluting behemoths pay more on toll roads than cars. A campaign says that’s unfair

The increasing popularity of giant utes is prompting a parliamentary inquiry to consider reducing the amount they are charged to use Melbourne’s toll roads.

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A nail artist at work at Buff Nails in Fitzroy.

The high-end salons disrupting Australia’s nail industry

The new wave of nail salons are a far cry from the many walk-in strip shop and shopping centre outlets, where payment is cash in hand and equipment can be poorly sterilised.  

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The Israeli restaurant in Hardware Lane was targeted on July 4.

Israeli restaurant Miznon closes in Collingwood after two years

The venue quietly shut its doors for the last time two weeks ago, with owners saying: “We gave it our best, and it did not work out.”

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A Furby on display as part of Furby Chorus and Friends for Rising festival.

‘Is that a Furby?’: Return of the ’90s with a dancing toy chorus

Furbies are back, with a resurgence in popularity driven by ’90s nostalgia.

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Jo and Doug McDougall will close the doors to Molony’s after 172 years in business.

End of an era for a Melbourne retail institution after a 172-year run

There’s longevity in retail, and then there’s Molony’s, where passion for the snow has run through the generations.

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Malini V. farewells her dog, Furphy, at Melbourne Airport last week.

Melbourne Airport is degrading our experience of that last hug goodbye. We’ve seen how this story ends

We deserve a world-class gateway to Melbourne, not a world-class car park from a facility determined to gouge us and make our lives more miserable.

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Rone’s newest work ‘Home’ is under construction at Chadstone.

Dilapidated Rone installation aims to lure night crowds to an unlikely spot

The meditation on beauty and decay is the centrepiece of a plan to bring more people to one of Melbourne’s major shopping centres in the evenings.

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Arjun Mohan farewelled Malini V kerbside at the airport along with their dog Furphy, a practice which is set to be abolished.

Melbourne Airport to scrap kerbside pick-up and drop-off

Some passengers will have to walk almost 400 metres to be picked up at the airport.

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Lord Mayor Nick Reece on one of his official trips to China.

‘No visibility’: Inside the City of Melbourne’s $200,000-a-year Chinese outpost

Opened in 1998, the cost of the office is not itemised in the council budget, and the last publicly available report on its performance was filed in 2004.

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