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The tree-change town where house prices have plunged $133,000
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (825+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:00am Home buyers could expect a six-figure discount on a typical property in the charming regional Victorian town of Daylesford, or as much as $400,000 on some top-end homes, as the wider market weakens. Many other parts of the state are…...
No Goodes: Booing is on the Crows to arrest
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (1064+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:30am When Adam Goodes was booed, week after week, to the point that the champion became disillusioned with the game, the responsibility for arresting the boos rested with the AFL. The booing was relentless over 2014 and 2015. Goodes, who had not…...
Rogue real estate agents accused of deceiving landowners in scheme to sell to mates
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (1773+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:00am A group of rogue Port Melbourne real estate agents has been accused of deceiving landowners in Melbourne’s outer suburbs by repeatedly undervaluing their properties and then selling them to friends or business associates without disclosing personal links to vendors....
My sneaky $66 fee shows what credit card perks really cost us
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (1050+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:12am Of all the financial curveballs most of us expect to be thrown regularly, being hit with a credit card surcharge of $66 last week was not one I saw coming. Yet that’s precisely what happened when I booked international flights…...
‘Pray for us’: Church’s response to being dragged into corruption claims
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (865+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:00am A Sydney Catholic diocese has distanced its parish schools from the church’s education body before an explosive corruption hearing that will examine the links between hard-right Liberals, illegal political donations and an elaborate branch-stacking operation. In the first public…...
At 18, with a baby, Leah Purcell fled violence with her mother’s book. It became her life’s work
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (934+ words) The actor, writer and director says it would be ‘a crime’ not to tell her ancestors’ stories on stage. As a child who hated reading, it was an odd choice to keep a book she’d scribbled in the margins of,…...
The letter that changed Rebecca’s life after the loss of her child
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (777+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:00am In her last six months of life, four-year-old Brooklyn Wangmann put on a show every night. “She’d go and get herself dressed up. She had these little glitter heels in a few different colours. Sometimes she’d be in ballet…...
Should I get my super as a $1.7m lump sum, or a yearly pension?
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (508+ words) July 26, 2026 — 5:01am I am 61 years old and intend to retire this year. I have the choice of taking either a $1.753 million lump sum or a defined benefit pension of approximately $135,000 per year plus a $174,000 lump sum. My superannuation will be my…...
How a tug-of-war over a ‘handsome mayor’ may shape the political fortunes of the Nationals
11+ hour, 5+ min ago (940+ words) July 25, 2026 — 7:30pm An unexpected decision by Nationals MP Kim O’Keeffe to vacate her seat of Shepparton before the November election has abruptly transformed the Goulburn Valley electorate into one of the state’s most fascinating political contests. It is a race thus…...
People should not be neglected in planning developments
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (262+ words) July 25, 2026 — 8:00pm It’s goodbye, actuallyI am reminded of that great speech from the film Love Actually, with a little paraphrasing and a little quoting: Australia is a great country and has had a long relationship with America, but “I fear that…...