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NIMBY or xenophobia? When places of worship are unwelcome in Green Wedge zones

You hear it all the time: “We’re not racist, we just want to protect the environment.” And yet, planning rejections for places of worship — temples, mosques, gurdwaras — across Melbourne’s Green Wedge zones are stacking up like dominoes. First the mosque in Narre Warren…

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