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Victoria police launch investigation after Indigenous star posts CCTV footage on Instagram and states ‘Aboriginal kids deserve to be able to play safely’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictoria police are investigating after Indigenous AFL great Eddie Betts shared footage of his children being racially abused in their own yard while stating “we are not even safe in...

Australia postpones a second series in as many yearsIt comes amid fears conditions under Taliban are getting worseA second Australian men’s cricket series against Afghanistan in as many years has been postponed due to the country’s poor record on human rights for women and girls.Australia had already cancelled a one-day international series to be played in the United Arab Emirates in March 2023 due...

Digital ads for 8XBet inserted into matches played by clubs that rejected money from gambling companiesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn offshore gambling company that breached Australian law and was forced to withdraw from the country has paid the national football league to promote it overseas.The Australian Professional Leagues...

Australian uniform features designs by Indigenous artists – and women will be able to wear uniform dresses around the village for the first timeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen Australia’s Olympians compete in Paris this year, they will be wearing a kit featuring the work of Indigenous artists.And for...

Set up to honour the Australian national team cyclist killed by a car, the group was behind the successful A Metre Matters campaignFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian cycling safety advocacy body behind the successful A Metre Matters campaign is being wound up after federal government funding was...

This blog is now closed.Family of young Indigenous woman who took her own life in Melbourne hospital call for investigationJulian Assange extradition appeal: what’s at stake and what will happen next?Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMan dies after electric unicycle crash in VictoriaA man has died after crashing his electric unicycle in Bellfield yesterday evening.We have concerns...

Man succumbs to serious injury suffered during fall while skiing, with paramedics declaring him dead at the sceneFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice say the death of a man while waterskiing at an annual event on the Victoria-NSW border is a tragedy that will affect the community for months...

Husband Rohan Dennis, a fellow world champion rider, has been charged with killing Hoskins with his vehicle on the weekendThe devastated family of world champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins have remembered her as a freewheeling spirit with a big heart as they struggle to come to terms with her death.The 32-year-old mother of two died in hospital after she was struck by a car on...