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Booming western suburbs in Wyndham should be transformed into a “satellite city” with Werribee as its CBD. The Australian Taxation ­Office is sharpening its technology, making it harder than ever to hide income or claim dodgy tax deductions. Victorian teachers, principals and support staff were paid $28 million in the past two years alone for being assaulted, bullied, harassed and exposed to viole...

ACTU chief Sally McManus has written to Scott Morrison pleading for him to introduce JobKeeper 2.0 and warning against allowing people to withdraw a third portion of money from their super.  As thousands breach Sydney’s strict lockdown to attend a “Freedom Day” protest in on Saturday, Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty laid out a brutal truth about those who are hesitant about Covid vaccines....

Police are “extremely concerned” about hundreds of anti-vax protesters planning to wreak havoc in Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday.  Australian businessman, actor, writer, producer and director John Cornell, who produced Paul Hogan’s film Crocodile Dundee, has died at the age of 80.  Australians in lockdown are treating themselves to the finer things in life, indulging in gourmet and healthy foods in a...

Victoria is poised to end lockdown as planned next week but health authorities are desperately trying to trace shoppers at a popular Melbourne market. Gin is fast becoming Australia’s white spirit of choice. Parents could be well served sending their kids running around the lounge room, or hosting a quick game of Simon Says, as a way to boost brain power while home schooling. The man who brought t...

Police have seized a $10 million stash of ice from a tow truck in north-eastern Victoria. Singer Guy Sebastian has blasted the Federal Government for using him as a “prop” for their botched arts industry funding. The International Olympic Committee has warned Queensland against prematurely celebrating victory in the race for the 2032 Games – sensationally declaring “it‘s not a done deal”. Australi...

Premier Daniel Andrews has flagged discussions will be needed about granting greater freedoms, including access to major events, for people who are fully vaccinated.  Toddlers who have a less healthy start to the day are more likely to be overweight by the time they start school, new research as revealed. Police have made dozens of arrests in a major operation targeting drug dealers and crime in t...

Crowds at Melbourne footy matches and major events are in doubt as health authorities investigate the increasing ease of Covid’s Delta strain to spread at stadiums.  Suburban high rises would be green-lit around new stations as part of the multi-billion dollar rail loop being built under middle Melbourne. Parents are sexually abusing their own children in lockdown, with calls for help soaring 50 p...

Emissions from vehicles need to be curbed in the next 14 years if Australia is to meet a net zero emissions by 2050. Businesses are putting away cash as they become more cautious over ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns. Sneaker sniffers are being used by Australia’s most-visited shopping site to authenticate high-end runners. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space journey is being slammed for its carbon...

An expert says Fitzroy, Carlton, and St Kilda are some of the healthiest places in Melbourne to live. Showbiz vet Kerri-Anne Kennerly is calling for class action against the NDIS. Former boxer Anthony Mundine fined for breaching Covid rules. WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscr...

Probe into the state’s gambling watchdog would re-examine three major footy scandals. Tabcorp is proposingrunning a national Covid-19 vaccination lottery. A computer glitch in a vaccine booking system sent the general public to a site reserved for frontline workers. A “green room” is being used to calm kids down at a suburban school in Melbourne’s southeast. For updates and breaking news throughou...

Properties are becoming cheaper to buy than rent due to record low interest rates across Australia. 23 Olympic live sites will go ahead around the country. New research shows construction managers endure dramatically higher levels of stress and depression. A Chinese spy ship is sitting off the Australian coast to monitor Australian and US military exercises. For updates and breaking news throughou...

Melbourne scientists have found a way to stop covid cells growing in and populating infected human cells. The rare giant burrowing frog could stand in the way of a proposed $200 million mineral sands mine at East Gippsland. A coastal camping ground will be established at the historic former Point Nepean Quarantine Station. Frontline workers are calling for the vaccine rollout stages to be sped up....

