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Rising festival’s mass performance might be the dumbest thing I have ever done – yet I’ve never felt so joyful or free, writes Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

"Best day of my life," said one attendee.

Authorities have seized about 32 kilogrammes of heroin, stuffed inside boxes of pain-relief patches at the Bangkok Port. The drugs were destined for Melbourne, Australia.

A descendant of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip, this biographical second novel is set among the share houses and squats of a young artistic life

In the 1990s and 2000s Alannah Hill, Alice McCall and Sass & Bide became household names. Now Australians buy more clothes than ever but few are made or even designed locally. Where did it come undone?

What if we kissed ... in Mr. Monopoly's Mansion.

❤️ C U in the NT ❤️

On June 8 1835, 188 years ago today, pastoralist John Batman crossed the Bass Strait and arrived on the shores of Naarm (now Melbourne city), on Kulin lands. His Irish-born convict wife, Eliza Batman, and their seven daughters arrived at Port Phillip the following year.

When we were asked to survey people in Melbourne about their relationship with nature, little did we know our findings would reinforce a well-known cultural divide between those living north and south of the Yarra River. Residents of neighbourhoods to the south were overall less connected to nature.

Laneway upgrades are the first stage of revitalising the landmark Civic buildings.

The Mutti Mutti singer with the incredible – and untrained – voice reflects on his childhood, collaborating with Judith Durham and becoming a mentor to countless First Nations musicians across Australia