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It’s a long-standing beachside tradition, but Mornington Peninsula is calling time
For decades, boat owners have stored their vessels informally on the beach, providing easy access to the water. Those days could be over.
Democrats fear Biden is incapable of articulating their message
Joe Biden’s bumbling, at times incomprehensible, speech has become a pattern that is fuelling the effort to push Biden aside.
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Hospitals
Why Australia’s private maternity hospitals face collapse
One in four women gives birth in private hospitals. The collapse of private obstetrics will have huge flow-on effects for the public system.
Man charged with murder, attempted murder after fight at Bentleigh East home
A man is dead and a woman is fighting for life in hospital after an altercation in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
Breaking
Tragedy
Man and girl, 2, killed by Sydney train after pram rolls onto tracks
The man and toddler were killed after a pram carrying two children rolled onto the tracks on Sunday.
Opinion
City life
A disaster repeated: The new development set to become a miserable, grey urban ghetto
The massive new Arden development in Melbourne’s north is bound to become a miserable, grey urban ghetto or a site ripe for demolition after a brief existence.
Norman Day
Architect
Review
Carlton
Cosy Italian wine bars are a dime a dozen in Carlton. What makes this one so special?
Bar Olo was intended as the support act for sibling restaurant Scopri. Locals had other ideas.
‘I owe immigration my life’: Trump holds first rally after shooting
Donald Trump addressed a Michigan rally exactly a week after he was shot. Not much has changed.
Investors ‘comfortable’ about a Trump presidency, despite volatility
Economists say the outcome of the US presidential election has been largely priced in by investors, as softening inflation helps to buoy shares.
Explainer
Sovereign wealth
Trillion-dollar piggybanks: Why isn’t our sovereign wealth fund as big as Norway’s?
Norway’s is famously huge. Qatar used theirs to buy Harrods. How do sovereign wealth funds work? And why isn’t ours as big as Norway’s?
Larger than France, but 70% desert: The place where water is more valuable than diamonds
Without annual floodwaters, this part of the world would be incapable of supporting life. Instead, it’s teeming with it.
My neighbour just turned 96 and I’ve never seen her wear the same outfit twice
No matter the occasion, Dee can put together an incredible, often colour-coordinated ensemble.
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AFL 2024
Rampe, Papley off injured as Swans and Lions arm wrestle at Gabba
Follow along for all the major moments and post game reactions from the round 19.
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LoadingPiastri, Norris combine for 12-year first at Hungarian Grand Prix
Oscar Piastri, Australia’s McLaren driver, has promised to let personal ambition take second place to team priorities after a remarkable front-row lockout for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
At 17, Abbey quit swimming on Instagram. Then a text from Bronte Campbell changed everything
Last year, Sydney swimmer Abbey Connor announced her retirement. Now she’s about to compete at her maiden Olympics.
The ‘corny’ reason why Brooke Boney wanted to study at Oxford
The 37-year-old surprised everyone when she announced she was walking away from her high-profile breakfast television job. Her next move? Oxford University.
This Bend it Like Beckham star is now a headstrong detective in a tangled cop show
More than 20 years after her breakout role, Parminder Nagra is once again playing an outsider.
Opinion
Budgeting
Who wants to be a millionaire? You should read this first
Personal wealth in Australia is predicted to boom in the coming years, with the number of people joining the millionaire club set to skyrocket.
Victoria Devine
Money columnist
Paris 2024
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
‘I don’t just want to be an Olympian, I want to be a successful one’
Australia’s fastest woman tells Peter FitzSimons how she has made her dreams a reality so far.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
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Paris 2024
‘People would be angry, upset’: Hackett backs any Aussie protests after China drugs scandal
Eleven of the 23 Chinese swimmers who failed drug tests in 2021 will compete in Paris and Grant Hackett won’t be surprised if there are protests.
Building Bad
Exclusive
Australians pay the price for CFMEU tactics, figures show
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has turned the dispute over the CFMEU into a political test over the cost of living, claiming the union has added 30 per cent to the cost of major projects.
The footballer, the underworld and the union deal that exposes dark secrets
When Faruk Orman aligned with an ex-AFL goalsneak to secure CFMEU support for a labour-hire firm, it was a case study in underworld figures monetising union backing.
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City life
Three votes, Kouta: Carlton champ mulls run for Melbourne Lord Mayor
Blues legend Anthony Koutoufides is weighing up a run for Lord Mayor of Melbourne in the upcoming October council elections.
Not far from the old Ford factory in Melbourne’s north, caravan-makers are booming
Almost a decade after the Australian car manufacturing industry died, caravan-makers now employ more workers than carmakers did at their peak.
