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A 24 page special liftout brings you all the news from the Federal election as Australia votes on its future. The death of a six-month-old boy is being investigated by the homicide squad.  As Neighbours enters its last weeks of filming, the show has endured a shocking snub.  Footy greats Dane Swan, Brendan Fevola and Brent Harvey could be stepping into the boxing ring for a major AFL fig...

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have both warned voters can’t trust the other to deliver a better future as the nation recovers from the pandemic..... Men who attended elite private schools will be probed on how their exclusive education impacted their attitudes towards, women, consent and sexism...  Ambulance waiting times continue to blow out, as damning new figures reveal there h...

Home building giants including under-pressure Metricon have sought to alter government contracts to help repair balance sheets smashed by construction cost inflation.  Scott Morrison has claimed Anthony Albanese will seek to control the lives of Victorians like Daniel Andrews, in a bold last-ditch pitch to the state that could decide the election.  A shelter for women and children fleein...

Melbourne tennis ace Destanee Aiava has spoken of her determination to win a battle with mental health after revealing she tried to take her own life.  Victoria’s record long lockdowns have led to a spike in eating disorders, resulting in a 300 per cent increase in ­demand for support services throughout the pandemic.  The founder of Jim's Mowing is taking a fight for ­acce...

In a stunning rejection of transparency, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has declared Australian voters only need to know if Labor will deliver a higher deficit than the Coalition 48 hours before polling day.  Home learning has recommenced for some Victorian students as schools battle to contain widespread staff shortages due to unprecedented outbreaks of the flu and covid.  A surpris...

Federal Labor has made a $4bn infrastructure power play on the eve of the election, saying it could commit the cash to a range of projects. The Labor chairwoman of a parliamentary inquiry probing Victoria’s anti-corruption agencies has been accused of running a protection racket for the government after blocking questioning over the infamous red shirts election rort.  Victorian projects...

The PM has pledged first home buyers would be able to access their retirement nest egg in order to break into the property market should the government be re-elected  A grieving daughter has launched legal action against her late father’s employer after he contracted Covid at his workplace.  IBAC Commissioner Robert Redlich has hit out at being gagged during a parliamentary probe i...

New rooftop lighting and sky-high public barbecue decks will be part of a $1bn redevelopment of the MCG Some of Melbourne’s worst youth gang members have been ripped off the streets in a major arrest operation. The Labor Party has flooded the Melbourne electorate of Higgins after polling showed the party was in reach of snatching the seat  And Popstar Cody Simpson and Olympic golden gir...

Victims of Victoria’s crisis-addled triple-0 system have demanded to know whether a report into the service has been read by the Premier and health minister.  White Australians with Anglo-Celtic backgrounds are effectively barred from applying for a $90,000-plus job as an anti-racism officer at a local council.  The suspected would-be hitman for jailed Notorious Crime Family boss G...

Labor is on track for an election victory, with a major nationwide poll predicting the opposition will claim nine seats off the government.  A shocking study has found almost one in four Aussie kids have suffered cyber-bullying...which is the second highest rate of online abuse against children in the world...  The first doses of two Melbourne-made Covid vaccine candidates have been...

Economists fear wage hikes backed by Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese risk fuelling inflation and further adding to household cost-of-living pressures.  Slashed ticket prices and family passes to the entire Melbourne Cup Carnival will be offered in a push to get big crowds back to the race that stops a nation.   A grieving father has told of the horror of watching his daughter die afte...

Victoria’s most senior anti-corruption commissioner says more hearings should be held in public following revelations Daniel Andrews has been quizzed in private twice.  A new council management report has found Bourke Street Mall, Chinatown and Elizabeth St have been dubbed the “hot spots” in the CBD grid for graffiti vandals..  The Western Bulldogs are facing a multimi...

Heritier Lumumba’s feud with Collingwood and former coach Nathan Buckley is laid bare in a dossier he wanted to present to the club. The first trains for the Melbourne Airport Rail Link have been ordered. Thousands of Victorian students will this week sit NAPLAN tests online for the first time. An inner city council wants planning laws beefed up so that new wood heaters can be banned in buil...

