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Top names at one of Australia’s best-known science organisations are walking, or being pushed out, amid allegations of a toxic culture and intense financial pressure.

Readers urge the government and the Reserve Bank to think of their priorities.

Crime figures are using social media, random approaches on the street, and even the funeral of a teenager killed in knife violence as recruiting grounds for arson foot soldiers.

Bespoke self-erasing apps and encrypted networks have turned serious violence into cheap contracts, leaving burns victims, bungled targets and disposable teens in their wake.

We need a true civic conversation about where Melbourne is going, and a collective effort to get us there.

When former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio walked Melbourne’s streets for the first time, he marvelled at what the city had to offer. But an insidious problem evades our legislators.

Three appeal judges rejected Patterson’s plea for her conviction to be overturned and instead increased her sentence because of her “shocking criminality”.

A Brunswick charity worker who moved to Ukraine to rebuild war-damaged homes has died after a house fire which is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

A cornerstone of Chief Commissioner Mike Bush’s strategy to tackle organised crime will be breaking into the encrypted apps used by the cartels to recruit, order gangland hits, and task kids to firebomb businesses and homes.

Three Court of Appeal justices have handed down their decision and Erin Patterson, sitting in a small room near a window in prison, has learned her fate. This is how the morning in court unfolded.

Three appeal judges rejected Patterson’s plea for her conviction to be overturned and instead increased her sentence because of her “shocking criminality”.

Three Court of Appeal justices have handed down their decision and Erin Patterson, sitting in a small room near a window in prison, has learned her fate. Follow our live updates.

Mushroom killer Erin Patterson likely to die in prison after court dismisses appeal. Follow live.