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Aussies will be lured to the regions with a new carrot in a bid to fill critical workforce shortages. The bromance is real between Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds  Apple insists its AirTags meet international child safety standards despite Officeworks suspending their sale  Victorians will be able to view what is expected to be one of the most dramatic comet showers of the year See omnystudio.com/l...

Health Minister Martin Foley was forced to defend the state’ ambulance service, despite the growing crisis plaguing the system.  Ambulance Victoria is this week expected to release its worst ever response time results A babysitting couple who left three-year-old Melbourne boy so severely injured he has had to learn to walk and talk again has begged a judge to free them from jail so they can return...

School principals will be given the power to ban aggressive or violent parents from their schools under new laws to be introduced in Victoria. COVID-19 has infiltrated the Indian Premier League bubble with ­immediate concerns for the safety of ­Australian cricketers Pat ­Cummins and Ben Cutting, who may have been exposed to the virus by teammates. Four out of five IVF patients are paying thousands...

Football and TV legend Sam Newman has been left devastated following the sudden death of his wife, remembered as a “wonderful” person.  A spate of drink-spiking ­incidents has prompted an ­exclusive South Yarra cocktail bar to install CCTV cameras.  The number of mental health patients taken to emergency departments has been radically cut ...in an effort to better care for the vulnerable and free...

A security firm used for the state’s bungled hotel quarantine program has revealed its guards were made to deliver Easter eggs and purchase Mother’s Day gifts for guests as it launches a $10 million lawsuit against the Victorian government.  Outrage after the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretennerr, where thousands of Diggers lie buried, is set to have a giant wind farm as a backdrop. ...

Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix organisers are confident the race will go ahead in November... despite another Victorian motorsport event being called off due to COVID-19.  A Nationals senator has called on Australian mining companies... to put “patriotism over profits” and invest in the nation’s defence capabilities.  The state’s top judge has weighed in on the debate around Richard Pusey’s sent...

The Victorian Parliament has congratulated the federal government for ripping up the state’s Belt and Road deal...with Labor MPs choosing not to vote against a motion attacking the agreement.  Not one for those with a weak stomach but Insects could soon be on Australian dinner plates ...with a landmark plan to grow the nation’s protein industry by $10 billion in five years pointing towards creepy-...

Australia’s competition watchdog has flagged potential regulation and new laws to deal with Apple and Google’s app store duopoly, with the ACCC highlighting “significant concerns” in a new probe into the tech giants’ market power... amid new action in both the US and Europe.    A plan for Australia’s national broadcaster to create a social network to rival Facebook will be launched today, fuelled...

Larger groups of friends and families will be able to enjoy the game together at Melbourne venues after the AFL eased restrictions on ticket sales.    The Victorian Liberal Nationals have launched their ‘Hands Off Our Hospitals’ campaign in response to the state government’s push to create a “formal partnership” between regional hospitals.   Police will prepare a report for the coroner, following...

Teachers at Greater Shepparton Secondary College say they are “unsafe” and “working in fear”, ...as issues at the problem-plagued school spiral out of control.  A woman charged with triple murder over a Point Cook townhouse fire that took the lives of a young family, including a three-week-old baby has sobbed loudly throughout her latest court hearing  All flights from India could be banned within...

Fears nursing homes in Victoria will close unless the Federal Government delivers an urgent cash injection into the system. Melbourne has played host to the world’s biggest sports crowd since the coronavirus pandemic struck. Calls for the government to act to fix the retirement gender inequity at the May budget. Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith has delivered a scathing attack on the Aust...

100-year-old WWII veteran Len Hurley’s memory isn’t what it used to be, but he takes us back to his time in the trenches, remembering the German bombs raining down on him and his twin brother. Parents of boys at a secondary school in Parkdale have been left furious after they were labelled “oppressors” for being “white” and “Christian”. India is at risk of being completely overwhelmed by a second...

A possible electrical fault has been blamed for the sinking of an Indonesian submarine. Anthony Albanese has hit out at the “absurdity” of states going their own way on electric vehicles taxes. Homicide squad detectives have charged a man over the 2019 murder of Daniel O'Shea. Patrick Dangerfield’s wife, Mardi has pulled on her boots with the Geelong Amateur Women’s Team. For updates and breaking...

