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Passengers on the long-awaited Melbourne Airport Rail Link face a special $18 surcharge to catch the train to Tullamarine.  Victorian hospitals may still be battling a surge of the Delta variant....and it’s prompting hopes the state’s hospital system may not be overwhelmed... as Omicron becomes the dominant strain.  Victorian households enter the New Year with more than $420m...

Australians are hoarding their holidays like never before with new research showing accrued annual leave is at a record high.... The pandemic shut down Melbourne for most of 2021, but it didn’t stop Melbourne City Council from pulling out all the stops to bring the city back to life.  Melbourne's New Year’s Eve fireworks displays have been blasted as an “embarrassment”...

Frontline responders to natural disasters like bushfires will be given training to identify and support women and children  suffering domestic violence, VICTORIANS with Covid-19 could soon upload their positive rapid antigen test result to an online database, removing the need to get a standard PCR test. VICTORIA’S big businesses will begin footing the bill to overhaul the state’s...

Emergency Services are searching up and down the coastline near Phillip Island after a woman was swept off rocks at a rugged beach   An inaugural “First Nation’s Day’’ will be served up at next month’s Australian Open with the sporting community to recognise our Indigenous heritage. Camping will be banned in more than 200 sites and rock climbing off limits i...

The New Year’s Eve drone shows at Melbourne’s Docklands will not go ahead, grounded by the Covid pandemic.  Hugh Jackman has tested positive for Covid after an outbreak hit the Broadway production he is starring in.  A seven million dollar upgrade to the tram network in Melbourne’s inner northwest will be delivered in the New Year to make journeys more reliable and safe...

The number of executives in Victoria’s public service has close to tripled under the Andrews government in a top heavy explosion that has far outstripped growth in the workforce they manage.  A temporary fence will be built around a pond in Melbourne’s inner west after a two-year-old girl nearly died when she fell in on Monday evening.  Motorists are set for some relief at th...

SHANE Martin “died all alone” in his kitchen, according to the man who co-wrote the biography of the former bikie boss. VICTORIA’S testing crisis could be alleviated with a shift to rapid antigen testing, health experts say, warning the standard PCR is no longer a “fit for purpose model”.  AUTHORITIES are pleading with Victorians to slow down and stay away on the...

The Victorian government is being urged to open 24-hour clinics and boost staff numbers to cut hours-long delays at key Covid testing sites across the state. Australian researchers are working to develop a blood test to conclusively and objectively determine if a victim of domestic violence has suffered a traumatic brain injury and the extent of the damage.  A tragic Christmas Day drowning ha...

Mature-age workers could be the solution to a nationwide staff shortage, according to the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman.  Aussie shoppers are forecast to spend a record $21.1 billion in the post Christmas sales period, with $3.1 billion being splurged on Boxing Day alone.  Victorians are being reminded of their consumer rights, as people head to the shops in d...

Multiple Banana Boat sunscreens have been pulled from Australian shelves after a cancer-causing substance was detected in the products.  Homeowners will be able to share their unused, clean energy with other Victorians while saving on power bills as part of a new pilot program.  Victorians celebrating the festive season these holidays are being urged to remain safe and vigilant around wa...

Australians are set to lose access to some of their favourite illegal streaming sites, after the Federal Court ordered a major crackdown by telcos.  Victoria was the deadliest state for road trauma in November, with the number of fatal crashes skyrocketing by 80 per cent last month.  The long-awaited Novavax vaccine is expected to be available from the middle of next month as Australia&r...

The Queen has been forced to call off her traditional royal Christmas at Sandringham and will stay at Windsor due to the surge in Omicron cases.  A massive $470 million redevelopment of Southgate will transform Southbank into a “world class” precinct after winning state government support.  Teamwork takes on new meaning at Collingwood FC at Christmas, as sports stars and staf...

A patient died during a 40 minute wait for specialist paramedics as massive areas of Melbourne are being left without lifesaving ambulance coverage. Energy retailers will be forced to cut confusing jargon out of power bills and provide customers with clear summaries of their plans so they can figure out if they are being ripped off. The exodus of Victorian residents to overseas destinations was do...

