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I turned 50 the other week and got a present from the federal government. http://dlvr.it/RymPtL

A ban on garage sales because of coronavirus fears has been derided as “crazy” and most people are unaware the rule even exists. http://dlvr.it/RylpFt

Alleged rape victim Brittany Higgins says she had an “difficult” conversation with the Prime Minister on Friday where she called for reforms to the way sexual assault complaints are handled in parliament. http://dlvr.it/RylQb8

Three people have been arrested after a wild police pursuit ended in an alleged stolen car crashing into a tram stop. http://dlvr.it/Rykqt9

The eldest daughter of late ­retail tycoon John Ilhan claims her alleged sexual assault case was mishandled by Victoria Police. http://dlvr.it/RykDwc

Precious doses of Pfizer vaccines are still being wasted under the federal government’s rollout, with issues remaining in delivery and storage of the valuable vials. http://dlvr.it/RyhRg8

The Victorian Parliament has bizarrely congratulated the federal government for ripping up the state’s Belt and Road deal, with Labor MPs choosing not to vote against a motion attacking the agreement. http://dlvr.it/Rygqj5

Being an Australian citizen should mean something. http://dlvr.it/RygSHn

A truck carrying scrap metal has caught fire on the Monash Freeway causing peak hour traffic chaos on Thursday morning. http://dlvr.it/RyfsNL

GEORGE “Chinese” Morrison was renowned as an Australian adventurer, journalist, secret agent – and eventually chief adviser to the president of China during World War I. http://dlvr.it/RyfGvf

W changed? Two decades ago, lawyers signed up 700 Aborigines in the Northern Territory who claimed they’d been stolen from their parents. http://dlvr.it/RycVfJ

The state government is set to announce the chosen site for its purpose built quarantine facility as early as Thursday. http://dlvr.it/RybsRC

In the moment when someone stands over you with a loaded gun, and you are smeared in the blood and body matter of your dead friends, the rest of your life gets rewritten in ways beyond your control. http://dlvr.it/RybTg8

A truck transporting toilet paper caught fire causing peak-hour chaos on the Western Freeway on Wednesday morning. http://dlvr.it/RyZsqt

The state government has been urged to buy vacant inner-city apartments for affordable housing and attract more corporate headquarters to Melbourne in a bid to revitalise the CBD. http://dlvr.it/RyZHTf

China is the biggest threat facing the free world and war with the superpower may be inevitable. That is the sobering assessment of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo who, while not naming China, made it clear we must brace for war and prepare to send “our warriors to fight”. http://dlvr.it/RyXbYH

Crown Melbourne will be forced to cough up $1 million for breaching junket regulations following an investigation from the state’s gambing regulator. http://dlvr.it/RyWzZp

Lawyers are considering a mental impairment defence for a teen accused of killing a Narre Warren South mum in a stabbing spree. http://dlvr.it/RyWcw4

A Canadian pension fund has made a multimillion-dollar investment in 500 hectares of fruit orchards in Victoria. http://dlvr.it/RyW2dq

Victoria is tied in equal last place for annual economic growth in that latest quarter among Australia’s states, a new report shows. http://dlvr.it/RyVVJ1

Most perpetrators of violence are males, but of course this doesn’t mean most males are violent. http://dlvr.it/RySq29

Key arterial roads outside the CBD are facing the biggest traffic pinch, with some popular suburban routes experiencing higher gridlock than pre-pandemic levels. http://dlvr.it/RySBH8

Baz tipped it, the tattoo was shown, and the crowd went wild. The social media crowd that is, for what that’s worth. http://dlvr.it/RyRqp9

Baz tipped it, the tattoo was shown, and the crowd went wild. The social media crowd that is, for what that’s worth. http://dlvr.it/RyRGm4

Victorian women are typically retiring with $66,200 less superannuation than men, prompting calls for the government to act to fix the inequity at the May budget. http://dlvr.it/RyQltG

