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Melbourne gangster's small legal victory in appeal bid

Rocco Arico is appealing his convictions, claiming his former lawyer Joseph Acquaro informed against him to Victoria Police.

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Injecting rooms cut crime, overdoses, abscesses: study

Drug users who inject under medical supervision are less likely to overdose or commit crime, a study shows, as authorities weigh up a second Melbourne facility.

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Police investigate fatal Melbourne house fire

A man has died in a fire at a unit complex in Melbourne's northeast, with police investigating the cause of the blaze.

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Heroin overdose data strengthens case for new Melbourne injecting room, peak body says

Long-time heroin user Sean has lost at least six people to fatal overdoses. He says if drug users had the same kind of safe spaces offered to alcohol drinkers, lives would be saved.

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Melbourne's most unreliable trains on Craigieburn, Werribee and Pakenham lines

Data from the past year reveals more than 10 per cent of services on Melbourne's Craigieburn line were not on time, while 3 per cent of trains on the Pakenham line were cancelled altogether.

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Inside the 'opaque' property tech sector that helps real estate agents decide who gets a lease in a rental shortage

Australian technology companies that process rental applications for the real estate industry appear to be pulling back their platforms, as consumer backlash grows about the fledgling industry's allegedly "opaque" practices.

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Experts urge Victoria to provide promised CBD safe injecting room or risk further harm to vulnerable people

Andrews government bought a Flinders Street site for $40.3m in 2021 but it has sat empty since

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Sydney still ‘greater’ than Melbourne, but not for long

Moving boundary lines means by one measure, Melbourne is bigger than Sydney. Greater Sydney is still bigger, but that will soon change.

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Melbourne is officially Australia’s biggest city after overtaking Sydney ‘on a technicality’

Data suggests Melbourne has nearly 19,000 more citizens than Sydney

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Melbourne Has Overtaken Sydney As Australia’s Biggest City And [Insert Weird Rivalry Joke Here]

I'm just a Perth girl, standing in front of Sydney and Melbourne, asking you to explain this rivalry.

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Melbourne overtakes Sydney as Australia’s most populous city

After more than a century Sydney has lost its title due to a counting quirk

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Planned $2bn Melbourne skyscraper project to deliver Australia’s tallest building

Green-lit project will feature pair of towers, apartments, offices, luxury hotel and 6,000 sq metres of green space

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne overtakes Sydney as Australia’s biggest city

Victoria’s capital has scooped up enough extra people to outnumber Sydney’s population

Evening Standard

Zoran Pandilovski pleads guilty to 2020 murder of his estranged wife Elaine in Melbourne's north

The Melbourne man changes his plea to guilty moments before the start of his criminal trial into the death of his estranged wife, Elaine Pandilovski, in July 2020.

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Victorian police officer charged with weapon assault

A Melbourne constable will front court later this year after he allegedly assaulted a person while on duty.

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Man admits to choking murder of estranged wife

A Melbourne man has admitted to the murder of his estranged wife on the morning a jury was to be empanelled for his Supreme Court trial.

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Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan blames Melbourne Airport as airport rail delay confirmed

The Victorian government says Melbourne's airport rail line won't be completed by its scheduled finish date in 2029 because of "challenging" negotiations with airport operator.

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Melbourne City quietly make history with third-straight A-League title

Melbourne City’s dominance of the A-League gives their third-straight title an understated quality

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Lidia Thorpe told to front up after strip club clash

Senator Lidia Thorpe has defended herself after a clash outside a Melbourne strip club, where she taunted one man for having a "small penis".

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Melbourne airport rail unlikely to be finished on time

Victorian Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan says the completion date for the rail link between Melbourne Airport and the city is likely to be pushed back

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Woman arrested after Melbourne hit-and-run with cyclist captured on dashcam footage

Footage of the crash shows a car swerving and hitting a cyclist in Melbourne's south-east last week before driving away.

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Gippsland diabetes sufferer keeps remaining toes thanks to new high-risk foot clinic at Latrobe Regional Hospital

He is just one of the diabetes patients in Victoria's Gippsland region who no longer have to travel up to five hours to Melbourne for public treatment.

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Jessica Watson shares how lessons learnt at sea helped her navigate the waves of grief over losing partner

Jessica Watson faced life-threatening storms and a collision with a tanker as "the girl in the pink boat" who sailed the world solo, but nothing would be as hard as the tragedy she would face 11 years after her record-breaking voyage.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe involved in verbal stoush outside Melbourne club

Outspoken Senator Lidia Thorpe has been filmed during an early morning, expletive-laden altercation outside a Melbourne club.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe in verbal stoush outside club

Senator Lidia Thorpe has been filmed during an altercation with group of men outside a gentlemen's club in Melbourne.

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