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More than 100,000 Victorians now have a digital licence. But there’s a hiccup

Digital driver’s licences are now available in the myVicRoads app to all Victorian full licence holders.

Victoria’s digital licence scheme launched this week, but they cannot be used everywhere.

Everything you need to know about the $300 energy rebate

Budget power bill relief.

Here’s how the government will deliver the money, and what it could mean for inflation.

Five things Jim Chalmers didn’t tell you in his budget speech

We pick apart an abridged version of the Treasurer’s third budget speech – and explain five key points.

A group of students occupy the Arts West building at Melbourne University’s Parkville campus on Wednesday.

Pro-Palestinian protesters defy warnings to leave Melbourne Uni building

The Zionist Federation of Australia is calling for all pro-Palestine protesters to be evicted from university encampments.

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I’m returning to the game of my youth and I’m hoping not to break a leg. Or maybe I am

Netball still scares me a little.

I love my team and, good news, I don’t have to play centre or wear one of those short pleated skirts. But I am a bit scared of players who try to gain an advantage by slapping their opponents.

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Halfway through Fashion Week, two front rows couldn’t have been more different

Guests at the Alix Higgins show at Australian Fashion Week, Sam Passmore, Annaliese Griffith-Jones and Russell Phillip.

Two vastly different labels stood out at Australian Fashion Week by getting personal with their customers.

Got somewhere to be? Never try to arrive the same day

The recent deluge that soaked Dubai left some passengers stranded for several days.

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Michael Gebicki

The Tripologist

Why one in 10 AFL players ignore concussion symptoms

Collingwood defender Nathan Murphy consoles Angus Brayshaw as he leaves the ground after being concussed in the qualifying final. Both players are now retired due to medical advice following a series of concussions

The revelation in a survey by the AFL Players’ Association comes despite the growing awareness of the issue.

Talented forward out as injury toll mounts for Blues ahead of Friday night blockbuster

Jack Martin has injured his calf.

Talented Carlton forward Jack Martin has injured a calf and will miss Friday night’s huge game against premiership favourites Sydney.

Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

Carol Clay reunited with her first boyfriend. They died together, killed on a camping trip

When Russell Hill and Carol Clay went missing in the remote alpine region it raised an unusual problem for her family.

Portrait Rinehart doesn’t want you to see: Mogul demands gallery remove image

Portrait Rinehart doesn’t want you to see: Mogul demands gallery remove image

Australia’s richest person wants the National Gallery of Australia to remove a portrait of her from an exhibition by Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira.

Slovakia’s prime minister wounded in shooting

Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital.

Slovakian media said that Robert Fico was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired in the town of Handlova. A suspect has been detained

Three dead in New Caledonia as riots rage after Paris approves voting change

Riots broke out in the French territory in the Pacific and a curfew imposed after the controversial reform passed France’s parliament.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the federal government was closely monitoring the situation and urged Australians to stay safe.

Starfish can clone themselves. Now, a fossil found caught in the act shows how long this has been going on

A recently discovered fossil in Germany provides first-ever evidence for the phenomenon.

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The three-minute budget: Everything you need to know

Labor has unveiled its economic plan for the next four years and beyond. Here is a quick rundown of the essentials.

Analysis

Are you a winner or loser in this budget?

Your guide to who gained the most – and who missed out – in Jim Chalmers’ third federal budget.

Victoria

Officials were told this tree was home to an endangered animal. They cut it down anyway

Officials were told this tree was home to an endangered animal. They cut it down anyway

Conservationists are furious after they warned the government about the presence of greater gliders and Leadbeater’s possums in trees identified for removal.

Keffiyeh scarf effectively banned from floor of Victorian parliament

Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri was asked to leave the floor of  parliament on May 7 for wearing a keffiyeh.

The development comes a week after a Greens MP was asked to leave the chamber for refusing to take off her keffiyeh scarf, commonly worn to show support for Palestine.

Luxury nest of Aussie bikies accused of running a drug cartel exposed by leak

A mega-leak of property records reveals how suspected drug traffickers and other criminals call the United Arab Emirates a safe haven as the Gulf state looks the other way.

Pro-Palestine protesters splash red paint on deputy premier’s office

Red paint was splashed on Ben Carroll’s Niddrie office overnight.

Ben Carroll’s Niddrie office was defaced in a spate of vandalism that also targeted Seven and the ABC, before protesters halted Melbourne’s peak-hour traffic.

Victoria’s GST windfall could be short-lived

Premier Jacinta Allan.

While billions of dollars will flow to infrastructure projects and bulk-billing clinics, the state’s GST take remains the same.

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Revealed: Saints’ massive offer to make Carlton star one of the AFL’s richest players

Carlton’s superstar defender is set to become one of the highest-paid players in the league after St Kilda informally pitched him a bumper multi-year deal.

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AFL off to the races? League could build ovals in middle of Moonee Valley

The AFL could build two new football ovals in the centre of Moonee Valley racecourse under a long-term lease agreement that would help the league keep up with the sport’s growing demands.

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Jack Martin has injured his calf.

Talented forward out as injury toll mounts for Blues ahead of Friday night blockbuster

Talented Carlton forward Jack Martin has injured a calf and will miss Friday night’s huge game against premiership favourites Sydney.

Collingwood defender Nathan Murphy consoles Angus Brayshaw as he leaves the ground after being concussed in the qualifying final. Both players are now retired due to medical advice following a series of concussions

One in 10 AFL players ignore concussion symptoms

Some AFL players admitted they did not report their concussion symptoms because they feared being left out at the selection table and missing out on contract incentives.

Blistering highlighted in the June 2022 race at Sandown.

Watch: The unremarkable Sandown race that was referred to betting investigators

This is the footage of the last 150 metres of a low-profile race at an unremarkable, barely attended Sandown meeting in the winter of 2022 that caught the stewards’ eye – and, after questioning the jockey and trainer, was referred to racing’s betting intelligence unit.

Brendan Kerry, competing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, has been banned for life from US Figure Skating.

Australian Winter Olympics flag bearer banned for sexual misconduct with a minor

Brendan Kerry, who was an Australian flag bearer at the Beijing Winter Olympics, has been barred from US figure skating after an investigation led by the country’s peak sports abuse authority.

Sam Durham, Jake Kelly, Xavier Duursma, Jade Gresham and Ben McKay of the Bombers sing the song.
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AFL 2024

The list-demographics sweet spot fuelling the high-flying Bombers in 2024

We should have seen Essendon’s uprising coming – and the reason why helps explain two other fringe Melbourne-based finals contenders not meeting external expectations.

The WBBL’s changed format for next summer led to a battle between Cricket Australia and its two biggest states.

Boycott threat by cricket’s biggest states forces women’s T20 change

Australia’s two most populous cricket states, Victoria and New South Wales, considered boycotting a new women’s Twenty20 tournament and playing matches among themselves before reaching a compromise with Cricket Australia on the competition format for this season.

Former Hawthorn player Chance Bateman with his wife and family.

How the Hawks helped Bateman through the darkest point of his life

Chance Bateman is no stranger to racism in football, but it’s also where he has found a deep sense of belonging. It’s why he in honoured to have helped design Hawthorn’s Indigenous guernsey this year.

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