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Last Top Stories: Melbourne's most liveable suburbs and a little secret revealed

  • Melbourne's most liveable suburbs and a little secret revealed

    Melbourne's most liveable suburbs and a little secret revealed
    Video will begin in5seconds.Ranking Melbourne's suburbsRankings are a highly subjective process, and researchers stress this Melbourne liveability study is about the quality of suburbs and not about the people who live in them.PT2M27S620349She calls it the United Nations by the sea. And until recently it was one of Melbourne's little secrets. Beaches. Parks. Community. Half an hour to the city by train. Jennifer Williams grew up here and – after a few years slumming it in more fashionable suburbs – she came home to stay.Williams is part of a shift in Melbourne's centre of gravity. Not so long ago, if you aspired to the good life you looked to the city's affluent southern and eastern suburbs...
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  • Melbourne Cup 2015: Jessica Mauboy's shoes highlight commercial world of Melbourne Cup

    Melbourne Cup 2015: Jessica Mauboy's shoes highlight commercial world of Melbourne Cup
    Video will begin in5seconds.Jessica Mauboy breaks silence on anthem no-showA miscommunication with the styling team is cited as being behind Jessica Mauboy's Melbourne Cup Day anthem no-show. Vision courtesy Seven News Melbourne.PT1M21S620349They were the shoes that stopped the anthem.A branding spat betweenthe Victoria Racing Club and singer Jessica Mauboymay have sparked the infamous national anthem no-show on Melbourne Cup Day but it was merely the climax of a series of sponsorship rows that simmered during this year's carnival.Underpinning Australia's most famous horse race are several contracts covering commercial and sponsorship deals, including a 32-year-old partnership between Myer a..
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  • Living the dream: Melbourne's most liveable suburbs

    Living the dream: Melbourne's most liveable suburbs
    Video will begin in5seconds.Ranking Melbourne's suburbsRankings are a highly subjective process, and researchers stress this Melbourne liveability study is about the quality of suburbs and not about the people who live in them.PT2M27S620349Murray Hohnen sips his coffee in a chic East Melbourne cafe, where hot beverages come in handle-less pottery mugs. Was he surprised that his suburb has been rated as Melbourne's most liveable?"No," he says , without hesitation, "because it's so much a village. It really is."Murray Hohnen heads the East Melbourne Group, a residents group.Photo: Penny StephensHohnen knows postcode 3002 better than most. As president of the East Melbourne Group, formed in 195..
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  • Melbourne allows for culturally changing campaigns, M&C Saatchi's David Dahan says

    Melbourne allows for culturally changing campaigns, M&C Saatchi's David Dahan says
    Melbourne is deeper, but could be braver, says M&C Saatchi's David Dahan.Photo: Peter Glenane PhotographyIt's a battle almost as old as Australia itself; Melbourne versus Sydney. Advertising and creative firm M&C Saatchi's new Paris-born Melbourne managing director David Dahan reckons the southern city is winning on the international scene."From the outside, I was looking at Melbourne and sitting in Europe, in London, and looking at both cities: the major Australian sports are in Melbourne; the major cultural events of global magnitude are in Melbourne; major food รข€“ like when, in December, I was here with the family and The Fat Duck was relocating for six months and here is Heston ..
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  • Stolen 1972 Daytona Ferrari worth $2m found burnt out in Melbourne - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Stolen 1972 Daytona Ferrari worth $2m found burnt out in Melbourne - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    Stolen 1972 Daytona Ferrari worth $2m found burnt out in MelbournePostedNovember 07, 2015 10:50:52 A $2 million, 1972 Daytona Ferrari has been found burnt-out in Melbourne's south-east, a day after it was stolen from a workshop.The sports car, one of two Ferraris stolen in a Braeside ram raid, was found on fire at Langwarrin on Gum Hill Drive at 4:00am on Saturday.Fire crews extinguished the blaze but the GTB/4 car was destroyed.Police are still searching for a red, 1986 Ferrari with the number plate "FUN328", that was also stolen.The vehicle is valued at more than $100,000.The luxury cars were stolen from a workshop on Industrial Drive in Braeside at about 3:40am on Friday.Police said t..
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  • Ed Dunlop pays tribute to Red Cadeaux after Melbourne Cup injury - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Ed Dunlop pays tribute to Red Cadeaux after Melbourne Cup injury - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    Ed Dunlop pays tribute to Red Cadeaux after Melbourne Cup injuryPostedNovember 07, 2015 08:38:15 Trainer Ed Dunlop has reflected on the achievements of Red Cadeaux, as the three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up recovers from a career-ending leg injury.Gerald Mosse pulled Red Cadeaux up in the straight during Tuesday's Melbourne Cup but the jockey's quick thinking to jump off and keep him calm until vets arrived helped ensure the best outcome when he suffered a sesamoid fracture.Red Cadeaux underwent surgery on Wednesday and Dunlop was confident his charge would make a successful recovery."Things are looking bright for Red Cadeaux," Dunlop said on his website."Surgery was performed on Wednesd..
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  • Melbourne police charge two men over Geelong schoolgirl sex attack, as two more men held interstate | HeraldSun

