The Herald Sun - News Feed

Students who are “actively” gay or having unmarried straight sex should not be school captains, a church that runs some of Victoria’s most prestigious colleges has told a discrimination review. Inflation will remain higher for longer in Australia, extending the cost-of-living crisis, but Jim Chalmers maintains the economy will keep growing despite the rising threat of a global “hard landing”. If i...

Public drunkenness laws will be abolished from Melbourne Cup Day, in a move police have warned could threaten community safety. Australian medical professionals are divided on the use of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence within the industry. Daniel Andrews has told his ministers to cut back on overseas travel citing Victoria’s ongoing cost-of-living pressures. And Andy Lee and girlfriend ­Rebecc...

The heartbroken parents of a year 8 girl who died after an accidental chroming incident over the weekend has vowed to make it their “life mission” to raise awareness of the issue. Cut-price tickets will be offered to this year’s Melbourne Cup with the Victoria Racing Club to wind back the clock on the cost of entry to the race that stops a nation. “Rich and greedy” people in Sydney and Melbourne a...

A $250 million community grants fund set up as part of the controversial Suburban Rail Loop project is splashing cash on clubs more than 5km from the project route. Obstructive sleep apnoea may cause early cognitive decline in middle-aged men, even those who are otherwise healthy and not obese, new research has found. Ahead of the May federal budget Treasurer Jim Chalmers will meet with world econ...

Three convicted murderers are among the prisoners who have been charged with assaulting guards at Barwon Prison during a recent spate of violence. More than half the residents of Rochester are still living in caravans and sheds, six months after the town was inundated by devastating floods. The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, is coming to Australia to share his financial secrets. Carlton is s...

Ousted state MPs would be paid for up to 18 months after they lose their jobs under a proposal sent to the state’s public sector pay-setting body. Victorians have once again given generously, contributing more than $10.8million to the Good Friday ­Appeal. A former Geelong footballer has accused a trio of players of a historic gang rape as he sues the Cats for failing to protect him from sexual abu...

The owner of a Melbourne burger joint who won the legal bunfight launched by American rapper Kanye West has jetted to the US to track down the millionaire and make him pay up. The heartbroken mother of Celeste Manno, stabbed to death by former co-worker Luay Sako in her bedroom, has watched on in disgust as the man pleaded guilty to her murder. AFTER more than 800 days, five-year-old Ivy Decker st...

The Liberal Party will actively campaign against a Indigenous Voice To Parliament Parliament following a majority decision that sets up the referendum as a personal political contest between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton. The estranged wife of union boss John Setka has been banned from speaking with a private investigator who she ­allegedly told about a plot to kill her husband. A “revolutiona...

DESPITE bans in many schools, time-poor teachers are turning to ChatGPT to help them write student reports. VICTORIAN nurses, teachers and cops may be caught up in a government edict to ban TikTok on all taxpayer-funded work phones. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s record run of interest rate rises is finally over, although it has warned monetary policy “may” be tightened again. VICTORIA’S independ...

The popular video social media app Tik Tok will be banned from all Australian and Victorian government devices due to security concerns around the Chinese- owned platform.  The Reserve Bank of Australia has been urged to halt its unprecedented spate of rate hikes, as more and more businesses report sharp falls in new orders.  Victoria’s typical new house price has surged more than $133,000 since 2...

World champion Max Verstappen won his first Melbourne Grand Prix on a drama charged day that saw records broken and carnage unfold on course. The number of CBD employees committed to working five days a week in the office has plummeted from 20 per cent to just 8 per cent since November.  Firefighters would share in a whopping $127m taxpayer-funded windfall under a new push by the militant United F...

Gold Logie winner Craig McLachlan has received half a million dollars in costs from Victoria Police after his high-profile acquittal on common ­assault and indecent assault charges.  Students and teachers at state schools will suffer through a longer 12-week term in 2026 as a result of the Commonwealth Games.  Violent prison inmates have been attacking each inside the crowded and understaffed Barw...

Home town hero Oscar Piastri has made Formula One history as the first Victorian to take to the track in the Australian Grand Prix, in front of a blockbuster crowd.  The Andrews government is paying bosses on its gold-plated major projects salaries of up to $780,000 at the same time as it slashes public service jobs due to a budget emergency.  Kate Langbroek has moved to clarify any suggestion she...

