City life
Councillors revolt over lord mayor’s plan to sell Regent Theatre
The City of Melbourne has passed an urgent motion opposing Nicholas Reece’s push to sell the historic theatre.
- by Cara Waters
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‘Wouldn’t pass the pub test’: Call to compel councillors to attend meetings
“I did not want to be in that room with that man,” one Hume City councillor said about not being at meetings in person.
- by Adam Carey
Ciao Rocco: A Pellegrini’s favourite is hanging up his apron after 50 years of service
Rocco Elice began working at the beloved Melbourne restaurant as a 21-year-old in 1974. He says his first $100 weekly pay packet was the biggest sum of money he’d seen.
- by Cara Waters
Opinion
Arts
The idea that selling off the Regent will help the arts is laughable
The lord mayor has outlined a plan to take from the arts to give to the arts. Melbourne deserves better.
- by Elizabeth Flux
Isolated suburb still waiting for a train, a bus, a store, an answer
A suburb spruiked as the “Glen Waverley of the west” is at risk of ghetto, with thousands of new residents but no schools, no shops, and no public transport.
- by Adam Carey
Boos for lord mayor’s Regent Theatre sell-off plan
The union for arts workers and two candidates in the City of Melbourne elections have attacked Lord Mayor Nick Reece’s proposal to sell the renowned theatre.
- by Adam Carey
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Council election
Why Melbourne’s lord mayor wants to sell the Regent Theatre
The century-old Collins Street institution is estimated to be worth between $40 million and $50 million, and the council owns a 51 per cent stake.
- by Cara Waters
End of the train line: Life on Melbourne’s fringe
Shiny new build homes surround the station and then give way abruptly to green paddocks with cows grazing in them.
- by Cara Waters
Hampton Park landfill site accused of breaching safe methane gas levels
Victoria’s environmental watchdog is pursuing global waste giant Veolia in the Supreme Court over alleged failures to safely manage the landfill site near several hundred homes.
- by Adam Carey
Series
Burwood
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.
A state-owned heritage house sits empty and derelict. Kew locals want something done
Lumeah is a brick Federation villa built in 1894 and now targeted by vandals amid a long-running stand-off over whether it can become a turning lane for traffic.
- by Tom Cowie