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The Melbourne Rebels stand up to the challenge, but are eventually defeated 24-17 by the unbeaten Chiefs at AAMI Park.
Topics: super-rugby, rugby-union, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Variable mortgage rates for both owner occupied and investor loans have gone up with the bank blaming higher funding costs.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedThe "clumsy" use of restraints and handcuffs have injured children in Victoria's troubled juvenile jails, a parliamentary committee is told, while lockdowns were so frequent some detainees were uncertain when they were allowed to leave their rooms.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedEvery Anglican Church diocese in the country bar one has received complaints of child sexual abuse in the past 35 years, a report finds.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, anglicans, australia, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedVictoria Police is accused of defying magistrates' rulings and misusing the state's new night court system amid revelations a man is unlawfully held by police for a week on an unlicensed driving charge.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA man who sped through a red light in a stolen car and fatally ran down 24-year-old Tanami Nayler (pictured) is sentenced to 11 years in jail, with a non-parole period of seven years.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, west-melbourne-3003, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, vic
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| UpdatedLeading horse trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh win an appeal against their doping bans as a Victorian tribunal rules Racing Victoria did not follow proper testing protocols.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, courts-and-trials, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedHe has played 338 NRL matches but kicking the winning conversion never gets old for Melbourne captain Cameron Smith, as he ices the Storm's victory over the Broncos.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedVictorian Premier Daniel Andrews says his Government could take the "unconventional" step of taking over the Heyfield timber mill to save more than 250 jobs, after months of uncertainty about the mill's future.
Topics: timber, industry, states-and-territories, parliament, regional, community-and-society, unemployment, unions, heyfield-3858, melbourne-3000
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A fortuitous pin-balling try in the 77th minute sees Melbourne edge the Broncos 14-12 at AAMI Park.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedLook at all the stats and scores as Storm superstar Billy Slater returns to the NRL in Melbourne's 14-12 win over Brisbane.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Staff working at the Nant whisky bar in Melbourne walk off the job, saying the company has failed to pay them more than $10,000 in wages.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, work, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Australian dollar jumped sharply as the Federal Reserve's rate hike last night took the wind out of the US dollar.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, currency, company-news, banking, australia, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedTopics: vic, melbourne-3000
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Are large leadership groups a thing of the past in the AFL? Some clubs are looking to downsize ahead of the 2017 season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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The European Union's chemical regulator finds not enough evidence to say popular agricultural weed killer glyphosate causes cancer.
Topics: agricultural-chemicals, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, cancer, european-union, melbourne-3000
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Homelessness is not a choice for Glen, who can't get accommodation with no rental history.
Topics: homelessness, melbourne-3000
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Penny's kids found out she was homeless by seeing pictures in the media and online.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, family, homelessness, melbourne-3000
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How do I get a house, asks Matt, who lives on the streets with partner Tani.
Topics: homelessness, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAs research suggests homelessness is costing Victoria $194 million a year, we speak to some of the hundreds of people sleeping rough on Melbourne's streets about how they ended up there and what they do with their days.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, mental-health, melbourne-3000, vic
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Many of Melbourne's apartment blocks depend entirely on air conditioning for cooling and fail to meet overheating tests adhered to across Europe and the US, researchers find.
Topics: housing, urban-development-and-planning, climate-change, weather, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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Wal Socket, energy consultant
Topics: government-and-politics, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA Melbourne woman is sentenced to 17 years' jail, with a non-parole period of 13 years, for stabbing her housemate to death with his own boning knife after he refused to give her money to buy cigarettes.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, thomastown-3074, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe fate of 260 workers at Victoria's Heyfield sawmill will be revealed on Friday after the board of Australian Sustainable Hardwoods meets to consider whether to close the mill down.
Topics: timber, industry, states-and-territories, environmental-management, environmental-impact, environment, heyfield-3858, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedIn a community preparing for the shutdown of one of its major employers, watching AFL stars play on their regional oval provided some light relief.
Topics: community-and-society, sport, lifestyle-and-leisure, victorian-football-league-vfl, regional, moe-3825, vic, melbourne-3000