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The $250m building boom on city's most exclusive street
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (754+ words) June 21, 2026 " 5: 03pm It's the crack of dawn on Toorak's leafy St Georges Road, and a small, fluorescent army is abuzz with activity. Each workday morning in the winter dark, tradies in high-vis battle to find a car park for their utes…...
Councillor banned over "Big Brother" gibe vows election fight
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (1206+ words) June 21, 2026 " 4: 50pm The news was delivered from the council's head of governance via email: Melton councillor Ashleigh Vandenberg would be suspended from her position for two months, and forced to complete social media policy training over a series of "misleading" Facebook…...
Why getting the flu shot could help prevent a bird flu pandemic
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (820+ words) June 21, 2026 " 4: 50pm Experts have urged Australians to get their annual influenza shot after a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu, which is wreaking ecological disaster worldwide, was discovered in Western Australia. Australia had been the last continent free from a virulent…...
The secret to Donaldson's Wallabies comeback? The run-it-straight challenge with a "street fighter'
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (776+ words) June 21, 2026 " 3: 59pm Ben Donaldson has revealed one of the secrets behind his outstanding Super Rugby form and imminent return to the Wallabies: the hulking thighs of an Auckland-raised "street fighter. Donaldson is poised for a recall to the Wallabies team to…...
These businesses made a buck from the war. Others are set to get a boost
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (900+ words) June 21, 2026 " 4: 00pm Supermarkets and oil refiners are among the companies that came out on top during an escalation of the Middle East conflict, but hard-hit airlines, logistics firms and gold miners may have their time to shine as a resolution to…...
Price of water in south-east Queensland to be frozen, premier announces ahead of budget
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (578+ words) June 21, 2026 " 3: 45pm The price of water in south-east Queensland will be frozen for the next two years, Premier David Crisafulli has revealed. It was one of several "cost-of-living" measures the premier announced on Sunday ahead of the Queensland budget, due to…...
Trump marched in to transform DC's famed reflection pool. The result is just like his presidency
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (686+ words) June 21, 2026 " 3: 30pm A historian once told me that the presidency would distil Donald Trump to his essence. That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them. That essence is…...
Ascot Vale shooting of Hussein Dehaini
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (40+ words) The former boxer was gunned down on North Street in the early hours of Sunday. Updated June 21, 2026 " 2: 31pm, first published 2: 29pm...
WA poultry show cancelled as local businesses sound alarm over potential second bird flu case
3+ hour, 56+ min ago (554+ words) June 21, 2026 " 2: 32pm A local West Australian poultry association has been forced to cancel one of its flagship events as Australia reckons with its first mainland detection of a deadly bird flu stain that could devastate the sector. The H5 N1 variant of the…...
Rift between US and Italian leaders deepens
4+ hour, 43+ min ago (44+ words) President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have continued to trade barbs on social media. Updated June 21, 2026 " 1: 45pm, first published 1: 43pm...