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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Brimbank City Council:What your candidates said

Brimbank City Council:What your candidates said

Voters in Brimbank 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
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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St Albans,so long a rough diamond of the west,is beginning to shine

St Albans,so long a rough diamond of the west,is beginning to shine

It has welcomed successive waves of migrants. It is home to a beloved market and foodie strip. And it’s just half an hour from the CBD. It is St Albans – and proud of it.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
Boy,14,died after being hit by car then stabbed in ‘targeted assault’

Boy,14,died after being hit by car then stabbed in ‘targeted assault’

Victoria Police have described a horrific assault in St Albans in which a car struck a teenager before two men with knives and face-coverings got out and stabbed him.

  • byLachlan Abbott andAshleigh McMillan
I live in St Albans,and we’re not all criminals
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I live in St Albans,and we’re not all criminals

People seem surprised that I returned to St Albans to start a family,but I love the suburb and the school where I teach.

  • byAmra Pajalic
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Three teens arrested and released after fatal St Albans stabbing

Three teens arrested and released after fatal St Albans stabbing

A 32-year-old man died in hospital after being stabbed during an altercation in St Albans on Friday night.

  • byAshleigh McMillan
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
Man charged with murder faces court after body discovered in St Albans

Man charged with murder faces court after body discovered in St Albans

A 76-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of a woman police say was known to him.

  • byAshleigh McMillan
Hope of quicker fix for reeking tip riling residents in city's west

Hope of quicker fix for reeking tip riling residents in city's west

A unique trial to cool underground waste at a smouldering Melbourne landfill has showed promising results and may offer hope to residents who say the stench is intolerable.

  • byZach Hope
St Albans home to least active Victorians with three-quarters not exercising enough

St Albans home to least active Victorians with three-quarters not exercising enough

About eight years ago Eangano Singehebhuye was kicking a soccer ball in a park in Melbourne's north-west when he noticed some curious children watching on.

  • byMelissa Cunningham andCraig Butt