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Ian RoyallReporter and Opinion Editor

Ian Royall is a general news reporter and opinion editor for the Herald Sun, with more than three decades’ experience in journalism, home and abroad. Covers MotoGP too.

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Victoria

Darebin Council has been split in two by a series of incidents which have grabbed the attention of the Minister for Local Government. One side of the divided council, including Cr Bo Li, Cr Angela Villella, Cr Trent McCarthy and Cr Gaetano Greco. At the Preston City Counicl Buildings.Pictures: ANgie Basdekis

Darebin councillor Gaetano Greco loses battle with cancer

Darebin councillor and community advocate Gaetano Greco has lost his battle with cancer, aged 65.

Opinion

People gather to pay their respects during the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance, to remember soldiers who have died in the line of duty, in Melbourne on April 25, 2025. Dawn services were held across the two countries on the anniversary of the ill-fated 1915 campaign of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps that left 11,500 of them dead in what is now Turkey during World War I. (Photo by Martin KEEP / AFP)

Royall: I have two words for the idiots who spoiled our Anzac Day service

The behaviour we saw at Friday’s ceremony at the Shrine of Remembrance was brazen, unashamed vitriol — in fact, we have laws to deal with this sort of extremism.

UpdatedVictoria

Neo-Nazi among hecklers who disrupted solemn Dawn Service

Neo-Nazi Jacob Hersant has led a group of hecklers who booed during a Welcome to Country while tens of thousands of Victorians gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance to pay tribute to generations of Australian servicemen and women.

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Unauthorised Anzac Day shirts being sold online by Aussie Vibes.

RSL bosses up in arms over unauthorised Anzac shirts

A Footscray company selling a range of Anzac Day-themed shirts has been accused of “profiting from veteran sacrifice’’.

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Veterans arts community plea for home in former Repatriation Clinic at 310 St Kilda Road, Southbank. Deputy Director Kat Baldwin outside building. Picture: Josie Hayden

A veterans charity wants to put an empty govt building to good use. The idea just got rejected

The former Repatriation Commission Outpatient Clinic on St Kilda Rd was built to help returned servicemen and women. Now a military arts charity wants to take the building over.

Victoria

‘Pope of peace’: Victorians remember leader of Catholic Church

The death of Pope Francis has drawn tributes from members of the Catholic Church in Victoria and the state’s political leaders.

News

01/10/2001 Bob Hart, Herald Sun journalist. PUBLISHED 28/12/2004 PAGE 51.

‘Absolute genius’: Industry pays tribute to late Herald Sun journalist

Father, grandfather and former Herald Sun journalist Bob Hart has passed away, aged 81, leaving the industry mourning in his wake.

Victoria

11/04/2025 - Koala-ty research by Darcy Watchorn from Deakin University Picture: AggieNie/Wikimedia Commons

Alarm raised as hundreds of koalas killed in aerial shooting

Wildlife advocates have raised the alarm after hundreds of koalas were shot from helicopters in a national park in Victoria’s west.

Victoria

How Melbourne’s Olympic venues have stood the test of time

Fourteen venues were used for the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, and while one remains a shining jewel in our city’s sporting crown, others have changed.

Victoria

Yarra Council voted to extend the Copenhagen bike lanes on Wellington St from Gipps to Johnston streets. Traders are against the lanes as they remove carparking. Cyclists in Wellington st Collingwood. Picture: Josie Hayden

‘Victory over entitlement’: Yarra Council defies Greens, shrinks bike lanes

They were brought in without notice in 2019 and now, after a stormy council meeting, the controversial Elizabeth St bike lanes in North Richmond are going to be changed.

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