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Katrina Gill searches for fossils at Beaumaris.

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
Shwetta Bhatti prefers her car to public transport.

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

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