    Melbourne police charge two men over Geelong schoolgirl sex attack, as two more men held interstate | HeraldSun
    Arrests made over Victorian gang rape0:27Four men have been arrested over the brutal gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in Geelong.TWO men accused of the alleged gang rape and child abduction of a schoolgirl in Geelong last weekend have been remanded in custody after a brief court hearing in Melbourne.Accused brothers Kevin Andrew Wild, 28, and Allan Mark Wild, 29, did not appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for a mention hearing this morning.Tim McCulloch, on behalf of both accused, did not apply for bail.Both men were charged with one count each of rape and one of child abduction in an out of sessions court hearing earlier this morning.Kevin Wild.Allan Wild.The men have been remanded in cu..
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  • The insider's guide to Melbourne: how our stormwater drains just became cool

    The insider's guide to Melbourne: how our stormwater drains just became cool
    The guide is small enough to pop into a pocket or bag as you set off on your adventures.Photo: Supplied Berlin. Tokyo. New York. Melbourne. The list of the world's coolest cities just got longer, as Melbourne becomes the first Australian addition to the CITIx60 series of insider guides to the world's creative capitals.Victionary – a Hong Kong publisher specialising in creative graphic design and typography books – pitches it guidebooks at independent and creative young travellers.Queenie Ho, the editor of the series, describes the target audience as "people yearning for a taste of every city's authentically good things … designers, artists, people from the creative industries who work al..
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  • Missing teen mum and newborn baby return to Melbourne hospital - 9news

    A young mum and her one-day-old baby have returned safely to a Melbourne hospital, after their disappearance sparked a major search.Amanda Clay and her newborn Phoebe went missing from the Northern Hospital about 3.30pm yesterday, after Ms Clay gave birth by caesarean early that morning.They are now back at the hospital receiving medical care. Phoebe. (9NEWS) Authorities carried out a desperate 17-hour search for the pair, and CCTV footage showed three women taking the baby from the hospital.Police charged a 27-year-old woman with child stealing and reckless conduct over the disappearance.She will appear in court at a later date.© ninemsn 2015 Se..
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  • Hong Kong prosecutors drop drug charge against elderly Melbourne man

    Hong Kong prosecutors drop drug charge against elderly Melbourne man
    The drugs seized at Hong Kong airport.The trafficking case against an elderly Melbourne man awaiting his fate under Hong Kong's strict drug laws has been dropped amid claims vulnerable Australians are being tricked into smuggling methamphetamine.Joerg Ulitzka, 80, of Brighton, was facing life in a foreign prison or fines up to $5 million after customs officials claimed he was caught with almost $1 million worth of the illicit drug at the Hong Kong International Airport on June 24 last year.TheSouth China Morning Postreported Mr Ulitzka was one of six people acquitted on Friday, including Melbourne woman Luu Song Thu, a 44-year-old mother of four children whom she was desperate to be reunited..
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