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It’s 50 years since a woman drove in Formula 1. This Melbourne teen is on the fast track
Aiva Anagnostiadis still has to display L-plates away from the track but has made history with her selection in the elite F1 Academy.
- Kim Wilson
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Swearing, booing and Gordon Ramsay: Here’s what happened at the F1 season launch
The glamorous car race will hit Australian shores in the second weekend of March and there were a few surprises at the London launch.
- Gemma Grant
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- Victorian Parliament
Grand Prix boss cashes in after government ignores salary advice
Travis Auld earned $170,000 more than his predecessor after the Allan government waived the advice of the state’s salary-setting tribunal.
- Carla Jaeger
Cash-strapped Allan government spends record $130m on Grand Prix Corporation
Despite record attendances at the Australian Grand Prix, the government-controlled body tasked with staging the event is heavily reliant on taxpayer funding.
- Carla Jaeger
Too soon! Tim Wilson and Zoe Daniel reignite election corflute wars
Rival corflutes on the streets of Bayside created high drama last election. Now the rivals are getting in early.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Thousands of Grand Prix fans forced to wait as global outage strikes Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster was forced to postpone sales of tickets to next year’s Australian Grand Prix, but race officials hope the problem will be solved promptly.
- Jon Pierik
‘Painfully mature’: What Oscar Piastri’s mum wants you to know about him
The Australian lives in Monaco and mixes with sporting royalty. But he makes no apologies for being “a nice person” in a cut-throat Formula 1 world.
- Hannah Hammoud
Music promoters awarded $2.84m over cancelled Robbie Williams concert
The concert was to be a part of the 2020 Australian Grand Prix weekend, but it and the race were among the first wave of cancellations across Victoria in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Tom Cowie
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- Australian cricket
Boxing Day Test to be locked in at the MCG until 2031
Melbourne’s Boxing Day Test will be locked in for the next seven years, with Australia and England to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Test cricket in March 2027, as part of a complex web of deals between Cricket Australia and governments.
- Daniel Brettig and Kieran Rooney
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