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25 May 2025 | A hot air balloon drifts over Yarra Glen on a recent below-zero Melbourne morning.

22 May 2025 | Immigrants vying for U.S. citizenship is being pitched for reality TV — exploiting the migrant ...

19 May 2025 | In the interests of full disclosure, the administration of Independent Australia feels obliged to ...

18 May 2025 | A local boy ponders the riddle of the diminished shoreline at Lake Bolac, an inland lake in the ...

11 May 2025 | Studio shot of notably expressive Australian actor Geoffrey Rush.

10 May 2025 | Do you think the faces we see in the mirror reflect modern Australia?

9 May 2025 | Drummers are in the news this week, with a range of stories from the tragic to the straight up ...

4 May 2025 | Between 2007 and 2013, Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard "played musical chai ...

28 Apr 2025 | Despite his reputation as a progressive pope and a hero of the oppressed, Pope Francis' invo ...

27 Apr 2025 | A digger walks back through the city on Anzac Day after taking part in the march to Melbourne's ...

24 Apr 2025 | Sometimes it's not about politics, social issues or saving the world. Sometimes we just need an i ...

23 Apr 2025 | The death of Pope Francis early on Easter Monday left those of us who value freedom, peace, ...

20 Apr 2025 | A young boy, complete with slouch hat, salutes in front of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on A ...

13 Apr 2025 | Keeping a camera close paid off this day when, driving up the Hume Highway in Victoria, I was ...

6 Apr 2025 | A Japanese team respectfully bows before its solar-powered car in readiness to tackle the Darwin ...

4 Apr 2025 | This week's music review includes KISS announcing its last show again, a Beards reunion and Angu ...

31 Mar 2025 | While many Christian leaders in the U.S. are appalled at the blasphemies of the MAGA movement ...

30 Mar 2025 | In 1993, the great U.S. athlete Carl Lewis came to Melbourne to visit a local teenage athlete ...

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