Melbourne’s battlers have been blown out of the city’s housing market as interest rate rises slash hundreds of thousands from homebuyers’ budgets. 

Students and teachers will no longer be asked to wear masks in schools when Victorian classes resume for term four on Monday. 

Organised crime suspects have been stripped of $64 million in cash and assets by Australia’s biggest police investigation. 

Essendon coach Brad Scott says his time at the AFL taught him “a lot” but his twin brother’s recent premiership success as a coach left him a “little bit jealous” and helped convince him to return to the job he loves. 

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