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Brit ditches UK for sunshine, higher salaries and 'much cheaper property'

Ben, from Epping Forest in Essex, has moved to Victoria in Australia where he fell in love and had a baby, and now the 30-year-old is convinced he'll stay Down Under

Daily Mirror

Afternoon Update: Bruce Lehrmann settles with News Corp; Greens racism allegations; and a Snapchat before horror Victorian crash

Media company says settlement involves payment of a portion of Lehrmann’s legal costs only

The Guardian - AU

‘Hurtful to Indigenous Victorians’: John Pesutto rebukes Bev McArthur over colonisation comments

Liberal leader says he will speak to the MP about her claim that Indigenous people should be grateful for ‘wonderful things’ enabled by colonisation

The Guardian - AU

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What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria's First Peoples

The end of native forest logging in Victoria announced last week was met with joy from conservationists and shock from timber industry workers.

The Conversation

Video shows car speeding moments before crash in Victoria that left four dead

Footage uploaded to Snapchat shows the Toyota Corolla travelling along a narrow road near Bochara apparently at 130km/h

The Guardian - AU

Man dead after single-car crash, fire near NSW-Victoria border

A first responder says the soaring road toll is the worst he has seen "for a long time", as man dies in a crash near Mulwala.

ABC News

Hamilton car crash victim uploads final moments to Snapchat, parents remember 'larrikin son'

The grieving parents of one of the teenage victims of the car crash tragedy near Hamilton, in western Victoria, have pleaded with other youths to speak up if a driver is going too fast.

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Victorian council says VNI West powerline plan needed to 'keep the lights on' as new route surprises farmers

Farmers claim they found out via social media that new powerlines could be built across their properties, as a regional Victorian council supports the state government's latest plan.

ABC News

‘What’s the speed, bro?’ Disturbing video emerges after Victoria crash

A video has emerged reportedly showing the car involved in Victoria's quadruple-fatality crash speeding along a dark regional road.

The New Daily

New DNA testing shatters 'wild dog' myth: most dingoes are pure

For decades, crossbreeding between dingoes and dogs has been considered the greatest threat to dingo conservation. Previous DNA studies suggested pure dingoes were virtually extinct in Victoria and New South Wales.

The Conversation

Shop around to beat electricity price spikes? It's not as easy as it should be

Australian consumers are painfully aware of the energy cost crisis. And from July 1, electricity bills are set to rise by a further 20-25% across South Australia, New South Wales, south-east Queensland and Victoria. The increases will add to cost-of-living pressures across households and small businesses.

The Conversation

Victorian road trauma survivors warn of lifelong consequences in split-second decisions

Thirty-eight more people have died on Victorian roads this year than at the same time last year, as families impacted by past road trauma say the consequences for those left behind will be felt for years.

ABC News

Victorian Liberal MP criticised for suggesting Indigenous people should be grateful for ‘wonderful things’ brought by colonisation

State’s First Peoples’ Assembly co-chair says MP Bev McArthur was trying ‘to make a name’ for herself

The Guardian - AU

Melbourne earthquake: how common are tremors in Victoria and could a very large one occur?

Sunday’s magnitude 3.8 quake was the city’s strongest in more than 120 years. So why do shakes happen in Melbourne?

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What causes earthquakes in Victoria? And why did the Sunbury tremors feel so strong?

The Sunbury earthquake was fairly typical of Victorian tremors so why did it cause such a stir?

The New Daily

‘Lost angels’ mourned in crash that killed four

The mother of a teen who was one of four people killed in a horror weekend car crash in western Victoria has issued a heart-breaking plea.

ABC News

Victorian government changes preferred transmission line route for VNI West project

The Victorian government signs off on a preferred development plan and accelerates work on the controversial Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West project to the surprise of newly affected landowners.

The Conversation

Australian shelters and pounds kill 50,000 mostly healthy cats and kittens in a year. There's a way to prevent this pointless killing

Stray cats are a longstanding problem in Australian towns and cities. Common complaints about roaming cats include nuisance (fighting and urinating), disease risks to humans and other animals, and predation of native wildlife. The huge numbers of cats and kittens taken in by animal shelters and council pounds are a…

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The Guardian - AU

Melbourne earthquake 2023: Victoria feels shake of 3.8 magnitude tremor in city’s north-west

Quake that struck Sunbury on Sunday night the strongest in more than 100 years with an epicentre in metropolitan Melbourne

ABC News

Electric vehicle sales lag behind combustion engine cars despite early adopters seeing benefits

The adoption of electric vehicles continues to climb as sales in most states and territories double year-on-year. These people explain why they are, or are not, following the trend.

The New Daily

High speed a factor in deadly Victorian car smash that killed four

Extremely high speed was a factor in a car crash that killed four people in Victoria's west and left a teen fighting for life in hospital.

ABC News

Victorian community in shock after 'traumatic and destructive' fatal car crash near Bochara

An investigation continues into a single-vehicle crash that claimed the lives of four people in Victoria's west on Saturday.

The Guardian - AU

Down memory plain: pioneering Melbourne tabloid that highlighted the everyday goes digital

Victorians saw their regular lives in the Sun News-Pictorial from 1922-90 – and its pages can be revisited digitally under a new plan

ABC News

Macedon Ranges residents fight to stop European honey bee native wildlife threat

Community groups in Victoria's Macedon Ranges want to stop European honey bee swarms taking over tree hollows in their landscape.

ABC News

Apollo Bay and Daylesford in battles to keep alcohol giants out of their towns

Victoria's regional residents are going to extraordinary lengths to fight big-name liquor companies that want to set up shop in their picture-perfect communities.

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