The latest financial reckoning for the Queen Victoria Market renewal has again exposed a problem that has followed the project almost from the beginning: the City of Melbourne has never been particularly good at explaining how it is paying for it.
A City of Melbourne push to shore up after-hours food relief has received overwhelming support from councillors following a turbulent week of public debate over the future of the Salvation Army’s central-city services.
Victoria’s leading business and employer groups have welcomed Premier Ben Carroll’s decision to pause the state government’s controversial work-from-home legislation, but say the Bill should still be scrapped entirely.