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Aerial footage shows a ute doing a three-point turn to get around the diamond, while two other cars cut directly across the roundabout.

Revealed: The cost of Sydney’s most bizarre roundabout

The diamond-shaped roundabout, which confused Sydneysiders and vanished just days after opening, was also meant to be a different shape entirely.

  • Cindy Yin

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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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Murray Watt.

Albanese charges ‘Mr Fix-It’ with racing through green law overhaul

The need to counter environmental decay is contending with Labor’s mission to speed up approvals to meet its climate and housing targets.

  • Paul Sakkal and Nick O'Malley
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
Aris Dimos from Fyve.

‘Focus on the north shore and east’: Developers deserting western suburbs

One developer used to build in Liverpool but its newest acquisitions are in Northbridge and Rose Bay.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
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
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Developers have submitted several building proposals to replace older residential blocks in suburbs such as Potts Point with luxury apartments.

The divisive plan to bulldoze 80 units to ‘make way for millionaires’

Developers want to raze a landmark building and replace it with high-end apartments. The local MP reckons they’re “having a laugh” at the housing crisis.

  • Megan Gorrey
A NSW Government artist impression of Woollahra train station, to be completed by 2029.

Eastern suburbs to get new railway station, up to 10,000 new homes

Plans to complete an abandoned stop at Woollahra to allow for new housing can be revealed.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Local residents are opposed to plans to build hundreds of homes in bushland at Lizard Rock, Belrose.

How new planning rules could stop emergency services blocking housing

A contentious plan to build hundreds of homes near Lizard Rock in Belrose could be the beneficiary of planning reforms being mulled by the state government.

  • Max Maddison
The first stage of the RBA’s head office upgrade is due to be determined by the City of Sydney Council next week.

Why RBA’s Sydney office rebuild has landed it in trouble with a court

A redevelopment of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s asbestos-ridden headquarters has sparked fears noise and vibrations will affect a nearby courthouse and may lead to mistrials.

  • David Barwell