Parents were being urged to not bring their sick children to the Royal Children’s Hospital emergency department, it comes as a top doctor is warning the state’s healthcare crisis will continue “well past Christmas”.
The teenage victim of a suspected gang attack lay dying along the St Kilda foreshore, with a knife still inside him, in front of hundreds of shocked beachgoers relishing the first weekend of summer.

Sinkholes are creating havoc on central Victorian properties, wiping out sections of roads and even appearing in school yards.

A surprising number of Australians remain daily smokers despite fresh data indicating the number of people with the habit has fallen in the last decade.