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It's crunch time for the final four AFL flag contenders — what key questions must they answer in this weekend's prelim finals?
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, adelaide-5000, sa, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000, vic, homebush-bay-2127, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Statistics reveal Melbourne, Brisbane and the Sydney Roosters are dominating the NRL like Canterbury, Canberra and Manly did in the 1980s and 1990s.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, nrl, melbourne-3000, vic, brisbane-4000, qld, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA flesh-eating bacteria usually associated with tropical parts of Africa, which leads to weeping wounds, is becoming more common on the Mornington Peninsula, and sufferers — including a 13-year-old girl — are calling for more research.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, langwarrin-3910, mornington-3931, vic
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Staff working for Labor MP Khalil Eideh are put on indefinite leave and the locks are changed at his office, as an investigation continues into alleged rorting of the politician's printing entitlements.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic
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Another injury blow for the Crows, with forward Mitch McGovern joining Brodie Smith on the sidelines ahead of the preliminary final against Geelong.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, adelaide-5000, sa, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedHalf of the clubs in the AFL confirm their support for same-sex marriage as the football world debates the league's strong push for a Yes vote, which one former premier and ex-club president says is unfair on fans.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, community-and-society, gays-and-lesbians, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA man is sentenced to 12 months in prison for illegally marrying a 14-year-old bride in an Islamic wedding in Melbourne last year.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, islam, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, noble-park-3174, melbourne-3000, vic
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The documentary, It's People Like Us, directed by Eva Orner, follows five people in their cars for a week to see exactly how much they use their phones while driving.
Topics: driver-education, community-and-society, human-interest, education, education, vic, australia
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| UpdatedWhat do you get when you take five young people and put cameras in their cars for 10 days? Shocking footage of the reality of mobile phone use while driving.
Topics: mobile-phones, information-and-communication, community-and-society, driver-education, education, safety-education, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government moves to strengthen legal protections for police who shoot suspected terrorists, and to make it harder for bail to be granted to anyone who has shown support for a terrorist group.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, laws, federal---state-issues, state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, community-and-society, brighton-3186, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedAustralian researchers have developed a new type of fly food that can help double the number of "sexy" sterile Queensland fruit fly being reared in laboratories.
Topics: fruits, fruit, agricultural-crops, science-and-technology, pest-management, federal---state-issues, federal-government, government-and-politics, rural, macquarie-university-2109, port-augusta-5700, qld, vic, tas, wa, sa
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| UpdatedA 17-year-old boy is charged over a crash that claimed the life of a teenage girl at Ballan, north-west of Melbourne. Police allege he drove a stolen van that crashed into two trucks after a police chase.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, ballan-3342
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| UpdatedPrivate drug rehabilitation providers are growing increasingly frustrated at a lack of government action to regulate the trouble-plagued sector amid claims of "exploitative billing practices" and poorly trained staff.
Topics: rehabilitation, health, state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, addictive, drug-use, woodend-3442, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedABC broadcaster Gerard Whateley wins a number of categories at the Australian Football Media Awards in Melbourne.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA Labor brawl in Melbourne's western suburbs escalates with suspended local councillor Intaj Khan moving to sue federal MP Joanne Ryan for defamation after her failed attempt to have him expelled from the ALP.
Topics: political-parties, state-parliament, local-government, tarneit-3029, wyndham-vale-3024, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedAuthorities warned a Melbourne mother and her 14-year-old daughter's groom-to-be that it would be illegal for the pair to marry just a day before they went ahead with the union in an Islamic ceremony, a court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, melbourne-3000, noble-park-3174, vic
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| UpdatedEileen Keogh suffered the "epitome of a bad death" — drowning in her own blood in a hospital bed in front of her children — and now her daughter is calling for Victoria's MPs to support proposed euthanasia laws, just introduced to Parliament.
Topics: euthanasia, community-and-society, states-and-territories, state-parliament, health, vic
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| UpdatedVictorian Rachael Haynes will replace the injured Meg Lanning as skipper for Australia's Women's Ashes team.
Topics: sport, cricket, ashes, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, vic
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A Melbourne man who slaughtered and mutilated his wife in front of their three young children, following what police believe was a dispute over his plans to join Islamic State, pleads guilty to murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, broadmeadows-3047, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA Victorian woman who recently gave birth remains in an induced coma after contracting influenza while pregnant, as an extraordinarily high number of flu cases prompts calls for stronger vaccines, and free shots for more people.
Topics: influenza, diseases-and-disorders, health, cobram-3644, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA Melbourne street is re-opened after three police robots were deployed near what appeared to be two fire extinguishers sticky-taped to a box on the side of the road.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, malvern-3144, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA 17-year-old driver is arrested after his teenage passenger is killed in a crash, as he allegedly tried to avoid police near Ballan, west of Melbourne.
Topics: crime, police, ballan-3342, vic
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| UpdatedA contentious bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill Victorians will be introduced to Parliament on Wednesday, with a conscience vote expected by the end of the year.
Topics: death, community-and-society, euthanasia, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedA Melbourne court releases confronting CCTV of an asylum seeker from Myanmar setting fire to a bank at Springvale, in Melbourne's south-east, in an "act of retribution" for being kept waiting to make a withdrawal.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, arson, springvale-3171, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedBill Meaklim will never forget what it was like when Richmond broke their 24-year premiership drought in 1967 — but this year, after another long dry spell, the excitement has been "multiplied by many hundreds", he says.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, richmond-3121, melbourne-3000, vic