West's millionaire councillor wins, but fails to take control
Victoria's richest councillor has been re-elected, but his large team of supporting candidates have failed to deliver him control of a western suburbs council.
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Clay Lucas
Clay Lucas is city editor for The Age. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering state politics, urban affairs, transport, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age. Clay won a Quill with Age investigative reporter Royce Millar in 2009.
City gets first Indigenous councillor as election results roll in
Melbourne's first Indigenous councillor won after enrolment forms for Town Hall were filled out incorrectly – she was meant to run for deputy lord mayor.
Plans for apartments on Corkman Irish Pub site made before illegal demolition
Plans for a 12-storey apartment tower on Carlton's demolished Corkman Irish Pub have emerged – drawn by the architect used regularly by the developers who knocked it down.
We will rebuild it: developers say sorry, hire lobbyists and spinners
The "cowboy" developers who illegally knocked down Carlton's Corkman Irish Pub have apologised for their demolition of the 159-year-old hotel, and have said they will rebuild it.
Rebuild it: Planning Minister Richard Wynne orders developers behind Carlton pub
Planning Minister Richard Wynne will seek orders requiring the owners of Carlton's Corkman Irish Pub to rebuild it in a style sympathetic to the illegally demolished 159-year-old building.
Asbestos, waste from Carlton pub found at developer's western suburbs property
Asbestos waste from Carlton's Corkman Irish Pub has been found at a western suburbs property owned by the pair who also owned the illegally demolished pub.
Historic pub's demolition doubles value of Carlton site for developer
The developers who illegally demolished Carlton's Corkman Irish Pub doubled the value of their site overnight, property experts say.
Fire brigade hoses down asbestos at wrecked Carlton pub
Owners of the illegally demolished Corkman Irish Pub have been ordered to make the Carlton site safe by Friday, after the Environment Protection Authority confirmed it was contaminated with asbestos.
Building unions slap work bans on demolished Carlton pub site
Building unions have slapped a ban on construction at the site of a historic Carlton pub demolished illegally on the weekend.
Secretive, expensive, chaotic: elections expose what's wrong with local councils
Melburnians are heading to the polls in one of the most dysfunctional rounds of local government elections since the Kennett government's reform of the sector in 1994.
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