Melbourne
Allan faces a spill on Tuesday with the worst dissatisfaction rating in Newspoll history
More than 70 per cent of Victorians are dissatisfied with the premier, but the Coalition still needs to win 16 seats to take government.
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Melbourne
Melbourne house prices fall $33,381 in the steepest quarterly drop since 2022
Auction clearance rates hit their lowest since 2020 and close to one in seven Melbourne auctions was withdrawn before it ran.
Melbourne
Toorak businessman charged over more than 930 swords, one allegedly sold to a child
Kunal Atul Shah is accused of advertising and selling prohibited weapons with no exemption, no sales records and no identity checks on his buyers.
Technology
Netflix's guidance tells producers to keep AI out of the final cut. A Netflix documentary carries 17 minutes of it.
About 300 titles used AI-generated material this year, up from one in 2025, and Netflix disclosed the figure to shareholders rather than viewers.
National
Albanese won't commit to scrapping the telehealth ban on assisted dying Labor just voted to remove
A Melbourne GP took the ban to the Federal Court and lost in 2023; the one-line fix has sat undebated since February 2024.
Melbourne
Drones lead to nine arrests and four bikes impounded in Peninsula hoon crackdown
Operation Track has impounded four motorcycles, recovered a stolen car and made nine arrests in two months, with drones guiding police on the ground.
National
Australia's new emergency alert will find every phone on Monday, including the hidden ones
AusAlert fires at 2pm Monday with a 10-second siren that overrides silent mode. Family violence advocates say concealed phones should be switched off.
Melbourne
Melbourne is about to raise Flinders Lane to footpath level and the rest of the little streets are next
Works start before September on a shared zone at 10km/h, with months of daily construction on one of the city's busiest hospitality strips.
Melbourne
Melbourne is supposedly a crime mecca. It just added 177 venues and 3000 jobs after dark.
Melbourne added almost 3000 night-time jobs and $5.1 billion in after-dark sales while being talked about as a city in decline.
world
Three fires merged outside Madrid and Spain reached for an emergency power it had never used
About 110,000 people fled the French Atlantic coast as fires merged west of Madrid and Europe passed its two-decade burn average in July.
world
Trump cannot legally run in 2028. His people have been working on that for two years.
Trump donned a Trump 2028 cap at the correspondents' dinner and called it a scoop. The constitution says he cannot run.
National
A domestic dispute call-out ended with a constable shot and a man dead in a shed
A first-year constable was shot in the leg at a Yengarie property on Friday night, and the 45-year-old gunman was later found dead in a shed.