Libs have sacked the Bruce campaign manager after we discovered dozens of offensive social media posts about women and politicians... Read more here: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

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Exclusive from Kooyong today: Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two investment properties www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... I'm covering Kooyong for the whole campaign. Got a tip? DM me!

We are blogging the battle for Goldstein and other key Victorian seats here: www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Journalistic solidarity!

Political advertising in Google in the last 24 hours: $86,700 - https://politicalgadgets.com/

Fiji health authorities are scrambling to stem an outbreak of HIV, as growing meth use and alarming needle-sharing trends accelerate the spread of the virus.

📢 Aidan McLindon, the former Freedom Party candidate who became an outer-suburban mayor, is at war with his own council after he was barred from attending meetings over repeated allegations of poor behaviour.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

Sydney billionaire Justin Hemmes is about to learn what Lady Gaga learnt in 2012: What happens when you cross James Young, the formidable owner of Melbourne’s famed Cherry Bar: www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Melbourne City Council is “selling the farm to pay for the silverware” in its $55 million sale of a multi-storey car park to hospitality billionaire Justin Hemmes, according to a councillor who has publicly lashed out at his colleagues who supported the sale: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

I have been saying for ages that intergenerational inequality is likely the biggest issue, outside of climate change, of the next half century. This is a good reminder. (The other thing we need to do is a Sovereign Wealth Fund to preserve value for future generations) #auspol

Exclusive: Melbourne’s first attempt at a fast-tracked “off-the-shelf” three-storey apartment building has failed after Banyule City Council rejected a proposal that already had state government approval: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

!! Residents in uproar over issues including COVID-19 vaccines and the impounding of a family’s collection of hot rods and jet-skis under local laws have forced a wild council meeting in Melbourne’s south-east to be abandoned. From @adamlcarey.bsky.social : www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

If you read one thing today make it this by @rachaeldexter.bsky.social and Royce Millar on the decision to demolish Melbourne’s public housing towers and its impact www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Deep inside Labor’s internal rifts ahead of the federal election over Daniel Andrews’ plan to redevelop all Melbourne’s public housing tower estates. From Royce Millar and I in The Age (in print tomorrow): www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Political advertising in Google in the last 24 hours: $28,350 - https://politicalgadgets.com/

Political advertising on Facebook in the last 24 hours: $106,185 - https://politicalgadgets.com/

Political advertising on Facebook in the last 24 hours: $108,989 - https://politicalgadgets.com/

The character it's building is empathy for the millions who don't get to escape that once they graduate or buy their first home.

Months after the bitter warehouse strike, Woolworths has started quietly firing workers who participated in the pickets www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Problems with Aust housing sprawl; - monoculture, no housing variety so scant choice - no mix of uses & types - mean streets, dictated by car - no landscape, no trees, no microclimate - mean & wasted side setbacks - dismal house design, 4 materials in meaningless appliqué - grey in every sense

reminder: if i post a link to something written by a journalist or writer, please don’t respond “paywall.” these people (me) deserve to be paid for their efforts. if you don’t want to pay, that’s your decision! but no one owes you anything for free

A private company called ‘Friends of the Peninsula’, run by a property developer, donated more than $35,000 to candidates running for council, including two who were elected and others who vowed not to take developer money during their campaigns: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

I spent a fortnight compiling spreadsheets of thousands of council candidates donations (from 78 different councils) so you don’t have to 😭 here’s the full deep dive: www.theage.com.au/politics/vic... also in print tomorrow in The Age. Part 2 on Sunday

I vote there be free concerts and gigs at Federation Square in Melbourne every Friday night! Tonight — for Caribou— was so great! Coolest thing I’ve seen in this space 🌞

📢 As the weather heats up, videos circulate on social media of close encounters between swimmers and jet-skiers. Melbourne councils and community groups worry it will take another tragedy for the laws to change. 👉more news/weather bots

This footage was from Port Melbourne beach a few weeks ago - jetskis dangerously and illegally close to swimmers. Thirteen years ago a swimmer was killed here by a rogue jetski. My piece in The Age today about growing calls for intervention on the bay: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Looking at Google reviews for fish and chip shops around my area. Not sure whether to laugh or despair at this review celebrating that a dish and chip shop has not “succumbed to the pressures of woke” 🤔 what does a woke fish and chip shop look like!? 😂

Check these out — Still probably my favourite bollards/barriers I’ve seen anywhere in the world. They aren’t just cute and fun (and extra seating) — they’re REALLY heavy. Cars should NOT try messing with these sheep! I took this pic while working for Christchurch NZ years ago. #CityOfSmiles

I got access behind the scenes at Victoria’s first drug-testing site at Beyond The Valley festival yesterday in full swing. Here’s what I saw: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Riders will not be able to park rental e-scooters in 50 per cent of streets in the Yarra council area within weeks, after a vote on Tuesday night where the Mayor Stephen Jolly likened hire operators to naughty children who needed detention: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

New feature on Australia's deadliest disaster, one you've probably never heard of: the 2009 heatwave. By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

The Arden precinct in North Melbourne could soon be home to a towering 57-storey apartment block, almost triple the approved height limit for the area. From @carawaters.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

City of Melbourne has some beautiful tree canopy. I know some people aren’t mad on Plane trees but it’s so lovely that our downtown areas look like this - so nice and shadey.

The architects behind the replacement Carlton red brick public housing towers have hit back at criticism of their design we published in The Age, and have released more renders: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Apartment buildings need landscape! -require min 25% deep soil are -plant trees -require contiguous deep soil areas in middle of blocks -limit building footprint to 50% site area -cut car parking numbers, so smaller basements -rationalise all those multiplying services requirements 🧵

this is the sort of story that feels a bit trivial, but far out man it's a reflection on how agencies/authorities work that it takes this long to fix something so simple

One week after receiving the Marriner donation, Reece pledged to sell COM’s share of the Regent Theatre if elected. Marriner, which owns the Comedy Theatre, Princess Theatre and Forum Theatre, and operates the Regent,would be a likely potential buyer. @carawaters.bsky.social @adamlcarey.bsky.social

Lord Mayor Nick Reece accepted tens of thousands of dollars from donors with property interests in the City of Melbourne, including some with pending developments, despite promising he would not allow property developers to bankroll his mayoral campaign. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Murdoch and Bolt papped by our Calum Jaspan. What a pic.

"Murdoch departed in a Range Rover alongside Sky News presenter and Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt." www.theage.com.au/business/com... @caljaspan.bsky.social

St Kilda’s Beaconsfield Pub to re-open as a bar 20 years after death of David Hookes- six votes to two at Port Phillip council last night: theage.com.au/national/victo…

Also well done to host Dave Marchese here. The cut through question here. Great stuff.

“That may the view of young people that’s not the view of our government”… Housing Minister Clare O’Neil on Triple J’s Hack. Doubt that went down well with the audience

“That may the view of young people that’s not the view of our government”… Housing Minister Clare O’Neil on Triple J’s Hack. Doubt that went down well with the audience

📢 The Sydney housing reform set to be scaled back 🔗 https://www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw/the-sydney-housing-reform-set-to-be-scaled-back-20241203-p5kvkf.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed 👉 18+ news & weather bots

60,000 well located homes in 10 Melbourne suburbs ✔️ But extra supply is no guarantee on its own that homes will be more affordable. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

This is an absolutely incredible example of how, if you ever decide to engage with a right-wing media outlet, *how* you do it almost perfectly. Bravo @risingtideaus.bsky.social!

Now up to 7 days in a row of gas-sponsored coverage in the Murdoch tabloids....