Women stressed out by “having it all” have helped fuel a surge in binge drinking, with new Australian research revealing one in five middle aged women consume dangerous levels of alcohol.

Party pooper council officers have been forced to back down from an attempt to get rid of a community book exchange that had been in a local park for years.

The average homeowner will be coughing up close to $170 a month extra to cover their mortgage by the end of the year amid growing expectations the Reserve Bank will soon start hiking interest rates.

And Victoria University will delay a full return to campus for face-to-face learning until late April amid uncertainty of the impact of the Covid Omicron strain.

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