Convicted drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury, has opened up about her new life, admitting she has no friends after her “surreal” imprisonment.  A parliamentary inquiry with the power to grill the state’s top public servant may be asked to probe Daniel ­Andrews’ secretive Chinese trade mission.  An economic report says battling Australians will see their housing and energy costs swallow half their disp...

The estranged wife of union boss John Setka has been charged with incitement to commit conspiracy to murder after she allegedly attempted to obtain a gun to shoot him.  Family and friends of loved ones lost on ­Victorian roads are calling for minimum jail sentence guidelines for killer drivers after ­losing faith in what they call the ‘weak’ justice system.  Controversial independent Senator Lidia...

Thousands of public servants are set to be axed under a tough new edict issued ahead of May’s state budget.  One of the organisations that Daniel Andrews met on his first day in China was accused by the US government of seeking to “directlyn influence” state leaders.  Popular showgirl Rhonda Burchmore has opened up about the horror of living in the spotlight with a stalker in the shadows and threa...

A FORMER Hawthorn player and his wife are threatening legal action against the club, saying it has “abandoned” them in the aftermath of its­ ­racism scandal. STAMP duty should be axed to give homebuyers on moderate incomes more options and limit Melbourne’s outer suburban sprawl, a new report says. RENEGADE MP Moira Deeming has appeared to contradict claims by John Pesutto that she had made import...

Swimming pool temperatures are taking a dive as recreation centres across Victoria deal with soaring gas and electricity bills. New mobile phone and seatbelt cameras will be used on Victoria’s roads for the first time this week. The family of a girl killed in a hit-run in Melbourne’s north has pleaded for the driver to hand themselves in to police. St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs have condemned...

Community group and not-for-profit funding is set to be slashed as the Andrews Government scrambles to rein in spending. An unlikely stoush between beer giant Coopers and Jim’s Mowing seems to have been resolved. Professor Greg Craven has quit the federal government’s Constitutional Experts Group on the Voice. Grand Prix fever has Melbourne revving up for a week in the fast lane. For updates and b...

An Indigenous Voice will have the power to advise parliament, cabinet ministers and the public service if backed by Australians. Curtis Stone brings his Los Angeles restaurant Gwen to Melbourne next week. Victoria Police is facing legal action unless it disciplines officers for failing to stop neo-Nazis from protesting at Parliament House. Volunteer blood cancer experts are working on a new way to...

Australia’s teacher education system is facing a shake-up, with calls for more students with an ATAR over 80. Peak heart disease groups met with the Department of Health on Wednesday to plead for screening test subsidies to continue. North Melbourne star Tarryn Thomas will take more time away from the club as the Kangaroos investigate fresh claims about inappropriate behaviour towards women. Trail...

Sam Newman’s son is suing the state’s most exclusive college and NBA star Jock Landale over an alleged ­assault while they were schoolmates. Mushroom Group boss Matt Gudinski will fight to save the Australian Music Vault. Opposition split over move to expel Moira Deeming. University debt and inflation dampens prospects for first-home buyers. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take ou...

Ex-Demons president Glen Bartlett has claimed a push to hair test the club’s senior figures preceded his forced departure. The Arts Centre Melbourne is in dire financial strife needing an extra $223m from the taxpayer. Opposition leader John Pesutto could face calls to resign if he loses a bid to expel controversial MP Moira Deeming. A decorated Australian SAS veteran appeared in court on Monday c...

A daily pill discovered in Melbourne more than a decade ago is being hailed as a potential cure for epilepsy. An internal war has broken out in the Victorian Greens after the party reprimanded a member but failed to suspend or expel them for social media posts  Almost a third of Victorian principals have been physically attacked by aggressive students or parents, a new survey has found And Carlton...

Construction sites across Victoria are grinding to a halt after the state’s militant building union launched a new turf war, prompting accusations of bullying tactics. Melbourne’s magnificent major events comeback has helped kick an economic goal for Victoria worth almost $1 billion in just six months. Melbourne is on its way to becoming a majority migrant city over the next quarter century as Vic...