In this series,The Age explores how Geelong,Ballarat,Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga will change in the coming decades.
The state’s big regional cities are hurtling towards radical demographic change. Here’s where things have gone wrong - and what needs to improve.
In the 1970s,town planners set out to create a metropolis on the river. They almost made it. Today,single people live in giant houses they don’t need as the cities scramble to fit people in.
People come here to own a home. But to survive,this country town must help shift Victorians’ big house and land obsession.
The Commonwealth Games promised to hoist Geelong onto the world stage,but as the dream of co-hosting the event came crashing down,the city’s ‘dingy’ areas are in the spotlight again.
Aurlene left an Indian megalopolis to live in this regional city. Thousands of migrants are doing the same.