Patrick Durkin

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May 13, 2025 – 6.52pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Melbourne commuters face paying $1000 a year more for city parking and businesses will be forced to pay around $83,000 more tax for a typical city office, under changes to be included in Victoria’s state budget on Tuesday which employer groups warn further dampens the city’s economic recovery.

3 days ago | antigojournal.com | Patrick Durkin

Folks often ask writers and editors how they come up with story ideas every day or week. The late Jack Brauer of Appleton, co-founder and co-owner of Deer & Deer Hunting magazine, had a standard answer when people asked how it’s possible to devote an entire magazine to white-tailed deer and those who hunt them. They’d ask something like, “Don’t you get bored and eventually run out of ideas?”kAmqC2F6C’D C6DA@?D6i “s@ J@F E9:?< wF89 w67?6C 6G6C 8@E 3@C65 AF3=:D9:?8 !=2J3@J >282K:?6n”k^AmkAmx?

6 days ago | afr.com | Patrick Durkin

May 9, 2025 – 11.49am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan was very excited about Labor’s landslide federal election victory. As the results became clear on Saturday night, Allan high-tailed it from her home in Bendigo to the stage at Melbourne’s Trades Hall, triumphant. Loading... Patrick Durkin is Melbourne bureau chief and BOSS deputy editor.

6 days ago | afr.com | Patrick Durkin

May 9, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When BOSS asks William Clay Ford jnr – the great-grandson of the car marker’s famous founder Henry Ford – how he plans to avoid a messy, Murdoch-like succession battle, he barely skips a beat. Loading...

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May 8, 2025 – 12.48pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? South Yarra local Allan Fels voted in the seat of Melbourne for the first time this election, despite living in the suburb for over 10 years. Fels, who claims that the Greens lurched too far to the left for people in his suburb, was caught up in a boundary change made by the Australian Electoral Commission last year.