45+ min ago   (292+ words) September 13, 2026 — 7:30pm Residents in Sydney’s crowded urban fringe suburbs with little space to play will be given access to new playgrounds and ovals connected to public schools being built in the area, in a stopgap measure to increase liveability in the…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (504+ words) Updated September 13, 2026 — 4:22pm,first published 1:55pm A Melbourne man accused of possessing violent extremist propaganda for Islamic State is in custody after he was arrested while trying to fly to the Middle East. Mohammad Emad Ahmadzai, 30, of Roxburgh Park, was arrested at…...

15+ hour, 15+ min ago   (988+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Almost half of Melbourne’s new housing approvals are concentrated in the city’s outer growth corridors, despite Labor’s push to prioritise building new homes in established suburbs and curb urban sprawl. There were 20,252 dwellings approved across Melbourne’s seven growth-area municipalities…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (756+ words) September 13, 2026 — 1:30pm When Garry Ledger fell on a tram and hit his head last August, there were initially no signs of a major injury. The 78-year-old South Australian had just boarded the route 16 service towards the city. He was busy tapping…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (783+ words) September 13, 2026 — 1:30pm During five years’ trading in Melbourne’s west, Phil Gaby’s business has had just as many homes. Nan’s Bakehouse began at the markets, then moved to Footscray Plaza before expanding into the business next door. A coffee van followed, then…...

8+ hour, 16+ min ago   (741+ words) September 13, 2026 — 11:59am Maurice “Moss” Moore was a bachelor farmer who raised cattle at Reamore in Ireland’s County Kerry. In 1958, his bashed and strangled body was found shoved under a ledge near a stream, just 18 metres from the home he had vanished…...

15+ hour, 15+ min ago   (595+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am The first time I drove in the Kimberley, I had no idea what I was doing. I confidently assumed I could drive in this region the same way I would drive anywhere else: carefully, but with no need to…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (539+ words) September 12, 2026 — 7:00pm Filled with boxes of toilet paper, Christmas decorations and filing cabinets, the room on the top floor of the Melbourne Recital Centre sat neglected for 17 years. But philanthropists Peter and Ruth McMullin saw the potential in the hidden storage…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (751+ words) September 12, 2026 — 7:00pm A Victoria police officer has been charged by the state’s corruption watchdog with assaulting and falsely imprisoning a teenager, who is also suing the officer in the state’s Supreme Court. Constable Mitchell Andrews was charged in July with false…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1042+ words) For 40 years, Victor Macri has spent five days a week cutting hair at Fernando’s Hair, the business his father started in Marrickville in 1960. A dispute with local councillors over a building matter prompted Macri to run as an independent for…...