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The state government has come under fire for announcing the 2022 duck shooting season will run for 90 days – 70 days longer than last year’s season.  It’s been revealed the number of triple-zero call takers was slashed during Covid-19 despite the state government blaming the pandemic on Victoria’s emergency services crisis.  Cricket Great Dean Jones’ wi...

Test wicketkeeping great Rod Marsh remained in hospital after a major heart attack on Thursday with his family, including his wife Ros, bedside. Millions of terrified Ukrainian children are at risk of suffering serious psychological harm as they are forced to flee their homes in freezing temperatures as shells explode around them. Toddlers and preschoolers will learn about non-binary gender identi...

State government schools are being forced to fork out tens of thousands of dollars out of their own budgets to replace teachers who have been forced to isolate.  Ordinary Ukrainians face the prospect of street-to-street fighting against Russian forces... It's been revealed Melbourne City Council lost nearly $22m in expected parking revenue over six months as pandemic shutdowns hit the Town Ha...

Tradies have been told to stop work on building giant ….Probuild’s troubled high rise project in Brisbane amid concerns the company is on the verge of collapse.  The PM has warned rich elites financing and profiting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have “nowhere to run and nowhere to hide” from severe sanctions …. The creation of Year 13 at schools,...

Small businesses will be offered tailored mental health and wellbeing support as part of a new initiative by the state government.  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has backed a push to exclude transgender girls and women from competing in female sports.  A peak health body has backed calls to overhaul the state’s drug laws.  The world's top air crash investigators have concluded...

Victoria Police has been spending millions of dollars on a secret operation to keep lawyer-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo silent and hidden within Australia. Ambulance Victoria will investigate after a man who was critically ill waited almost six hours for paramedics, as growing service delays continue to plague the state. Ratepayers across Victoria complained to councils almost 70,000 times about i...

The first international visitors arriving in Sydney on Monday morning will be met by drag queens and a surf lifesaving crew, given jars of Vegemite and toy koalas and kangaroos, while a DJ plays Australian hits of yesteryear.  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said Russia invading the Ukraine is “looking regrettably inevitable”, as President Vladimir Putin will personally oversee...

The 11-year Victoria Police battle of the beards has been won but bikie-style face tattoos are out for our cops. The United Kingdom has joined Ukraine and Poland in a new, trilateral military alliance aimed at combating “Russian aggression” in Eastern Europe. Single-sex bathrooms and strict uniform polices are being overhauled in Victorian schools in a bid to support transgender and no...

The jump in the price of Rapid Antigen Tests over the summer outbreak has seen the competition commissioner refer 70 complaints to the Federal Police for investigation. A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a “massive strategic mistake” with a “stark humanitarian cost” and must be prevented, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his UK counterpart Boris Johnson have agreed. A...

Fed up with passengers refusing to wear face masks, flight attendants want airlines to demand proof of medical exemptions for non-compliance and seat unmasked travellers together. Next month’s Oscars will be hosted by three doyennes of comedy, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall, it was confirmed Tuesday, as organizers amp up efforts to lure viewers back to the ceremony. Victoria has en...

The year 2021 was the coolest in Australia for nearly a decade, but still warmer than the historical average, the Bureau of Meteorology’s annual climate statement has revealed. Australia’s fleet of F-35A fighter jets will spend less time in the air than previously thought, Defence documents reveal. Australia Post paid a single executive more than half a million dollars to ensure he was...

Melbourne is on the cusp of becoming one of the world’s great cities, but is being held back because its prized services and attractions are not adequately spread to the outer suburbs. Foo Fighters are in talks to play a one-off show in Geelong in March as part of an initiative to promote Victoria as a world-class live music destination. UK powerhouse Nigella Lawson will be among the big nam...

Victorians who catch Covid after having two vaccinations are at least seven times more likely to need intensive care than those who have also had a booster shot.  Rebel Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela has accused the Andrews government of victim blaming after Premier Daniel Andrews dismissed her bullying accusations as “fantasy without foundation”.  At least $13bn of Victorian ro...

