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Melbourne bookstore accuses employee of breaking ‘confidentiality’ by discussing pay rise

Worker launches court action over termination from Hill of Content, after also being accused of upsetting colleague and reducing her shifts

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Maroons recall Nanai, Coates, Fotuaika for Origin

Melbourne winger Xavier Coates is back in the Queensland side for game two of the State of Origin series to replace injured Brisbane winger Selwyn Cobbo.

The New Daily

10,000 people playing 10,000 kazoos: Melbourne’s ‘stupid and delightful’ world record-breaking event

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

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Glorious: 10,000 Ppl In Melbourne Break World Record For Most Kazoos Played Simultaneously

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

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32kg of Australia-bound heroin seized at Bangkok Port

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.

Bangkok Post

Where I Slept by Libby Angel review – Melbourne’s 1990s bohemia comes to gritty life

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

The Guardian - AU

How Australian fashion fell to pieces: a timeline

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?

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Fetch Thy Tiny Silver Shoes Bc A Monopoly Theme Park Is Opening In Melbourne Later This Year

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

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Just Gonna Say It: The Food Scene In Darwin Absolutely Shits On Sydney And Melbourne

❤️ C U in the NT ❤️

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Eliza Batman, the Irish convict reinvented as 'Melbourne's founding mother', was both colonised and coloniser on two violent frontiers

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.

The Conversation

The vast majority of Melburnians want more nature in their city, despite a puzzling north-south divide

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.

The Conversation

Off-colour era to end with new laws for Sydney, Melbourne Building renewal

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

The Canberra Times

Love, charisma, generosity: the extraordinary life of Uncle Kutcha Edwards

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

The Guardian - AU

Outer suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney are homelessness hotspots, data reveals

Exclusive: People are reaching crisis point well away from the centre of Australia’s largest cities, before travelling huge distances for housing support

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The shadow of Raymond Chandler looms in Call Me Marlowe, an international tale seeking humanity in the darkness

Catherine de Saint Phalle lived alone for many years in the country in France, where she published five novels and toured with controversial author Michel Houellebecq.

The Guardian - AU

Spirits, Star Wars and a giant bandicoot: the immersive art show taking over Flinders Street station

Shadow Spirit, a new exhibition as part of Melbourne’s Rising festival, explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories around death, spirits, stars and dreams

The New Daily

Government to scale back ads in Melbourne newspapers

The Victorian government will scale back advertising in the print editions of Melbourne's two biggest newspapers as it shifts to online and television media.

ABC News

Serial rapist Joel Russo jailed for 'horrendous' attack on female jogger along Melbourne's Merri Creek

Joel Russo, who was only months out of prison when he repeatedly raped a female jogger on the banks of Melbourne's Merri Creek is jailed for more than 20 years.

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Daily Mirror

Woman, 20, thought she had flu - then doctors said it was blood cancer

Olivia Jennings, 20, from Melbourne, was initially diagnosed with a UTI before a CT scan showed she had Stage 3B Hodgkin's Lymphoma - a blood cancer - and started chemotherapy sessions a week later

The New Daily

Melbourne’s Maribyrnong flood to reshape warning system

Melbourne's flood warning system is set to be overhauled, with responsibility for warnings and forecasts to be handed over the Bureau of Meteorology.

ABC News

How three Kurnai matriarchs protected women, children at Jackson's Track

More than 100 First Nations people lived on Jackson's Track east of Melbourne from the 1940s to the 1960s. Three Kurnai women protected the women from violence and prevented children from being taken from their families.

The Hindu

Svitolina and Monfils — pushing each other to fight their best fights

Elina Svitolina could be watched cheering Gael Monfils from the stands as the Frenchman pushed himself to fight before eventually going down to Matteo Berrettini in five sets on a floodlit Rod Laver Arena at last year’s Australian Open in Melbourne. Similar visuals, with roles reversed, warmed the hearts of…

The Guardian - AU

Can your suburb help fix Australia’s housing crisis? It all comes down to density

Despite adding millions of people and dwellings over the past decade, our cities are well behind globally in terms of population density

The Guardian - AU

Anthony LaPaglia ‘scared and excited’ to make Australian stage debut in Death of a Salesman

Golden Globe and Tony-winning actor will star as Willy Loman in a Melbourne production directed by Neil Armfield

The New Daily

Teens charged with knife attack aboard Melbourne bus

Two teenagers have been charged after another teenager was allegedly stabbed during an altercation on a bus in Melbourne's north.

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