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The nation’s universities have suffered alarming falls in a respected global ratings index, with seven assigned their worst positions since 2016.

Lord mayoral candidate Arron Wood is pledging to bring back the program – expanded to include live music venues – if elected, offering a 20 per cent rebate on the cost of food and drinks in the City of Melbourne.

Readers respond to latest Liberal leadership dramas, the idea of subsidised battery power storage in the home, and the economics of nuclear energy.

The frequency of the violence on our streets should not allow it to seem normal. It’s past time that the premier took the necessary steps to end it.

A failed bid to form a “commission” among major crime players that would set turf boundaries and split profit from the lucrative illicit tobacco trade ignited a war that has resulted in 100 firebombings and escalating violence.

Kayne Clarke dreamed of global titles and being one of the best kickboxers in the world. He now faces years behind bars.

Speculation abounds over the identity of the poster pirate caught ripping down election signs in Chelsea. Welcome to Ward Games, The Age’s coverage of the wacky world of Victoria’s local council elections.

University High in Parkville will move year 9 to a CBD campus next year due to overcrowding, but local parents say the government is dragging its feet on a permanent solution to the booming student population.

Video has surfaced of a man in Kingston Council area ripping down an election corflute and throwing them on a train track on Saturday October 5.

The apprentice emerged from the toolbox “red-faced and hunched over” as the director and a client stood nearby laughing and drinking beer, WorkSafe said.

The 25-year-old man argued the charge was constitutionally invalid, but a magistrate found otherwise and upheld the legislation outlawing the Nazi salute.

Legislation outlawing the performance of the Nazi salute has been upheld, and a Victorian man is the first to be found guilty, unsuccessfully arguing it was constitutionally invalid.