Remembrance Day: Changing faces at the timeless Shrine
Smoke from a canon salute mixed with the embers from a welcome to country, as the crowd gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance’s 90th anniversary. Watch the livestream.
Andrew Rule
Rap can be a dangerous game – even in Melbourne
Not every rapper is a wannabe gangster but a lot of wannabe gangsters tap into rap’s “street” culture of violence, sex, guns, drugs and prison.
Why characters are the real kings of the Cup
The race that stops the nation is also the race that has broken many a champion’s heart. But who needs champions when you have great characters?
What put champion jockey Brent Thomson back in the saddle
He was a Cox Plate king who rode the doomed Dulcify to a historic win. Now, 45 years later, he’s taking to the turf again.
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Bravery of men and horses lost in Palestine desert lives on
War is not glorious but galloping horses are, which is why the stories of the men and horses who lived and died charging the wells of Beersheba in the Palestine desert endure more than 100 years later.
Why Chika Honda’s ordeal should still conjure shame
Wrongly accused of heroin trafficking, Japanese tourist Chika Honda — and five others — paid an appalling price for the presumed guilt of one. Thirty years on, the police case still reeks.
What happened to California girl who vanished in the night?
It’s all but certain one of two violent men who accompanied a crime writer to Julie Garciacelay’s North Melbourne flat murdered her. But 48 years on, we’re no closer to the truth.
Tobacco tax is Melbourne’s Prohibition moment
A punitive tobacco tax hasn’t stopped people smoking, it’s driven previously law-abiding smokers to a booming black market and left dead bodies and a string of arson attacks across Melbourne in its wake.
‘Mad scientist’ genius dreamt up divorce by dismemberment
Rory Jack Thompson, a MIT graduate who worked for the CSIRO, hacked his wife’s body into 91 pieces and flushed them down the toilet in one of the nation’s most gruesome crimes.
Murdered dad’s family gagged by code of silence as potent as mafia
The strangest of many strange things in the murder of Salvatore Rotiroti — found beaten to death in his Geelong driveway — is that only one of the dead man’s extended family seems willing to find the killer.
Tragic tales of footballers turning bad
Aussie Rules attracts people from every level of society, so it’s hardly surprising that among the hundreds of players at the top level there have been some serious rogues.
The toll of a life spent fighting the mad, bad and deadly
The morning after Chris Glasl and his SOG crew shot a crook, they were losing the adrenaline buzz of the kill — so he racked up a line of cocaine to fill the void.
Victoria’s history of using killers as political footballs
Will a triple murderer go free some day because the Andrews government “did a Bolte” and used a killer as a political pawn?
Twenty years on from a Melbourne crime nightmare
Twenty years ago, homicide detective Rowland Legg arrived at a blood-spattered van in an Essendon park and one of the most horrific murder scenes in his 30 years on the job.
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