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First Nations people need to hear an apology on behalf of the King’s reign and those that preceded him.

After being shot in his arm and leg, former lecturer Lee Gordon-Brown sprang into action to save others. As The Age turns 170, we revisit people who captured the nation’s attention.

Residents and small business owners would get cheaper power bills under a proposed renewable energy bulk-buying scheme covering at least four inner Melbourne councils.

School grounds should be opened up for public use after hours and on weekends, Victoria’s peak infrastructure body says. 

Police have doused neo-Nazis in pepper spray after they tried to disrupt the final night of a 100-day refugee protest.

Readers respond to Lidia Thorpe’s protest against King Charles, and give their verdict on the Allan government’s high density plans for suburbs such as Brighton.

The daughter of the dead high country camper says the case will be about much more than just money.

The daughter of the dead high country camper says the case will be about much more than just money.

A council in Melbourne’s inner east says the state government’s fast-tracking of apartment development cuts across its own plans to cater for growth.

Ballots close in just a few days, but fewer than 40 per cent of City of Melbourne residents have voted as lord mayoral candidatesbattled it out in a last-minute pitch in a live debate on Tuesday.

Police arrested 25-year-old boxer Nazir Haddara at Melbourne Airport as he attempted to board a flight to Dubai.

It turns out the identity of the sign-thrower wasn’t such a mystery to the good burghers of Melbourne’s south-east.

Joe de Bruyn is unapologetic about his controversial speech decrying same-sex marriage and abortion, sparking a mass walkout at a university graduation ceremony.

Premier Jacinta Allan wants to upend the housing market by fast-tracking high-rise apartment buildings across the suburbs and slashing stamp duty for off-the-plan apartments, units and townhouses – but will it work?

During a speech for graduates at the ACU, former national president of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association, Joe de Bruyn, compared abortion to the loss of life in World War II and told graduates that marriage was between a man and a woman.

Joe de Bruyn is unapologetic about his controversial speech which decried same-sex marriage and abortion at an ACU graduation ceremony, sparking a mass walkout.