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Journo 👩🏼💻city editor @theage 🗞 I'm also obsessed with food 🍽 and travel 🌏 DMs open 📧 [email protected]
Melbourne, Australia
Joined April 2009
Public service journalism: a deep dive into the policies announced so far for the candidates for @cityofmelbourne @LordMayorMelb
theage.com.au
The race for the next lord mayor of Melbourne is under way. The Age has interviewed the candidates and outlined their key policies and vision.
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The photos in this story are absolute gold 🛴.
The mayors of Merri-bek, Darebin and Moonee Valley signalled their support for a rental e-scooter scheme by rolling through suburban streets in their mayoral robes, with one urging Melbourne City Council to reverse the “short-sighted” ban.
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RT @KerrieO36028873: .@MelbSymphony musicians pass vote of no confidence in orchestra management
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The MSO has announced an external review into its policies after removing acclaimed pianist Jayson Gillham from a concert and then claiming it acted in “error”, and a vote of no confidence from its...
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New story on the spate of toxic fires in Melbourne’s west
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Angry residents say EPA and the state government are ignoring the damage that frequent toxic blazes are causing.
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RT @KieranJRooney: Premier @JacintaAllanMP has urged City of Melbourne to reconsider its hire e-scooter ban. Govt won't change its moves to….
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Important story by @epearson_3.
The Victorian government and its contractors ignored numerous warnings about West Gate Tunnel works before a 22-year-old cyclist was struck and killed.
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RT @theage: Exclusive: Hire e-scooters are set to be banned from the CBD with the City of Melbourne likely to rip up its contract with e-sc….
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The City of Melbourne is likely to rip up its contract with operators Lime and Neuron who will be given 30 days’ notice.
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Exclusive: Erin Deering runs for Deputy Lord Mayor
theage.com.au
Multi-millionaire Triangl Swimwear co-founder Erin Deering is putting her hand up at the City of Melbourne council election. The first thing people say to her when they hear is, ‘Why would you do...
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RT @theage: How a debate about an “ugly duckling” South Yarra apartment building set off an unusually fiery City of Melbourne meeting over….
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How a debate about an “ugly duckling” South Yarra apartment building offered a peek into the largely hidden world of campaign donations at City of Melbourne.
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RT @theage: The Age spoke to many of Carter’s friends and colleagues on Tuesday who were devastated by the death of the MP, who they descri….
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Friends and colleagues were devastated by the death of the 45-year-old councillor, who they described as talented and empathetic.
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RT @sopphie: In a squeezed city, where do childcare centres go? One has been approved in an industrial zone with chemical smells after VCAT….
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A tribunal approved a childcare development in an industrial zone with chemical smells, ruling the children could play indoors “if the odour is particularly strong”.
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RT @DGBeswick1: Huge disappointment for Australia again, losing out to USA by two medals to one 😂. #Paris2024
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RT @sopphie: Residents of a flooded retirement village face being marooned in homes “worth virtually nothing” after a new report rejected a….
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Residents of a flooded retirement village face being marooned in homes rendered unsellable after a new report confirmed serious planning errors, yet rejected a government buyback scheme.
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Exclusive: Jamal Hakim to run for Lord Mayor - calling for campaign donation transparency
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Independent councillor says he won’t accept donations from property developers, tobacco companies, gambling companies or weapons companies.
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This should be an Olympic event. (Also who says local councils are dull to cover?) 🏃♀️.
EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Jonge has run for mayor and federal politics but today, he was running from our cameras after facing a Christies Beach magistrate, charged with stalking and breaching an intervention order. #7NEWS
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Here’s a story from me published while we were out on the forgotten Robin Boyd house
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The little-known Wildwood home, designed by celebrated architect Robin Boyd in 1962, quietly went on sale last year. The couple who snapped it up are still pinching themselves.
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We’re back - our five day strike at @theage @smh and @FinancialReview has ended although negotiations continue to reduce job cuts and call for fair pay 👊🏻#donttorchjournalism.
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