The 2025 Melbourne Cup is one of the highlights of the sporting calendar in Australia and this year’s edition is shaping up to be a thriller. The global profile of ‘the race that stops the nation’ has been boosted in recent years by the involvement of horses,

The Australian government has begun a public education campaign with tips on how to wean children off social media.

Sussan Ley recently declared Melbourne the ‘crime capital of Australia’. But a closer analysis of the data shows a much more nuanced picture.

Police have sharply criticised protesters in Melbourne’s CBD after two officers were taken to hospital and rocks, glass and rotten fruit were thrown at officers during violent scuffles.Police spent hours on Sunday afternoon trying to keep anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters apart.

A predicated wetter-than-normal season has failed to materialise, and much of NSW, Queensland and the NT are sweating through their hottest October on record.

The Brian Ellison-trained seven-year-old, who won the Geelong Cup on his travels last year, won the Moonee Valley Gold Cup on Friday

A man in an inflatable green frog costume stood defiantly in front of police as a major pro-Palestine demonstration got under way at the Port of Melbourne on Friday morning.

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors.

A British surfer has died after his surfboard snapped in stormy weather off the coast of Victoria, Australia. Police were called to Frankston Beach, about 45km south-east of Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon after receiving reports two men were in trouble in the water.