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Brendan Kearns is a cadet journalist with News Corp Australia. He has written for The Australian, the Herald Sun, the Geelong Advertiser, CHOICE, Cosmos, and The Citizen. He won Democracy’s Watchdogs’ Student Award for Investigative Journalism 2024 and hosted the third season of award-winning podcast Uncurated. He studied as Master of Journalism at The University of Melbourne, before that he worked as a video producer and disability worker.

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Victoria

Tensions escalated at the Wills early voting centre in Brunswick on Saturday after a sign was displayed by Muslim votes matter, calling Peter Khalil, the Labor candidate a Zionist, and showing an edited image of him in a Israeli-flag tracksuit. Picture: Supplied

Police called to Brunswick polling booth as Muslim Votes Matter, Labor clash

Police have been called to a Brunswick voting centre following an alleged physical altercation between a Labor volunteer and a Muslim Votes Matter activist.

Police & Courts

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 21, 2025: A burnt out car at the scene of as shop fire in Yarraville Picture: NewsWire / David Geraghty

Yarraville restaurant erupts in flames for second time in months

Vandals have smashed a car into a restaurant on a popular Yarraville shopping strip before setting it on fire. It’s the second suspicious blaze to hit the restaurant in 10 months.

Victoria

Render of the exist to the West Gate Tunnel project with a ventilation stack

Pressure stacks on Allan govt over ‘toxic’ West Gate Tunnel fumes

The state government is facing mounting calls to filter ‘toxic’ fumes from the West Gate Tunnel project, amid fears the smoke could put residents in Melbourne’s inner west at risk.

Victoria

Man holding a machete in his and in a threatening stance

Machetes could be sold at upcoming knife show despite looming ban

Organisers of a knife show set to be held in Melbourne’s northwest next month have not ruled out selling machetes, despite the Allan government’s looming ban on the dangerous weapons.

Victoria

Fly in, fire out: Rappel firefighting team wraps 40th season

Elite abseiling firefighters from Forest Fire Management Victoria have wrapped their intense fire season after battling blazes more than 50 times, including in the Grampians and Otways.

Victoria

Noah Balta in action with Richmond VFL side against Australia U18 at Moorabin Oval. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

AFL, Richmond slammed after Balta takes to field

AFL slammed for sending “wrong message” after Tigers defender Noah Balta returned to the field just days before his sentencing on assault charges.

Geelong

Tiffany Roussety has four-year-old twin boys, Ar, lefti and Sully and is part of the Deakin parent app trail. Picture: Alison Wynd

On-the-spot parenting advice for ‘frazzled’ mums and dads

Stressed mums and dads can seek on-the-spot parenting advice to help navigate challenging moments, like food refusal and meltdowns. Find out how.

Geelong

‘Unmistakably Geelong’: Cats, Ford extend lucrative sponsorship

The Geelong Football Club and Ford Motor Company signed a five-year extension to their historic century-long partnership, the longest in professional sport.

Geelong

A screenshot from a video of a waterspout over Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula.

Towering water twister appears off Portarlington

Keen weather watchers were shocked to see a wet and wild twister off the Bellarine Peninsula on Thursday afternoon. WATCH THE VIDEO.

Geelong

Connewarre Ward Councillor Elise Wilkinson at the Devlins Road Reserve

Geelong council calls for bipartisan support of Ocean Grove reserve

Peter Dutton made a funding commitment for the reserve, but the council is now calling for matching bipartisan commitments at a state and federal level

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