4 h. ago What you need to know about the Canadian election dominated by Donald Trump

Canadians have headed to the polls, with the US president again trolling them on social media as they did so.

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9 h. ago These works by Sidney Nolan have never been displayed. Now they’re heading to Melbourne

In 1962, the artist visited Auschwitz. The paintings he created afterwards have been brought together in a new exhibition.

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9 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: As the yellow vests make a return, we get to know Kooyong’s other candidates

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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9 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Turf war for signage space in Wills starts at 5am after blow up outside pre

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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9 h. ago The playwright who humanised hitmen decades before Pulp Fiction

Harold Pinter’s bleakly funny The Dumb Waiter shows us the banality in brutality. It features in a new Ensemble double header with his equally comic play The Lover.

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9 h. ago Ben Shewry no longer consents to Attica being reviewed. Here’s why we did it anyway

Trailblazing Attica is still a world-class restaurant, and too important for us to ignore. But critic Besha Rodell finds the whole experience a little odd.

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14 h. ago Festivals have ‘privileged literary works’ over popular, commercial fiction: Veronica Sullivan

As the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan has tried to create a program with broad appeal.

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18 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Inside the teal campaign headquarters; Police called to Brunswick voting booth

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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18 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Getting to know Kooyong’s other candidates; Inside the teal campaign headquarters

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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19 h. ago My suburb is one of Melbourne’s most liveable, though nobody seems to know it exists

Many feared the skyrail would tear my suburb apart, but the unified town centre has given it a heart, and a whole new personality.

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20 h. ago Storm chairman ‘greatly upset’ by Welcome to Country ‘miscommunication’

Melbourne Storm have taken responsibility for what they say was an internal miscommunication that meant the Welcome to Country for their Anzac Day clash at AAMI Park was cancelled.

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24 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Police called to Brunswick voting booth; Cost of living in focus in final week of campaigning

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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24 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Police called to Brunswick voting booth; Safi a no

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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28 h. ago Man charged with eight counts of murder after car ploughs into crowd in Vancouver

Eleven people died - the youngest aged only 11 - in an incident that has rocked Canada just as voters head to the polls to choose their next government.

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28 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Cost of living in focus in final week of campaigning

We are now in the final week of the 2025 federal election campaign. Join our senior reporters on the road in key seats in Melbourne.

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33 h. ago Melbourne Club moves to block Sydney billionaire’s ‘creative wonderland’ plan

Billionaire Justin Hemmes faces fierce opposition from Melbourne’s most exclusive gentlemen’s club to a plan to transform a CBD car park into a hospitality precinct.

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33 h. ago Controversy at Sorrento Writers Festival as Baillieus host their own literary salon

Controversy alert at the Sorrento Writers Festival, south of Melbourne, where a private invite-only “sunset garden talk”, hosted by Josephine and James Baillieu, was the talk of the town.

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43 h. ago Lord mayor lashes electoral watchdog over lack of early voting centres

Despite a steep rise in early voting, there are no pre-polling booths in Melbourne’s CBD.

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45 h. ago NRL 2025 live: Sharks and Tigers locked in epic battle in Galvin’s return at Leichhardt

Lachlan Galvin has dominated headlines for the best part of two weeks but is back for the Tigers today at their spiritual home. How will fans react after his remarks about coach Benji Marshall? Follow the action live.

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46 h. ago NRL 2025 live: Tigers stretch lead over Sharks in Galvin’s return at Leichhardt

Lachlan Galvin has dominated headlines for the best part of two weeks but is back for the Tigers today at their spiritual home. How will fans react after his remarks about coach Benji Marshall? Follow the action live.

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