From her home in Bendigo, 150 kilometres away, Jacinta Allan has announced that as Victoria’s population massively grows, she has a plan to sacrifice the liveability of our city and grow Melbourne into a mega-city. It’s pretty rich for a premier to be wrecking our city, when she doesn’t even live here.

As the premier keeps saying, Melbourne is set to grow to the size of London by the middle of the century. With Melbourne currently home to 5 million people and London 9 million, Allan will oversee the doubling of the size of our city.

James Newbury, the Liberal MP for Brighton.Credit: Scott McNaughton

That’s why the premier’s mega-Melbourne needs to be stuffed full of towers up to 20 storeys high in our suburbs. Of the announced activity centre growth, half of it is in three........

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