National
Victoria
Man shot, then stuffed koala because it was 'something to do,' court told
Amateur taxidermist has to give $1000 to charity after shooting the protected animal, stuffing it and hanging it on a wall in his home.
Opinion & Perspectives
Shorten reaps post-budget dividends, PM left in dismay
Unlike the government's seven-year plan, Bill Shorten ignored the complexity and came up with a simple $928 cut instead.
David Crowe
Why do politicians refuse to believe decades of polling?
Today's poll proves anew that voters often care more about the health of the nation's health than about themselves.
Peter Hartcher
News Corp's war on Facebook is a decade in the making
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp wants a government body to monitor opaque tech algorithms. How would that work?
John McDuling
Politics
Breaking
Local council
Queen Vic Market plans on ice after council backs down from shed fight
Plans for the Queen Victoria Market will be drastically altered by Melbourne City Council after it bowed to pressure from the state's heritage authority.
- by Clay Lucas
Call to pay convicted criminals to work to cut high recidivism rate
Convicted offenders who are serving community-based sentences instead of jail should be employed by private businesses, a new report has found.
- by Adam Carey
Crime & Courts
Education
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Education
Catholic alternative to Safe Schools distributed to Melbourne schools
- by Henrietta Cook
Health
Exclusive
Education
Budget boost to expand speech pathologists, health checks in schools
- by Henrietta Cook