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A new case of measles has been reported in Victoria – the 10th recorded for the state since the start of the year. The returned traveller tested positive to measles after transiting through Melbourne Airport’s T2 international terminal between 9.15pm and 10.30pm on Wednesday. The infected traveller returned on Emirates flight EK408 from Dubai to […]

Chris Dawson has argued that he ought to be released from prison owing to bank statements and hospital records lost to time, and friends who had died over the last four decades who were unable to give their version of events in his defence, a court has heard this week. Dawson, 75, sits in Clarence […]

People attending the Victoria ALP Conference were met with scenes of violence as they tried to make their way into the Moonee Valley Racecourse. Protesters at a Pro-Palestine rally could be seen shoving and pushing people as they make their way through the crowd into the conference. Some included MPs and Labor delegates, who were […]

A man who attacked another man in a “dangerous and callous” mugging which left the victim with part of his ear severed faces deportation back to Egypt after losing a bid to appeal his sentence. Jok Gar was jailed for two years on charges of robbery and recklessly causing injury after he and co-offender Tyler […]

After three days of back-and-forth arguments, a trio of appeal judges are now deliberating Chris Dawson’s fate. The appeal hearing was held over three days from Monday to Wednesday this week, with Dawson’s lawyers arguing the former school teacher suffered from a “miscarriage of justice” as it could not be proven that his wife Lynette […]

The former airline pilot accused of murdering an elderly couple during a camping trip in Victoria’s High Country was in the sights of police more than a year before his arrest, a jury has been told. Gregory Stuart Lynn, 57, is facing trial in Victoria’s Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to the murders of […]

EXCLUSIVE The victims of a grandmother who fleeced her loved ones of $400,000 to gamble at the Star Casino has called on her to be deported after the 63-year-old was released from police custody ahead of an appeal of her jail sentence. On Thursday, Sydney woman Viviana Leonor Varas was sentenced to one year in […]

Five police officers have launched defamation action against the ACT and its former director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold over allegations about their handling of Bruce Lehrmann’s sexual assault trial. The Australian Federal Police officers alleged in a statement of claim they were defamed by Mr Drumgold in a letter to ACT Chief Police Officer […]

Two friends who have been forced to camp on their own property amid Australia’s mounting housing crisis are now facing eviction after a local council stepped in. In 2020, Nathaniel Muller purchased a two-and-a-half-acre parcel of land near Castlemaine in central Victoria, initially intending to use it for camping. However, as rental costs across the […]

A cold polar air mass will send temperatures plummeting this weekend on the nation’s southeast and could prompt snowfall in Alpine regions. The weather system could bring rain and sub-zero temperatures to some parts of NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia on Saturday and Sunday. However, the wintry blast will reach Melbourne on Friday afternoon […]