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As an emotional sea of zinc-covered faces and floppy hats filled the MCG in honour of Shane Warne, the legend’s son Jackson had a message for others who had lost a loved one.  Car drivers have been put on notice as thousands of road incidents and near misses involving passengers boarding or leaving trams are reported annually.  Summer clothing was the hot ticket item at the Boxing Day sales as tho...

Motorists have been warned to brace for a week of traffic chaos from Boxing Day as repair works on the West Gate Bridge spark 90 minute delays and gridlock across Melbourne.  Victoria's top traffic cop says driver behaviour has deteriorated in the post-COVID era.  Victorian shoppers will be among the country’s biggest spenders during their Boxing Day bargain hunt.  Princess Charlotte has stolen th...

Football Australia has banned Melbourne Victory supporters from attending home A-League games for the next month unless they are ticketed members.  Fire Rescue Victoria will be without its computer dispatch system, which sends trucks to fires, for “weeks” with the bill for its system-crippling cyber attack likely to run into the millions of dollars.  Legislation will be introduced into the Victori...

A family has been left devasted after theives stole medals and letters belonging to one of the country’s most admired military figures and humanitarians, Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop,   Shocking figures has found more than 9000 healthcare workers were abused, threatened or assaulted across Melbourne’s major hospitals in the last financial year.  Deadly weapons are being sold on social media and retai...

One of four teenagers who spent six hours drifting 22km across Port Phillip Bay has told how he couldn’t feel his hands as he desperately clung to his paddleboard.  Thirteen alleged soccer hooligans have been charged over the A-League anarchy that erupted at the Melbourne derby on Saturday night.  The minimum age of criminal responsibility would be lifted from 10 to 14 under a new Bill introduced...

Three hooligans involved in Saturday night’s soccer chaos face prison sentences of up to 10 years if found guilty of charges of violent disorder.  A former suburban drug dealer who became an accidental multi-millionaire when a small stash of cryptocurrency he made selling drugs online ballooned in value has narrowly avoided jail.  A government report has revealed dodgy petrol pumps, incorrect weig...

Police are warning hooligans who stormed the AAMI Park pitch and attacked an A-League player and referee they will be “knocking on doors” imminently. A chance discovery by a Melbourne researcher may be a lifesaver in the fight against deadly colorectal cancer. The Victorian Liberal Party will not review its disastrous 2022 election campaign, but will instead begin work on its 2026 effort. And in s...

AGGRAVATED burglaries committed by Victoria’s youngest offenders have risen 80 per cent year-on-year, with overall crime figures for children aged under 14 being at its highest rate in half a decade. TRAMS and buses will have priority at traffic lights across Melbourne under a program to improve traffic flow. DANDENONG Council has spent more than $650,000 in legal fees fighting the infamous slug s...

Victoria has shifted into the slow lane as motorists confront thousands of 40km/h zones, which are now almost as common as 60km/h zones. Two Greens-dominated Melbourne councils will be ­allowed to host citizenship ceremonies for the first time since 2017 after Immigration Minister Andrew Giles backed down on the previous government’s insistence they hold them on Australia Day. Local general-duties...

Some of Australia’s top burns surgeons say lessons from the Bali Bombings have been forgotten, leaving the country under-prepared for mass-casualty burns incidents including major bushfires. Melbourne Grand Prix boss Andrew Westacott will stand down as chief executive after next year’s race, in a shock departure from the Formula One major event. Fire Rescue Victoria could be victim of a cyber atta...

Footage of two men and two vehicles have emerged as potential breakthroughs in the underworld murder of Mickleham man Korey Kesici. Only one in five CBD employees are working in the office five days a week, a new survey has found. Victoria Police is on track to impound a record number of vehicles this year, as the force targets deadly drivers in a bid to halt the state’s soaring road toll. And Mel...

Victorian cricket authorities are on guard as local matches become the focus of international betting. A new personalised vaccine against melanoma has almost halved the rate of recurrence and death in a major turning point described as cancer’s “penicillin moment”. A Queensland rookie cop who survived a deadly ambush on a remote Western Downs property sent messages to family saying she thought she...

