This school is for students who can’t go to school – and it’s booming

This school is for students who can’t go to school – and it’s booming

“Some of our students have not been at school for six years”:Independent Hester Hornbrook Academy caters to school refusers and demand is soaring.

  • byStephen Brook andNicole Precel

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‘They look straight through your soul’:The art of raising bats

‘They look straight through your soul’:The art of raising bats

Artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison have been caring for injured grey-headed flying foxes in the backyard of their Victorian terrace in Fitzroy – and it’s inspired their latest work.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
Goodbye,Abbotsford. Hello,LoJo:The Melbourne area rebranding itself

Goodbye,Abbotsford. Hello,LoJo:The Melbourne area rebranding itself

A section of Abbotsford is keen to reinvent itself and is staging a festival to get the word out.

  • byCara Waters
Melbourne’s ‘Mad March’ of festivals is here. But this trend has organisers sweating

Melbourne’s ‘Mad March’ of festivals is here. But this trend has organisers sweating

Hundreds of events will be held across Melbourne as a swag of festivals kicks off this month,but festival organisers are feeling the pressure.

  • byCara Waters
‘Horrendous’ traffic back as drivers clog roads despite working from home

‘Horrendous’ traffic back as drivers clog roads despite working from home

Melbourne’s major roads are almost as busy as before the pandemic,despite more people working from home now than in 2019,but public transport patronage is down.

  • byPatrick Hatch andCara Waters
PCR-test blitz urged to counter Melbourne’s syphilis surge

PCR-test blitz urged to counter Melbourne’s syphilis surge

Doctors say the lessons learnt about containing coronavirus should now be applied to all sexually transmitted infections.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
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Melburnians get hot and sweaty with fitness phenom Joe Wicks

Melburnians get hot and sweaty with fitness phenom Joe Wicks

Hundreds of people descended on Federation Square,sporting active wear and with toddlers in tow,for a mass workout led by the self-proclaimed body coach.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
Melbourne’s CBD is dead. But what’s emerging might be even better
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Melbourne’s CBD is dead. But what’s emerging might be even better

Pretending the CBD will go back to how it was is a waste of time. Instead,we need to embrace a different Melbourne.

  • byCara Waters
Fewer workers are coming into the CBD. But at night,it’s a different story
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Fewer workers are coming into the CBD. But at night,it’s a different story

It’s no surprise that CBD office workers are continuing to work from home. But Melbourne’s economy is booming after dark,the city’s “night mayor” says.

  • byCara Waters
Drivers flock to Sydney’s tollways as lockdowns slow recovery in Melbourne

Drivers flock to Sydney’s tollways as lockdowns slow recovery in Melbourne

Drivers are flocking to tollway giant Transurban’s expressways as they avoid using public transport,leading to record weekend and workday traffic.

  • bySimon Johanson
As surgery waiting times explode,patients raid savings and super funds

As surgery waiting times explode,patients raid savings and super funds

Rising numbers of patients are taking tens of thousands of dollars out of their savings and super to self-fund surgery.

  • byMelissa Cunningham