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Milanda RoutDeputy Editor Travel and Luxury Weekend

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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Division of sexes creates feast or famine

THERE is a large group of single men living in Melbourne and looking for love.

Caroline Overington and Milanda Rout

The Nation

Innocent clients launder drug cash

HUNDREDS of unwitting bank customers could have drug money sitting in their accounts after the international crime syndicate behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul this year allegedly laundered at least $6.79 million cash by a method known as “cuckoo smurfing”.

Milanda Rout

The Nation

Slump in tollway traffic hits stock

ALMOST $230 million was wiped off the share value of toll road operator ConnectEast yesterday after its Melbourne Eastlink road became the latest tollway to fall drastically short of its traffic projections.

Milanda Rout

The Nation

Schools back Gillard funding plan

TEACHERS and principals have backed Julia Gillard’s call to tie public school funding to socio-economic status.

Milanda Rout

The Nation

Girl in shock after stingray strike

A 16-year-old girl who was attacked by a stingray on a Melbourne beach shouted “Steve Irwin” and had to be calmed down by passers-by that she was not going to die like the crocodile hunter.

Milanda Rout

Higher Education

Rivals meet to serve in China’s courts

THERE is serious rivalry between Monash and Melbourne universities, but it has been set aside for the sake of volleyball.

Milanda Rout

Higher Education

Puzzled by the pomp and ceremony

NEW students at the University of Melbourne got a colourful surprise when for the first time in 150-odd years senior academics dressed up in full regalia for a commencement ceremony.

Milanda Rout

Cricket

Lee takes prize as tongues wag

BRETT Lee last night became only the second bowler to claim Australian cricket’s highest individual award, the Allan Border Medal.

Milanda Rout

Higher Education

Public school students missing out on uni offers

PUBLIC school students are those most likely to miss out on a university education as competition for places intensifies.

Milanda Rout

Health and Science

Alcohol and pregnancy a confusing mix

A NATIONAL education campaign urging pregnant women to stop drinking is needed to end the confusion surrounding the issue and put the brakes on the number of expectant mothers still drinking alcohol.

Milanda Rout

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