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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City of Port Phillip:What your candidates said

City of Port Phillip:What your candidates said

Voters in Port Phillip 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
Acts of kindness as Chinese temple gutted by fire starts long rebuild

Acts of kindness as Chinese temple gutted by fire starts long rebuild

Volunteers working on South Melbourne’s See Yup Temple hope to restore it to its former glory after an electrical fire ripped through it during Chinese New Year.

  • byBroede Carmody
Estranged couple’s gym battle laced with debts,threats and a claw hammer
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Estranged couple’s gym battle laced with debts,threats and a claw hammer

After meeting in a Surfers Paradise nightclub,AK Moslehi Roudi and Tamika Gray were married and separated within three months. Now they are locked in a wild dispute over a South Melbourne gym.

  • byCameron Houston
Where we live:The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods
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Where we live:The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods

In this series,The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.

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Twin homes on Melbourne’s best street sell for $8.9 million in marathon auction

Twin homes on Melbourne’s best street sell for $8.9 million in marathon auction

The attached pair of brick maisonette houses sit in good company on this highly coveted street,where more than a dozen homes have previously sold for over $10 million.

  • bySarah Webb
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Trouble in paradise:How an ambitious property developer came a cropper

Trouble in paradise:How an ambitious property developer came a cropper

An investigation by this masthead raises new questions about developer Paul Chiodo and the Keystone-managed Shield Master Fund. The Melbourne businessman says he’s been unfairly targeted.

  • bySarah Danckert
High and dry:Luxury health retreat in strife over magnesium spa

High and dry:Luxury health retreat in strife over magnesium spa

It was supposed to offer serenity and wellness,but neighbours of a South Melbourne wellness centre say an outdoor spa was built without a permit.

  • byCameron Houston
Rediscover an endangered brand of old-school fine dining at this polished newcomer

Rediscover an endangered brand of old-school fine dining at this polished newcomer

Searching for somewhere quiet,spacious and with excellent food? New arrival Lucia ticks all the boxes.

  • byBesha Rodell
The footy club whose Auskick sausage sizzle has come under fire
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The footy club whose Auskick sausage sizzle has come under fire

A parent has asked her son’s football club in South Melbourne to scrap snags from its weekend barbecues on the grounds of animal cruelty and health concerns.

  • byAndrew Wu
Family makes last-ditch $500 bid to triumph for $1.5m Cheltenham house

Family makes last-ditch $500 bid to triumph for $1.5m Cheltenham house

The auction winners had to be coaxed to dig deep in their pockets for the charming home,and it was enough to get them across the line.

  • byJim Malo