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Echo taskforce Bikie gangs refuse to break feud
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Passion for footy Watson certain to play in 2017: Woosha
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Crime crisis Thousands more cops set for Victoria
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457 visas Indian IT flood hits Aussie jobs
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Shotgun snaps ‘Drugs, guns and stupidity do not mix’
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Driving traffic The busiest days on Melbourne roads
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Risky behaviour Young are gambling with drug cocktails
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Land ahoy Heathmont land sale tops $6.7 million
A PRIME chunk of Heathmont land has been sold off in 11 sites, giving the family who owned it for almost seven decades a $6.7 million payday.
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Second campus New school campus for Melbourne’s north
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Development debate ‘I’d rather have a forest of towers in the city’
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Big haul Dramatic end to month-long crime spree
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Public reassurance Rise in reported sex offences
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Court adjournment Expert weighs in on death threat case
A MAN with a brain injury who threatened to kill a man’s wife and children will be examined by an expert to determine his culpability.
Cool yule Band’s festive fun
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A STRESSED-OUT new dad repeatedly yelled at — and then angrily shook — his five-month-old baby in front of horrified cafe patrons, a court has heard.
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MINUTES before Tim Cahill scored the only goal in a game that delivered Melbourne City its first men’s trophy, Sydney FC fans provided him with all the drive he needed.
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THE founder of one of Australia’s largest privately-owned communications companies is headed for a multi-million dollar Mornington Peninsula treechange.
Land estate Stockland’s Highlands estate in Craigieburn
THE developer behind Highlands, in Craigieburn, likes to think big: big open spaces (150ha), big numbers (at least 18,000 people will live there) and big facilities (some 20 playgrounds at last count).
Chief says Medibank lost sight of customers
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Property A plague on our houses and units
THE number of houses and flats approved for development has plunged at its fastest rate in five years amid growing concerns that an apartment glut looms.
Tax revenue Liquefied natural gas tax is all hot air
THERE is no pot of tax gold at the end of the liquefied natural gas rainbow, writes Terry McCrann.
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Beach resort ‘Maldives of Bali’ without the price tag
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Son of slain gangland boss shot own testicle
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Stupid to ignore an obvious truth
FORMER minister Kevin Andrews was smeared as a racist when he warned about Sudanese gangs nine years ago. But how right he was, writes Andrew Bolt.
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‘Before I knew it, I was delivering a baby’
A VICTORIAN policeman has described the moment he delivered a baby, instead of a fine, after pulling a driver over for speeding.
Hird, Lyon double act ‘too risky’ for SEN
JAMES Hird’s return from exile isn’t going to be with SEN. The station’s management decided it was “too risky” to pair him with Garry Lyon.
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City’s $185 million public housing push
MORE than 1000 properties across nine Melbourne suburbs will be opened up for new public housing under a $185 million plan by the Andrews Government.
Aussies pull the plug on landline phones
MILLIONS of Australians have pulled the plug on landline home phones and rely only on mobile handsets.
Judge won’t hear veiled woman’s evidence
A JUDGE is refusing to hear evidence from a Muslim woman suing police over a terrorism raid on her house because the woman refused to take off her veil.
Calls for major teen jail overhaul
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Parents sue hoon over drag-race death
THE parents of a motorcycle hoon killed in a four-way drag race in a public carpark are suing one of his fellow hoons over their son’s death.
Stabbed Vic cop on the mend
A POLICE officer stabbed in his Melbourne home says the ordeal has made him more determined than ever to protect others.
Push for probe into Question Time breach
TOUGH new security measures — including glass walls to protect federal politicians — could be fast-tracked after a mob of 40 unruly protesters shut down Parliament House.
Nothing peaceful about QT protest
THERE was nothing peaceful about the demonstration that saw protesters superglue their hands to the rails during Question Time, writes Rita Panahi.
Parliament protester probed over mum’s death
ONE of the organisers of the wild protests that shut down Parliament is a serial protester accused of allowing a mother to bleed to death as she begged for an ambulance.
Asthma thunderstorm clue hunt
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Why the Suns must trade Ablett
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Kids can come home, but grandparents?
AUSTRALIAN parents are more willing to let their grown-up “kidults” move back home than let grandma or grandpa move in, a study shows.
Fireys sweat on workplace umpire call
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