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Property prices around Melbourne's western suburb of Werribee is expected to be driven high with the proposed $20 billion China-backed Australian Education City should the State Government agree to the development. The project, over 400 acres of greenfield land at East Werribee, is forecast to bring 80,000 new residents and 50,000 student, according to Savills' Julian

"Sweep away the inconvenient past and imagine the future made real." Cities are contested spaces. With their great flows of capital and humanity, with dense, impacted layers of history, shifting alliances and conflicts between competing power centres, with all of the energy and potential of so many people gathered in one place, cities can be

Tens of thousands of first home buyers will no longer have to pay stamp duty on properties worth up to $600,000 under an Andrews government plan to make housing more affordable. Long-awaited reforms to be unveiled on Sunday will give new home owners savings of up to $15,000 by exempting them from stamp duty on

In one aspect it would be like nothing Melbourne has seen before: a shining city of 100,000 people, housed in soaring 50-level skyscrapers, employed in high-tech industries, and learning from the world's top universities. But in another aspect – a lack of public transport to get there – it would be a quintessential major Melbourne residential project. An imagined aerial