The Latest Breaking News from Mornington Peninsula

Further Mornington Peninsula landslide fears with 11 houses now uninhabitable and storms forecast

Emergency services brace for further movement at McCrae after $2.3m house collapsed down cliff on Monday

The Guardian - AU · Jan 15, 2025

Tourism agency deletes ‘pristine swimming spot’ post about unpatrolled beach on Mornington Peninsula

Video removed as Life Saving Victoria carries out 145 rescues – ‘We don’t remember when we’ve been that busy’

The Guardian - AU · Jan 5, 2025

Rye shooting: two people dead in ‘targeted’ attack as police search for man who fled scene

Victoria police say they are searching for a man after deaths at Mornington Peninsula home following an altercation

The Guardian - AU · Dec 1, 2024

As the cost of living bites, a homelessness crisis on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula is worsening

Victoria's Mornington Peninsula is known for its popular holiday destinations and exclusive postcodes, but it's also home to 1,000 people who, the council says, are sleeping rough in tents and cars every night.

ABC News · Oct 24, 2022

They make wine there? The secret grape districts you have to visit

You’ve sat in Friday night traffic to get to the Mornington Peninsula, joined the hordes on a pilgrimage to the Barossa and seen and been seen in the

The New Daily · Aug 27, 2022

Hydra by Adriane Howell review – weird woman adrift in a big cat mystery

This elegant debut is sinuous and strange – a slow-burn gothic thriller spiked with antiques and Freud, and partly set on the Mornington Peninsula

The Guardian - AU · Aug 25, 2022

Shortages in crisis housing leaving hundreds of homeless youths in Melbourne's outer south with nowhere to go

A lack of housing availability means young people in the Frankston-Mornington Peninsula area are facing homelessness, or travelling unreasonable distances for shelter.

ABC News · May 14, 2022

‘Got your visa?’: Victoria’s coastal enclave of Rye is holding fast to its barefoot roots

Gentrification hasn’t reached this part of the Mornington Peninsula, where residents say ‘if you don’t play golf, surf or fish, you’re going to struggle’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23, 2022

Landfills in Melbourne's south-east are running out of space, leaving councils with a big problem

In just five years' time, there will be no space in landfill across Melbourne's sprawling south-east, and a proposed alternative waste plan is dividing councils.

ABC News · Mar 26, 2022

‘I’m terrified’: residents of Victoria’s Mornington peninsula hit hard by pandemic rent rises

Exclusive: Seven of state’s top eight postcodes for rental jumps between January 2020 and 2022 are on peninsula

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2022