Two Queensland police officers have been killed after they came under attack on the western Darling Downs. Victorian renters are routinely being asked by unscrupulous real estate agents and landlords to bid over advertised prices to secure properties, despite the practice being banned. Victorian schools have posted their best results in years, with grades spiking and students performing well beyon...

POLICE are monitoring 644 gang members who are on a statewide youth crime watch list. AUSTRALIA will offer upgraded defence and security support for Papua New Guinea as it seeks to shore up relations with close Pacific neighbours amid increased competition in the region from China. PROGRESS to close the gender pay gap between women and men in Australia has failed to make any ground for the first t...

THE head of Victoria Police’s anti-bikie task force would support any new law wiping outlaw bikie gangs from existence. SUPPORT for renewable ­energy has dropped as voters feel the effect of power price blowouts on family budgets. Retailers are hiring extra security as more than $1 billion worth of goods will be stolen in the lead up to Christmas as interest rate hikes bite. AND… BLOCK star Shaynn...

A Mongols bikie killed fruiterer Paul Virgona on EastLink just 22 days after promising a judge he was a changed man. Daniel Andrews has exceeded his 2018 “Danslide” election victory success, with his party officially claiming 56 seats. The poorest Australians’ bills will be subsidised by hundreds of dollars over the next 12 months as part of the federal government’s plan to protect consumers from...

19 month old Noah Souvatzis was feverish, vomiting, unable to support his head and developing a rash when he was discharged from Wangaratta hospital. Noah’s devastated parents Ben and Steph say a series of catastrophic hospital blunders led to Noah’s “totally avoidable” death, and that an investigation into the tragedy has been a “whitewash”. New Opposition Leader John Pesutto has vowed to ­rebuil...

THE devastated mother of a teenager who was stabbed to death during an evening with friends on St Kilda foreshore has pleaded for action to combat knife crime. THE rising black market demand for breast milk from body builders, cancer patients and those with Covid has sparked a call for human milk to be classified as “tissue” and regulated in the same way as supplies of blood. THOUSANDS of Victoria...

Parents were being urged to not bring their sick children to the Royal Children’s Hospital emergency department, it comes as a top doctor is warning the state’s healthcare crisis will continue “well past Christmas”. The teenage victim of a suspected gang attack lay dying along the St Kilda foreshore, with a knife still inside him, in front of hundreds of shocked beachgoers relishing the first week...

Mortgage-free millionaire Reserve Bank bosses have been accused of being out of touch as families struggling to pay off their soaring home loans face the spectre of an eighth rate rise in as many months.  Spin king Shane Warne and distance runner Ron Clarke will be officially recognised as legends of Australian sport.  A map war gaming potential threats from China’s land-based missile arsenal show...

A City of Melbourne-owned company that collects rubbish for the council has been slammed for giving its chief executive an “outrageous” salary package of nearly $800,000 over the past year.  A Liberal Party candidate has lifted the lid on a chaotic election campaign, accusing outgoing state director Sam McQuestin of doing more for Labor than his own party.  The Defence Minister has declared Austra...

Ricky Ponting was taken to hospital yesterday, driven by the Australian team doctor, after suffering a heart scare on day three of the first Test in Perth.  Hospitals will have the power to cancel staff leave from Saturday, as authorities place Victoria’s health system under new measures to combat “increasing demand” amid a fourth Covid wave.  More statues of women are set be erected in Melbourne...

New medical evidence detailing the impact of a second trial on Brittany Higgins’ mental health is expected to result in the charge being dropped and the trial not proceeding.  Household gas bills are set to soar by about $500 for customers on basic contracts next year, delivering a crippling cost-of-living crunch.  The Andrews government has ordered a security sweep of its ministerial cars just da...

Law enforcement agencies have joined forces to declare war on the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang, vowing to break them up and eradicate them from our shores.  An elderly homeowner was shopping at Bunnings when a helicopter crashed landed onto the roof of her Mentone home of 55 years.  Australian scientists have discovered how bacteria evolves into a superbug that can beat antibiotics, warning w...

The number of children and teenagers turning up to hospital with eating disorders has skyrocketed since the Covid lockdowns in Melbourne, with desperate parents saying their children are only able to get admitted once they are near death.  Monash University staff can be fired if they do not complete mandatory Indigenous culture training.  Victorians flocked to this year’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday...