Moonee Valley City Council:What your candidates said
Victorian council elections

Moonee Valley City Council:What your candidates said

Voters in Moonee Valley will choose nine people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • byCara Waters andRachael Dexter

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Couple who used superstitious auction tactic wins $1.86m Essendon home
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Couple who used superstitious auction tactic wins $1.86m Essendon home

Five parties competed,and the winners were a duo who had missed a string of opportunities elsewhere and decided to change tack.

  • bySarah Webb
Former student of Guilford Bell spends $6.4m on his Toorak masterpiece
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Former student of Guilford Bell spends $6.4m on his Toorak masterpiece

The home,known as Hallow’s House,sold for $1.2 million more than the vendor’s reserve price. The sellers were pleased the home was sold to an admirer of Bell’s.

  • bySarah Webb
Case of the missing McLaren:Serial luxury car scammer faces jail over contempt of freezing order
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Case of the missing McLaren:Serial luxury car scammer faces jail over contempt of freezing order

Andreas Triantafyllos siphoned almost $700,000 from secret bank accounts,and also failed to explain how he obtained and disposed of a high-performance sports car.

  • byCameron Houston
There’s much more to my suburb than gangsters and footballer’s wives
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There’s much more to my suburb than gangsters and footballer’s wives

My neighbourhood is considered one of the posher western suburbs – but an element of the underworld makes it an interesting proposition.

  • byKerrie O'Brien
Quirky,arty Prahran home sells for $2.89 million only to be knocked down
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Quirky,arty Prahran home sells for $2.89 million only to be knocked down

The large block size and absence of heritage overlay enticed the buyers to pay $490,000 above reserve to secure the house,which they plan to demolish.

  • byAlexandra Middleton
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  • byJacqui Hammerton andMary O'Brien
Essendon home owned by same family for 69 years sells for $1.59m
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Essendon home owned by same family for 69 years sells for $1.59m

It was a bittersweet moment for the sellers,whose family home since 1955 was sold for some $215,000 above reserve.

  • byAlexandra Middleton
How Carlton’s two-pronged approach curbed Essendon’s star captain
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How Carlton’s two-pronged approach curbed Essendon’s star captain

The obvious choice for Blues coach Michael Voss was to give Alex Cincotta another tagging job,and that is what he did – but there was a twist.

  • byMarc McGowan
Luxury car swindler targeted as burning cars slam into suburban home
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Luxury car swindler targeted as burning cars slam into suburban home

An SUV and a ute were set alight in the early hours of Tuesday and driven into a multimillion-dollar Essendon property linked to ex-bankrupt Andrew Triantafyllos.

  • byCameron Houston,Marta Pascual Juanola andMadeleine Heffernan
Young couple picks up Glen Iris house for $3.31 million after it passed in
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Young couple picks up Glen Iris house for $3.31 million after it passed in

There were three buyers who registered to bid on the home,including local downsizers,but it passed in at $3.29 million before eventually selling.

  • byTom Carey