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Melbourne swelters through hottest day in six years as severe heatwave descends on Australia’s south-eastern states

Hot conditions for NSW, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT, Tasmania and WA as authorities warn of high fire danger

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Bushfire peril as heatwave advances across the nation

Bushfires have ignited on the first day of some of the worst heatwave conditions since Black Summer and authorities warn more is to come.

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‘Won’t go down without a fight’: Moira Deeming among Victorian Liberal MPs facing preselection challenge

Western metropolitan region MP to battle Dinesh Gourisetty before November state election as Ann-Marie Hermans also challenged

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Worst heatwave since black summer forecast for more than half of Australia

Fire danger expected to reach extreme levels in South Australia, Victoria and inland NSW this week

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Australians feel the heat as bushfire threat flares up

Authorities are warning people to be on high alert as several states prepare for intense heatwave conditions not seen since the Black Summer bushfires.

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Rise in holiday measles infections sparks health alerts in NSW, SA and Victoria

Cases of the highly contagious virus jumped nearly threefold in 2025 as immunisation rates declined

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Most significant heatwave since black summer to blast Australia’s southern states as band of hot weather moves east

Parts of Victoria and SA could expect highs of 46 or 47C, with winds bringing bushfire danger later in week

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Text Your Crush Who Owns A Pool ‘Cos Four States Will Cop 40 Degree Days Next Week

A hot air mass is set to spread across the states, causing a rise in temperature for Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

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Illegal New Year’s Eve fireworks injure two children and several others across Australia as paramedics cite jump in callouts

Ambulance services in Victoria saw emergency incidents more than triple in some parts of the state

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The place that stayed with me: Victoria’s far east coast was our endless summer home, until the night the campground burned

For decades Kate Mildenhall’s big life events pivoted around a treasured campsite. One day she’ll return …

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Cheaper medicines, rules for cash and new state laws: what will change in Australia on 1 January?

Changes include the Victorian government expanding land taxes and Queensland introducing a child sex offender register

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The 10 Best One-Shot Takes In Movie History

Cut was never called.

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‘It would drive some people crazy’: Victoria’s French Island remains remote, and that’s how most like it

Just 70km from Melbourne yet only accessible by ferry, the island’s isolation is the source of its appeal and its biggest drawback

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Paddle boarders rescued after being swept more than 10km across Port Phillip Bay in three-hour ordeal

Pair say they were ‘exhausted, very shaken and feel so lucky’ after being spotted by air wing officers late on Christmas Day

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Victoria police name man they want to interview in relation to ‘Happy Chanukah’ car fire in St Kilda

Police say there is no indication John Argento, 47, poses specific risk to the Jewish community, but believe he may be able to help with investigation

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‘All you need are your eyes’: a stretch of Victorian shore is a magnet for fossil fossickers

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne

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Katie Allen, former federal Liberal MP, dies aged 59

The family of the specialist doctor and former member for the Victorian seat of Higgins announced her death on Tuesday

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Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland far from a monochrome monotreme

Biologist says specimen filmed by a Victorian fisher is ‘unusual’, but not a rare albino as some had wondered

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‘The inspiration I need’: baby Lilah arrives early for MPs Josh Burns and Georgie Purcell

Purcell, of Victoria’s Animal Justice party and Burns, of federal Labor, announce arrival of Lilah Poppy Purcell, born on Friday 19 December

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Victoria to follow NSW in giving police new powers to stop protests in wake of Bondi terror attack

Police with semi-automatic rifles will be deployed at Boxing Day Test but commissioner says this move is not based on a ‘specific new threat’

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Post-terror protest veto in state hate crackdown

Another Australian state has moved to follow NSW with powers to stop or move on post terror attack protests in response to the Bondi massacre.

The Guardian - AU

Protesters outside Sydney’s town hall chant phrase that NSW premier wants to ban – as it happened

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10 of the best Australian sparkling wines for every budget

From a $25 Victorian prosecco to a top-shelf Tasmanian sparkling rosé, these are the best local bottles to buy this festive season

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‘Idiotic’ and ‘cruel’ Victoria police welfare policy leaves detainees too tired for a fair trial, judge says

Hourly night-time welfare checks left detainees so sleep deprived that it risked their right to a fair trial, supreme court judge found

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Australian state premier apologises after husband caught drink driving

Jacinta Allan says she’s ‘disappointed and embarrassed’ after husband Yorick Piper loses driver’s licence for failing breath test

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