Victorians are being told to prepare for another day of hazardous air quality as bushfire smoke continues to blanket the city. The state has the worst air quality in Australia again today. Melbourne’s air quality reading is currently ‘Very Poor’, but it’s expected to return to ‘Hazardous’ later today. Wangaratta is recording some of the […]

Several people have spent the night sheltering from a fire storm on a beach in East Gippsland. Despite the relatively mild conditions overnight, the fire’s western flank sparked an Emergency Warning that remains in place for Tamboon and Tamboon South. It’s the same fire that devastated Mallacoota and sent about 4000 people to the water […]

Image: Play School/ABC Play School characters have been recruited to teach toddlers how to avoid internet predators. Recognisable characters including Big Ted and Jemima will teach kids how to stay safe online in a new campaign aimed at preschoolers. Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, praised the program, as figures revealed many parents are ignoring […]

Some ‘old heads’ suggested The Age investigative journalist Richard Baker should spend his summer break digging deep into Sir Ken Jones’s evidence from the Royal Commission into Management of Police Informants. The former Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police took centre stage in the lead up to Christmas, and there was a sense by some that […]

Police are searching for a man who stalked a woman as she walked through a busy park before punching her in a violent daylight attack. The 24-year-old was walking through Yarra Park in East Melbourne and talking on her phone when she was targeted by an unknown man at about 6.30pm on January 5. The […]

A fundraising page in the name of a veteran firefighter killed in the Victorian bushfires has been exposed as a fake. The daughter of Bill Slade, 60, has told The Age a Donorbox page that claims to be set up in his honour is actually a scam, labelling the situation “disgusting”. Donorbox has since taken […]