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Hawthorn’s Jonathon Patton is under investigation over alleged lewd images he sent to various women. Victoria’s new travel permits website crashes upon opening. Over four hours of gaming and the internet every night is worsening children’s skills. New fines for cover-ups of aged care abuse. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atheraldsun.com.au See omnystudio....

Hawthorn footballer Jonathon Patton is under mounting pressure after at least four women accused him of sending them unwanted lewd messages, images and videos. A group of leading medics are urging type 2 diabetics to end their illness and reliance on medication by overhauling their diets. Victoria will introduce a traffic light system to streamline warnings and restrictions for people travelling a...

Hawthorn star Jonathon Patton is under investigation by the club following allegations of lewd behaviour on social media. Carlton's popular Cinema Nova has sparked controversy by removing an Australia Day advert from its pre-movie advertising amid a complaint it was “propaganda” and insensitive to Indigenous viewers.  A woman in Victoria’s hotel quarantine system infected with the UK coronavirus s...

The Australian Grand Prix looks set to be shifted to the end of the year, with officials expecting an announcement as early as this week.  Thousands of people who travelled to Victoria from southeast Queensland over the past week have been ordered to immediately get tested and isolate this weekend. Police helicopters are using heat-seeking technology to pinpoint cannabis grow-houses in suburban Me...

Donald Trump has vowed to peacefully leave the Oval Office after a day of shocking violence in which his supporters stormed the ­Capitol that left four dead. Nursing home residents and hotel quarantine workers could be rolling up their sleeves to receive one of the first COVID-19 vaccinations in just six weeks. Victorians trapped in NSW have been given a glimmer of hope, with Daniel Andrews flaggi...

All international travellers coming into Australia would be forced to have pre-flight tests and could face longer quarantine periods. Health authorities race to uncover how a man was infected with coronavirus possibly at the MCG or Chadstone Shopping Centre.  Robert Irwin may have breached guidelines for helicopter operations in wilderness areas by flying at low levels through declared sensitive a...

COVID-19 vaccinations expected to start by early March with priority given to people in residential aged care along with health, hotel quarantine and border workers. Formula One great Alan Jones says only a “bloody miracle” will allow the Australian Grand Prix to go ahead in March. Radical new skin gel showing potential to prevent skin ageing and help avoid skin cancer. Danielle Hardwick breaks si...

Health authorities are aiming for a zero-case day by the weekend and hope to ease restrictions as early as mid-January, if the state can sustain a COVID-free streak. New data has revealed about half of all businesses which sought JobKeeper support are still reliant on the wage subsidy program which is being cut today. Managing the back-to-school budget can be tough at the best of times, but a new...

Victoria’s latest coronavirus cluster has continued to grow over huge areas of the state, but Health authorities say they are on top of the outbreak. COVID testing sites across the state are being so overrun, people are being turned away as authorities scramble to meet demand. Child’s play based on butterflies and building blocks will be a key part of formal early learning under the first curricul...

More cases are expected to emerge in Victoria’s latest coronavirus cluster as investigators fear it may have already branched off into other undetected chains of transmission. If you’re not back in Victoria now, don’t bother trying to cross the border. That’s the message from health authorities for anyone holidaying in NSW who didn’t make it across state lines last night. A new national warning sy...

Health authorities working around the clock to track down thousands of people who may have been exposed to coronavirus. Tens of thousands of Victorian holidaymakers in NSW are rushing to get home before midnight tonight, get tested and isolate at home, as the Andrews government shuts the border to the northern state. Despite fears of another coronavirus outbreak, Victorians have made the most of a...

Victorian health authorities are on high alert after three new positive coronavirus cases were detected across suburban Melbourne. Victorian dairy farmers will get a boost to help their products into the Indian market as part of a move to diversify away from China, where trade tensions continue to ­escalate. New Year’s Eve revellers have been put on notice, that police will move swiftly to break u...

