‘Creating havoc’:Rental e-scooters banned in Melbourne CBD
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‘Creating havoc’:Rental e-scooters banned in Melbourne CBD

The City of Melbourne council on Tuesday night voted to scrap its contracts with Neuron and Lime,giving them just weeks to remove their e-scooters from the city.

  • byCara Waters andSophie Aubrey

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Democracy manifest:The bikini entrepreneur who wants to be deputy lord mayor
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Democracy manifest:The bikini entrepreneur who wants to be deputy lord mayor

Multi-millionaire Triangl Swimwear co-founder Erin Deering is putting her hand up at the City of Melbourne council election. The first thing people say to her when they hear is,‘Why would you do that?’

  • byCara Waters
The innocuous vote that exposed the murky world of council donations

The innocuous vote that exposed the murky world of council donations

How a debate about an “ugly duckling” South Yarra apartment building offered a peek into the largely hidden world of campaign donations at City of Melbourne.

  • byCara Waters andRachael Dexter
Lord mayoral candidate Arron Wood promises rate freeze

Lord mayoral candidate Arron Wood promises rate freeze

The former deputy lord mayor thinks he might be “slightly looney” to be running for the city’s top job again,but he’s back and promising to freeze rates if he is elected to Town Hall.

  • byCara Waters
Jamal Hakim to run for Melbourne Lord Mayor and push to reveal donors
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Jamal Hakim to run for Melbourne Lord Mayor and push to reveal donors

Independent councillor says he won’t accept donations from property developers,tobacco companies,gambling companies or weapons companies.

  • byCara Waters
Three votes,Kouta:Carlton champ mulls run for Melbourne Lord Mayor
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Three votes,Kouta:Carlton champ mulls run for Melbourne Lord Mayor

Blues legend Anthony Koutoufides is weighing up a run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne in the upcoming October council elections.

  • byCara Waters andBroede Carmody
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Left to rot:The ‘ghost homes’ scourge in our big cities – amid a housing crisis

Left to rot:The ‘ghost homes’ scourge in our big cities – amid a housing crisis

Tens of thousands of homes sit empty across our major cities,while luxury units replace old apartment blocks - all while debate rages about our home shortage.

  • byGreg Callaghan
Copenhagen,not Docklands:Nick Reece wants to be lord mayor for real – here’s how

Copenhagen,not Docklands:Nick Reece wants to be lord mayor for real – here’s how

The former deputy mayor has confirmed he will run for the city’s top job at the coming elections,saying he’ll insist new growth suburbs are about putting “people first,not developer profit”.

  • byAisha Dow
New lord mayor to target ‘completely unacceptable’ safety issues,cleanliness

New lord mayor to target ‘completely unacceptable’ safety issues,cleanliness

Nick Reece has been sworn in as lord mayor,but it’s just a few months until the next City of Melbourne elections and he’s yet to announce a run for the top post.

  • byCara Waters andSophie Aubrey
It closed twice and was reborn. How Melbourne’s first laneway bar was resurrected

It closed twice and was reborn. How Melbourne’s first laneway bar was resurrected

When Meyers Place closed in 2017,it was the end of an era. It has since been reborn in replica form,with every detail perfectly preserved – but one thing is different.

  • byCara Waters
City of Melbourne sells rubbish services for $110 million to Cleanaway

City of Melbourne sells rubbish services for $110 million to Cleanaway

Lord Mayor Sally Capp,in her final week in the role,said the ASX-listed Cleanaway would also redevelop the city’s waste-transfer facility in North Melbourne.

  • byCara Waters