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Collingwood’s development of young players make them a dangerous foe ahead of their AFLW semi-final clash with Adelaide. This includes teenager Eliza James, who has slotted the biggest finals bag of goals in AFLW history. |
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A fresh analysis of this year’s NAPLAN results reveals there has been a serious long-term decline in the literacy and numeracy levels of Victoria’s most disadvantaged students. | #education #naplan
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Can St Kilda change or is the change just more of the same?
ANALYSIS on the Saints review from
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Buyer Adrian Portelli, known as ‘Mr Lambo’ after he turned up to ‘The Block’ 2022 auctions in a yellow Lamborghini, snapped up the home in post-auction negotiations. | Melissa Heagney
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Road damage caused by recent wild weather has sparked a war of words over whether the Andrews government had done enough to look after them. | Patrick Hatch
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Seriously Red is the first film from Dollhouse, the company launched by Rose Byrne and four friends. But without Dolly, it never would have happened. |
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Many states have revealed a surge in COVID-19 cases over the past week as the federal government mulls the creation of a Centre for Disease Control. | Ashleigh McMillan and Kate Aubusson #covid19
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The New York Post’s front cover on Thursday put Trump’s face over the drawing of a boy from a well-known nursery rhyme. The headline: “Trumpty Dumpty.”
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“The excitement went from zero to 100”: The rare white-bellied whipbird has been recorded in the state for the first time in decades. | Miki Perkins
#biodiversity #whipbird
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"You might think that I’m the child in the marriage, but it’s really the other way around," said Yanying. | Two of us
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It’s a common putdown but what does “narcissist” really mean – and what harm could a narcissist possibly do?
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Australian authorities have identified a Russian hacking group as the perpetrators of the cyber attack on Medibank that exposed 9.7 million customers to fraud and theft from the use of their personal records.
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Recycling giant Visy hosted a Labor Party fundraiser while bidding for a $500 million contract to run Victoria’s container deposit scheme. |
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There are only two days until you can cast your ballot early - have you made up your mind who to vote for?
Sumeyya Ilanbey reports.
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Photos: Scott McNaughton, Eddie Jim, Jason South, Chris Hopkins
#springst #politics #victoria #melbourne
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“If it is successful, it could be an absolute game-changer, ensuring that contraception is a shared responsibility between couples. There has never been an option like this for men, ever." |
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have just come home from a six-week American tour with three albums – all released last month – sitting fourth, sixth and 11th on the ARIA album chart. |
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In Victoria, house prices in Gippsland’s Venus Bay rocketed by 158.6 per cent to a comparatively affordable $675,000 median. |
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As Lyndell Droga watched Dave Sharma hand out flowers on International Women’s Day she decided she would find a candidate to unseat him. The same thing was happening elsewhere as teal independents and their supporters demanded change.
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That blood-red poppies symbolise the unthinkable numbers of lives lost and the lakes of blood spilled on the battlefields of World War I and beyond is well known. But how did the association come to be?
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The battle for the state seat of Richmond is chiefly being waged between Labor and the Greens. Labor’s Richard Wynne, who has held the seat for 23 years, is retiring on a notional margin of 5.8 per cent after this year’s redistribution.
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Brisbane Times is currently seeking expressions of interest to be a part of Brisbane’s leading digital newsroom as it expands to tell the stories of Australia’s fastest growing and most dynamic region. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Nine/743999859
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If you are one of those people who think you will start growing food when you finally buy a house, or when you move to the country, or when you have more time, Leila Alexandra’s story is for you.
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One of the more interesting inquisitions of the Reserve Bank in years ... from Nazis to bankruptcy ...
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‘People are feeling unsafe’: Liberals target public housing towers #springst #vicvotes #insiderichmond
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A ghastly paradox. Why do we wear poppies on Remembrance Day?
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New from me: Global carbon emissions will reach record levels this year. These six charts explain why
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This election is fast becoming one characterised by anger, mudslinging and small target policies. A contest of ideas, it is not. | OPINION by
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A growing Indian Australian community in the marginal seat could be Labor’s “only hope” to holding power, according to one pundit. |
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A woman will spend at least eight years behind bars after setting fire to a Point Cook house, killing a young mother and father and their newborn baby girl.
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The AFL has confirmed on Friday morning that the inaugural magic round will be held in South Australia in 2023. |
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Why this unstoppable Melbourne band has three albums in the ARIA charts right now
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Elon Musk has emailed Twitter employees, most working remotely, ordering them to return to the office immediately for at least 40 hours a week and warning of “difficult times ahead.” | Matt O'Brien
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A daughter recalls growing up in the grip of what we now call coercive control, but what she then thought were just her father’s ‘unique’ ways. | Heather Geeves
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"We warned you." The hackers suspected to be behind the Medibank data theft have thumbed their noses at the federal government after being warned the “smartest and toughest” people in Australia are coming after them. | Paul Osborne and Andrew Brown
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Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar may be best known for its Italian coffee and moreish pasta, but the iconic Melbourne venue has just scooped an award for its enduring interior design.
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