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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church's Melbourne Archdiocese rejects an independent review's recommendation to extend compensation for child sex abuse victims to their families or carers.
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| UpdatedWith the Storm prevailing 12-6 against the Bulldogs, follow the live stats that matter as the South Sydney Rabbitohs face off against the Wests Tigers.
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Two Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters will fly at Victoria's Avalon air show this weekend, but questions remain about the aircraft's effectiveness and operational readiness.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, australia, melbourne-3000, geelong-3220, vic
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| UpdatedHigh level drug dealer and standover man Rocco Arico is sentenced to 14 years' jail for extortion and drug trafficking, and will likely be deported back to Italy when he is released.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, brunswick-3056, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedCafe workers have a lucky escape when a bus ploughs into the front of their takeaway shop at North Melbourne after it is hit by a truck.
Topics: road, accidents, north-melbourne-3051, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedDoubling the grant offered to people buying their first home in regional Victoria will help push house prices down, Premier Daniel Andrews says.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, industry, housing, housing-industry, vic
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull officially welcomes the cutting edge Joint Strike Fighter to Australia, as new government-commissioned research predicts the controversial program could deliver up to 5,000 jobs.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, government-and-politics, federal-government, vic
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| UpdatedA gritty pub in Melbourne's west knocks back a string of lucrative development offers in order to stay true to its old-school roots and protect its tenants, who might otherwise have nowhere else to go.
Topics: welfare, urban-development-and-planning, human-interest, footscray-3011, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedLawyers for a man charged with murdering three people in a factory fire in Melbourne's west have asked a court for a psychiatric assessment.
Topics: crime, footscray-3011, melbourne-3000, vic
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Researchers from the Australian National University call for an urgent rethink of the Basin Plan, arguing the money being spent is not achieving the desired results set out under the policy.
Topics: water, water-management, environment, rural, sa, vic, nsw, qld, act
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| UpdatedCaleb Jakobsson pleads guilty to hitting and killing a mother-of-two with his mini-motorbike at a Melbourne shopping centre.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, carrum-downs-3201, vic, melbourne-3000
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Police say thieves who stole a beehive — and 50,000 bees — from a Melbourne backyard could now be suffering from a high number of stings.
Topics: burglary, crime, law-crime-and-justice, beekeeping, coburg-3058, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedMelbourne's affordable housing crisis is in the spotlight again as three people, believed to be squatters, are found dead in a suspicious fire at an abandoned factory in Footscray.
Topics: industrial-fires, footscray-3011, melbourne-3000, vic
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A horse trail riding business owner who says he is being "forced out of the forest" is the latest casualty in a battle between the logging industry and environmentalists.
Topics: forestry, forests, environment, australia, vic, melbourne-3000, taggerty-3714
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| UpdatedA 23-year-old Ballarat woman who was vomiting and had a fever died hours after being told she probably had a virus and was not sick enough to be taken to hospital, an inquest is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, death, health, emergency-incidents, ballarat-3350, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe first patients to be legally allowed access medical cannabis in Victoria are a group of 29 critically ill children with severe epilepsy.
Topics: health, alternative-medicine, vic
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| UpdatedA sword believed to have been used to kill a man at a Melbourne shopping centre is found by police, and investigators release more CCTV as part of a search for the victim's brother.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, doncaster-3108, melbourne-3000, vic
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With abs, an uncanny likeness to actress Alicia Silverstone and one million-plus followers on Instagram, Steph Smith has a life that glows on social media. And not just because of the backlit screen.
Topics: community-and-society, social-media, youth, melbourne-3000, vic
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The first genetic indicator of an eye disease which results in blindness has been discovered by an international team of researchers.
Topics: dna, science-and-technology, genetics, cloning-and-dna, eyes, diseases-and-disorders, health, medical-research, research, melbourne-3000, australia, vic
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government announces plans to rezone 100,000 housing blocks and create 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's key growth zones in an effort to tackle housing affordability.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, kalkallo-3064, vic, melbourne-3000