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One trespasser can delay 50,000 people. Can retrofitting stations fix the problem?
Melbourne’s train system has thousands of trespassing incidents every year, causing major delays to commuters. Now transport groups are calling for solutions.
- by Alex Crowe
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Why getting paid to fight off a zombie apocalypse is good for your boss
Go-karting, axe throwing, escape rooms and zombie shooting are taking corporate team-building exercises to the next level, and they are more popular than ever.
- by Carolyn Webb
How Melbourne’s skyscraper car parks could be transformed into urban farms
Parking floors in CBD buildings could be repurposed as communal spaces in a future of self-driving and shared electric cars.
- by Cara Waters
The $8 million netball courts no one has been allowed to use
Eight new netball courts were officially opened last year in Melbourne’s inner north – but netballers have never set foot on them because of red tape over mounds of dirt and a lease.
- by Cara Waters
‘Permeates entire community’: EPA takes landfill to court over offensive odours
The environment agency alleges the landfill in Melbourne’s south-east has not complied with its laws after residents complained of putrid smells coming from the site.
- by Cara Waters
Preston Market traders await landlord’s response to heritage protection
The planning minister has followed through on new protections for the Preston market sheds. What happens next is up to the market’s developer owners.
- by Rachael Dexter
Wild, honourable and loved: The Age farewells its man of letters
He fine-tuned a hell of a lot of syntax and took on the world, one comma at a time. But Peter Anthony will be remembered for his love – of his family, friends, his paper and its letter writers.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Locals rail against ‘disgraceful’ ticketing system for council meetings
A councillor in Melbourne’s south-west wants residents to speak freely as frustrated locals say they are being locked out of council meetings.
- by Najma Sambul
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In my final column for The Sunday Age, I make one last plea
Having the opportunity to influence what people think has been a rare privilege. But a month ago, I was approached about joining the Museums Board.
- by Jon Faine
‘Disgusting, dodgy’: Residents are over Melbourne’s worst underpasses
Across Melbourne, there are similar stories of lament at the poor state of some of the city’s busiest underpasses.
- by Najma Sambul
Outcry over lack of consultation on Collingwood sobering-up centre
Residents fear the impact the new centre will have on their streets, claiming the state government announced the facility without consulting them.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Cara Waters