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Embattled infant milk formula company Bellamy's says its products will be barred from sale in China from the start of next year.

A global medical supplier is facing closure after Monash University decided to evict it from the building it has leased for almost three decades.

Growing domestic tree nut production in China will strongly influences what kinds of nuts it buys from overseas.

A huge increase in the number of families and children visiting the State Library of Victoria means the famous building's $88 million renovation will give people more room to create and be themselves, the architect says.

A year after Victoria's world-first family violence royal commission recommended radical changes to the system, changes are beginning to happen, but reform is slow and costly.

Aboriginal stand-up comedy is thriving and no topic, it seems, is off limits. As the Melbourne International Comedy Festival opens, here's the lowdown on Indigenous humour.

There is no evidence to suggest the plane that crashed into a Melbourne shopping centre last month experienced "pre-impact" engine failure or had pre-existing faults, a preliminary report says.

Crows midfielder Ebony Marinoff has been working as a deli assistant at her local supermarket, but jokes she can now quit her day job after winning the AFL Women's Rising Star award.

A security guard is taken to hospital with serious burns after a fire, believed to be deliberately lit, in housing commission flats in Melbourne's inner north.

Adelaide Crows' premiership co-captain Erin Phillips caps off a stunning first year playing football, winning the AFLW's best and fairest award.

Small to medium food manufacturers face a perfect storm of factors that are leading to a butter shortage.

The Victorian Government launches an independent review of disability group home provider Autism Plus, following last night's ABC's Four Corners program which detailed allegations of the sexual assault of two residents said to have been ignored by the organisation.

The private sector is being encouraged to follow Victoria's lead in appointing 50 per cent of paid positions on public boards to women.

Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, speaks at length about her agricultural business's focus on technology and innovation.

A man is hit by the side of a train at a Melbourne railway station after trying to escape from officers who caught him smoking in a carriage, police say.

Melbourne is planning for hundreds of new apartments in the inner city, and more than a dozen new suburbs in the outer sprawl. So how does family life in the booming centre compare to the expanding fringes?

An intersection in Melbourne's CBD is illuminated from the ground to try and prevent people distracted by their phones stepping out in front of traffic.

Victoria is being hit with strong winds as the weather bureau warns of gusts of up to 100 kilometres per hour and possible thunderstorms.

Booming demand for omega-3 is putting pressure on fish stocks, but a new canola variety could provide a land-based alternative.

Victorian police find a man dead inside a Werribee house after using a variety of "non-lethal" tactics during a nine-hour siege.

Daniel Ricciardo sees his car give up the ghost in a luckless F1 season opener in Melbourne, with grid penalties, pit-lane starts and engine failure making for a nightmare Australian Grand Prix.