Victoria has shut to border to NSW and it could remain closed for weeks amid a growing COVID outbreak.  Newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Ashleigh Barty has paid tribute to fellow Indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Crawley...saying if she could be half the person the two time Wimbledon victor is, then she would be very happy.  A Gastro outbreak striking hundreds of dogs has spread to Melbourne’...

A bold new four-year strategy has been touted as the key to rebuilding Victoria’s struggling creative industry sector post pandemic.  A world-first Melbourne-led study is aiming to get children with potentially deadly fish allergies able to join their family for a classic fish and chip dinner.  A Melbourne dad’s dream of rocketing into space will take one giant leap closer to becoming a reality wh...

Sufferers of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and cancer could soon benefit from a major medicinal cannabis breakthrough.  A judge has lashed two idiot brothers who bulldozed their mum’s house in a family feud, telling them the world was “laughing at you for your stupidity”. Lygon St traders are calling for the iconic Carlton strip to be closed to traffic so a soccer street party can be staged for Mon...

A Melbourne-based Repurpose It is hoping to turn the contents of green wheelie bin into gold....after already recycling more than 400,000 tones of waste since 2017.  Donald Trump has announced he will lead a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their chief executives.. Schoolboys are having their fingernails painted bright pink and red under school workshops designed to “rein...

Melbourne researchers have found a way to detect prostate cancer even before symptoms appear.  An iconic St Kilda venue is closing its doors for a few months until there’s a clearer pathway for staging events.  Covid-19 vaccines could be administered at local Bunnings or Officeworks under a suggestion raised at talks between the federal government and business leaders.  A homeless man who stuck so...

A property funds firm backed by billionaire Multiplex heir Andrew Roberts has snapped up one of the countries highest tourist attractions for more than 50 million dollars.  Australian researchers have twice been able to cure animals of the most common type of pediatric brain cancer...by repurposing drugs used to treat other cancers.  A spike in the amount of people experiencing food insecurity thr...

A $4 billion project to slash train travel times between Geelong and Melbourne is unlikely to be completed until the end of the decade.  Shocking revelations that women who used donor IVF embryos after being told their own weren’t viable have discovered they may have been able to use them all along.  A Bendigo man who rorted the NDIS for $340,000 will spend the next 16 months behind bars.  Sad new...

Private schools are bankrupting parents to claw back hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid fees. The P-plate driver of a speeding car split in half in a high-speed crash which killed his passenger faces serious charges if he survives.  Parking will be cut to just $5 on weekends and weekday evenings in Melbourne’s CBD in a bid to lure back visitors. Collingwood legend Tony Shaw has called for...

Victoria’s latest plan to bring back international students hangs in the balance....with concerns that the proposal fails to have approval from the state’s chief health officer.  It’s been revealed Craigieburn is the custom plate capital of Victoria, with motorists in the outer-northern suburb getting the most personalised additions to their rides in the last 12 months.  There was plenty of traffi...

NAPLAN will be moved to earlier in the year and given a two week turnaround. The new measures are in response to feedback from teachers suggesting the controversial aptitude test takes too long to be marked for the results to be useful.    Shocking revelations of anti-vaxxers targeting Victorian vaccine hubs with police called in to protect nurses under siege.    Millions of dollars will be stripp...

Melbourne city council will push for more smoke-free zones in the CBD, hoping to reach their goal to butt out smoking in most public areas by 2025.  More than half of all businesses who have applied for a government lifeline are yet to be paid a single dollar in the latest round of recovery support.  Prince William and Prince Harry will reunite to honour their late mother Princess Diana - on what...

Australia will get a permanent national firearms amnesty in a renewed push to get dangerous weapons off the streets. There are a raft of changes coming to welfare, health, childcare and other living expenses. James Packer faces legal action from Victoria’s workplace safety authority to claw back hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to a security guard who claims the billionaire assaulted him at C...

A year ago, Australia was “celebrated for its initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” now many of the countries initially hardest hit by the pandemic are now coming out the other side of it. About two million Victorian consumers are paying too much for their household electricity and gas because they’re not on the best offer from their retailer, according to a report from the Essential Service...