A Melbourne train operator is considering redundancies despite receiving tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. http://dlvr.it/RyPZQs

Building authorities have recommended more than $2 billion worth of household taps and other plumbing products be replaced to reduce lead poisoning risks, particularly for infants. http://dlvr.it/RyP9cm

Across the world, governments have rushed to ban travel to and from India. http://dlvr.it/RyNwpS

Workers are returning to CBD offices but Melbourne is still ­lagging behind Sydney and Brisbane in its post-coronavirus recovery. http://dlvr.it/RyNVGC

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson are expected to sign a free-trade agreement between Australia and Britain when the Prime Minister visits the UK in June after a breakthrough in talks between Trade Minister Dan Tehan and his British counterpart in London. http://dlvr.it/RyN2Fx

A modest suburban unit is the small police office that punches way above its weight. http://dlvr.it/RyLpZF

Right now, at this time in the election cycle with the next federal campaign less than 12 months away, the selection of candidates by the major parties are being finalised. http://dlvr.it/RyLNN2

LATEST, 4.45pm: Targa Australia CEO Mark Perry said the past two days had been a tragic time. http://dlvr.it/RyL6CL

You always remember your first taste of celebrity. http://dlvr.it/RyKdpn

Anti-lockdown protesters, slammed for emailing “personal attacks” to lawyers in their Supreme Court battle, no longer agree on what they’re fighting against. http://dlvr.it/RyK4yz

A woman has died while waiting six hours for paramedics, as Victoria’s growing ambulance delays escalate into a crisis. http://dlvr.it/RyHNmJ

As the global outbreak of mourning for Prince Philip has shown, there’s a lot of support for Queen Elizabeth the Second. http://dlvr.it/RyGmHp

Confusion reigns over whether businesses must keep staff 1.5m apart, with the state government contradicting its own website’s advice on Thursday. http://dlvr.it/RyGP1s

A Victorian man has tested positive to COVID-19 after picking up the virus in Perth hotel quarantine, bringing Melbourne’s run of community transmission to an end. http://dlvr.it/RyFq79

Confusion reigns over whether businesses must keep staff 1.5m apart, with the state government contradicting its own website’s advice on Thursday. http://dlvr.it/RyFBlM

Kids in five Victorian council areas will no longer be rewarded for kicking well or running fast with a junk food voucher. http://dlvr.it/RyCPrH

As the nation prepares to pause this Sunday to reflect the 106th anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli, here’s everything you need to know about Anzac Day in Victoria. http://dlvr.it/RyBm1t

Traditional Anzac Day commemorations - from the Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance to local event across Victoria - return for 2021 but will be different from previous years. http://dlvr.it/RyBPRV

Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton has revealed how he’s feeling a day after receiving the AstraZeneca jab at a mass COVID-19 vaccination hub in Melbourne. http://dlvr.it/Ry9qDk

Clean and green Australian universities lead the world in environmental research and campaigns, a new global report card reveals. http://dlvr.it/Ry9BQ5

Australia has received fewer than two million syringes that would enable doctors and nurses to extract the maximum number of doses from the Pfizer vials. http://dlvr.it/Ry7NgB

Victoria’s courts have been given the all clear to scrap any social distancing requirements, in a move expected to clear the massive backlog of cases. http://dlvr.it/Ry6l0X

A devastated father has told the tragic story of how his pregnant wife used her final seconds to save their unborn daughter. http://dlvr.it/Ry6NSl

From his office window overlooking Little Lonsdale Street, Mr W Carner watched £1800 – about $160,000 in today’s money – walk out the door. http://dlvr.it/Ry5pcq

Scott Morrison will pump more than half a billion dollars into hydrogen and carbon capture projects to bolster his climate credentials ahead of Joe Biden’s crucial leaders summit this week. http://dlvr.it/Ry59ct

Taxpayers should fund 95 per cent of the cost of childcare for low-income parents to boost the number of women in the workforce, early childhood groups say. http://dlvr.it/Ry3NLG

