Stephen Brook

Already stripped of his reputation after a court declared him a war criminal, the former soldier and Victoria Cross recipient is now being impersonated on the personalised video site Cameo.

Wildlife Health Australia and the University of Melbourne have come together to try to eradicate deep-seated cultural biases about the Australian natives with a new publication.

As the row over the now aborted trial of female guests at lunch drags on, the president has urged certain members to remember their gentlemanly manners.

A trial allowing women to have lunch in the club’s main dining room on Tuesdays and Wednesdays is due to run until the end of the year, but some members have already had enough.

CBD hears that Simon Patterson, husband of the triple-murderer mushroom cook Erin Patterson, is inclined to tell his own story, on his own terms.

The reaction was swift and one-sided to a state government plan for 12-storey residential buildings in this famously particular Melbourne suburb.

In their first public comments since a pro-Palestine rally descended on the gallery, the Gandel family pledged their ongoing financial backing at a time when other Jewish philanthropists are reconsidering where they channel their support.

With no conversation off limits, friends Tom Rowland, Luke Bailey and Diezel Brousse are fast making a name, and a living, for themselves.

The Jolly band of independent councillors decided to release a newsletter announcing their grand plans. It set off alarm bells within the council.

North Melbourne can claim plenty of history to look back on. Just don’t expect everyone to turn up for the celebrations.