Clay Lucas
Senior Reporter, The Age
Clay has been a reporter at The Age for almost two decades. He has been part of the investigative unit and covered urban affairs, state and federal politics, industrial relations, health and aged care. Email him at clucas@theage.com.au.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Roads, trains, ports: Major disruption warning ahead of planned pro-Palestine protests
The groups behind Monday’s global A15 Action protests have threatened to blockade “major choke points in the economy”, aiming to cause maximum economic impact.
- by Chris Vedelago and Clay Lucas
Series
City life
Where we live: The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods
In this series, The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.
The $80 million stand-off over a level crossing no one wants removed
Dandenong South businesses are banding together to fight the removal of boom gates on an industrial street, which they claim is putting political spin before common sense.
- by Clay Lucas
Calls for social housing to be built on prized land in the middle of Kew
The former VicRoads headquarters next to Xavier College sits unused, but the government has been silent on the site’s future.
- by Clay Lucas
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Victorian budget
Victoria is the fines capital, expected to rake in almost $1b this financial year
No other Australian jurisdiction is as dependent on fines for cash, but the state government faces pressure to scale back its punitive approach to revenue-raising.
- by Josh Gordon and Clay Lucas
The winds of change are coming to Hawthorn. Some welcome it, others are wary
The genteel demographic of Hawthorn is slowly being replaced by apartments, young people and chain stores. But some question what the suburb could lose as a result.
- by Clay Lucas
Fight to save $8 million seaside home of Australia’s second prime minister
Alfred Deakin’s seaside estate is being readied for sale as some of his descendants desperately seek funds to stop it being auctioned.
- by Benjamin Preiss and Clay Lucas
Overhaul of melanoma detection could help high-risk patients
A program trying to harness AI to radically change how skin cancer is detected is being considered by the Albanese government.
- by Clay Lucas and Henrietta Cook
A tiny town was devastated by bushfire – and now has 44 fewer homes
Locals started filtering back into town late on Thursday to survey the damage caused by a blaze that destroyed at least 44 of its 187 houses.
- by Clay Lucas
Dozens of homes razed, 50,000 still without power after wild storms
Twenty-four homes were destroyed by a bushfire in Pomonal and another was razed further north at Dadswells Bridge.
- by Lachlan Abbott, Clay Lucas, David Swan and Broede Carmody