Police are responding to a bomb scare at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. http://dlvr.it/Ry2kPj

A great-grandfather who received a bravery medal for his courage in fighting the Black Saturday bushfires has been jailed for at least eight years for his role in an sophisticated international drug importation plot. http://dlvr.it/Ry2MnP

Colourful Cats footy fan Troy “Catman” West has hung up his make-up and his blue and white costumes, citing online hate as one of the factors for his decision. http://dlvr.it/Ry1pPM

The massive costs of Victoria’s biggest infrastructure pipeline will be published by Victoria’s financial watchdog in a bid to keep track of $80bn worth of projects. http://dlvr.it/Ry1BG6

Veterans who turn up unannounced for Melbourne’s Anzac Day parade could be allowed to march. http://dlvr.it/RxzSPL

These veterans who have toiled on farms and in the ag industry have hundreds of years of knowledge and experience between them spanning generations. http://dlvr.it/RxyqGH

A high-profile murderer has been found dead inside a maximum-security prison in Melbourne, sparking a homicide investigation. http://dlvr.it/RxyTVL

Melbourne has doubled its number of skyscrapers taller than 150m in a decade of extraordinary growth that added 34 towers to our skyline. http://dlvr.it/RxxyW1

The backlog of court cases plaguing Victoria’s criminal justice system is turning into a political nightmare for the state government. http://dlvr.it/RxxRF6

Former Cats player Josh Cowan lay in agony in the middle of Daylesford’s football oval with a trainer holding his leg – broken in two places – for at least an hour, despite a paramedic being available five minutes from the ground, his football club alleges. http://dlvr.it/RxwCKP

The Andrews government has been accused of poor planning and failing to properly consult locals over a controversial plan to remove two level crossings in the city’s east. http://dlvr.it/RxvpPs

The rollout of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to people under 50 will resume in Victoria after it was paused. http://dlvr.it/RxvZB7

Six teenagers have been arrested after a police chase involving an allegedly stolen Mercedes in Melbourne’s south east. http://dlvr.it/Rxv8lf

Opinion: When you crash your car, the insurance covers the full cost of repairs minus your excess but when it comes to health insurance you can’t find a single product that does the same. http://dlvr.it/Rxtgpb

The announcement on Thursday that Australia’s longest war is finally over — with the last troops home from Afghanistan by mid-year — is naturally welcome. http://dlvr.it/RxsRJp

Pedestrians say they should be given priority over cyclists in the proposed revamp of the Southbank Promenade, new research commissioned by the Melbourne city council has found. http://dlvr.it/Rxs1QQ

There haven’t been many sportsmen in their prime more watchable than Shane Warne. http://dlvr.it/RxrlYK

In France, snails are served with garlic butter. But in Dandenong, according to an outraged family and their lawyers and private investigators and a scientific expert, Garlick can accompany a slug. Allegedly. http://dlvr.it/RxrLJX

Seatbelts weren’t worn in a third of crash deaths on Victoria’s roads this year as motorists fail to heed even the most basic safety precautions. http://dlvr.it/RxqnTR

Andrew Peacock has died in the United States aged 82. http://dlvr.it/Rxp6Hy

An Australian company auctioning off Hitler’s personal items has been slammed by a Melbourne Jewish leader, who fears they will end up in neo-Nazi’s hands. http://dlvr.it/RxnWGQ

A shirtless, bumbling crook who tried to steal a car in a brazen daylight robbery in Reservoir in Melbourne’s north had his botched efforts caught on camera. http://dlvr.it/Rxn9Yw

What a monumental own goal by Channel Nine. http://dlvr.it/RxmPVG

Melbourne’s median house sale price has skyrocketed past $1m for the first time. http://dlvr.it/Rxlvzz

Tickets for Melbourne’s Anzac Day Dawn Service have been exhausted on the day of their release. http://dlvr.it/RxkF2V

