Waving a flag for responsibility

Freedom of speech in a democracy carries responsibilities – not inciting violence or hatred to one particular part of society must be one of those.

Readers argue that house prices will remain unaffordable until the government reduces the tax relief investors receive.

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.

The son of Melonie McKay found out his mother had been struck by a car on social media. Later, her neighbour was charged with her murder.

Emergency services were called to a street in Reservoir, where a 53-year-old woman was declared dead at the scene.

Two brothers. An irreconcilable rift. One coffee empire. For the first time, the brothers behind Brunetti reveal the inside story of the split that changed Lygon Street forever.

Crime seems to be woven into the very fabric of this city, though most passers-by wouldn’t know about the secrets bubbling under the surface. But John Silvester does.

Readers continue to censure the prime minister over his comments on the ISIS brides and their children.

Victorians are entitled to expect of Jacinta Allan and her government a higher standard of accountability than they are receiving right now.

The federal health minister has requested scrutiny of clinical governance at the Epworth hospital after allegations that one of its surgeons performed unnecessary surgeries to treat endometriosis.

Police say a Mornington Peninsula couple ran a huge drug trafficking operation out of their rented Mount Martha home.

Premier Jacinta Allan is rattled. You can see it in her eyes, hear it in her voice, and smell it in her strategy as she blusters and bullies and bumbles her way through the Big Build scandal.

As details of his teenage son’s final moments were read out in the Victorian Coroner’s Court, Harry Tsindos hunched over in his chair, put his head in his hands and wept.

The boy was just 14 when he bludgeoned and stabbed a woman to death in her bed with a plan to steal her car and create a child army. He could soon be eligible for day release into the community.

Long before Erin Patterson used poisoned mushrooms to kill three family members with deadly beef Wellingtons, Lorraine Moss was lacing her husband’s food with arsenic.

The multimillion-dollar project has received a backlash from locals, but was green-lit by the state government on Thursday.

Since the opening of the West Gate Tunnel, residents say more trucks are avoiding the toll road and rat-running near schools and shops, sparking safety fears.

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