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Michael Abeling was desperate for help when he presented to the emergency department. But he was refused admission and died a few days later.
A homeless man will receive urgent medical treatment after he was charged with murder over the stabbing death of an angler in Frankston on Saturday.
A contentious high-rise apartment building,part of Frankston’s “Great Wall” overlooking Port Phillip Bay,has been approved.
Melbourne Water will not back a masterplan to densify Frankston’s city centre over a lack of consideration of flood risks and coastal inundation caused by climate change.
The byelection didn’t go the Frankston mayor’s way,and things are looking awkward for him now at the council.
Voters delivered a warning to the prime minister on the cost of living – and a rebuff to Peter Dutton and his goal of winning the suburban electorates needed to retake government.
The prime minister spent his 61st birthday morning meeting voters in Dunkley in a last-minute bid to keep the seat in Labor’s hands.
For all the highs that come with a victory on election night,there are long-term risks in winning the seat of Dunkley so close to a federal election.