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Barnaby Joyce is expected to formally resign from the Nationals and announce his move to One Nation in a 90-second statement in the House of Representatives around 1.30pm.⁠
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A catastrophic blaze tearing through a cluster of Hong Kong high-rises has left dozens dead and hundreds still unaccounted for, as rescuers move through the charred towers in a race to find the missing.

Photos: AP

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November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Mitch Brown played 94 senior games in his AFL career, yet he’s far better known for what he did after he retired – namely, coming out as bisexual.

In August, Brown, 36, became the first publicly queer senior AFL/VFL player (current or retired) in the competition's 129-year history.
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Newly elected Liberal leader Jess Wilson said her clear priorities would be to get the budget under control, rein in crime, improve access to healthcare, and give Victorians opportunities to own homes.

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November 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Opinion: Sky Sports’ Halo was meant to champion female athletes. Three days of pink subtitles, matcha references and focus on male athletes’ relationships later, the channel is gone, writes Hannah Kennelly.

Video: Sophie Boyd

#skysports #halo
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Bayside residents are rallying against plans to introduce buildings up to 16 storeys in the area.

Residents marching in Brighton on Sunday argued the ill-conceived plan would overrun their suburbs’ population without adequate infrastructure or their consent.

Video: Cassandra Morgan and Sophie Boyd
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Children as young as 14 could be jailed for life for violent crimes under justice reforms set to be introduced by the Victorian government in response to rising crime rates.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Young Melbourne cricketer, Ben Austin, 17, has died after he was struck in the neck by a cricket ball thrown at speed using a hand-held training device.

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October 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A protest that saw rocks thrown at police was an aberration, Premier Jacinta Allan has suggested in a press conference, while maintaining the city is safe.

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October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Watch: Ian Wilkinson, the survivor of Erin Patterson's deadly mushroom lunch, has spoken after the triple murderer was sentenced. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
September 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Erin Patterson stood for the judge as the sentence was read out: life in prison, with a non-parole period of 33 years.

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September 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Erin Patterson will learn her fate today after she was found guilty of murdering three people, and trying to kill a fourth, by poisoning them with death cap mushrooms concealed in a beef Wellington meal.

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September 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Multiple protests in Melbourne are set to test the limits of Victoria Police resources. An anti-immigration march, dubbed the March for Australia, started at 12pm. A counter-protest has emerged as well as the separate Free Palestine Melbourne protest.
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August 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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on revelations that the IRGC were behind a series of antisemitic attacks in Australia, including the firebombing of Melbourne's Adass Israel synagogue
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When I was jailed in Iran, the interrogator showed me a list of Australian sites and began asking questions
Typed on the piece of paper were the addresses of synagogues and Jewish organisations in Melbourne. He wanted to know if I’d visited any of them, and if so, what was inside.
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August 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
There are grave fears for children who were trapped and injured on a school bus that rolled over outside Geelong on Wednesday morning.

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August 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In the heart of lockdowns, Dezi Freeman tried to privately prosecute premier Daniel Andrews. Now he’s on the run from police.

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#porepunkah #dezifreeman #victoria
August 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly next month, staring down criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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August 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Victorian Attorney General Sonya Kilkenny has labelled masked men who walked through Melbourne’s CBD ‘cowards’.

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#melbourne #victoria
August 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Blind boxes have been around for decades, but Labubus and Sonny Angels have collectors in a chokehold. What is so addictive about these little plastic figurines?

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July 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It was the morning of July 31, 2023, and this triple-zero call would mark a crucial point in a fateful 24-hour hospital shift that would come to define the next two years of Doctor Chris Webster’s life.

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July 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
It was April 30, and the prosecution was only an hour into laying out its case against Erin Patterson when she hissed at her defence team from the dock in courtroom four.⁠ “Do I have to keep suffering through this?”

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July 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Lunch cook Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder after lacing a beef Wellington meal with death cap mushrooms that killed three people.

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July 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Warning: distressing content.

The Victorian government will conduct an urgent review into child safety amid widening allegations of child sex abuse.
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
About 1200 Victorian children will be tested for infectious diseases after a childcare worker was charged with more than 70 offences, including child rape.

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July 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A secret government report warns passengers will face “crush” conditions at train stations across Melbourne’s fast-growing northern and western suburbs without an urgent overhaul of the rail system.

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June 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM