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Anzac Day has become, quite rightly, a revered public holiday. It provides a poignant occasion each year to reflect upon and commemorate the...
On the western edge of the city, at the mouth of Victoria Harbour, lies a perplexing planning and political legacy. The Docklands may be only three...
For all his bluster, bad-mouthing and myriad delay attempts, former US president Donald Trump finally found himself in court this week facing charges...
On April 3, The Age revealed a dad had found asbestos, along with other building waste, nestled in the mulch at a popular Melbourne playground....
Few people may know of it, but the Public Record Office Victoria is a unique body that collects and safeguards a selection of original documents...
In 2013, just as Australia began rolling out its long-awaited National Disability Insurance Scheme, the globally recognised clinical definition of...
There are some things that most people agree on when it comes to Victoria’s freedom of information laws: they are dysfunctional, excessively biased...
The decision by the state’s gambling watchdog, the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, to allow Crown Resorts to retain its licence is...
The Coalition is right: Australians do love their cars, particularly utes. A walk through any building site car park would demonstrate that, as did...
When US President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union address, he sought to harness a collective nostalgia for America’s past. He recalled the...
It was just over 40 years ago that the Cancer Council launched its first Slip, Slop, Slap campaign, with Sid the singing seagull encouraging people to...
Three years ago, the federal government put in place groundbreaking laws forcing Meta, the owner of Facebook, and Google to pay media companies for...
Stories of Australia’s national political leaders imbibing too much alcohol go as far back as our first prime minister, Edmund Barton, a renowned...
Neighbours heated water for tea on their barbecue. A widow couldn’t call her daughter. Some tried calling triple zero, but found the line was dead....
The buck stops with me. It’s a phrase often invoked by politicians to signify their willingness to bear the consequences of their decisions or,...
It was at Guangzhou airport in China that Yang Hengjun phoned a friend to say he was being followed by three men. After the call, Yang was not heard...
As more than 1 million Victorian students started their school year this week, the Albanese government unveiled a four-year public school funding deal...
This year will mark 10 years since Labor, under the leadership of former premier Daniel Andrews, came to power. While the state government will surely...
Millions of people around the world have been treated to some first-class tennis from this year’s Australian Open, made all the more interesting by...
Labor’s decision to unwind the final stage of the former Coalition government’s three-stage tax plan represents a broken promise of historical...
Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh is correct on one count. The state’s cultural heritage system has problems. In May last year, for example, ...
Seventeen-year-old Anson, who worked in his parents’ restaurant, tried a psychedelic drug with friends one night in 2016 before having a seizure,...
Dotted along the horsehead outline of Port Phillip Bay are distinctly Melbourne landmarks one might find photographed in a glossy Victorian tourism...
There would be few Victorians who do not have some form of personal information stored by private companies and government bodies. It’s an essential...
Like church and state, the prevailing sentiment is that politics and sport should remain separate. This separation has been crucial to upholding the...
One of two Diggers to die during the Iraq conflict, Jake Kovco, was shot by his own gun, and John Howard made a great show of attending the...
In his first newspaper interview after last year’s state election, then-premier Daniel Andrews was in no doubt about the effect his pledge to bring...
At the age of 10, a child is considered too young by Facebook to create an account. Airlines may refuse them a spot on a flight on some routes if they...
Make no mistake about it, Victoria is in the midst of another gangland war, one that is the worst and most vicious since the infamous Underbelly wars...
At first glance, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas’ two-day shot at the Albanese government for neglecting the state’s vital infrastructure needs...
International students are Australia’s fourth-largest export industry, with the higher education system reaping $34 billion each year from tuition...
What Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass revealed in her report this week on the politicisation of the state public service should be deeply concerning...
Australia has spent a decade as one of the world’s most notorious climate outsiders thanks to a particularly meagre climate policy, even within a...
The sacking on Monday of public service hard man Michael Pezzullo brings to a close an appalling episode in the history of the Australian bureaucracy....
Born in strife-torn Sierra Leone, an orphan at nine, Moses Kellie arrived in Australia aged 21 with a humanitarian visa in hand and the dream of a new...
Change can be difficult. But often, once unpopular decisions are implemented, it can be hard to believe there was ever resistance. This is especially...
The problem is plain to see for anyone trying to buy or rent a home in Melbourne. Just this week, the housing crisis was laid bare by the National...
Tenuousness is not a word that should be associated with essential services. It is for this reason that services such as electricity, gas and water...
This city’s incomparable chronicler of the Melbourne Cup, the late Les Carlyon, told us that nothing in sport is forever. Writing in 2010 to mark...
As Melburnians, we take more than a little pride in our city’s famed liveability. Yes, we don’t have a spectacular harbour or year-round sunshine,...
There would be few nations in which historical grievances play such an influential role as Israel. It’s very raison d’etre is to provide a haven...
When flaws have been found in Australia’s visa and immigration systems, the federal government has historically taken a quick-fix approach. A class...
When The Age’s state editor, Annika Smethurst, wrote a profile of then-deputy premier Jacinta Allan last year, there was a recurring sentiment from...
The 2023 grand final falls between the death of Ron Barassi two weeks ago and his state funeral on a date yet to be announced. Doubtlessly...
It is perhaps fitting that arguably the most consequential premier in Victoria’s history was derided as uncharismatic and unimpressive when he...
Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo does not deserve to remain in his role a minute longer, stood aside or otherwise. He does not deserve the...
The politicisation of the Australian public service is grudgingly accepted, but the secret effort of the secretary of the Department of Home Affairs,...
Being one of the most liveable cities in the world is, quite justifiably, a point of pride for Melburnians. Relative to most cities, Melbourne’s...
When children leave for school in the morning, it’s a natural expectation that they return home at the end of the day safe and sound. That should be...