VCE Guide 2024

Expert tips to help you do your best in this year’s exams.

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.

Data has uncovered the catastrophic consequences of a rise in women choosing to give birth without the aid of medically trained professionals.

Conservationists have raised the alarm after rangers discovered that boxes perched high on trees for sugar gliders and microbats had been dismantled twice in December.

Readers say that as the world, country and state face gloomy outlooks, voters are searching for alternatives to major parties.

Residents in this well-off suburb say antisocial behaviour and crime is on the rise, and they are pushing to reclaim the community.

With events including live music performances and a mobile petting zoo, this local sub-branch is attracting new customers of all ages.

Mykey O’Halloran and fellow volunteers run a pop-up hair colouring salon in a remote Northern Territory Indigenous community.

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

After surviving a family split and devastating fire, Stokehouse has marked Melburnians’ special occasions for more than 35 years. Now, a new generation is taking the lead.

Cost blowouts are expected on Victoria’s Big Build, according to analysts and ratings agencies, as the global fuel shock triggers widespread economic fallout.

A $100 million sports and aquatics complex, a $55 million humanities building: what Melbourne’s private schools are spending on their new facilities.

Readers argue that as the state election approaches, Premier Jacinta Allan must tell Victorians which promised infrastructure projects will proceed in light of the “Big Build” cost blowouts.

Jet fuel prices have doubled within a fortnight, leading many Melburnians to alter or pause plans for international travel as airfares surge.

A 25-year-old woman from Mount Waverley remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital after being attacked while walking through a mall in Clayton on Thursday morning.

A grieving brother has vowed to honour his late sister by fulfilling her lifelong wish of starting an orphanage in Sri Lanka, where they were born and grew up.

The incident comes amid skyrocketing petrol costs and a cost-of-living crisis.

A Melbourne lawyer was convicted and fined $1500 after pleading guilty to a raft of drug and driving offences and also faces the prospect of being banned from practising law.

Former homicide detective Sol Solomon recounts the hunt for killers in the cases that have shocked and haunted him.

Police say they’ve busted a syndicate which stole hundreds of high-end vehicles worth more than $20m and shipped them to the Middle East.

A turf war has erupted between GPs and pharmacists over changes that allow patients to get the pill from pharmacies without a doctor’s script.

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

Readers argue that Trump’s war in the Middle East is his doing and Anthony Albanese should have immediately distanced himself from it.