One of Australia’s most celebrated playwrights,Melbourne writer,actor and director Ray Lawler,has died at the age of 103.
From city markets to city laneways,to tram routes,street protests,libraries and the MCG – what’s not to love?
There are some salient lessons in how authorities in Victoria responded to the 1919 Spanish flu. And some serious warnings to heed.
Sally Muytjens spent more than three years investigating"dark networks"of paedophile clergy in Victorian dioceses from 1939 to 2000.
The Christian Brothers order moved Rex Elmer to two Catholic junior schools despite knowing his history of abusing children.
The church has received at least 22 claims for redress in relation to allegations of child sexual abuse by Elmer.
One abuse victim remembers Christian Brother Rex Francis Elmer gave him a chilling warning after assaulting him at a Melbourne orphanage in the 1970s.
As donations continue to stream in,the national charities regulator has said it intends to use its investigative powers to ensure the money is well spent.
Air force helicopters are airlifting vets into field hospitals on the edges of Victoria’s bushfire zone and flying critically-injured animals back out,as Zoos Victoria prepares for a huge mass-evacuation of wildlife hit by the state's bushfire crisis.
Disgraced Cardinal George Pell will remain isolated in his Melbourne prison cell for months before learning whether the full bench of the High Court will consider his bid for freedom.
The full bench of the High Court will consider Cardinal George Pell’s case for an appeal against his convictions for child sexual abuse,keeping his hopes of an early release from prison alive.