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23 Oct 2023 NSW offers $10 million in grants to make apartment car parks EV-ready The NSW Government has opened grants that co-fund up to 80 per cent of the cost of preparing strata apartment buildings for electric vehicle charging, capped at… 30 May 2023 Adelaide proposes small rises to city street parking fees in 2023/24 budget Adelaide's Lord Mayor has outlined proposed on-street parking fee rises in the city's 2023/24 draft budget, with hourly rates rising by 10 to 30 cents depending… 11 Mar 2023 City of Melbourne plans CBD parking shake-up to cut drivers circling for a spot Melbourne's council has proposed simpler signs, reworked loading zones and possible cheaper off-peak rates for CBD street parking, after a survey found most dri… 16 Feb 2023 Perth parking levy fund nears $200 million with no agreed plan to spend it An Auditor General review found Perth's CBD parking levy account has grown to more than $190 million, but government agencies have no shared strategy for how th… 15 Nov 2022 Australia is still the world's priciest country for off-street parking Parkopedia's 2022 Global Parking Index ranks Australia as the most expensive country for short and daily off-street parking, with Sydney second only to New York… 19 Aug 2022 Adelaide hospital support staff strike as free parking ends Cleaners, orderlies and other support workers at Adelaide's public hospitals walked off the job after pandemic-era free staff parking came to an end. 3 Mar 2022 Four promised Melbourne commuter car parks scrapped in Kooyong Four station car parks worth $65 million in Melbourne's inner east were dropped after local opposition and an audit criticised the federal scheme that funded th… 23 Feb 2022 Brisbane's free CBD parking boosts foot traffic but moves disability bays Brisbane City Council's free street parking and half-price car park deal lifted CBD foot traffic, but disability advocates say accessible bays became harder to… 17 Nov 2017 Driver finds his parked car... 20 years on A motorist who forgot where he parked his car has been reunited with it after it was found, still in the same place, 20 years later. 23 May 2015 Melbourne CBD car spaces now some of city's hottest real estate Melbourne CBD car spaces now some of city's hottest real estate NICOLE ENGWIRDA NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA NETWORK MAY 23, 2015 12:01AM 15 May 2015 Just the Ticket for Investors Published on reiv.com.au 17 Jan 2015 Parking space in Sydney CBD up for sale for same price as a two-bedroom villa near Penrith AIDAN DEVINE REAL ESTATE REPORTER THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JANUARY 17, 2015