Britain needed 192 years to build its Channel Tunnel. The project was always going to happen. But there was always a problem. Too costly. Too dangerous. http://dlvr.it/RxjdDs

KEITH Jack was a man who didn’t know the meaning of the word “quit”. http://dlvr.it/RxjHBg

Detectives probing the baffling year-long case of missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay have abruptly paused their search just hours after they started scouring a completely new area of bushland. http://dlvr.it/RxhVB9

Fake principal Neil Lennie’s former business partner has demanded to know why authorities allowed the fraudster to continue teaching in his school for years unchecked. http://dlvr.it/Rxgtzf

A road tunnel between Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway and ­CityLink that was ditched by Premier Daniel Andrews would be resurrected by a ­Coalition government. http://dlvr.it/RxfBYP

Leading experts are calling for a maths curriculum overhaul, with a major review set to focus on fixing declining academic results. http://dlvr.it/RxdYF6

The sequence of events ended with catastrophic consequences on the Eastern Freeway. http://dlvr.it/RxdBqF

A year-long search for missing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay has taken another turn with police moving their search to the Mount Hotham area. http://dlvr.it/RxcNgt

Thousands of junior footballers will have their brains scanned in a new bid to stamp out concussion and serious head injuries. http://dlvr.it/Rxbv86

The Greens have been accused of hypocrisy for accepting donations from a developer in alleged contravention of the party’s policy. http://dlvr.it/RxZDMd

A search is under way for a NSW camper who has been missing in Victoria since Saturday, with police holding serious concerns for his welfare. http://dlvr.it/RxYPqy

In a way, it made sense that Caroline Scully should want to run away. http://dlvr.it/RxYC5C

A search is under way for a NSW camper who has been missing in Victoria since Saturday, with police holding serious concerns for his welfare. http://dlvr.it/RxXQMY

Rapists and other sex offenders could live free and unchecked under a radical proposal by Victorian judges. http://dlvr.it/RxWxrf

Now they want to cancel the Carlton theme song for, you guessed it … racism! http://dlvr.it/RxVJJl

Shareena Clanton has called out the backlash and disgusting online bullying she’s received since coming forward with bombshell claims of racism on Neighbours. http://dlvr.it/RxTX3w

A unique partnership has been forged between the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and AFLW (Australian Football League Women’s Competition) to get the best from their people on two different battlefields. http://dlvr.it/RxTL0W

Police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly held a woman at knifepoint before stabbing her in the hand and dragging her along a road in a horror carjacking in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs last month. http://dlvr.it/RxSdg5

Domestic abusers are being put up in hotels across Victoria in a nation-first program holding men to account, instead of forcing victims to flee their homes. http://dlvr.it/RxSGL7

Australian golfer Marc Leishman says he will give away free beer if he can pull off one of his greatest victories. http://dlvr.it/RxR7DM

Victorians are spending an average of $4m a day on ice as it cements its place as the state’s most consumed illicit drug. http://dlvr.it/RxQcZ6

Autumn snow has fallen in parts of Victoria and rainfall has dampened the school holidays, as a cold front moves across southeastern Australia. http://dlvr.it/RxQPLk

I count myself lucky to have known Prince Philip since 1996. http://dlvr.it/RxPwdn

Opinion: In 1996, politicians from across Australia showed real leadership, and committed to the National Firearms Agreement, a 10-point plan to strip semiautomatic and self-loading firearms out of the community. http://dlvr.it/RxPWdB

They’re the surviving seven from a 14,000-strong army who withstood an onslaught of evil. Victoria’s Rats of Tobruk were born in the shadow of the Anzacs but forged their own legend in an eight-month siege which began 80 years ago. http://dlvr.it/RxNLqv

We lost more than just a man with the death of Prince Philip. http://dlvr.it/RxMksF

Hundreds of bikies from one of Australia’s most powerful outlawed motorcycle gangs have drawn attention during an organised run through Melbourne’s outer suburbs. http://dlvr.it/RxMYN3

