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Harold Mitchell’s state memorial service at Hamer Hall on Monday.

Premiers and billionaires line up to farewell an ad industry giant

Three former premiers and business magnates were among the mourners who gathered to farewell media businessman and philanthropist Harold Mitchell.

  • Stephen Brook

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Former ABC Melbourne host, Jon Faine.

Faine won’t be ABC chairman, but he’s a very naughty boy

Left-field suggestion for top job springs school days revelation, while a Labor MP campaigns for Voice while overseas.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Both Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy must address how Victoria would respond to future COVID-19 threats.

Victoria’s pandemic response is the elephant in the room this election

Both Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy are avoiding discussing the most significant event in Victoria in 100 years. This is bad for the state, and one day it will be dangerous for all of us.

  • Neil Mitchell
Jon Faine at the Apollo Cafe in West Melbourne

‘I don’t have visions of grandeur’: Jon Faine

The former ABC broadcaster has written a book – but it’s not a memoir. Really.

  • Kylie Northover
Shoppers stock up at Costco in Docklands before the five-day lockdown.

Fogged glasses, coffee queues. Welcome to the lockdown time warp

A microscopic virus has pervaded our lives and is currently determining our futures.

  • Jon Faine
Daniel Andrews and his wife, Catherine, in a still from the video released on Sunday.

ABC pulls Andrews interview after Premier posts Twitter video

The ABC will not publish an interview by retired broadcaster Jon Faine with Daniel Andrews.

  • Zoe Samios
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How will the Liberals get more women into Parliament?

The Liberals’ problem with women is simple: the men block their path

A generation of young women who try to enter conservative politics end up walking away, disillusioned and often angry at the school cadet camp ambience.

  • Jon Faine
Gladys Berejiklian Scott Morrison, and Daniel Andrews

Roll up, the political circus is back in town

Come see Intrepid Dan and the Amazing Two Headed Gladys. The biggest (political) shows around are so audacious they have to be seen to be believed.

  • Jon Faine
Capital City Trail at Docklands is normally packed with commuter cyclists. But on Monday morning it was empty.

Rewarding COVID compliance might work better than punishment

Despite the State of Disaster, there will always be some people who don't get the message, regardless of increased penalties and threats of detention.

  • Greg Barns
More than 2000 locals flocked to Melbourne Town Hall to farewell ABC Radio’s retiring morning presenter Jon Faine.

Melbourne is set to become the country’s most populous city by 2026 – with vast ramifications

The rise of the Victorian capital is shaping up to be the social and economic story of the 21st century, forcing us to change the way we think of ourselves as Australians.

  • George Megalogenis

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