Victoria

Neelima Choahan

Neelima Choahan is a journalist at The Age, covering general news and is passionate about social issues.

The missing Mooroopna children.

Five siblings missing

Public are being urged to help Victoria Police in their search for five missing children from Mooroopna, near Shepparton.

People console each other in the Bourke Street Mall.

Eerie silence in Bourke Street as floral shrine grows

All day the shrine kept growing. First it was the workers, stopping on their way into work, pondering on what could have been if they had taken a slightly different route on Friday. Others came and left cards, portraits, and soft toys.