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• Melbourne weather: Surprise winds bring unexpected heat blast to ...

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Forecast off by nine degrees Thanks to an unexpected blast of hot air from Victoria's north, Melbourne will be a blistering 9 degrees hotter on Friday than previously forecast. PT1M3S 620 349 A heavy downpour has caught some Melbourne commuters unawares, after a day that promised to hit a sweltering 36 degrees.The Bureau of Meteorology took the unusual step of revising temperatures overnight - up from a comfortable 26 degrees - thanks to an unexp..

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• How a 10-year-old boy captured one of Melbourne's most tragic ...

  

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• Flyers claiming Holocaust was a 'fraud' found at Melbourne uni

  

  The University of Melbourne. Photo: Shannon Morris Hundreds of flyers calling the Holocaust the "greatest swindle of all time" have been distributed around Melbourne's top university.About 300 Holocaust denial leaflets were found at the University of Melbourne's city campus car park on Monday afternoon, the first day of semester one.The anti-Semitic flyers claimed Holocaust studies was "replete with nonsense, if not sheer fraud" and included a link to a Holoc..

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• Frocks ready to rock Melbourne

  

  Internationally renowned Australian fashion export Dion Lee with his never-before-seen exclusive commission for NGV: a four-metre-tall, Swarovski crystal-encrusted gown lit from within and radiating a constellation of light. Supplied The National Gallery of Victoria has been transformed into a walk-in wardrobe that would be the envy of any fashion-conscious Australian woman.Launching its new exhibition, 200 Years of Australian Fashion, was ren..

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• Delays for Melbourne's West Gate drivers

  

  Melbourne drivers are about to feel more pain on their morning commute with the construction of a new lane on the West Gate Freeway set to begin.From mid-March drivers in Melbourne's west and north can expect trips into the city to take 15 minutes longer during the morning peak on the Bolte Bridge and West Gate Freeway, with works expected to take up to 18 months to complete.Once finished, the road will ease one of the "most significant choke points on Melbourne's road network", the Victorian g..

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• Melbourne cops surprise Friday furnace

  

  A surprise wind change has bumped Melbourne's forecast temperature for Friday up a whopping 9C.Having headed to bed with a forecast of 27C for Friday, Melburnians had good reason to do a double-take in the morning when the bureau updated its prediction to 36C.Senior forecaster Stephen King said a boundary of hot and cold winds was stretching across Victoria and new data overnight shifted expectations of where that line was. "On one side of the line we have southerlies and mid-20s and the other ..

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• One woman's quest to get a smile from fellow Melbourne joggers fails

  

  Top of the morning to you ... unless you live in Melbourne. Picture: Hamish BlairMELBOURNE might pride itself on being the world’s friendliest city, but if you’re out exercising, you might beg to differ. Try getting a smile, a grin or a g’day out of passers-by and you’ll be sorely disappointed.The grim nature of my neighbourhood Elwood (near iconic St Kilda) was brought to my attention after a recent trip to visit family in Wodonga.During an early morning jog around Wodonga’s hills I was inundat..

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• Melbourne real estate agents face $30000 underquoting fines

  

  Melbourne estate agents will have to quote a price range under new rules aimed at preventing underquoting. Josh Robenstone Victorian estate agents will be required to provide an accurate quoted price range for every property they sell - or face fines of up to $30,000 and loss of their commissions as part of proposed new laws aimed at cracking down on underquoting.The crackdown follows recent inspections of over 100 Melbourne estate agents over ..

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• Runaway bus crashes into busy Melbourne hair salon

  

  An empty bus crashed into a busy salon in Melbourne last night. (9NEWS) A runaway bus has crashed through the wall of a Melbourne hair salon filled with customers getting their hair done.The empty bus was parked at a Knoxfield bus stop yesterday evening before it suddenly rolled forward and crashed through the wall of the salon. Luckily no one was hurt in the accident. (9NEWS) The bus was parked on a nearby street when it suddenly started rolling forward. (9NEWS) Business owner Melinda Turner s..

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• Expats cast Democratic primary votes in Melbourne

  

  US presidential election 2016: Expats cast Democratic primary votes in Melbourne Posted March 04, 2016 15:19:37 Expat US Democrats will cast their votes in their party's presidential primary race at a polling station in Melbourne this weekend. Melbourne-based Democrat Michelle Ferrari said she felt a responsibility to vote as a US citizen living overseas. "For better or for worse, American politics and American foreign policy decisions have a really strong impact on ..

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