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Housing Minister Clare O’Neil speaks at WoMEDA’s West of Melbourne summit.

‘Segregated’ city: The west alone can’t shoulder housing boom, minister warns

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says wealthier inner and middle suburbs must accept new housing as Wyndham, Melton and Brimbank have done the “heavy lifting”.

  • Annika Smethurst

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Curt Thompson, who has long fought plans build homes on the former Talbot quarry, stands at the southern boundary of the site.

Plan to move 2500 residents onto former dump and quarry full of unstable ‘slime’

Next to a famed golf course, this parcel of land is filled with pits of waste piles and enormous “slimes” that plunge up to 20 metres beneath the surface.

  • Sophie Aubrey
An immaculate lawn in Oakleigh South that once made news.

My suburb is so defiantly untrendy, it feels like even the Bunnings is trying to escape

There’s no ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ around here – people quietly go about living their lives in a landscape of benign suburban sameness.

  • Marisa Mowszowski
Dominic Horsley and Ann-Marie Beveridge were confident their Oakleigh South home would sell at auction.

The Melbourne suburbs where home sellers have the best auction success

A select few suburbs in Melbourne recorded clearance rates approaching 90 per cent over 2023, much higher than their neighbours.

  • Jim Malo

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