Firefighters across Victoria brace for extreme risk,residents told to evacuate immediately

Firefighters across Victoria brace for extreme risk,residents told to evacuate immediately

There are fears new fires will start and a large blaze in the state’s west will spread further amid 100km/h winds and near 40-degree temperatures predicted for Thursday.

  • byAngus Delaney andCassandra Morgan

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First-round university offers are out. Here’s how to make the system work for you

First-round university offers are out. Here’s how to make the system work for you

Graduates who didn’t get their first preference still have plenty of options open to them,with the advice from experts simple – just wait.

  • byCassandra Morgan andMarissa Calligeros
First-round university offers are out. Here’s how to make the system work for you

First-round university offers are out. Here’s how to make the system work for you

Graduates who didn’t get their first preference still have plenty of options open to them,with the advice from experts simple – just wait.

  • byCassandra Morgan
Every student,every course:Search our database of first-round university offers

Every student,every course:Search our database of first-round university offers

Search our interactive database for students,courses and offers,and read which degrees were the toughest nuts to crack.

  • byCraig Butt,Noel Towell andCassandra Morgan
The schools with the most top performers in popular VCE subjects

The schools with the most top performers in popular VCE subjects

The secrets of the success of the schools that aced English,biology,psychology,mathematical methods and business management.

  • byCassandra Morgan andCraig Butt
The young couple who got perfect scores at a school that doesn’t believe in marks

The young couple who got perfect scores at a school that doesn’t believe in marks

Stella Holmes à Court and Manny Anasson were among more than 800 Victorian students who got their International Baccalaureate results.

  • byCassandra Morgan
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Floored falcon soars again after skyscraper rescue,rehab

Floored falcon soars again after skyscraper rescue,rehab

One of the fledglings that hatched this year in Melbourne’s CBD has been released into the wild after a dramatic rescue and rehabilitation.

  • byCassandra Morgan
As it happened:Ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming wins high-profile defamation case;Opposition Leader John Pesutto declares he will not resign

As it happened:Ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming wins high-profile defamation case;Opposition Leader John Pesutto declares he will not resign

John Pesutto was a man driven by political fear,a high-stakes defamation judgment found today. He now faces a legal bill up to $2m but has vowed to stay on in his job. Meanwhile,Moira Deeming says she feels vindicated.

  • byRachel Eddie,Cassandra Morgan andLachlan Abbott
Street art,red ribbons and new charity honour Isla Bell three weeks on from murder charges

Street art,red ribbons and new charity honour Isla Bell three weeks on from murder charges

The 19-year-old slain Brunswick woman has been remembered in creative tributes across Melbourne as her family sets up a charity to raise funds for art scholarships.

  • byCassandra Morgan
PM battles crowd crush to view synagogue ruins,pledges to fund rebuild

PM battles crowd crush to view synagogue ruins,pledges to fund rebuild

Anthony Albanese has met with community leaders and a man who was inside the Adass Israel synagogue when it was firebombed last Friday.

  • byCassandra Morgan
‘One of the most evil acts we’ve seen’:Synagogue fire declared a terror attack

‘One of the most evil acts we’ve seen’:Synagogue fire declared a terror attack

The investigation into the Ripponlea synagogue firebombing will be handled by a joint counter-terror unit as police throw all their resources at finding three suspects.

  • byCassandra Morgan,Chris Vedelago andKieran Rooney