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| UpdatedRubble contaminated with asbestos is discovered in construction waste at a site at Cairnlea, in Melbourne's north-west, after a 159-year-old pub was illegally demolished in Carlton.
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Queensland Rail formally stands aside the head of train service delivery in response to the driver crisis, while the State Opposition says Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe must fall on his sword.
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| UpdatedFarmers say they are being offered infertile plots as compensation for their land as India's Government pushes ahead with its 100 smart cities idea.
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| UpdatedDust levels in Port Hedland are so dangerous the West Australian Government has been advised to ban new housing, aged care facilities and childcare centres in the West End, a leaked report reveals.
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| UpdatedProjects with costs announced before a formal budget commitment are at much more risk of a large cost overrun than those announced when they are better developed.
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The Adelaide Airport Authority says a new seven-storey hotel planned for the airport will create up to 350 jobs during construction and boost tourism in the state.
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A pathway in Adelaide's Light Square will demonstrate the city's pride in the LGBTI community, officials say.
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WA Labor will seek legal advice on the termination clause of the $330 million contract for Roe 8 before deciding whether it will axe the project if elected to government.
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| UpdatedThe developers who illegally demolished a historic Carlton pub are ordered to contain asbestos fibres found on the site by next Monday or face fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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| UpdatedSydney has to become three "30-minute cities", the Eastern Harbour City, the Central Parramatta River City, and the Western City, to successfully deal with population growth, Greater Sydney Commission chief Lucy Turnbull says.
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The WA Government hopes comprehensive guidelines for apartment design will stamp out flawed developments with jarring facades and windowless rooms.
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The compulsory acquisition of homes for the building of infrastructure in New South Wales will now be "more generous" and "more caring", State Government says.
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| UpdatedDevelopers who destroyed a Melbourne pub that was more than 140 years old are "cowboys" and greater penalties for unlawful demolition will be considered, Victoria's Planning Minister Richard Wynne says.
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Adelaide's Central Market precinct faces radical change with a major redevelopment planned for the Market Arcade shopping centre but not everyone is happy about the potential changes.
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Two local photographic artists have been commissioned to record the ever-changing life and landscape of Perth.
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Victoria's independent infrastructure body suggests charging a new levy on property owners to help pay for future major projects, like a train tunnel through Melbourne's CBD connecting northern and southern suburbs.
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| UpdatedBuilt for workers and once condemned as dark and dingy slums, Sydney's humble terraces may soon be back in fashion.
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| UpdatedThe final piece of one of Western Australia's best-known eyesores is finally torn down, after a long-running dispute between the property's owners and the local council.
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| UpdatedFlorence, Cherie and Barney are some of the few residents left after the NSW Government sold off public housing in Sydney's Miller's Point.
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Timber-based prefabricated apartments being built in Adelaide could give momentum to the SA Government's push for more inner city development, the Housing Industry Association says.
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