Sign on bonuses, extra holidays, paid transport and even free rent for a year at a beachside house are some of the perks being rolled out by bosses to lure in much needed staff.  A new fund has been established to help the families and school of the children killed and injured in Thursday’s jumping castle tragedy in Devonport. Victorians are set to hit the shops in full festive force th...

A Victorian poppy grower has collapsed following a pandemic driven slump in demand for opiate-based pain relief medications, putting 60 jobs at risk.  The days of the stock standard ‘size 8 bronzed glamazon’ modelling sample swimwear are over. Co-Educational campuses dominate Victoria’s best schools, reflecting an ongoing decline in the number of sex-segregated schools. The...

Up and down the east coast a string of pre-Christmas transactions have lined the pockets of vendors with the surprise sale of businessman David Gyngell and Delvene Cornell’s Hotel Brunswick on a waterfront site near Byron Bay.  Australia's most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon has thrown her support behind a new Surf Life Saving Australia’s campaign that will see a QR code on every...

Significant policy interventions could be needed if Victoria is to financially recover from the pandemic, the state’s independent budget watchdog has warned.  Qantas will launch the only direct flight from Australia to continental Europe when the airline begins services from Sydney to Rome via Perth in mid-2022.  One of the secret ways exercise slows the ageing process has been unc...

A year of on-off Covid lockdowns hasn’t stopped Victoria from taking out the top spot for the largest Lotto wins for a sixth year in a row.  Josh Frydenberg has sought to take superannuation off the table as an election issue, indicating the government will not unpick mandatory contributions increasing to 12 per cent.  Overseas students will be feted with free tickets to experience...

Broadcaster and former cop Rex Hunt has been branded “a hero” after foiling a theft and dishing out bare-knuckle justice at a boxing match in Melbourne. Middle-aged adults who eat a healthy diet have larger brain volumes compared to those who load up on junk, fats and sugars, suggesting the chance to reduce our dementia risk starts from our 40s. AN “ugly and costly” wage di...

Skin grown from a patient’s own stem cells will be used to treat life-threatening burns in a world-first Melbourne medical trial Dingo populations would be reintroduced into Victorian forests as an eco-friendly method of pest control  Telehealth will become a permanent fixture in Australia’s health care system under a landmark $308.6m federal government package. And Mask requireme...

Original Yellow Wiggle Greg Page is pushing for better access to defibrillators in public spaces after he was resuscitated by one of the lifesaving machines last year. A hi-tech new vehicle will be out patrolling Melbourne’s railways to repair tracks and stop frustrating disruptions, with the cutting-edge technology finally arriving from Milan. A new at home screening test can tell couples p...

Daniel Andrews has made the state’s first formal pandemic declaration under Victoria’s new pandemic management laws. Health Minister Greg Hunt has rejected bids from Australia’s health insurance funds to charge customers higher premiums. Australians have been warned to get their Christmas orders in before strict cut off dates or they won’t receive their gifts in time. And a...

A government incentive such as Peter Costello’s baby bonus is desperately needed to stop children disappearing from the Australian population, a demography expert warns. New Zealand has taken a major step in its plan to get its smoking population under five per cent by 2025, with the move meaning many children will never be able to legally buy cigarettes in the country. Jordan De Goey’...

VIP’s and high-ranking officials involved in the Brisbane 2032 Olympics are planning to attend the Beijing Winter Games despite an Australian government boycott. Australia’s birthrate has plunged to a record low amid the Covid pandemic, with Victoria leading the falls. An Australian ugg boot maker faces bankruptcy after losing a bid to have his case heard in the US Supreme Court ...

A bid to fly the Aboriginal flag at half mast on Australia Day across the Mornington Peninsula is “divisive and racist” say angry locals. The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept official interest rates on hold as widely expected but speculation of a 2022 move continues as fixed rate bargains disappear from the market. An Australian boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics is now under &ld...