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‘I thought I was going to die’: Victorian teacher hit by COVID emerges from ICU
The Bacchus Marsh teacher has spoken about the random nature of the virus, and how he thought he was going to die with it.
Exclusive
Vaccination
High risk businesses in COVID-19 hotspots to get mandatory vax backing
Prime Minister Scott Morrison listed retail stores and supermarkets as among the businesses most likely to be allowed to require vaccination.
Breaking
Federal politics
Man charged over Brittany Higgins rape allegation denies any sexual activity
The lawyer for a 26-year-old man charged over an alleged rape in Parliament House says his client denies any sexual activity took place.
Opinion
Naked City
The good old days and why they weren’t so good, even considering COVID
Pot was what you took to the Chinese cafe for a big beef chow mein, ecstasy was getting the double at Flemington and ice was delivered by a burly man to families without a fridge.
John Silvester
Crime reporter
‘Wolves in sheep’s clothing’: Lockdown protest ringleaders arrested
Four people believed to be key organisers of anti-lockdown protests were arrested or fined, with police frustrated about “hardcore” offenders.
Live
Tokyo Olympics
Aussie diver through to semi-final; Australia well-placed in race walking
Australian diver Cassiel Rosseau is through to the semi-finals of the men’s 10m platform. However, his fellow Aussie and first-time Olympian Sam Fricker has likely missed out, pending a miracle.
The superstar who stands between the Boomers and Olympic history
Slovenia superstar Luka Doncic has been a standout at the Tokyo Olympics but a wrist injury could hamper him when Slovenia square off with Australia in the bronze medal game.
25 fun taco fillings for a lockdown fiesta (just add cerveza!)
Authentic and inauthentic (hola salmon and kimchi; and lamb and feta) fillings to stuff inside a tortillas.
Gen Xs are less entitled, empathetic hard-workers: Annie Smithers
Best known for her food, the chef is also a farmer, a restaurateur and a writer - and she wants to tread gently on this earth.
Opinion
Good Weekend
‘Classic self-mythologiser’: The larger-than-life story of Jock Zonfrillo
Celebrity chefs, Indigenous ingredients and the fallibility of human memory. Listen to our podcast to hear more about this charasmatic, tattooed MasterChef judge.
Opinion
Sunday Life
I’m losing patience with the endless stream of pandemic positivity
Achievers who exceed the Recommended Daily Allowance of Smug really should be strung up by the nipples till, oh, about the start of the next millennium.
Kathy Lette
Writer
Nick Bracks on the accident that confirmed Dad Steve’s decision to quit as Victorian premier
Becoming renowned for crashing my car when my dad was the Victorian premier worked for a while. Until it didn’t.
It’s a hard life when you’re in your 30s and things look good
Bridie Jabour’s account of life as a 30-something could inspire you or have you grinding your teeth in irritation.
NAB taps into Islamic finance market with sharia-compliant loans
Australia - with a Muslim population of about 1.2 million - is beginning to open up to the Islamic finance market, estimated to be worth $248 billion.
Opinion
AFL 2021
Dealing with racism can’t be left in the too-hard basket
Taylor Walker is facing the consequences of his racial slur but care and energy needs to be directed towards those who are subject to vilification and are courageous enough to confront it.
Peter Ryan
Sports columnist
Editor's Picks
Opinion
Victorian Parliament
‘This week it stopped’: Andrews puts social reforms on ice for COVID election
Annika Smethurst
State Political Editor
Just in
Tokyo Olympics
Opinion
Opinion
At end of a Games like no other, is it time to backpedal on the medals?
- by Malcolm Knox
Analysis
Olympics
Australia’s Insane Games: Best gold haul since modern Olympics began
- by Chip Le Grand
Local
Former policeman fined $10,000 for on-duty assault on boy
The officer struck the teenage boy with a baton in a second on-duty assault within four months.
Gangland cop who leaked corruption secret gets $6000 fine, no conviction
A magistrate took into account Stuart Bateson’s distinguished career in sentencing the former commander for the disclosures to a junior female officer.
