All votes should be counted as equal

Age readers react to the upcoming local council elections.

The teenager, 18, reported being verbally abused and later punched in the face three times at the weekend camp.

Readers respond to Australian values, plans for a Port Melbourne data centre, and a letters editor extraordinaire.

Samantha Wearing loves finding quirky experiences she can give as gifts. Her latest was a huge success.

Sutasinee McGuigan is accused of funnelling the funds from two accounts linked to the famed nightclub into bank accounts owned by her and members of her family.

A professor who was sacked for sending his student romantic messages is set to get his job back, after the Fair Work Commission rejected the university’s appeal.

My resort-style suburb confuses both outsiders and residents. But its true delight is in the quirky, unexpected pleasures that come with life here.

My resort-style suburb confuses both outsiders and residents. But its true delight is in the quirky, unexpected pleasures that come with life here.

As many as 300 Victorians are being bussed around the state by police each night in an attempt to “reset the clock” and avoid breaching legal regulations.

A number of private and Catholic secondary schools across Victoria are growing at a faster rate than public schools, as year 7 intakes boom. Search the full list here.

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father, Richard, was deemed at high risk of suicide just 20 minutes before the treatment order keeping him in hospital was revoked.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.

Melbourne foodies are rushing to stock up at Leo’s supermarkets in Kew and Heidelberg, with both iconic locations closing well ahead of the previously announced schedule.

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.

Coffee with Carl Williams, sacred sites where gangsters roam free: This is the dark history of Australia’s underbelly

More than 80 group homes for disabled residents have closed, upending the lives of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people.

With details of a new high-speed rail line soon to be revealed, could this be the plan that actually gets up?

With only 110,000 homes commercially viable in the state’s flagship activity centre push, economists and property industry figures want more lenient development rules to kickstart construction.

Age readers respond to the state of politics in Australia.

The road project was supposed to provide an underpass for kangaroos. Instead, it has built a rope bridge for possums.

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.