Yara Murray-Atfield

A Papua New Guinean lawyer who fled to Australia after blowing the whistle on one of the Pacific nation’s biggest corruption scandals is awarded a prestigious free speech prize.

Political leaders condemn violent clashes that erupted between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters in Melbourne’s south-east in the wake of a fire at a nearby burger shop.

A review into Melbourne’s 2022 floods finds the city’s water authority should overhaul its approach to flood modelling, but is unable to determine whether the disaster was worsened by a controversial wall at Flemington Racecourse.

Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto confirms he will support a second motion to expel controversial MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary Liberal Party.

Broderick Smith dies peacefully at home, aged 75, after a career playing blues, boogie, country and rock across Australia and the world.

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival director says it is considering an appropriate tribute for Barry Humphries as the event’s director hits back at claims it “cancelled” the late comic.

With the passing of Barry Humphries, the entertainment industry loses a man who blazed a trail for others, defined a genre and changed the face of comedy.

An Anglican Church investigation finds Dr Hollingworth committed misconduct by knowingly allowing paedophile priests to remain in the church when he was Brisbane archbishop, but is “fit for ministry”, provided he apologises to survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of those priests.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will travel to China this week for a trade mission, his first since the state’s Belt and Road agreements were torn up and against a backdrop of rising security tensions.

When a Melbourne resident was followed by an aggressive driver, she reported it to police. But while some behaviour on the road is considered an offence, “road rage” is not a crime — and it’s something she says needs to be looked at.