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| UpdatedFederal sports minister Greg Hunt says a government inquiry into the Essendon doping saga is possible after the 'Justice for the 34' group presented him with new information.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, essendon-3040, vic, australia
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Melbourne City gets three valuable points, beating the Wellington Phoenix 5-1 to keep it in the mix in the battle for second place on the A-League ladder.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, new-zealand, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe Brisbane Lions make it three from three with a win over Collingwood while GWS and Fremantle play out the first ever AFL Women's draw.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, brisbane-4000, blacktown-2148, nsw, qld, collingwood-3066, vic, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedAn 1896 premiership football trophy won by a Tasmanian club is returned to Launceston after being displayed in the wrong museum for 15 years.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, launceston-7250, tas, fitzroy-3065, vic
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| UpdatedJarryd Roughead kicks a goal in his first game in 500 days as Hawthorn wins after the siren against Geelong in preseason game in Launceston.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, cancer, melbourne-3000, vic, launceston-7250, tas, australia
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Teenage detainees at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon prison have been pinned down in their cells, punched and kicked by adult prison guards, human rights lawyers claim.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, crime, judges-and-legal-profession, human, anakie-3221, vic
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Australia takes on Sri Lanka in the first Twenty20 of a three-match series at the MCG. Follow all the stats and commentary in our live scorecentre.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, sri-lanka
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Victorians are again being warned to protect themselves from mosquito bites with reported cases of Ross River virus continuing to "rise significantly".
Topics: ross-river-fever, diseases-and-disorders, health, vic, melbourne-3000
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A woman is charged with the murder of a mother whose body was found on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula more than six months after she was reported missing.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sorrento-3943, vic
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| UpdatedIt will likely be 18 months before the man accused of the deadly Bourke Street rampage faces a Supreme Court trial, with prosecutors telling the court there are more than 1,000 witnesses.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedNews organisation Yahoo7 is fined $300,000 after one of its journalists published a story that prejudiced a Melbourne murder trial.
Topics: courts-and-trials, journalism, information-and-communication, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedWith political heat flaring the length of the Murray-Darling, there are fears the future of the fragile water sharing deal hangs in the balance.
Topics: rivers, environment, water-management, water-supply, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, joyce-barnaby, turnbull-malcolm, howard-john-winston, murray-darling-basin, australia, sa, qld, vic, nsw
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Football journalist and draft expert Emma Quayle becomes the first female recruiter in the AFL after joining Greater Western Sydney.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, women, homebush-2140, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw
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| UpdatedAustralia's new Super Netball competition has not even started and already there are concerns it will be dominated by three new franchises backed by football clubs.
Topics: netball, sport, collingwood-3066, vic, adelaide-5000, sa, sydney-2000, nsw, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedUsing technology of the future to dig up the history of the past, students are taking part in a paleontological dig using 3D and virtual reality technology. Their results will be on display in a museum where you will even be able to touch the skin of the 3D-printed dinosaur.
Topics: palaeontology, science-and-technology, tv-technology, deakin-university-3217, colac-3250, vic, australia
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Australian doctors say viewing X-rays on a smartphone can be just as useful in diagnosing common lung problems in babies as looking at the standard X-ray film, opening up opportunities for rural patients who need quick diagnosis.
Topics: medical-research, health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, babies, family-and-children, infant-health, diseases-and-disorders, child-health-and-behaviour, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA 21-year-old man is charged with 92 offences after a fire at a bank in Springvale last year that injured 36 people.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, springvale-3171, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedSt Patrick's College in Ballarat, infamous for its history of child sexual abuse, is determined to make amends and become a leader in child protection.
Topics: community-and-society, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, royal-commissions, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA parolee who murdered a Victorian jeweller while high on drugs during a botched robbery in 2013 would not be released under changes to the parole system, an inquest hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, judges-and-legal-profession, courts-and-trials, drug-offences, hastings-3915, vic
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| UpdatedIn light of the Victorian Government's move to overhaul Melbourne's bus network, we take a look at some of the innovative systems other cities have in place and what Melbourne could learn from them.
Topics: states-and-territories, parliament, government-and-politics, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, melbourne-3000, vic
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Two police officers are charged over an alleged assault on a female former police officer in custody at the Ballarat police station two years ago.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, ballarat-3350, vic
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| UpdatedA senior member of Victoria's community-based firefighting organisation, the CFA, is stood aside after an unauthorised security camera is found in a shed where volunteers change their clothes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, fires, bendigo-3550, vic
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| UpdatedHow are primary producers battling the heat and what will it mean for consumers and their wallets?
Topics: agribusiness, sheep-production, dairy-production, vegetables, poultry-and-egg-production, fruits, rural, food-and-cooking, weather, australia, vic, nsw, qld, hay-2711, dubbo-2830, bordertown-5268, stanthorpe-4380, wamuran-4512, glass-house-mountains-4518
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| UpdatedA Melbourne taxi driver caught doing 144 kilometres an hour in an 80kph zone told police he was speeding because he had to get to a job, police allege.
Topics: crime, oaklands-junction-3063, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe Australian Energy Market Operator says it can't give a guarantee that it will not order load shedding, of the kind that left 90,000 properties without power during a recent heatwave in South Australia, again.
Topics: government-and-politics, electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa, vic