Once a painter’s paradise,this suburb has swapped towering gums and dense bush for looming skyscrapers and the Suburban Rail Loop.
A mayor in Melbourne’s east says her council only learnt that the planning minister had approved a huge development project when staff saw a news report.
Seven new Suburban Rail Loop towers will add 1700 homes,but not without reigniting debate about how high is too high.
A Melbourne mayor has warned the Victorian government,“you can’t just take,you have to give something back”,as Big Build projects gobble up suburban parklands.
It was once conservative,culturally homogenous and rough in parts. These days it’s young,ethnically diverse and dominated by a university.
Owning a piece of sky instead of land? Raising a family in an apartment? All these things are normal in Asia,and yet so strange to many Australians.
Ahead of Lunar New Year,five top chefs share where they head for “textbook Cantonese cooking”,“a warm Cambodian hug”,or crispy suckling pig.
A growing number of Melbourne’s public pools are now being privately managed,and those in Nunawading and Box Hill are set to join the list as cost pressures mount.
Asking rents rose in nearly every Melbourne suburb last year,most by double digits. Can it continue?
A bicycle highway through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs via an underground “ghost platform” at Box Hill station would ease road congestion and public transport crowding.
He has been rejected from about 50 rental properties and is considering a desperate tactic to boost his chances.