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Traffic camera footage of the dark-coloured Nissan Patrol.
Missing campers trial

Alleged murderer changed colour of his 4WD after deaths, court hears

Gregory Lynn was also snapped by a traffic camera at the same time as missing camper Russell Hill’s phone was traced to the same stretch of remote road, the Supreme Court was told.

  • by Erin Pearson
The Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.
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Healthcare

Heart surgery suspended at Melbourne hospital after second equipment failure

  • by Jewel Topsfield
Motorists are travelling through the busy Burnley Tunnel a minute quicker since the installation of moving lights that trigger a driver’s instinct to flee, CityLink operator Transurban says.
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Roads

The AI light trick triggering your primal survival instincts to drive faster

  • by Patrick Hatch
Melbourne teacher Allison Nally is one of a growing number of Victorias who are living in a building with defects. She has been told she will have to pay $60,000 by July 1 for repairs on her faulty apartment building and has already had window frames and other elements of her one bedroom replaced.
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Cladding crisis

High hopes, low quality: special levies and repairs plague new apartment owners

  • by Melissa Cunningham
Protesting students rally outside the Arts West building at University of Melbourne on Friday afternoon.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

More warnings but no action against Melbourne Uni’s Gaza sit-in

  • by Chip Le Grand, Patrick Hatch and Alex Crowe

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City life

The radical ideas to stop the bulldozing of Melbourne’s public housing towers

Architects and students have dozens of ideas of how Melbourne’s public housing towers can be revitalised and saved.

  • by Tom Cowie and Rachael Dexter
Graffiti by 70K crew on Melbourne train.
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Courts

Inside Melbourne’s ‘graffiti war’ and the crew that took police 20 years to crack

To some, it’s art. To others, a blight on the city. Decades after “Stan”, “Meow”, “Renks”, “Karl” and “Bonez” tagged trains and landmarks around Melbourne, the law has caught up with one of the 70K crew’s chiefs.

  • by David Estcourt
A beautiful cityscape, but Sydney has been outrated by Melbourne in an international comparison of major cities. But the quality of life in both cities paled against another.
Population

The Australian city with a better quality of life than Sydney or Melbourne

  • by Shane Wright
The Dorin family - Gordon, Archie, Saul 9 and Joshua, 6 - in their Kew front yard.
City life

Where are the kids? The Melbourne suburbs facing a child exodus

  • by Cara Waters
Melbourne teacher Allison Nally is one of a growing number of Victorias who are living in a building with defects. She has been told she will have to pay $60,000 by July 1 for repairs on her faulty apartment building and has already had window frames and other elements of her one bedroom replaced.
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Cladding crisis

High hopes, low quality: special levies and repairs plague new apartment owners

  • by Melissa Cunningham

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