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A $63 million government grant awarded to a Melbourne-based power steering and driveline component supplier will create more than 250 local automotive industry jobs and help reduce fuel consumption and emissions around the world. Nexteer Australia...
Toyota Australia’s 3300-plus production workers will resume strike action tomorrow unless a deal can be reached before close of business today. The unions have notified Toyota that they plan to strike every Thursday and Friday for the next three...
More mobile speed cameras will be deployed on Victoria’s roads at night as a result of the Auditor-General’s largely positive inquiry into the effectiveness of cameras in improving road safety. Victorian Auditor-General, Des Pearson, said th...
The Victorian Government collected almost $250 million from fines generated by speed and red light camera last financial year. That’s more than $28,500 an hour. In total, $249,716,864 in fines was handed out for 1,326,651 different offences...
Councillors from the City of Yarra in Melbourne will vote tonight on whether to reduce the speed limit of some high-traffic, pedestrian-dense streets to 30km/h in an attempt to improve road safety. Yarra councillor Jackie Fristacky said areas arou...
A Melbourne school teacher has been arrested in front of her students after she was allegedly involved in two car crashes on her way to work. The 51-year-old South Yarra woman was loaded into a police van on a sporting field at Westbourne Grammar...
The 15km drive from Sydney’s northern beaches to the CBD is officially the slowest daily peak-hour commute in the country. If you leave Manly at 8am on a Tuesday (which is apparently the worst day of the week), it will take you on average 50 min...
Victoria’s speed cameras could be in for a similar shake-up to those in New South Wales, with the state’s Auditor-General set to deliver an audit into the effectiveness of its fixed cameras to Parliament in late August. As we reported yesterda...
A Victorian police officer has had his car impounded for 30 days under the new anti-hoon laws after being fined for not having proper control of the vehicle, which was also found to be unregistered. The 42-year-old detective senior constable w...
Melbourne and Sydney are the third and fourth most expensive cities to park in on any given day, according to new global survey. The 2011 Colliers International Global CBD Parking Rate Survey found that Melburnians pay a median rate of $US69.53 fo...