Melbourne

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Early career essential workers unable to afford house prices anywhere in Sydney and Melbourne
Study shows workers forced to commute huge distances, live in overcrowded housing or suffer rental or mortgage stress

Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

23, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Just like my anxious rescue greyhound Basil, I too need the comfort of a tiny world | Patrick Lenton
Basil’s repetitive trots around the neighbourhood give me lockdown flashbacks but the safety in that is also nourishing

Patrick Lenton

23, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Late-season heat may hit weekend sport and break temperature records across eastern Australia
Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne have sweltered through unseasonal warmth and Canberra is forecast to reach a March record of 36C on Sunday

Peter Hannam

18, Mar, 2023 @7:22 AM

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Horse euthanised and jockey taken to hospital after fall at Melbourne racecourse
Jockey Teo Nugent was conscious and talking after fall from Florescent Star when she crashed head-first into turf at Moonee Valley

Guardian sport

18, Mar, 2023 @6:39 AM

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Putting up a stink: revolt against a Melbourne council’s levy starts debate about waste
City of Yarra argues it is a financial necessity but to angry locals a separate charge for rubbish is nothing short of a ‘bin tax’

Adeshola Ore

15, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Rape charges dropped against Melbourne man after police search found to be illegal
Court of appeal finds officers showed ‘astonishing disregard’ for law when they searched man’s home for missing teenager

Nino Bucci

14, Mar, 2023 @6:33 AM

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Michelle Yeoh: rare footage of Oscar-winner at 1984 Australian beauty pageant unearthed
Yeoh also made first on-screen appearance while in Australia in 1980s – in a Guy Laroche watch advertisement alongside Jackie Chan

Rafqa Touma

14, Mar, 2023 @6:10 AM

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10,000 kazoos and body-horror ballet: Rising festival 2023 invites Melbourne to get involved
The winter festival will feature an immersive First Nations exhibition in an old grand ballroom, and a participatory performance by a virtuoso recorder player

Steve Dow

13, Mar, 2023 @7:00 PM

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New normal? Sydney and Melbourne public transport use still at 80% of pre-Covid levels
The latest data shows an average of two days a week of work from home, fewer cars on the road and less-crowded trains

Josh Nicholas

13, Mar, 2023 @2:15 AM

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In Aston, the looming federal byelection takes second place to grocery prices
Many see the 1 April vote as the first electoral judgment of how well the Albanese government has responded to the cost of living crisis

Henry Belot

11, Mar, 2023 @7:00 PM

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‘I love romanticising our own city’: the Melbourne painting that’s become family lore
In our series on artwork in Australian homes, Ally Smith shows us the painting she was given first on a postcard – then on canvas

Doosie Morris

10, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Bernhardt/Hamlet review – Kate Mulvany is astonishingly good
Melbourne Theatre Company, Sumner Theatre
Mulvany juggles comedy and vulnerability in her performance as the grand dame who decides to liven up her career by playing Shakespeare’s Dane

Tim Byrne

09, Mar, 2023 @12:51 AM

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