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A Mercedes driver charged over a CBD pursuit with two off-duty police officers on board has been revealed as a former nightclub promoter with a history of assaults. A TINY brain device that gives back the gift of communication to people with severe paralysis has been proven safe and effective in a world-first clinical trial in Melbourne. MELBOURNE’S traditional Australia Day parade has been cancel...

A peak body for the taxi industry has called out greedy drivers for price gouging, with the state government resisting calls to step in despite inflated fares at the Australian Open and safety concerns among female travellers. Tennis legend Margaret Court is set to snub this month’s Australian Open. Brit Selwood has made an impassioned plea to the state government to address the midwife shortage a...

Explosive video has shown Australian cricket legend Michael Clarke and Today Show host Karl Stefanovic squaring off in wild scenes in a public park over a cheating allegation. Accused of being “tricky” with the public, Anthony Albanese has not ruled out legislating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament if Australians reject enshrining the body in the constitution. Victorian families are being hit with...

Victorian business identity Robert Belteky allegedly defrauded the car parking company he ran of more than $10m A $1 Million reward will be posted today over the strangulation murder of Middle Park socialite Jeanette Moss. Secret listening devices recorded accused High Country killer Greg Lynn talking to himself about Russell Hill and Carol Clay nearly a year after their alleged murders, according...

Intoxicated Victorians will be taken home or to “sobering up” centres under new rules decriminalising public drunkenness. A Sydney man who was a keen traveller and surfer is believed to have died in a fatal plane crash in Nepal that killed at least 68 people. Retail workers, cleaners, gardeners and hair dressers have had the strongest wages growth of any sector the country. And.. Tennis Australia’...

Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley has called for a radical shake-up of Australian sports funding that would see lottery finances used to bankroll our brightest athletes. Melbourne’s 2022 real ­estate rollercoaster added up to $1500 a day to the value of homes in some suburbs even as others shed just as much in a ­tumultuous year for homeowners. Molly Meldrum has apologised for gatecrashing Sir Elt...

Victoria’s security industry faces a drastic workforce shortage that could affect major events. She is one of Australia’s most recognised faces – an actor, author and a mother of six. Designs for the Melbourne Airport Rail station have been quietly updated in an effort to combat fears the station could create congestion problems during peak times. And in sport, hundreds of thousands of tennis fans...

Singer Lisa Marie Presley – the only child of rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis – is dead after a cardiac arrest. More than one in five Australians have experienced suicidal behaviour in the last year – with one in six having serious thoughts of ending their own lives – as living costs have soared in the shadow of the Covid pandemic. The Mildura community has been put on alert after a rare but potentiall...

A boxing trainer has launched legal action against his star fighter over claims the middleweight champion walked out on their contract shortly after the trainer suffered a major stroke. New properties will be built to house almost 7000 athletes and officials during the 2026 Commonwealth Games in an unprecedented regional construction boom. A surgeon at the centre of a colonoscopy recall affecting...

Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome, three years after the High Court ruled that Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic had been unfairly jailed for alleged child sex abuse. Australia's former Navy chief has been criticised for using a military submarine as his personal “love sub” after taking his girlfriend on an overnight ride and proposing to her. More public hospital beds are being occupied by...

Australian Open boss Craig Tiley has warned fans they will be kicked out if they unfairly target controversial former world number one Novak Djokovic. China’s ambassador to Australia opened an extraordinary press conference in Canberra by toasting the Chinese-Australian relationship with a glass of Barossa Valley red that is all but banned in his home country. Parents have been warned about the da...

The majority of Victorians want local councils abolished or are unsure if they should exist, with Millennials among the biggest supporters of a major shake-up. Community greyhound rescue and foster groups are in crisis amid claims the racing industry is breeding too many dogs and discarding them at alarming rates. Older Australians are continuing to march into the workforce, with more working than...

Underage teens are being fed videos on TikTok featuring images of graphic sex acts, rating their sexual “purity” and encouraging them to make explicit videos as concerned experts warn parents to protect their teenagers from the “vortex” of inappropriate content.  The locations of 50 new urgent care clinics to treat non-life threatening injuries and illness have not been finalised despite the Alban...

