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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Kingston City Council:What your candidates said

Kingston City Council:What your candidates said

Voters in Kingston will choose 11 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
A tradie hotspot makes one of Melbourne’s top chicken schnitzel sangers

A tradie hotspot makes one of Melbourne’s top chicken schnitzel sangers

Marko’s lets you choose your own adventure,with four house-made schnitties and an old-school salad bar.

  • byTomas Telegramma
From tobacco factory to artistry,this suburb is the southside’s northside

From tobacco factory to artistry,this suburb is the southside’s northside

Creatives,breweries,patisseries and young families are springing up in the suburb’s once-gritty industrial precinct,which used to be home to soft drink manufacturers and big tobacco companies.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
Got the holiday blues? See T-Rex bones,cuddle a cat or smash stuff

Got the holiday blues? See T-Rex bones,cuddle a cat or smash stuff

We investigate some unconventional options for winter school holiday activities.

  • byCarolyn Webb
Scenes of joy as family secure $1,585,000 Bentleigh East home at auction

Scenes of joy as family secure $1,585,000 Bentleigh East home at auction

The successful buyer couldn’t contain his joy. David Rizkalla dropped the cool,disinterested auction persona the moment the hammer fell and he bought the house.

  • byJim Malo
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Why inner-city warehouses are going vertical

Why inner-city warehouses are going vertical

Planning approval has been granted by the City of Kingston for Victoria’s highest vertical logistics warehouse – a $70 million,five-level distribution centre – on Keys Road,Moorabin.

  • byStephen Miles
Underrated and overlooked:Seven of Melbourne’s unsung suburbs

Underrated and overlooked:Seven of Melbourne’s unsung suburbs

There are dozens of underappreciated and up-and-coming neighbourhoods across our sprawling metropolis that won’t make it into travel guides but are loved by those who live there.

  • byRachael Dexter
The Moorabbin resto-bar that's good for the'hood
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The Moorabbin resto-bar that's good for the'hood

The suburb is shaping up as the Northcote of the southeast,thanks to new dining options such as Comma.

  • byGemima Cody
Two men escape with minor injuries after plane lands on golf course

Two men escape with minor injuries after plane lands on golf course

Moorabbin Airport received a call that a light aircraft had been forced to land in the Capital Golf Course,which sits alongside the airport.

  • byMatilda Boseley
'Don't egg politicians,you get tackled':Teen who egged Fraser Anning speaks

'Don't egg politicians,you get tackled':Teen who egged Fraser Anning speaks

'Don't egg politicians,you get tackled by thirty bogans at the same time,I learnt the hard way,'the Melbourne teenager who egged Queensland senator Fraser Anning said in a video he posted on Twitter.

  • byMatilda Boseley andBenjamin Millar