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The timing of an announcement of taxpayer support for an ailing water company sums up the cynicism that permeates the conduct of the Allan government.

Age readers respond to calls for the establishment of a royal commission into the Bondi attack.

Transurban will continue to charge Melbourne drivers hundreds of millions of dollars in “admin fees” despite the tolling giant agreeing to abolish the same fee in Sydney.  

Dinner’s ready: The volunteers delivering homemade lasagna to people going through tough times.

Police have named a homeless man as a person of interest over the attack on a rabbi’s car on Christmas Day.

Throughout this beautifully ill-fated Ashes tour, it has seemed the worse England’s cricketers go, the harder, louder and probably drunker the Barmy Army gets.

Footage provided by Victoria Police shows the pair being pulled safely from the sea

Liquidators allege Robert Filippini received $158 million from the Shield Master Fund before it collapsed with $500 million of client’s superannuation.

Two paddleboarders were rescued after drifting almost 20 kilometres across Port Phillip Bay on Christmas Day, while four kayakers needed urgent help in two separate rescues.

A battle is raging at a major university over claims it wants to stifle free speech and campus democracy.

Police have named a homeless man as a person of interest over the attack on a rabbi’s car on Christmas Day

Melbourne’s Lifeblood centres will be busy during the festive period – after 12,000 Victorians booked in a donation following the Bondi shootings.

Two paddleboarders were rescued after drifting almost 20 kilometres across Port Phillip Bay, while lifesavers also made a dramatic rescue of kayakers off the Bass Coast.

A teenage boy and woman in her 50s were rescued after being adrift for more than three hours in a Christmas Day outing that could have turned to tragedy.