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Kylie Minogue with Visy boss Anthony Pratt. Kylie Minogue was the guest performer at the annual Visy night at the Pratt family home in Kew.

Kylie sends guests spinning around at Pratt’s lavish backyard bash

Pop megastar Kylie Minogue gave 250 of Australia’s most select guests a night to remember as the headline act of cardboard king Anthony Pratt’s annual party.

  • Grant McArthur

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Rachel’s aunt Nell had her rings stolen from her as she was dying in an aged care home in Kew in December.

Nell was dying in aged care when her precious rings vanished. She wasn’t the only one

There has been a 40 per cent surge in reported thefts in Victorian nursing homes since 2021, which has prompted calls for services to do better for vulnerable residents.

  • Henrietta Cook
Kew rsidents Char Weeks (left) and  Egon Leopold Seder are among the residents kept awake by hooning on Yarra Boulevard.

‘Dangerous, intrusive, relentless’: Push for fresh crackdown at this hoon hotspot

One resident near Yarra Boulevard says he calls Triple Zero five times a week, while the City of Boroondara mayor likens the noise to the grand prix.

  • Rachael Ward
he vacant land on 12 Moonbria Avenue, which is behind the Genazzano FCJ College.

Kew girls’ school puts prime real estate on the market to pay debt

“The current environment is particularly challenging for independent schools such as ours,” a spokesperson says.

  • Bridie Smith and Jackson Graham
A car was parked in the driveway where blood was spotted.

Man who stabbed woman outside Kew home was ex-Trinity Grammar student

The 18-year-old knifeman, later found dead, is believed to have stabbed the woman 11 times.

  • Melissa Cunningham, Isabel McMillan and Alexander Darling
Chowon has a comfortable, Japandi interior aesthetic.

Find fine dining at an affordable price at this carefully considered Japanese eatery in Kew

Run by two Korean-Australian chefs with a passion for Japanese cuisine, Chowon is dishing raw, grilled and fried delicacies on Cotham Road in Kew.

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The man from Kew wrote a will that left the vast majority of his estate to a mystery person online.

The $2 million inheritance and the online romance

Months before he died, a man changed his will to leave most of his fortune to a person he’d never met.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
The Kew Recreation Centre development after its roof collapsed in October 2022, prompting ongoing investigations and legal action over who or what is to blame.

Kew pool blame game escalates over claims of substandard steel, design faults

Laboratory testing found two of the Chinese steel samples were so poor they did not contain carbon – meaning they could not be classified as steel.

  • Grant McArthur and Chris Vedelago
Home values have fallen this year in some suburbs despite rate cuts.

The Melbourne suburbs where home sellers want $1m more than buyer budgets

“Optimistic” buyers in a cluster of prestige suburbs are underestimating prices by as much as seven figures.

  • Jim Malo and Alice Uribe
The signature “Pi-Pa” roast duck is spreadeagled to resemble a pear-shaped “pipa” lute (a traditional Chinese instrument).
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