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Festival Hall is returning to Melbourne’s music scene as a live music venue. By his own admission Max Rooke is an unlikely face of a landmark class action that aims to take the AFL to task over concussion-related injuries to players through almost four decades. Australia must get better value for the money it spends on health, education and aged care and disability services if it hopes to keep get...

Qantas is giving customers an extra 12 months to use $800m in outstanding travel credits, but the catch is they will still need to book any travel by the end of this year. The number of Victorians reporting their power has been disconnected for not paying their bills has soared 31 per cent during the first two months of this year. Meghan Markle is reportedly set to relaunch her former career as a...

Twin blockbusters have footy back with a bang as more than 85,000 fans are tipped to pack the MCG for both of the AFL’s huge season-opening clashes. The state and federal governments’ promises to bring down the cost of power bills have short-circuited, after Victoria’s default electricity offer soared by an average of $426 a year. Melbourne’s Austin and St Vincent’s Hospitals are leading a world-f...

Victoria’s interest bill is now costing taxpayers $10m a day. Australians are being warned of a virus “triple threat” this coming winter, prompting health experts to again push the importance of vaccination. Dual Geelong premiership player Max Rooke has been named as the lead plaintiff in a landmark class action lodged against the AFL which could see the league pay out $1bn in compensation to inju...

Off-the-shelf technology, including hypersonic missiles, autonomous undersea vehicles and cyber warfare systems, will be fast-tracked to sharpen Australia’s defences before our nuclear submarines hit the water. The price of a pint of beer has skyrocketed in Melbourne, with patrons now forking out up to $16 for a standard on-tap brew. The AFL says it wants to be a “global leader” in managing sports...

Hundred of thousands of Victorian households and businesses are set to be slugged with higher power bills from July, as the cost of last year’s energy crisis is passed on to consumers.  The Andrews government has been accused of “mass deception” over plans to squeeze one million extra people into precincts around Suburban Rail Loop stations.  Could it be that an orange a day keeps the complication...

CRICKET champion Ricky Ponting and his wife Rianna have forked out more than $20m for a six-bedroom Toorak mansion. ANTHONY Albanese will land in the US today to seal a historic deal to arm Australia with nuclear submarines, undeterred by China’s campaign to block the move and France’s lingering anger at being cut out.  THE Andrews government is preparing to slash hundreds of jobs across Victoria’...

Taxpayer funds will be used to secure Victoria’s offshore wind projects in a race to protect the state’s power supplies as coal-fired stations go offline from 2025.  Not a single Victorian real estate agent has been fined with breaching laws banning “rental auctions” despite dozens of complaints to the consumer watchdog and reports that the practice is rife.  Taxpayers are funding $15,000 luxury b...

A Victorian judge’s decision to boot a “humiliated” and “degraded” breastfeeding mother from his courtroom on Thursday has sparked outrage.  A boy who bravely fought back from a brain tumour to return to the cricket field only to see a junior competition kick his team out of the finals has had his case overturned.  Australia is expected to buy up to five nuclear submarines from the US while buildi...

It’s been revealed Reserve Bank boss Philip Lowe enjoyed a half-price loan while paying off his five-bedroom multimillion-dollar home.  Victoria's former anti-corruption commissioner has accused the Andrews government of launching revenge attacks on IBAC in retaliation for a series of probes into its dealings.  Melbourne scientists have made a world first discovery of how to turn air into electric...

Just one more hike – that’s the coded message of hope buried in the last paragraph of Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe’s statement on its latest 0.25 per cent interest rate increase.  A former acquaintance of Jeffrey Corfe says he’s appalled to discover an old reference was used to defend the sex offender’s “good character” without permission, and wants it immediately withdrawn by th...

Melbourne rentals priced at less than $400 a week have more than halved over the past year, as median rates remain at alarming record highs.  The Andrews government has been accused of breaking an election promise as it considers collecting more money from businesses to prop up its ailing workers compensation scheme.  New data has found more than 70 dangerous prisoners who were released into the c...

