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The Victorian Government says it told the national energy operator "under no circumstances" could it cut power to regional centres in order to keep New South Wales operating during a recent heatwave.
Topics: energy, weather, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA $1 billion social housing growth fund will be set up as part of a Victorian Government package to tackle homelessness and increase the state's social housing stock as more than 33,000 people wait for public housing.
Topics: homelessness, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, tells a royal commission the response by Catholic Church leaders to allegations of child sexual abuse amounted to "criminal negligence".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, adelaide-5000, perth-7300
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| UpdatedVictoria's Parliamentary Speaker promises to repay an allowance of almost $40,000 he claimed for living in the seaside town of Queenscliff, more than 80 kilometres from Melbourne.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, queenscliff-3225, tarneit-3029, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedIt is the end of an era for Australia's oldest dairy processor Warrnambool Cheese and Butter as Canadian family Saputo takes a 100 per cent stake.
Topics: agricultural-prices, food-and-beverage, food-processing, dairy-production, melbourne-3000, warrnambool-3280
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| UpdatedWorkers in the hospitality, retail and fast-food industries will be paid less for working on Sundays and on public holidays after the Fair Work Commission decided to cut penalty rates today.
Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, work, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedAs Australia's five teams put the finishing touches on their Super Rugby preparations, improving their record against New Zealand rivals is a key priority.
Topics: rugby-union, super-rugby, sport, canberra-2600, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAs new evidence of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef emerges, scientists warn the temperatures that caused last year's devastating coral die-off will be commonplace within decades.
Topics: climate-change, great-barrier-reef, marine-biology, cairns-4870, melbourne-3000, townsville-4810
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The Babes Project is crowdfunding to launch a collection of empowering stories of women experiencing crisis pregnancies through to parenthood.
Topics: parenting, pregnancy-and-childbirth, womens-health, family-and-children, children, mental-health, books-literature, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAustralia will meet football powerhouse Brazil at the MCG in June as part of its build-up to the Confederations Cup, with the five-time World Cup winners to back up after their clash with Argentina.
Topics: socceroos, soccer, sport, melbourne-3000
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Five of Australia's Catholic archbishops will give evidence today in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is who they are, what they've said and their relationship to Cardinal George Pell.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, australia, sydney-2000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000
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A young woman was thrown 80 metres when she was hit and killed by a speeding drunk driver, travelling at 152 kilometres per hour through a pedestrian crossing against a red light in West Melbourne last July, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, west-melbourne-3003, melbourne-3000, new-zealand, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government has rejected claims Australia's biosecurity protections are failing on its watch.
Topics: pests, veterinary-medicine, pest-management, agricultural-crops, fruit, equine-production, miscellaneous-animal-production, sydney-2000, cairns-4870, maroochydore-4558, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSydney FC coach Graham Arnold says the obscene banner showed by Wanderers fans has distressed his family, as the club suspends membership of 14 fans in the Red and Black Bloc.
Topics: sport, soccer, a-league, antisocial-behaviour, sydney-2000, homebush-bay-2127, nsw, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Air crash investigators say they're likely to remain at the scene of yesterday's fatal plane crash in Melbourne for the next few days. Five people died when their plane crashed into the DFO shopping centre near Essendon Airport.
Topics: air-and-space, states-and-territories, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedDespite droughts, floods, deregulation and a global financial crisis in recent memory, the dairy industry has never had it as tough as this financial year.
Topics: dairy-production, livestock, food-processing, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA Texas man who was killed when a plane crashed into a Melbourne shopping centre is remembered as a golf-loving "lawyer's lawyer" who was enjoying his retirement.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, essendon-3040, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedMelbourne man Boris Trajkov, lauded for services to the Macedonian community, is charged with serious drugs offences and is being pursued over millions of dollars missing from a charity he helped found.
Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, drug-offences, charities, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedDairy company Bega Cheese posts a $15.7 million half-year after-tax profit but warns of a challenging second half to the financial year.
Topics: dairy-production, agribusiness, bega-2550, melbourne-3000, warrnambool-3280, sale-3850, shepparton-3630
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| UpdatedVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews defends the safety record of Essendon Airport after yesterday's deadly plane crash, but says safety improvements will be made if they are needed.
Topics: states-and-territories, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedIn the wake of yesterday's fatal crash, locals say they are concerned suburbs around Essendon Airport do not have enough of a buffer zone if planes have problems.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, air-and-space, essendon-3040, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAuthorities probing the cause of yesterday's fatal air crash at a shopping centre near Melbourne's Essendon Airport have been investigating a near miss involving the charter company that occurred in 2015, it has been revealed.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, essendon-3040, mount-hotham-3741, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAn American man who was among five people killed when a plane crashed into a Melbourne shopping centre was on a "once in a lifetime" trip in Australia, his family says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000, united-states, vic
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Witnesses describe the moment a passenger plane crashed into a retail outlet near Essendon Airport in Melbourne's north, killing all five people on board, February 21, 2017.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, fires, melbourne-3000, essendon-3040, vic
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| UpdatedA Melbourne man says he and his wife were lucky not to be hurt after a plane that crashed into the side of a shopping centre exploded just 20 metres from his car.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000, vic