Victoria's faulty and leaky buildings will be probed in a government inquiry, amid revelations apartment ceilings have suddenly collapsed and stalactites have been discovered in multi-storey complexes.
People sleeping rough in Melbourne's CBD are pretending to be homeless so they can ''shake down'' tourists for money, according to Victoria's police chief.
Melbourne lord mayor Robert Doyle says he is not willing to bundle up and ship out homeless people from the CBD, despite concerns about the sight of growing street camps.
Church headed by controversial Victorian pastor Daniel "Danny" Nalliah has been stripped of charity status after congregation was asked to make election donations to an anti-Islamic political party he leads.
Combustible cladding plastered across a Docklands high-rise will be stripped from the building after it was found the imported material posed a "significant and unacceptable" risk to hundreds of residents.
Parts of the CBD will remain closed to the public for years on end as construction of the Melbourne's Metro Tunnel kicks off this week and continues well into the next decade.
The tidal wave of apartment construction in Melbourne's city centre has, for the most part, been heralded as a great thing for the vibrancy of the CBD. But could these 19,000 new homes be the start of a dangerous trend, one that is much more difficult to fix?
An operation to sweep Melbourne's thoroughfares of "abandoned" homeless camps is not an attempt to beautify the city ahead of the Australian Open, Melbourne City Council says.
Disruption will be the buzzword for Melbourne 2017, as the infrastructure works planned for the city make their presence felt with major closures and delays.
"It's getting out of hand," said the man standing at the service counter of the Melbourne Town Hall.
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