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Buckingham Palace has confirmed His Royal Highness Prince Phillip has died, just months away from his 100th birthday. Victoria’s smaller theatres and sports venues can be full once more after they got the go-ahead to seat up to 1000 patrons. More than 500 childcare centres and kinders statewide aren’t meeting federal standards of care. And in sport, Carlton’s bid to turn Ikon Park into the home of...

Australians aged under 50 will be prioritized for the Pfizer rather than AstraZeneca vaccine, after concerns over “rare but serious” blood clots forced the federal government to “recalibrate” the rollout. Bosses will be given the legal power to sack staff who sexually harass their colleagues in a long-awaited Morrison government plan to ensure women are treated with respect at work. Preschool chil...

A fake headmaster has been exposed as a key mastermind behind a plan to open a 4000-student, multi-campus elite private school. Victoria Police booze buses are off the road for a second time after one of the fleet caught fire. Kids find rough-housing with dad more stimulating than playing with mum, a new study has found. And new research has revealed there are just seven Melbourne suburbs left whe...

Revolutionary mouthguard technology that measures head knocks and trauma has been made available to every AFL player this season. Hundreds of sex workers are illegally operating out of high-rise apartments in Melbourne’s CBD. A cockatiel has been reunited with its owner after he flew the coop and was found more than 200km away in Geelong. And in sport - AFLW star Tayla Harris says she’s been injur...

A land compensation battle worth hundreds of millions of dollars is about to erupt as the Andrews government prepares to tunnel under thousands of properties. A groundbreaking Victorian study has linked sterilising dummies with an increased risk of food allergies among infants. The state government will today announce a new model for social housing that moves away from high-rise towers to ­accommo...

A human chain of kindness — made with links from raided piggy banks, generous workplaces and grateful parents — again stretched across the state, all in the name of supporting a better future for Victoria’s smallest and most vulnerable patients.  It’s been revealed thousands of high-powered firearms and gun parts are arriving in Australia...sent by organised crime groups.  The state government has...

Supermarkets, cafes and restaurants will be targeted in a three-week COVID safety blitz ….to crack down on overcrowding ...and those flouting QR check ins.  A massive stash of powerful guns.... are feared to have landed in Melbourne’s underworld.... after disappearing in transit over a month ago.  Pop titan Ed Sheeran has thrown his support behind the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. ...

One of Melbourne’s COVID-19 mass vaccination centres has been ordered to turn away eligible residents ….despite only a trickle of emergency services workers booking in for the jab...  A private school is under fire ...over claims it banned a girl from inviting a female friend to the school formal.  Victoria is likely to keep the border to Greater Brisbane closed ….even after the city’s snap lockdo...

A Melbourne council is looking to slug local sporting clubs with massive fee hikes.... to use its suburban grounds.... in a move that is feared could force teams off the field.  A man shot dead in Geelong has been dubbed a “snitch”,...as police continue to hunt those responsible.  A bitter fight has erupted between major dance music promoter Richie McNeill.... and a small Melbourne architecture fi...

Easter holiday chaos after Victoria slammed the border shut to Greater Brisbane amid its worsening COVID-19 ­outbreak.  A groundbreaking study has found MEN are more likely to be physically or sexually violent towards female partners who earn more than them...  Rubbish recyclers will be banned, fined up to $660 and forced to undergo education lessons by a Melbourne council ...cracking down on bin...

Two gunmen were on the run last night ...after firing shots into a crashed car and killing a man ...in a brazen hit on Geelong’s busiest road.  At least 16,000 people are locked down in Victoria... due to a coronavirus outbreak in Queensland that has sparked fears of more border disruptions.  Shocking revelations that teens as young as 14 from private schools are buying illicit drugs — ­including...

Paramedics under siege from violent patients are rolling out new safety measures ...to raise the alarm at the earliest signs of trouble.  Two brothers on student visas have been accused of selling fake Australian stamps online in an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme. International arrivals will return to Melbourne on April 8,...with improved hotel quarantine to accept up to 800 travelers a week. ...

Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Barnes and Paul Kelly have sung their hearts out at the one event Michael Gudinski would have loved to have been at... Melbourne's Anzac Day parade is set to return this year with 5500 marchers, but Victorians are still being told to mark the day locally or at home to avoid big crowds.  Christian Porter’s future as Attorney-General hangs in the balance...with the P...

The PM has leapt into action to tackle sexual harrassment and abuse.... saying he heard the voices of women and realised many were upset with his response.  It’s been revealed Daniel Andrews has more employees on hand than the Prime Minister, with his army of personal advisers doubling in size since he was elected to office.  Australian biomedical experts have warned antibacterial soaps are behind...

The PM has leapt into action to tackle sexual harrassment and abuse.... saying he heard the voices of women and realised many were upset with his response.  It’s been revealed Daniel Andrews has more employees on hand than the Prime Minister, with his army of personal advisers doubling in size since he was elected to office.  Australian biomedical experts have warned antibacterial soaps are behind...

Public servants will be forced to come back to the office at least three days a week... with five new work hubs to be built in Melbourne’s suburbs.   A Coalition staffer who allegedly performed a solo sex act on the Parliament House desk of a female MP has been sacked....while colleagues who shared the explicit images have also been given the marching orders...  The widow of Shane Tuck is in confl...

Public servants have cashed in almost $100m in bonuses even as the federal government urged restraint and moved to freeze their pay during the pandemic.  The wealth of Victoria’s elite private schools have been revealed. Melbourne’s property market has been turned on its head with autumn set to rival spring as the time to sell. A plan for an eight-storey Brunswick development is riling residents w...

Learner drivers caught driving on their own would go to jail under tough new law changes being planned by the Andrews government. Australians are set to get the right to work in the UK under a free-trade deal being negotiated between the two countries. Victoria has so far exceeded its COVID-19 vaccination goals, administering almost a third more doses in the first month of the rollout than ­origin...

Older Victorians who are worried about their memory are needed for an ambitious research project to treat Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear. The former Mount Scopus principal spruiked as a star reference for fake teacher Neil Lennie said he had no idea he was used to defend the fraudster. Family of two brothers accused of plotting a terror attack in Melbourne say it’s all a misunderstandi...

Living models of human embryos have been grown from skin cells by Melbourne scientists in a breakthrough set to revolutionise medical science.  More than 17,000 parking fines could be refunded after more Victorian councils were identified as acting illegally when they outsourced internal reviews of infringements.  The AFL is hoping for a ­capacity MCG crowd for Anzac Day as it plans to meet with t...

Victoria’s public hospitals are facing class actions from their own doctors desperate to cut their exhaustive hours and claw back up to hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged unpaid wages.  The Victorian Liberals are in crisis, with a leadership challenge expected to plunge the party further into chaos. Workers in Melbourne will be the most exposed to the end of JobKeeper in a fortnight, accor...

Pressure is mounting on the state government to allow an extra 25,000 fans at the MCG for Thursday night’s blockbuster season opening match between Richmond and Carlton. THE Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp has called for JobKeeper payments to be extended beyond the end of the month and 100 percent workers be ordered back to their offices in a bid to rejuvenate the struggling CBD. Sunrise Newsreade...

Top private and public schools across Melbourne’s eastern suburbs are conducting bathroom patrols and bag checks to catch students as young as 12 smoking e-cigarettes between classes. A truck driver who killed four police officers on the Eastern Fwy did drug deals between his deliveries and was drug-affected and sleep-deprived leading up the tragedy. Mass vaccination centres for emergency service...

Victorians considering booking a holiday will be given more of an incentive to do so with half-price flights to ten domestic holiday destinations set to be released in the coming weeks.  A Worksafe investigation into last year’s disastrous hotel quarantine scheme could see Daniel Andrews and senior ministers grilled. Victoria’s largest power station Yallourn will be shut down four years earlier th...

At least 5000 marchers are set to take part in this year’s Anzac Day parade in Melbourne. The figure, If approved by health authorities, could make the city’s event the biggest in the country. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is in intensive care after slipping and falling down wet steps while on a weekend getaway on the Mornington Peninsula. Meghan Markle’s father last night hit back at her claim...