There have been 23 courtroom places for the public in the Erin Patterson triple-murder trial. Competition for those seats ...

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Reforms that would standardise Working with Children Checks across the country "can't happen soon enough", the federal ...

When Crows supporters awoke on the morning of July 3, 2015 to the news that their club's coach had been fatally stabbed in his own home at Somerton Park, the shock and anguish were both immediate and ...

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There are calls for child safety and wellbeing to be a top priority when federal parliament returns amid allegations of abuse ...

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More young Victorians are needing acute mental health support, but the number of beds to accommodate them is failing to keep ...

Joshua Maxwell was told his open-heart surgery had to be done within 90 days. He thought he was going to die as the wait ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...