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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updatedNSW & ACT Politics

Andy Warhol artworks in Canberra have been damaged by climate protesters.

Protesters vandalise priceless art in Canberra

Climate protesters have been filmed vandalising Andy Warhol paintings at the National Art Gallery in Canberra today.

Social Media

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 10, 2019 SpaceX founder Elon Musk addresses the media during a press conference announcing new developments of the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft, at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. - Elon Musk took control of Twitter and fired its top executives, US media reported late October 27, 2022, in a deal that puts one of the top platforms for global discourse in the hands of the world's richest man. Musk sacked chief executive Parag Agrawal, as well as the company's chief financial officer and its head of legal policy, trust and safety, the Washington Post and CNBC reported citing unnamed sources. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP)

‘No choice’: Musk’s humiliating backflip

Days after his decision to sack half of Twitter’s employees, new owner Elon Musk was forced into a quiet but humiliating backflip.

VIC Politics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 6, 2022: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews gives a press conference at the Noble Park RSL.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

Row erupts over Andrews spinal injury joke

A Liberal MP has been slammed for a joke he made on social media about Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews falling down steps and seriously injuring himself.

Netball

Aussie Diamonds player Donnell Wallam, the team’s first indigenous player in 20+ years. Source: Instagram

‘Spat in her face’: Twist in netball saga

A popular radio host has slammed Aussie netballers for “cracking the s***s” in a divisive social media post about the Diamonds’ sponsorship saga.

EXCLUSIVETravel Incidents

Surprising identity of enraged Qantas flyer

The Sydney man kicked off a Qantas flight for demanding cabin crew apologise to his wife is a high profile international rugby player and charity ambassador.

VIC

A terrified dog spent 24 hours trapped on a table in Maribyrnong.

Dog’s heartbreaking 24 hours in Vic flood

Missy’s owners were forced to flee during floods in Melbourne on Friday. It meant the staffy was left to fend for herself and she did just that.

updatedEurope

AppleGreen petrol station explosion in Ireland.

Aussie dead as petrol station explodes

A five-year-old girl, two teenagers and an Australian are among the dead after a blast went off “like a bomb” in Ireland, killing 10 people.

EXCLUSIVENews Life

Real estate agent’s ugly spray at barista

Footage has captured gay hate speech from a Sydney real estate agent towards a barista who now says he is “terrified” to go to work.

Animals

Scott Fairchild captured a frightening interaction between a great white shark and two stand up paddleboarders.

Pair’s frightening ‘head-on’ shark encounter

A video showing a great white shark “intentionally approaching head-on” towards a pair on stand-up paddle boards has been described as “rare”.

Interest Rates

COMPOSITE 16:9 - Australia's four big banks Commonwealth, Westpac, NAB, ANZ. Picture: NCA Newswire

Big banks make rate rise prediction

The big four banks have revealed exactly how high their economists expect the cash rate to rise when the Reserve Bank board meets today.

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