‘Your typical Aussie cricket boy’: Why Oscar Jenkins went to fight in Ukraine
On the cricket field, Oscar Jenkins was a formidable all-rounder. The former Melbourne Grammar student’s teammates were shocked to learn he had been captured by Russians on a Ukrainian battlefield.
- by Sherryn Groch and Ashleigh McMillan
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Overland, police gave unreliable, dishonest evidence, judge finds in scathing Lawyer X ruling
A judge’s finding that former chief commissioner Simon Overland and other police were deliberately dishonest about their dealings with Nicola Gobbo is a boost to Tony Mokbel’s bid to have his convictions quashed.
- by Cameron Houston, Marta Pascual Juanola, Sherryn Groch and Erin Pearson
Explainer
Earthquakes
Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when
A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?
- by Sherryn Groch
This fraudster was a VIP at Crown and Star. Now the casinos face a $70 million lawsuit
When one of Australia’s biggest Ponzi schemes collapsed, the money trail led to the casinos. Now Crown and Star could face a courtroom showdown with dudded investors.
- by Carla Jaeger and Sherryn Groch
As it happened: Dutton unveils Coalition’s nuclear costings; Qantas engineers begin 24-hour strike
Read the national news blog for rolling coverage of today’s top stories.
- by Josefine Ganko and Sherryn Groch
Updated
Extreme weather
Bushfires still bearing down on western towns as cool change nears
Towns in Victoria’s south-west face a nervous wait overnight as some bushfires continue to burn out of control, even as a coming cool change is expected to bring wild winds and heavy rainfall.
- by Sherryn Groch, Gemma Grant and Bianca Hall
Victoria bushfires LIVE: Emergency, watch-and-act warnings issued across west
After hot and windy conditions across the state, bushfires have broken out in multiple locations across Victoria’s west, south-west and north-west, threatening small communities.
- by Bianca Hall and Sherryn Groch
Updated
Crime
Woman stabbed to death in front of kids in Melbourne’s east; man arrested
Three teenage witnesses were at the Bayswater home at the time of the stabbing, with one receiving a minor injury.
- by Sherryn Groch
Colonel Anthony Pratt? How the billionaire box king earned his stripes
What intrigued us most about the cardboard baron’s LinkedIn announcement that he was moving to the US was the name on his social media account.
- by Sherryn Groch and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Naked City
Easey Street suspect unmasked as link to victims emerges
Perry Kouroumblis, now 65, is suspected of killing two women in the 1977 Easey Street murders – and one of Melbourne’s oldest schools links him to the victims.
- by John Silvester, Sherryn Groch, Ashleigh McMillan and Hannah Kennelly
Police expand barricades, search protesters on subdued day two of anti-war demonstration
Police used metal detectors to scan protesters outside the weapons expo in Melbourne on Thursday, but the turn-out was much smaller than the previous day, when violence erupted between officers and activists.
- by Lachlan Abbott, Rachael Dexter, Alex Crowe, Cassandra Morgan and Sherryn Groch
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