This transport hub could hold the key to Melbourne’s megacity future Use the interactive map to see how many more people could live in your suburb by 2101 as we explore the idea of redirecting the booming population to urban transport hubs and regional to... See more
Labor pledges to halt Melbourne’s urban sprawl, but planners ask if we’re heading to a megacity mess The planning minister draws a policy battleline about our city’s future shape before the state election, as we investigate how and where to house Melbourn... See more
Councils are arguably the government level most prone to corruption. The risk remains unaddressed It’s almost eight years since I was part of a reporting team that revealed the outsized political influence of developer and planning consultant John Woodman... See more
From ‘no extra cost’ to record debt: The 12-year transformation of Victorian Labor Eight-hundred pages of confidential state cabinet documents reveal how a disciplined new Labor government in 2014 evolved into a “crash through” administration – until it s... See more
Confidential files reveal logging ban push ignored by the Andrews government Victoria’s top public servants urged the Andrews government in its first days in power in 2014 to end loss-making native forest logging in East Gippsland, a decade before Labor w... See more
