The Latest Breaking News from Melbourne

Neo-Nazis clash with trans activists and supporters in Melbourne’s CBD

Transgender rights protesters have clashed with neo-Nazis in the Melbourne city centre, with a major road blocked to traffic.

The New Daily · Mar 18, 2023

Protesters clash in Melbourne over transgender rights

Spring Street in the Melbourne city centre was blocked to traffic as hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the Victorian Parliament.

AAP · Mar 18, 2023

Mariners out to end AAMI Park dry spell against Victory

Central Coast haven't won at AAMI Park since 2014, but facing A-League Men battlers Melbourne Victory provides the perfect opportunity to snap that winless run.

AAP · Mar 17, 2023

Late-season heat may hit weekend sport and break temperature records across eastern Australia

Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne have sweltered through unseasonal warmth and Canberra is forecast to reach a March record of 36C on Sunday

The Guardian - AU · Mar 17, 2023

Storm, Titans juggle injury replacements for NRL clash

Melbourne will have players returning against Gold Coast but they could be without Nelson Asofa-Solomona for up to 10 weeks of the NRL season.

AAP · Mar 17, 2023

Deakin lecturer Adam Brown fatally stabbed wife Chen Cheng after childcare dispute, court told

An academic who taught gender studies and digital media at Melbourne's Deakin University stabs his wife to death in their eastern suburbs home following an argument that escalated into deadly violence.

ABC News · Mar 17, 2023

Residents, basketball community and union weigh in over McIvor Reserve development in Melbourne's west

Residents in Melbourne's inner west are clashing over a $60 million redevelopment that would see a basketball stadium built over part of a local dog park.

ABC News · Mar 16, 2023

Positive masculinity program at Brighton Grammar School aims to create respectful men

For more than a decade, an all-boys school in Melbourne's leafy south-east has worked to create a program to develop its students into "respectful men".

ABC News · Mar 16, 2023

Sexual exhibitionism, Riot Grrrl and climate change activism: 30 years of raging by Peaches, Bikini Kill and Björk, still going strong

Kathleen Hanna yells like she did in the 1990s, pushing the toxic male patriarchy out of the moshpit at Melbourne’s The Forum on the eve of International Women’s Day.

The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023

Concussion dominates headlines as NRL and AFL seasons get under way

Australia’s biggest sporting bodies are threading a very fine needle with concussion and long-term brain damage

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2023