City life
The hidden Melbourne beach teeming with rare fossils
Mega sharks and a bird with a six-metre wingspan graced our shoreline 5 million years ago, and urban explorers can still uncover traces of them at this bayside beach.
- by Petra Stock
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The $600m rail line in the north being ignored in favour of cars
Outer-suburban councils are desperate to get residents using public transport, but even billions spent boosting heavy rail is failing to make a dent in car dominance.
- by Adam Carey
Bread, milk, ham and a library book: The supermarket land deal causing a local outcry
An unusual deal by grocery giant Woolworths to build a supermarket and a local library in exchange for a piece of public land has raised eyebrows in Rosanna.
- by Tom Cowie
Opinion
Architecture
Could Melbourne really crush this gem from one of the world’s greatest architects?
This building is almost flawless - up close, you want to run your hands across it, just to feel the sensual beauty of its surfaces.
- by Joe Rollo
Parents ‘absolutely livid’ after parking outside Glen Iris school restricted
Parents at a private school in Melbourne’s east are up in arms over changes to parking rules that mean they cannot park outside the school to drop off and pick up their children.
- by Cara Waters
Arts companies worry State Theatre shutdown could spell curtains for future shows
Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet are among those concerned that Melbourne could miss out on some shows from the knock-on effect of three years of renovations at the State Theatre.
- by Cara Waters
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
My bayside suburb is split in half by eight lanes of pain
When I moved house, friends in the “Bayside Bubble” promised they would visit. But one thing turned out to be as much of a psychological barrier as a physical one.
- by Sofia Dedes
Banned by the Taliban, this festival draws thousands of Afghans in Melbourne
Afghan Australians celebrated both Nowruz, or New Year, and the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in Dandenong on Sunday.
- by Carolyn Webb
With pyjamas and tatts, Melbourne’s biggest Bluey fans gather for special episode
After speculation that it could be the final instalment of the Heeler family’s story, hundreds headed to Federation Square for the premiere of Bluey’s new 28-minute episode.
- by Ashleigh McMillan and Thomas Mitchell
The ‘capitalist nonsense’ killing Melbourne’s live music scene
Cash Savage still remembers the first time she played to sold-out crowd at Fitzroy’s Old Bar. She’s growing increasingly dismayed about the future of the city’s iconic gig culture.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Fears green wedges in danger of being chipped away for urban uses
A growing number of applications to build private schools and places of worship in Melbourne’s green wedges is eroding their rural character, advocates say.
- by Adam Carey