CBD
City life
Baller Andrew Bogut’s dream Bayside mansion stonewalled
Basketball megastar’s controversial Beaumaris dream home with a swimming pool, gym, sauna, massage room, roof terrace and, of course, half-size basketball court on Point Avenue won’t be obtrusive, VCAT told.
Trapped and relocated, a flock of Victoria’s endangered honeyeaters settle into their second home
This week, for the first time, about 30 helmeted honeyeaters - one of Victoria’s faunal emblems - were transferred to a remote patch of bushland to establish a second wild population.
Hunt for killer of Australian woman goes on as loved ones mourn
Shanae Edwards had travelled and worked all over the world, volunteering in South America, skiing in Canada, exploring temples in Thailand. But most recently it was the capital of Georgia that had captured her imagination.
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Updated
NSW records 291 local cases, at least 50 infectious in the community
A woman in her 60s from south-west Sydney has died at Liverpool Hospital, the 22nd death in Sydney’s outbreak.
PM says everyone 16 and up should get jabbed, despite official advice, lack of supply
Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants everyone aged 16 and over to get vaccinated now, despite the federal government’s own official advice.
Politics
‘Ten is far too young’: Federal Labor considering age of criminal responsibility
Federal Labor has strengthened its language on raising the age of criminal responsibility, adding pressure to Labor states and territories.
Business
Hungry Jack’s founder’s plant-based meat startup expands in China, Europe
Billionare Jack Cowin’s plant-based meat maker v2food has raised $72 million from investors betting that more consumers around the world will make the switch to meat alternatives.
World
“Nobody can feel safe’: Lukashenko’s rival fears for lives of all exiles
After one activist was hanged and another hijacked, Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya wants dissidents trained in spycraft for self-protection.
Opinion
Pandemic probe: There must be an inquiry into what went wrong
Michelle Grattan
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Death of accountability, one car park space at a time
Shane Wright
Senior economics correspondent
JobMuddle: Why didn’t we just bring back JobKeeper?
Andrew Charlton
Economic adviser to former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd
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Property bydomain
Five lavish homes we'd rather spend lockdown number six in
Dreaming of a bigger abode? These are some of the bigger and better homes we wish we were spending lockdown in (if money wasn't an object).
Is now the right time to invest in the booming luxury property market?
Investing in prestige property is a long-term play with an alluring growth rate, but listings are thin on the ground. What to do?
Life & Culture
Forty years on, do music videos still matter?
The first music video to ever air on MTV – The Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star – was broadcast on August 1, 1981.
Sport
Opinion
AFL 2021
Dealing with racism can’t be left in the too-hard basket
Taylor Walker is facing the consequences of his racial slur but care and energy needs to be directed towards those who are subject to vilification and are courageous enough to confront it.
Peter Ryan
Sports columnist
How Bangladesh became the tour nobody wanted to air
It was only after they walked off the field at the end of the first game in Dhaka that Australia’s cricketers found out that their series against Bangladesh had become the first in nearly 30 years not to find a legal way of being seen on screens back home.
Updated
AFL 2021
Ashamed and remorseful, Taylor Walker apologises for racist comment
Taylor Walker has been suspended for six matches as he apologised for the harm he had caused in a conciliation session held under the AFL’s rule 35 and his apology was accepted.
Three states in the hunt as AFL builds grand final contingency plans
AFL chief Gillon McLachlan has revealed the grand final could be shifted from the MCG as late as days out from the showpiece event should the pandemic force a late change.
Demon McDonald in race to be fit for Monday night clash
Melbourne could be without Tom McDonald for their clash with West Coast on Monday night as the forward recovers from a back injury.
Weightman managed by ladder-leading Dogs; VFLW grand final postponed
Gun midfielder Adam Treloar will bolster the ladder-leading Bulldogs for Sunday’s clash with Essendon, but rising star Cody Weightman has been rested from the Dogs’ team.
Moloney wins Australia’s first decathlon medal, with a little help from a friend
Ash Moloney has won Australia’s first ever medal in decathlon, helped along in the last moments of the last event by shouted encouragement and pacing from his teammate, mentor and competitor Cedric Dubler.
Have Your Say
Australia’s Insane Games: Best gold haul since modern Olympics began
But forget medal counts; Australia is having a crazy run in Tokyo, dude.
