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Police are searching for a driver who fled after hitting a cyclist in Melbourne's west during peak hour on Tuesday.
Topics: cycling, traffic-offences, law-crime-and-justice, west-footscray-3012, glenroy-3046
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| UpdatedThe destruction caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam this week across the Pacific highlights how communities go about recovering after a disaster.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, cyclone, weather, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, fires, cyclones, vanuatu, philippines, japan, australia, asia, pacific, vic
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| UpdatedIndia cruised to a comfortable 109-run win over Bangladesh to advance to the cricket World Cup semi-finals.
Topics: cricket, sport, melbourne-3000, india, bangladesh
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| UpdatedHawthorn was predictably too strong for St Kilda, kicking the highest score so far in this year's AFL preseason challenge.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, hawthorn-3122, st-kilda-3182
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| UpdatedA Melbourne man is charged with the murder of teenager Masa Vukotic, as well as six other charges, including rape and assault, after an alleged serious crime spree on Thursday morning.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, doncaster-3108, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Western Bulldogs have confirmed the AFL is investigating betting activities involving players from the club.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, footscray-3011
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| UpdatedAn electric century from opener Rohit Sharma has led India to 6 for 302 in its quarter-final against Bangladesh.
Topics: cricket, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe Rebels named former Red Jonah Placid at full-back for Friday's clash with the Lions.
Topics: super-rugby, rugby-union, sport, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedTwelve precious World War I banners are painstakingly restored and returned to the Victorian RSL ahead of the centenary of the Gallipoli landings next month.
Topics: world-war-1, human-interest, vic
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Foreign investors keen on buying Australian farms and businesses will not be put off by recent regulatory changes, according to one lawyer.
Topics: agricultural-prices, agricultural-marketing, fruit, grain, vegetables, wheat, wool, irrigation, beef-cattle, dairy-production, sheep-production, mining-rural, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAn orchardist from central Victoria is this year's Victorian Rural Woman of the Year.
Topics: agribusiness, rural-women, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedBeekeeping in Australia is a small industry that contributes a great amount to the nation's agriculture.
Topics: beekeeping, agricultural-policy, weather, shepparton-3630, laura-5480, nabiac-2312, beechworth-3747, canberra-2600
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Immigration officials have detained 37 illegal workers caught in raids on farms in north-west Victoria and southern New South Wales.
Topics: immigration, work, law-crime-and-justice, robinvale-3549, mildura-3500
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| UpdatedIndia has won the toss and will bat against Bangladesh in the World Cup quarter-final at the MCG.
Topics: cricket, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A senior Victorian police officer denies warning women not to walk through parks alone and to be a "little bit more careful" after the stabbing death of a teenage girl in a Melbourne park.
Topics: crime-prevention, crime, law-crime-and-justice, vic, australia
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South west Victorian berry growers say they are continuing to benefit from the fallout of the frozen berry hepatitis A food scandal.
Topics: fruit, fruits, agricultural-crops, women-in-agriculture, agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, timboon-3268, warrnambool-3280
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People who do not comply with family violence court orders should be jailed for 24 hours, a former Victorian attorney-general says.
Topics: family-law, law-crime-and-justice, family, melbourne-3000
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A drop-in centre for street sex workers in St Kilda's red-light district is opening a new branch in Melbourne's outer suburbs, where it says there is an increase in young women being sexually exploited.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-health, sexual-offences, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, dandenong-3175
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| UpdatedFarmers and miners have broadly supported changes to the 457 visa program for skilled foreign workers.
Topics: mining-rural, farm-labour, work, federal-government, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, parliament-house-2600
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Supplying high-end restaurants like Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck in Melbourne is keeping edible flower grower Lauren Richardson on her toes.
Topics: flowers, women-in-agriculture, food-and-cooking, daylesford-3460
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| UpdatedA French national stabbed on a Melbourne tram in an unprovoked attack says he is too scared to return to St Kilda.
Topics: assault, st-kilda-3182
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| UpdatedA man is expected to be charged shortly in an out-of-sessions court hearing with the stabbing death of 17-year-old Masa Vukotic in a park in Melbourne.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, doncaster-3108
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Victoria's Melbourne Cup Carnival adds $195 million to the state's economy in tourism revenue in 2014, an increase of almost 10 per cent on the 2013 figures.
Topics: sport, horse-racing, travel-and-tourism, tourism, retail, melbourne-3000, flemington-3031
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Victoria's Local Government Minister, Natalie Hutchins, is urging the Greater Shepparton Council, in north-east Victoria, to resolve the impasse between its mayor and chief executive.
Topics: local-government, states-and-territories, shepparton-3630, wodonga-3690
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| UpdatedA US expert says big business, rather than science, is starting to dictate the amount of pesticides used on fruit.
Topics: pest-management, agricultural-chemicals, fruit, mildura-3500