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Premier Daniel Andrews has declared he has never been fitter and hopes to lead Victoria well beyond the 2022 election Victoria has slammed its border shut to Darwin and more closures are on the cards Barnaby Joyce has inflamed divisions in the Nationals by promoting MPs who helped him pull off a shock leadership coup  And The AFL is seriously considering a Melbourne football hub  See omnystudio.co...

GPs are pleading with the Federal Government to indemnify them against giving the AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged under 60 as they warn thousands of batches are about to expire.  Parents at a bayside government school are fuming their girls are being asked to pull up their jumpers so teachers can check if they’re rolling up their waist bands to shorten hemlines.  Graduates of an elite all-girls...

Talent show titan Simon Cowell says he has been sounded out to bring his trademark bluntness to a judge’s chair on Australian television.  Victoria has attracted the lion’s share of a $2bn increase in foreign investment in Aussie homes, with a big lift from China. A quarantine hub has finally been confirmed for Melbourne’s north as Prime Minister Scott Morrison also proposed additional facilities...

Worksafe will probe an industrial accident at a CBD construction site after an explosion injured four people on Thursday.  Daryl Somers’ former business manager has hit back at the TV legend and is launching fresh action against Somers’ wife Julie. Mornington Peninsula sellers have reaped more than $700m worth of profit on the sale of their homes in recent months — more than anywhere else in Melbo...

A war has erupted over the Murray Darling Basin with Victorian Nationals MPs pushing to scrap the contentious recovery of 450GL of water for the environment.  China is motivated by the “volatile combination” of power and insecurity and the prospect of a short-term shift in its outlook is non-existent, Australia’s outgoing top diplomat warns.  Dusty Martin’s sport psychologist was brought in by rai...

Bitcoin’s price has taken a hit after China talked up its crackdown against cryptocurrencies, ordering its banks to take a stronger stance against allowing customers to trade the electronic coins. Australia has lashed out at a push from a China-chaired UN committee to list the Great Barrier Reef as in danger, with the federal government claiming “politics” were behind the move. No action will be t...

Almost three-quarters of Melbourne’s suburbs have rising property prices, with some recording massive price growth in the past three months alone.  Voters in Melbourne’s west,  are turning on the Andrews government amid growing anguish over the impact of the pandemic and ongoing lockdowns.  Bindi Irwin has opened up about her painful relationship with her grandfather,    And footy fans will almost...

A new poll has found Melburnians are tired of a year of Covid lockdowns and are looking to leave the city and move to regional Victoria...  Some commuter relief for train passengers using the first section of the multibillion dollar Suburban Rail Loop... with 22 minute trips from Cheltenham to Box Hill.  An inner city Greens councillor and lawyer has been slammed for complaining about her “poor” c...

A german study has found PEOPLE who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine will get far better protection if they have the Pfizer jab for their second dose,   Heartbreaking news for Victorian junior basketballers... barred from travelling to Western Australia to compete in the Australian under-16 junior championships kickstarting on July 4.  Melbourne Cup organisers are preparin...

Struggling pensioners have been issued dud cheques under a state government that was supposed to offer bill relief.  New data has found first home buyers fresh out of lockdown are opting for properties in Richmond, Mount Waverley, St Albans and Glenroy...  If you want your child to do well academically, you might want to look at the amount of trees in the area. A new study has found greenery aroun...

Pub and restaurant owners say the latest density limits risk more businesses going bust with venues unable to operate profitably under the new measures.  A boost to the hip pockets for more than two million Australians. Workers on minimum wage will be get an $18.80 boost to their weekly pay slip — but some will have to wait months to cash in.  Patients with late stage kidney cancer will have help...

The federal Court has heard that Ben Roberts-Smith believed his former girlfriend was “manipulating” him by faking a pregnancy, so he sent a private investigator to tail her to an abortion clinic.  Local football is expecting to resume across Melbourne this weekend, but the ball may be bounced without crowds, dealing a financial blow to clubs.  Firefighters have won another boost to their pay with...

