City life
Drivers are ‘fighting in the streets’ over a lack of parking spaces
Harriet has to move her car every two hours because her apartment complex doesn’t have enough parking spaces. She’s facing thousands of dollars in fines.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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Aurora australis stuns Australian stargazers – and you can still watch it
Don’t fret if you missed out on seeing the southern lights that dazzled Australians on Saturday night – you’ll have another chance tonight.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
‘There is trepidation’: Why business owners like Jared are worried about their future
Spiralling costs, high interest rates and lower spending are driving more businesses into insolvency.
- by Andrew Taylor
The battle against the apps and algorithms driving suburban rat-runs
Motorists are increasingly clogging up residential streets, directed by GPS apps such as Google Maps – all to save a few minutes.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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City of Melbourne
Council car parks to make way for ‘affordable’ housing in budget plan
Two car parks will be converted into 100 apartments under a plan to be outlined in the City of Melbourne’s budget next week.
- by Cara Waters
City life
Burwood
Burwood was ‘the bush’. Now it’s a university hub with towers to come
It was once conservative, culturally homogenous and rough in parts. These days it’s young, ethnically diverse and dominated by a university.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
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Inside Penny Fowler and Hamish McLachlan’s family house swap
Two prominent Melburnians found themselves living in properties that no longer suited their lives. So they sold up – to each other.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Pulped fiction: Thousands of library books removed as collection culled
A truckload of books has been taken away under plans to reduce shelving at Melbourne’s City Library and replace it with meeting spaces.
- by Tom Cowie
The suburb stopping a developer from selling more homes
A council has banned a developer from selling more home and land packages until it fixes a dangerous intersection in one of Melbourne’s fastest-growing suburbs.
- by Adam Carey
Speed limit cut to 30km/h on almost every street in two suburbs
The City of Yarra is also campaigning for limits on exempt roads in Fitzroy and Collingwood – including Hoddle and Nicholson streets – to be reduced to either 40km/h or 60km/h.
- by Rachael Dexter
Private school seeks 40-year lease over public sporting grounds
Opponents of the idea argue a proposed new lease deal hands virtual ownership of a public park to a private school – for generations.
- by Tom Cowie