The city is at a critical point where planning must be translated into a living, breathing reality that works for Melburnians.

IT TAKES more than 9½ years for a spacecraft to travel the 5.7 billion kilometres to Pluto. But when the New Horizons mission finally passes the dwarf planet in 2015, Australia will play a pivotal role.

Victoria's parks are more than just places for city people to take a break from the hustle and bustle, they are living reminders of Australia's ancient past. The Grampians National Park contains the state's best preserved rock art and urban and state parks contain evidence of Aboriginal habitation.

A COASTAL park in Bondi will become home to a 5000 square metre industrial depot under a council plan residents have described as absurd.

The decision to scrap Badgerys Creek as the site for a second Sydney airport is a bad one ("Badgerys Creek was the right site then and is the right site now," December 17). All other possible sites have been examined before. The idea that there are sites waiting to be..read more