A Victorian man is fighting for his life in hospital after his Fijian holiday turned into a nightmare. Clayton Brett was in Lautoka in Fiji when he presented at a hospital with stab wounds. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: The Fiji travel nightmare that left an Australian man fighting for life. The Altona man then caught … Read more
An Australian model with an incredible global career has died at just 28, it’s been confirmed. Sian Scale, who was based in Melbourne but also worked in London, New York and Paris, was 28. She died at Melbourne’s Peter McCallum Centre after contracting a rare and incurable cancer, the Herald Sun reported. Her modelling agency … Read more
Police from three Australian states are searching for convicted child sex offender Allan Hopkins over further alleged offences involving a minor. Hopkins, 44, served a seven-year sentence for kidnapping a 10-year-old girl from her Paralowie home and raping her in 2007. He was declared a high-risk offender last year and put on a supervision order … Read more
An independent craft brewery based in Melbourne has collapsed after failing to find a buyer or investor to keep it afloat. Deeds Brewery announced on Wednesday that after 12 years of operation, it would be closing its doors. The business went into voluntary administration on March 13 but struggled to find anyone to financially back … Read more
Passengers will have to wait until 2033 to take a train to Melbourne Airport, as the Victorian government takes an axe to major project spending to curb spiralling debt. Unveiling his 10th state budget on Tuesday, Treasurer Tim Pallas revealed Melbourne Airport Rail was set to be completed at least four years later than its … Read more
Victorian parents of school-aged children will get a $400 bonus as part of the state’s budget aimed at easing cost-of-living pressures on families. More than 700,000 students will benefit from a school saving bonus, a major feature of the first budget under Premier Jacinta Allan. The scheme will cost $287 million and involve one-off payments … Read more
Thousands of student teachers, nurses and social workers will be paid hundreds of dollars each week during mandatory work placements, in an Australian first. As part of their degrees, these students must work hundreds of hours of placement, forcing many to give up part-time jobs for unpaid labour. But from July 2025, about 68,000 at … Read more
Melbourne is the only Australian city where property prices have fallen over the past month, new figures show. Australia clocked its fifteenth month in a row of house price growth, with prices gaining a further 0.6 per cent in April, according to Corelogic’s home value index. While each capital city saw an increase in property … Read more
Hospital workers will not be disciplined for pretending to be patients to make a regional Victorian facility look busy during the health minister’s visit. About 10 staff posed as patients in the waiting room of Colac Area Health Urgent Care Centre in August 2023, a Victorian Health Department probe found. The full report has not … Read more
A Victorian government MP has been forced out of the Labor Party room over mounting allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women — but police will not be asked to investigate. Premier Jacinta Allan dumped South Barwon MP Darren Cheeseman from the parliamentary Labor Party late on Monday, after first axing him as the parliamentary secretary … Read more
