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Homicide detectives are probing the death and another patient is currently under police guard.

Martin Ang’s father, Richard, was deemed at high risk of suicide just 20 minutes before the treatment order keeping him in hospital was revoked. He died less than two days later.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott’s book on Australian history has been an extraordinary bestseller. It’s a different story for Scott Morrison.

Many will remember O-Week at university as party first, preparation second. There were pub crawls, boat and trike races, toga parties and beer skolling marathons, most involving drinking alcohol, sometimes to excess. 

Victoria fast-tracked a $1b data centre in Port Melbourne through planning in 75 days, as its jobs minister met technology chiefs 16 times in 2025, as the state goes all in on big tech.

Readers argue that house prices will remain unaffordable until the government reduces the tax relief investors receive.

Student Sarah Gibbs filmed her trek to show solo women hikers what they could achieve, but what followed left her terrified and feeling police didn’t take what happened seriously.

But the new owner of the Burgundy Street site has revealed that a new supermarket and five shops will replace it.

As police investigate the theft of about 1700 poppy plants from a farm in the Ballarat area, authorities warn that products from the plants contain high levels of toxicity and were unlike traditional opioid poppies.

A western suburbs council wants the auditor-general to probe a dispute over more than $5m in land taxes for properties ranging from kinders to garden beds.

For the parents whose trust has been shattered and the teachers who will bear the shame, the sentence for this case can only feel inadequate.

When the power goes, a landline can be the difference between life and death. But NBN Co won’t pay to keep the infrastructure.