Position vacant: No age, no name, no gender
Miki Perkins For the first time in Australia, the Victorian government will trial removing personal details - like name, gender, age and location - from job applications to rule out discrimination or unconscious bias.
Latest Victoria news
Hosts barricade themselves in bedroom to escape Point Cook party gatecrashersk
Deborah Gough 12:57 AM The hosts of a teenage party barricaded themselves in a room as their party was invaded, and their home smashed and robbed, in Melbourne's west.
IBAC set to reveal victim of alleged police brutality was serving police officer
Cameron Houston and Chris Vedelago 12:22 AM A public hearing by the state's anti-corruption watchdog is expected to reveal that a vulnerable woman allegedly assaulted by two Ballarat police officers was also a serving member of Victoria Police who was on sick leave when arrested for public drunkenness in January last year.
Man dies after suspected arson attack
Steve Lillebuen 6:49 PM A 79-year-old man has died in hospital days after a suspected arson attack on his home in Clifton Springs, near Geelong.
Finding Fiona Hawker: Police search for Monbulk mother
Steve Lillebuen, Deborah Gough 6:43 PM Police will resume the search a woman missing for four days in the Monbulk area in Melbourne's outer east on Monday morning.
'Appalling display of incompetence': Council lashed by VCAT
Clay Lucas 5:36 PM Suppose the neighbour over the back fence wanted to chop down a bunch of much-loved mature trees, despite an iron-clad planning condition set a decade earlier stopping them – the council responsible for your neighbourhood would step in, right?
Bike riders fear Yarra path will be choked by new apartments
Adam Carey 4:55 PM Melbourne's premier riverside cycling trail risks being bottlenecked so that a public road can be converted into a private car park entrance for two new prestige apartment towers overlooking the Yarra River.
Support grows for missing North East Link
Josh Gordon 12:15 AM The "missing" North East Link toll road has been backed by high level traffic modelling showing it would remove "significant" numbers of cars from some of Melbourne's most congested roads.
8000 Victorian pokies punters push the button on precommitment
Richard Willingham 2:17 PM A $197 million program to help problem gamblers track their poker machine losses and stop playing has seen just 8000 people register in its first six months.
Rubbish dump time bombs - and there may be one near you
Benjamin Preiss 2:14 PM They have infiltrated a favourite holiday spot, threatened suburban waterways and can produce an awful stench.
Rebels motorcycle gang protest treatment by government, media
Goya Dmytryshchak 7:51 AM Members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club descended on Federation Square in Melbourne's CBD on Saturday night to protest what they say is unfair treatment by the federal government and media.
Breathalysers coming to public car parks
Goya Dmytryshchak Drivers will be forced to pass a breathalyser test before leaving a public car park under a state government trial starting next year.
Crusading MP's bid to curb abortion laws
Farrah Tomazin It took almost six decades for the Democratic Labour Party to get a woman elected to parliament, and only 18 months for her to reignite one of Spring Street's most divisive debates.
Heat on Labor in Batman as Greens candidate Alex Bhathal continues to rise
Richard Willingham It was in the wake of the Tampa affair that Alex Bhathal first put her hand up for a run at Federal Parliament in the seat of Batman.
Passengers and pilot safe after hot air balloon rescue
Emily Woods, Goya Dmytryshchak Emergency services are working to free 10 people, inside a deflating hot air baloon which is hovering 20m above water off a beach near Black Rock.
Homeless shower bus issued with parking ticket in City Square
Emily Woods One Voice says Melbourne City Council needs to work better with homelessness organisations, after the charity's mobile shower bus was given a parking fine on Friday night.
Home is where the heart breaks
John Elder Allen Lang was homeless, in the truest sense, from when he was a little boy. He doesn't remember his mother hugging him, but that's only because she was afraid of Allen's father, an apparent brute.
Kids in space: a Melbourne primary school puts an astronaut in the hot seat
John Elder There is a famous scene from The Right Stuff, the movie about the first astronauts, where the entire world sits on the edge of its seat, waiting for word from John Glenn on his overheated re-entry to Earth, NASA control calling to him, time and again. Everybody waiting.
