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Figures in Melbourne's underworld scene have commented on the broad daylight shooting of Gavin “Capable” Preston.

A Victorian state Resolve poll for The Age, conducted with the federal May and June Resolve polls from a sample of about 1,000, gave Labor 41% of the primary vote (down one since April), the Coalition just 26% (down four), the Greens 15% (up five), independents 12% (steady) and others…

The Victorian government will scale back advertising in the print editions of Melbourne's two biggest newspapers as it shifts to online and television media.

Ben Roberts-Smith has lost one of the most expensive defamation trials in Australia, and along with it his reputation. There are other factors that now need to be considered too.

Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost a defamation case against newspapers that accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan in a landmark ruling with widespread implications for future criminal trials.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith's decision to sue the publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, and three journalists, in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018 backfires.

The Victoria Cross recipient sued the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times and three journalists in the Federal Court over a series of articles published in 2018. Today Justice Anthony Besanko will deliver his judgement.

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…