‘15th in world’: Warning over Aussie military spending
Amid a push for Australia to increase military spending, new data shows we rank just 15th among global defence budgets – and are dwarfed by Saudi Arabia, Poland and India.
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‘Funding Putin’s war machine’: Forrest calls for end to Russian fuel imports
Mining billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has called on the Albanese government to shut the tap on massive fuel imports containing Russian oil, saying Australian mums and dads should not be funding Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Hospital’s alleged data fraud referred to auditor general
Victoria’s auditor general has been asked to investigate reporting and auditing processes across Victorian hospitals, after claims surfaced that staff at one facility had been falsifying records to meet workload targets.
Cop who fought to uncover predator priest honoured by Premier
A former detective who was forced out of the police force over his attempts to investigate child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has been remembered by Jacinta Allan as someone who “never wavered in his commitment to uncover the truth”.
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Major delays remain as one lane on Princes Freeway reopens
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‘Pretty weak’: Newman and Carey cancelled from footy gig
Sam Newman has hit back at Barwon Heads Football and Netball Club after he and Wayne Carey were uninvited from the club’s charity fundraiser.
Man stabbed after woman robbed in Mickleham
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Man charged after police raid Croydon home, seizing firearms and drugs
A 38 year-old Croydon man has been charged with multiple offences after Police executed search warrants on a Croydon property, seizing drugs…
‘Should never have happened’: Minister savages second Monash IVF bungle
The Melbourne fertility giant — already reeling from a mix up that resulted in a woman giving birth to another person’s baby — has again implanted the wrong embryo into a patient.
Call to close Aussie oil tax leak that’s fuelling Putin’s war on Ukraine
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia has called for the sanctions loophole that has generated $1.85bn in taxes for the Kremlin’s war effort through exports of fuel to Australia to be closed, saying we must “stop financing Russian war crimes”.
An alleged burn pit at a Mount Eliza property
Condense video to the burn pit site where you can see the carcasses of two horses
Accused animal abuser comes nose-to-nose with protesters
Accused animal abuser Maxine Galpin confronts protesters outside her Mount Eliza property
Vic council may send ratepayers’ money overseas for green projects
Merri-bek council will debate whether to send ratepayers’ money overseas for energy efficient stoves in Guatemala, solar lighting in Zambia, biodiverse forests in Panama and to reduce emissions in Romania.
House sells after more than five decades in one family
A hardworking single mother bought a Carnegie house for the equivalent of $14,000, in the 1970s. It just sold for a seven-figure sum.
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