A man who broke curfew to get painkillers for a migraine and a woman found crying by a river are among hundreds of Victorians fined by police under the coronavirus lockdown. And legal experts fear some people are being unfairly targeted. It follows public concern over the use of drones …
Thousands of Victorians have long joked about Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton being a heartthrob superhero during the COVID pandemic. Their devotion even led to a new range of merchandise. You can buy mugs featuring his face, a Brett Sutton bedspread, and you can join more than 12,000 “Suttonettes” by …
If you want to know who the Proud Boys are, just ask its founder Gavin McInnes. “We will kill you,” he said on his podcast show in 2018. “That’s the Proud Boys in a nutshell.” The right-wing group was thrust into the spotlight this week after US President Donald Trump …
Suspicion and lack of trust risks causing as many problems as the pandemic. We need to find new ways to connect. (Image: AAP/Dave Hunt) It started as a Facebook gripe
Australia can fix its broken aged-care system to avoid repeating the horrors of COVID-19, but we must be willing to raise the Medicare levy, reports an economic consultancy firm. Even before the deadly coronavirus pandemic hit, the royal commission into aged care had exposed major flaws in the sector that …