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2nd October 2025

News Update

Picture gallery: All the action from the Melbourne Royal Show 2025

More than 400,000 Victorians will flock to the showgrounds this spring for the 2025 Melbourne Royal Show. See all the photos.

‘You have 24 hours’: Ominous ‘Kaz’ note left at grocer before thugs struck

A regional Victorian supermarket that doesn’t stock illicit cigarettes was sent a warning by tobacco war kingpin Kazem Hamad’s cartel. The devastated shop owners were left in shock...

Tenants secretly turn luxury rental into Airbnb

Tenants facing eviction from a luxury Mornington Peninsula rental after being busted subletting it as a holiday house, say they need to stay on so they can keep jet skiing and spea...

‘Stop this’: Aus 30yo pays mortgage in 8 years

A Melbourne woman has explained how she paid off her mortgage in eight years and became debt free by age 30.

Where Dandenong’s improvement will come from this season

Dandenong coach Tom Donnell has revealed what will be key for the Panthers as they chase another finals berth — plus the latest on James Pattinson’s potential return.

Fried chicken auction frenzy stuns Glen Waverley

Investors poured millions into Glen Waverley’s Kingsway strip, betting big on chicken, tea, and the Suburban Rail Loop.

The local footy clubs which ended the longest premiership droughts

There were plenty of drought breaking premierships in season 2025 across Victoria. We reveal those clubs which had the longest in local and country footy.

Grub teacher begs for overseas travel to visit sick grandfather

A grub Melbourne teacher awaiting sentence on charges of grooming students has booked a flight to see his sick grandfather but he still hasn’t received permission to leave the coun...

More news from around the state

‘I’m simply just living’: Student’s trauma after school bus crash

A teenage victim in a horrific school bus crash near Bacchus Marsh has told a court she felt that “life would be easier if I was just dead”.

Ballarat man fails to keep name secret in child abuse material case