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.

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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Victorian Attorney General Sonya Kilkenny has labelled masked men who walked through Melbourne’s CBD ‘cowards’.

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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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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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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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The Victorian government will conduct an urgent review into child safety amid widening allegations of child sex abuse.

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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