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Slum squeeze: overseas students taking turns to sleep in overcrowded ...

Overseas workers and students are sleeping in single beds in "shifts" in order to cram more bodies into already overcrowded Melbourne apartments. The revelation comes after the Metropolitan Fire Brigade flew a drone in front of the Docklands tower ... >> view original

Protesters abandon lengthy Melbourne bank protest hours after man fell from roof

A morning protest at a bank that resulted with a man falling from a roof has finally concluded in the Melbourne CBD. A man and a woman scaled the roof of the Commonwealth Bank on the corner of Bourke Street and Elizabeth Street. One demonstrator hit ... >> view original

Two separate crashes have caused chaos on the busy Western Ring Road in ...

Several cars and a truck have collided on Melbourne's Western Ring Road. (9NEWS). A woman in her 50s was trapped for around 45 minutes before being freed by paramedics and the Melbourne Fire Brigade. She was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital ... >> view original

Real Housewives Of Melbourne's Pettifleur Berenger to be slapped with cease ...

Real Housewives Of Melbourne newcomer Pettifleur Berenger has been ostentatiously promoting her newly released self-help book Switch The B****, at every possible occasion throughout the season. But to one fellow reality star, the 50-year-old property ... >> view original

American college football clash to be held in Melbourne

Etihad CEO Paul Sergeant has confirmed an annual American football college bowl game will be held at the stadium during the AFL off-season for at least for four years. "American sport, let alone American college football, has a huge following in this ... >> view original

Secret report warns Port of Melbourne sale could result in Budget shortfall of ...

“We are going to get a good price for Victorian taxpayers and then we will reinvest the money that's locked up in the Port of Melbourne,” he said. “There's no need for top ups.” Opposition Ports spokesman David Hodgett said today that Labor could not ... >> view original

Brazen 'baby face' Melbourne thief on the run with $25k diamond

Police are hunting a man with a distinctive tattoo on his leg who stole a diamond ring worth $24,950 from a Melbourne city jeweller. The thief entered the Thomas Jewellers store in Royal Arcade on Bourke Street at around 3.30pm on March 11 and asked to ... >> view original

Melbourne fashion mecca QV slated for smoking ban

“QV Melbourne is a hive of activity and is home to shops, cafes and restaurants, large corporate businesses, a supermarket, a gym and residential apartments, all connected by a network of pedestrian laneways leading to an open central square,” Cr Doyle ... >> view original

Acorns Grow app launches in Australia turning loose change into share portfolios

Piggy banks could soon be a thing of the past as a new app, which lets users put their spare change into an investment portfolio, is launching in Australia following a joint venture agreement between independent investment firm Instreet Investments and US ... >> view original

Banks put brakes on investor lending

Banks are taking immediate steps to slow the rapid growth in lending to property investors, in response to action by regulators to prevent the housing market from overheating. ANZ Bank on Thursday said it would no longer offer interest rate discounts to new ... >> view original