Man dies in hospital after head-on crash in Epping
Emily Woods and Goya Dmytryshchak A man has died in hospital after a head-on crash in Epping on Friday night.
Party favours
Gina McColl Of all the electoral donations regimes in all the states of Australia, the one that operates in Victoria is the most lax, the least transparent.
Chinese interests play increasing role in Australian political donations
Gina McColl A Chinese government-backed propaganda unit and a swag of companies that stand to gain from the China Australia Free Trade Agreement have made more than half a million dollars of political donations in Victoria.
Just a pretty picture? These world-first images could change lives
Larissa Ham Spectacular artwork, kaleidoscope or a groundbreaking glimpse into stem-cell science that could lead to longer, healthier lives?
Family rescues passengers from hot air balloon near Beaumaris
Emily Woods A Beaumaris family rescued nine passengers aboard a hot air balloon on Saturday morning, hoisting the hot air balloon onto their boat and carefully pulling people from the basket of the balloon to safety.
Farewelling Dan, 'a beautiful boy'
Tom Cowie The mysterious disappearance of 24-year-old Daniel O'Keeffe gripped people around the world in the five years after he went missing in July 2011. Daniel's mother Lori speaks for the first time after his body was found in the family home.
Attacks on Kittens strip club 'not stopping, getting worse'
Chris Vedelago That a brazen daylight shooting can spark both fear and relief is sign of how deeply disaffected residents and businesses have become with the continued existence of the Kittens strip club chain.
Policeman injured after ute rams patrol van
Larissa Ham A police van was rammed and a senior constable hospitalised when the driver of a suspicious ute took refused to back down in Scoresby on Saturday morning.
Hospitals lift their masterchef game for patients
Rania Spooner Through the photographer's lens some people saw an exotic fish, others a human foot, one thought it was an image of the patient's own skin graft.
Cigarette bans and laws to apply to vaping
Rania Spooner Vaping will be outlawed in Victoria's smoke-free spaces and e-cigarette advertising banned in shops.
Charges laid over Clifton Springs house fire
Emily Woods A Clifton Springs man, 45, has been charged with attempted murder after a house fire on Thursday night left an elderly man with critical injuries.
City Square protest goes on after council tells rough sleepers to raze camp
Nicole Precel and Liam Mannix Rough sleepers dismantle milk-crate protest camp on council orders but vow to continue their fight for a fair go - and a place to call home.
Opinion
Andrews' port plan is a fraud on the west
Victoria is facing an infrastructure fiasco rivalling the desalination plant.
Indifference threatens a jewel in Victoria's heritage
In a crook of a hill outside Melbourne, a rare example of Victoria's heritage is crumbling.
A perfect storm led to hospital baby deaths
We must demand transparency and a change in attitude at Bacchus Marsh Hospital.
Hunt’s Melbourne 2200: on a road to nowhere
Environment Minister is still playing Abbott-style politics and his proposals ignore fiscal realities.
The urban myth we just can't shake off
We have the world's most urban culture but we see ourselves as red-dirters, outbackers, bushies.
Hail the fight for workplace safety
The decline in workplace deaths would have been unachievable without the vigilance of unions.
Fighting fire with fire: sometimes it goes wrong
The recent Lancefield bushfires highlight the need to have a plan and then use it.
A premier who keeps his promises? Really?
Premier Daniel Andrews has stuck to his guns, and his commitments.
Flash heatwave forebodes dangerous summer
In less than a week, the bushfire season has descended upon us.
Open letter to Gillon McLachlan
Victim of Brownless' "strippers" comment says the AFL chief should use his power to change the culture of The Footy Show.
Don't be fooled by Andrews' port trickery
Privatising the port to pay for level-crossing removals is a modern version of the pea and thimble trick.
Video
V/Line conductor filmed punching man
Passenger films a V/Line employee as he repeatedly kicks and punches a 46-year-old man at Broadford station.
Andrews wants Melbourne Metro cash from Turnbull
Daniel Andrews wants the allocated $3 billion for East West link to fund the Melbourne Metro.
Inside Australia's goat farming industry
We export the largest quantity of this meat in the world, but most Australians know little about goat farming.