The Transport Department says patching up the West Gate Bridge could ­be a bureaucratic nightmare once it is heritage listed. Victorians will wake up to frosty, foggy mornings over coming days after the state recorded its first snow for the year. A reformed neo-Nazi whose crimes were dramatised in the movie Romper Stomper has warned young men joining the latest crop of neo-Nazi groups. Unneces...

Daniel Andrews’ world record lockdown is seeing criminals walk from jail early in a bid to curb crippling court backlogs. George Marrogi and his girlfriend Antonietta Mannella have been hit with more drug charges. Footy fans can crack open a cold tinnie at the MCG for the first time since the early 1990s. Health experts have launched a renewed push for a sugar tax amid data showing 15 per ce...

Police are investigating potential links between the underworld killing of Korey Kesici and the boss of the Notorious Crime Family. Carlton premiership greats Stephen Kernahan and Craig Bradley face losing their family homes in a bitter stoush over a $4.5 million debt. Ramsay Healthcare has terminated its contract with health fund Bupa and its four million members An urgent health warning’s...

Australia will develop unmanned submarines and purchase upgraded missiles to boost the Navy’s warfighting capability in the Indo-Pacific. Collingwood’s initiated mandatory cultural awareness training for its members. A mother allegedly stabbed to death by her university lecturer husband begged neighbours for help as she fought to survive. A preliminary investigation has been launched i...

The Reserve Bank has jacked up interest rates for the first time in 11 years, promising a series of further increases for homeowners. Wantirna College teacher charged with a string of child sex offences against a student. A cardiac rehab program completed over the phone could pave the way for further telehealth treatments. Victoria will plunge further into debt on the back of a big spend budget. F...

Screams were heard at Dr Adam Brown’s home at the time the Deakin University lecturer is alleged to have stabbed his wife to death. Driver’s licences on smartphones are still out of sight for Victorians. Daniel Andrews will confront the federal election winner to demand a 50-50 funding split for hospitals. Women’s football pioneer Susan Alberti terminated her sponsorship of femal...

A secret report into an extreme shortage of female football umpires has exposed a toxic, male-dominated culture where women are being sexually harrassed and abused.  Six eating disorder centres spruiked at the 2019 election are yet to become operational.. Flinders University has apologised for publishing a list of derogatory and offensive terms about minority groups which included listing hus...

It’s been revealed Victorian hospitals have pushed the extremes of life support, saving dozens of Covid patients in months-long comas who would have previously been considered too far gone.  The son of slain Underworld boss Nabil Maghnie is facing life behind bars after being found guilty of killing two men in a deadly drive-by shooting at the popular Love Machine nightclub.  A key...

Homeowners are staring down the barrel of a series of interest rate hikes starting next week, worsening a cost of living crunch caused by inflation hitting a 20-year high.   Conservative commentators are claiming VCE students are given high marks for following a left-wing politically-correct agenda, conservative commentators claim..  The price motorists will pay to travel on Victori...

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin cruise line arm will make Port Melbourne its home port for one of its luxury ships in the summer of 2023-24.   Convicted sex offenders could live free and unchecked under a radical series of recommendations by Victoria’s law reform agency.   A Melbourne teenager has been charged with murder and 17 people have been arrested after a stabbi...

A gangland boss has been charged with masterminding his organised crime syndicate from inside a Victorian jail. Treasurer Tim Pallas has dismissed concerns about the state’s credit rating ahead of next week’s state budget. Australian security experts agree with Defence Minister Peter Dutton’s assessment the nation must “prepare for war” to protect peace, but have warn...

Victoria’s justice system remains in crisis, amid warnings it could take a decade for the growing court backlog to recover.  The nation is set to be plunged into a third La Nina weather system that will batter the east coast with drenchings of rain and cause more floods, possibly erasing the prospect of any protracted sunny weather for six months.  Labor has been forced t...