Victorian prosecutors say there is no justification for the High Court to grant special leave for Cardinal George Pell to appeal against his child sexual abuse convictions.

A father who threatened to kill a Federal Circuit Court Judge in a late night, expletive-laden phone call walks free from a Far North Queensland court.

AFL great Neale Daniher is named the 2019 Victorian of the Year in recognition of his advocacy to find a cure for the fatal motor neurone disease he was diagnosed with six years ago.

A Victorian dairy lobby group calls for the New South Wales Government to stop subsidising the cost of transporting fodder.

Industry groups estimate a majority of sheep farmers are using pain relief when mulesing stock, but Victoria looks set to become the first state to make the practice mandatory.

Farmers and contractors rush to spend up to $350,000 for hay-baling equipment to make the most of grain crops and strong demand for fodder as the drought rolls on.

Their #ImNoAngel campaign celebrates all body types.

(NYSE: IBM) will strengthen Australia and New Zealand’s chances of co-hosting the world’s biggest radio telescope project (SKA), one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. The IBM SUR Award of IBM high performance Graphical Processor Unit (GPU) based computer hardware, management software and implementation services, will enable Victoria University to support the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) project, a low frequency SKA pathfinder project hosted in Australia in collaboration with Curtin University, MIT, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Raman Research Institute.

IBM and Rail Projects Victoria keeping the $11B Metro Tunnel on track

IBM today announced that Victoria University has selected IBM to design and build the university’s first green data centre.

Unpacking the Wuhan connection to Victoria's biggest COVID-19 cluster  The AgeView Full coverage on Google News

1. Coronavirus cases continue rise due to meatworks cluster as Victorians wait for restrictions to be eased  ABC News
2. Coronavirus: Victorian restrictions in place, Daniel Andrews waits  NEWS.com.au
3. 'Only ones who can’t celebrate Mother’s Day': Liberal MPs and senators critical of Victoria lockdown  Sydney Morning Herald
4. Government tries to play down 'childish' coronavirus attack on Victorian premier  SBS News
5. Cedar Meats outbreak reaches 75 as authorities investigate animal cruelty  The Age
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London-based firm Will Gamble Architects has breathed new life into a dilapidated building in the small village of Gretton, U.K. The complex consisted of a Grade II listed Victorian house, a disused cattle shed and a set of ruins of a former parchment factory. Although the project presented several challenges, the architects managed to strategically incorporate the existing structures, as well as several reclaimed materials found onsite, into the new design in lieu of complete demolition.[...]

Happy launch day to DIANA: PRINCESS OF THE AMAZONS, the newest in the DC Zoom line of graphic novels for middle graders. Written by Shannon & Dean Hale and illustrated by Victoria Ying. Thanks to Michele Wells at DC Kids for sending me a copy!

For more of my book collages, feel free to browse my BookADay Padlet as well as my BookADay and Book Recommendation archives. I read a lot more books than I have time to post, especially now that I've joined the Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge!

31st December 2019It has been a while since I last wrote 30th August actually. We were just back from Bali and waiting for the mango season to start. Well we never did get any work but that was OK. Danie has done a lot of

Fire crews attended around 160 weather related incidents in a 12 hour period.

Billionaire entrepreneur Leslie Wexner, under fire for his ties to the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein and allowing a culture of sexual harassment.

POSH still doesn't get it. Two weeks ago, when she announced she was furloughing 30 staff at her ailing fashion label, there was a public outcry.

Vancouver, Birtish Columbia (plus Victoria, Whistler)

Hear about travel to Victoria Falls as the Amateur Traveler talks to Nir Ben-Dov about his trip to this spectacular falls on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. This was Nir’s second trip and his wife’s first trip from their home in Israel to this famed set of falls in southern Africa.

In this special episode of Amateur Traveler, I get to introduce to you some of the wonderful people who joined me in Africa last May. We drove overland from Johannesburg, South Africa to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. 

Dogs -- Breeding -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Germans -- Victoria -- History.

The reaction on social media has been fierce.

The province has extended the deadline for people to leave tent cities in Victoria until May 20. The original deadline was May 9 for campers to be out of Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park as well as Topaz and Pandora parks in Victoria.

THE Through the Keyhole Pandemic Special has certainly given rise to some entertaining sights.

San Diego-based biotechnology company, Organovo Holdings (Organovo), has announced a tie up with a Melbourne research institute to help develop regenerative medicine in Australia.

At around 11am on a Saturday, Luke Okomo arrives at Dunga Beach, on the outskirts of Kenya’s Kisumu City, and heads straight to what is known as the ‘Dunga Papyrus Boardwalk’. He pays Sh200 ($2), the daily fee for local tourists and students, and then joins a group of five visitors already taking a tour […]

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Since October last year, Lake Victoria has swallowed up to nearly 50 metres of the shoreline, leaving surrounding communities desperate

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Piers Morgan slammed a Home Office minister and accused her of laughing as he branded PPE shortages a "national disgrace" in a furious exchange on Good Morning Britain.

Victoria Beckham can’t seem to catch a break these days from social media critics. Posh shared a photo of her homeschooling Harper during the lockdown, only to be immediately criticized because the 7-year old is wearing a school uniform at home. Some trolls took an opportunity to blast Victoria again for using taxpayer’s money to […]

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Good Morning Britain co-hosts disagreed over the former Spice Girls singer's fashion label using the government's job retention scheme

The designer is inviting us all to her Instagram party

The former Spice Girl celebrated her birthday with a throwback to her youth

Beckham is also sacrificing her own pay

The company now believes it can navigate the Covid-19 crisis without drawing on government assistance

Victoria Beckham has wished her husband David a happy birthday with a nostalgic video montage as the former England football captain turned 45.

State Premier Daniel Andrews says lockdown measures will remain in place until at least Monday.

MORE than 20,000 calls to Victoria’s child abuse hotline went unanswered in an 18-month period, with some callers waiting more than two hours for an operator.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton reveals theoretical modelling which suggests 36,000 people could have been killed by coronavirus in Victoria if no physical-distancing measures were put in place.

Changes necessary for the Victorian Government to deal with the coronavirus pandemic include plans to hold judge-only trials and giving councils the power to hold meetings online.