The state government plans to pursue for legal costs the tenant who led the class action against it.
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There is uncertainty over more of the lord mayor’s election promises,including a rates freeze,as a hostile council complains about the city’s mounting debt.
Videos have emerged showing other vandals slashing posters in the teal MP’s affluent electorate as part of an increasingly bitter campaign in which incidents have led to court appearances.
Allowing more family members to be buried in the same plot,and empowering officials to remove excessive graveside decorations are among key changes in a cemeteries shake-up.
Aidan McLindon,the former Freedom Party candidate who became an outer-suburban mayor,is at war with his own council after he was barred from attending meetings over repeated allegations of poor behaviour.
The new developments will have community and “affordable” housing,but none of it will be state run.
Sunbury faces the challenges of uniting the old and the new,but still can’t decide whether it is a suburb of Melbourne,a regional town or a satellite city.
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Sydney billionaire Justin Hemmes is now in a showdown with Melbourne’s famed Cherry Bar owner James Young over a planned ‘hospitality wonderland’ development.