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Students were able to highlight materials uploaded to the curriculum authority’s website that appeared to be blank but revealed “hidden” text when formatted in a new document.

Students were able to highlight sections of materials uploaded to the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority website that appeared to be blank, but revealed ‘hidden’ text when formatted in a new document.

The Victoria Police court brief details the claim allegedly made to an undercover officer as the force maintains there was no political or religious link to the fire.

An elderly Forest Hill woman has died in a house fire on Wednesday night, believed to have been started from clothing being dried in front of a heater that ignited.

Age readers respond to the funding issues involved with the Suburban Rail Loop.

Attorneys general are being urged to push through new laws after the High Court found religious orders did not have vicarious liability for sexual abuse committed by their clerics.

The case has prompted the state coroner to call for a complete overhaul of the way Victoria deals with family violence perpetrators.

A Weir Views father has told of waking from a nap with his young child to find an armed intruder in his daughter’s bedroom.

The electoral commissioner revealed alleged suspected postal-vote tampering in elections at Knox and Whittlesea councils, where voters lodged multiple ballots by mail.

The state’s electoral commissioner said there had been suspected postal-vote tampering in two wards – one in Knox council and the other in Whittlesea – with some voters lodging multiple ballots by mail.

The electoral commissioner revealed alleged suspected postal-vote tampering in elections at Knox and Whittlesea councils, where voters lodged multiple ballots by mail.

The Ballarat diocese of the Catholic Church and its current bishop, Paul Bird, were sued by a man who said he was sexually assaulted by Father Bryan Coffey at his parents’ home in Port Fairy in 1971 when he was five years old.

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