Popular Melbourne community radio station Triple R has been given a reprieve by the Victorian state government. The government intervened to stop a high-rise development next to the station's East Brunswick headquarters.
The development threatened to block the station's signal from reaching a transmitter on Mount Dandenong. Planning Minister Richard Wynne set up an independent panel to adjudicate. The panel agreed that it was too expensive for Triple R to move its radio mast and recommended a smaller building.
Triple R sits in the politically sensitive seat of Brunswick. The Greens are making ground in the inner city seat, with some in the ALP worried about the party seizing the seat at the 2018 election.
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