Former Monash Uni chancellor and Australian of the year Simon McKeon lives uphill from the McCrae house destroyed this week. He hopes the landslip finally spurs authorities to act.
They survived a campaign for their demolition in 1967,and today there are more sheds on the western side of Port Phillip Bay than in some council areas on the eastern shore.
Seven homes have been evacuated in the area near Penny Lane in McCrae amid warnings other properties could be in danger.
After three weeks,the huge fire in the Grampians is contained. Now the hard work of recovery lies ahead,in a region where fire is becoming more prevalent.
For eight years,a vacant concrete platform at Ormond station has served as a reminder of the unrealised plan to build a tower above the Frankston line tracks.
Melbourne’s western suburbs have been deprived of infrastructure for decades,but flagging support for Labor could mean Australia’s fastest-growing region will finally be heard.
The Age explores what’s driving the boom in Melbourne’s western suburbs,and challenges some of the common assumptions about the area.
In a series,The Age explores what makes the western suburbs the place to be and what’s holding them back.
Mambourin was designed as a beacon of liveability,but is now forgotten. In a series,The Age explores why Melbourne’s west is Australia’s fastest-growing region and what’s holding it back.
Strathcona Girls Grammar School is offside with its neighbours after buying homes near its main campus and using VCAT to overturn a protective covenant.
Inner Melbourne,the northern and south-eastern suburbs are the worst places to be during high heat according to a new metric of Australia’s “sweatiest cities”.