Resistance is far from dead to kill off a contentious plan to knock down and rebuild every public housing tower in Australia's second largest city.

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Legal minds, engineers, residents and other speakers picked apart the Victorian government plan in a public forum at Melbourne's Capitol Theatre on Thursday night.

In one of his final acts as Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews announced in September 2023 that all of Melbourne's 44 public housing estates would be demolished and redeveloped by 2051.

The towers were built between the 1950s and 1970s, with the state government arguing none should be refurbished.

It will lead to the relocation of mor

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