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Kathy Watty Contributor November 10, 2025 — 7.00pm Opinion pieces from local writers exploring their suburb’s cliches and realities and how it has changed in the past 20 years. See all 53 stories .

There’s a good chance you’ve never known anyone who lives in my tiny suburb. Well, before now. At last count, we had just 794 residents, making us even smaller than Melbourne’s other pocket inner-city suburbs like Gardenvale , Ripponlea , Cremorne and Travancore.

But you probably know of it, if for no other reason than our busy train station, a junction you’ll pass on the way to Belgrave and Glen Waverley, Alamein, and Lilydale.

There’s a lot more going on here than you realise. Think of the tunnel between the West Gate and th

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