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Not everyone looks forward to the Melbourne Cup. Domestic violence and emergency services ready themselves for a potential increase in calls, call-outs and admissions — and alcohol is just one reason why.

Former prime minister suggests royal family ‘would have been so glad’ if 1999 referendum on becoming a republic succeeded

Sexual assault support services say only 10 per cent of women report drink spiking. Now researchers are looking into why it's happening and what can be done about it.

The COVID-19 public health information material on two critical Victorian government websites rarely met federal government accessibility guidelines, a La Trobe University study finds.

Right from the outset, it is clear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s agenda is very different to his predecessor Scott Morrison’s – from emphasising his commitment to fighting climate change to foreign leaders in Tokyo, to displaying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at his Parliament House press conferences.

Politics can be slow-moving, until all of a sudden it isn’t. As political scientist Simon Jackman says in today’s episode of Below the Line, “politics is very non-linear. You get these steady, secular trends in voter sentiment, and then you’ll have that breakthrough election where that will convert into seats”.

Government data shows 1,140 participants are stuck in hospital waiting for housing funding or other support before they can be released

La Trobe University nursing lecturers and students from its Shepparton campus have marked International Nurses Day by dressing up in vintage uniforms.

Channel Nine’s leaders’ debate on Sunday night may have been a “shouty, unedifying spectacle”, but Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese will do it all again on Wednesday evening on Channel Seven.