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Royce Millar @MillarRoyce

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Joined January 2012
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The push is on for heritage listing of Melbourne’s public housing towers. My yarn today theage.com.au/national/victo…

Heritage wonder or high-rise hell? Forces unite to save Melbourne’s public housing towers from...

Opposition to the state government’s plan to raze 44 towers is mounting, including from a former Labor deputy prime minister and a 97-year-old industry icon, architect Peter McIntyre.

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Class action against Victoria filed over plans to pull down public housing towers theage.com.au/national/victo…

State of Victoria sued over plans to pull down public housing towers

The class action argues the state government failed to properly consider the human rights of residents when it decided to raze and redevelop the towers.

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A read on how the politics of housing is playing out across Melbourne by @joshgordo and me theage.com.au/national/victo…

How building thousands of homes in Melbourne will tilt the seats of power

The politics of planning is now front of mind for Victoria’s main parties, as the number of renters rise and homeowners shrink.

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New look SEC is hamstrung by competition rules, experts warn. Latest on energy in Victoria by @joshgordo and me theage.com.au/national/victo…

SEC can’t compete in cut-throat power game to lower bills, experts warn

The new-look SEC will fail to deliver on promises to claw back profit from greedy energy companies and give it back to the people through lower bills.

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State shelves dream to fix eyesore dubbed the ‘black hole of Melbourne’. Third story in a series on Fed Square by @JewelTopsfield and me theage.com.au/national/victo…

State shelves dream to fix eyesore dubbed the ‘black hole of Melbourne’

The government has quietly abandoned the idea of decking the Jolimont rail yards next to Federation Square, after successive state leaders have struggled with costly plans for a century.

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Loved, hated, soon to be updated: The next chapter for Fed Square. The second yarn in three part series on the square from @JewelTopsfield and me theage.com.au/national/victo…

Loved, hated, soon to be updated: The next chapter for Federation Square

Jeff Kennett was no fan of Fed Square, but like many Melburnians, has grown to love it. But challenges with Melbourne’s civic space remain.

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‘We were seeking an opera house’: Melbourne’s quest for a monument of its own. First yarn in a series re Fed Square by @JewelTopsfield and me theage.com.au/national/victo…

‘We were seeking an Opera House’: Melbourne’s quest for a monument of its own

Two decades before Melbourne finally got Federation Square, a major competition gripped the imagination of the city - and the world - for the space. This is what they came up with.

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The tax haven, the PO box, the tropical island: Who owns Australian soccer. Great yarn by @benschneiders smh.com.au/sport/the-tax-hav…

The tax haven, the PO box, the tropical island: Who owns Australian soccer

The A-Leagues’ major shareholder owns its stake in Australian professional soccer via a series of offshore tax havens, including an infamous PO box in the Cayman Islands.

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The best place in Melbourne to get a parking ticket, thanks to the mayor who hates fines theage.com.au/national/victo…

The best place in Melbourne to get a parking ticket, thanks to the mayor who hates fines

A council in Melbourne’s outer suburbs has vowed to keep the cost of parking fines as low as possible after discovering a quirk in the Road Safety Act.

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The Victorian government has chosen new anti-corruption (IBAC) chief to replace the outspoken Robert Redlich. An @theage exclusive theage.com.au/politics/victo…

New IBAC chief urged to be a corruption buster amid experience concerns

After a 10-month search, the state government has settled on the deputy of a secretive public monitoring agency to oversee the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.

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If governments are at all serious about acting on housing affordability they need to do a lot better than this . theage.com.au/national/victo…

The hole in Melbourne’s inner north where hundreds of affordable homes should be

As the Andrews government prepares to launch its anticipated housing policy, a scratch of the surface reveals it’s not only the private housing market that’s in trouble.

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Their grades had slipped by less than 1%. The uni cut off their scholarships. Terrific, troubling yarn by @Sherryn_G theage.com.au/national/victo…

‘Robo-debt of uni’: How one email cut off a student ‘lifeline’

Hundreds of international students have been stripped of their scholarships under the Swinburne policy. Some have been forced to leave Australia or change universities, while others are struggling to...

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City of Melbourne urges the State government to implement inclusionary zoning to require affordable apartments in all large housing projects theage.com.au/politics/victo…

City of Melbourne urges government to reconsider its ‘prescient’ 2019 housing pitch

It comes almost four years after the Andrews government was called on to introduce mandatory “inclusionary zoning”, which required social or affordable housing be delivered as a condition of approval...

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The social housing pilot that never took off. Whatever happened to the Andrews Government's Inclusionary Housing Pilot? theage.com.au/national/victo…

Government land was set aside for housing in 2017. Not a single home has been built

The stalling of a six-year-old social housing scheme has raised doubts among advocates that the government’s much-spruiked planning package will tackle the current housing crisis.

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Wild, honourable and loved: The Age farewells its man of letters theage.com.au/lifestyle/life…

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.

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Woodman and IBAC ‘victims’ to strike back at watchdog. Be hard to make this sh.t up theage.com.au/national/victo…

Woodman and IBAC ‘victims’ to strike back at watchdog

Developer John Woodman is to hit back publicly at IBAC as part of a group claiming to be “victims” of the agency.

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Victoria still has a long way to go to clean up its act. Analysis by me on the takeaways from Operation Sandon. theage.com.au/national/victo…

Victoria still has a long way to go to clean up its act

The best way forward for the state from IBAC’s Sandon report will be hotly debated, but it’s obvious we must further reduce the temptation for MPs to chase developer dollars.

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IBAC probe finds widespread suspect payments to councillors, MPs vulnerable to corruption theage.com.au/national/victo…

IBAC report finds developer made suspect payments to councillors

Property developer John Woodman paid $1.2 million to ex-Casey mayors Sam Aziz and Geoff Ablett – including cash in suitcases and shopping bags – in return for support for planning decisions.

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For major parties, spending arms race means odds are ever in their favour theage.com.au/national/victo…

For major parties, spending arms race means odds are ever in their favour

Labor and the Coalition enjoy special benefits in donations laws that should be removed to eliminate “entrenching incumbency”, a leading integrity body says.

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"The syringes may have disappeared in favour of crack pipes, but even that’s eased over the years." Ode to Braybrook by my colleague @najsambul theage.com.au/national/victo…

My suburb was infamously dubbed Victoria’s ‘Bronx’, but I don’t want to leave

Braybrook certainly lived up to its nickname, with its high crime rate, unemployment and drug issues. My family enjoyed a great trade-off, despite our suburb’s reputation.

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