Court documents have revealed the Eastern Freeway Porsche driver who is accused of taunting and filming a dying policewoman, allegedly placed a noose around a female relative’s neck just hours before a dramatic rooftop standoff with heavily armed police. No midnight kisses or hugs with old friends, no fireworks, and toned-down celebrations will make New Year’s Eve in Melbourne a whole new ­experie...

The man accused of taunting and filming a dying police officer following the Eastern Freeway tragedy was behind bars again last night, after an alleged violent assault in his home that sparked a late night stand-off with police. Figures show more than 350 Victorian businesses went bust between the start of April and the end of September, and experts are warning of more economic carnage to come in...

The new Melbourne Airport Rail Link will soar 55m above the Maribyrnong River and travel over the Western Ring Road via a series of elevated bridges. Drivers are facing a New Year filled with long tailbacks and traffic jams with the annual West Gate roadworks already causing traffic chaos. Thunderstorms are set to hit parts of Victoria over New Year’s, but the forecast won’t dampen Melbourne’s Fir...

Victoria’s youngest killers and sex offenders would have their criminal records kept secret under a proposed state government law change. There are calls to ban access to high-tech spying devices, following revelations women are being increasingly watched and hunted down by men using them. Shoppers have turned out in force to snap up Boxing Day bargains, with Victoria’s multibillion-dollar buying...

Christmas Day tragedy in the state’s north, with a young boy killed in a quad bike accident. Retailers are tipping bumper Boxing Day sales where there will be massive discounts of up to 75 per cent. Aussie families are wasting a shocking amount of food each year, worth an average of $3800 a household. And in sport - cricket legend Dean Jones will be honoured at the Boxing Day test today. For updat...

A multi-million dollar class action has been launched against fertility giant Monash IVF following revelations healthy embryos may have been destroyed in a bungled genetic screening test. The latest federal government modelling shows the cost of some childcare is tipped to jump more than 16 per cent over the next four years. Human remains believed to belong to missing Ballarat mum Kobie Parfitt ha...

Australia is set to introduce the world’s toughest take-down laws for online abuse, with trolls facing six-figure fines for posting revenge porn, bullying children or abusing adults online. Close to 700 police will miss out on Christmas with their families this year, so they can man border checkpoints between Victoria and New South Wales. Artificial Intelligence could be the key to radically impro...

Former Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has let rip following the release of the final report into the hotel quarantine inquiry, claiming it failed to answer key questions. An investigation into Victorian aged care facilities has found workers hurriedly hired to fill staff shortages at two centres were “young”, “inexperienced” and only had basic English skills. Almost 300 suspected criminal transacti...

Victorian residents returning from NSW red zones must seek an exemption to return, get a coronavirus test within 24 hours and isolate in their homes for 14 days from the date they were in the area.  Anyone who arrives after midnight must serve 14 days in hotel quarantine. Power prices are set to plummet for the next two years, saving Victorian households hundreds of dollars on their electricity bi...

Almost 90,000 people from NSW are preparing to flee to Victoria for Christmas to escape coronavirus and tough new restrictions in Sydney. Police are investigating whether the deaths of two elderly people in a fire in Melbourne’s north were the result of a suicide pact. A $52 million prison built to house some of Victoria’s most dangerous criminals has sat almost empty since being built. The Boxing...

The total closure of the border with NSW is being considered by the Victorian government in a desperate bid to avoid a third wave. Hundreds of Victorian households have had their power cut off by an energy provider for not paying their bills. Victoria’s fire management authorities say only half of the state’s planned burn targets were reached in the past 12 months because it was “one of the most d...

The Victorian government isn’t ruling out shutting the border with New South Wales before Christmas after a coronavirus cluster in Sydney’s Northern Beaches surged to 17 on Thursday night. Thousands of Melburnians locked in public housing towers during the pandemic could take legal action against the State Government for false imprisonment and breaches of their human rights. Police are bracing for...

Australian’s over 70 will be the first age-group to given access to the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available in March.  It’s been revealed Australia’s population will be divided into five-year increment age groups for the roll out of the vaccine program. A Heartbroken mother says she feels “utterly betrayed” after her partner Joseph McDonald was sentenced to just nine years’ prison for killi...