Art and ghosts meet as women reclaim the shadows of Abbotsford Convent

The faint echoes of the Magdalene laundries still linger in the convent’s walls. Some former residents have been brave enough to return; others will never cross the threshold again.

Motorsport isn’t the only attraction at Albert Park, not when there’s plenty of elite-level networking to be done above the pit-lane garages.

Aidan Becker was killed while intervening as a group allegedly tried to rob a schoolboy, police say. His friends remembered him as kind and optimistic.

Teachers say they find it very difficult to get WorkCover for bullying, stress and burnout, which means they’re languishing on waiting lists rather than in the classroom.

Residents in Yallambie will be limited to just one road in and out of their suburb after the major project decided to permanently close a key section of road.

As politicians line up to blast Coles over its use of Micky Ahuja’s security company, a sting operation has caught the disgraced company boss thumbing his nose at the Australian authorities.

Daniel Andrews vowed it would never happen under Labor. But one in three councils have ditched weekly pick-ups, and a big inner-city council plans to follow suit.

Readers celebrate International Women’s Day and argue that being able to get the oral contraceptive pill from a pharmacy instead of a doctor is not a good idea.

Men across Victoria and NSW have been arrested in a major police operation that uncovered some of the most depraved child abuse material investigators have ever seen.

Though January’s bushfires scorched nearly as much land as Black Saturday, just one person was killed. Experts and survivors attribute this to several improvements, but warn we must always remain vigilant.

The singer was swamped by fans at Albert Park on Saturday, but she wasn’t the only one to make a statement so far at the track this week. So did Jules Neale.

Police have provided an update on the killing of a man in Mernda overnight, as four teenagers await possible charges over the attack.

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

One person is dead after a fight broke out near Mernda railway station in Melbourne’s north-east, police say.

He was the restaurant baron arrested at a pro-Palestine rally. She was the partner left to save the business as hats were stripped. Now Rebecca Yazbek is taking control as one of the only female CEOs in Australian hospitality.

One line in the 2013 Open Courts Act has had unintended consequences, denying victims fairness and the public their right to know. It requires a small but significant revision.

Readers agree with columnist Waleed Aly that the US claims of forcing a regime change in Iran is more likely driven by the opportunity to crush its military capabilities,

This week The Age joined all of Victoria’s major media outlets in writing to the state’s attorney-general to call for a change to laws that stymie transparency in our court system. So far, the campaign looks promising.

One person is dead after a fight broke out near Mernda railway station in Melbourne’s north-east, police say.

Police are responding to reports of a fatal incident at Mernda railway station in Melbourne’s north-east.

A star literature student who barely spoke English when she arrived in Australia is aiming to study at one of the world’s top universities, and she’s not alone.

Machetes, a meat cleaver and a carving knife were among weapons seized from a gang of teenage boys in the CBD on the first night of the annual Moomba Festival.

In 1981, it was $20,000 cash and a beach house. Today, it’s organised crime infiltrating the CFMEU – and a toothless watchdog. It’s time to fix it. John Silvester outlines how.

One of the state’s largest disability service providers is withdrawing its transport services due to financial pressures and trying to sell off the buses they were given for free.

Parents are choosing private education in increasing numbers, but the latest school snapshot also had much-needed good news for government schools.

Test your knowledge of Melbourne and Victoria with Stephen Brook’s quiz.

There have been more than a dozen arson attacks and two shootings related to illicit tobacco markets since Hamad was arrested in Iraq in mid-January.

To add to Pakula’s workload for the week he was asked as the chair of Crown to find a last-minute room for a “late breaking visitor”.

A coroner has found two university housemates found dead near Mount Bogong likely become disorientated in severe weather after taking on a hike they were inexperienced for.

Readers evaluate the actions of Trump, Netanyahu and the words of Albanese and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and only one of them gets a positive result.