Victorian local elections 2024:Greater Melbourne candidates speak out

Victorian local elections 2024:Greater Melbourne candidates speak out

Local election candidates across Greater Melbourne have responded to The Age’s survey. Read what the candidates in your area plan to do if they are elected.

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Maribyrnong City Council:What your candidates said

Maribyrnong City Council:What your candidates said

Voters in Maribyrnong will choose seven 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
Maribyrnong councillor failed to show for Europe flight before being found dead

Maribyrnong councillor failed to show for Europe flight before being found dead

Three-time Maribyrnong mayor Sarah Carter never arrived at the airport to meet her partner,who later found her dead at home on Tuesday,according to a friend.

  • byPatrick Hatch,Sophie Aubrey,Paul Sakkal,Annika Smethurst andCara Waters
Tenants feel ‘rental anxiety’ as Melbourne rents hit record high

Tenants feel ‘rental anxiety’ as Melbourne rents hit record high

The typical house costs $60 per week more to rent than it did a year ago,leaving some tenants fearful of lifelong housing insecurity.

  • byJim Malo
Flemington wall worsened Maribyrnong flooding – but it won’t be torn down

Flemington wall worsened Maribyrnong flooding – but it won’t be torn down

The wall raised water levels for at least 240 homes in Maribyrnong during 2022’s downpour,including some homes that likely would have avoided inundation if it had not been built.

  • bySophie Aubrey
Flood report light on detail and answers
Analysis
Floods

Flood report light on detail and answers

By its own admission the Maribyrnong flood inquiry was never truly independent and leaves many questions unanswered. So what was the point?

  • byClay Lucas
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Maribyrnong flood forecasting,early warnings must be improved:Report

Maribyrnong flood forecasting,early warnings must be improved:Report

Property buybacks could also be needed in flood-prone areas along the Maribyrnong River,but the jury is still out on the Flemington flood wall.

  • byClay Lucas andBenjamin Preiss
Commonwealth prepared to pay to fix contaminated Maribyrnong site
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Development

Commonwealth prepared to pay to fix contaminated Maribyrnong site

Thousands of new homes could finally be built next to Highpoint shopping centre after the federal government revealed it is prepared to pay to decontaminate the former Defence site.

  • byRoyce Millar
It’s a shop,a restaurant,a phenomenon:You could easily spend half a day at Asian megastore Foodle
Review
Foodle

It’s a shop,a restaurant,a phenomenon:You could easily spend half a day at Asian megastore Foodle

Highpoint’s new supermarket-sized Asian grocer includes live seafood tanks,a premium butcher,sushi counter and oyster bar,Chinese barbecue restaurant,bakery,dumpling factory and canteen-style dining hall.

  • byDani Valent
We must protect Melbourne’s 20th-century heritage – here’s how to do it right
Opinion
Heritage

We must protect Melbourne’s 20th-century heritage – here’s how to do it right

The previous century was an extraordinary era of design and architecture,but community buy-in is crucial to preserving its legacy.

  • byJames Lesh
Heritage ‘nullifies the opportunity to grow’:YIMBYs win in inner west

Heritage ‘nullifies the opportunity to grow’:YIMBYs win in inner west

The removal of heritage protections from almost 900 post- and inter-war homes in Melbourne’s inner-west has been celebrated as a win for housing affordability.

  • byBianca Hall