A damning report has found more than a thousand ­complaints alleging neglect or abuse of adults living with disability in Victoria are not being investigated.  The search for a young man who went missing in rough surf at a notorious Mornington Peninsula beach will continue for a third day after his father was unable to save him.  Parents are being urged to do more to protect their kids’ personal d...

The British royal family on Friday faced a barrage of devastating and damaging revelations when the Duke of Sussex’s book, Spare, was accidentally released.  One in six Australian parents say they will consider pulling their children out of private junior schools and sending them to a state primary schools to ease cost-of-living pressures.  Artificial intelligence-­enabled road safety cameras are...

Victoria Police is fighting for numbers and the force is struggling for recruits after almost one in nine officers left since 2019.  New research has found a twelve-second voice ­recording could be used to work out whether people are drunk,   More than $69m allocated to fix dangerous black spots on roads across the country has been ripped out of the budget by the Albanese government amid a spike i...

Suburban sky trains are coming to Melbourne’s west as part of the state’s level crossing removal program reshaping the city.  A traumatised mother has spoken for the first time about how she clung desperately to her young son’s hand with “death in her eyes” as she watched the pilot frantically try to save those on board a doomed Sea World helicopter joy flight.  Victorians were duped by ticket sca...

Victoria’s Education Department is facing a wave of injury claims before the courts as out-of-control students run amok on school grounds.  A Geelong West mother thought she and her young son were going to die when their helicopter crashed into another chopper near Sea World on the Gold Coast.  Australia's population will be just shy of 30 million people in just 10 years, but would have easily top...

Four people were killed and three seriously injured after two helicopters on holiday joy rides from Sea World collided mid-air over the Gold Coast.  E-Scooters will stay on Melbourne’s roads after the controversial trial due to finish this month is set to be extended.  Cricket Australia’s TV rights deal is done and dusted after Kayo and Foxtel saw off international streaming competition to retain...

Victoria's Office of Special Investigator says its probe of the Lawyer X scandal is being hampered and it needs more money or powers to uncover the truth.  Melbourne is notorious for its ability to have four seasons in a day, and its fickle weather could be putting people at greater risk of cancer and other conditions.  Child killer Robert Farquharson is being blamed for the untimely death of his...

Graffiti supporters have covertly hijacked QR codes designed to help people report vandalism in the CBD, instead directing them to YouTube videos promoting the spray-can subculture.  A new government document says the recovery effort from Victoria’s floods could continue for years.  Victorian councils have been urged to avoid “gorging” on a 3.5 rate cap rise and instead provide much needed relief...

Melbourne is gearing up to ring in the New Year with more than 400,000 revellers set to descend on the city for the biggest celebration ever.  Victorian taxpayers forked out $1.3bn over the past two years to bail out WorkSafe after the Andrews government was secretly warned about the agency’s dire financial position.  Suicides in Victoria are at a five-year high, with 686 deaths recorded so far th...

TENNIS Australia boss Craig Tiley has warned Melbourne risks losing the Australian Open to an interstate or overseas city unless there is continued development of its sports precinct, including a new ­stadium.  A LEADING oral health expert has warned Victoria’s public dental system is well beyond crisis point, with vulnerable Victorians forced to wait longer than 17 months on average for general d...

ORAL health experts are warning Australia is in a “dire” situation if there is not an ­urgent and substantial increase in research funding.  Criminals ordered to wear tracking bracelets are deliberately hacking them off in record numbers to roam free.  A woman who attempted to diffuse an early morning dispute with neighbours was set upon in an alleged arson attack outside a Werribee South unit, wh...

The hooligan who allegedly hurled a metal bucket at a goalkeeper’s face in the violent pitch invasion at AAMI Park is upset that he’s being “unfairly targeted” over the mayhem.  The Opposition has warned supplying protective equipment and rapid tests are “not enough” to stem the deadly wave of Covid in Australia’s aged care homes and more “tangible” solutions are urgently needed. Kevin Rudd will b...