The Editorial Team

Rohan SmithActing deputy editor

Rohan has worked as a journalist and news editor for the past 12 years after studying Journalism at Monash University in Melbourne and beginning his career in a radio newsroom. He mentored journalism students at Charles Sturt University’s National Radio News before moving to Sydney to work in newspapers. Rohan joined news.com.au as a journalist before becoming news editor in 2016. He moved to Melbourne in 2018 where he covers stories that matter to all Victorians.

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A poster plastered on the Greek Orthodox church in Balwyn last Sunday

Ugly tensions flare in Melbourne

A DECADES-LONG conflict has reignited in Melbourne where “racist” signs and flags have been hung from the city’s bridges.

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An Israeli policewoman removes handcuffs from Malka Leifer, a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a school, as she arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 27, 2018, Israel on February 12 arrested the Australian woman who is wanted in her home country on child sex abuse charges, police announced. The suspect has been living in a West Bank settlement for the past decade following a complaint filed against her by a former student at a Jewish ultra-Orthodox school she ran in Melbourne. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI

‘Years’ before accused teacher extradited

THE former Australian teacher facing 74 counts of child sex abuse will be examined by another psychiatrist, further delaying her extradition.

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Constantinos George Spaliaras arrives in the prison van at the Mebourne Supreme Court to faces charges over the death of a man found dismembered in the Maribynong river. ID confirmed by Shannon Deery. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Man killed, cut up over $60 debt

HE KILLED and cut up the body of a Victorian man. Three years on, he’s begging for a second chance. WARNING: Graphic

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Louis Tate died following a suspected anaphylactic shock at Frankston Hospital.

Breakfast food that killed teen

LOUIS Tate died after eating a single mouthful of breakfast at a Victorian hospital in 2015. A coroner today delivered his findings.

Adventure

This experience needs a safe word

A BIZARRE Melbourne experience warns you’ll be “aggressively touched” and “embraced”. They weren’t lying. Check this out.

North America

### ON HOLD FOR GCB USE - TALK TO PIC DESK FOR USE ###Steve Claggett, chief cremation operation, at Allambe Memorial Park, Nerang, talking to the Bulletin about the cremation process. A look into one of the two cremation chambers. Picture: Jerad Williams

Family’s shocking funeral home find

A WOMAN died of natural causes three years ago. Her family assumed her cremation went to plan until a discovery was made in a room at a funeral home.

Europe

TWAM-20180210 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 10 Feb 2018NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Police handout photo of Jon Venables (10), 20/02/1993, who along with Robert Thompson, also 10, kidnapped then killed 2-year-old toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Liverpool. Pic : AP

Bulger killer finds doting bride

THE sick paedophile killer of James Bulger is set to marry a woman who knows what he did but still wants to spend her life with him.

Politics

Not for syndication or onward sales. Fee Applies. Embargoed For The Daily Telegraph only** Do not use without speaking to Nicola Gibson.Exclusive photos of Barnaby Joyce & Vikki Campion taken at Farm2Fork event on Thursday 3rd November 2016 on Cockatoo Island Sydney.

How Barnaby and Vikki’s affair began

IT HAS been revealed Barnaby Joyce spoke of “not having sex in five years” and feeling “trapped” in a “loveless marriage” as he began having an affair with Vikki Campion.

Reality TV

*** STRICTLY EMBARGOED FOR USE BY STELLAR MAGAZINE *** MUST NOT RUN BEFORE: FEBRUARY 25, 2018 *** STELLAR COVER: ELYSE KNOWLES ***

‘I’m sick of it’: Elyse Knowles’ opens up

ELYSE Knowles got noticed on Instagram long before The Block made her a start. But she admits there’s something about it that “kills” her.

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Australia’s modern slavery hidden shame

IT HAPPENS behind closed doors in homes all around Australia with increasing regularity and the numbers are simply staggering. WARNING: Graphic.

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