Victorians seeking their first Pfizer shot are being turned away and warned they might not get vaccinated for up to a month.  Shocking statistics have revealed Victorians are spending almost half a billion dollars a year on cocaine.  It’s been revealed Aussies are losing twice as much money to phone scammers as they did just a year ago.  And AFL chief Gillon McLachlan stole the show at this year’s...

The Ski Season is officially upon us, with thousands hitting the slopes for the opening weekend. However, skiers and snowboarders planning on venturing to remote areas of Victoria’s snow country have been issued a safety warning. Suburban bus drivers running ahead of schedule will no longer be locked into the timetable under an unconventional government trial to tackle congestion. Victoria is home...

Lithium may not be on your radar right now as a money-making opportunity, but there are growing signs it should be. Local cyber security experts say upwards of one-in-five Australian companies hit by a ransomware attack end up paying with ransoms targeting major corporations now breaching $1m dollars. Three people have been killed in a horror winter night on Victorian roads, prompting a stern warn...

Melbourne’s powerful Grollo clan have sold a Footscray building for $224m in one of the largest sales in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. A list of the Victorian Comanchero bikie gang arrested in the sting of the century has been revealed. A Melbourne grandmother working as a real estate office manager stole more than three-quarters of a million dollars from her employers, over three years. T...

From 11.59pm tonight, restrictions for Greater Melbourne will ease. The five reasons to leave home will no longer apply, and the existing 10km travel limit will be increased to 25km, but travel into regional Victoria remains a no-go. Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley admitted he wasn’t up for the long haul of another list rebuild when he and the Magpies called time on his decade in charge. Popular...

A Victorian Royal Commission into Crown Resorts has heard the company regularly flouted Victoria’s Casino Control Act at its high-roller Mahogany Room in Melbourne, allowing gamblers to purchase chips through cheques made out to themselves. A rare sequence of genomes unseen in nature but found by scientists in the Covid-19 coronavirus almost certainly proves that it came from a lab, according to a...

Senior State Government sources say they are very confident the city’s lockdown will not be extended again, unless there is a dramatic spike in mystery cases. The Victorian government has sought to clear up days of mixed messaging about its vaccine strategy, with its Covid-19 response commander declaring the state was not saving up doses for second jabs. A new Shingles vaccine, that is almost twic...

Victoria has held back hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 vaccine doses for second jabs even though the commonwealth is already storing those supplies. Heart attack symptoms are being ignored or dismissed, even by those who have already had a life threatening episode Australia is backing a landmark deal to hit multinational companies including Facebook, Google and Amazon with a global minimum tax r...

A new behaviour watchdog would investigate Victorian politicians who bully and harass people. Businesses are being urged to campaign for staff to get vaccinated amid warnings three quarters of the state needs the jab before large-scale lockdowns end.  Victoria’s multibillion-dollar construction industry faces an anxious wait after a cleaner tested positive for coronavirus at a city building site. ...

Delays in testing a toddler and his mother found with Covid-19 has sparked a new exposure alert in an Adelaide medi-hotel amid fears coronavirus may have spread through corridors. A Melbourne doctor was used as a poster-boy to promote last weekend’s chaotic city rally against mandatory vaccination. One of Victoria’s most vital mass Covid-19 vaccination centres is being booted out of its current Je...

Qantas’s fleet of A380s parked in California’s desert are proving popular with local wildlife, with “snakes on a plane” very much a reality for the engineers tasked with maintaining them. Regional councils and tourism bodies are calling for the Queen’s Birthday public holiday to be moved if Melburnians remain in Covid lockdown next weekend. Pharmacists are being forced to turn away people showing...

“Woke” universities have been threatened with new laws to guarantee freedom of speech, as the federal government demands better teaching for struggling Australian students.  Three men are accused of bashing a Melbourne woman in front of her children in an horrific road rage attack. A defence scientist has inadvertently become one of the most in-demand detectives in the world, with her ground break...

Food delivery platform Deliveroo will convene a rider safety advisory panel, with hundreds of riders submitting ideas for the company to implement as winter weather begins to bite. Queensland scientists are excited by the discovery that lowering cholesterol could prevent or stop the spread of prostate cancer. A key advisor to the federal government says authorities were forced to prioritise aged c...