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Readers respond to the disunity among the Liberal and Nationals.

Melbourne’s fringe could look radically different if this historic base goes under the hammer, and locals are not happy about it.

The judge lashed Hersant as being remorseless and described his behaviour as an assault on human dignity.

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Voters in Groth’s Nepean electorate will be forced to the polls just months before the November state election after the former deputy opposition leader decided he would leave parliament early.

A court has heard Kim Ramchen, a school teacher accused of stabbing his principal, may seek bail to undergo psychiatric treatment.

It was an attack so brutal that one seasoned police officer said the offenders had no humanity. Their behaviour, he said, reminded him of rabid dogs.

Inappropriate prescribing and poor support are triggering anorexia in previously healthy patients taking weight-loss medications.