There are concerns that patients with eating disorders are falling through the cracks of the healthcare system. New Yorkers who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 were able to get an unlikely freebie Tuesday: a marijuana joint. A jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd. Charges have been withdrawn against NBL basketballer Mitch Creek. For...

Veterans living on the streets will benefit in a $500,000 effort to help our war heroes. Veterans will now have until noon Saturday to register for Melbourne’s Anzac Day parade. A new $12m fire station is being hailed the greenest in Australia. Geelong skipper Joel Selwood has backed Jeremy Cameron as the Cats prepare for Saturday’s clash against West Coast.   For updates and breaking news through...

The pandemic lockdowns have set school kids back in numeracy and literacy, prompting a mass hire of tutors. Anti-logging protesters in East Gippsland have been slammed for placing a toddler in danger. The suicide deaths of hundreds of Defence Force members and veterans will be investigated in a two-year royal commission. Victorian judges and magistrates have been accused of rampant sexual harassme...

Victoria’s court backlog has reached crisis point with alleged criminals facing serious charges set to walk on bail. THREE mass vaccination centres will open on Wednesday for older Victorians to get the AstraZeneca jab. New research has shown FOLLOWING a Mediterranean diet can override your genetic risk of heart disease. A new report shows Aussies are failing to properly separate their household r...

Heritage trams will be donated to Victorian schools in a bid to use them as classrooms. Cody Simpson just missed out on the open final at the Australian championships. Free sanitary products could be put in inner city bathrooms in a bid to stamp out period poverty. Famous football family, the Abletts, had their property passed in at auction yesterday. For updates and breaking news throughout the d...

SEATBELTS weren’t worn in a third of crash deaths on Victoria’s roads this year as motorists fail to heed basic safety precautions. Vital tourism infrastructure that was burnt out in the devastating bushfires across East Gippsland has still not been rebuilt, 16 months on. Families and downsizers are becoming overnight millionaires after offloading homes they’ve owned for decades for profits. HAWTH...

The home of Vegemite, and the West Gate Bridge, could be heritage listed as part of a study of the Fishermans Bend urban renewal precinct. A NSW woman has died in intensive care after developing blood clots following a COVID vaccine. The City of Melbourne has won a three-year legal battle with Telstra over the installation of super-sized payphones. Footy banners will make a welcome return for Satu...

A dozen children were treated by paramedics after they were accidentally poisoned with cleaning fluid at a childcare centre in Caulfield. Qantas boss Alan Joyce has conceded the resumption of international travel could happen later than October 31. Lisa Curry has posted an emotional tribute to her daughter Jaimi seven months after her tragic death. Netball star turned AFLW All-Australian Sharni No...

A man who masqueraded around Melbourne as Batman has been exposed as a villainous conman. Stamp duty should be reformed and swapped out for a land tax in Victoria’s next budget, according to the state’s leading business association. Yarra Junior Football League will roll out digital brain activity tests for children from today. The league is optimistic it will receive approval from the state gover...

A new proposal by Victorian judges could see more freedom given to sex offenders and rapists. Australian scientists hope a new medical breakthrough could be a “silver bullet” in the battle against inoperable brain cancers. THE woman at the centre of a love triangle believed to be the motive behind the alleged murder of Sarah Gatt has appeared in court. Departing Melbourne president Glen Bartlett i...

Domestic abusers are being put up in hotels across Victoria in a nation-first program holding men to account, instead of forcing victims to flee their homes. Victorians are spending an average of $4m a day on ice as it cements its place as the state’s most consumed illicit drug. Schools and sporting groups are bringing in unisex bathrooms, forming non-gendered playing teams and flying rainbow flag...

Prince Philip’s death may be the moment Prince Harry mends bridges with the Royal Family following his Oprah Winfrey car crash interview. The government-owned company in charge of the National Broadband Network treated their employees to Christmas parties that cost a whopping $655,000 over three years. Early data shows the number of Victorian businesses either collapsing or winding up their operat...