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Labor’s Plan to Destroy Melbourne’s Suburbs

Dear colleagues, Jacinta Allan’s Ashburton high-rise, high-density towers The Allan Labor Government’s high-rise, high-density tower development plans will allow the building of up to 8 storeys in the Ashburton Village, and up to 4 storeys for up to 800 metres surrounding. Residents will have no right to appeal these developments […]

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The Challenge to Save a City

Planning News May June 2025 Buxton article Michael Buxton MPIA (Hon. Fellow) Emeritus Professor Environment and Planning, RMIT University, and a member of the Charter 29 group of professional planners

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Important work by Griffith University highlighting real risks for Victoria’s electricity supply

Important work was undertaken by Griffith University which points to real risks for the state in electricity supply and points to perverse outcomes likely to result from the Victorian state government’s enforced electrification approach and its anti-gas war. The paper by Paul Simshauser and Joel Gilmore, the Herald Sun story […]

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The state government’s massive increases in gas exploration fees

The state government maintained a long-running ban on gas exploration and, even now this is officially lifted, its extreme and ideological anti-gas stance continues.  Last year it quietly gazetted massive increases in exploration fees for permits like the 318% increase for a gas exploration permit pointed to in the Herald […]

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See my question to the Minister for Skills and TAFE below, and my point of order following her inadequate response

My question to the Minister for Skills and TAFE: My point of order in response to the Minister’s unsatisfactory and inadequate answer: