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Melbourne
High-rises up to 50 storeys get green light for Melbourne suburb
Seven new Suburban Rail Loop towers will add 1700 homes, but not without reigniting debate about how high is too high.
- by Kieran Rooney and Broede Carmody
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The dead-end road that’s blocking thousands of homes and jobs
The Allan government and the City of Casey agree: the people of Melbourne’s booming southeast need more jobs closer to home. But there is one major roadblock.
- by Adam Carey
‘Bad for the whole of NSW’: Inside the north shore’s NIMBY crusade
Ku-ring-gai Council is taking the state government to court to block its planning reforms. But even in NIMBY central, attitudes about housing policy are starting to shift.
- by Michael Koziol
‘Forced from their homes’: Inner city threatened by luxury apartment developers
Federal Teal MP Allegra Spender wants stronger heritage protections in Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay to stop developers knocking down ageing residential blocks for luxury apartments.
- by Andrew Taylor
The rich used to send it their sewage, now this suburb is an oasis of creatives
Once a place where the poorest endured toxic run-off from Melbourne’s wealthy, Collingwood is reaching for an affluent, sustainable future. It’s not all smooth going.
- by Tony Wright
The smoke haze blanketing Brisbane this week began with a wet summer
The rain that fell six months ago watered grass and trees that could have fuelled bushfires this summer. That’s why firies are cautiously burning around Brisbane now.
- by Tony Moore
‘No-go areas’: How population growth is putting parts of SEQ in the red for developers
Sensitive areas in south-east Queensland that could be off-limits to developers have been identified under proposed planning changes.
- by Tony Moore
Forty-four sites for new homes as state intervenes in housing
A $5.1 billion investment in public housing is the centrepiece reform of the government’s budget.
- by Michael Koziol
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Planning and development
Exclusive Brethren sect plans fifth Perth Hills church amid staunch opposition
A secretive church that preaches hatred for non-members and homosexuals, and believes women are lesser than men, is behind a number of Hills developments.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
This suburb has the most plane noise complaints – but these locals say that’s just hot air
A Senate inquiry has heard most aircraft noise complaints come from one Brisbane suburb. Some residents are not worried.
- by Tony Moore
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Victoria floods
Home owners to pay a combined $1m to find out how much they will be flooded
Melbourne Water told Kensington residents it was up to them to make sense of complex new Maribyrnong River modelling data.
- by Sophie Aubrey and Clay Lucas