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Sydney Road in Brunswick on Wednesday.

Secret departmental plan for radical expansion of suburban high-rise push

There are currently 60 high-rise activity centres. A secret plan drawn up by a state government department calls for 150 more.

  • Daniella White

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Brunswick Street in Fitzroy would be part of the inner Melbourne activity centres.

Fitzroy and Collingwood’s modest tower limits revealed in planning overhaul

Height limits in Collingwood, Fitzroy and North Melbourne are lower than those proposed in many middle and outer suburbs.

  • Daniella White
Premier Jacinta Allan would not comment on the specifics of the case but criticised the girl’s alleged behaviour.

Labor defends youth crime policy as 109 charges against teen dropped

The charges, over an alleged crime spree in which a girl was accused of targeting the Jewish community, were dropped due to the need to prove the then 13-year-old knew her actions were wrong.

  • Angus Delaney
Councils have denied they are behind housing delays.

Councils tell the state to look in the mirror over stalled housing projects

If Premier Jacinta Allan has her way, the November election will be a contest between YIMBYs and NIMBYs. But councils are fighting back, saying they’re not the problem.

  • Daniella White
Construction on a build-to-rent development at the site of a former Honda dealership on Hoddle Street is yet to begin.

Minister’s ‘fast-tracked’ housing towers become ghost projects

Two and a half years since this program was launched to great fanfare, just six homes have been built and sites remain untouched.

  • Daniella White
The Liberals are targeting inner-city suburbs for higher density.

Liberals target inner-city Labor, Greens seats for wave of skyscrapers

In their first major housing policy announcement before the election, the Liberals say they’ll reverse the Allan government’s high-density push in middle-ring suburbs.

  • Daniella White
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Activity centres are proposed for areas close to transport in 60 suburbs such as Camberwell.

The 20-storey divide: Melbourne’s high-density push stalled by numbers that don’t stack up

With only 110,000 homes commercially viable in the state’s flagship activity centre push, economists and property industry figures want more lenient development rules to kickstart construction.

  • Daniella White
Brad Battin.

Time to pay the Deeming debt and focus on the job of opposition

If the Liberal Party wants to move towards the voters it seeks to represent it may need to open its wallet.

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Macnamara Liberal candidate Benson Saulo’s poster was defaced outside the home of Caulfield state Liberal MP David Southwick.

Swastika drawn on Liberal corflute of Indigenous candidate at home of MP David Southwick

A Liberal MP and candidate were both targeted with antisemitic graffiti on a corflute on Thursday morning.

  • Alexander Darling
Premier Jacinta Allan.

Opposition mounts over Allan’s new hate laws

The premier faces a Jewish backlash over plans to insert a “genuine political purpose” defence into the government’s proposed expansion of anti-vilification laws.

  • Chip Le Grand