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Tricia Rivera is a reporter at the Melbourne bureau of The Australian. She joined the paper after completing News Corp Australia’s national cadet program with stints in the national broadsheet’s Sydney and Brisbane newsrooms.

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## FEES APPLY. EXCLUSIVE to The Australian only ## An undated portrait of missing Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy. MUST credit: Adam Trafford

Found phone believed to be missing mum’s

Detectives are now waiting on the results of a forensic assessment of items of interest, including a mobile phone.

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Country Road protest posters. Country Road Chapel street store was hit with protest posters over the Head office sex abuse scandals of women. Police arrive at the store. Picture: David Caird

Country Road store targeted

Protesters have plastered hundreds of signs outside a Country Road store in Melbourne after the lid was lifted on a sexual harassment and workplace scandal within the fashion house.

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Mysterious man with hoodie, using his smartphone for unknown reasons Photo: iStock

‘Groomed in minutes’: Parents warned over app

The alert comes as a Victorian man, also known as ‘evilsteve999’, is jailed after being found to possess more than 300 child abuse material files obtained via the messaging platform.

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Chief Commissioner Shane Patton. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

‘Sorry’: top cop vows to build trust

Victoria Police chief commissioner Shane Patton has issued a historic apology for the role the force has played in the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, culture and country.

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Jewish condemnationHigher Education

Pro-Palestine protestors announce that they are leaving the Arts West building at Melbourne University. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Uni vows research transparency

Amid mounting pressure from activists, the University of Melbourne vows to enhance transparency regarding research partnerships, while standing firm on academic freedom.

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Emergency services are attending the scene of a school bus crash in Kilmore. Picture: 7News

Driver dead, students injured after school bus crash

A 65-year-old bus driver has died after smashing into a tree while driving 32 students home from Assumption College Kilmore in Victoria.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a visit to the St Kilda Shule in Melbourne, Wednesday, October 11, 2023. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING POOL

Stand on the right side of history, PM: Rabbis

The nation’s leading rabbis have implored Anthony Albanese to show moral clarity and reject a bid to put Israel’s Prime Minister on trial.

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Labor Senator Fatima Payman at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday. Picture: Jordan McCarthy

Week-long university occupation finally ends

Pro-Palestine supporters, who were joined by a Labor senator on Wednesday, have ended their occupation of a University of Melbourne arts building.

Tricia Rivera and JORDAN McCARTHY

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton during post budget media interviews at Parliament House on May 15, 2024 in Canberra, Australia. Australia's Labor government is grappling with a slowing economy, weaker commodity prices, soaring housing costs and a softening labor market. It unveiled its federal budget on May 14. The budget is seen as a key opportunity for the Labor government to deliver broad economic support that analysts say is fundamental to re-election chances next year. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images)

Dutton ‘open to’ cutting ties with the ICC

Peter Dutton has called on the PM to pressure the International Criminal Court to reverse the ‘terrible decision’ to issue an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

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MELBOURNE, MAY 21, 2024: Students and staff at Melbourne University continue to protest for Palestine at the Arts West building. Picture: Mark Stewart

Premier joins call to end camps

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has declared she is fed up with the ‘reckless behaviour’ of pro-Palestine protesters, as the student sit-in at the University of Melbourne approaches a full week.

Tricia Rivera and Noah Yim

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