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More than 500 childcare centres and kinders statewide aren’t meeting federal standards of care. http://dlvr.it/RxLYw6

Cheese sticks you can’t eat. Hotels you can’t stay at. Purses that hold no money. http://dlvr.it/RxJyLq

Anzac Day in 2020 was one of the saddest days of COVID lockdown for millions of Australians. http://dlvr.it/RxJ5vl

New road safety technology will be plastered across Victorian roads in a bid to catch out drivers on their phones. http://dlvr.it/RxHdpK

Planes crash all the time. But plane crashes don’t stop us from boarding planes. http://dlvr.it/RxHJZs

Bee Banks was left "devastated" when a police officer said her home address had been sent to a man she had made a complaint against. It has sparked an internal investigation. http://dlvr.it/RxGpsT

A welshman who ­narrowly escaped death while attempting to mail himself from Melbourne to London in a wooden crate as air freight is looking for the two mates who helped his crazy plan. http://dlvr.it/RxFCJw

Veteran criminal John Higgs – who is serving 18-years jail over his role in a world record ecstasy importation seized on Melbourne’s docks – could be free on bail on Monday. http://dlvr.it/RxDNX8

Victoria’s spell of hot weather will come to a dramatic end when a polar blast whips up freezing conditions across the state this weekend. http://dlvr.it/RxCwtV

While Christina Macpherson’s name is barely known today, she played a key role in the lives of two vastly different historical figures: Banjo Patterson and Dan “Mad Dog” Morgan. http://dlvr.it/RxCNm1

A fake headmaster has been ­exposed as a mastermind behind a plan to open a 4000-student, multi-campus elite private school. http://dlvr.it/RxC5hl

Victoria Police booze buses are off the road for a second time after one of the fleet caught fire. http://dlvr.it/Rx9SzF

Drugs, guns, bullet-proof vests, a police uniform and gelignite have been seized in a Melbourne raid by clandestine laboratory squad detectives. http://dlvr.it/Rx8cJR

Some of the finest players to ever grace Australian rules football grounds, from the suburban treasures all the way through to the mecca of the MCG, came from farms and towns in regional and rural Victoria. http://dlvr.it/Rx88Bs

Hundreds of sex workers are illegally operating out of high-rise apartments in Melbourne’s CBD. http://dlvr.it/Rx7ShX

A federal watchdog has blasted the government for continuing to chase Australians to pay their welfare debts even after it conceded its automated compliance scheme was illegal. http://dlvr.it/Rx6zVp

A federal watchdog has blasted the government for continuing to chase Australians to pay their welfare debts even after it conceded its automated compliance scheme was illegal. http://dlvr.it/Rx5jh7

A sketchy Melbourne landlord who allowed human faeces and water to repeatedly flood an Elsternwick newsagency has been forced to cough up $400,000 in compensation. http://dlvr.it/Rx4s0X

THERE’S little margin for error on southwest Victoria’s Cobden-Stonyford Rd, which has claimed four drivers’ lives and hospitalised five others in the past six years. http://dlvr.it/Rx4P77

Parts of regional Victoria will have better mobile phone coverage under a state government plan to fix reception black spots. http://dlvr.it/Rx3kpz

A new model for social housing that moves away from high rise towers to accommodate families in low rise apartments will on Tuesday be announced by the State Government. http://dlvr.it/Rx3Fzy

There are calls for Victoria Police’s trouble-plagued booze buses to again be taken off the roads, after fire tore through a bus on Easter Sunday. http://dlvr.it/Rx294b

I feel a bit guilty. I promised my partner Jack an Easter egg hunt and didn’t deliver. Easter and all that accompanies it is a non-event in our house anyway. It’s usually the middle weekend of the Melbourne comedy festival, by which point my voice is starting to go and my liver is like the engine in a 1978 Toyota Lancer. http://dlvr.it/Rx1R4h