
Sophie Aubrey
City and Culture Reporter at The Age
City reporter @theage. Third-culture kid. [email protected] / [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
theage.com.au | Stephen Brook |Kishor Napier-Raman |Sophie Aubrey
By Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Sophie Aubrey June 13, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If celebrity health and wellness is your jam, there can be no celebrity that embodies your message more closely than double Oscar-winning aerobics queen Jane Fonda, now 87 years young.
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3 weeks ago |
theage.com.au | Sophie Aubrey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A developer is pushing for the third time to build 1100 new homes on a toxic former quarry and rubbish tip in Melbourne’s south-east, even though the site is filled with pits of decaying and solid waste piles, and enormous slurry-like “slimes” that plunge up to 20 metres beneath the surface.
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watoday.com.au | Sophie Aubrey
Exponential Interactive, Inc d/b/a VDX.tvCookie duration: 90 (days). Data collected and processed: IP addresses, Device identifiers, Probabilistic identifiers, Browsing and interaction data, Non-precise location data, Users’ profiles, Privacy choicesmoreCookie duration resets each session. View details | Storage details | Privacy policyConsentCookie duration: 365 (days).
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theage.com.au | Sophie Aubrey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Thousands of apartments are being built without contributing to new public parks, as build-to-rent developers take advantage of a loophole that councils say has shortchanged them of tens of millions of dollars.
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1 month ago |
theage.com.au | Sophie Aubrey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Driving along Melton’s highways, rural roads and streets of new housing estates, it’s impossible not to notice them: the piles of old mattresses, tyres and random household or construction waste strewn across the outer-western municipality. And the problem is costing the local council a mint.
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Blocks of apartments are being sold and razed to make way for luxury mansions in desirable inner suburbs, despite the state government’s ambitions for increased housing density in Melbourne. https://t.co/hXaRaLWNHU

Apartments built in the state government’s new activity centres risk being too dark and too small for families to live in because updated design standards won’t be implemented before developers start drawing up their plans. https://t.co/sjNl9lJAR2

Brighton residents say the state government’s plan to spur high-rise development in the area will “irrevocably damage the suburb” as the premier was heckled by furious locals outside a press conference on Sunday. https://t.co/9bQXfdoxWc