Gabi Grecko has sensationally revealed that her marriage to controversial Melbourne businessman Geoffrey Edelsten was an “abusive, controlling” relationship  Volunteer firefighters are fleeing the CFA, with more than 10,000 leaving the service since Daniel Andrews came to office. A young mother who gave her baby son a puff on a vape sparking national outrage says she is sorry for putting her child...

A revolutionary new daily pill proven to significantly lower cholesterol and reduce heart attacks will be a lifesaver for hundreds of thousands of Australians. Older public servants are set to be offered generous “early retirement” packages in a desperate bid to reduce staff costs and rein in the state budget. Aggravated burglaries in a cluster of affluent Melbourne suburbs have more than doubled...

The Andrews government is set to make Richmond’s supervised injecting room a permanent facility. Victoria is chasing $1.3bn in federal funding for the Commonwealth Games, using the state’s woeful share of recent infrastructure spending to argue for the major cash splash. Melbourne City Council has boldly predicted that by the end of 2023 more people will be working in the inner city than before Co...

Defence has “alarmingly” created an $800,000 office in its headquarters for its Minister Richard Marles complete with his embossed name on the door but forget to tell him they were even doing it or why. A courtroom showdown looms between Kooyong MP Monique Ryan and her chief of staff Sally Rugg after the pair were unable to settle an unfair dismissal dispute through mediation. Victorian researcher...

Former Tigers and Dees footballer Ben Holland has launched a series of vicious ­attacks on his ex-AFL star brother Nick, and even wished death on sister-in-law Rachel. Former AFLW star Emma Grant has launched civil action against Collingwood Football Club after she was forced into early retirement due to concussion. Bikie gangs have been smuggling “natural” methamphetamine from Afghanistan since t...

Daniel Andrews has admitted he still doesn’t know when the government will receive a long-overdue report into Melbourne’s second drug injecting facility. Tax on superannuation for the nation’s wealthiest will be doubled from 2025, but there are fears the Albanese Government will next target more tax breaks – including for capital gains and negative gearing. The decline of Melbourne’s property mark...

The Covid pandemic was most likely caused by a laboratory leak in China, according to a new investigation by a key US government agency. Australian children will have spent 11,000 hours in the school classroom by 15, thousands more than their international peers yet there’s little evidence showing the extra time is productive. The Alfred hospital’s intensive care unit is running “at or near capaci...

A landmark class action by former footballers suffering the effect of concussion injuries is being prepared against the AFL. Hundreds of children aged under 14 were arrested in a year for high-level crimes that will no longer result in charges. Finding solutions to tackle eating disorders among young Aussies would be the job of a new taskforce the federal government is being urged to establish.  A...

Doctors are biting their tongues over spruiking the benefits of medicinal cannabis, leaving it instead to sports stars and celebrities. Music royalty will share their memories of Olivia Newton-John at her memorial service in Melbourne today. Eddie McGuire will be back behind a microphone calling a select number of footy games for 3AW in 2023. Households feeling the pinch say they’d consider accept...

A little known Olivia Newton-John song about gratitude, in which she declared “thank you for life, thank you for everything,” will be a centrepiece in the state memorial for the beloved Australian superstar. Animal advocates have declared war on the Andrews government, vowing to take to the wetlands in protest at the “spineless” decision to green light a duck shooting season. The teal MPs, whose w...

New data shows that since Shane Warne’s death from suspected heart disease while holidaying in Thailand almost a year ago, there has been a 25 per cent increase in Australians getting heart checks. The federal government has been accused of having sticky fingers after Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones compared Australians’ superannuation savings to “honey” that should be managed in the best intere...

The cyclist who was left with horrific injuries after he was hit by a truck allegedly driven by Kangaroos great, Glenn Archer, said that he has received no apology, now more than a month after the crash. Former Labor minister Theo Theophanous has resigned from the board of State Trustees amid a damning new corruption finding. Pop superstar Harry Styles has slipped quietly into Melbourne after play...

A self-taught cook behind a TikTok-famous underground eatery has vowed to “keep this dream alive”, after council shut down the home operation. Thousands of Australian children have started the new school year without qualified teachers in core subjects. Victorian tax payers forked out tens of thousands of dollars to fund Treasurer Tim Pallas’ multi-continental travel junket last year. And the Coal...