Melbourne news

As the Australian Club tussles between tradition and modernity, members were recently given a dressing-down for a simple act.

Melbourne’s wealthiest women control who is allowed through the clubhouse’s gilded doors, where a seat at the table is seen as a chance to rub shoulders with women of influence.

Melbourne’s Savage Club has been a haven for bohemians, politicians and corporate titans for 130 years, but its conservative members face a battle for relevance.

Behind an imposing facade is the granddaddy of Melbourne’s private clubs – an exclusive and privileged all-male, old-world institution.

The smoke-cured laugh of Paula Scholes, aka Miss Pearls, can be heard day and night within the wood-panelled walls of the Kelvin Club.

Uncovering the secrets and politics inside Melbourne’s most exclusive members-only clubs.

Across a laneway, the women-only clubhouse was renovated to look down on an area that’s determined to keep them out.

Schools reported more than 600 assaults and related offences in the year ending June 2024, official data shows – up 50 per cent in two years.

Inside this six-storey club, behind an unmarked and discrete entrance, scions of politics would meet with titans of industry, media barons, judges and police commissioners.

Readers discuss Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s leadership.

The university will keep its name despite concerns from some students and faculty about the legacy of Australia’s second prime minister after a process led by its first Aboriginal student.

A pet corgi was among city dogs trying out sheep herding for a day.

The debate about how to prevent increasing wildfires has reignited after massive fires in Los Angeles and regional Victoria. Many advocate for prescribed burns, but do they work?