‘Cricket is like religion’: India fans flock to MCG open training
After a tour in which the visiting Indian team has had to monitor crowd numbers at training including when about 5000 supporters turned up in Adelaide, there was a different mood at the MCG nets ahead of Boxing Day.
- by Gemma Grant
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‘Devastating to me’: Australian tennis star Max Purcell suspended for breaching doping rules
Australian grand slam doubles champion Max Purcell has explained his side of the story after being provisionally suspended after admitting to breaching the sport’s anti-doping regulations.
- by Gemma Grant and Marc McGowan
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Hospitals
Hospital retreats from plan to slash nurses’ hours
The backdown by the Royal Melbourne has increased pressure on Alfred Health to reinstate a four-day working week for its 2025 graduate nurses.
- by Broede Carmody and Gemma Grant
Empty shelves at Woolworths as industrial action cripples supplies
The company confirmed that some stores in Victoria, NSW and the ACT were experiencing limited stock flow.
- by Madeleine Heffernan and Gemma Grant
Thieves steal safe and destroy storefronts in shopping centre ram raid
A large white SUV reversed into the entrance of the Forest Hill Chase shopping centre at about 5am on Saturday.
- by Gemma Grant
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Crime
Homicide squad at home in Melbourne’s south-east after two found dead
A crime scene has been established at a home in Mordialloc after the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered on Thursday.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Gemma Grant
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Weather
‘Remain vigilant’: Severe weather warnings still active across Victoria
Emergency services warned Victorians to remain on alert on Wednesday night after wild weather lashed the state and rain deluged south-east Melbourne.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Gemma Grant
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Australian student may lose sight in one eye after alleged Israel military shooting in West Bank
A 20-year-old Australian woman could lose vision in one eye after allegedly being shot at by Israeli forces in her apartment near her university campus in the occupied West Bank.
- by Rachael Dexter and Gemma Grant
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Australians abroad
‘The best of us’: Tributes flow for Holly Bowles, 19, after suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
Family members, co-workers and the Beaumaris Football Club are mourning the Melbourne teen, who died in Thailand one day after her best friend, Bianca Jones.
- by Gillian Lantouris, Gemma Grant, Lachlan Abbott and Ashleigh McMillan
‘Fearless, loyal, wholehearted’: Teenager killed in Pakenham crash
Kai McDonald, 16, was in sitting in the front passenger seat of the car when it crashed into another vehicle.
- by Gemma Grant
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Australians abroad
British woman fifth death in suspected Laos drink poisoning
British media have reported that a 28-year-old lawyer from London died after consuming drinks laced with methanol.
- by Gemma Grant
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