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Housing target progress in Melbourne LGAs.

Housing targets falling short in nearly all Victorian council areas

Melbourne is on track to fall well short of its housing aims – a trend that could worsen the state’s housing crisis and prompt the state government to intervene.

  • Angus Delaney

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Illustration of Woollahra station. The line was constructed in the 1960s, but the original station plan was abandoned due to its cost and community concern.

Woollahra NIMBYs will wail, but this station plan ticks every box for good planning

Woollahra station could become a pearl in a string of eastern suburbs transport oriented development stops, but only if sanity prevails and NIMBYs are stared down.

  • Tone Wheeler
An artist’s impression of how the area around the SRL’s Clayton station might look.

A flawed scheme delivered no affordable homes. It’s now planned for the Suburban Rail Loop

A decade-long plan giving developers incentives to build affordable homes in central Melbourne has failed to produce a single one.

  • Daniella White and Kieran Rooney
Premier Chris Minns at the site of the planned heavy rail station at Woollahra on Sunday.

‘Can’t be stopped’: Minns concedes not everyone will welcome Sydney’s new train station

After much speculation, the premier announced Labor would open a new heavy rail train station at Woollahra and high-rise development in Edgecliff for 10,000 new apartments.

  • Michael McGowan
The government is fast tracking assessments to push more housing into the construction pipeline.

AI and a new ‘strike team’ deployed to combat housing crisis

The federal government will fast track the assessment of 26,000 homes held up by delays in the environmental approval process as it tries to meet its targets.

  • Nick Newling
James Hardie is seeking more market share.

An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

Even for a company with an ongoing asbestos scandal in its 137-year history, James Hardie’s disastrous week is one for the ages.

  • Colin Kruger
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Cassidy Knowlton helming the grill at a building barbecue

The secret life of us: From tomatoes to soy sauce, this is what apartment living should be

I’ve been in Melbourne almost half my life, but as a native New Yorker, I have always found Australians’ preferences for freestanding houses baffling.

  • Cassidy Knowlton
A pristine beach at Hawks Nest has earned state significant development approval as questions are raised over its links to corrupt former MP Eddie Obeid.

The pristine beach, a $100m development proposal and the question over links to Obeid family

Hawks Nest locals have objected to the luxury apartment complex project on a picturesque stretch of sand since it was rezoned in 2021.

  • Lucy Macken and Kate McClymont

I bought into the dream of apartment living. The reality has been far different

I’m 34, married with no children, and doing a PhD in architecture and planning – the ideal candidate for the state government’s apartment plan. But apartment living has turned out be full of extra costs, defects and frustrations.

  • Merrick Morley
Premier Jacinta Allan and Opposition Leader Brad Battin.

Allan rises from historic low, eyes unprecedented fourth Labor term

The results of the latest Resolve Political Monitor leave Victoria’s Liberal Party teetering towards a seventh defeat from eight elections.

  • Chip Le Grand