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Foreign students are a revenue source worth $6.5 billion a year to Victoria and are crucial to university budgets. Expensive, cramped accommodation is the norm and some are questioning if education in Melbourne is value for money.
Topics: housing, education, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedForeign students are big business in Victoria but expensive, cramped accommodation and a lack of support have led some to question Melbourne's value for money.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, state-parliament, melbourne-3000, vic
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Health authorities in Victoria have issued a warning over Legionnaire's disease after four cases were linked to Melbourne's outer south-east.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, respiratory-diseases, cranbourne-3977, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Supreme Court orders that all teenage detainees be removed from the state's maximum security adult prison by this evening, as "relieved" youths continue to be transferred out.
Topics: courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, government-and-politics, youth, anakie-3221, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000, parkville-3052, vic
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| UpdatedThe work of Aboriginal artist Peter Waples-Crowe aims to create an alternative space for queer people in the Indigenous community.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, gays-and-lesbians, indigenous-policy, visual-art, sexuality, melbourne-3000
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The Victorian Government's proposed reforms to tackle worker exploitation on farms will not stamp out the issue, says Victoria's peak horticulture industry body.
Topics: farm-labour, work, agricultural-policy, sale-3850, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAustralia's most wanted terrorist, Melbourne-born Neil Prakash, is likely to be extradited from Turkey "within months" to face trial, the Prime Minister says.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, australia, vic, melbourne-3000, turkey
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The United Dairy Farmers of Victoria believe Fonterra has breached a new dairy code.
Topics: dairy-production, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000, warrnambool-3280, sale-3850
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| UpdatedNursing is not for the faint-hearted, and I'm not just talking about the blood. It takes a physical, mental and emotional toll on those who embrace the challenge. On International Nurses Day the ABC asks these Aussie legends, why they chose nursing?
Topics: health, mental-health, occupational-health-and-safety, human-interest, child-health-and-behaviour, australia, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000
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Indigenous performers from around the world gather in Melbourne for a new contemporary first-nations arts festival, which will feature a "city-wide treasure hunt" of art and music this weekend.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, carnivals-and-festivals, indigenous-culture, indigenous-other-peoples, melbourne-3000, vic
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A turnaround in wheat prices is only a few bad weather events away, according to traders.
Topics: wheat, cotton, grain, sugar, agricultural-prices, futures, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Spirit of Tasmania II's crash into a Port Melbourne pier with 120 passengers on board last year could have been prevented, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
Topics: industry, weather, tas, port-melbourne-3207, vic, melbourne-3000
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The record-breaking grain harvest flows through to Australia's largest grain handler, GrainCorp, which records a half-year net profit of $100 million after tax.
Topics: grain, agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, company-news, melbourne-3000, ouyen-3490
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| UpdatedMore than 300 new women's Australian rules football teams are expected to take the field this winter, following the success of the first national league — but as more women take up the game, more are getting injured, and clubs are being urged to take preventative measures.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, sports-injuries, health, preston-3072, vic, melbourne-3000
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Dr Brett J Stubbs avoids the term 'craft' when describing beer, preferring to focus on the size of the industry when understanding the history of beer in Australia.
Topics: alcohol, community-and-society, events, carnivals-and-festivals, history, food-and-beverage, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350, sydney-2000
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Topics: alcohol, community-and-society, events, carnivals-and-festivals, history, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSuburban cricketers in are left stumped after a delivery knocks out the middle stump but leaves the bails in place.
Topics: cricket, offbeat, social-media, melbourne-3000, ascot-vale-3032
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| UpdatedSixteen Victorian teenagers being illegally housed in a wing of the adult Barwon Prison are being moved to a Melbourne juvenile jail, after a court ruled for a second time their detention was unlawful.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, human, anakie-3221, lara-3212, geelong-3220, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedBill Wellington's family say specialist therapy is the life raft that's helped them cope with his acquired brain injury, but within months that service will cease to exist.
Topics: disabilities, family, community-and-society, budget, carers, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPolice in Victoria will be able to collect DNA and fingerprints from all registered sex offenders without a warrant under changes to be introduced in Parliament today.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, police, melbourne-3000
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Tristian 'TJ' Carpenter talks about the "living nightmare" of life on the streets of Melbourne.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedTJ Carpenter has been homeless for 12 years but he is getting his life on track with a place to stay, a budget and goals for the future, which include finding the right person to settle down with.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, youth, mental-health, health, heidelberg-3084, melbourne-3000, vic
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The Australian dollar has kept rising after the budget although it was still below where it started the week. And some of the banks kept falling.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, stockmarket, currency, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedMasterchef judge George Calombaris is charged with assault after an altercation that followed the A-League grand final on Sunday night.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, assault, soccer, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000