Melbourne’s shoebox plague
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John Mant, a lawyer who helped write Victoria’s planning laws in the 1980s with a senior Cain government minister, has slammed Melbourne’s shoebox apartments which are proliferating across the city in a bid to satisfy cashed-up Asian investors. From The Age:
Melbourne will risk “creating a monoculture of one-bedroom, poorly designed apartment stock”…
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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