Milanda Rout

Milanda RoutDeputy Travel Editor

Milanda Rout is the deputy editor of The Weekend Australian’s Travel + Luxury. A journalist with over two decades of experience, Milanda started her career at the Herald Sun and has been at The Australian since 2007, covering everything from prime ministers in Canberra to gangland murder trials in Melbourne. She started writing on travel and luxury in 2014 for The Australian’s WISH magazine and was appointed deputy travel editor in 2023.

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The Nation

Brumby apologises over leadership failure

IT took 18 months but Premier John Brumby has apologised for the failure of emergency services to respond to the Black Saturday fires.

Milanda Rout and Victorian political reporter

The Nation

New role to co-ordinate bushfire planning

THE Black Saturday royal commission heard more than 15 months of evidence from 434 witnesses and considered 1700 public submissions.

Milanda Rout and Victorian political reporter

Education

Add 10pc for BER cost rise, builders told

BUILDERS tendering for work under the BER were told to include a “cost escalation” of up to 10pc to cover the inflationary impact of the scheme.

Milanda Rout and Victorian political reporter

National Affairs

Report reveals school divide over BER

BUILDERS, architects, councils and school principals have delivered a damning report card on Julia Gillard’s school building program in Victoria.

Milanda Rout and Victorian political reporter

National Affairs

Nixon’s unexpected exit could reduce hostility to Labor

The ex-police commissioner is expected to receive harsh criticism in the bushfires report

Milanda Rout

The Nation

Father guilty of murder of three sons

VICTORIAN man Robert Farquharson has been found guilty of murdering his three sons by driving them into a dam on Father’s Day.

Milanda Rout

National Affairs

ALP candidate brushes off Greens threat

LABOR’S candidate for the marginal seat of Melbourne says she is “not worried” about the threat of the Greens vote

Milanda Rout and Vctorian political reporter

National Affairs

Nixon for surgery after quitting

Christine Nixon will undergo surgery today after being rushed to hospital with severe abdominal pain just hours after quitting as head of the bushfire reconstruction authority.

Milanda Rout and Andrew Trounson

The Nation

Nixon rushed to hospital after resigning

FORMER police chief Christine Nixon has been rushed to hospital, hours after quitting as head of Victoria’s bushfire reconstruction authority.

Milanda Rout

National Affairs

Brumby knew of Nixon’s plans to quit

VICTORIAN Premier John Brumby has admitted that he knew Christine Nixon was going to step down from her bushfires reconstruction post today.

Milanda Rout and Victorian political reporter

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