Victorians face being slugged higher rubbish collection charges amid warnings the state is almost full to the brim with trash. A state tax on land near high-voltage power lines will fill government coffers to the tune of almost $1bn over the next five years – and consumers will be forced to cough up the cash. Australians are being warned to shun aerosol sunscreens after ­research showed...

Beer drinkers will get 30c off schooners and 20c off pots as Prime Minister Scott Morrison seeks to resurrect his election fortunes and at the same time rescue flailing pubs and clubs.  More than 3000 Victorian babies and children have been traumatised, harmed, locked in or suffered serious illness at Victorian childcare centres in 2020-21, figures show.  Former British Prime Minister Th...

Premiership coach Simon Goodwin delivered an abusive, expletive-riddled tirade to Melbourne’s senior doctor in a bid to pressure him not to rest concussed player Angus Brayshaw, the medico alleged in legal papers.  A renewed family-run search for the remains of schoolboy murder victim Terry Floyd will commence on Friday in central Victoria.  Happiness rather than homework leads to...

Adem Somyurek has accused the party of facilitating “the biggest political scandal of Victoria’s history”. The real-life residents of ­Erinsborough say they’ll be thrilled to get their street back if the popular soap Neighbours is evicted from the ’hood.  Australia will reopen to the world in a fortnight, ­almost two years after the border was slammed shu...

An increasing number of children are struggling with basic skills such as empathy, making friends, coping with change or disappointment and identifying emotions, experts warn. A massive plot of land that could house thousands of people within 10km of Melbourne’s CBD is unlikely to be sold and redeveloped until at least 2024  Safety concerns over electronic scooters are rising amid repor...

International tourists will be back in Australia before the end of the month with the federal Government set to announce a return date as early as Monday following Cabinet’s National Security Committee meeting. Indigenous languages and detailed lessons about the Stolen Generation would be taught to students under a bold curriculum overhaul that would also see dedicated staff teaching Aborigi...

The State Government is not set to order Victorians back to work for at least another month. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been rocked by the leaking of another damaging private text in which Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce attacked him as “a hypocrite and a liar”. Melbourne researchers have found two new treatments that are allowing about half of children with peanut allergies to e...

A vaping plague is sweeping the state, with children as young as ten the target of a crackdown by police in Victorian schools A Melbourne couple has sued Australia Post for failing to deliver parcels to their front door – and won. Many popular slushies contain more than eight day’s worth of recommended added sugar intake, with up to 49 teaspoons of sugar per serve. THE AFL is set to we...

Sick thrill-seeking is believed to be the motive for the bizarre theft of two human heads from a graveyard in Melbourne’s inner west. A fight to protect native birds from an Indian myna “plague” has turned brutal on the Mornington Peninsula as locals are encouraged to stomp the intruders to death.  Victorians looking for love were fleeced of more than $11 million by romance...

Grave robbers who stole a human head from a Melbourne cemetery have sparked a major police probe. The state’s most lucrative speed cameras have netted more than $35m in fines, ­despite two years of Covid-19 lockdowns. Scott Morrison has sought to kickstart his political fightback admitting  his mistakes during the pandemic that he acknowledged had prompted Australians to question hi...

Flights in and out of Melbourne will be significantly changed to send more planes over the suburbs north and south of Tullamarine when a third runway is completed. The Andrews Government has cut off compensation claims for thousands of residents who will live above its road or rail tunnels after quietly changing acquisition laws. Melbourne is one of the most expensive cities in the country for edu...

Fewer than one in three primary school students have received a Covid jab in eight Victorian council areas, with protection severely lagging in regional areas.  Australian Open champion Ash Barty has vowed to take time soaking up the enormity of her drought breaking triumph – then chase more success.  Melbourne's million-dollar club now has more than 200 members, after the number o...