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‘They were terrified’: Worker tells of colleagues’ distress at machete brawl in Broadmeadows shopping centre
Police are investigating after a brawl between two groups in a car park spilled into a busy shopping centre on Friday night.
- Ashleigh McMillan and Alexander Darling
The Melbourne suburbs where rents soared most over the past year
Some of the sharpest increases are in relatively affordable suburbs, but many affluent neighbourhoods have not been spared.
- Elizabeth Redman
Hume council is owed a record $47m in overdue rates. But there’s a radical plan to fix it
One in four home owners is behind in paying their rates in this municipality, with the council probing if they should target businesses making profits instead.
- Adam Carey
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.
Hume City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Hume 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.
- Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
Parking fine hope for residents in narrow streets of Melbourne’s north
Drivers could be given the green light to park on their own nature strips without fear of being stung by fines, in a bid to tackle an urban planning problem.
- Adam Carey
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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.
Not far from the old Ford factory in Melbourne’s north, caravan-makers are booming
Almost a decade after the Australian car manufacturing industry died, caravan-makers now employ more workers than carmakers did at their peak.
- Adam Carey
‘Fighting a losing battle’: Melbourne suburbs where rents have soared
Tenants are searching far and wide for their next home as rents in several suburbs spiralled 20 per cent or more in a year.
- Alexandra Middleton