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Two and a half years since this program was launched to great fanfare, just six homes have been built and sites remain untouched.

Parents of students in Victorian state schools are asked to contribute $620 on average to cover basic items such as first aid supplies, but in some schools only 30 per cent are paying.

The Grammy-winning US star seems to have quietly become a Collingwood local, spending months each year visiting his Melbourne-based daughters.

Readers respond to the South Australian election, freebirthing tragedies, Victoria’s Treaty and a missing icon.

Farmers like Michael Stubbe fear their land is vulnerable to damage after containment lines were constructed to fight the Longford fire, but they’re still waiting for the CFA to make repairs.

Farmers like Michael Stubbe fear their land is vulnerable to damage after containment lines were constructed to fight the Longford fire, but they’re still waiting for CFA to make repairs.

A tense round of Liberal preselection contests kicked off this weekend, amid the ongoing threat from One Nation.

An ice-cream store in Melbourne’s south-west has again been targeted by firebombing – the sixth suspicious fire along the shopping strip in the past few years.

The Westin Hotel wants 10 times the amount of compensation it was offered for the loss of easements in City Square, which was compulsorily acquired for a Metro Tunnel station.

A man who was assaulted on a Metro train says he was shocked to discover that both the emergency intercom and CCTV in his carriage were not working.

Pop megastar Kylie Minogue gave 250 of Australia’s most select guests a night to remember as the headline act of cardboard king Anthony Pratt’s annual party.