Melbourne uni students given warnings over pro-Palestine protests
Students involved in the occupation of a building in May have received warnings following hearings into their conduct.
Single, lonely, eccentric: Reclaiming the ‘sexist’ cat lady stereotype
Music megastar Taylor Swift is the “the poster girl for cat ladies”. So why does the trope persist as shorthand for a single, lonely, eccentric, sexless woman?
‘Very alienating places’: The state wants to almost double housing in this suburb. It may have a fight on its hands
They call Ivanhoe a “long-held suburb” for a reason. But residents are being asked to handle growth upwards, not outwards.
AFL 2024
Analysis
The quick fixes Carlton must make as they march toward finals
Carlton have taken major strides towards their first flag since 1995, but there are two key issues Michael Voss must address.
Updated
Why the AFL cleared Crow, Bombers over head knocks
The AFL has gone to extraordinary length in explaining why it cleared three players from Friday night’s Essendon-Adelaide clash for incidents involving head knocks.
Politics
New push to end ‘ugly’ exploitation of older Australians
A $5 million media campaign aims to raise awareness of and eliminate elder abuse, which affects about one in six older people in Australia.
Business
Opinion
Hip pocket
From Grange to loose change: How to turn your hobby into a money spinner
If you enjoy collecting items such as wine, coins or stamps, you could be sitting on a nice little nest egg.
Dominic Powell
Money Editor
World
New details revealed about Trump bullet wound
Former US president Donald Trump underwent CT scans for the bullet wound he sustained in last weekend’s assassination attempt, but did not require stitches.
Opinion
US Votes 2024
While Trump is being canonised by his party, Biden is being flagellated by his
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Opinion
J.D. Vance is a jump to the left and a step to the right
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Columnist and communications adviser
Trump 2024 is at his zenith and looks unstoppable
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer
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Property
Beach cottage smashes its reserve and changes hands for $3.9 million
A large crowd defied the cold to watch four bidders vie for the two-bedroom Williamstown home, which had been in the one family since it was built 60 years ago.
‘People don’t know it exists’: Melbourne suburbs people never want to leave
Green space, a sense of community and plenty of family homes – home owners in these suburbs would never dream of moving away.
Good Food
Lifestyle
‘My first three girlfriends all cheated on me’: Ben O’Toole on looking for love
“I haven’t had the best run of luck,” says the 34-year-old actor.
Opinion
City life
Most of us fight with our neighbours. There’s an easy fix, but you won’t like it
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
Opinion
WordPlay
You might not know it, but you’re probably a ‘citizen scientist’
David Astle
Crossword compiler and ABC Radio Melbourne presenter
Culture
What makes Andy Lee one of the nicest men on Australian TV?
There’s only one downside to the comedian’s meteoric popularity, but his friends have learned to live with it.
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AFL 2024
AFL 2024 round 19 LIVE updates: Rampe, Papley off injured as Swans and Lions arm wrestle at the Gabba
Follow along for all the major moments and post game reactions from the round 19 Sunday games.
Three golds, a record and controversy: Australians dominate at pre-Olympics aths meet
Mackenzie Little set a new personal best en route to gold in the javelin, Nina Kennedy won in the pole vault for the fifth consecutive time and Oli Hoare took gold in a controversial running of the Emsley Carr Mile.
Exclusive
Paris 2024
‘People would be angry, upset’: Hackett backs any Aussie protests after China drugs scandal
Eleven of the 23 Chinese swimmers who failed drug tests in 2021 will compete in Paris and Grant Hackett won’t be surprised if there are protests.
At 17, Abbey quit swimming on Instagram. Then a text from Bronte Campbell changed everything
Last year, Sydney swimmer Abbey Connor announced her retirement. Now she’s about to compete at her maiden Olympics.
Piastri, Norris combine for 12-year first at Hungarian Grand Prix
Oscar Piastri, Australia’s McLaren driver, has promised to let personal ambition take second place to team priorities after a remarkable front-row lockout for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
Analysis
AFL 2024
How Jack Ginnivan is having his cake and eating it too
Jack Ginnivan departed Collingwood with a premiership medal around his neck, leaving behind a club whose finals hopes are in disarray and that is now going through the bleakest period of Craig McRae’s celebrated tenure.
Scott hot in British Open but Day cools as wild weather hits Royal Troon
Australia’s two survivors of the cut in the British Open had contrasting fortunes on the treacherous Old Course at Royal Troon.
Have Your Say
The quick fixes Carlton must make as they march toward finals
Carlton have taken major strides towards their first flag since 1995, but there are two key issues Michael Voss must address. One crucial question - are they better with two frontline ruckmen or not?
