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Samantha LandyCommercial partnerships editor

As the commercial partnerships editor for Victoria, Sam works with News Corp Australia’s commercial partners to achieve earned editorial coverage in the metro mastheads, with a focus on the Herald Sun. She was previously the Herald Sun’s real estate editor, having joined News Corp Australia’s Victorian real estate team in 2015. She started at News Corp in 2011 as an editorial assistant, going on to complete a year-long trainee journalism course across five publications, including the Geelong Advertiser and Weekly Times, and then becoming a general news reporter at the Herald Sun.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), part of ACMI's Kids’ Flicks With Feelings summer film program 2022-23

How ET, Astro Boy can help kids

Films can help children develop an increasingly valued skill that will help them at school, with mental health and relationships. See experts’ tips on what kids should watch.

Kyla Kirkpatrick drinks champagne at Bar Americano. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

‘Roaring 20s’: Christmas champagne surge

Small retailers are warning of a possible champagne shortage – but a major chain is “confident” its supply will meet the demand.

Rosie Waters and her sons Harvey (11) and Hugo (6) enjoy Christmas Lunch. The most popular Christmas food/items in each state. Queenslanders: ham, cherries and mangoes -NSW customers: seafood Ã prawns, salmon and oysters -Victorians: lobsters -South Australians: pavlovas -Tasmanians: top wrapping paper purchases. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Aussies’ favourite Christmas foods for 2022 revealed

What you’re eating this Christmas may well depend on where you live. Find out the 2022 Christmas food trends in your area.

MELBOURNE, DECEMBER 12, 2022: 16 year old Perle Peel has vision impairment and is in the process of being paired with a dog as part of a new initiative to find out if younger vision-impaired Australians could benefit from having dogs rather than using canes for navigation. Previously, dogs have tended to go to people aged 18-plus. Perle is pictured with seeing eye dog in training, Phil. Picture: Mark Stewart

Push for high school kids to get Seeing Eye Dogs

A new program is giving vision-impaired Australian teenagers the potentially life-changing opportunity to be paired with a canine companion.

Merry Christmas from Crown Melbourne featuring Human Nature. Picture by Wayne Taylor 8th December 2022

Human Nature bring white Christmas to Melbourne

The Las Vegas-based crooners have given fans a sneak peek of their “crazy” Christmas shows at Crown this year. WATCH THE VIDEO

MENTAL HEALTH - Frustrated middle-aged man sitting on sofa in living room, touching his forehead, having financial troubles during quarantine or suffering from loneliness, copy space, home interior Picture: Istock

Gender ‘pressures’ weighing on Aussie men

“Unnerving” new research has exposed the startling state of Australia’s male mental health crisis, with society’s perception of masculinity holding many back from seeking help.

ExclusiveNational

Case study: prostate cancer treatment. Rob Baker is currently doing a revolutionary new treatment for managing incurable prostate cancer. Rob who has gone through the Lu-PSMA treatment and is seeing success, many years after diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999. At his home in Melbourne. Picture Rebecca Michael.

‘Urgent need’ to make new cancer treatment accessible

A treatment that could allow advanced prostate cancer patients to avoid chemotherapy and live longer has arrived – but there’s a catch.

Police & Courts

Caterina Politi the mother of one punch victim David Cassai. Dylan Closter the man who killed David has recently been let out on day release to play football. Caterina with a photo of her dead son David. Picture: David Caird

Coward punch killers benefit from legal loophole

Alarming new data has revealed just how few of Victoria’s coward punch offenders have been convicted since laws were introduced eight years ago.

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Your SayNational

Four-time world champion boxer and founder of the Stop The Coward Punch Campaign Danny Green. Picture: Coward Punch

‘10-year minimum’: Boxing great’s coward punch plea

World-first research into jail times for one-punch perpetrators has prompted Danny Green to call on Aussie states to get tough.

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Future Victoria

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Bold plan to draft AFLW players into construction

Construction giant John Holland, with projects including Metro Tunnel and Airport Rail, wants 40 per cent of its workforce to be women by 2025.

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